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Mandrakeroot
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Italian Prog Specialist
Joined: March 01 2006
Location: San Foca, Friûl
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Points: 5851
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:26 |
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Hereford, UK
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 11:28 |
^^^ and of course Andrea, if you continue to refer to 'beautiful' girls as 'pieces of meat', you might 'haven't the fiancee' for quite a bit longer....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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debrewguy
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: April 30 2007
Location: Canada
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Points: 3596
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:13 |
I've been called a vegetable before. Does that count ?  In my teen days, we used to call girls by some of these names - tomatoes, peels (des pelures, think about the comparison between a vegetable & a human). In both cases, you could say it referred to some, er ... oral activity that we dreamed of, but never quite got to "indulge" in.
Edited by debrewguy - June 19 2007 at 14:16
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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TheProgtologist
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin
Joined: May 23 2005
Location: Baltimore,Md US
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Points: 27802
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:23 |
fandango wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
Jared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's up dude? |
Hey Jody,
I PM'd you about the awesome Communic show I saw, and you didn't respond, so I figured you didn't love me any more... 
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Sorry my friend,I read your PM but didn't immediately respond and it got buried in my backlog.
Won't happen again.Communic is awesome,I am really liking a band that their guitarist/vocalist Oddleif Stensland was in called Scariot,check them out.
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The T
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Joined: October 16 2006
Location: FL, USA
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Points: 17493
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:36 |
I eat anything BUT vegetables.. Does that count? 
Well, some lettuce and a couple other vegetables are not that bad....
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Equality 7-2521
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 11 2005
Location: Philly
Status: Offline
Points: 15784
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:32 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
Shameless meat eater here.......we are omnivores,we need meat.Vegetarianism is not natural.
Just my opinion of course. |
Yours and science's
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Kid-A
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 02 2005
Location: United Kingdom
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Points: 613
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:54 |
^Yeah but we could get all the nutrients from other sources, it's just difficult. And a lot of vegetarians may not do that.
I think it's all about moderation, and trying to eat organic/free range and not factory farmed. That stuff tastes like crap anyway.
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THE_POLE
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 29 2006
Location: New Zealand
Status: Offline
Points: 198
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 17:59 |
Kid-A wrote:
^Yeah but we could get all the nutrients from other sources, it's just difficult. And a lot of vegetarians may not do that. |
Not at all difficult. Apparently my iron levels are far below what they should be, and i'm fine. Im fit, and i never get sick. And i have been this way all my life. I strongly believe that there is nothing unhealthy about not eating meat. And you don't have to eat mountains of spinach either.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Status: Offline
Points: 34550
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 19:08 |
fandango wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
I would like to become a vegetarian, but I'm waiting until bacon and steak are reclassified as vegetables. |
Hey Doc!!! Great to see you back! The place just hasn't been the same without you....now just don't go spoiling things by upsetting any of those hyper-sensitive Canadian academic types..... 
anyway, YES, I am both vegetarian and Jewish, which means that the average life expectancy of the humble pig is slightly longer round these parts...  |
Everything above is hilarious.
And I am a carnivore. I love meat.
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purplepiper
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 23 2006
Location: United States
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Points: 280
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 19:36 |
I recently had blood testing done, and although I have been a vegetarian for 3+ years, I was absolutely 100% perfectly healthy! I'm no food nazi either, I don't persecute those who do what society tells them to. I understand that their minds are weak and that they are selfish.
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for those about to prog, we salute you.
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rileydog22
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Joined: August 24 2005
Location: New Jersey
Status: Offline
Points: 8844
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 19:55 |
purplepiper wrote:
I recently had blood testing done, and although I have been a vegetarian for 3+ years, I was absolutely 100% perfectly healthy! I'm no food nazi either, I don't persecute those who do what society tells them to. I understand that their minds are weak and that they are selfish. |
I am weak-minded and selfish because I eat meat? I had no idea.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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Points: 34550
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:03 |
purplepiper wrote:
I recently had blood testing done, and although I have been a vegetarian for 3+ years, I was absolutely 100% perfectly healthy! I'm no food nazi either, I don't persecute those who do what society tells them to. I understand that their minds are weak and that they are selfish. |
So.....you don't eat meat because you're that much of a non conformist?
Seriously, I know prog is all about the non conformity...but that's nuts, if that's indeed what you're saying.
Anyway...I had an angus bacon cheeseburger a few hours ago. Delicious.
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Novalis
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 15 2007
Location: New Zealand
Status: Offline
Points: 338
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:17 |
I once met a Vegan who wouldn't wear wool.
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el böthy
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 27 2005
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 6336
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:18 |
I think it would be an insult to be a vegetarian in the land of the best meat in the world
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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blaughida
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Joined: January 20 2007
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 143
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 21:55 |
purplepiper wrote:
I'm slightly annoyed at people who become vegetarian simply for diet reasons...it's suppossed to be about more than that, for me anyway. |
We have really good vegetarian and vegan food at the university I attend and I know a few people who eat it because they think it's like being on a diet...but I've worked in the kitchen and I know that the vegan curry is full of coconut milk, which isn't exactly fat free...and, much worse, the "vegan whipped cream" is full of scary synthetic chemicals. A lot of people make that mistake, thinking vegetarian or vegan means lowfat and healthy, but that's often not the case. I'm a vegetarian, one of those "I don't like the taste" people, and I just find it more convenient. Meat is tricky to cook and clean up. I'm glad I never have to deal with that. But no, I'm not a man, so I can't join the small vegetarian males' club.
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thellama73
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Joined: May 29 2006
Location: United States
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:00 |
As I see it there are three reasons to be a Vegetarian. 1: The Health Vegetarian, is perhaps admirable, yet misguided as most doctors say that meat is healthy for you. I have a cousin whose doctor flat out told her that if she didn't start eating meat she was asking for trouble. It seems to have solved her health problems.
2: The Moral Vegetarian, is the one I most respect because there isn't really a strong argument that killing animals just because we like the taste is right.
3: The Habitual Vegetarian, only is one because he/she was raised that way, seems to me to warrant the least respect. Try something new, why don't you?
I personally eat as much meat as I can get my hands on.
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rileydog22
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Joined: August 24 2005
Location: New Jersey
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Points: 8844
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:04 |
I have a friend who became a vegitarian just for the hell of it a couple of months ago; he'd never been that much of a meat eater, and he realized he hadn't eaten meat in four days, so he decided to be vegitarian forever.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Status: Offline
Points: 34550
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:17 |
"I'm a level 4 vegan, I won't eat anything that cast a shadow"
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BroSpence
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 05 2007
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Points: 2614
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:18 |
I'm no vegetarian, but I don't like a lot of meat. I think Steak is nasty, ham is OK in fried rice, no roast pork, but I enjoy bacon. Turkey is alright, and burgers and hot dogs every now and then. Fish is disgusting. NO DUCKS and of course odd animals or animal parts (although I did mention I enjoy hot dogs...).
When I get meat I do my best to only get one bad day or cage free, etc kinds because factory farms are horrible things, and the meat you get from them is bad too. So I stay away from that.
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blaughida
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 20 2007
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 143
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 22:51 |
JJLehto wrote:
"I'm a level 4 vegan, I won't eat anything that cast a shadow"
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 Reminds me of a book I read as a child--I think it was one of the Stevie Diamond mystery series. There was a vegetarian character who said something like "I feel sorry for the plants, but I have to eat something."
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