Quote of the day

Voraxith wrote:

"Let Honor be your shield, your sword, and your cloak: let Ventrue save face, and you will go far."
-- The Book of Nod

This one has served me very well over the years.

Very true. I use it on my tutor.

PGM1961 wrote:

"When the Red Tide flows, anger her at your peril."

Talking about frenzy, of course. Sort of.

I don't know why but it reminded me about a girl I used to know...?

"Going to McDonalds for salad is like going to a prostitude for a hug"
-Youtube comment

"Dolphins have been observed addressing each other with sounds specific to each individual, as in using names to refer to one another. Think about that the next time you're chowing down on a non-'dolphin safe' tuna sandwich."
"The sheer sense of community that I am now aware is contained within my lunch sandwich is heart-warmingly delicious."

A little bit later...

"That's fucked up, Sio."
"Meh. If I had a heart, I'd eat it, too."

-Conversations with a vegan who probably questions why we're friends.

I was about to make an emo joke, but then you came around.

Sio wrote:

-Conversations with a vegan who probably questions why we're friends.

Hard to blame him... Poor dolphins.

Sio wrote:

"Dolphins have been observed addressing each other with sounds specific to each individual, as in using names to refer to one another. Think about that the next time you're chowing down on a non-'dolphin safe' tuna sandwich."
"The sheer sense of community that I am now aware is contained within my lunch sandwich is heart-warmingly delicious."

A little bit later...

"That's fucked up, Sio."
"Meh. If I had a heart, I'd eat it, too."

-Conversations with a vegan who probably questions why we're friends.

I think it's hilarious, which probably explains why Duncan and Miri get along so well.

Actress (to WC Fields): "Do you like children?"
Fields: "I do if they're properly cooked."

Side Note to the dolphin thing: When i read that news article, I thought, "Yeah, and they found this out by separating captive dolphins from their friends and listening to the sounds they make. But it's for science, so that makes it okay."

The Amazing Atheist made a video that's pretty good for trolling vegetarians:

I love that guy

LOL That's funny. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy years ago, about endangered species. I said that all we had to do is make them food animals. Nobody is going to let pigs go extinct, because bacon is too damned tasty... and profitable.

He talked about some bird that was hunted to extinction on some Caribbean island (apparently they were really tasty too) shortly after Columbus stumbled and tripped over the "New World", and he blamed that on humans hunting them for food. I blamed it on bad animal husbandry. Today, if some bright boy can make money raising and selling these birds, he'll regulate the supply and demand so that he can make the most profit -- he certainly won't sell every single one, because that would leave him without any breeding stock. Can't breed them fast enough to meet the demand? Raise the price, and market them as some super-gourmet item. Ever heard of caviar? To me, fish eggs are bait. But somebody convinced rich people that this crap tastes delicious on crackers, and eating it puts them a step above the 'common people'.

I buy the dolphin-safe tuna -- when I buy tuna at all -- partly because I don't like the idea of eating possibly sentient creatures; but also because it's hard to buy the non-dolphin-safe tuna these days. But I also have a button that I bought years ago, which reads "I'd kill Flipper for a tuna sandwich", because I found that shit funny.

Don't know who/what Flipper is? Google it.

"This room is satisfactory, I hope?”

“It’s small. Will that be dangerous?”

“This is a Daedric Prince [we are going to summon], so the size shouldn’t matter. I assure you that I’ve taken every reasonable safety precaution: I locked the windows, I pushed the table and chairs out of the way, I even picked up all the flowers on the ground.”

“Did you really pick up the flowers?” you ask.

“Of course not, Gaius, I’m a mage. I set them on fire." - Prequel

+1 for Elder Scrolls reference. Thank you, Draggy.

Dragatus wrote:

...“Did you really pick up the flowers?” you ask.

“Of course not, Gaius, I’m a mage. I set them on fire." - Prequel

Ah! Good to see the old stereotypical

mage == fireball

still around

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Voraxith wrote:

+1 for Elder Scrolls reference. Thank you, Draggy.

You're welcome.

If anyone is interested, here is the source: http://www.prequeladventure.com/2011/03/prequel-begin/

No vampires in this one (only a normal average human, who likes to stay out of the sun and wants to lick grape jelly from people's necks - that's what she says and why would she lie?), but it's still really good. I would especially recommend it to any TES fans.

Dragatus wrote:

Voraxith wrote:

+1 for Elder Scrolls reference. Thank you, Draggy.

You're welcome.

If anyone is interested, here is the source: http://www.prequeladventure.com/2011/03/prequel-begin/

No vampires in this one (only a normal average human, who likes to stay out of the sun and wants to lick grape jelly from people's necks - that's what she says and why would she lie?), but it's still really good. I would especially recommend it to any TES fans.

Thanks. I just spent all day reading that.
And I'm still reading.

It's adorable

Duncan.Oliver wrote:

Actress (to WC Fields): "Do you like children?"
Fields: "I do if they're properly cooked."

A customer was purchasing a bambino watermelon tonight, and I was looking for the PLU code. He goes, "It's a bambino watermelon." When people are trying to be especially helpful, I have to fuck with them, a bit.
So I say, "Yes, bambino means 'baby' in Italian. It's like a baby."
And I smile, and he smiles, "Yeah, because it's small like a baby."
And without any indication of inner malice, I smile again and say, "And also, you dice it up and put it in the ice box, like a baby."

Thankfully, I have a sixth sense for people who can take a joke, so he pretends to tutor me about what is socially acceptable, while we have the register to ourselves,
"No, no. That's bad. Melon in the ice box, baby in the crib--"
"Diced?"
"No, whole. Dicing a baby is bad."
At which point, I gain a distant, mournful look, and announce wistfully, "Then I have made some poor life choices."

Duncan.Oliver wrote:

Side Note to the dolphin thing: When i read that news article, I thought, "Yeah, and they found this out by separating captive dolphins from their friends and listening to the sounds they make. But it's for science, so that makes it okay."

Whenever I'm confronted with literature about slaughterhouse/animal rearing cruelty, I thumb through the pages with mounting interest, going, "Mmm, yes... The special suffering imparts a spiciness that few can detect in the cooked corpus. But it is there... And it is good."

Sio wrote:

"Dicing a baby is bad."

Well now you tell me. (sigh)

Sometimes I attribute my views towards eating meat to my Native American (i.e. 'Indian') ancestry, yet that's bullshit since I never met any relatives from that part of the family. (My grandmother's family made her feel ashamed of her Indian heritage, so she never talked about it; but that's another story.)

Anyway, I feel that if you treat the animal as humanely as possible, up to and including the slaughter, then there is nothing wrong with raising animals and killing them for food. Just like my ancestors did it, every single part of the animal is used, whether it's pet food, fertilizer, whatever.

The problem is with that 'humanely' part. Some practices in the slaughterhouse (or fur) industries are not humane. My issue with this is the same as with any animal cruelty -- it warps the person who does it. Whenever they are able to interview any old neighbors or relatives of serial killers, almost invariably they have a history of being cruel to animals as a child... as though they were practicing for killing people.

This is also my problem with 'Pokemon', by the way. We're teaching kids that it's okay to throw cute little animals into a ring and make them fight it out. Let's not even get started on keeping them cooped up in the pokeball until you take them out to fight, etc.

(Okey, rant over. Calming down.)

Duncan.Oliver wrote:

(Okey, rant over. Calming down.)

Lies. You're a Brujah. You don't stop ranting. Your rants just become violent!

I don't think children ever think of Pokemon as being anti animal right. I share a very similar view about respecting them, slaughter included, which is why I tend to eat locally grown meat... but I still love pokemon games. I never ever made the connection to animals as a child and I never made it as an.. uh.. "adult". Just like I don't link farming in WoW to actual hunting, I guess ^^

Nachtrae wrote:

Thanks. I just spent all day reading that.

Fixed. You're welcome. On both accounts.

Dragatus wrote:

Nachtrae wrote:

Thanks. I just spent all day reading that.

Fixed. You're welcome. On both accounts.

I have no idea what you're talking about

Well... according to the books, cartoons, etc., basically all Pokemon are sentient, and they actually like being fought against one another. It is warped, but most American cartoons that have anthropomorphic animals come with no less fridge horror--eg. pets that talk and reason on a human level, but are owned and treated like normal pets by the human characters, face the same problems as real pets (eg. declawing, dog catchers), and prefer being pets to being "strays". But they have fur and whiskers so it's not at all weird, nope.

my eyes burn right now -meeeeeeeeeeeeee

You may wish to stop doing whatever caused you to make that statement.