b3ta.com qotw
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Question of the Week » Off Topic » Post 1839506 | Search
This is a question Off Topic

Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.

(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Pages: Latest, 836, 835, 834, 833, 832, ... 1

« Go Back | Popular

Vegetarians and healthy eating nuts are ruining the diet of other people
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa

It's the whole soya thing again. I'm definitely all for eating healthy food, but surely it is arrogant and dangerous for us to damage other people for our own lifestyle choices?

Alt: something less boring, i'm on my own in the pub today, so a already on the booze, how is your day panning out?

altalt: Monorail? yes or no?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:03, 210 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
I'm well chuffed to see that we aren't allowed mackerel any more.
I'm not keen on the stuff.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:05, Reply)
meh
It is nice BBQed
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:13, Reply)
Swindon Town
Are/were the only football league club that doesn't have any letters from the word mackerel in its name.

But with you being a massive Gooner, you'd already know that.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:15, Reply)
Excellent facting

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:16, Reply)
I'm guessing it's still true.
Although a number of new clubs have joined the league since I first heard it.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:19, Reply)
apparently they live on it in prison

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:16, Reply)
cheap as shit that's why

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:26, Reply)
seems like a plausible case for "don't eat quinoa negro"
whatever the fuck that is. it's not the same argument as "vegans kill people"
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:07, Reply)
rappers do

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:08, Reply)
Alt:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:08, Reply)
jesus christ CQ,
what was that all about? I even quite like the simpsons, and think that is shit.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:28, Reply)
don't pick on him, can't you see he's in love?
He's just telling us he want to give cavy a good railing, and possibly mono
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:31, Reply)
I get that song in my head when anyone says monorail
Cavy turned me down. :(
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:42, Reply)
Yeah, soz about that everyone.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:09, Reply)
i think it is interesting though,
i'm not anti-vegetarian at all, but i find it scary that there isn't more done by the people that choose that lifestyle to ensure the products they consume are ethical.
loads of meat eaters try and source their meat locally, and ethically and fair trade and organic and all those buzz words, but there isn't the same fervor for ensuring supply is properly controlled in the vegan/vegetarian/healthy eating crowd.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)
Of course vegetarians try to ensure the products they buy are ethical.
I don't have any figures to back this up, but I reckon proportionately they are more likely than meat-eaters to do so.
The problem is trying to do this against an enormous history of meat producing and meat industry by-products.
Anyone who thinks they are a vegan is seriously kidding themselves - we use animal by-products in far more things than you could realistically avoid.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:20, Reply)
fair enough,
i don't know a whole lot about it to be honest. i imagine these sort of articles exist merely to annoy people.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:23, Reply)
yeah well I say you're a bent prick HOW ABOUT THAT?
You should ethically source a deleted account and eat shit.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:27, Reply)
Shit with meat in it.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:27, Reply)
I only eat the finest organic, Peruvian shit, from women raised on a purely vegetarian diet.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:29, Reply)
Is it just me that buys the burgers
with the picture of a crying cow on?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:47, Reply)
I read that the other day, and I thought it was bollocks.
Then I realised peta responded saying it was bollocks, so now I totally agree with the article 100%!!!
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:09, Reply)
You'd rather go naked than support PETA?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:11, Reply)
I'm going to have a vege pasta dish tonight but because peta exist, I'm going to follow it up by throwing rocks at birds.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)
hahaha!

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)
And thus the universal balance is restored.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:24, Reply)
is it bollocks?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)
No, that's Tesco Value meatballs

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:15, Reply)
I really don't get the problem.
This thing that this poor country makes is now worth 3 times as much and is being exported on an enourmous scale.

That's great, brilliant, saying quinoa farmers are now worse of because of that... stupid.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:18, Reply)
The response seems reasonable to me
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/quinoa-bolivian-farmers-meat-eaters-hunger
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:20, Reply)
yeah,
as i said, i'm fairly sure sometimes the guardian likes publish stuff just for the sake of the debate.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:35, Reply)
They're just bored at work like the rest of us and like a good argument.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:38, Reply)
do journalists go in to an office to do their stuff?
or are they just sat at home, surfing the web, and occasionally writing an article about not much in particular?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:42, Reply)
Both, I think.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:45, Reply)
I haven't read the article
But isn't there a point that a lot of third world farmers export more than they need to keep to feed their own countrymen?

They make more money from foreigners, so fuck next door if they're gonna starve
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:21, Reply)
If you can grow say Coffee on a field and that'll make you $1000 a year,
and grain you'll only get $350 a year, it's better to grow the coffee and import the grain. Not only for yourself but for the whole countries economy. It's globalisation.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:25, Reply)
but if the country's too poor to import grain because wealthier countries are buying it all?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:32, Reply)
The wealthy countries can't get rid of grain quick enough, and they subsidise it a lot.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:44, Reply)
well that's not what I heard
And the guy I heard it from had dreadlocks and a beard, so you know he was telling the truth
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:11, Reply)
I'm certain all the little farmers and workers who are growing it get three times the money too

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:25, Reply)
I'm of the "eat what the fuck you want" school of thinking
I'm genuinely interested in why people become veggies/vegans/etc. though

Alt:
I did manage a short pub visit today - two pints of Amstel went down nicely. today is mostly boring with short periods of meh

AltAlt:
Mono! D'oh!!
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:11, Reply)
my girlfriend's a vegetarian because she loves animals
But if you're a microbe or a spider she thinks you're a dick
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:19, Reply)
Sadly I’m into “come dine with me”
it always cracks me up when the vegetarians force their food style and choices down the other diners throats, the other contestants should be all like… well I ingested your nut roast now you eat my very rear fillet of beef.

My day is going good so far Windy, I'm just hoping that I don't walk into a house full tonight.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:18, Reply)
Rump steak, presumably.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:23, Reply)
it's not like you don't eat vegetables for ethical reasons
I don't understand why people who've gone for dinner at a vegetarian's house are so surprised at getting vegetarian food
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:23, Reply)
a house full of friends?
is that likely? if my friends were the sort of people that held surprise parties well, i guess we wouldn't be friends because that is a dickish thing to do.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:25, Reply)
It wouldn't surprise me if Harters' friends were dicks.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:30, Reply)
Not necessarilly a suprise party, just that I have in the past walked in to find the brother in law and his.....
lot round next the the door goes and its a few friends Etc., I don't suffer B-days very well now days
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:32, Reply)
i can't abide people who turn up unannounced.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:39, Reply)
I don't mind any normal time, we have quite an open house policy to friends.
But I'm still under the weather,so just want a hot bath and to relax.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:41, Reply)
i couldn't handle it,
some days i just want to be alone, or spend time with mrs pig, or the dogs, the thought that people might think it ok just turn up because they fancy it shows a severe lack of care for how i might feel about the situation.
I quite often won't answer the door if someone knocks on it on a day off.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:47, Reply)
I only found out recently I have been pronouncing quinoa all wrong for ages
not that I can remember the last time I said quinoa out loud

maybe they have loads to eat but they are pronouncing it wrong in the quinoa shop
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:20, Reply)
Say it in a Geordie accent, to rhyme with 'Genoa'.
That's the best way.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:31, Reply)
isn't it key-noir? I'm sure it's key-noir

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:33, Reply)
Kwy-noor.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:35, Reply)
key-neck

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:35, Reply)
THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUS SLUR

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:08, Reply)
this is how I have been told to say it proper
it is stupid, and you sound stupid
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:45, Reply)
I like the ones that put their dogs on a vegetarian/vegan diet.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:21, Reply)
someone must have trolled it because the link doesn't work now

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:35, Reply)
Works for me.
Are you sure it isn't because you have the Guardian blocked?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:37, Reply)
The Guardian's built-in Tory detector spotted her and hid the content

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:39, Reply)
hey, i can wring my hands too

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:46, Reply)
fucking shit cunt bollocks twat fucking fuck
Soz, just had to let that out somewhere, carry on
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:45, Reply)
Let me guess, your network is down.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:45, Reply)
nah, not at home
just work shit being shit and annoying
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:46, Reply)
this^
Fucking work
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:48, Reply)
Calm down nakers
Tell us all about it, we're bound to support you and give you all the advice you need.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:48, Reply)
unless you can go back in time, you are no help at all

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:50, Reply)
Thanks "Lene Nystrom"

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:50, Reply)
why am I on the wikipedia page for the lead singer of Aqua?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:53, Reply)
If only you could turn back time.....
Just wanted to not pick Cher
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:05, Reply)
I thought you cracked time travel yesterday?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:54, Reply)
I broked it again : (

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:55, Reply)
No, he just forgot to turn the page on his "Beano" calendar

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:55, Reply)
I don't care about people with mad eating shit like vegetarians and vegans or the Bolivians
I want you to all know that.

ALT: Yeah today's good, summat broke at work this morning so I had lots to do/co-ordinate, I've just written a statement that'll piss people off, and now I'm gonna chill out til 6. S'ALL GRAVY PIGSO
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:49, Reply)
why wil it piss people off?
did you get a bit racist again?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:55, Reply)
Nah, people want me to fix something
When really they have to fix it themselves
They're all gonna say I'm a liar because that way they don't have to do anything and can feel angry.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:56, Reply)
I am very bored, and have spent an hour or so reading the guardian newspaper website.
I have come to the conclusion that is a daft paper. The Comment is free section is like speakers corner.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:53, Reply)
I like the cartoons
they haev pictures of fat cats in pinstripe suits everyday, regardless of the topic of the cartoon
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:54, Reply)
Comment is Free is awful
I've gone many years without reading it, it makes for a better life
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:56, Reply)
It''s quite fun on that article that Windy Pig linked to.
It's a bunch of veggies and vegans all trying to out-worthy each other.

"Yeah, but I care more than you because (I don't drive/have a home/fart &c)!"
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:58, Reply)
I do like the Grauniad comments though
They're always very RIGHT ON
I get the feeling that no-one who has ever commented on a Grauniad article has ever felt joy.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:01, Reply)
Or had sex with the lights on, yes.
The best argument for becoming right-wing is generally people who aren't right-wing.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:16, Reply)
And vice versa

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:19, Reply)
I like to sit dead center and have no view point at all

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:20, Reply)
i do like that an article on cycling,
the first commenter has a picture of him in full on lycra riding gear on a super expensive looking road bike. Definitely not a biased viewpoint at all.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:41, Reply)
although,
i did discover that ricky tomlinson is not just a fat unfunny idiot, he was also a unionist, arrested as a young man. So it is not all bad.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:02, Reply)
still had a shit beard though

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:02, Reply)
yeah, shit beard.
I wish his artic was open for comments, just so i can call him a shit beard.
in fact, does anyone here have a tiwtter and would be willing to tweet him that he is a shit beard? i only have the pubs twitter, and that probably wouldn't go down very well with the big bosses.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:05, Reply)
Monorail, FUCK YEAH

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:04, Reply)
hey nakey noo,
i see you're not having the best day.
If it helps, i'm at work, but really i'm sat at a bar drinking nice cold vedett and looking at silly things online and watching a film.

What went wrong with you?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:08, Reply)
same old shit, clients innit, bunch of wankers!
Do you serve Veltins, I've just discovered it
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:09, Reply)
Yes. As long as they are over 18.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:24, Reply)
golf




clap
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:27, Reply)
nah,
bit too obscure to bother with. it'll just sit in the fridge for 6 months.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:29, Reply)
they have it on tap in my local, it's quite a beer pub though, if that makes sense

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:30, Reply)
you mean they serve good beer?
Are you saying WP only serves slops?

terrible bullying
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:32, Reply)
3/10 for shit stirring here

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:33, Reply)
You should cunt him in the punch for that Nakers

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:35, Reply)
Wilf's alright, he's just "misunderstood"

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:38, Reply)
Best cure for misunderstanding

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:40, Reply)
how much is it a pint?
and where abouts in london are you?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:34, Reply)
Oooh, over £4 i think, same as Peroni's/Grolchs etc
SW13, Barnes to be specific
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:35, Reply)
*crosses Barnes off potential flat viewing sites*

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:37, Reply)
you couldn't afford it anyway IT monkey
EDIT: do you mean because I live there or the cost of beer?
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:38, Reply)
yeah, so it's not worth it from my point of view.
even at a decent mark up that is going to be at least 90-100 quid a barrel, and i can't charge nigh on 5 quid for a beer most won't have heard of.
I take a risk on kozel, and it seems to move, but as much as i'd love to run a full on beer house, it wouldn't work where i am. That is the dream though.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:40, Reply)
fair enough, economics mess up all the best plans
A pub on Kew green runs it's own microbrewery in the front, makes a nice drop
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:42, Reply)
yeah, theres 2 in oxfrod with their own brewery, and they do well enough,
but the size of my pub, and it's location doesn't lend itself to that sort of experiment.
One day nakey noo, one day, but for now, i have to be a bit conservative.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:44, Reply)
good to have a plan/dream though
and I wish you all the best in fulfilling that dream, cos it's a goodun
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:45, Reply)
He should open a Gin house
then the plan would be a Gordon
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:47, Reply)
this is a really, really bad post
I don't want to embarrass you in front of everyone, but sometimes and example needs to be made
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:49, Reply)
Sorry Nakers
I'm about done for the day, I'm suprised I even bothered posting it
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:50, Reply)
well,
all i need is some money really, and the right site, everything else is just hard work, a little luck and a lot of favours called in.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:49, Reply)
You forgot barmaids with big knockers
You Pubwrong
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:51, Reply)
barmaids with big knockers will attract a large amount of men,
men are stupid and potentially fighty, i'd rather good looking lads, then you get girl customers, who bring male customers that are not going to act the cunt because they are trying to impress the girl.
it is you who is pub wrong.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:55, Reply)
*SMACKDOWN*

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:56, Reply)
or a million Darths and Plumdozers all using your Wifi and tapping on the counter with their
cuff links
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:57, Reply)
I just want a pint
Why can't you get me a pint, what's all this talk about clientele, I just want my pint, get me a pint, fuck's sake, I'm off down the Ale House, at least they'll give me a pint and none of this backchat
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:57, Reply)
He's a fucking disgrace, winders.
with his outdated pub ideas.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:59, Reply)
WHY WON'T ANY OF YOU GET ME A PINT

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:16, Reply)
THIS IS THE WORST PUB

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:16, Reply)
*gives Theoban a pint of Guinness with turd in it*

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:18, Reply)
FINALLY, A WREXHAM SPECIAL

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:18, Reply)
well I've managed to eat
and watch tv
I'm turning into a fucking bum and I'm going to get fat-ER
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:36, Reply)
you out of work?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:37, Reply)
yep

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:39, Reply)
Oh dear, what job are you aiming to land?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:39, Reply)
none
my mom is about to have surgery so I am going to be helping her
after that's over probably a novelist or pop star, obviously
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:43, Reply)
good work, hope your mum is ok and has insurance and shit

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:44, Reply)
yeah
she's having her knees replaced so it should be fun :\
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:45, Reply)
What's she having them replaced with?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:54, Reply)
metal and something else

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:56, Reply)
I was hoping it might be laser cannons : (

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:58, Reply)
The knee joints of a black baby.
They'll fit her eventually. ......

Knee-grows.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:57, Reply)
tenuous at best

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:59, Reply)
I hope your home network gets a virus.

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:08, Reply)
I don't think i have any homework...
I'm worried now that I've forgotten to read a book and write a report!
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:10, Reply)
i have
but I left it at work. That will make things tricky later on next week
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:22, Reply)
you fucking mo

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:21, Reply)
imma text her indoors and tell her to dump you for that

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:21, Reply)
my dad has just had his knee done
i had to spend last week babysitting him. he is the world's worst patient. 1 week into a knee replacement and he is already complaining about golf, driving, the gym...

srsly though is your ma having both done at once? having seen how much my dad needed his other knee to support him when getting up etc, that might be hardcore??
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:21, Reply)
they say if you get one done you likely won't get the other

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:22, Reply)
well it depends on a few things
if you're fairly fit, you'll be fine. my dad has always been obsessed with fitness, and his muscles were so strong that they did all the work. 9 weeks to the day after his first one (6 years ago) he was on a jet ski in antigua. the problem was, it lengthened his leg by an inch when they fixed the knee, so after a while of limping around like that, his hip was getting fucked. so he had no choice.

i think it'll be fucking painful but not as bad as she might think, based on my dad's experience. he's certainly thrilled with them.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:31, Reply)
It's quite a bit bollocks, that article, but it's really quite amusing that most of the terribly worthy commenters
have utterly missed the point of the article.

Which is not that vegetarians/vegans are responsbile for shit in Peru, but more that vegetarians/vegans that use the arguement that meat is bad for society and the planet are hypocrites. Actually, fucking idiot hypocrites to boot, but that's by the by.

Strangely, "yeah well I've been a vegan for 20 years and never eaten quinoa" is not a valid counterpoint, you fucktard. Unless you're a statistically valid proportion of all vegans, on your own.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:04, Reply)
Maybe it was Bobby?

(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:05, Reply)
Bobby can't possibly be vegan
it's got to be impossible to be vegan and overweight. It's pretty tricky to be vegan and alive.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:25, Reply)
I can't be arsed to read that.
humans always fuck over other people

My day started thinking with sore arms and the brief promise of a snow day quickly dashed. Now it's snowing and it took ages to get home. Perhaps snow day and sleep tomorrow
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:13, Reply)
you think with your arms?
weirdo.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:26, Reply)
I have no I idea why I wrote that
perhaps I was just thinking with my arms.
(, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:27, Reply)

« Go Back | Reply To This »

Pages: Latest, 836, 835, 834, 833, 832, ... 1