blueberryale77
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Chris, you're seriously in the minority. You're the only vegetarian I know who hasn't beat me over the head with reasons why my carnivourous lifestyle is dangerous/offensive/etc.
Can I ask why you're a vegetarian? How strict are you with it?
Before you ask, I'm a meat-eater because...well...I love meat and I don't discriminate much. I am, however, open to vegetarian/vegan dishes. I know a lot of meat-eatin' folk who hear the word "vegetarian" and turn up their noses. I've also switched to soy milk at home. I actually prefer the taste and texture over conventional milk.
/not a rant
That sounds a lot like something your average atheist/agnostic might say about Christians. Like you are among evangelicals, I'd say DREK is part of not a minority but a quiet (not quite silent) majority of vegetarians who mostly mind their own business and don't give others a hard time. The loud, judgmental ones always manage to grab all the attention by design, which in the long run hurts the cause by scaring many away from it. This doesn't mean that a vegetarian should never talk about vegetarianism or a Christian shouldn't talk about their faith... everyone has a right to express themselves and the world is more interesting if we get exposed to each other's perspectives... there's just a fuzzy line somewhere out there between friendly sharing of what's important to you and shoving it in people's faces. Most of us accidentally cross that line at least a few times in our lives but are still well-intentioned, caring individuals.
The other reason people tend to think that everyone who holds strongly to a set of beliefs is "judgmental" is that sometimes we all tend to get our backs up when people make choices that are different from ours. How often have you heard a meat eater tease and harang a vegetarian to try to get them to eat meat... or a drinker try to cajole a teatotaler into embibing... or a non-religious person try to talk a religious friend into checking out some porn or hooking up with someone at a bar? When the person who doesn't want to engage in the action that they see as wrong for them tries to defend their own reasoning, a lot of people start to get defensive about their own indulgence in the behavior instead of just accepting that everyone has to live their life by the values they choose and we're better off if everybody has some type of values they adhere strongly to than if they had none at all.
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He was banned!
Tony-OH runs Philadelphia now?!
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Philadelphia is a great city.
If you can ever get INTO IT!!!
Why wouldn't you be able to get into Philadelphia?
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People who put you on the spot about making donations for something you barely sympathize with. Guilt trips making me mad.
Are you talking about friends or strangers? The last several times I've gone through this one intersection near where I live there have been a bunch of people, presumably college kids, in street clothes with no logos or anything to identify what they're collecting money for, walking up to car windows at the traffic light asking for money for "kids with cancer." I asked one kid what his organization was called and he walked away without answering. You would think if the police hadn't given them permission they would have been busted by now, but it's pretty ridiculous that they aren't identifying what group they're with. I mean, nobody doesn't like kids with cancer, but why would anyone give money to some random stranger in the street who won't even identify their charity?
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Going to make a pizza and finding out that you accidentally bought pasta sauce instead of pizza sauce.
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I've decided that all women are inherently evil.
This is true. However, so are all men (and personally their evilness bothers me more).
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Positng here asa preemptive excuse in case i offend or scare anyone in any other thread tongiht.
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Just a quick question... why does friggin Goergetown have to be so friggin good at friggin basketball?
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I'm posting on here....now
I just want to say it doesn't pay to be a nice guy and finish last. What is the balance between being that and being the a**hole that gets all the girls he wants?
Such is the life of myself, boy does this suck.
I love women, but god damn do they piss me off sometime. Girls suck sometimes
I apologize for posting here while not drunk, but... I promise you, the girls who are worth having like nice guys. If the girl you're after likes an a-hole better, that's because she's one too.
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I have never seen more rude, drunken teenagers, college students, and jerks who want to pretend they're still in college anywhere than on PATH and NJ Transit. Seriously.
Wow... and I'm guessing you haven't often had the pleasure of riding the last NJTransit train of the evening back to No Funswick with the Rutgers kids.
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This is from yesterday so I'm not still actually mad about it, but riding the subway (or PATH in this case) with a bunch of drunken teenyboppers who have no idea where they're going, aren't used to riding public transit, and have no respect for their fellow passengers sucks. Yesterday on the way to the Hoboken St. Patricks Day parade I saw 10 drunk college kids practically mug a little old lady who could barely speak English when she asked them for a seat. They tried to force her to take pictures with drunk college boys groping her in exchange for the seat until all the other passengers glared at them together. The lady's husband, who had to be at least 75 and wasn't real steady on his feat, never got a seat.
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Computer eye strain
Also doing boring part-time research work because I got all uppity and quit my crappy real job before I got a new one lined up... or even figured out what kind of new job I really wanted.
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Maybe this should go in a rants thread, but I hate when your friends get old and want to go home at midnight on a Saturday night when you're just starting to get a good buzz on. :002_stongue:
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If you're going to have such a hard on for the guy that you can't shut up about him, at least learn to spell his freaking name!
I think this whole board has "texeria" as in, rhymes with diarrhea and gonnorhea. It's a disease!
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This thread was almost on the second page!
How can this happen at a time when the O's are putting us all through so much stress? (I'm not actually drunk at the moment but I am drinking.) -
And if someone's holding the door for you, you should say thank you, just to be nice, not because someone gave you something you didn't ask for.
See? Goes both ways.
I've had a hard time explaining this to guys before, but there are times when a man actually inconveniences a woman (who he doesn't know from Eve) in order to make a show of opening a door for her, then stands there, still blocking her way, expecting to be thanked for running in front of her and interfering with her path to wherever she was going, and calls her a "female dog" if she fails to be passionately grateful for his display. I have no obligation to thank people who intentionally interfere with my freedom of movement in order to make themselves feel chivalrous.
Now, if I'm part of a line of people entering a building and the person in front of me holds the door open, I do say thank you, but I also don't see the point in getting mad if someone doesn't. That's their issue, not yours. You should be opening the door because you think it's the right thing to do, not to elicit some reaction from another person. Maybe they should say thank you, but that doesn't mean it's worth wasting your energy getting mad about.
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Yeah, that's terrible.
My rant for the day is people not saying "Thank you" when you hold the door for them. I usually say "You're welcome" anyway.
If you're going to hold the door for people, you should be doing it to be nice, not to get something from them. Why should they have to thank you for something they didn't ask you for? (Of course if the did something to cause you to hold the door, such as approach carrying a giant box or run to catch up before the door closes or something, it's a different story.)
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Brian Roberts has been on the Anita Marks show for 10 minutes now and she's barely let him get a word in edgewise. Not only that, but Anita is talking his ear off about the Ravens coaching situation instead of asking him about his trade situation that people listening to the Brian Roberts segment actually want to hear about.
OK she finally did get around to talking about baseball a little bit.
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ESPN 1300 ads about how WBAL is for old people. Not that I'm a WBAL fan or anything (never listened to them in my life other than for O's games back in the day), but the ads are just obnoxious. Why can't people promote themselves without bashing somebody else?
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At 7:00 this morning, I was awakened by my cat bringing me the mouse. She brought it up on my bed to present it to me, apparently thinking she had already thoroughly killed it. However, when she dropped in on the bed it started moving, albeit weakly, so she pounced on it a few more times to finish the job, thus waking me up. Oh well, at least there's no more mouse in the house.
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Well it turns out maybe TwoB was right about my cat suddenly having some manners. The minute the mouse did anything other than hang out in the kitchen wall, run across the counter, and poop behind the microwave, kitty caught it. Unfortunately, I accidentally walked in on her catching it and she let it go while it was still alive. It's hiding somewhere in my living room wounded and she's sniffing around wildly trying to find it again. I sure hope she does before it dies and rots.
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There's a mouse in my kitchen which has now pooped on the counter three times and my stupid cat who has caught plenty of mice in her time has absolutely NO interest in it! What gives?!
Also, the humane mouse traps that actually work are $12.99 each on the internet!
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Anti-Rants
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My first anti-rant ever:
This morning I went to Trader Joe's (the only one in NJ that sells beer & wine) and they had a brand new kind of blueberry ale I've never had before!
(Look for the other end of this in short rants after I try it and it turns out it tastes like crap.
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Yeah - we can leave that to John Maine...and blueberryale!
Eh... I like John Maine and all, but we all know there's only one baseball player I'd ever allow to try on my dresses.
And by the way if said baseball player happens to be lurking around here as he's been rumored to do on occasion and hasn't passed out in shock and disgust, he should pass along Shack's comments on headshaving to his friend Matt Holliday.
Scottie, from looking at your profile picture, you seem to have enough color in your face to pull it off... but really light skinned guys (like Matt Holliday) just don't look right. It's like you can almost see their brain.
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Waiters that intentionally give really :cussing: terrible service to parties that are just big enough to qualify for their restaurant's "we reserve the right to add gratuity to the parties of X or more" clause. :angryfire:
Also, little losers who work at Italian restaurants and look slightly Italian so they decide it's cute to put on a fake accent (yes, same guy).