[CanadaRAM]

What %*#p

You impute some imagined and rigorous ethical code arbitrarily onto some one (based on no evidence), then call them hypocritical and stupid for not adhering to your imaginary code of what you believe they 'signed up' for when they said they didn't eat meat?

Y'all prolly go around looking for Christians to insult who are working on Sundays and bawl out children who run on the deck of public swimming pools, too.

[zerostar]

And the angel of the Lord came unto me,
snatching me up from my
place of slumber,
and took me on high,
and higher still until we
moved in the spaces betwixt the air itself.
and he bore me unto a
vast farmland of our own midwest,
and as we descended cries of
impending doom rose from the soil.
one thousand, nay, a million
voices full of fear.
and terror possessed me then.
and I begged,

"Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me,
"These are the cries of the carrots,
the cries of the carrots.
You see, reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust."
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat
like the tears of one millions terrified brothers
and roared,
"Hear me now,
I have seen the light,
they have a consciousness,
they have a life,
they have a soul.
damn you!
let the rabbits wear glasses,
save our brothers...can I get an amen?
can I get a hallelujah? thank you, Jesus.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by starman

So, I just went to get breakfast. The woman next to me gets an egg on a bagel with cheese. When it's done the guy says "bacon?". The woman says "oh, no, I'm a vegetarian. Bacon scares me".

I'm thinking to myself - if you're a VEGETARIAN, why are you eating eggs? Last I checked, eggs weren't a vegetable.

Hit apple-control-D over "vegetarian" and tell me if it says "someone who eats only vegetables."

Illiteracy is not a license to make snap judgments.

[starman]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Hit apple-control-D over "vegetarian" and tell me if it says "someone who eats only vegetables."

Illiteracy is not a license to make snap judgments.

Looking up the word "vegetarian" on the web shows different definitions of the same word; some include eggs, some do not.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Mike

[CanadaRAM]

Originally Posted by starman

Looking up the word "vegetarian" on the web shows different definitions of the same word; some include eggs, some do not.

Right, and the salient point is you assumed on behalf of the lady the unequivocal 'NOT' and ran with it for purposes of derision, despite your admission (now) that the lady could have legitimately meant the vegetarian-including-eggs definition.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by starman

Looking up the word "vegetarian" on the web shows different definitions of the same word; some include eggs, some do not.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

What? I didn't fail to look up the easily accessible fact that "vegetarian" could include eggs and wrongly insult someone because of it. I don't see how I'm black.

[starman]

The root of the word 'vegetable' is 'veg', meaning "edible plant".

Silly me for not thinking that it included animals

Noun: veg
[Brit] Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
- vegetable, veggie

Hmm. I don't see the word "egg" in there....

Here's another:

veg [ vej ] (plural veg)


noun

Definitions:

U.K. vegetables: vegetables, or a vegetable ( informal )

Hmm...still nothing related to edible items that drop out of a chicken.

[historylme]

Originally Posted by zerostar

And the angel of the Lord came unto me,
snatching me up from my
place of slumber,
and took me on high,
and higher still until we
moved in the spaces betwixt the air itself.
and he bore me unto a
vast farmland of our own midwest,
and as we descended cries of
impending doom rose from the soil.
one thousand, nay, a million
voices full of fear.
and terror possessed me then.
and I begged,

"Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me,
"These are the cries of the carrots,
the cries of the carrots.
You see, reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust."
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat
like the tears of one millions terrified brothers
and roared,
"Hear me now,
I have seen the light,
they have a consciousness,
they have a life,
they have a soul.
damn you!
let the rabbits wear glasses,
save our brothers...can I get an amen?
can I get a hallelujah? thank you, Jesus.

AWESOME

[nredman]

mmm bacon - my wife & i had some really good BLT's last night

i tried to stop eating meat once, lasted a few days

[Link]

I eat almost anything but the following:

Chili pepper stuff..
Cow (poor guys!) - except in hot dogs *CHOMP*
raw fish
Squid, octopus, snails

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by starman

The root of the word 'vegetable' is 'veg', meaning "edible plant".

Silly me for not thinking that it included animals

Noun: veg
[Brit] Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
- vegetable, veggie

Hmm. I don't see the word "egg" in there....

Here's another:

veg [ vej ] (plural veg)


noun

Definitions:

U.K. vegetables: vegetables, or a vegetable ( informal )

Hmm...still nothing related to edible items that drop out of a chicken.

And "apocalypse" comes from a Greek word meaning "reveal." And "object" comes from "ob" (= "in the way of") and "ject" (= "throw"). If you could figure out the meaning of a word just by looking at its elements, dictionaries would be a heck of a lot smaller.

Just admit that you were forcing your misunderstanding of the word on them and wrongly insulted them. That's what happened. The woman was simply saying she did not eat meat. Case closed.

[AB^2=BCxAC]

Vegetarians bother me. They aren't normal. I prefer normal. Normal's less annoying, more reassuring, and it's what i know, so it's easiest.

Consequently, I feel the need to share that I tried a vegan restaurant at lunch today and had a faux-BLT, and it was awesome. Go figure.

[JoshuaZ]

I`ve only ever know one person who went the distence when being a vegitarian. She ate like nothing but pure veggies and researched everything use used daily in heｒ life to make sure that no animals were harmed, or at least as few as possible. Honestly though, I think she only did it for the attention. Plus she was a bit crazy.

I know several vegitarians in Japan (all westerners), but its tough to do it here. In Japanese society its a very very very odd thing not to eat meat. And by meat I mean mostly fish with a bit of chicken and pork thrown in. Plus who would ever want to give up sushi?

[Warung]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Plus who would ever want to give up sushi?

I'm a vegetarian and I LOVE sushi. Good thing that it has more to do with the rice! which is used, than with fish or seafood.

For the rest who are still pondering the "egg" conundrum:

http://veggietable.allinfo-about.com...egetarian.html

[FONT=Arial Black]Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian[/FONT]

A vegetarian who does not eat any animals, but does eat eggs and dairy products.