For the ritual seppuku I intend to commit.
Was thinking a few days ago that the template for entirely too many conversations in my life is something like this:
- Other Person:
- So, you're a vegetarian.
- Me:
- . . . yes?
- Other Person:
- So do you eat fish?
- Me:
- . . . no?
- Other Person:
- Why not? Fish aren't meat!
- Me:
- . . .
I mean, what am I supposed to say at that point? "My god, you're right! I never noticed that flaw in my supposed moral code! Waiter! Cajun blackened catfish, and keep 'em coming!"
Just had someone ask me why we couldn't control the Mars rover remotely. I tried to explain, with my half-remembered high school AP Physics, that the distances involved and the speed of light meant too long a pause to do something like that. Is Mars minutes away? Seconds? Hours? I'm sure I could work it out on paper, if I knew the actual distance. . .
Anyway, they looked at me like I was nuts.
Clearly, I'm doing something Very Wrong.
Trying to deal with people like that, I think.
But there are so damned many of them. . .
At moments like that, I find it soothing to think of all the times I've said something and gotten a really strange look for it. I imagine that the person I was talking to then was just as mindboggled by what they were hearing as I am by what I heard just now.
Of course, it's possible that they were bone-stupid too.
I was once talking to a friend about a mutual acquaintance. "She seems nice enough," I said, "but every time I speak to her, she looks at me like she either can't understand or can't believe what I just said."
"Don't worry about it," he said. "She thinks that's normal, 'cause it's what everybody does to her every time she opens her mouth."
people are funny.
The Cathars, a twefth-century Chrsitain heresy, were completely vegan because they rejected all the products of sexuality as potential foodstuffs -- but they *would* eat fish, because they beleived them to spontaneously generate from water. (Lecture concludes.)
Therein lies the obvious response. "I should eat fish? Why, exactly? You mean because they are not animals, but instead are really mobile plants that develop from tiny seeds floating about in bodies of water? Ah. And ducks are also mammals, correct?"
I just saw in some mainstream magazine that they listed different types of vegetarians, and actually incuded pesco-vegetarian as one...so apparently, vegetarian no longer means DOESN'T EAT MEAT...must mean DOESN'T EAT ANIMALS THAT ONE CAN PET AND TAKE FOR WALKS.
idiots.
They must be influenced by that Jessica Simpson. I mean, fish grow in a garden, right?
If one can eat fish but not other animals is a vegetarian, then I am a vegetarian as well, as I don't eat fish. Fishing is destroying our oceans.