Things people dislike or hate, but you quite like them?

[Ichinisan]

Does that imply you don't know.. you are = you're?

No. He's saying that vegetarianism is "doing it wrong."

 

[God Mode]

No. He's saying that vegetarianism is "doing it wrong."

Nope. I respect it and wish I had the endurance and patience to stick with it. It just wasn't important or practical enough for me at the point.

 

[busydude]

No. He's saying that vegetarianism is "doing it wrong."

Ahh. I see. It is not like I had a say in that.. I was born into a family of vegetarians. I don't feel the need to switch my diet.. I am pretty happy.

 

[God Mode]

1. Whether they needed it or not we've never been back to a place that has done that. Most of the ones that have done that to me in the past are now closed. I'm not saying it's because of how they treat allergies, but if they don't care about that they probably have found other ways to piss people off as well.
2. Sure it could have been the basis for a lawsuit. However, unlike many people I'm not looking for chances to sue so if I figure out that they ignored me I'm not eating it.

You don't let something like that slide. Sometimes, a lawsuit or even exposure is the only way to punish businesses like this. Potential money is just a side effect.

 

[Locut0s]

You're doing it wrong.

It really is possible to eat well as a vegetarian.

 

[Bignate603]

You don't let something like that slide. Sometimes, a lawsuit or even exposure is the only way to punish businesses like this. Potential money is just a side effect.

Most places I try and give them the benefit of the doubt. If the kitchen is used to do something one particular way it can be easy to forget one needs to be special. Anyways, I typically notice before I eat. In those cases you can't really sue, no harm has been done until you eat it.

One though I made sure to make sure that they knew what was going on. I was invited by my work to go to this award dinner because of a product I helped develop that was a big step up in performance. It was at this big fancy hotel and they were flying people in from all over the country to come. The hotel sent out these things that sent you to a website to say if you had any dietary problems (allergies, vegetarian, diabetic, etc). I filled that out and when I showed up the server asked who at the table had the allergies. She came over and confirmed what I had entered in the website.

I thought "Wow, these guys are good at doing all of this!". Then the food started coming. Every single course had something on it that I was allergic to, I had to send everything back. I could have understood if they screwed up the first course, but they didn't learn. Rather than a nice fancy dinner that I was supposed to have I ended up eating each course about 20 minutes after the other people at my table and their replacements truly sucked. For instance, rather than a nice filet mignon (could have eaten that but they covered it with some cream based sauce) I had an overcooked piece of chicken with no sauce and overdone steamed vegetables. I was pretty pissed. Right after I got home I wrote out what happened and sent it in to the hotel. A few days later I got an extremely apologetic phone call from the manager. He sounded like he was pretty pissed at the staff that they dropped the ball. He claimed two people were fired over it but I have no way to confirm that.

For that one though I ended up getting a few days free at that hotel so that was kind of nice I guess. I didn't ask for anything, I just wanted to make sure they didn't end up killing somebody.

 

[Muse]

My point of view is that using a keyboard typing is different than writing. Ultimately its about comprehension of the communication. proper spelling is irrelevant to the point, which is to comprehend it in something like a discussion board. Most of my misspellings is due to hitting the wrong key or missing a key. Age has a factor too, some words you just forget how to spell properly when you've been out of school for so long and virtually never write those words much, it happens. going back to fix it has no impact on the final outcome. Therefore, from a technical standpoint, its pointless to fix a word that is comprehendable by any english speaker on a forum, tweet..etc because the outcome is exactly the same regardless and time has a value for some.

I realize it's a personal thing and I never criticize people for nasty English infractions or not so nasty ones. If someone's English is so bad it's painful to read, I usually just skip it, dismiss it as superfluous, which it usually is. The people I actually communicate with one on one have better communication skills than that. Some of them never hit the shift key. I dismiss that as personal preference. I'm not saying I'm better than they are, I have just always been in the habit of using proper English, as proper as I can offer in most circumstances. I also usually reread my posts and correct mistakes, which I'm certainly prone to make. However, I think I'm very good at spotting them (and correcting them). I think I'd make a damn good proofreader!

 

[Muse]

I don't have to prove anything to anyone here, or anywhere else in the world. You can take my statement as fact, or not; I don't especially give a shit. What it comes down to is there was no real reason to quit coffee other than "to do it", so I prefer to drink coffee.

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The length of time isn't determined by the word "quit". When dealing with addictive substances, "quitting" is defined close enough by not using a substance after the physical/psychological urges are overcome.

I'm on your side. I've "quit" coffee for at least 2 weeks without cravings, physical affects or psychological affects. If I thought coffee was bad for me, that would be one thing and maybe I'd quit for good, however recent research shows that coffee actually has some significant health benefits. Obviously, if you don't over do it caffeine makes you more alert. My father used to use caffeine pills when studying for exams, for instance. A friend of mine advises doing nothing in the morning until you drink a cup of coffee. Men who drink coffee have a significantly lower incidence of prostate cancer, a study has shown, or so I heard in the media.

Another friend of mine told me that the pesticides used on coffee are particularly bad, so I always buy organic coffee. It's actually no more expensive than the other coffees at Costco.

 

[Muse]

The ones that have the ink inside the pen just like every other modern pen.

Probably the biggest issue with fountain pens is that they don't work on all types of paper. A shitty ballpoint pen will work on almost anything because it works like a pencil - the pen leaves color on the paper. Fountain pens use dyes instead of pigments. Fountain pen ink is not on the paper like ballpoint ink or pencil. It's inside the paper. Think of it like a t-shirt. The shirt I'm wearing is grey and it has a plastic logo thing on it. The plastic logo is like pigment; I can scratch it off the surface. The grey color is dye. I can't scratch it off. It's inside the shirt. So then what is the problem? The fountain pen only works if the paper can slurp up the water based dye. A lot of things don't like water based dye or they like it too much. A ballpoint pen works great on paper towel, but a fountain pen does not. Because of the high absorption rate, the towel pulls a lot of ink and one ends up getting extremely thick letters and so much ink that it soaks through to the other side. Fountain pens don't work good on things like construction paper or recycled paper. Recycled paper is very porous, so the letters look like they have hairs growing on them. The printer paper at my work has the opposite problem. It doesn't like water very much, so the ink stays wet for several seconds.

You have a point (please excuse the pun). If I were to read a 6 page handwritten letter I'd prefer it to be written with a fountain pen over a ballpoint. I can't remember the last time I got a handwritten item in the mail that had more than 100 words, though, usually it's more like 15 or less. It seems to be out of fashion to write letters. Nowadays people send email, who writes letters? I have an expensive fountain pen but I haven't used it for many years, it's a Mont Blanc, IIRC. It uses either cartridges or bottled ink, my choice, but it sits in a drawer unused. Principally I use pens to make notes, lists for myself. Doing that with a fountain pen would be a bitch, actually. The effort required to keep a fountain pen working isn't worth it for those purposes. I also have drawing pens, the kind used for pen and ink drawings. Those are dip and draw pens I learned to use in a drawing class at the university.

 

[lxskllr]

I love fountain pens, but never have the opportunity to use them. Sometimes I use a calligraphy pen. That makes writing fun, and improves my crappy writing, even if it is quite "calligraphy".

 

[Muse]

It really is possible to eat well as a vegetarian.

I don't doubt it, but it's a hassle. It's hard to get enough of certain types of nutrients that are important for good health. Vitamin B12, IIRC, for one. The only decent vegetable source of B12 is soybean tempeh, that I know of. I used to make that stuff. I don't bother now, but I could, I know how to do it. It's not super easy, the process (the one that I used, anyway) is bizarre. Soybean tempeh (and other forms of tempeh) is a staple in Indonesia, somewhat less in other parts of southeast Asia.

I don't eat a lot of meat, but I do eat some. I've told people that I don't eat enough meat to keep a cat alive, and it's probably true. After a blood test I had a few years ago my doctor advised me to eat more red meat and green leafy vegetables, I was borderline anemic. So, I try to eat a little red meat most days, it amounts to less than 2 ounces, actually, on most days. I do have some eggs in my diet, not a lot, also I drink some nonfat milk, I guess that's a pretty good complete protein. Being vegan, though, it would be a challenge to not suffer malnutrition. Not saying it's impossible, but to be really robust, not easy.