Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:16:49 GMT, fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2025-02-05, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:26:35 GMT, fos@sdf.org wrote:

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On 2025-02-05, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:

fos@sdf.org wrote:

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i have zero use for people when they're being militant about
other peoples personal choices. them being militant is also a
personal choice they are free to make. it's also a personal
choice to ignore them or not.

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If your neighbour makes the personal choice to routinely beat his
children to a pulp, you do nothing because that's their decision?

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i make a choice of my own. i can beat the neighbor to a pulp and
get convicted of felony battery for it, or report it to the
authorities and remain a free man.

I'd do the latter, but that would mean being militant about the
neighbour's personal choices.

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if i'm on a trip with some passionate vegematics who insist on
everyone eating vegematic. i may or may not, is my choice, not
theirs.

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I never tell people that they can't eat meat. Not in real life. I'll
just annoy carnivores in RFC a bit.

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actually, if i'm on a trip with vegematics, since i love trying
new things i wouldn't resist unless they got preachy about it.

Is a vegematic the opposite of a corpse eater?

today, i'm eating vegetarian, actually. in my lunch bucket for
work this morning was a banana, two small bean burritos, 1/4 cup
mixed nuts with crasins, semi sweet chocolate morsels, and a
teaspoon of shelled sunflower seeds. 8oz container of blueberries,
8oz container of black raspberries, a sandwich bag full of cherry
tomatoes on vines, and 3 mini sweet peppers. for dinner i'll have
a salad. maybe popcorn popped in an air popper for a snack after.
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i got my arm twisted about what food to eat exactly once. was my
father. he loved the olive garden. first time i went there was
with my parents and he insisted on us getting some italian festival
thingy on the menu.

Here the lack of capitals can cause confusion. I'd never heard of a
chain called Olive Garden, so I first assumed your father had an olive
garden and wanted you to eat a lot of its produce.

i didn't want it but i caved. breadsticks.
salad. endless pasta. lasagna. the only things that were any good
was the breadsticks and salad. the pasta and lasagna were disgusting.
the second time there was with my parents again and i got sirloin
tips with roasted peppers and potatoes. the meat was ok, but it
took them three tries to being me veggies which were not petrified
from sitting under heat lamps. there was no third time, i will never
go there again.

I've never found pasta disgusting but I've also never understood why
Italians make such a big deal of it.

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Bruce
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