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what? another update? YES
Jun. 17th, 2009 09:38 pmGuitar class was cool. The one thing I don't like is the teacher is very accommodating to people who show up late or missed the first day, which means the rest of us have to sit around while he repeats everything for their benefit. Ah well. We got another song to learn. A SEA SHANTY! What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
Then I saw this on notalwaysright.com that annoyed me:
...OK, maybe my years of being a hippIE vegetarian have addled my brain but that's true, isn't it? I can't think of an example of non-human animals habitually drinking the milk of another species, although I'd buy it if someone described a pup/calf of one species opportunistically stealing milk from a lactating female of a similar species if they came into contact. Still. I really don't see the stupid there. She doesn't want cows' milk and she stated her reasonably logical reason why; granted there's a lot we eat that isn't "natural" (cooked food, for example) but there's a good case to be made for dairy products being bad for us because mammalian bodies aren't really designed to ingest milk beyond infancy. Apart from knee-jerk anti-veg*anism, where's the problem?
ETA: I take back the above; as commenters have pointed out, it's not that the OP is anti-veg*an it's that he didn't need that info and it sounded like the customer wanted him not to serve milk at all. I guess the "Hippy" label just got my hackles up ;)
On the other hand, this one is awesome:
Then I saw this on notalwaysright.com that annoyed me:
Coffee Shop | Studio City, CA
Me: "Would you like half and half?"
Hippy Woman: "Oh no! Soy please. Humans aren’t supposed to drink milk you know. Haven’t you noticed we're the only species that drinks the milk of another species?"
...OK, maybe my years of being a hippIE vegetarian have addled my brain but that's true, isn't it? I can't think of an example of non-human animals habitually drinking the milk of another species, although I'd buy it if someone described a pup/calf of one species opportunistically stealing milk from a lactating female of a similar species if they came into contact. Still. I really don't see the stupid there. She doesn't want cows' milk and she stated her reasonably logical reason why; granted there's a lot we eat that isn't "natural" (cooked food, for example) but there's a good case to be made for dairy products being bad for us because mammalian bodies aren't really designed to ingest milk beyond infancy. Apart from knee-jerk anti-veg*anism, where's the problem?
ETA: I take back the above; as commenters have pointed out, it's not that the OP is anti-veg*an it's that he didn't need that info and it sounded like the customer wanted him not to serve milk at all. I guess the "Hippy" label just got my hackles up ;)
On the other hand, this one is awesome:
Vet | Unknown Location
Me: “Emergency veterinary clinic, how can I help you?”
Caller: *worried female voice* “My dog has a red thing on him.”
Me: “Is it actively bleeding?”
Caller: “No.”
Me: “Where is it located?”
Caller: “On his tummy.”
Me: “Can you describe it to me? How large is it? Does it look more like a cut, a rash or an abrasion?”
Caller: “It looks like a little stick of lipstick.”
Me: “That’s his penis.”
Caller: *hangs up*
