Pet Peeve(s)

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PumpDee said:
Your kid isn't perfect. No kid is perfect. If he starts throwing things at other adults at a birthday party, STOP HIM! Don't hand him another fork to throw!!! And if his uncles tells you to do something about it, don't act like he hates your kid or thinks he's a better parent than you, just DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! And if you don't like it, then LEAVE QUIETLY!!! Why ruin the day for everyone else, including the kid whose birthday party it is!?!? F*CK!!!!
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If my child is behaving inappropriately when I might not be watching, I have always felt that the biggest favor another adult can do for me is to tell my kid to cut the shit.

Was my kid acting like a dick? A) I am so sorry for that, and B) Thank you so much for saying something to him (it takes a village!).

However, if the adult does not feel comfortable and came and got me to deal with it, I'd simply deal with it. It's my job.
 
Don't know that this will seem like much but it's a small thing I'm sick of: Plant based, plant this, plant that. Plant protien. Really. Have some delicious and politcally correct plant protien.

No. Trumpsters like me. have a 24 oz cowboy steak on the barbi.
 
BostonTim said:
Don't know that this will seem like much but it's a small thing I'm sick of: Plant based, plant this, plant that. Plant protien. Really. Have some delicious and politcally correct plant protien.

No. Trumpsters like me. have a 24 oz cowboy steak on the barbi.
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Oh please do not make the plant based food craze out to be a political thing. I am without a question not a trump follower but I enjoy a good cut of beef on the grill as much as anyone else.
 
BostonTim said:
Don't know that this will seem like much but it's a small thing I'm sick of: Plant based, plant this, plant that. Plant protien. Really. Have some delicious and politcally correct plant protien.

No. Trumpsters like me. have a 24 oz cowboy steak on the barbi.
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Meh. Your steak comes from an herbivore.

Real macho types dine on carnivores. Tuna and swordfish, for example, are apex predators and dine on large carnivores that are also near the top of the food chain.

:biggrin:
 
TipRoast said:
Meh. Your steak comes from an herbivore.

Real macho types dine on carnivores. Tuna and swordfish, for example, are apex predators and dine on large carnivores that are also near the top of the food chain.

:biggrin:
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Sean- son of Lifer said:
Oh please do not make the plant based food craze out to be a political thing. I am without a question not a trump follower but I enjoy a good cut of beef on the grill as much as anyone else.
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I could be wrong. God knows it would neither first nor last time. But I do believe the plant based movement has deep political roots. JMO

Cheers
 
BostonTim said:
I could be wrong. God knows it would neither first nor last time. But I do believe the plant based movement has deep political roots. JMO

Cheers
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I think humans have been eating plants since the hunter-gatherer days, which was the Paleolithic Period (2.5 million years ago).

It could be that the liberal-conservative dichotomy is even older. Maybe you have memories of the times before the Stone Age and can enlighten us. :biggrin:
 
TipRoast said:
Meh. Your steak comes from an herbivore.

Real macho types dine on carnivores. Tuna and swordfish, for example, are apex predators and dine on large carnivores that are also near the top of the food chain.

:biggrin:
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I guess that means that if you really want to be macho you'll eat cats because cats are Apex predators and obligate carnivores. 😁
 
Pet peeves... I may have said this once or twice over the 19 years I have been on here: People that throw cigarettes out of their cars.

New one: Michigan has made pot legal. One caveat is that you can't be driving and stoned, but I'll tell you that the closer I get to Detroit the more likely it is that I smell pot at every stinking red light.
 
Aloyouis said:
Pet peeves... I may have said this once or twice over the 19 years I have been on here: People that throw cigarettes out of their cars.

New one: Michigan has made pot legal. One caveat is that you can't be driving and stoned, but I'll tell you that the closer I get to Detroit the more likely it is that I smell pot at every stinking red light.
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One of our town's HS baseball fields is on a very busy main road. I like to stand along the fence while watching my son's games and it is an endless Cheech & Chong parade on that boulevard, day and night. Windows down, giving zero effs, and I've never seen a single car get pulled over.
 
People who suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia bother me.

There's no reason to be afraid of long words.
 
Plants, in general, are trying to kill you. Generally nothing living wants to be killed (except for the cows in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe). Animals evolve to fight, to run away, or to gather in groups to confuse.

But plants? They can't do either of those. So they use the only tool in their arsenal. Chemical warfare. They try to kill you with poison. It may be quick or it may be slow.

The biggest exception to this are the plants that produce fruits and berries with seeds. But those plants generally don't die to be eaten, you just eat the fruit or berries with seeds, and the plant uses you to perpetuate it's species.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 
Undertaker #59* said:
Plants, in general, are trying to kill you. Generally nothing living wants to be killed (except for the cows in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe). Animals evolve to fight, to run away, or to gather in groups to confuse.

But plants? They can't do either of those. So they use the only tool in their arsenal. Chemical warfare. They try to kill you with poison. It may be quick or it may be slow.

The biggest exception to this are the plants that produce fruits and berries with seeds. But those plants generally don't die to be eaten, you just eat the fruit or berries with seeds, and the plant uses you to perpetuate it's species.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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That’s dark lol, but you make a good point …
18 Poisonous Plants and Flowers

Many plants can be poisonous to humans, with varying degrees of toxicity. Some common examples include Oleander, Water Hemlock, Poison Ivy, and Foxglove. Ingesting any part of these plants can cause a range of adverse effects, from mild irritation to severe illness or even death…..
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You may be on to something lol.

~Dee~
 
Undertaker #59* said:
Plants, in general, are trying to kill you. Generally nothing living wants to be killed (except for the cows in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe). Animals evolve to fight, to run away, or to gather in groups to confuse.

But plants? They can't do either of those. So they use the only tool in their arsenal. Chemical warfare. They try to kill you with poison. It may be quick or it may be slow.

The biggest exception to this are the plants that produce fruits and berries with seeds. But those plants generally don't die to be eaten, you just eat the fruit or berries with seeds, and the plant uses you to perpetuate it's species.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Plants are just playing the long game, providing food for their future fertilizer.
 
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