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Sheila
Dec 12th, 2006, 10:57 PM
10 Minutes ago:

Clerk at Store: We have some great Hot Chicken Wings, Do you want to try them?
Me: No thank you, I don't eat meat.
Him: So you are vegetarian.
Me: No, I'm Vegan
Him: (puzzled look on face)
Me: I don't eat meat but I also don't eat eggs, cheese, butter, etc...
Him: Wow, that sucks! Where do you get your calcium then?
Me: From the calcium plant.
Him: There really is a calcium plant?
Me: You bet ya!
luvzsunshine
Dec 12th, 2006, 11:20 PM
I was at a holiday dinner with my dept. at work. My director asked me if I was "full blown" vegan, she knew that I don't eat meat. When I said yes, she told me how much she respected me for that........then proceeded to talk about all of the exotic meats she has eaten and how good they were. She went on and on and on.........I had to excuse myself from the table.
luvzsunshine
Dec 12th, 2006, 11:21 PM
Sheila---Love that calcium plant :)
PainterLady
Dec 12th, 2006, 11:23 PM
10 Minutes ago:

Clerk at Store: We have some great Hot Chicken Wings, Do you want to try them?
Me: No thank you, I don't eat meat.
Him: So you are vegetarian.
Me: No, I'm Vegan
Him: (puzzled look on face)
Me: I don't eat meat but I also don't eat eggs, cheese, butter, etc...
Him: Wow, that sucks! Where do you get your calcium then?
Me: From the calcium plant.
Him: There really is a calcium plant?
Me: You bet ya!
uh...you rock! ;)
Tigerlily
Dec 13th, 2006, 12:33 AM
10 Minutes ago:

Clerk at Store: We have some great Hot Chicken Wings, Do you want to try them?
Me: No thank you, I don't eat meat.
Him: So you are vegetarian.
Me: No, I'm Vegan
Him: (puzzled look on face)
Me: I don't eat meat but I also don't eat eggs, cheese, butter, etc...
Him: Wow, that sucks! Where do you get your calcium then?
Me: From the calcium plant.
Him: There really is a calcium plant?
Me: You bet ya!

OMG, AWESOME! :D :D
VeganBarbie
Dec 13th, 2006, 04:10 AM
Where do you get your calcium/protein are such awful questions. I really hate them. However, I hate the "so what DO you eat?" question even more. My response is "Umm, dirt, lots of it, oh and sticks are yummie too".

:)
sandra
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:04 AM
Yes VeganBarbie, I hate that question too! Someone said to me at a family outing recently, 'What's Sandra going to eat, a bowl of dust?'. Though as someone on the forum pointed out to me, dust is made up of dead skin cells so technically isn't 'vegan' :) So, next time someone says that to me I'll point this out to them. :)
VeganBarbie
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:05 AM
dust?? OMGSH.. eew. Sending vegan hugs ur way.
sandra
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:20 AM
:D Thanks VB, are you up very late or am I up very early?:D
VeganBarbie
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:24 AM
haha, I am up late. My bf works nights so I wait up for him.. :) He claims he can't sleep with out me.. hehe.
sandra
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:26 AM
I used to do that too when my husband worked late! :)
VeganBarbie
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:29 AM
sweet vegans aren't we?? :)
Ashee
Dec 13th, 2006, 08:06 AM
This is the latest one ive had..."You do know that humans grew bigger brains once they started to eat meat? You gonna start getting really dumb..." mmm.. smart hey?
sandra
Dec 13th, 2006, 08:54 AM
:D Well, if that's true how come us vegans are all smarter than they are?:D
Ashee
Dec 13th, 2006, 11:04 AM
Makes you wonder!!!
fiamma
Dec 13th, 2006, 02:20 PM
You do know that humans grew bigger brains once they started to eat meat?

I think I'm going to file this one under "random, invented trivia to justify meat eating" :D
Hemlock
Dec 13th, 2006, 05:29 PM
10 Minutes ago:

Clerk at Store: We have some great Hot Chicken Wings, Do you want to try them?
Me: No thank you, I don't eat meat.
Him: So you are vegetarian.
Me: No, I'm Vegan
Him: (puzzled look on face)
Me: I don't eat meat but I also don't eat eggs, cheese, butter, etc...
Him: Wow, that sucks! Where do you get your calcium then?
Me: From the calcium plant.
Him: There really is a calcium plant?
Me: You bet ya!

Hahahahaa, I'm going to say that to the very next person who says that too me (all the time!!!).

I was paying to have my nails done a while ago (take my own products in) it wasn't cheap and the woman asked me about diet - when I said I was vegan she almost lost her teeth shouting at me how ridiculous that kind of extreme diet was!!!:eek: Helloooooo, I'm paying the daft bint to sort my nails out not tell me my lifestyle is cr*p and I'm a lunatic!!! So unprofessional!
fiamma
Dec 13th, 2006, 05:41 PM
What a bizarre woman! Why do people feel the need to do things like that? Maybe she hadn't used up all her "losing my rag at people" quota for the day :rolleyes: Sometimes I get the feeling that some people just need to get mad at others, they don't feel fulfilled unless they're being aggressive. Ok I'll shut up now :D
Yogini
Dec 13th, 2006, 06:14 PM
I in no way condone or approve of hunting. But I'll give hunters this - you'll never catch one saying "OMG!!! Shooting animals is so mean!!" while cooking a steak.

I sh*t you not - this actually happened. And when I tried to point out there's no difference between shooting an animal and buying a dead one at the store, she got really mean. She actually said "THERE IS SO A DIFFERENCE!!!"

I will never, ever understand people.
Yogini
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:40 PM
So unprofessional!

Also unwise. Yelling at clients is how one loses clients. She must not care very much about making money.
Tigerlily
Dec 13th, 2006, 07:56 PM
Hahahahaa, I'm going to say that to the very next person who says that too me (all the time!!!).

I was paying to have my nails done a while ago (take my own products in) it wasn't cheap and the woman asked me about diet - when I said I was vegan she almost lost her teeth shouting at me how ridiculous that kind of extreme diet was!!!:eek: Helloooooo, I'm paying the daft bint to sort my nails out not tell me my lifestyle is cr*p and I'm a lunatic!!! So unprofessional!

What does bint mean? I know in Arabic it means daughter or girl. Are you using to insult her because she is of Arab descent?
sugarmouse
Dec 13th, 2006, 08:31 PM
I didnt know it meant that! in britain its just a generic insult...think it means less than classy or somethinglike that.:)
Hemlock
Dec 13th, 2006, 08:41 PM
I didn't know it meant that either - she wasn't of arabic descent, she was white. Amazing how you can use a word all your life and have no idea where it came from:eek:
Men up north often use it as a term of endearment if their wives do something silly - my husband is a northener and calls me it all the time:)
howdawg
Dec 13th, 2006, 09:32 PM
Bint: A slang word in the United Kingdom, and Ireland, a derogatory term for a woman... It is unclear whether it entered the English language as a loan of the Arabic term...

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bint)
Orange-powered
Dec 13th, 2006, 10:17 PM
[QUOTE=Jamie;260417]I used to think veganism was extreme too - it is extremely different from being meat eating, or even for most vegetarians.


yea I agree, I just found it amusing/slightly annoying since she had been going on the previous 5 minutes about how she's really bothered about animals. It probably didn't even occur to her to connect what she eats with animal cruelty :( after I explained that I actually find it really easy and not difficult or extreme at all, she seemed ok, just her inital reaction seemed a bit weird, considering her stance on animal cruelty i.e she's against it