Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I have an over weight veganish bil. He eats lots of junk food like crisps, fried stuff. Dh's best friend is also vegan or vegan ish.he went vegetarianism and I asked why and he said why and I explained the flaws in his plan and he was horrified and went vegan. He is not overweight at all, but is well built with muscle which I think is very impressive, requires good attention to diet. . ( often people,e who are vegan supplement Lj. )

I wonder if this qualifies properly. After all, if the stuff is fried in animal fat he shouldn't really.
That said, my vegan friend always used to avoid asking whether roast potatoes were cooked in animal fat, as he loved roast potatoes. If he knew they were animal fat cooked, he couldn't eat them, however if he did know, they were off.:p

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

My winter coat is red. It is full length and nice and warm, but needs a scarf with it because it doesn't come up to the neck very well at the front, and can be a bit scratchy at the back of the collar. I got it from freecycle. I too have never bought a new sofa, and wouldn't be surprised if I never do. Depends whether DD does any more damage to the suspension of the one I inherited from LNE, though.

lostinrates wrote: »

I probably won't bother buying a coat, I don't like them very much and I have a few if I slim down or can wear drizabone). Who needs elegance?

I have too many coats.
Of winter ones, I have 2 long black coats, a wolves coat, & a quite nice short jacket style coat that is very warm indeed. I'm not averse to wearing 2 coats at the same time for warmth, especially on a long walk. I don't like being cold!

Other assorted coats & jackets run into double figures. Not exactly a fetish, but I do like options...:o

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Who do we blame? The owners, the EAs, or the press?

None. It's clearly Hamish, sibley et al with their ramping.;)

lemonjelly

I went to see the criminally under-rated Son of Dave last night.
Excellent show, but poor turn out in Birmingham.
Part of me is tempted to go see him in Nottingham to see if a bigger/better crowd turn up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BeTZihJTus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlDH8zDLHxw

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I wonder if this qualifies properly. After all, if the stuff is fried in animal fat he shouldn't really.
That said, my vegan friend always used to avoid asking whether roast potatoes were cooked in animal fat, as he loved roast potatoes. If he knew they were animal fat cooked, he couldn't eat them, however if he did know, they were off.:p

Who said fried in animal fat? If it is it isn't vegan.

The point with ethics is some plant based fats also impact significantly on animal life......palm oil is perhaps the most obvious, but there are similar examples of wide scale habitat destruction for production of food which could qualify as 'vegan' but lots of vegetable oil farming impacts on diversity and ecology. IMO that's less ethical than eating (as previous example) a bit of shot free living venison.

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

Wasted 10 mins of my life reading you lot waffling about burgers.

I don't eat red meat or burgers. Aside from the veggies (wheezy? Zag?) am I alone in that?

I've been mistaken for being Russian, and female, and now a veggie. :eek:

michaels wrote: »

We took the shower hats off this summer 12 months after they were fitted when we had the foreign students staying, it just seemed like the right thing to do....

One time when I was going to sleep I could hear this very faint beeping. After a mega search we found it was an old CO detector stored in a box in the garage - based on the fuel consumption I had always thought that car ran a bit rich. We stopped keeping that car in the garage after that.

Don't catalytic converters burn up the CO? Hmm we've got physicists and biologists on the thread but any chemists?:)

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

I've been mistaken for being Russian, and female, and now a veggie. :eek:

Which of those do you regard as insults, and which compliments, though?

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

I've been mistaken for being Russian, and female, and now a veggie. :eek:



Don't catalytic converters burn up the CO? Hmm we've got physicists and biologists on the thread but any chemists?:)

I plugged in the computer and it said it was running in closed/open (cant remember which) loop mode - ie running a default rich 'start-up' style mixture all the time because it wasn't getting a sensible reading from the two (pre and post cat) lambda (o2) sensors. This was likely to be caused by an air leak somewhere in the system (exhaust manifold, throttle pot etc) but no garage seemd to manage to fault find this and their only solutions were to throw lots of extremely expensive parts at the car to see if it fixed the problem. We sold it for 'spares or repair' instead, the clutch release bearing was also making a terrible noise and it cost a fortune to tax even though we hardly used it as we also had a diesel car that did much better mileage.

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

I've been mistaken for being Russian, and female, and now a veggie. :eek:

Zagubov... to me it sounds like a Bulgarian weightlifter in the +105kg category.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Who do we blame? The owners, the EAs, or the press?

I blame Maggie, the Wombles, the European Parliament, Sgt Bilco, Generali (the insurance company and the MSE poster), Organic Pesticides and the Flumps.