Silly/Annoying/Funny Things Omnis Say

[FortyTwo]

My uncle brought up how animals eat other animals so it's ok for humans to do it.
Um, no. That does not make it ok. Wild animals do it to survive. If we can choose to cause less harm, why shouldn't we? Tired of people trying to talk me back into meat because it's not happening fools. If I want to eat meat, I will eat vegan meat.

Simply respond with, "an animal also might smear its feces all over everything you love. And after all, we're all animals, aren't we?" Make a serious face and maintain eye contact as you say this.

Then, excuse yourself to the bathroom.

 

[Mikkel]

The animals aren't used to other ways to living, so they won't miss the freedom.

 

[FortyTwo]

The animals aren't used to other ways to living, so they won't miss the freedom.

Show this person An American Tail.

Not that An American Tail has anything to with this specific remark. Just show it to them. And then when they ask you why you're showing it to them, just say, "well, animals. We don't have to care about animals."

And then make some excuse to stop the movie before the mouse and his family reunite.

 

[Mikkel]

Animal activist are crazy, dangerous and potential suicidal bombers. Because it have been seen in a cartoon movie.

 

[Freesia]

"I want to go to a steakhouse."
"I'm going to pick up a Big Mac on the way home."


Moral of story:

How do you know if someone is an omni? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

 

[ledboots]

I was eating lunch with a couple of coworkers, and noticed that one had gotten the vegetarian lasagna and vegan broccoli rale with white beans. She was talking about liking organic food, and I asked if she was a vegetarian. She said, "No, I like food." :/

 

[kazyeeqen]

I was eating lunch with a couple of coworkers, and noticed that one had gotten the vegetarian lasagna and vegan broccoli rale with white beans. She was talking about liking organic food, and I asked if she was a vegetarian. She said, "No, I like food." :/

Hmm... I'm not taking that too badly. She likes food enough to eat vegetarian food and think of it as food, unlike some folks who won't even consider it an option. That's something, I think.

 

[ledboots]

Hmm... I'm not taking that too badly. She likes food enough to eat vegetarian food and think of it as food, unlike some folks who won't even consider it an option. That's something, I think.

Yes, that's true. I think I was just hoping to find another veggie at work.

 

[kazyeeqen]

Yes, that's true. I think I was just hoping to find another veggie at work.

That is, of course, the first choice in the situation.

I always get disappointed to when I see someone eating vegetarian things and then it turns out they aren't vegetarian. I just build it up in my mind.

There are currently about three 5 vegans or near vegans (eggs...) at my workplace. I think that's the most there's ever been. It's pretty great. But I get less free food.

 

[thefadedone]

I was reading about a new organic, meat free, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free friendly restaurant that was opening in a nearby city. I got all excited until I saw that it was also a pescatarian restaurant. Actually it's mainly a pescatarian restaurant with some vegan dishes. It annoys me because 1. They claimed to be meat free , yet their main focus is on fish and 2. I hate it when pescatarianism is lumped together with veganism. Fish is an animal. Fish is meat.

 

[Freesia]

I find that really annoying too.

 

[Katrina]

An old friend of mine seriously ****** me off this weekend. I've known her for years. We were talking about veg*nism and somehow the fish thing came up. I said people who eat fish aren't vegetarians. She then asked if I ate dairy and eggs. She already knows that I do. I had a cheese sandwich sitting right in front of her face. I said um yes I do. She said well you aren't really a vegetarian then if you eat cheese.

What. The. ****?

She KNOWS the difference between vegan and vegetarian. I have explained it to her before. It felt like a slap in the face. I also thought it was one of the stupidest things I had heard in a long time. Who the hell are you to explain to a vegetarian what she does or doesn't eat? That's really rude. There was this long uncomfortable silence while I stared at her and figured out how to deal with it. Then I told her that the idea of being vegetarian is that you aren't doing anything to cause death to an animal. Vegans are the ones who choose to not consume any animal products at all. She said "well cows aren't treated very well." I said "nope they aren't." She said "and chickens aren't really either." I said "nope they aren't really." She then told me that if she were to do it, she would have to go all the way probably. I just told her that I'd tried that and it wasn't for me.

That's nice of her to say that she'd rather go vegan, and in a way I'm glad that she at least thought about it, but doing it is totally different from talking about it. She probably went home and ate a hamburger. I dunno, I strongly disliked how she came across as acting morally superior just based upon what she would do hypothetically. It took everything in me not to say "okay go do it and tell me how it goes!!"

 

[AeryFairy]

Wow, sorry Katrina. It really bugs me when Omnis try to point out the ethical loopholes in veg*n diets ("animals still die in vegetable farming" etc.) - I just think it's really unfair to criticise someone who is living more in line with an ethical principle than you are, because you either don't actually care about the issue and are just being annoying, or you do care but you find it easier to criticise than to actually do something yourself. Neither is a good position.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

Me and some friends at happy hour a while back. There was one guy who wanted to quiz us all about our dietary choices. I wish I had an "Omni Bingo" card to whip out, we could have nearly filled it up! "I'll eat three hamburgers for ever one you don't eat!!!" - "Where do you get your protein?" - "I have a relative who went vegan and nearly died..." etc, etc, etc... Really, I think the rest of us just wanted to change the subject but he wouldn't let it go. He's a pretty decent guy otherwise, but I guess there's one in every crowd.

 

[ledboots]

Me and some friends at happy hour a while back. There was one guy who wanted to quiz us all about our dietary choices. I wish I had an "Omni Bingo" card to whip out, we could have nearly filled it up! "I'll eat three hamburgers for ever one you don't eat!!!" - "Where do you get your protein?" - "I have a relative who went vegan and nearly died..." etc, etc, etc... Really, I think the rest of us just wanted to change the subject but he wouldn't let it go. He's a pretty decent guy otherwise, but I guess there's one in every crowd.

Omni bingo
I had a recent lunch with work colleagues and they were "pitying" me for my delicious bean burrito and salad. I finally said, "Oh it's just your unrecognized guilt talking there. My food is delicious and healthier than yours, and my conscience is clear on the whole killing animals thing. Are you guys watching the Olympics? How about those skiers, so brave and crazy!"

 

[Moll Flanders]

There was a recent news story about a butcher that made window displays with pigs heads etc.. in the window and some people complained as they thought it was too graphic. There is a discussion on a British forum and this is one of the comments.

I can not understand these veggys and non meat eaters.
If nowbody eate meat there would be no animals as no point to keep them.
There would be a lot of grass around needing cutting but perhaps some might say "don't cut it you might hurt the feeling of the grass"

 

[AeryFairy]

There would be a lot of grass around needing cutting but perhaps some might say "don't cut it you might hurt the feeling of the grass"

This is gold.

 

[Amy SF]

There was a recent news story about a butcher that made window displays with pigs heads etc.. in the window and some people complained as they thought it was too graphic. There is a discussion on a British forum and this is one of the comments.
I can not understand these veggys and non meat eaters.
If nowbody eate meat there would be no animals as no point to keep them.
There would be a lot of grass around needing cutting but perhaps some might say "don't cut it you might hurt the feeling of the grass"

 

[FortyTwo]

There was a recent news story about a butcher that made window displays with pigs heads etc.. in the window and some people complained as they thought it was too graphic. There is a discussion on a British forum and this is one of the comments.
I can not understand these veggys and non meat eaters.
If nowbody eate meat there would be no animals as no point to keep them.
There would be a lot of grass around needing cutting but perhaps some might say "don't cut it you might hurt the feeling of the grass"

Everyone stops eating meat. The world has gone vegan. Slowly, animal populations around the world begin to die off.

"Why?" asks a distraught biologist. "Why are the animals going away?"

"Nowbody eate meat," answers the President in a somber speech. "There are no animals as no point to keep them."

"I can not understand these veggys and non meat eaters," an animal behaviorist sighs in frustration.

 

[Dropkick]

Because we need this thread, it was my favourite

On the phone to my mother, and she listed restaurant options as 'vegetarian, vegan, and ordinary'