Stupid things that instantly piss you off

[Irulan]

I haven't read all the posts here, but I thought I'd put in what set me off this morning.

My supervisor was talking to my co-worker. Sup went to a chinese restaurant and had something vegetarian, a prawn dish. Said she's being vegetarian this month.

Eh? since when did prawns become vegetables? I actually ripped right into her saying prawns are animals ("no they're not", she claimed ), and how shrimp harvesting is so devastating as they troll everything in the nets' path.

What's worse is that another goof standing by listening in said that fish are considered part of a vegetarian diet. That set me off even more.

Grr

Oh my god, just as I put this up, my coworker says "ever been to the Crab Pot? sounds good, they take a crab and smash it with a hammer for you".

Yeah, that sounds great.

uh, yah. It's called Pescatarian if you eat fish.

This may have already been mentioned & I did not read this entire thread, but I am sitting here in my living room listening to a dog up the road barking...and barking....and barking....he stays in a pen & if he hears the slightest thing he starts barking and will not stop. No one at his house pays any attention to him and no one ever tells him to stop. I feel bad for the poor thing & his owners piss me off because they 1. neglect the poor thing and 2. do not have enough respect for their neighbors to make the dog stop (or send him to a home where someone loved him).

uh yah on this one also. for me it would be a) not have to listen to your semi abandoned dog bark all the time and b) to not have your free roaming cat pooing and hunting all over my yard.

[bunny_ninja]

As a vegetarian of many, many years - I have heard 'do you eat fish?' sooo many times after explaining that I don't eat meat.

[rubywagon]

As a vegetarian of many, many years - I have heard 'do you eat fish?' sooo many times after explaining that I don't eat meat.

+1! Someone asked me once, "What about chicken?" I got a good chuckle.

[WolfGirl]

Getting cut off (and almost crashed into) at an intersection by another cyclist who ran a red light! I guess the fact that he was riding on the sidewalk made it okay.

[bunny_ninja]

Getting cut off (and almost crashed into) at an intersection by another cyclist who ran a red light! I guess the fact that he was riding on the sidewalk made it okay.

HAHAHAH! yup...

[PamNY]

I can shut down the whole "what do you eat and what should you be called" conversation by explaining that I don't eat anything I wouldn't be willing to kill myself. Which is true.

Nobody has suggested a label for me yet.

[OakLeaf]

That was where I was for a good decade after I was no longer a vegetarian. People now would call me "pescatarian," I suppose , but I would explain that I had no problem cleaning fish, but when it was my turn to wring the chicken's neck, I just couldn't do it - and the two cattle brandings I went to, I passed out both times from the smell and the screaming. You're right, that shut them down.

Nowadays, I take a more global view of agriculture and my role in it. Call me a Michael Pollatarian.

[OakLeaf]

I've met people who call themselves vegetarians who eat more meat and fish than I do. Not that I eat that much, but I wouldn't dream of calling myself a vegetarian.

You know what else pisses me off? "Pescatarian." "Flexitarian." The idea that someone who is capable of eating a meal without red meat in it has to have a label. And that many of those people embrace those labels.