Stupid things that instantly piss you off

[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.

[rubywagon]

call me a michael pollatarian.

+1!

[PamNY]

Call me a Michael Pollatarian.

That's a good thing to be.

[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.