I was paraphrasing.

Oh man you made the classic mistake of telling people you're vegan, thereby making it impossible for them to relate to you/decide you are a crazy! I have my own vegan holiday nightmare story to share. My partner was given a hamper for Christmas by his work and as you would expect there were about two things in there…

So I am to understand he is a racist (just like his character on the show) and nobody likes him (just like his character on the show)?

Actually it's funny you should bring evolution into it, because the fact that we deprive animals of the ability to do things that they have evolved to do, (e.g. roost and dust bathe, rear their young) is exactly WHY I think it's so cruel in the first place. Or we manipulate that and use artificial selection to create…

I've been on my feet all day and the poor things are exhausted. Sign me up for the collagen cushions, thanks.

"You sir, are average". BUUUUUUUUURN!

I have similar beliefs about the use of cervical smears to detect cancer - I'm not saying they aren't a valuable tool, but I have heard that prior to the use of genetic tests, the risk of false positives was very real in those people that are low-risk. I consider myself to be one such low-risk person. False positives…

I had a day one too. I didn't suddenly wake up one day knowing how to live like this. And it's never been so hard that I've been tempted to go back. If you admit that you use animals products because you like them, that's an argument I can actually respect. There's no refuting that animal products taste nice! But, if…

Hahaha! Well I'm glad they fudged the script because that line is priceless.

Yes I am vegan - the problem is that people think all animal rights people/vegans are sympathetic to PETA. Or that we're all members of the ALF and we are going to vandalise them. I think their sensationalism does more harm than good. But they are not particularly active in my country, and our animal rights…

Well I am, from having worked and volunteered there previously. They are often deeply suspicious of those from the animal rights end of the spectrum, rather than sharing their conflicting animal welfare stance. I could agree with your point on killing animals if I believed it was at all possible to kill an animal in a…

I just saw Looper yesterday so this is relevant to my interests. I think the only reason they didn't have him speaking Mandarin in the beginning of the film is so he could use his French... although it did allow for the best line in the whole film (which wasn't even his):

Very glad to hear those accents suggesting these animals are at least still on the correct continent... "aw, shame" as South African people say (about things that are cute).

Yes, vegan too - can we please once and for all separate PETA (who are bat-shit fucking crazy) and their vegan ethics (which are not)?

Yay, should've known this was horseshit (ahem) when the local animal welfare organizations didn't make a fuss. Atheist xmas day plans (i.e. watching the Hobbit) are back on, YUSS!!

I am saddened by the news about The Hobbit films (especially because watching it at the cinema was how I was planning to spend my atheist xmas day). I live in Wellington where they are filmed, and I am kind of gutted that none of the local authorities were called into this. We have the SPCA here, and we have SAFE,…

I would agree to a point, but organisations like the SPCA do nothing about the industrialised cruelty inherent in animal food production industries. They therefore say that it is okay to 'love' one animal and kill another. We do not have to agree that animals are equal to humans to see that it IS cruelty to keep a pig…

Which is probably why they said "women AND minorities". But I see your point. I get this rage for the opposite reason when people say/write "Birds AND animals". Birds ARE animals, FFS.

Is it weird that I still know exactly who you guys are talking about, 20 years later, with no board to reference?