I sort of wish that was the case with me! I can scoff sugar like a freaking boss. I don't seem to get any negative affects from sugar in any form. I've gone (mostly) off it before and didn't notice any improvement in anything... and then I didn't feel at all sick when I started back up. It'd be easier to FINALLY clean…

OMNOMNOM Pineapple. I'm with you on the love. I eat a LOT of fruit. I think I do about 6-10 a day. Lots of veg, too. But I'm vegan, so my diet sorta is full of that stuff just by necessity. Also, goddamn, I love fruit. Always have. I DO run a lot, so I imagine I burn the fructose as fuel pretty efficiently. I just…

Even then... I'm an ultrarunner and am constantly training. I don't run elite levels of mileage (100+ miles a week) but I average high 40s and peak around 60-70. I can eat what I want and maintain my weight at my current mileage but I can't really lose. I'm high end of normal BMI (soft in places but also legs and arse…

Nope. David Tennant, always and forever.

I keep wanting to go to England to visit my Totally-Clueless boyfriend, David Tennant. He's been so busy, though, being amazing and looking like a goddamn golden unicorn and all that. Plus blah blah wife and kids blah.
LD is better. More magic.

Veganism = not exploiting animals. Taking honey from bees, that they use as a food source during the winter if left to their own devices, and replacing it with substandard sugar water (or killing them) is exploitation. It does harm AND interfers with their lives, IMO. 99% of vegans I know don't eat bee or insect…

Word! I feel like I really only can't do vegan angel food cake and meringue. They are just too damn eggcentric to work. I guess Vegan Dad has a vegan meringue recipe but I'm just too lazy.

High Five! I was like "what? that's EASY to veganize." And then you were like "BOOM. VEGAN."

Shows one level of their cage, since they were uber focused on me and on the mid level to get attention. Jack, the blue boy, is bar chewing not due to wanting to escape or anything. He wanted ATTENTION and for me to come pet him. Cage cleaning day, so don't mind the mess! They were all mostly litter box trained but no…

All my rats are rescues. They live in a cage, yeah. A giant one with toys and treats and rat friends. They get attention and snuggles and bounce around like happy little bullets most of the time. Or they sleep in their fuzzy hammocks, opening an eye to look at me like "Oh hi mom, we're sleeping. Unless you have food."

Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't implying that we need to add anything to the Atheist label. I also call myself an Atheist and that's it. No modifier. I only bring up the distinction when pressed by folks who trot out the "oh you close minded, ARROGANT Atheists... think you know for sure there is no God blah blah blah" crap.…

Well yeah, of course. I don't think that all implausible things should get equal consideration. I put the existance of god at about as plausible as your tea cup example BUT for the sake of argument, I'll say I'm not CERTAIN there is no diety. Because, yeah, I'm not. I'm about as sure as I can be without knowing 100%…

See, you ARE agnostic, though. Agnostic Atheist. Just like 99% of the rest of the self identified Atheists. :) The very statement you're making "we cannot be sure but I'm reasonably convinced that there is no God due to my own observations and lack of evidence and thus choose to live my life as if there is no diety…

+1.

Word! on the Crack Zero. I usually don't go into traditional grocery stores, since I work at Whole Foods and I just shop after work, but when I do it is to stock up on Crack Zero and possibly nab a bag of the only vegan flavor of Doritos (Sweet & Spicy Chili, and omfg!). I recently came out of a soda run lugging Crack…

Except that Mackey no longer pulls a paycheck from WFM and hasn't in years and years. He gets paid $1 a year, since that's the minimum he had to take to be considered an employee, I believe. The rest of his salary goes into a Team Member Emergency fund that is used to help folks in the company who have dire…

LOL. I grew up in Wisco and felt similarly, to a lesser extent! I liked it A LOT when I ate it (mostly cold on crackers) but I wasn't into really fancy cheese or needing to eat it daily. It still was the hardest animal product to kick, though! I've got vegan friends who were HUGE fancy, stinky cheese lovers and I can…

You're correct. With a good reason, it's NBD. I think a total blow off, though, would be a cause for rethinking things. I believe we are in agreement here, actually. Sorry for the long winded original post!

I suppose it all depends, for sure. I'm actually sort of pleased that a vegan corn dog is that "low". Though, honestly, BOTH seem much lower than I'd expect! I was thinking the vegan ones were easily 200+. Maybe ones that are fresh made and super deep fried are higher than, say, Morningstar boxed ones (that aren't…

I suppose it all depends, for sure. I'm actually sort of pleased that a vegan corn dog is that "low". Though, honestly, BOTH seem much lower than I'd expect! I was thinking the vegan ones were easily 200+. Maybe ones that are fresh made and super deep fried are higher than, say, Morningstar boxed ones (that aren't…