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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 02:28 PM) I'd personally love that but admit it's highly unlikely (BTW, it's really not that hard to do. I was a meat eater most of my life). A great start would be to substantially reduce animal products from your diet. It's better for your health and the environment. I understand the desire for some people to go vegan, and I'm sure it can be great for your health. But, don't you think it would cause enormous problems throughout the world if nobody ate meat anymore?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) You already know it and probably don't want to hear it. You think everyone on Earth should go vegan?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) You honestly think there are enough places like that to sustain the 6 billion people on Earth? It's not remotely possible to feed people meat and dairy from farms like the one you described. I'd guess those specific animal products account for less than 1% of all animal products produced for consumption. And your suggestion?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 01:15 PM) LOL. From Dave Chappelle's twitter feed: I saw that a long, long time ago.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) Don Draper would spit on you. I've never seen Mad Men, so I don't get the reference

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) I'd like to hunt a human. The most dangerous of all prey.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:19 PM) Just came back from the grocery store. I saw a lady in the parking lot in pajamas and slippers coming out of the store. I don't care who's doing it. It's a bad look. Is that really the image you want to project? I wear pajama pants sometimes when I'm shopping. I've never gone out in full lounging attire, though.

Not a message board pet peeve, per se, but I hate the people who say: "Brr, it's cold! SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING!!@!112

It's swell and dandy that Vick did his time, but I agree whole-heartedly with Buehrle. I root for Vick to suffer a serious, unspeakable injury. I applaud Buehrle for not only saying it, but for toning it down the way he did. I'm not ashamed to say that I would smile if I woke up to the news that Vick died. I'm not going to go out and do something to him, but if it happened, I'd even have a little celebration. QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:32 AM) I agree with you mostly, in terms of the overall idea. Animals are actually quite a bit more intelligent than human beings give them credit for, and are far more capable of defending themselves (or evading danger) than many human beings are, if you think about it. Many people will stand there and take a beating because they are afraid to fight back, or will refuse to arm themselves because they convince themselves that some of the ridiculousness they hear is true, like violence is wrong/bad/uncalled for in "civilized" society, etc. Most animals OTOH can at least play dead to try to confuse prey, or will arm themselves with some kind of unique poison, escape capability, claws/teeth/whipping or breakable tail, etc. The difference - and where dogs come in - is that dogs are animals bred to serve human beings and provide unconditional love generations removed from the wild and existing in breeds that didn't even exist naturally, not wild animals conditioned by the harshness of nature. Dogs trust their abusers and follow the orders of their abusers because their abusers feed them and at least appear to keep them safe. What Vick did, to me, is sick, plain and simple. He took a trusting, intelligent lifeform bred to serve man and he used his higher intellect to deceive the animal into maiming itself for its master, the only benefits being gambling monies, and then when the animal was useless he destroyed it in a fashion that (at least I would hope) makes people want to puke. Most people are going to be naturally anthropocentric in the way they think, and that's what law is based on. The law says what Vick did was wrong, but really not all that wrong, basically akin to selling some coke, vandalising a neighbor's property, stealing some money, etc. According to law, what Vick did is perfectly acceptable in other areas of the world, and at least not all that atrocious here. But you're not supposed to adjust your own concept of what is right based upon what the justice system says. Law isn't the issue here, morality is, which is actually a separate thing, and it boggles my mind when people constantly try to override the moral understanding of others with some remark about Vick "doing his time," or "atoning," or whatever. All that s*** relates to law, not individual morality - even an apology means absolutely nothing in this world. So as a purely moral issue, no, in my eyes Vick doesn't at all deserve to be let off the hook, no matter what the legal system says. The moral punishment for his crimes, which cannot be enforced by any legal system, is that Vick must go through the rest of his life being hated like cancer by a wide swath of humanity for being the scum he is. MB was nice about what he said. Perfectly nice. And he is in no way wrong for saying it. All of this, especially the last paragraph, was f***ing awesome. Thank you for putting it so well.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 04:13 PM) PT = Physical Therapist ATC = Certified Athletic Trainer I don't know exactly why the acronym doesn't match the description with ATC, they probably didn't want to be CATs. Thank you, sir.

I also have a question that I've wondered for years. What does "ptatc" stand for?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 01:26 PM) PECOTA already projects the White Sox to have the best offense in baseball... no sense in adding Young to hurt our defense. QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 01:45 PM) Really?!?!?! Really?

QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) The Sox won't need a 5th starter until April 9th, and then not again until April 19th. At the very least, I hope they use Harrell or Humber on the 9th, and then not let Peavy start until the 19th at the earliest. No need to rush him. Wow, that's great. So Peavy could take until at least April 24th and only miss two starts? I'm sure we could live with giving one of the garbage AAA pitchers two or three starts in April in order to better ensure that Peavy is healed properly, and we'd hardly miss a beat.

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) My wife is pregnant. That is carazay. Congratulations. Now that that's out of the way, does this seem a little strange to anybody else? It does to me because you've met, married, and now impregnated this girl in the time since you've been on this site. You're going through all of these huge steps in life that I (and everyone else on here) have sort of been a witness to, but I've never even met you.

QUOTE (Cali @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 01:50 PM) I didn't really have any desire to watch the Chicago Code, but it seemed like in the previews NO ONE HAD and accent. I'm not even from Chicago anymore, but I know 2 chicago cops, both have the thickest accents. I think they're thicker than most of the population of Chicago for some reason. Did people have accents, or should I say the correct accents? or is it like most WWII movies where the Nazi's had british accents for some reason Also, it's just FX, not F/X They do that for a lot of movies. It's for any movie where the characters are foreign and would (presumably) be speaking their own language, but the movie doesn't have subtitles.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 01:45 PM) Genius. There are multiple people in the house, and the other two mostly watch TV in the room with the DVR. I stick to my own TV room. I don't think it was too hard to understand that.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 09:39 AM) linky Wow, are those things true? That's a lot of bad stuff I didn't know about him.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 12:47 PM) DEEE VEEEE ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Eh, our DVR is in the room I never watch TV in. Either way, F/X has a ton of commercial breaks.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 10:41 AM) Hmm not sure. Also, this is the first hour long Fox drama that I've watched. Crazy how many commercial breaks there are. Seems like the F/X dramas have a lot less breaks. You kidding? It feels like F/X has more commercials than actual television.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 02:53 PM) I didn't really start getting used to it/needing it all that often until I got to grad school. I'd drink coffee when I had homework to do or a late night exam to study for, but it wasn't until I was 23-24 that I started having a cup in the morning, and 27 when I started adding a cup or two of tea to the ritual during the day. It doesn't seem to have much of an effect on me. It definitely wouldn't help me to stay up studying.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 02:38 PM) How old are you? 25. QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 02:40 PM) It is the exact opposite. People have conditioned their bodies to react to certain stimuli and their bodies become accustomed to it. You've just never conditioned your body to be accustomed to caffeine, and so it doesn't expect or desire any. I meant that I'm strange in comparison to other people because everyone seems to "need" that extra boost.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 02:24 PM) Amazingly, that's probably as much caffeine as 2-3 cups of coffee or pop. I'm strange (although it should be the exact opposite) because I don't need any artificial things to give me energy. The only reason I eat or drink anything is because I like the taste. I can wake up and get right to business.

I keep my hair pretty damn short (my hairline has been slowly receding since high school haha), but my Halloween costume this year involved me shaving it down to the shortest possible length without using a razor. I will eventually do that all the time, but it definitely looked weird to me at the time. Strangely enough, it felt kinda cool though and I didn't have to worry at all about rolling right out of bed and leaving the house.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 01:04 PM) Right on. I love coffee but I drink mostly tea. Kinda weird, because here in the Puget Sound area there is an Expresso joint on nearly every corner. I'm not kidding, they're everywhere. There's one spot a few blocks from where I live where there's an intersection with two Starbucks, one across the street from the other. But I've gotten hooked on tea, nothing fancy or anything just mostly Irish Breakfast tea. I drink probably on the average 6 to 8 cups a day. Whoa.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 01:51 PM) I think some people automatically assume that a black man in cornrows is a bad person or troublemaker. I think you're right.