*ONE* Random thing you despise

[Xerxes]

Didn't the Buddha leave his wife and kids?

[MagGnome]

Remember when I complained about the people who keep mistakenly giving out my e-mail address as their own? Well one of them screwed up again. This time he used my e-mail address as the contact e-mail for his daughter's school. I've started receiving messages intended for this guy regarding his daughter, as well as voice recordings of school announcements, etc.

Thanks to this guy's incompetence, I now know the name of his daughter, where she goes to school, and I can access her records. I haven't actually looked at her records, as I have no interest in doing so, but how stupid can a person be? Now I have to either keep deleting these e-mails or call the school district and tell them to take me off their list. -_-

I rue the day that I decided to not use my full first name in my e-mail address.

Last week I changed my g-mail password to something even more obscure and added 2-step verification linked to my phone just in case one of these idiots actually tries to log in to my account. Do they not realize that they are never receiving these messages that they've signed up for?

[Matthias]

Originally Posted by MagGnome

Remember when I complained about the people who keep mistakenly giving out my e-mail address as their own? Well one of them screwed up again. This time he used my e-mail address as the contact e-mail for his daughter's school. I've started receiving messages intended for this guy regarding his daughter, as well as voice recordings of school announcements, etc.

Thanks to this guy's incompetence, I now know the name of his daughter, where she goes to school, and I can access her records. I haven't actually looked at her records, as I have no interest in doing so, but how stupid can a person be? Now I have to either keep deleting these e-mails or call the school district and tell them to take me off their list. -_-

I would do the latter, and do it sooner rather than later. You don't want to mess around with knowingly having that sort of access, even though we all know you wouldn't do anything with it.

[MagGnome]

Yeah, I suppose you are right. What a pain in the butt.

I usually just send this stuff to the trash, over and over again, as for some reason marking it as spam never makes it go away for good. Of course I also use the unsubscribe option where available. The only time I had to call previously was when the guy used my e-mail address for his Verizon account, which was kind of a pain to explain to the Customer Rep, but thankfully I stopped receiving those e-mails.

Now I need to nix the school e-mails as well as the family photos I get every week.

[Narradisall]

I've never been very anti-vegan, but man did this make me laugh. No wonder some people don't like them.

Here's the bit that got me.

"I cannot condone non-veggies any more than I can condone people who beat their children.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18833471

[muddi900]

Having morals different than yours does not explicitly make them hateful you know.

[Narradisall]

It's more the implications by putting non-vegans in a comparative with child beaters that made me laugh.

Saying you won't date another person because of their immoral choices sounds a bit dickish to me.

[Shieldmaiden]

Reading that reminded me of a conversation I had with some friends about vegans. One of my friends is vegetarian and used to be vegan, her partner isn't either. They have some really great stories about going to some slightly crazy vegan events. Things like going to a meeting at a Tibetan restaurant. Apparently, traditional Tibetan food mostly revolves around meat dumplings, so vegan Tibetan food meant lots of completely plain dumplings. It happened quite regularly; rather than finding somewhere with good vegan food, or that could cook a decent vegan menu, they just booked somewhere and asked for things without meat or dairy products. Then they all smiled and pretended it was delicious.

Then there were the militant vegans with their poorly thought out plans to force veganism on everyone by stealing all of the farm animals and hiding them somewhere.

[Narradisall]

Originally Posted by BigJonno

Then there were the militant vegans with their poorly thought out plans to force veganism on everyone by stealing all of the farm animals and hiding them somewhere.

You know, until I read this. I never thought of *how* they would stop us all from eating what we want. They can't kill the animals. So what, what do they possibly do? Even if they had the power!

Build an ark?

[Shieldmaiden]

There are a few who would happily kill all the farm animals if it meant that people couldn't eat them. Every group has its insane extremists.

[Narradisall]

So... PETA (for vegans)?

[civil_dead]

I never force my vegan eating on anyone. Hell, my wife is a full-blown carnivore. In fact, 90% of the time she eats meat at home I cook it because I'm better at it than her. At our going away party in Chicago last year I was in charge of prepping and cutting the meat for hundreds of tacos.

Reading these stories one realizes that their tendency to be ideologues would manifest itself somehow, veganism is just what these particular people latched on to.

BTW, anti-vegans are just as much of an annoying bunch of twats.


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[Panthera]

Originally Posted by Narradisall

I've never been very anti-vegan, but man did this make me laugh. No wonder some people don't like them.

Here's the bit that got me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18833471

If their moral conclusion was that strong, wouldn't they be hypocrites if they didn't believe that and act on it?

[muddi900]

Seriously, if you think some act is abhorrent, but do not believe people who commit it are abhorrent, what kind of a person are you?

[Panthera]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Seriously, if you think some act is abhorrent, but do not believe people who commit it are abhorrent, what kind of a person are you?

Well, let's take the example of people who abuse children. I consider the people who commit it abhorrent as well as the act. I don't feel the same way about eating meat (it's too culturally ingrained, and hell, I do it too) but this guy apparently does.

[civil_dead]

I haven't had my coffee yet, but I think you two are actually in agreement.

Again: no coffee.

[Panthera]

Originally Posted by civil_dead

I haven't had my coffee yet, but I think you two are actually in agreement.

Again: no coffee.

It's a pretty subtle distinction.

[civil_dead]

Coffee Wayne!

I said no coffee yet.


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[Panthera]

You weren't wrong, though!

Back on topic - it's fucking ragweed season again.

[MagGnome]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Having morals different than yours does not explicitly make them hateful you know.

No muddi, don't you get it? If one vegan person thinks like that, then surely they all do!

Just like how whatever I say represents the thoughts and feelings of all gay men.