Originally Posted by: PonyOneFender Cyclones are awesome. If they made them lefty, I'd have a few of them... just a fun little guitar that sounds awesome. You can use them for metal with the stock pickups, which is part of the fun... doesn't look like a metal axe.

My reasons for going vegetarian were purely personal... I didn't do it to save the animals. I did it due in part for my health; they put some scary freakin chemicals and hormones in the animals they breed for meat nowadays. Also, meat wasn't ever really a staple of human diet, at least it hasn't been for a long time... and I'm sorry, but, living in a city, working behind a desk, my body doesn't really require me to take in 5,000 calories a day.

I don't like the taste of poultry and never really did, I really don't like the taste of fish, and beef/lamb gives me stomach aches. So why would I keep eating the stuff if I don't have to? At first I missed the taste of beef sometimes... I missed some ethnic dishes I'd get that I didn't know how to make with meat substitutes (particularly gyros, some Ethiopian dishes and Korean BBQ)... but now, the thought of eating meat is disgusting. There are times I'll accidentally take a bite of something with meat in it and it's like "UGH" as soon as I taste it.

The spiritual vegans who feel like it's their mission to convert everyone piss me off as much as any other zealot. I think I've told it here before, but, back in Cambridge, MA, there are a lot of vegans and vegetarians... probably at least 1/3rd of the city is one or the other, and Boston has a lot too; I miss the vegetarian restaurants there... but anyway, I met a lot of really militant vegans there. If they found out you were just vegetarian, they'd hate you more because they thought you were being a poser or a hypocrite. Well once, I was standing around with some people in Central Square eating a burrito that I'd gotten that had beans, rice, salsa, and guacamole in it... totally vegetarian... and some vegan kid walked by and smacked it out of my hand and said "GO VEGAN!" I guess he thought that because I was a (then fat) white guy eating a burrito, there was no way I could've been vegetarian... I grabbed him and made him look at the vegan burrito he'd knocked out of my hand, hope it got a message through to him.