we who love GT

i was on my way to euphoria... but unfortunately i didnt make it... cos i got a little confused... i bought this guitar when i went back for the holidays... i thought it was a fender strat... cos i think i vaguely remembered the headstock that beared the logo... for some weird reason i cant really recall.... and so my mate picked it up for me today and he said it was a 'cyclone strat'... another strat copy... i was like... what? i bought it off cheap from another friend... he's not into guitars but he knew some people that were trying to sell it as they knew jack abt guitars... long story... so yeah... cyclone strat??? HUH?? it doesnt even look like a cyclone...it looks exactly like a normal strat...so it cant be a cyclone for sure...i kinda feel ripped off...but wat the hell i got it for USD$100 or less...

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.

That is one of the coolest stories I've ever read. I hate those blasted vegan nazis that seem to think that it's their duty to spread the word. Anything that makes them look like the ass end is A-Ok by me. I'm gonna eat meat either way so it's just bonus points for me.

I'll eat meat even if it kills me.

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.

your stories always have a happy ending, don't they?

Originally Posted by: magicninjaI'll eat meat even if it kills me.

I don't live so close to the source that I personally kill what I eat, but I have no problem with the fact that most of my meals used to be moving around under their own power.

There is obviously something fundamentally wrong with any dietary regime that requires supplements.

And vegans need supplements.

The only thing I'd personally kill would be to boil a lobster.
Of course, then there's the bleeding hearts who say that it's cruel to boil a lobster alive and you should put it in warm water and gradually heat it up so that it falls asleep.
blah... at that price, I say it's my right to take the lobster, hold it over the boiling water for a second to let it see what's coming, fake it out a few times just for fun, then throw it in.

Originally Posted by: schmangeThe only thing I'd personally kill would be to boil a lobster.
Of course, then there's the bleeding hearts who say that it's cruel to boil a lobster alive and you should put it in warm water and gradually heat it up so that it falls asleep.
blah... at that price, I say it's my right to take the lobster, hold it over the boiling water for a second to let it see what's coming, fake it out a few times just for fun, then throw it in.

Do the lobsters even feel it? I was told that they die instantly. Of course I was a kid when I heard this and I'm sure my grandparents didn't want me to think that it was suffering for a prolonged period of time to feed me... not that it really matters, I'd eat it anyway.

Originally Posted by: PonyOne
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.

I hate people self-righteous people like that. I'm fine with your diet, but I hate that bleeding heart, save the animals crap. Pshh.
Freaking Paul McCartny coming to Canada to protest the seal hunt.

hmmmm...... lobsterrrrr.... hmmmmmmmmm

lol

I got no personal problem with vegetarians or vegans, unless youre telling me Im doing something wrong. You wanna eat leaves, thats fine with me, but I think youre crazy. Just dont tell me Im doing something wrong by eating meat.

Man Pony, if I were you when that guy smacked the burrito out of your hand.......Wow.

Originally Posted by: PonyOneWell 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.

Seriously!? Dude...I would have pounded his ass into the ground. You don't do that! Not without developing a subterranean ass, anyway.

On a realted note:

Originally Posted by: ericthecableguyI hate people self-righteous people like that. I'm fine with your diet, but I hate that bleeding heart, save the animals crap. Pshh.
Freaking Paul McCartny coming to Canada to protest the seal hunt.

Linda McCartney was a huge vegetarian spouting the health reasons and writing books etc..
Didn't she die of cancer or something?

Originally Posted by: schmangeLinda McCartney was a huge vegetarian spouting the health reasons and writing books etc..
Didn't she die of cancer or something?

Breast cancer, yeah.

Originally Posted by: PonyOnepoor baby seals :(

Yeah, they start out all cute'n'cuddly lookin....

Then they grow up to be a menace to the fishing industry. The massive explosion in the seal population that resulted from restricting the hunt back in the 80's basically wiped out the cod fishery. But cod are not cute at all, so no celebrity photo-ops for them. :mad:

A seal pup tried to bite Paul. He was smarter than most of the humans watching it.

DO NOT!!!...... break the food chain... preserve the seals!!!!!!

cheers mateys