Put your (insert vile profanity of choice) cell phone up while you are conducting said transaction. There is nothing on your phone that can’t wait for you to sign a piece of paper. It takes all of two seconds to sign your name. The world will not come to a complete halt because you took your eyes away from your Trendy Phone of the Week’s screen for that amount of time.
You might want to finish the transaction before you go wandering out the door. No, your wife cannot sign for you. The card is in your name, the room is in your name, and the room’s supposed to be for one person only. Do you do this in the stores? “My wife will sign the receipt while I put the groceries in the car.”
I wish I could be as entitled as some of these people, but I was raised to be a decent human being.
Holy motherfuck, but it’s now snowing a shit ton. Fuck. Now I won’t be able to get up my driveway when I get home tonight, which means parking on the street which means cleaning off the windshield/sweeping snow of the roof of the car in the morning.
Fuck. It really sucks to have a garage and not be able to use it.
Oh, I just got what you’re talking about. Fingers crossed for you!
SpazCat, I know what you mean. I sometimes think life would be so much easier if my parents hadn’t bothered to teach me how to live in society with other people - I could just park my car wherever I wanted, I could throw my garbage out my car window, I could crap on the world and other people at will. Easy peasy.
Yes thank you some advice to help teething would be appreciated, a teething gel you say? We’ve found them to do nothing really. But it’s homeopathic? Well then that changes everything, no longer will I consider you an intelligent human being.
You wear leather and eat meat so why the vitriol towards that client who dared to wear a fur coat at the dinner? I expect (and hope) the animal had finished with the pelt why not use it for something useful?
Back at my desk in IT now, ah everyone gets today’s XKCD (well apart from that BA who did history at uni but we’ll ignore that) everything is back to normal.
Anyone who doubts that I have the capacity to be a complete douchebag hasn’t been paying attention.
Depends on the sourcing. Someone could easily buy meat and leather that’s been sourced from places that raise and slaughter the animals in a way they’re ethically comfortable with and feel justified in looking down on someone who buys factory-farmed furs. Too, AFAIK most fur animals are being raised *only *for their furs. Most fur coats are purely about style, while meat can be an important part of a human diet and leather is often a very utilitarian material, as well. Presumably the person wouldn’t object nearly as much to something like a fur lining on the hood of a parka.
I don’t have a problem with wearing cow hide. The cow was slaughtered and its meat was almost certainly sold and eaten. It’s another thing, I think, to wear something like a leopard coat.
This is perfectly logical. A lot of people don’t know what homeopathy is, exactly, and consider anything that’s labelled natural and organic to be homeopathic. I have a great deal of fun enlightening them. And for the ones who do know what homeopathic is, I have a great deal of fun mocking their beliefs. “Oh, you think that some preparation actually gets STRONGER the more you DILUTE it? Do you even know what “dilute” means?”
Well, there’s the problem right there. There’s dispute about whether either of those are true, and some people have issues with an animal only being used for fur, rather than, say, being used for wildly popular minkburgers and the fur being used as well, to avoid wastefulness.
Meat and leather are utility. Fur is vanity. Meat uses up a lot of the animal; fur only uses a small part of it. I’m not saying that these things are objectively bad: I’m simply observing the distinctions that may matter to some people.
The way I see it is that most vegetarians still own at least one pair of leather shoes. The utility of leather is hard to deny as there’s no real equivalent in terms of durability and utility. The protein value of meat is, as well. But you can get better heat insulating properties from fleece, Thinsulate and other synthetic materials than you can from fur. Fur is a poor insulator, so it’s just for vanity and thus looked down upon.
I think the point was meant to be, “your typical fur coat, designed for fashion, compared to your typical coat designed for warmth, made of synthetics, is a poor insulator.” I don’t think she’s claiming that fur doesn’t *ever *work well as an insulator. Or at least I would hope not.
