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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 14, 2020 8:21:07 GMT
I can’t see the point. It’s a bit like vegetarians or vegans wanting to eat fake flesh in the form of soyburgers or sawdust sausages: poor substitutes. I have the opposite problem: I don’t eat meat, because when I was a baby it would make me sick and I therefore learned to find it repugnant. When I want a vegetarian substitute burger or whatever, I want vegetables. The last thing I want is something that even slightly looks, feels, smells or tastes like meat! (At the age of 23, I ordered a vegetable curry and was happily eating it while busy talking with my vice squad when I realised that the chunk I was cutting through was meat. A swift trip back to the decent loos at the police station saw me violently “emptied”, and I returned to order something else. I’ve always been curious to know: if I hadn’t noticed, would I have been sick? )
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 14, 2020 9:49:06 GMT
I can’t see the point. It’s a bit like vegetarians or vegans wanting to eat fake flesh in the form of soyburgers or sawdust sausages: poor substitutes. […] When I want a vegetarian substitute burger or whatever, I want vegetables. The last thing I want is something that even slightly looks, feels, smells or tastes like meat! […] Exactly so, Dave. Even the best of the fake meats are ghastly in flavour and texture, and those sawdust sausages, nutmeats, gluten steaks, and the like are a major reason I rejected vegetarianism after a 12-year devotion to the diet. OTOH, there are many vegetarian protein sources that I enjoy, but in their (reasonably) unadulterated natural forms.
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Post by Twoddle on Feb 14, 2020 10:21:25 GMT
I'm nearly vegetarian. I endeavour to eat only those animals that were, themselves, vegetarians.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 14, 2020 11:04:11 GMT
When I was a young SDA seminarian I worked in the Sanitarium "Health" Foods factory where, among other products, were made Nutmeat and Nutolene. That product was made from fourth-grade (i.e inedible in their natural state) peanuts that were so riddled with weevils that the end result could hardly be called vegetarian. Similarly, the soybeans they used to make other products from, as well as many of the raw cereals used in other products (e.g. cornflakes), were weevil infested. So much for "health" foods made by a church-owned business that claimed the high moral ground against eating animals.
And you may already know this, but the original Kellogg, a pioneer SDA, invented the cornflake with the aim of preventing (young) men from indulging in that healthy, even necessary, act of "self abuse". Kellogg was so obsessed with masturbation – and enemas! – that he was truly a wanker an onanist.
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 14, 2020 11:47:22 GMT
I did already know that about Mr Kellog and his cornflakes, Vv ... but no matter how carefully I consider the cornflakes I often eat, I can’t figure out how they’re supposed to work.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 14, 2020 12:05:37 GMT
I did already know that about Mr Kellog and his cornflakes, Vv ... but no matter how carefully I consider the cornflakes I often eat, I can’t figure out how they’re supposed to work. Good for you, Dave. Sounds wholesome to me (and I don't mean the cornflakes). The only cereal serial I'm into is monogamy (one day / partner at a time).
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 21, 2020 21:59:03 GMT
Here’s an unfortunate one: a Doctor Shanker. Okay, he’s not a medical doctor, but out of context “Doctor Chancre” doesn’t sound great.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 28, 2020 7:31:31 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 2, 2020 10:54:38 GMT
Today's aptronym is Defence lawyer Steve Law (from an ABC news report).
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Mar 5, 2020 18:36:24 GMT
A Captain Ben Wing, a pilot with Flybe, featured briefly on television today in a report on the company’s having gone into administration.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 11, 2020 6:44:54 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 14, 2020 0:05:12 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on May 2, 2020 5:48:57 GMT
My favourite plant nursery is closing down. Its email is bgreen@xyz.com – which I had always assumed to be just a cleverish moniker for the purpose. The Closing Down Sale notice is signed by the founder, and owner/operator for 25 years, Brad Green. Mr Brad Green the nurseryman – bgreen@xyz.com – whether fluke or intentional, that's aptronymic.
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Post by Verbivore on May 12, 2020 11:25:31 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on May 28, 2020 10:31:12 GMT
Not exactly an patronym, but the address of the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex in Sheffield is "Letsby Avenue". I kid you not.
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