Nobody said he was a dick. Or testicle.
Morrissey's comment seems to imply that a man who is not a vegetarian is more likely to eat his own testicles than is a vegetarian. As a meat-eater who would never even consider eating his own testicles -- despite the fact that it's late afternoon and I had a light lunch -- I take exception to that.
But say your testicles were chopped up and served in disguised form, say Bolognese sauce on spagetti. A vegetarian would say, hey, what's that stuff in the sauce? A non-veggie, not so much. So it's definitely more likely there.
2 -- this also ties in to Tia's vegan pledge to eat her afterbirth.
(Perhaps in the form of a Bolgnese sauce? She did not say.)
2 - Mssr. Tom from Functional Ambivalent, while I welcome you to our forum, we already have a commenter who goes by "tom". Could you please choose another nom de blog?
Much thanks,
The Management
Yes, please. I thought that was our usual Tom. Thomas and Tommy are both open, as are, of course, all of the usual silly alternatives.
I like the distinction between "tom" and "Tom."
This from the man who has commented as 'somecallmetim'. No, if Unfogged demands anything from its commenters, it is orderly naming conventions!
(And attendance at the Mongol Rally Fundraiser, but I'm giving up on that.)
Oh no! Not the vegetarians are less likely to commit cannibalism canard again!
Thoroughly OT, I am pleased to see that the nefarious crowd control architecture of Paris7-Jussieu, one of my almas mater, has been rendered totally useless.
The university is built like a prison, with one gate to the outside aboveground and a parking entrance belowground, and every identical tower has electronically controlled glass doors. It even has an empty central plaza with--I kid you not--an Orthanc tower in the middle that houses Admin. In general: an awful, suspicious place built to trap occupying students inside.
So, for the past five weeks, the students have blockaded the sole entrances from the outside.
Duh.
Is rolling little Hufu meatballs close enough?
re: testicle-eating, I might roll one around in my mouth to be polite, but I'd never bite down too hard or swallow anything substantial.
re: 8
I agree, Matt does have a certain je ne sais quoi.
Actually, vegetarians are more likely to commit cannibalism, and, given that auto-cannibalism is a species of cannibalism, more likely to commit that act as well.
1. If one regards meat-eating as off-limits altogether (rather than having a system in which some meat is acceptable, some is a little weird, and some right out), if you do begin to eat meat, it will all be equally bad—an therefore equally acceptable.
2. Vegetarians and cannibals are similarly outside the pale of normal society (likewise milk-drinkers).
On the tenth day we reached the land of the Broccoli-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them.
"They started at once, and went about among the Broccoli-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the broccoli, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching broccoli with the Broccoli-eaters without thinking further of their return.
"Nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches. Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the broccoli and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars."