Re: No wonder vegans are wussies.

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Dude, it's all true!

(I was totally going to post this story. I had a tab open to that old post and everything. Did we all just post within ten minutes of each other?)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:41 PM
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I think Robert Graves, towards the end of his life, began maintaining that milk leads to the gay.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:43 PM
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Data point: Last Tuesday I ate miso soup for lunch, and I had an exceptionally good hair day that day.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:52 PM
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Doesn't count. Miso's fermented.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:54 PM
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3: The last time I had miso soup, I woke up two days later in a rest stop bathroom. I don't know what's in that stuff but whatever it is, it sure makes your ass hurt.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:55 PM
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4: miso soup often has chunks of tofu in it though


Posted by: soubzriquet | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:55 PM
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Ever wonder why these guys never get worried about the synthetic estrogen levels in meat, etc. ?

steak is making teh gay.


Posted by: soubzriquet | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:57 PM
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Seems as if tofu'd be too soft to make apo's ass hurt.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 2:57 PM
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Were both ogged and apo reading WND simultaneously, or did someone else you both read link to this? Actually, I suppose the most likely thing is that 1 was written by one of the balding 47 year old man's personalities to another.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:00 PM
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I saw it at Pandagon.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:01 PM
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Seems as if tofu'd be too soft to make apo's ass hurt.

My ass used to be much tougher, before I ate all that soy.

someone else you both read link to this?

I saw the link at cruel.com's message board.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:02 PM
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Quick, somebody cut farm subsidies!

Oh, wait...


Posted by: Trevor | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:03 PM
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Where you can also find a link to this disturbing story.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:04 PM
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10: Were you running low on soy or something, Ogged?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:05 PM
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my ex is a vegan. my ex is an ex. wow. it's all starting to make sense.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:07 PM
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10: Were you running low on soy or something, Ogged?

That would totally expain it, but no, I whimsically clicked on Yglesias's blogroll this morning.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:08 PM
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2: True about Graves, who was obsessed with teh gaye all his life. His youthful autobiography, Goodbye To All That, has a nasty story about a gay schoolmaster on the first page.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:08 PM
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So that's why last week my grandmother said, "Death to all vegans."


Posted by: hermit greg | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:10 PM
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I can't believe anyone would think this. All of a sudden, supporting the Iraq War -- even now -- seems like a logical and well-reasoned position to take.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:12 PM
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(Afterwards, she added, "Only the militant ones.")


Posted by: hermit greg | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:13 PM
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Apo, I can't wait for Megan to show up and kick your ass.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:14 PM
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I love the part where he says soy is obviously the reason everyone's getting so fat. Let's interview some obese people and find out how much soy is in their diet!


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:17 PM
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I get the feeling he thinks high fructose corn syrup is made of soy.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:17 PM
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Data point: I was fed soy formula and am not gay. I suppose it's possible that it shrunk my penis and testicles, though.

Soy fomula is, however, not so good for babies, they've recently realized (worse than cow's milk, which is of course worse than breast-milk), and I'm told by my doctors it likely caused my the allergies to soy products I have as an adult.

And I'm convinced that soy products generally aren't good for people, at least the hyper-processed soy products that most people refer to as soy products. (Feel free to discount this by the fact that I also think jogging is bad for you. And whole grain breads.)

There are all sort of crazy theories about what makes people gay. I know someone who insists, adamantly, that if an infant is breast-fed for more than the first three months of life, it will likely end up gay. That makes no sense on so many different levels it's difficult to even contemplate.


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 3:30 PM
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"it leads to a decrease in the size of the penis"

he says that likes it's a bad thing.

also this gem: "that's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality"

translation of "not socio-spiritual":
don't worry, redstaters, you can buy my ConAgra conspiracy theory and *still* rail against moral depravity, atheism, and liberal college-teachers. It's a two-fer!


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 4:04 PM
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Gee, it's too bad there aren't any societies that consume a lot of soy products that we could use to test his theory!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 4:17 PM
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it's hard to test directly because people lie about being gay.

But the indirect studies using "foreign" as a proxy for "gay" have been pretty conclusive.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 4:44 PM
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9 -- (maybe somebody already linked this) Roy Edroso has a fantastic take on this story.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 6:34 PM
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Wow. Someone's gonna clean up in the tofu cock business.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 8:05 PM
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29: Yeah, that shop is going to need a LOT of cleaning up.


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 8:35 PM
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5: Was it the Vince Lombardi? Maybe we *have* met before!


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 8:36 PM
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I donno. I can imagine the consumption of tempeh being the factor that drives someone to homosexuality, but only as a means of getting the taste out of their mouth.


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 11:19 PM
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tom, we should do dinner.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-12-06 11:21 PM
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