I come from a family who hunts - I have nothing against it.
But please, for the love of God, do not post pictures of your slaughtered deer on Facebook. I don't want to see that you shot him between the eyes, or in the chest, or any of that. Maybe that's an UO but I seriously hate seeing that shit.
I just asked DH if he would wax his taint if I asked him to.
"I dunno babe, that's pretty intense"
Did you tell him he must not truly love you then? Go give birth... then come back and tell me whats intense. I'm sorry, but most men have zero pain tolerance and are complete pussies (excuse me). My DH is super masculine and a good ol' sexy country boy BUT.. he knows... If he wants a mind blowing BJ from his wife, he makes that god damn waxing appointment.
I was just joking, I really couldn't care less if there's hair on his taint. I guess I don't get, uh, involved enough to care about that particular area.
I do refer to my dog as my kid. He is my big boy. I wear his fur everywhere and leave it at other people's houses. Don't come to my house if you don't like him. He is 165 pounds, sticking your leg out ain't gonna stop him from coming to see you.
Jesus, no worries lol. I wouldn't get in the same room with a dog that weighs more than I SHOULD weigh for my height. LOL
I was vegetarian for health reasons before getting my BFP. My cholesterol and BP used to be super high and I was able to control them without medication by eliminating meat from my diet. I plan to go back to this after the baby is born.
A few reasons I eat meat while pregnant are 1) It's really difficult for me to get my protein and keep my carb intake low. Being pregnant means that I'm a little more (now a lot more) insulin resistant because I'm a type 1. It just happens. I'm sure that there are ways around this but I noticed my glucose creeping up and I didn't want to risk it. 2) I really wanted a burger. Oddly enough, my BP has been perfect during pregnancy while eating meat but I felt better as a vegetarian. I noticed that I had tons more energy by eliminating meat from my diet. I'm not saying that meat is unhealthy, but I think that a vegetarian or vegan diet just works for some people.
I've got no problems with people who choose to eat vegetarian because it works for them and their bodies, but I dislike the general opinion that some have that vegetarian is an inherently healthier way to live.
I am a vegetarian, but just because I am, doesn't mean I am healthier than anyone else. I was raised as a vegetarian actually, and so mostly I just don't think about it. I have eaten meat before, but find it to be disgusting. I know I eat a well-balanced diet and am healthy overall, so I don't really care what others think about what I eat or don't eat.
MY UO (at least with most people) is that DH and I are raising our child as a vegetarian. Both DH and I don't eat meat, so why feed it to our child? If DS chooses to eat meat in the future, fine, but we will not be buying it or cooking it at home.
I side eye people who are against hunting but buy meat from the grocery store.
I think most reasonable people who are against hunting don't mind it (or at least mind it less) if the animal is actually being eaten. The idea of killing animals purely for the fun of it and then hanging up their stuffed heads in your house as a trophy is what's gross. I can love to eat meat and also regret that animals have to die for it.
Also, I only eat meat from animals that have been slaughtered via a completely pain-free method. Yes I think it's okay that an animal dies so I can have my steak, but I can also believe it should be done in the most humane way possible.
I'm only going to say 2 things to this because we have different opinions.
1. I hunt 2. Animal population control is real, hence the need to be drawn for a tag instead of just buying it with your groceries. (big game)
Did you tell him he must not truly love you then? Go give birth... then come back and tell me whats intense. I'm sorry, but most men have zero pain tolerance and are complete pussies (excuse me). My DH is super masculine and a good ol' sexy country boy BUT.. he knows... If he wants a mind blowing BJ from his wife, he makes that god damn waxing appointment.
I was just joking, I really couldn't care less if there's hair on his taint. I guess I don't get, uh, involved enough to care about that particular area.
Haha I was just going to say that same thing shmee. I have zero opinion about H's taint.
Gee @ashtastic, you can't spend your whole life making H do painful things and being all "WELL I GAVE BIRTH SO DEAL WITH IT." The childbirth card can only be played in response to baby-related responsibilities, IMO. "Oh you don't want to change this diaper? WELL I GAVE BIRTH!" = appropriate. "Oh you don't want to get your taint waxed? WELL I GAVE BIRTH!" = kind of stretching it. Taint waxing IS intense! I gave birth twice and I don't want to get my taint waxed! And I don't even have balls!
I come from a family who hunts - I have nothing against it.
But please, for the love of God, do not post pictures of your slaughtered deer on Facebook. I don't want to see that you shot him between the eyes, or in the chest, or any of that. Maybe that's an UO but I seriously hate seeing that shit.
OMG, this completely. I can't stand looking at dead animal pictures on facebook. Although most of the time I just scroll past it and ignore it.
I think most reasonable people who are against hunting don't mind it (or at least mind it less) if the animal is actually being eaten. The idea of killing animals purely for the fun of it and then hanging up their stuffed heads in your house as a trophy is what's gross. I can love to eat meat and also regret that animals have to die for it.
Also, I only eat meat from animals that have been slaughtered via a completely pain-free method. Yes I think it's okay that an animal dies so I can have my steak, but I can also believe it should be done in the most humane way possible.
I'm only going to say 2 things to this because we have different opinions.
1. I hunt 2. Animal population control is real, hence the need to be drawn for a tag instead of just buying it with your groceries. (big game)
Yeah actually H once brought up the white-tail deer population and hunting to control it. I understand that there are practical reasons for hunting and don't judge hunters because I don't know what's going on in their heads. I just could never get behind doing it myself and have a hard time understanding how people can.
I think most reasonable people who are against hunting don't mind it (or at least mind it less) if the animal is actually being eaten. The idea of killing animals purely for the fun of it and then hanging up their stuffed heads in your house as a trophy is what's gross. I can love to eat meat and also regret that animals have to die for it.
Also, I only eat meat from animals that have been slaughtered via a completely pain-free method. Yes I think it's okay that an animal dies so I can have my steak, but I can also believe it should be done in the most humane way possible.
You can hang the head up in your house & be proud of your kill and still eat the meat.
Yeah obviously, but I still think it's gross. Like I said before though, I don't judge hunters because I'm not in their heads.
I'm only going to say 2 things to this because we have different opinions.
1. I hunt 2. Animal population control is real, hence the need to be drawn for a tag instead of just buying it with your groceries. (big game)
Yeah actually H once brought up the white-tail deer population and hunting to control it. I understand that there are practical reasons for hunting and don't judge hunters because I don't know what's going on in their heads. I just could never get behind doing it myself and have a hard time understanding how people can.
I have never been hunting, so I guess it isn't quite the same, but DH and I are planning on starting a completely self-sufficient homestead in the very near future. This means if we want meat, we will have to raise and slaughter the animals ourselves. I am definitely an animal lover, but I see raising animals and giving them a happy, healthy life before purposeful death as being so much more humane than eating the poor chlorine-bathed critters that sit shrink-wrapped in the grocery store cooler. Raised in the dark and filth, fed hormones and food they never adapted to eat as a species to pack on extra weight, slaughtered by the thousands, and processed on an uncaring, unsanitary assembly line.
I'd take raising (or stalking) and slaughtering my own any day.
Yeah actually H once brought up the white-tail deer population and hunting to control it. I understand that there are practical reasons for hunting and don't judge hunters because I don't know what's going on in their heads. I just could never get behind doing it myself and have a hard time understanding how people can.
I have never been hunting, so I guess it isn't quite the same, but DH and I are planning on starting a completely self-sufficient homestead in the very near future. This means if we want meat, we will have to raise and slaughter the animals ourselves. I am definitely an animal lover, but I see raising animals and giving them a happy, healthy life before purposeful death as being so much more humane than eating the poor chlorine-bathed critters that sit shrink-wrapped in the grocery store cooler. Raised in the dark and filth, fed hormones and food they never adapted to eat as a species to pack on extra weight, slaughtered by the thousands, and processed on an uncaring, unsanitary assembly line.
I'd take raising (or stalking) and slaughtering my own any day.
I'm totally on board with the homesteading thing.
For the record I'm not ANTI-HUNTING per se! I just don't see why it's fun, and I can understand someone being anti-hunting but still eating meat. TETO
Yeah actually H once brought up the white-tail deer population and hunting to control it. I understand that there are practical reasons for hunting and don't judge hunters because I don't know what's going on in their heads. I just could never get behind doing it myself and have a hard time understanding how people can.
I have never been hunting, so I guess it isn't quite the same, but DH and I are planning on starting a completely self-sufficient homestead in the very near future. This means if we want meat, we will have to raise and slaughter the animals ourselves. I am definitely an animal lover, but I see raising animals and giving them a happy, healthy life before purposeful death as being so much more humane than eating the poor chlorine-bathed critters that sit shrink-wrapped in the grocery store cooler. Raised in the dark and filth, fed hormones and food they never adapted to eat as a species to pack on extra weight, slaughtered by the thousands, and processed on an uncaring, unsanitary assembly line.
I'd take raising (or stalking) and slaughtering my own any day.
I have never been hunting, so I guess it isn't quite the same, but DH and I are planning on starting a completely self-sufficient homestead in the very near future. This means if we want meat, we will have to raise and slaughter the animals ourselves. I am definitely an animal lover, but I see raising animals and giving them a happy, healthy life before purposeful death as being so much more humane than eating the poor chlorine-bathed critters that sit shrink-wrapped in the grocery store cooler. Raised in the dark and filth, fed hormones and food they never adapted to eat as a species to pack on extra weight, slaughtered by the thousands, and processed on an uncaring, unsanitary assembly line.
I'd take raising (or stalking) and slaughtering my own any day.
I'm totally on board with the homesteading thing.
For the record I'm not ANTI-HUNTING per se! I just don't see why it's fun, and I can understand someone being anti-hunting but still eating meat. TETO
I really don't see how hunting can be "fun" either, but it probably kicks in those long-dormant instincts within the human psyche of being one with nature and the thrill of stalking prey. BIL's father goes on "big game hunts" as far away as Alaska and South Africa and is ALLLLLWAYS going on about his gear and stuff. I'd be a bit more concerned with his gun obsession if he wasn't a pastor. Still creeps me out a bit. He talks about his rifles like they're his children.
I do refer to my dog as my kid. He is my big boy. I wear his fur everywhere and leave it at other people's houses. Don't come to my house if you don't like him. He is 165 pounds, sticking your leg out ain't gonna stop him from coming to see you.
I want to hug your dog! He looks like a big teddy bear.
I've got no problems with people who choose to eat vegetarian because it works for them and their bodies, but I dislike the general opinion that some have that vegetarian is an inherently healthier way to live.
I am a vegetarian, but just because I am, doesn't mean I am healthier than anyone else. I was raised as a vegetarian actually, and so mostly I just don't think about it. I have eaten meat before, but find it to be disgusting. I know I eat a well-balanced diet and am healthy overall, so I don't really care what others think about what I eat or don't eat.
MY UO (at least with most people) is that DH and I are raising our child as a vegetarian. Both DH and I don't eat meat, so why feed it to our child? If DS chooses to eat meat in the future, fine, but we will not be buying it or cooking it at home.
Do you think this is actually an UO? It's a genuine question but that could be because I'm both from and live in areas where vegetarianism is super common. I also was raised not eating meat (though I did and still do eat fish) and never have. I like what I eat but I DGAF if anyone else eats meat. DH stopped eating meat a couple years ago so it's just natural we'll feed our kids what we eat, just like my parents did. They can eat meat later if they want. Do people actually think you would feed your kid something you don't eat?
I have never been hunting, so I guess it isn't quite the same, but DH and I are planning on starting a completely self-sufficient homestead in the very near future. This means if we want meat, we will have to raise and slaughter the animals ourselves. I am definitely an animal lover, but I see raising animals and giving them a happy, healthy life before purposeful death as being so much more humane than eating the poor chlorine-bathed critters that sit shrink-wrapped in the grocery store cooler. Raised in the dark and filth, fed hormones and food they never adapted to eat as a species to pack on extra weight, slaughtered by the thousands, and processed on an uncaring, unsanitary assembly line.
I'd take raising (or stalking) and slaughtering my own any day.
Neither of those scenarios is hunting.
I know, that's why I said "I've never been hunting so it isn't quite the same, but..."
Mounted animals creep me out. I know it's silly, but I feel like they always look either sad or angry and it makes me feel bad. I'd rather kill them, eat them, use the hide, and leave no evidence.
FTFY because she's @ashtastic and does what she wants
Yes, exactly. Thank you for clarifying that up.
Now, snapdragon, I never said I gave birth to your three beautiful babies so you shut up and deal with it. The birth reference is due to the fact that I believe men have low pain tolerance. They couldn't bare half of the things a woman goes through. Getting waxed is only painful for some. I don't "make" my DH do anything.. but he knows the pros and cons of NOT doing something! Carry on.
Hey you're the one getting all mad and telling someone else that her H doesn't love her if he doesn't want to get his taint waxed for her. I don't care what YOU do. You do what you want, I'll shut up when I want.
lol that you thought I was serious that Cabela's is a nature walk
Now, snapdragon, I never said I gave birth to your three beautiful babies so you shut up and deal with it. The birth reference is due to the fact that I believe men have low pain tolerance. They couldn't bare half of the things a woman goes through. Getting waxed is only painful for some. I don't "make" my DH do anything.. but he knows the pros and cons of NOT doing something! Carry on.
Hey you're the one getting all mad and telling someone else that her H doesn't love her if he doesn't want to get his taint waxed for her. I don't care what YOU do. You do what you want, I'll shut up when I want.
lol that you thought I was serious that Cabela's is a nature walk
Lol I think she was "not" telling her husband to shut up and deal with it. Not you.
Hey you're the one getting all mad and telling someone else that her H doesn't love her if he doesn't want to get his taint waxed for her. I don't care what YOU do. You do what you want, I'll shut up when I want.
lol that you thought I was serious that Cabela's is a nature walk
Lol I think she was "not" telling her husband to shut up and deal with it. Not you.
That's all.
oh lol reading comprehension fail. I was wondering why she thought I had three beautiful babies. My bad!
Hey you're the one getting all mad and telling someone else that her H doesn't love her if he doesn't want to get his taint waxed for her. I don't care what YOU do. You do what you want, I'll shut up when I want.
lol that you thought I was serious that Cabela's is a nature walk
Whoaaaaa... wth. No. Who is mad?? PP said wow your DH must really love you, and then she came back and said hers was a No go. My response was not an angry "he must not love you." Don't put words in my mouth. You say you don't care what anybody else here does, but YOU DO. Because every time there is a UO, or FFFC, you jump on the opportunity to word vomit all over the place. Then you usually do a lot of back pedaling (which you have been called out for countless times but a variation of members). You like to take things where they never needed to go and then sit back and say but I don't judge you for it or that's not what I meant. I'm usually very kind to you because I respected a lot of your posts.. but Don't put words in my mouth. Also, no need for a response because this is a statement, not a conversation starter. I won't respond to any further attempts of your dramatics in the UO thread.
PS... Ladies don't have taints. Keep it classy.
Well I'm glad I already said above that I reading comprehension failed your post, otherwise you'd obviously think that I was backpedaling.
I didn't know about all these call-outs? One person accused me of backpedaling once to my face. I guess the rest were behind my back.
But please, tell me how you really feel. And tell me again how you're allowed to say whatever you want but I don't need to respond.
ETA: So to CLARIFY, not BACKPEDAL, my oversnarky response to you was because I thought you told me to shut up and deal with it, and if I misunderstood what you said before about saying someone else's H had to get his taint waxed if he loved her, I apologize, but seriously to accuse me of being dramatic and then pulling out this call-out paragraph is ridiculous.
I am a vegetarian, but just because I am, doesn't mean I am healthier than anyone else. I was raised as a vegetarian actually, and so mostly I just don't think about it. I have eaten meat before, but find it to be disgusting. I know I eat a well-balanced diet and am healthy overall, so I don't really care what others think about what I eat or don't eat.
MY UO (at least with most people) is that DH and I are raising our child as a vegetarian. Both DH and I don't eat meat, so why feed it to our child? If DS chooses to eat meat in the future, fine, but we will not be buying it or cooking it at home.
Do you think this is actually an UO? It's a genuine question but that could be because I'm both from and live in areas where vegetarianism is super common. I also was raised not eating meat (though I did and still do eat fish) and never have. I like what I eat but I DGAF if anyone else eats meat. DH stopped eating meat a couple years ago so it's just natural we'll feed our kids what we eat, just like my parents did. They can eat meat later if they want. Do people actually think you would feed your kid something you don't eat?
Maybe it does depend on where you live, but I feel like it's pretty unpopular here. People who know I'm a vegetarian ask me if my child will be too, and I get a lot of questioning and weird looks. I just tell them it's between my family and my doctor, and as long as we're healthy, it will be fine.
Sometimes it seems like I could eat an entire cake in one sitting and nobody would say anything (as they shouldn't!) , but as soon as I break out the black bean burger or a meal without meat in it, people suddenly become experts on nutrition and what I should/shouldn't be eating while pregnant. Maybe I just work with super nosy people though!
Do you think this is actually an UO? It's a genuine question but that could be because I'm both from and live in areas where vegetarianism is super common. I also was raised not eating meat (though I did and still do eat fish) and never have. I like what I eat but I DGAF if anyone else eats meat. DH stopped eating meat a couple years ago so it's just natural we'll feed our kids what we eat, just like my parents did. They can eat meat later if they want. Do people actually think you would feed your kid something you don't eat?
Maybe it does depend on where you live, but I feel like it's pretty unpopular here. People who know I'm a vegetarian ask me if my child will be too, and I get a lot of questioning and weird looks. I just tell them it's between my family and my doctor, and as long as we're healthy, it will be fine.
Sometimes it seems like I could eat an entire cake in one sitting and nobody would say anything (as they shouldn't!) , but as soon as I break out the black bean burger or a meal without meat in it, people suddenly become experts on nutrition and what I should/shouldn't be eating while pregnant. Maybe I just work with super nosy people though!
Huh, interesting. I've gotten mild curiosity from people when they find out I've never eaten meat but that's the extent of it. No one has thought it was weird we won't feed our kids meat. I'm going to assume it's regional.
Maybe it does depend on where you live, but I feel like it's pretty unpopular here. People who know I'm a vegetarian ask me if my child will be too, and I get a lot of questioning and weird looks. I just tell them it's between my family and my doctor, and as long as we're healthy, it will be fine.
Sometimes it seems like I could eat an entire cake in one sitting and nobody would say anything (as they shouldn't!) , but as soon as I break out the black bean burger or a meal without meat in it, people suddenly become experts on nutrition and what I should/shouldn't be eating while pregnant. Maybe I just work with super nosy people though!
Huh, interesting. I've gotten mild curiosity from people when they find out I've never eaten meat but that's the extent of it. No one has thought it was weird we won't feed our kids meat. I'm going to assume it's regional.
I think it's totally regional. People used to tell me all the time that I need meat in my diet or else I'd end up sick. I also live in the land of BBQ and steaks so there's that.
It's funny. When I used to go to Utah and Colorado a bunch I would find entire sections of the menus dedicated to vegetarian and even vegan meals. You just don't get that in Texas unless you live in Austin.
Huh, interesting. I've gotten mild curiosity from people when they find out I've never eaten meat but that's the extent of it. No one has thought it was weird we won't feed our kids meat. I'm going to assume it's regional.
I think it's totally regional. People used to tell me all the time that I need meat in my diet or else I'd end up sick. I also live in the land of BBQ and steaks so there's that.
It's funny. When I used to go to Utah and Colorado a bunch I would find entire sections of the menus dedicated to vegetarian and even vegan meals. You just don't get that in Texas unless you live in Austin.
It is true. It was a little different when I lived in NC but even then I was in an urban area so it wasn't bad. And CA and DC are super veggie friendly. But I do remember going to Texas when I was a kid and being so much more limited.
Huh, interesting. I've gotten mild curiosity from people when they find out I've never eaten meat but that's the extent of it. No one has thought it was weird we won't feed our kids meat. I'm going to assume it's regional.
My friend is a vegetarian but feeds her daughter meat.
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