Who needs bagels when it’s their cake day?
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Sounds about right.
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I know most of their members mean well, but holy shit those guys somehow managed to be more addicted to tacky stunts than Trump.
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My own version of the idiom “Nice 'n easy, Japanese-y” is “Nice 'n easy, as you please-y”. I use it when appropriate and hope it’ll catch on.
Hm. ‘Yeet a fed horse’, but that’s also for shit – and such a horse would definitely be more difficult to throw once fed.
“Easy peasy lemon-squeezy” has been around for some time too.
I don’t remember hearing anyone use the “Japanese-y” version until I saw the characters on Reno 911! using it, and of course they were intentionally written to be racially insensitive clods.
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I’ve heard it said a few times by older employees at work. Always the techs and mechs.
PS: I just remembered that the Japanese-y version was said by James Whitmore’s character in The Shawshank Redemption.
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Capitalism. The “gluten free” marketing fad went the way of all marketing fads and the people who actually are coeliac and really would benefit from a wide range of gluten free products being easily available aren’t a large enough group to generate the profit margins the next marketing fad will. Not that there is anything acceptable about this.
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In my area i’ve noticed that even before the pandemic that the gluten free stuff was moved near the bulk foods/spices/health-stuff. There’s usually a refrigerated area there that usually has gluten free stuff and the adjacent aisle is more related things. Meanwhile the vegan stuff tends to be by the frozen/refrigerated sections.
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I like to say, “Feed two birds with one scone,” but I’ve been doing that for a while and don’t really care for PETA.
Did I do a thoughtcrime?
To be fair it did leave behind more choice for (young particularly) coeliacs.
Of far more importance was EU labelling laws which mean I can decide what to eat not just based on the seemingly logical idea that “x can’t contain wheat or barley can it?” because if it’s from a factory, yes it can.
When I was in the sunny uplands of Brexit earlier in the year I noticed it was sometimes quite tricky to eat unless we went somewhere touristy and they knew how to feed people. I was pretty shocked at the lack of allergen information on menus and the blank looks I got when asking, but I believe their passports are blue (?) or something so there is that I suppose.
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I have considered it. And like just about everything PETA has ever done, this is foolish, short-sighted, and unnecessary. I love animals. I feel sick when I hear about animals being treated poorly. I treat my pets better than I treat myself. And I do not believe that the idioms I use affect my attitudes towards animals in any way. It’s not “political correctness gone mad,” in that it’s not politically correct to suggest not torturing animals is a good idea. I just don’t like when an organization with as checkered a history as PETA decides to tell me how to behave. Or commenters on the BBS, come to think of it.
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Pretty much my thoughts as well.
Sees headline “It’s PETA, isn’t it?”
Yep, it’s PETA. FFS!
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