Lurker > LameJokeAlt

In college, I learned about all the nuances about the things we say. I'm not sure I agree that everything that people say that is homophobic, transphobic, or ableist is actually so, but I guess words can have a certain meaning to people and this is something we should be aware of. But if we're going to have a discussion about words like "stupid" are ableist, we might as well talk about the elephant in the field: Anti-animal, speciesist phrases.

Wake up, people. All the time we are using words and phrases that promote animal abuse and suffering and we don't even think about it. Thankfully, PETA has made this wonderful list of alternative phrases we can use that are not offensive to animals and animal lovers. Take a look.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtmjZgPWoAIf05P.jpg

I think that we can all take the time to think about animals and how the words we use when talking about them or using them in our language affects them. Don't be cruel to animals, whether physically or verbally.
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Nanis23 posted...

LameJokeAlt posted...

So you're okay with someone eating you if you're tasty? Would you have this same attitude if a bear in the woods was looking at you and had that opinion?

What of the turkey was vorarephile?

Let's be honest, only humans would think up things like voraphilia and would want to be eaten. Animals and most humans have a natural fear of this. Even if it were possible that a turkey could be into that, what would be the odds? Very slim.
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Nanis23 posted...

I once imagined myself in the position of a pizza and realized I don't care because pizza is tasty

So you're okay with someone eating you if you're tasty? Would you have this same attitude if a bear in the woods was looking at you and had that opinion?

v_charon posted...

I promise I will eat another one next year.

Sounds to me like you think with your stomach and not with your heart.

redrocket posted...

This account has over 1500 karma.

Why

Because I'm a legitimate user, more than many others here.
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http://time.com/5022315/turkeys-killed-thanksgiving/

This Thanksgiving, make sure you are thankful that you're not a turkey. Because if you were, you'd have been born months ago in some factory farm, not even knowing your family because your parents were already shipped off to become sliced turkey on sandwiches. Then after you're pumped full of stuff to make you fat and have more antibiotics than a pharmacy at Walgreens, you're sent to the slaughterhouse too along with 45-46 million others just like you. The only crime was that you were born as a turkey and unfortunately for you, only one turkey was pardoned for that crime in a photo op.

After being killed by whatever cruel method the factory slaughterhouse is using these days, you're beheaded and sold in a supermarket graveyard to some family that doesn't even really like turkey but only does it in the name of "tradition" in this screwed up holiday. So there you would be, your life where you only wanted happiness, reduced to you being a dinner some would call "bland" or "boring" and not even given that much respect as you're eaten by people that don't even respect you.

Maybe it's too late this year, maybe you already bought a turkey. You already wronged the animal by paying for it to be killed so go ahead and eat it so it's not wasted, but remember its sacrifice to you, and give the bird the respect it deserves. And next year, don't get a turkey. There are many alternatives like tofurkey that are just as "festive" or "traditional" as a turkey. By doing that, you're saving a life and making the poultry industry less profitable. If we get a lot of people to do it, imagine how many lives we can save and how much suffering we can reduce in this world for out feathered friends.

So remember, this Thanksgiving, imagine yourself in the position of the turkey and promise to do better next year.
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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Kmart? I heard Circuit City is hiring.

Circuit City closed down I thought?
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Lolo_Guru posted...

The most unbelievable part of this...

is that he's been hired to three restaurants

maybe go in a different line of work next time LJA?

I'm looking for a more stable job at a place like Kmart right now. I'm crossing my fingers!
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NFUN posted...

This is poor bait, even by your standards

Who are you to be telling me anything?

VeryInsane posted...

Did you forget to wash your hands again

My paws were clean enough to handle plates.
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I can't believe they let me go. This is the third restaurant that fired me and I'm tired of it.

Work sucks, and I don't like my human self, so I decided to have some fun. It's October, it's almost Halloween, so I went in my bunny fursuit. I'm a server at a restaurant. I go in and my manager is angry with me because I'm not in the correct uniform even though I put the apron thing on my fursuit. But after I tell him that it's just for fun and he realizes he's understaffed anyway he reluctantly lets me do it and serve customers. So I go do that, and I'm popular! Who doesn't love a big giant fwuffy bunny? I got hugs, attention from kids, everything! Of course, I still have to serve customers and I was doing that.

But then the killjoys started complaining. Oh, I'm not talking. I'm a bunny! It's against furry code to talk, especially if the jaw is fixed. Even if it weren't, have you heard a bunny make a sound? No? Well, they don't talk much anyway. But still, I try to communicate with movements and reactions, like any good furry should. That senile couple didn't tip me. Screw them.

And then there was this one family that probably just wanted a free meal and wanted to do anything they could to get it.

First, they order a bunch of meat items and meat is expensive of course. I hate that they do this, but I'm trying to just get through the shift, I don't really want any trouble, I'm still annoyed with people trying to make me talk. So I take their order, serve them, and then they complain to me about the dumbest stuff. They complain that I have a musk. I don't care. I don't have the money to deep clean the suit and I don't want to ruin the delicate soft fur on it anyway. But then they complain about something completely ridiculous. They complain about fur being on their meat. Listen you jackass, you ordered meat, and you're complaining about fur? It could be from the animal that was slaughtered for your plate. And of course he claims it's my fur. I show my paws and there's nothing that would show I touched his food at all, only the plate (fursuits make good mitts for hot plates btw). Still, he insists on seeing the manager and so I bring him over. The manager is livid at this point and he tells me off, and of course he comps the customer and then the family decides to not eat the meal and so all the meat is wasted due to some fur that probably wasn't even on it. There was no evidence. Just a claim. They looked so fucking smug too. Eventually the manager calls me to the corner and yells at me and says "OFF WITH YOUR HEAD" and after I decline he keeps insisting. I take off my head and then a few children cry at seeing the beheaded bunny now with a human face. My manager fires me right there and tells me I won't even get severance pay or even owed pay because the comped meals are coming out of my check!

I am so mad that this speciesist scum thinks he can get away with this. Can I sue? This is discrimination based on species.
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NowItsAngeTime posted...

Sounds like you're just salty you're not getting special treatment

Git gud

What?

ScareChan posted...

Do you honestly not realize what kind of contamination issue that is?

Would you believe that the burger you eat comes from cows that are ground up? You have blood, guts, probably even cow shit in your burger. And a carnivore of all people is going to talk about contamination? Please.

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

So you serve meat to patrons?

This is a vegetarian place. I still get sad when I serve something with cheese but at least an animal didn't die for it.
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Dark Young Link posted...

people are literal fucking animals

It shouldn't have taken you however long it did before you started cleaning public restrooms to realize that.
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Johnbobb posted...

yeah, servers are expendable, no place would keep one after multiple customer complaints where they are obviously and willingly in the wrong

If you have the charm and charisma that I do, you can get another job easily.

Lolo_Guru posted...

Then... wash your hands so that people don't have to deal with yours.

First of all, I only peed. Second of all, I'm not shoving my hand up my butt. There is no shit on my hands. If there were I'd wash them.
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Underleveled posted...

Also if it wan't obvious by now I KNOW you're trolling now because this plus the hand-washing thing would certainly mean you don't have a job anymore.

This is another restaurant.
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Underleveled posted...

Corrik posted...

LameJokeAlt posted...

Nobody gets a speeding ticket for going 5 over.

People get speeding tickets for going 1 mph over.

Cory Matthews got arrested for going 1mph over.

That's the whole story, isn't it?
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Corrik posted...

LameJokeAlt posted...

Nobody gets a speeding ticket for going 5 over.

People get speeding tickets for going 1 mph over.

Oh come on. Those don't even hold up in court.

Lolo_Guru posted...

LameJokeAlt posted...

psaltery posted...

Maybe restaurant server isn't your ideal line of work. Garbage man or sewer inspector might be a better fit.

Why are you trying to downgrade my job?

Frankly, both of those likely pay better than restaurant work.

I don't want to deal with people's literal shit.
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Nobody gets a speeding ticket for going 5 over.
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ScareChan posted...

I was at Carl's jr one time placing an order and one of the workers came with a trash can from the bathroom, threw it in the trash behind the counter then went and served food

I told management and left and never went back

You probably got someone just trying to make a living fired. Why are you posting this? Do you want a medal?

NioraptH posted...

I wash hands before and after slaughtering chickens and cows. You're gross.

I will respect your culture if you respect mine.

Uglyface2 posted...

Restaurants get shut down for this kind of violation.

That's a bald faced lie. No health inspector is going to go in and say "I saw this review on Yelp complaining about a waiter not washing her hands" and get the place shut down. No, all that happens is that someone gets fired and we complain about unemployment afterwards.

Corrik posted...

That is super disgusting and like literally almost every restaurant has signs telling every employee they have to wash their hands.

And the highway has a speed limit of 65 mph and that doesn't stop anyone from going 70.

psaltery posted...

Maybe restaurant server isn't your ideal line of work. Garbage man or sewer inspector might be a better fit.

Why are you trying to downgrade my job?

Ngamer64 posted...

Make a life change.

Like what?
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Dark Young Link posted...

And there's the health hazard.

Is it?
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psaltery posted...

Listen to your manager next time. Most restaurants have signs posted in bathrooms reminding their staff to wash hands because it is that important, especially in the United States. You need to keep up and raise your standards.

I thought they didn't wash their hands in England and yet they supposedly live longer. Maybe the Purell-carrying germaphobes should have some bacteria in their lives.

Obellisk posted...

wash your hands, that's disgusting.

Don't act like I was peeing in my hands.
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FBike1 posted...

It's not petty. I wouldn't want your hands going anywhere near my food.

You're acting like I'm rubbing my hands all over your salad. I barely even touch the bowl.

Underleveled posted...

The fact that you would work with food without washing your hands after using the bathroom makes me lose faith in restaurants.

You definitely shouldn't eat out then. Let me guess, you're also one of those people that carries a bottle of Purell everywhere you go?
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Underleveled posted...

Fair next.

even the tip thing; I wouldn't knowingly tip a cent to a server who used the bathroom, didn't wash their hands and then brought my food

actually, I might even ask to get my meal comp'd

It sounds to me like you don't realize how much waitstaff rely on the tips just to live. I live with my parents and my baby thankfully but some people need those tips just to live in a crappy apartment with 4 roommates.

The fact that you won't tip because of something so petty makes me lose faith in customers.

Maybe you should instead eat at home if my hands bother you so much.
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I worked for 4 hours without a break (I'm a server) and I needed a restroom break. I went to the restroom and after I finished I went to continue working. I still have tables to serve, drinks to refill, I'm busy and the faster I finish with my customers the faster I can take my lunch break. Well some old customer saw me in the bathroom not washing my hands and went to speak to my manager. She told him all about me not washing my hands and my manager went to me and told me off. He even sent me home early and I couldn't even collect all the tips I should have gotten. I only have a bit less than a half day pay.

Why does this matter? I'm not a cook, I'm not touching the food, all I'm doing is writing orders, getting drinks, and serving food. But it's "against the health code" and so I get in trouble? It's not fair.

I just needed to vent.
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