Does anyone else get annoyed when people refer to apes as monkeys or peahens as female peacocks?

[Welsh Zootographer]

Yes. "Birds and penguins" is even worse.

When I was in fourth grade, I asked all my classmates if they know penguins were birds. They ALL said "What are you talking about?! Birds can fly. Penguins can't. Penguins aren't birds".

No, I have more important things to think about.

 

[Batto]

there are always multiple threads of everything lmao. Besides I didn't look at the other threads to make sure others ask this.

This attitude will surely win you a lot of friends here...

 

[Ned]

I don't like it when people refer to herbivores as vegetarian.

 

[Ned]

I say Panini you say un panino I say cappuccini and you say un cappuccino.

 

[Loxodonta Cobra]

Don’t know if this belongs on here, but my vegan aunt refuses to acknowledge fish as a meat, and it drives me up the wall.

 

[ZooBinh]

Don’t know if this belongs on here, but my vegan aunt refuses to acknowledge fish as a meat, and it drives me up the wall.

I think it is meat, but not meat like poultry or red meat, it is meat cause it is animal flesh, but it is not normal meat. I know, hard to understand.

 

[Welsh Zootographer]

I think it is meat, but not meat like poultry or red meat, it is meat cause it is animal flesh, but it is not normal meat. I know, hard to understand.

An American contact of mine claims to be vegetarian but eats chicken. His argument being if chicken is meat then why is it called poultry.

That is easily answered by looking in any good dictionary and finding that poultry is domesticated birds kept for their eggs, feathers or meat.

But what makes his case worse, in my view, is that he is employed by a school in Thailand to teach their children English and he appears not to understand the language himself.

 

[ZooBinh]

But what makes his case worse, in my view, is that he is employed by a school in Thailand to teach their children English and he appears not to understand the language himself.

Haha

 

[Falcosparverius]

Here's an interesting YouTube video discussing meat:

 

[Welsh Zootographer]

"I think we can all agree fish is not meat", no. I consider fish to be meat.

 

[Welsh Zootographer]

He also needs to get out more if he thinks you don't barbecue fish, when in Thailand we would go down to the local watering hole and catch fish then barbecue them there to go with the rice and other things we brought along.

 

[ZooBinh]

"I think we can all agree fish is not meat", no. I consider fish to be meat.

Wait..... if I’m Catholic (don’t judge me, it’s my religion and I don’t care the frick you say), and we don’t eat meat during Lent on a Friday during Lent, but we can eat seafood, I guess it’s “not a meat”, but it still is. I know fish is meat, but I consider it to be meat, but not really meat. Does that make sense, I don’t know how to explain it.

 

[birdsandbats]

Wait..... if I’m Catholic (don’t judge me, it’s my religion and I don’t care the frick you say), and we don’t eat meat during Lent on a Friday during Lent, but we can eat seafood, I guess it’s “not a meat”, but it still is. I know fish is meat, but I consider it to be meat, but not really meat. Does that make sense, I don’t know how to explain it.

The reason seafood is allowed on lent is because back in the old days, most pastors ran fishing businesses. So fish is still meat. The pastors just wanted some money.

 

[ZooBinh]

The reason seafood is allowed on lent is because back in the old days, most pastors ran fishing businesses. So fish is still meat. The pastors just wanted some money.

Oh...and I think it’s also because fish is a very important religious symbol, I think that’s the reason.

 

[birdsandbats]

Oh...and I think it’s also because fish is a very important religious symbol, I think that’s the reason.

Might also be that. But what I said is just I have heard. Might not actually be true.

 

[Arizona Docent]

The reason seafood is allowed on lent is because back in the old days, most pastors ran fishing businesses. So fish is still meat. The pastors just wanted some money.

As you note in a later post, it might not be true. I virtually certain it is not true.

 

[CGSwans]

Don’t know if this belongs on here, but my vegan aunt refuses to acknowledge fish as a meat, and it drives me up the wall.

This is a legitimate grievance. I am a strict lacto-ovo vegetarian. People claiming a label that doesn’t apply to them only makes it harder for the rest of us who experience the joy of ordering ‘vegetarian’ dishes that come out with tuna on them. Please pass that feedback to your non-vegan aunt, and explain that she is, in fact, a pescetarian (also known as a fish and chipocrite).

 

[Chlidonias]

Don’t know if this belongs on here, but my vegan aunt refuses to acknowledge fish as a meat, and it drives me up the wall.

Is she a vegan or a vegetarian? Don't vegans not use any animal products? (That's what I've always thought the label meant, but I could be entirely wrong).

 

[Crowthorne]

Is she a vegan or a vegetarian? Don't vegans not use any animal products? (That's what I've always thought the label meant, but I could be entirely wrong).

Vegans won't use any animal product, including meat, dairy, eggs, all the way to honey (because it's using a product made by bees).

 

[FBBird]

Yes. "Birds and penguins" is even worse.

When I was in fourth grade, I asked all my classmates if they know penguins were birds. They ALL said "What are you talking about?! Birds can fly. Penguins can't. Penguins aren't birds".

Not so sure about that, but then birds in general are my life, and penguins are the ones I find least appealing. Maybe I've been bitten by too many. I have a secret theory that a Penguin is just a fish with good PR.