Saturday Night Feverish ( now incorporating Manic Monday's to Therapeutic Thursday's )

yeah, yeah. yeah....fucl off

smooooorh.

Where is Klaatu when you need him?

Geezes, I was totally sloshed last night. Haven't been that drunk in ages. Ridiculous. Feel like I've been through a meat grinder today.

"Ages" being measured in weeks, these days...

LOL. Yeah. Impressed you got the gist of that. I actually was so drunk on Saturday, I fell off the bike when I was cycling home, but thankfully I wasn't hurt or fell into oncoming traffic or anything.

I tell myself that I HAVE to stop posting on messageboards when I get back home, but if it's early (in this case around 1:30), and I need some time to "land", it's too tempting.

Music or general?

That's the problem with drinking the day after -- at first you repair, and things are OK. But then from there on, you can't really get drunk. The body has become too accustomed to the alcohol. After the 15 beers yesterday, I'm feeling that now. 5 beers in, and I feel no different.

Yeah, I've tried to read up on it, watch documentaries etc., but in general, I prefer not to, because it feels too uncomfortable and close to home (a bit like seeing a documentary on how meat is made).

Screw health and ethics! I just want to get drunk and have a good time.

Me neither. But that doesn't necessarily mean I want to see the whole slaughtering process.

I have relatively little ethical qualms in eating meat or killing animals for food, but it's dependent on how the animal was raised and slaughtered. That's meat ethics 101. Given the conditions most livestock endure, I find it easier -from a moral standpoint- just to avoid it altogether. Though I occasionally fail... especially when I've got alcohol-related munchies.

I have nothing against anyone who eats meat of course, given that I am a meat-eater, or even those who don't consider its source and indeed the ethics. It's so deeply ingrained in culture to view meat as a product, especially with the way it's sold, it's hardly surprising that most people just don't think about it. I do, however, have an issue with those who double-down when given the opportunity and fail to admit the ethical benefits of veganism and vegetarianism, as though the ideas are coming from some crazed cult. Certainly some hipster vegan-types do take things too far, where an ideology has formed, and seems to include a lot of anti-science bullshit for some reason - but they are a minority. Non-meat eating does not have to be an ideology.

Unless you live life like an extreme hippie, completely off the grid and growing food with your own shit, we're all culpable in supporting some sort of unethical process. I freely admit this, and can't morally defend much of what I do. Getting people to admit that when it comes to meat, however, can prove a little more difficult. I think that's a problem. But I think it's one we'll slowly begin to see, and I hope in the future we'll look back on how we raised livestock in much the same way that we look back on slavery today. (I don't use that comparison to be inflammatory, but to point out how social morality from one era is drastically different from the next.)

Anyway. Not that anyone asked (and will no doubt be accused of proselytizing no matter how I describe it), my decision to avoid meat even though I sometimes fail is not an ideology closed off to reason. It's a preference, one that doesn't require others to adhere to, and something that I will continue with until a) someone makes a sufficiently convincing counter argument and b) something better comes along (like synthetic meat for example).

Er ... nothing on the telly tonight?

Nope. Bedtime actually. :yawn: