to offend vegans by saying...

[Moominguru]

I thought this was hilarious?

www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/06/22/soyfckers-anonymous/

I have two veggies in the house, both found it amusing.

Puds I'm sorry all you are doing is perpetuating the old thing about Vegans being martyrs.

I really think people who make informed choices about their diet are the ones who rattle all the other people's cages....

why does it bother a carnivore if someone else chooses not to eat meat/dairy etc?

It clearly bothers the person who wrote that little ad and pinned it by the first one.

I'm not a vegan or a vaggie. I was for about 15 years. I found a lot of people couldn't deal with it so they came up with jokes like this...

er, that would be veggie. VEEEEEEEggie.

'I find the few vegans I know very pass remarkable on what I eat'

I've found that too, they lecture about the choices they've made and how everyone else should do the same, far more than non-vegans.

nearly wrote weggie.

I have a 3wo on my lap.

is it supposed to be funny????

I'm vegetarian, have been for 24 years, DH is not and he has a T shirt that says 'I love vegetarians............ More meat for me' it tickles me every time he wears it! Classic BBQ wear. I did smile at the OP but have seen funnier, I don't tend to take it too seriously.

Not particularly funny. Maybe you're much younger than a lot of us OP?

Anyway - can't see why anyone would have an opinion on what another person eats or does not eat. Why is that your business?

As for this from balotelli -

"What I do find funny is how 'meat eaters' seem to feel threatened by us Vegans. They often feel the need to question our beliefs and diets while we Vegans rarely question them, if they want to increase their risk of numerous illnesses then that is their problem" -

Let me help you out there. I don't feel threatened by you and I'd be surprised if anyone did tbh. However, your preachy oh-so-holy tone makes me want to throw large lumps of meat at you whilst pissing on your courgette patch. HTH.

See I think that's funny, Haggis

It's not having a go at anyone is it. That's the difference.

I find it funny, but we all have differing senses of humour. Incidentally I showed this same photo to 2 of my veggie (vaggie ha ha RooneyMara!) friends a couple years ago. One had been veggie for years, the other had recently 'converted' and was quite evangelical about her lifestyle choice and put forth her moral superiority on it at every opportunity. The friend who was the veteran veggie found it hysterical, the recent convert hated it.

made me laugh.

Oh it's just a silly joke!! For crying out loud!

Since when have vegans been so special that we cannot poke a little light hearted fun about it?

It's not a dire insult. It's not a total slating. Christ!

I'm with Che. Preachy, martyr vegans and vegetarians (or is that vagitarians, Rooney? ) give me the absolute screaming shits, because, as a quiet, mind-my-own-business vegetarian who chuckles good-naturedly when people jibe me frequently about my dietary choice, I don't want to be lumped into the same category as them. Support group for vegans my arse. Why not just put up a poster saying, 'LOOK AT US! LOOK AT US HERE ON OUR MORAL HIGH-GROUND! COME JOIN US AND WE CAN POINT AND LAUGH TOGETHER!' and append photos of all the members.

But back to your original point OP. Not 'hilarious', but I smiled inwardly and would like to have given the carnivore a high-five.

It made me smile.

I was at a deeply crusty festie in the summer there, and saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said 'Vegans are attention seekers'.

I laughed at his cheek.

That'll be 50 public lashes for me then.

I'd not have a problem with it if I thought it was genuinely funny like Haggis's DH's t shirt.

It just seems to have an element to it that's quite nasty iyswim. Like the person who did it genuinely feels aggrieved by vegans.

Maybe they know a particularly horrid one who annoys them. There are some of those about for sure.

But leave the rest of us (in my old self, that is) alone...not all of us try to convert everyone else/preach about it etc. We just get on with it.

It gave me a chuckle when I first saw it.

Though what I found even more funny as the idea that vegetarians and vegans needed a 'support group'!

It's not a support group, it's a mutual admiration society.

Maybe I'm a pedant but I couldn't find it funny because I too irritated by the use if the word carnivore, when meat eating human beings are omnivores.

Just one of those things that makes my piss itch.

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@ Pictish btw

It's just eye rolling boring. People think they're so 'original' and they are not - that is funny.

Ok its official, no one is allowed to say anything about anyone on mn anymore. This site is now so officially po that everyone is offended by everything.

Pud clearly you are with the wrong people, you are being bullied as you say yet you continue to eat in front of these people.

Vegans are not a persecuted minority ffs.

Offensive: no.
Snide, unoriginal and unfunny: yes.

Have you ever been one Marceline? Having the same two or three comments from people again and again can make you feel a bit persecuted!