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#2971066 21-Sep-2022 17:48

I don't know about you. Here all commercial vans, trucks and construction machines must be equipped with loud beepers when they move backwards or sideways.

At the moment some demolitions and new buildings are in progress here and when the garbage disposal and DHL reverse into the one-way street because they are too lazy to follow the traffic rules, it becomes unbearable and all windows have to be closed.

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#2971068 21-Sep-2022 17:58

Tinkerisk:
At the moment some demolitions and new buildings are in progress here and when the garbage disposal and DHL reverse into the one-way street because they are too lazy to follow the traffic rules, it becomes unbearable and all windows have to be closed.

Tell me about it. When they four-laned an overused road at a place where I used to live, the various pieces of heavy equipment all had reversing beepers on them. They started work around 6-7am and worked till 5pm at least five days a week, sometimes six or seven since it was a major thoroughfare and they were trying to get it finished as quickly as possible. So there was almost nonstop beeping from dawn till nearly dusk for around a year. I was really surprised that none of the equipment accidentally burned down overnight when no-one was around.

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#2971742 22-Sep-2022 14:28

Tinkerisk:

I don't know about you. Here all commercial vans, trucks and construction machines must be equipped with loud beepers when they move backwards or sideways.

At the moment some demolitions and new buildings are in progress here and when the garbage disposal and DHL reverse into the one-way street because they are too lazy to follow the traffic rules, it becomes unbearable and all windows have to be closed.

I was in London recently and all of the trucks that collect people's rubbish bins "talk" as they're driving around. "This truck is turning left" "This truck is turning right" "This truck is reversing" "This truck is moving, be aware of this truck" Aarrgh! I was told that some of the truck drivers disable the talking because it drives them nuts. I can sympathise.

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#2971749 22-Sep-2022 14:45

turn the radio up louder

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#2971830 22-Sep-2022 19:25

Sex with meat-eaters off the menu

No sex, please, you're a carnivore. A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.

Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

Seems like I'll never be able to have sex again.

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#2971853 22-Sep-2022 20:36

HelloThere: Sex with meat-eaters off the menu

No sex, please, you're a carnivore. A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.

Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

Seems like I'll never be able to have sex again.

… but they will happily re-breathe the air exhaled by the carnivores they live and work with? It would be good if they stopped.

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#2971855 22-Sep-2022 20:40

HelloThere: Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

Seems like a win to me, they won't be producing any more vegans that way.

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#2971857 22-Sep-2022 21:01

HelloThere: Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

Fine with me - I would choose to not be sexually intimate with someone whose body is made up of composting vegetation.

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#2971861 22-Sep-2022 21:16

HelloThere: Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

The problem with their logic is that, no matter how many veges they eat - and no matter that they abstain from eating meat - their own bodies are made largely of meat. So whoever they are sexually intimate with, they will be using their own meat to do it.

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#2971862 22-Sep-2022 21:22

The article is hilarious. There's a good chance a substantial number of participants in the study actually knew each other. Any claim this study is representative is not based on fact. I have to say the responses above are likewise, very silly.

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#2971863 22-Sep-2022 21:27

I couldn't care less, I am and will remain tolerant as long as they don't proselytise me and don't stand in my way like field posts.

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#2971874 22-Sep-2022 23:44

Tinkerisk:
I couldn't care less, I am and will remain tolerant as long as they don't proselytise me and don't stand in my way like field posts.

But if you can't keep telling everyone around you at every possible opportunity that you're a vegan doesn't that defeat the whole point of being one?

I currently have two WiFi access points in my neighbourhood telling me I should become a vegan. I kid you not.

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#2971879 23-Sep-2022 02:35

I don't know what the point is - in any case, vegans would not have survived the Stone Age.

As for the WiFi Access points, I would call one of my networks "Schweinshaxn" or „Wuidsaukeule“ or even the famous „Oachkatzlschwoaf“. ;-)

“Ödögidöki“ *LOL*

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#2971881 23-Sep-2022 03:27

neb: But if you can't keep telling everyone around you at every possible opportunity that you're a vegan doesn't that defeat the whole point of being one?

Glutten intolerance is a very real thing and a serious issue for some people.

However we know two separate couples where the wife in each case loves to tell people she’s glutten intolerant - but they really aren’t. I think it makes them feel a bit different and special - attention-seeking. If you watch them, they eat all sorts of glutteny stuff. Weird.

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#2971883 23-Sep-2022 04:30

MurrayM:
I was in London recently and all of the trucks that collect people's rubbish bins "talk" as they're driving around. "This truck is turning left" "This truck is turning right" "This truck is reversing" "This truck is moving, be aware of this truck"

Ahh, so you're a waffle man!.

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