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bintananth said:
When I was hospitalized for all of January and half of February one of the first things the hospital staff did was ask me about my known allerigies and dietary restrictions. I said that these are things I can't be given: caffeine, cinnamon, pineapple, grapes, olives, artificial sweteners, and acetaminophen.

The allergies meant decaf coffee only and no chocolate or soda. The acetaminophen alergy meant that I couldn't be given Tylenol - a go-to non-prescription painkiller - without experiencing side effects.

Playing bait-and-switch with what you're giving someone is dirty pool which should quite deservedly be punished very harshly.
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not gonna disagree with you there. the person who cooked should have been up front with things and asked if her roommate would have been willing to try some of her vegan food substitute. the person with allergies should have been up front with her allergies and asked about the food her roommate cooked. personally I give more blame to the roommate than the allergic person but if I had allergies I would be sure to mention it and ask very regularly. it can be sad that the roommate had her life destroyed over this but also be true that people need to not be doing this shit and it is illegal and needs to be enforced.
 
Bear Ribs said:
Yeah, the article brings out she got felony charges for it though after pleading guilty they only gave her community service.

She's also lost her entire college fund in a lawsuit by the allergic roommate so this hit the Vegan roommate pretty hard.
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She got kicked out of college for being "a felon", and couldn't get a good job for being a felon.

Worth noting though. allergy woman first contacted vegan and asked her to pay for the hospital.

Vegan refused to pay for the hospital, which is when allergy woman filed charges with the police and a lawsuit.
 
Blasterbot said:
he person with allergies should have been up front with her allergies and asked about the food her roommate cooked
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Allergy woman DID ask. she asked "is this real meat?" and was told "yes this is actual bacon". if she had not explicitly lied when explicitly asked, it would have all been dismissed as an accident.

Vegan actually filmed the whole thing. she intended to put it on youtube as a "how to convert your roomate to veganism"

that said. she absolutely should have informed vegan about her allergies. if you live with someone you have to inform them of your deathly allergies. otherwise you are courting death
 
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Bear Ribs said:
Yeah, honestly feels like they were asshats all around. I honestly feel for vegan girl, what she did was stupid but she's now facing a future with a felony record and no higher education so her future is pretty much thoroughly ruined over a slice of tofu bacon.
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Still, going into analeptic shock and almost dying isn't fun; and holding a grudge against the person who did that to you (even if it was unintentional, and partly your own fault for not warning them of what could kill you) isn't unreasonable. If it were me, I know I'd have been tempted to seek revenge; especially considering her refusal to make things right by paying for the hospital bill.

Plus, I'm going to be honest; her being a proselytizing vegan makes it very difficult for me to sympathize with her regardless.
 
Bear Ribs said:
Yeah, honestly feels like they were asshats all around. I honestly feel for vegan girl, what she did was stupid but she's now facing a future with a felony record and no higher education so her future is pretty much thoroughly ruined over a slice of tofu bacon.
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I don't feel for the vegan gal at all. She did a bait-and-switch.

Before I married my wife I took a very lovely gal out on a date. She did not tell me that she had a severe nut allergy until after I'd bought her roses, taken her to a Thai restaurant, and ordered a shish kebob appetizer made with peanut oil.

That's when she said "I can't eat that." followed by me paying the bill, appologizing to the restaurant, and taking her to the restaurant of her choice before we went our seperate ways with a hug and handshake instead of a goodnight kiss with an "I'll call you tomorrow."
 

Edits have been made to descriptions of characters' physical appearances. The word "fat" has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word "ugly" has also been culled, the Daily Telegraph reported.

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Hundreds of changes were made to the original text – and some passages not written by Dahl have been added. But the Roald Dahl Story Company said "it's not unusual to review the language" during a new print run and any changes were "small and carefully considered".

In The Witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line: "There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that."
 
Bear Ribs said:
Even more
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Is Kipling canceled?
Why get rid of "pink-skin"? Because it implies the person is white?

The second paragraph edited from The Witches is trying to be PC by saying that women can be anything they want to be, but since (I think) it's referencing the potential positions in society that demonic she-beasts of pure evil can occupy, referencing solely high level positions implies that successful women can only be evil.
 
Yinko said:
Why get rid of "pink-skin"? Because it implies the person is white?
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yes. not only that, it refers to it as "lovely". a positive description of a white person? that is sacrilege to The Cult.
Yinko said:
but since (I think) it's referencing the potential positions in society that demonic she-beasts of pure evil can occupy, referencing solely high level positions implies that successful women can only be evil.
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Not the first time they made this blunder.
Remember when they were trying to make Cruella Deville into a feminist icon?
 
Yinko said:
Is Kipling canceled?
Why get rid of "pink-skin"? Because it implies the person is white?

The second paragraph edited from The Witches is trying to be PC by saying that women can be anything they want to be, but since (I think) it's referencing the potential positions in society that demonic she-beasts of pure evil can occupy, referencing solely high level positions implies that successful women can only be evil.
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Yeah, Kipling's been canceled for a while now.

In general it's quite disturbing how many of them identify with the various demonic beings of pure evil. Cruella De Ville's already been mentioned but just look at how often they identify with Slaanesh in the 40K fandom, or Sufficient Velocity's bizarre ruling that saying negative things about the Tyrannids and Skaven is racist and forbidden. Heck, we had papers coming out in support of Sauron and the Orcs in Lord of the Rings.

 
Bear Ribs said:

Edits have been made to descriptions of characters' physical appearances. The word "fat" has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word "ugly" has also been culled, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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What's next? Are they going to remove the word "nigger" from To Kill A Mockingbird and turn it into a story where a black lawyer is the hero-to-the-rescue who gets the falsely accused black man off with a not-guilty verdict in the Jim Crow-era rural south?

The book is based on the author's own childhood as a white girl in pre-WWII rural Alabama. "Racisim is bad and here's the ugly" is the message. The book was required reading for both me and my wife when we were middleschoolers in the late-80s. It was also required reading for our teenage daughters when they were 5th graders.
 
bintananth said:
What's next? Are they going to remove the word "nigger" from To Kill A Mockingbird and turn it into a story where a black lawyer is the hero-to-the-rescue who gets the falsely accused black man off with a not-guilty verdict in the Jim Crow-era rural south?

The book is based on the author's own childhood as a white girl in pre-WWII rural Alabama. "Racisim is bad and here's the ugly" is the message. The book was required reading for both me and my wife when we were middleschoolers in the late-80s. It was also required reading for our teenage daughters when they were 5th graders.
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I would like to point out that they literally did a whole "mark twain is racis" thing back in the day.
 
Bear Ribs said:
Yeah, the article brings out she got felony charges for it though after pleading guilty they only gave her community service.

She's also lost her entire college fund in a lawsuit by the allergic roommate so this hit the Vegan roommate pretty hard.
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Good.

There are many reasons why vegans are so reviled: 9/10 of them are batshit insane hipsters and activists that pull shit like this or worse (though it is amusing when it backfires on them).

They deserve every kick to the proverbial tits and balls they can get.
 
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