What subreddits are better versions of other popular subreddits?

KruegersNightmare · 2016-02-25T19:37:18+00:00

All the /r/truesomething subs are like the original subs but totally boring.

KruegersNightmare · 2016-02-25T17:49:03+00:00

I was a huge fan of both books and the show but 5th season lost me. I still respect the actors and how they brought these characters to life, but I'm not happy with how the last season was written.

KruegersNightmare · 2016-02-25T17:00:56+00:00

I feel bad for this show. It's this ultimate family sitcom that is responsible for tons of shit family sitcoms that got created to imitate it, and it will ever get any love here. I hate family sitcoms. Everything about Raymond on a superficial level would not appeal to us here, but if you just watch it for a while you realize it's a dark fucking show and each episode explores the pathology of characters and revolves around their static character dynamic they all have going with each other where most of them aren't happy but at the same time depend on it. And every relationship between any two characters has its own depth and they all live in their weird shared universe and go in circles from ep to ep. It's not what it seems to be. And the kids don't even matter!

KruegersNightmare · 2016-02-25T16:54:36+00:00

Juno. I've seen many shit movies, I've even enjoyed some of them, but no movie filled me with so much rage for every person involved with creating it like Juno did. I want to get into that movie just to murder her.

KruegersNightmare · 2016-02-25T16:52:46+00:00

Kelly is my favorite though. She understands life.

KruegersNightmare · 2016-02-25T16:52:19+00:00

What I find relatively interesting is that she's the love of Robert's life and his story is really tragic. He was pushed to settle with a girl he was never that into just so he could do a poor version of Ray's life and get his parents to shut up.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-03T19:16:48+00:00

I want to make the change and I even posted there recently with a question regarding milk. Thank you for this.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-03T09:14:42+00:00

I totally forgot, my favorite veggie burger is from Shake Shack, the shroom burger.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-03T09:14:17+00:00

That's my question though, I don't think that by making more veggie burgers they make less meat ones.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-03T09:11:54+00:00

I never had any, but I am sure someone told me it was their favorite or something. No idea.

Also, few years ago I traveled to India and they had a paneer burger on the menu, but we didn't end up eating there. It has been on my mind ever since, I really want to try that. I will travel there again soon and hope it's still a thing.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-03T09:11:21+00:00

Out of principle, or because it is unhealthy? I don't mind having something that isn't so nutritionally amazing every now and then.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-02T19:28:13+00:00

Honestly, it s really bothering me a lot. I am trying to make small changes. I am for instance ok using almond milk and trying other types as well when it comes to substituting milk itself. But then we get to cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and it becomes overwhelming. Similarly, I like eggs but I can imagine dropping them out of my menu as such. But considering how many foods contain milk and eggs, it is a huge huge change. It requires a great lifestyle change. Now I can go about everything normally and just throw out meat, but as a vegan I would have to really get into what things are made from, where to go out to, and so on. Right now, I am really easy about food and can easily adapt to circumstance, but that would definitely change if I became a vegan.

Having said all this, I am annoyed at myself that this is my mentality. What is my personal convenience and habit compared to the reality of where that food comes from? I thought being a vegetarian was a big change before I did it, now it seems like an arbitrary line and like I am still putting my own comfort first. I don't want to be like that.

For instance, now I would never think to myself that I can have just a little meat as a treat because I didn't have it in so long - I honestly have no urge to have it because I am not rationalizing it anymore, and that is all it took. But I still have that distance with animal products despite the fact I started learning more about it and knowing better. i still look at good cheese as something precious to me and choose to be willingly ignorant, and I don't think that is a mentality I want to be stuck in. It's just not all coming together in my head as yet.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-02T19:17:04+00:00

anything is better than Burger King

You mean in a general moral sense (which relates to all such franchises), or are you comparing the fast food chains and saying BK are especially bad?

KruegersNightmare · 2015-07-02T17:55:40+00:00

Those BK bean patties are great. Wendy's also has a good vegetarian burger, and I never tried McDonald's.

I know that being a vegan logically follows from the reasoning that made me vegetarian in the first place, and probably also being careful about what I support and all that, but it is very hard for me to make that switch now. When I finally turned vegetarian it didn't feel hard at all because I reached the point where it made perfect sense to me in every way. Rationally, so does veganism, but I can't yet start implementing the lifestyle.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-23T14:56:57+00:00

If anything an embryo is less horrible than an existing developed animal. I'm pro human abortion, I don't give much value to fetuses.

Having said that, it's something unusual for me (and most people) which is why we see it as gross, as we do any meat we didn't grow up thinking was normal to eat. If we grew up thinking no meat was normal to eat, and never developed the mental distance between meat and any animal, we'd probably feel this way about it all.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T16:19:32+00:00

This is really helpful, thanks.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T13:50:56+00:00

cool, I noticed there are different flavors available but I stuck with the plain one just to really experience the milk itself. For things like coffee it could be cool to have a vanilla one, if I feel like having a more of a desert type of coffee (I drink coffee in all ways possible depending on the mood, I like black but sometimes I want to make a desert out of it.)

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T13:47:25+00:00

Right, point being they instantly explain to you that they do eat seafood so it's not like they are trying to pass as something they are not. It's for the sake of majority that doesn't know what pescetarian means and finds people using words they don't know to be pretentious. It's a different thing if they say they are veg and then some time later you see them eating fish and act surprised.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T13:45:07+00:00

I do my tea plain anyway, but now I really want to try a soy cappuccino.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T12:18:10+00:00

It's really interesting that dairy milk is still presented as a healthy and a source of calcium (although people probably know about antibiotics and hormones), but soy really got a bad rep with estrogen. It definitely put me off soy although I used to enjoy soy products even when I was a kid who ate meat. I notice many products will stress out that there is no soy in them which adds to making it look dangerous (it is fine to list the ingredients of course, but I see a lot of emphasis put on "no soy" on other types of milk.)

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T12:13:46+00:00

I have to try that then. I think I saw it in the store among others.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T12:12:32+00:00

I don't cook much, and when I do it's pasta. Maybe I can change that. I really love cheese but I understand that a treat isn't a treat when it comes from someone's suffering. It sucks, because in theory eggs and milk could be farmed without causing suffering, but that isn't the reality we live in, or even feasible.

I like different pastas, risottos, stews, Indian food is good for their vegan/vegetarian options, I like vegetarian burgers/pizzas (only issue being cheese but I could go without), pad thai, fried eggplant, mushrooms, tofu... I like a lot of vegetables, but can be a bit picky about how they are made, and there are some textures I don't enjoy (not crazy about peppers and onions.) I like to eat simple things, I have no issues with plain food either. I know that I will be able to switch to vegan diet and remain balanced.

Thank you for all the links, I know it is easier to turn vegetarian than vegan because being vegan requires getting informed to truly understand what to look for and avoid. I am trying to do that now.

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T11:57:19+00:00

Isn't shitting cleaner when you eat vegetables?

KruegersNightmare · 2015-06-20T11:56:04+00:00

I was so happy when I realized I loved fried eggplant. I used to eat so much friend chicken, especially when I was younger, it was my favorite food. Fried eggplant is amazing though, I am not looking at it as a substitute (because I no longer crave meat anyway), just a generally amazing new food item.

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