some people are just rude

[TEB]

There's a good reason for that!

lol, touche I am undone

[Nicos]

Some of us are trying to keep this forum friendly.
I'll therefore not make any comments on what's just being said.

Ok- back to original post..... I used to work in my hols in a fruit and veg shop in the 1970s...and there were loads of pale, thin sick looking veggies about at that time. What wasn't widely known then was the importance of different types of proteins in the diet from nuts etc.
I wonder if the guy was about my age - and his image of a typical veggie vastly out of date?????
I think I'd have taken his comments as a compliment!

[zazen999]

DEAR GOD

Will someone tell me how to be an unsarcastic, skinny veggie?

I'm too sarky for my own good, and 'cuddly' with it. Pallid....ha! I wish.

Now.......

Play nicely - I'm on my own [mod-wise] at the mo, trying to do some work work, and finish off a college project, and I haven't got time to keep coming in here and telling people off.

Life's too short - there's no need to insult veggies on - er - a grow your own veg forum.

Nuff said.

xxx

[Hilary B]

I really don't see any reason to assume an insult was meant. Just he was perhaps a bit thick, and a lot ill-informed, and above all tactless. Some people have FIM disease. It isn't rudeness!

[Gwen11ian]

Nicos, I suppose that's very true. There is much more knowledge of supplements (and often these are added to the milk/meat substitutes). I only use two pill supplements, a B vitamin complex (B12 is pretty tricky to get enough of from direct sources) and Flax seed oil for my Omega 3 (again, a bit tricky to get it just right with direct sources). There is even a different attitude now than when I became a veggie five years ago.

[NOG]

Now we don't know the suituation leading up to this but I would say:
1. Offer of his lunch
2. Backward compliment

Yep he fancied you........LOADS.

[Victoria26]

Thats nothing. The other day a wee old woman of around 75 walked straight into me.

Me being me I turned with a big smile and said "Oh, I do apologise" (Even though it was her fault btw)

She promptly turned and sneered at me and said "I should F***ing hope so" and barged past me.

Quick as you like I said "Well theres nothing like being nice you cantancerous old witch!" Still with a smile on my face and then I clicked away on my high heels.

Some people!! I was brought up to respect my elders but that was ridiculous. My husband was mortified.

[Pumpkin Becki]

I'm with Nog, Janeyo - I think he was trying to chat you up but is a bit rubbish at it, so it came out all wrong. Did he look a bit sheepish when he gave you the change?

[jackie j]

My OH being an obsessed vegie is far from skinny he is in fact very overweight and I cant get his weight down as he wont stop eating, I keep finding leftover food has disapeared overnight lol. He is also diabetic and really needs to loose weight but without getting really angry with him and upsetting him I have no chance.
I went to school with a chap that has a flower stall in the market here and the comments I get is unrepeatable lol.

[jackie j]

Thats nothing. The other day a wee old woman of around 75 walked straight into me.

Me being me I turned with a big smile and said "Oh, I do apologise" (Even though it was her fault btw)

She promptly turned and sneered at me and said "I should F***ing hope so" and barged past me.

Quick as you like I said "Well theres nothing like being nice you cantancerous old witch!" Still with a smile on my face and then I clicked away on my high heels.

Some people!! I was brought up to respect my elders but that was ridiculous. My husband was mortified.

Love it I would have been gobsmaked and wouldnt have been able to come up with a retort lol
My mum got worse as she got older, with her manners and one time when she was in hospital we had to keep appologising for her.

[Victoria26]

I'm Scottish so I have an inbuilt Sarcasm gun which has the ability to fire out quick, sarcastic replies in most occasions.

Vary rarely i'm lost for words. However it does help when hubby brings back all his army pals to watch footie/play poker in my house. Noone even attempts to mess! He he!

BTW I would NEVER have spoken to that older woman like that if she hadn't swore. I actually have impecable manners. (Just don't engage me in a war of words )

[nilling]

Thats nothing. The other day a wee old woman of around 75 walked straight into me.

Me being me I turned with a big smile and said "Oh, I do apologise" (Even though it was her fault btw)

She promptly turned and sneered at me and said "I should F***ing hope so" and barged past me.

Quick as you like I said "Well theres nothing like being nice you cantancerous old witch!" Still with a smile on my face and then I clicked away on my high heels.

Some people!! I was brought up to respect my elders but that was ridiculous. My husband was mortified.

Sounds like you bumped into Cathrine Tate's character Nan

[nilling]

Just read all these posts, say again, who's giving away free sausage rolls?

[Two_Sheds]

probably because some vegetarians/vegans have this "suffocatingly moral look at me aren't I special attitude" (usually the ones that wear leather footwear)

Remarks like this say more about your intolerance than the attitudes of the people you are talking about.

[TEB]

Perhaps, more likely though its personal experience as a Restaurateur