I have long been of the opinion that YouTube comments are the absolute dregs of the Internet. It’s ironic, given that YouTube itself could fairly be regarded as the pinnacle of human achievement; but take a video it would be expected only a fairly intelligent person would enjoy, such as a clip from a BBC archaeological documentary or a skit from one of the more sophisticated Fry and Laurie shows, scroll down, and what will you find? Sixteen pages of “Copy n paste this InTo te next 4 videos u watch or smeone u lve will dIe no joke!!!!!”, intermingled with various comments of the “If you like/don’t like this clip you are clearly [gay, Jewish, a woman, retarded, Polish, deaf, tone-deaf, unable to sing, a loser, all of the above, etc]” variety.
So I was watching a clip of Bill Bailey standup comedy in which he mentioned vegetarianism. On the very first page of comments, I found these gems… bolding mine:
he was a vegetarian!!!!
He was not a VEGAN!!!!!
You can still eat some meat if your a vegetarian!!
No you can’t. Neither vegetarians or vegans can eat meat.
Vegetarians do not eat animals.
Vegans do not eat animals, or any products produced by animals, such as milk or gluten.
WHATEVER Real vegetarians are the Vegans anyway!! You can either eat animal parts or none at all! Theres No such class as Vegeterian, your still OMNIVORACIOUS if you eat eggs, milk, and cheese!!!!
I’d like to think this was intentional, but face it, it’s a YouTube comment.
ok first of all i dont understand why you’re getting your pantys in a twist about something thats very simple to understand
when you eat cheese you’re not eating the animal. when you drink milk you’re not drinking it. you are consuming a bi-product of the animal. so yes their is such a class of vegetarian. i really dont understand how you get confused over something this easy to understand.
Rennet, anyone?
Yes milk and cheese are bi products of cows. EGGS how ever are not bi products of chicken!!! No matter how you look at it your eating baby chickens!!!
Um.
hitler wasnt vegitarian he wrote several times in mein kampf about how much he liked bratwursts
Having fallen behind in my Fascist manifesto bedtime reading I can’t definitely falsify this one, but I thought it had a kind of poetry to it….
Here’s the clip itself, just to provide some contrast.