Featherstar

The Wocky's nice, but probably not to my taste.

 

I can see both sides of the argument. xD

Yay, this makes me very happy. I'm oh so glad I didn't spend my meager amount of NC (since I'm not allowed to actually purchase it) on items a month ago, when I had a huge debate with myself whether to wait and save it or to spend in the couple items I really liked.

 

Wheee--- time to go blow my NC on all the stuff I'd wanted. <33

Yay!

I loved this one-- I voted for him, too.

 

So elegant. ^^

shouldnt "soar" be "sore"?

 

And, lol the second one looks like some kind of mutant animal. XD

 

Yes, exactly my thoughts. xD

I'm such a grammar/spelling freak; I had to click on the discussion for this news post just to comment on that. ^^

 

 

But yes, the second one does look kind of questionable. :)

I'm kind of in love with my "escaped pixel" item. It's really, really clever. xD

 

As for wants... I'm dying to paint my Grarrl Maraquan, but that'll never happen. For non-color items, I'm saving up for the "Pretty Tropical Lagoon" background. It's a NC item so it's really hard to save up, but so far I'm at $175 from the Scarab dropping game and from $75 NC TNT randomly gave us a little while ago.

That's quite a cute petpet. <3

 

How long will this random event be lasting?

As the people above me have stated, there definitely is a line.

 

I guess my 'contribution' to the topic is just to give that line a clearer name: Debate vs. Argue.

 

 

If you think about it, debating is exactly arguing, only in a professional and calm setting. When you take away the elements that make debate different from arguing, that's when the line has been crossed. C:

I would assume so.

 

However, since one single check is not that much (as there are 5 million total checked), the percentage itself might not actually change.

 

 

Of course, I'm not a staff member or anything, so correct me if I'm wrong. ^^

I'd probably try to avoid bringing it up, but if anyone asked me directly, I'd say I play a little. Which isn't so much of a lie -- I only spend maybe 30 minutes a day. If that's considered little. xD

Cheapest I could find after maybe 10-15 refreshes was here:

 

http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=robertisaplant&buy_obj_info_id=30793&buy_cost_neopoints=13000

 

Their username: robertisaplant

 

 

^^

 

 

PS: Ugh. The other day I accidentally had a temporary pet as my active one and did a somewhat expensive quest (7,000 NP) for the battle faerie, only I didn't change my pet back to my active one. This one was a temp. pet adopted from the pound to get an avatar. -dies-

Alright!

Thanks to everyone who answered. ^^

I can finally get those avatars... xD

Ah, okay.

So the TNT won't find me and freeze me or anything if they see that my account has adopted from the pound, kept the pet for about 30 seconds, then re-abandoned it?

Of course, only one pet a day. ^^

My favorite out of these three has got to be the Ghost Beekadoodle. <33

It's adorable!

 

The Faerie Babyca is also nice, but for some reason I just don't really like very dainty/girly-ish pets. xD

Is it 'legal' to adopt a pet from the Neopian Pound for the sole purpose of obtaining a species-specific avatar with it, only to abandon it again afterwards?

I know it's a freeze-able offence to make a profit out of the pound, but the only profit being made here is the acquirement of a new avatar.

 

 

Thanks!

~Feather

My pet is at level 143 at the moment.

I just like fishing for the excitement of not knowing what I'll get. And it's free, so why not? You might just get something worthwhile. ;)

I adore the 8-bit chomby's expression. xD

The eyes and the smile are so cute!

 

 

The style is really unique and interesting, although I must say that however much I like it, I wouldn't really want one myself. I dunno - guess I prefer the 'traditional' pet. ;)

Chose Plolarchuck opposites.

 

Both names were pretty cool, although somehow I have a gut feeling that I guessed wrong. But if I change it, then I DEFINITELY will be wrong. xDD I hate mind tricks. C:

I was surprised that TNT did this, but I suppose if it supports IE8, that makes sense. xD

I'm not up-to-date with IE at all anymore; I don't even have it on my computer. I have FF and Chrome, although I always use Chrome (<3).

=D I didn't know there where so much vegan food out there.

Can you buy this at normal stores or do you have special stores for vegan?

 

My sister is lactose intolerance and just a year back there weren't any special foods for her besides milk. Now you can buy yoghurt (and so on) in normal stores.

I live in a small country, the vegan stuff is coming but I think it will take a few years until you can buy special vegan food in the normal stores.

 

Is there a sign for vegan food?

 

 

Hmm yeah but you cant proof that animals feel the pain as we do.

I dont know how to say this right oÒ

 

I know a lot of vegetarian but NON of them is really strict. I mean they say they do that because of the poor little animals but they eat sweets and stuff with gelatin

I personally cant understand vegetarian who do it out of animal rights but I think its good if you believe in it. But then you should be really strict <<"

 

You can buy these at most normal stores, but definitely not all. Vegetarian and vegan products are becoming more and more common. Whole foods is a nice place to find these, but my family does by our vegan "meat" (which is really made of tofu and doesn't necessarily taste like meat -- it just tastes good in its own way xD) from a specialized vegan/vegetarian store.

There isn't necessarily a sign for every vegan food, but it's easy to scan the ingredients label of a food that looks like it might be vegan but you're not sure about.

 

And about the animals-- I can't prove they feel pain like we do, I can only hear them scream and see them writhe when they're slaughtered. That's good enough proof for me. But I honestly don't like it when people fawn over animal rights and make it like a religion, and admonish people who eat meat and say they're killers or whatever. If you want to eat meat, eat it without feeling guilty. If you're a vegetarian/vegan that believes in animal rights (as the purpose of the absence of meat in your diet), keep it to yourself and be happy about it. After all, you're not going to run out and yell at the lions for eating zebras and gazelles, so why would you do that to fellow humans who might have a personal choice that differs from yours? That's just my take on that issue, and you guys can disagree if you want. xD

 

 

I certainly should eat meat, I can say that for a fact. I was born with canine teeth for a reason. Velociraptors had canine teeth. Wolves, foxes, cats, dogs, all have canine teeth. What is the purpose of canine teeth? They evolved and are used primarily for firmly holding food in order to tear it apart, and occasionally as weapons.

 

http://www.hugesettlements.com/Personal-Injury/3098.html

 

 

Oh really? Not a single person?

That's insane! Probably not an accurate reflection on all vegans but still insane! Babies of all mammals drink milk so what in the name of heaven and hell did those idiots think they were doing by putting her on a vegan diet???? Absolute idiots. Surely most parents would realise that children have more nutritional requirements than adults though!

 

I agree. That couple is insane. Feeding a baby on "herbal teas, fruit juices, soy drinks and flax seed oil instead of hissi milk" just to follow their belief in veganism is ridiculous. Those drinks clearly don't provide the poor baby with the nutrients, antibodies, energy, etc. that are essential for the child's health and even survival. They obviously have no idea how to raise a baby on a vegan diet, and because of their ignorance, their baby almost died. However, it IS possible to raise a baby as a vegan from birth. I have met someone who has been vegan from the first second of his life, and he is well and healthy -- you just can't do it in the way these two parents did. That's horrible, and I personally think it's child neglect, too. :/

 

 

And about the canine teeth/how they mean we should eat meat/how hippos have them but they're for protection/etc., I don't think that one characteristic (canine teeth) is enough to claim that humans were built and meant to consume meat. These articles might help explain why:

http://www.newveg.av.org/anatomy.htm

http://www.celestialhealing.net/physicalveg3.htm

http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html

 

For just some highlights if you don't want to read them all:

- scroll to the bottom of the first article, although the top/middle provides a very nice in-depth explanation about the digestive system of human beings compared to those of carnivores and herbivores.

- "Our so-called 'canine teeth' are 'canine' in name only. Other plant-eaters (like gorillas, horses, and hippos) have 'canines', and chimps, who are almost exclusively vegan, have massive canines compared to ours."

- "Human teeth are also similar to those found in other herbivores with the exception of the canines (the canines of some of the apes are elongated and are thought to be used for display and/or defense). Our teeth are rather large and usually abut against one another. The incisors are flat and spade-like, useful for peeling, snipping and biting relatively soft materials. The canines are neither serrated nor conical, but are flattened, blunt and small and function like incisors."

(Since we have evolved from a common ancestor as apes, it isn't surprising that we have canines which were originally used for the described purpose, but have lost that use. They're now sort of leftover, smaller versions of what our ancestors had, but after the invention of fire, we've utilized them to try to help eat meat.)

 

Also, humans are unable to eat meat that has not been thoroughly processed and made dramatically easier to digest. Any human being's stomach will reject and be unable to function with plain meat - we have to heat it up, make it soft, and half break it down before we put it in our stomachs to do the small remainder of the job. If we naturally were made to eat meat, we wouldn't need this sort of intense processing in order to make our stomachs capable of handling it.

 

But read scan the whole articles if you have the time, they've got a lot of good points that I didn't re-type out here. ^^

I think he missed me once.

At least, I've got him as a battledome challenger but none of my pets are babies. xD

I suppose then for christmas dragons I would want one adult male and one adult female...

Those dragon dump sites are brilliant!

 

Many event dragons are single-gender.

For example, the Christmas dragons were all-female, with the exception of the Holly, which is all male, I believe. C:

False, it's a necessity. xD

 

 

The person below me has this smiley as their favorite: :woot:

Animals are delicious.

 

Vegans are always super skinny and sickly-looking.

 

I couldn't disagree more.

My mom is vegan, and has been for about three years. Before that she was vegetarian.

I have 5 good friends that are vegan, and most of them have been that way since early elementary school (we're in mid high-school now). My mom knows many other adults who are vegan, too.

(I myself am vegetarian.)

And NO, none of them are super skinny. Nor are they sickly-looking. At all. In fact, two of them run varsity track and long-distance events like the 2-mile, and are very competitive and strong. Two are on my dance team, and I can honestly say that they look like they weigh just about as much as all of my other meat-eating friends of comparable height. In fact, I could even say that they look even more healthy and fit in terms of body composition than many others I know.

To generalize vegans as always super skinny and sickly-looking is a gross misconception.

 

However, I am not saying that sickly-looking, super-skinny vegans do not exist in this world, nor that everyone who becomes vegan will not acquire these traits. I am only asserting that they are NOT parallel with veganism and in no way apply to all or even most vegans.

 

Similarly, I am in no way denouncing meat-eating. Diet is a personal choice, and just because I choose to not consume meat, I don't want to meddle in other people's affairs and try to push them one way or the other.

 

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On a slightly different topic:

 

There are ways to go around taking supplementary pills and rather unnatural stuff like that with a vegetarian and even a vegan diet. My mother is a vegan and takes absolutely no supplementary pills (and of course neither do I). I don't think it's a bad thing, it's just not necessary if you get the right foods. It's probably more important to watch what you eat to make sure you're getting everything you need if you're vegan, but I personally don't think about it at all. I eat what I want to, which includes lots and lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, etc.-- I eat practically anything that's edible as long as it's not meat. xD

My mom's probably a little above average in her body weight for her height and age, and so am I. We've got plenty of fat. xD Veganism/vegetarianism won't magically make it disappear. ;)

 

 

 

And how about sweets?

I work in a candy store and we have sweets for vegetarian. But they are all made with honey instead of gelatin.

But you cant eat that right?

Are there sweets you can eat? I mean besides licorice, something like gummy bears/ jelly beans and so on.

And what about chocolate oO (Im Swiss I cant help it sry xD)

 

 

 

Aren't mushrooms living organism too?

Where is the line? I mean for people who don't eat meat because of the animals.

 

There's vegan chocolate. It's delicious, and doesn't taste much different from normal chocolate.

There's vegan cake, vegan ice cream, vegan yogurt, vegan cheese, even vegan meat (like tofurkey and stuff). ;) I love them all-- it's not like vegans live a deprived life style with nothing but broccoli and bread on their plates every night. xD

 

As for your second point, I agree. I'm not vegetarian for animal rights, just because... I prefer it, I guess. I don't even really know. But I also think that mushrooms are so genetically and evolutionarily far away from us that it's conceptually easier to handle (for those people who don't eat meat for animal rights). Also, they don't feel physical pain and aren't... conscious in the way we know it (as in, I don't think they have a nervous system or a brain or anything like that. xD)

 

 

 

Anyway, sorry about rambling so much, and I don't intend to offend anyone with what I've written.

Best of luck as a vegan, Chubit! <3

Overall, I'm pro-choice. HOWEVER. I don't like the idea of "oh, I can go run around having sex now and don't hafta worry about any consequences, since abortion is legal! Yay abortion!"

 

I wish there was a way to make women realize that abortion should be the absolute, absolute last resort -- if they don't want a child or can't support one, don't go have sex without timing it with your period, using a condom, using birth control, and taking every last necessary precaution against creating a new life that you would have to otherwise have to kill.

 

The thing is, abortion should be legal - if it's made illegal, many women will go behind the government and have it done anyway with illegal procedures and possibly uncertified or not-as-well trained doctors, unsanitary equipment, and all that sort of unclean stuff. When things with a high health risk like abortion is made illegal, it's increasing the chances of that mother who is desperate to get rid of her 'accidental' fetus getting a serious disease or having something done very wrong.

I think it took me about a month or so, playing almost every day until my pet got bored. C: