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[Eric Blank]

Its streppe throat and im super contagious yay!

I probably got everybody sick yesterday despite all the hand sanitizer and coughing into towels

[Dunamisdeos]

Encountered a shiny Chancey in Pokemon Ultra Moon. Accidentally one-hit KO'd it because I used the wrong move.
(The proper move wasn't even on my active Pokemon, but that didn't stop my brain's autopilot.)

I remember the only shiny pokemon I ever encountered was an Eevee in SoulSilver. It was in the Battle Castle so I couldn't catch it. Good times.

My sincerest condolences for your Chansey.

I caught a shiny magikarp and a shiny seaking, way back when.

[TamerVirus]

Shiny Magikarps are a bum deal, especially since so all the games in the Johto region have a guaranteed shiny Gyarados

[martinuzz]

Its streppe throat and im super contagious yay!

I probably got everybody sick yesterday despite all the hand sanitizer and coughing into towels

Probably means you are the first one to no longer be sick and get handed the backlog of work from sick colleagues.

[Yoink]

Yesterday I managed to make it through the day at work with just a can of energy drink to wake me up on the way there and a single cup of coffee in the afternoon, whereas I often have another can later on and pretty much always drink several coffees throughout the course of the day.

I was mildly proud of myself pulling that off, and pleased to think that I wouldn't have to buy a morning energy drink today (I bought two before work yesterday), but now this morning I realised I left the other one in the fridge at work yesterday.
I didn't have time to buy another before work today, either. Guess I have to go in dry... and drink some liquid stimulants asap on my morning break.

I really like drinking some Monster on my way too work, though. Makes me feel so much more ready to face the day.

[martinuzz]

I reduced my energy drink intake to two per day. Still too much, that stuff is pure poison (well, mostly it's sugar content is).
I tried the sugarfree versions but man those are gross.
Coffee is better. Needs way less sugar to achieve the same sweetness.

[scourge728]

And then there's just me, who doesn't drink coffee or energy drinks, hasn't slept in three years gets up way earlier then I probably should, and is fine

[Tawa]

I never once considered that I might have a chocolate addiction until today, when I decided to try living a full day with no animal products and subsequently realized that all the chocolate in my house has milk in it.

[scourge728]

Does milking a cow hurt it, if not I'm not sure why vegans have some problem against it, even more with wool....

[Rose]

Does milking a cow hurt it, if not I'm not sure why vegans have some problem against it, even more with wool....

Mainly because dairy cows are rather often pretty badly mistreated.

I know somebody who won't have any animal products that aren't from his own farm.

[Tawa]

Ninja'd by Japa; I don't think that drinking milk is inherently unethical. Rather, I think that the conditions in which the cows are raised are utterly disgusting--usually, they cull male calves, separate the females from the mothers at birth, hook the mothers up to terrifying machines in factory farms, and artificially impregnate the mothers for several years to keep them producing milk before slaughtering them once fertility declines.

Same deal with eggs. I don't think it's inherently wrong to eat them (though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,) but the conditions in which the chickens are raised--which are relatively similar, culling roosters and slaughtering older hens, keeping them in cramped cages or ridiculously crowded pens--are revolting.

I don't think wool is bad, either, as long as the animals are kept in good conditions. Keeping sheep and shearing them for wool is actually a great example of what I see as an ethical animal-human relationship, being very symbiotic compared to animals raised for slaughter.

[MrRoboto75]

(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)

Your breakfast eggs are unfertilized.  Its more equivalent to the bird having a period rather than an abortion.

Not that its any less gross, but still.

[TamerVirus]

(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)

You should totally research the Filipino delicacy known as balut 

[redwallzyl]

Lot's of birds will eat there own eggs as well so there's that.

[Tawa]

(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)

Your breakfast eggs are unfertilized.  Its more equivalent to the bird having a period rather than an abortion.

Not that its any less gross, but still.

Ah, fair enough. Kind of hard to draw a straight comparison, since bird eggs are pretty different from egg cells.

Honestly, I've only ever been able to stand them in cakes and such--something about the smell and taste of straight-up eggs has always turned me off.

(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)

You should totally research the Filipino delicacy known as balut 

oh dear