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Wow, I've never heard of chick tracts. I'm surprised to hear how common they are to other people.

Even though I love interesting collections and irony, this all just sounds like an awkward decor choice. Wigs might be innocuous on their own, but paired with gas masks and crazy propaganda? Add a collection of guns, and suddenly it's like a scene from Deliverance.

I agree that anything you collect can be curated, but that doesn't mean that it should be on display in a home. What if someone curates headless dolls and antique surgical tools? Shudder.

USERNAME26,
As I said before, while those two subjects are intertwined, each is a separate moral discussion. People can and do talk about them separately -- many vegetarians and vegans do. Some vegetarians or vegans choose their diet because they think that eating meat is fundamentally wrong (meat is murder. period.). Some choose their diet because they think that the modern livestock industry is flawed (maybe they saw a documentary that disturbed them).

Yes, my meat comes from somewhere, so I choose the places that are making strides to better the industry. The industry is not improving because groups like PETA pull outlandish stunts to get attention; the industry is improving because consumers like me are voting with our dollars. Livestock should be well-treated during its life, and when it comes time for it to die, I hope it's quick. The fact that the animal must die is part of the amoral part of eating meat for a natural omnivore. It just is. We just do.

USERNAME26
Most of us just don't think of consuming meat as an ethical issue. It's amoral to us -- and remember that doesn't mean "not moral", it means that it's neither moral nor immoral. To repeat a phrase, it just is.

So you can appeal to logic and make comparisons to murder and bigotry as much as you want, but you won't convince us that way because, if it's a fundamentally amoral issue to me, I think that your ethical arguments simply don't apply.

To clarify what many commenters here are saying: we don't have the burden of convincing anyone that it's ethical if we think it's a choice that's inherently unrelated to ethics. We don't want or need to present an argument for ethical meat-eating. It's amoral. Humans are omnivores. It simply is. We aren't trying to justify ourselves or and we definitely aren't trying to change your mind.

I'm sure that's frustrating to hear since to you consuming meat clearly is an inherently ethical issue. I'm just hoping to illuminate why some people might be starting to get contentious about your reasoning. It's not that they don't respect (or even share) your empathetic feelings toward animals, it's just that for your typical omnivore, eating meat is a fact of nature that's intrinsically divorced from morality.

I don't know, the only people I know who have these are also the ones that are always misplacing their keys, phone, iPods, etc.

I think they think that they'll use them, but they're the types who are always finding their keys in their washing machine or their phone under the couch cushions.

I have a tiny bowl that my extra sets of keys live in, but otherwise all this assorted stuff just stays in my purse. If my phone isn't directly in front of me or on its charger, then I know it's in my purse along with my wallet and my keys.

Since this site is pretty anonymous, it might help to know what illness your friend has. I've had friends be nauseated by chemo, by GERD, and by the ordinary flu, and all of their eating needs have been a bit different.

For example, when you have the flu, dairy might make you yak, but for someone who just had chemo, mac and cheese might be just the ticket -- for them it's more about mild flavors and smells than actually settling the stomach.

Lighting and comfort (pillows, etc.) definitely affect the warmness of a TV-watching area, but what the what do frame clusters have to do with watching TV?

If you're having people over to watch something, another nice consideration is making sure that every seat has a surface in reach where someone can put down a drink or a snack. I'm not always comfortable putting a drink down on someone's carpet (I feel like someone always ends up knocking it over with their foot), but it kind of bites to have to hold on to a chilly drink if there's no coffee table or side table near you.

agh, sorry, I'm typing rage-induced nonsense. Meant to write: the negative but constructive comment I just posted disappeared in the amount of time it took me to refresh the page and see a response to it.

@GOOSE 80, I totally agree. The problem is that even when I qualify my opinion ("They did a great job, but..", or "Maybe I just have a knee-jerk reaction against the phrase Keep Calm, but..."), I feel like certain people will always complain that my input is just mean and spiteful when I've taken the time to write some constructive feedback.

One of my professor always had this rule of thumb for critiques: say something positive, then give constructively negative feedback. If you can't think of one good thing and one thing that could be improved for each project, you're not thinking hard enough or you're not observing well enough.

I'd rather read comments like that than those of the everybody-gets-a-trophy variety.

It's funny how riled people get about this, much like the recent question about the correct way to hang toilet paper.

Whatever you want to call it is fine by me: pop, soda, soda pop, soft drink... but it's just weird to say Coke when you mean something that's distinctly NOT Coke. It's like confusing "your" and "you're". They're not the same thing!

@BONJOURMIETTE, yes, while I sincerely love that little collection of vintage cameras, I also have to wonder when the day will come that twee collections of vintage items (like globes or typewriters) look as dated (dare I say grannyish?) as orange shag carpet.

I think the after isn't nearly as much of a slave to trends as others that I've seen on AT, but I must admit to hating the ghost chair. They just seem so cold and uninviting. Otherwise, it seems like a nice, bright place to get some work done.

In defense of the lack of books: if I worked at home, having appropriate places to keep my paperwork organized would be more important to me than books. I'd still have design reference books on some shelves, but other shelves would be dedicated to office organization.