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Steve Portigal <stevep@rahul.net> writes:

> I'm guess you have some other issues here, besides what
> requirements others have on what they can and can't eat.

Go to the head of the class.


> I can't imagine what you gain from implying that people
> with life- and health-threatening food allergies are 
> putting on an act. Except to be oh-so-outrageously 
> insensitive.

AIEEEE!  He called me "insensitive!"  A *touch,* I do declare
it!  <ghasp!>  I fear I breathe my last!

Yeah, right.  Face it, Steve: the word "insensitive" just
doesn't pack the rhetorical punch with me that it does with
you and your oh-so-sensitive peers. Why, I wear the description 
as a badge of honor.

I don't recall asserting that people who have genuine "life-
and health-threatening diseases" are putting on an act.  Your
reading comprehension stinks like a Shell station's men's room
on an August afternoon.  My objections are twofold: 

	o  I object to the idea, popular among the Sensitivity
	   Police and the Compassion N*zis, that private businesses
	   are somehow obligated to allow customers to bring in food
	   and drink from outside the premises, for whatever reason.
	   That, you'll recall, is the central theme of the current
	   thread.

	o  I also object to the fact that it's _de rigeur_ these days
	   to claim some sort of dietary problem that prevents one
	   from eating this, that, or the other sort of food.  It's
	   analogous to the way people will claim to be "allergic"
	   to tobacco smoke when they simply dislike its odor, since
	   they assume they'll be taken more seriously that way.  How
	   else to explain that I encountered virtually _no_ picky
	   eaters between late childhood and the last few years, and
	   now all of a sudden Americans have devolved into a nation
	   of veritable Morris the Cats?  It's hip to be weak, that's
	   what it is.  Everybody wants to feign some sort of 
	   "sensitivity" 'cause it's all the rage.  Think of it as
	   the mainstream equivalent of body piercings.  Sure, some
	   people have legitimate physical disorders, and with them
	   I have no bone to pick.  But I strongly suspect that such
	   people are a tiny minority of those who claim to have 
	   dietary defects.


> I suppose the throat-swelling, heart palpitations, and death are
> mere plots to get laid, as well.

They'd be enough to give _me_ a stiffie if I saw them manifested in
some tofu-gobbling, vegan, bicycle-riding, Homo Paloalticus dork,
that's for sure.



Geoff

-- 
Why be politically correct when you can be right?