Text 13775, 50 rader
Skriven 2007-04-06 13:09:13 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: STUFF 314
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 >>GJ> But if those same grape-growers/wine makers also produced
 >>GJ> non-alcoholic wine or grape juice, would consumption of that be
 >>GJ> considered just as immoral?  (Casting eyes around the group...)
 >> I'd imagine the answer would be yes. I try not to buy Nabisco
 > 
 > I do not mind people whose economic actions are influenced by
 > their moral views, even when their moral views are completely
 > different from or even opposite to mine. It's when they start
 > to try to impinge on my freedoms that I balk.

That applies equally to those particularly objectionable drinkers who try to
force non-drinkers to imbibe as it does to the non-drinking equivalents.
 >                                                         
Yesterday I saw bottles of "grape juice" - red, white and sparkling - made by
Orlando.   No mention of the word, "wine".  Quite innocent unless the purchaser
was aware of the other Orlando products.

 >> tobacco company. Of course, it is very difficult to get anything
 >> untainted by that kind of drug money nowadays.    
 >GJ> Sadly, so very true.  There is even a connection from Philip Morris to
 >GJ> (choke!) Vegemite!
 > 
 > "Just say 'no.'"                                                     

Fortunately I don't need to, as Jim tells me Kraft/Vegemite has been released.
                                                  
 >GJ> But, but.... some of these alcohols are not of beverage quality, or
 >GJ> not even ethyl alcohol.  Eg fuel ethanol, or even Isopropyl alcohol.
 > 
 > So? You refuse roast leg of insurance salesman from your
 > local cannibal chief but gladly buy a back-scratcher made
 > from his toenails?

Some people don't like eating crocodiles (speaking of rapacious reptiles), but
willingly buy souvenir croc foot back scratchers.

 >GJ> Anglo-Australian, who thought he was most romantic when he  called her,
 >GJ> "Meine kleine Fleder-maus" - until she learnt it meant "bat".
 > 
 > Can't trust those Continentals, but we need to know the
 > Rest of the Story.

She hit him, but eventually married him anyway.

The banana prawn season starts tomorrow, so all the local prawn trawlers are on
their way to the prawn grounds.  A good catch is forecast, so I am looking
forward to some fresh ones.

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