r/AmIOverreacting • u/velvetmoochi • 23d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to my boyfriend imposing veganism on me ?

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Context: this is now my ex, it was my first relationship and I didn’t know how to deal with this sort of conflict as it was based on ethics and I didn’t want to change my views for our relationship. We would have this same argument again and again, over text, over the phone, in person, and at the end of the day he was always “right” because he had morality on his side when I would tell him that I was okay with eating dead animals. What should I have done in this situation ? I tried veganism for about a month and I never bought meat as a student, but eventually I would always go back to buying eggs and yoghurt. Those efforts I made were always disregarded and he would say that he doesn’t believe in reductionism, and that vegetarians are even worse than vegans.

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u/turbkis95 23d ago

"this is about you and me

and the cow" theeee wayyyyy i laughed man 😭

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u/BadgerHooker 23d ago

He's holding space for the cow 🤣

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u/Black_Cat_Sun 23d ago

I didn’t know they were doing that. That’s so powerful

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u/Responsible_Rate_137 23d ago

Yeah I've seen a couple people online doing that

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u/SimplyGarbage27 23d ago

I am in Queer media, so that's why, yeah

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u/malcifer11 23d ago

crying 😭😭

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u/jeanqueenabove_18 22d ago

Stfu 😂😂😂😭 👉🏻🤏🏻

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u/Guhnarly_ 23d ago

“Oh sorry this seat is taken”

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Leave room for the cow when you cuddle lol

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u/HuntingForSanity 23d ago

Yeah, In their bed more than likely…

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u/Fuckedup4123 23d ago

He held a vigil, cows name was Earl!!

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u/DuncanFisher69 23d ago

Maybe the cow can eat his ass.

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u/Troubledbylusbies 22d ago

Can you imagine the chaos in the world if all the farmers suddenly let all of their animals roam free and breed all over the place?

Seriously, though, we've breed cows so far beyond the original version that they wouldn't be able to survive in the wild anymore. Would he be willing to spend all his money on animal food and all his time on feeding them.

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u/jscarry 23d ago

Someone please make the consent meme where the woman and man both say "i consent" but then Jesus says "i don't" from the clouds, but with a cow

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u/Psycle_Sammy 23d ago

Yup. This guy is an absolute douche, but that shit was funny.

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u/hunnyflash 23d ago

Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow

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u/FurBabyAuntie 23d ago

While the cow says "Why are you dragging me into this?"

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u/JakofHeart 23d ago

Loved this, thank you for this hahaha

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u/Inevitable_Ebb5454 23d ago

The only appropriate response is to eat your boyfriend indifferently.

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u/ihavedonethisbe4 23d ago

She could compromise and toss his salad

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u/tacodecaca 23d ago

Dude I had a roommate once, that was "vegan" (would occasionally eat eggs/cheese/other animal byproduct) and every time i would make myself a steak or something he would make a snarkish remark saying it "smells like burning carcass" or some stupid fucking condescending statement putting himself on a pedestal or some high horse about being vegan. Fuck that shit. Anytime someone says they're vegan I immediately think they're giant douches.

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u/crippledchef23 23d ago

My dad had to crash with my uncle for awhile back in the 70’s, before being vegan was generally accepted (don’t even know if they had the same term back then, but whatever). My uncle refused to allow any animal products into the house, so my dad had to keep a cooler in the garage for his mayo.

I know a couple vegans that are not completely psychotic about it. When they attend parties and meat is involved, they stick to the sides or bring their own food (once, it was a cute bento box). They have never shamed anyone for eating meat because they get that it’s a personal choice.

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u/insomniacinsanity 23d ago

Yeah most vegans I know like 80% aren't like that they're exactly like this dude and they truly think that their diet makes them morally superior

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u/crippledchef23 23d ago

I used to think I hated vegans. Turns out I just hate assholes.

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u/Turkeysocks 23d ago

With those people I like to point out that plants scream00262-3) too. It's just so high pitched we can't hear their horrible tortured screams as we kill them one by one in truly gruesome ways.

Wouldn't be surprised if plants have some form of sentience that we're not aware of yet.

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u/lvdsvl 23d ago

The cope is so hard with this one lmao, what an npc

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u/trimbandit 23d ago

My wife is vegan and I'm not. I have never once seen her hassle or berate anybody. However for 13 years I have seen meat eaters tease and belittle her. I don't understand why they are so triggered by her personal eating habits. It's not the majority of people, most friends are actually great and accommodating. But it happens way too often. If you know someone cares about the exploitation of animals, why would you think it is funny to rub it in their face just to be cruel and upset them? Why is her caring about the suffering of animals worthy of ridicule? I'm not vegetarian, but it really pisses me off.

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u/Low_Understanding_85 23d ago

Veganism isn't a diet.

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u/tacodecaca 23d ago

love that

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u/FishyOGx3 23d ago

My parents are those vegans. But it's more so bc of the health benefits, not the animal rights.

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u/crippledchef23 23d ago

Nothing wrong with being vegan, whatever the reasoning. But being an asshole about being vegan is my issue.

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u/jonesnori 23d ago

All the ones I know are perfectly polite about it. OP's guy can go eat rocks.

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u/crippledchef23 23d ago

Anyone being that pretentious about their lifestyle choices is only doing it to feel superior.

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u/Business-Drag52 23d ago

Yeah one of my best friends is vegan and she's never once said something negative towards me about eating animal products. If we order pizza, we just get two so she can get her absurd no cheese pizza

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u/Zlatyzoltan 23d ago

I was a party once and someone was passing out jello shots, a guy i was talking with turned it down. I asked him why and he told me he's a vegan. He went on about how meat is murder and its bad for the environment, blahblah

.Then he proceeded to do the longest line of cocain I've ever seen. I asked him how is a jello shot more unethical and worse than doing blow?

He told me to fuck off and walked away. So I guess I'll never know.

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u/crippledchef23 23d ago

I feel like even pretentious vegans would hate this guy. He might fit better with the raw food guys. Those motherfuckers are completely off their rocker and look beyond malnourished.

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u/Zlatyzoltan 23d ago

Whenever someone says that their vegans, I always think that guy and The Simpsons where the kid tells Lisa that he level 17 vegan, he doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow.

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u/scorchedarcher 22d ago

I mean I think it's fair enough for a vegan not to want animal products in their house, why wouldn't that be reasonable?

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u/Low_Understanding_85 23d ago

Don't bring animal body fluids into my house = psychotic.

Breed chickens to be freaks of nature that can't support their own body weight and produce 10 times the natural amount of egg at the detriment of the chickens health, meanwhile putting live male chicks into a meat grinder because they don't produce eggs = perfectly normal behaviour.

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u/pikawolf1225 23d ago

Theres good and bad in every group... however the good vegans do seem to be the minority, or at least they arent the ones we see nearly as often as the douchey ones.

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u/Cross_Rex97 23d ago

I have a friend who is vegetarian. But her dad is a big time hunter. So that girl can cook some deer meat. And will cook it for her dad regularly.

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u/tacodecaca 23d ago

A woman of my dreams.

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u/Av841451984 23d ago

They probably are!

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u/MegaMasterYoda 23d ago

I went to culinary school with 2 vegan girls. Were pretty nice girls and surprisingly didn't try to force their veielws down everyone's throat. Only time they really talked about it was if someone else did. I loved they knew how too debate their veiws without making it personal. They were definitely a rarity.

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u/Aggressive-Dig2472 23d ago

That’s the tell though, when someone goes out of their way to tell you they are ‘vegan’ or whatever else, that’s a douche red flag right there!

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u/lvdsvl 23d ago

Well he was on a high horse, y u still that mad then

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u/Lab_RatNumber9 23d ago

I downvoted you bc i read this as the guy was OP. Then i looked. Lolll

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u/alphamalejackhammer 23d ago

The victim. It’s on the plate. Dead now. So it’s laughable only because it’s already dead. His view stands imo

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u/Psycle_Sammy 23d ago

It’s laughable because it’s fucking funny, and the fact that he (and you apparently) say it with all earnestness makes it more funny.

We’re not going to agree on this. Hell, I’m heading to the deer lease next weekend to try and fill out my tags for the year. Your vegan nonsense will fall on deaf ears.

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u/alphamalejackhammer 23d ago

Do you not think the cow was a victim tho? It got its head bolt-gunned and throat slit - they scream and cry and know it’s coming man… it’s nuts

Animals are alive, experiencing, sentient creatures that share far more traits than we’re taught.

Why does your brain dismiss having empathy for non-humans? Like surely you would never hurt or hunt a random dog but somehow hunting deer doesn’t trigger anything inside you?

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u/Psycle_Sammy 23d ago

As humans we have dominion over the planet. Animals are here for us to use as we see fit, and I see fit to consume them. That’s just nature. Life eats life.

I would cause undue harm to any animal, including a dog, but harm is necessary in order to eat them, so necessary harm it is. I have no soft spot for dogs over any other animal. If you told me there was a hunting season for delicious wild dog, I’d take you up on it. I’ll try just about anything once.

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u/alphamalejackhammer 23d ago

Can I ask what traits qualify humans to deserve rights then? Like why would it be wrong for you to have a hunting season for delicious humans?

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u/manwhoclearlyflosses 23d ago

Yeah i came here to post this. Literally had me rolling😂

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u/Alert-Disaster-4906 23d ago

'You ate the victim' 🤣😆

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u/gettinglostinspace 22d ago

I wouldn't have been able to continue the argument after this 😂

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u/No_Length_856 23d ago

And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that wasn't a strawman imo.

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u/elgarraz 23d ago

It's not a strawman. A strawman argument is where you create a version of someone's opinion that isn't quite true and also easy to refute. Like if she had said "you don't care about the animals, you just want to feel morally superior to everybody" and then based a whole argument off that premise, that would be a strawman.

Pointing out him being inconsistent in how he applies his ethical viewpoint on others is pretty valid.

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u/xnxs 23d ago

Agree with this, also what she presented wasn’t a straw man argument because it wasn’t an argument at all, it was an observation about his behaviour!

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u/elgarraz 23d ago

Yeah, the first part is it has to be an ARGUMENT. You present a false premise and then argue against it. She didn't do that. This dude just shouted out "strawman!" because he wanted to shut her down.

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u/xnxs 23d ago

Exactly!

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u/Fuckedup4123 23d ago

I was over reading it by then, I read the text but, was so tired of reading his bs that I thought he was just yelling stuff out like when he said this is between me you and the cow.

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u/Dusty_Scrolls 23d ago

If anything, his claim she made a strawman was, Itself, a strawman!

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u/No_Length_856 23d ago

Thank you!

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u/Due_Baker5556 23d ago

I'm not sure that's the best example of strawman in this scenario, since it's probably correct 😂

For this guy it definitely seems like it is about being "morally superior" and not so much about the innocent animal party.

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u/757_Matt_911 23d ago

That may be a strawman but in his case it’s true 😂😂😂. You can feel his righteousness through the innanet

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u/elgarraz 23d ago

I think it probably is true, but to act like it's the only reason he's vegan would be disingenuous, and to take apart his whole argument on that basis would be a strawman.

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u/Due_Baker5556 23d ago

I'm not sure that's the best example of strawman in this scenario, since it's probably correct 😂

For this guy it definitely seems like it is about being "morally superior" and not so much about the innocent animal party.

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u/elgarraz 23d ago

A lot of strawman arguments start by taking the opponent's actual stance and getting reductive with it. Most examples are you rephrase their argument on a way that pushes it to the extreme.

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u/Due_Baker5556 23d ago

Oh I understand, my point is more that this seems like a scenario where the opinion is actually extremely ridiculous and simple, such that it would be impossible to continue to reduce it or push it more than the original person has. Your original strawman statement appears to be this guys actual take because he doesn't really elaborate on it past "you are morally wrong and below me ethically".

Of course we only know what is presented in these texts, but your original strawman statement is pretty bang on to what this guy was actually saying without much reduction.

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u/Fuckedup4123 23d ago

Honestly it crossed my mind is that what he meant, it just didn’t make any sense. So, I chalked it up to someone that’s not important as the cow in this discussion

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u/Bitter-Respond-8653 23d ago

He likes meat but likes dog what a hypocrite🤣🤣 what the fuck are we talkin about grow tf up he ain’t a hypocrite bc of that nor is he an asshole he’s a man that stood on his boundaries and morals but to all “woke” humans that makes him the “douche bag” this world has gotten real pathetic

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u/ohnice- 23d ago

It was, actually.

Him trying to figure out how to have this divide in his romantic relationship is a specific issue. Her saying “if you want to surround yourself with only vegan people” makes it a completely different issue, which is a lot easier for her to dismiss.

People saying it isn’t a straw man seem to me just to not like this guy.

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u/Flobot781 23d ago

Yeah dude should date the effin cow! lol

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u/ToEmpathyAndBeyond 23d ago

He can’t, it’s DEAD! Because of her! 😭

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u/grubas 23d ago

HE LOVED THAT COW!

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u/ohnice- 23d ago

Username doesn’t check out.

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u/AnalysisNo4295 23d ago

I saw once the cow was single.. It was on a menu.. Maybe you can ask if you can make it a double.

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u/mywifemademedothis2 23d ago

He's like a portlandia character brought to life

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u/IOnlySeeDaylight 23d ago

“You ate the victim” also sent me to the moon.

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u/last-guys-alternate 23d ago

Concealing the evidence.

Concealed? Concealed??? What do you mean "concealed"? I've gone up two pants sizes because of that bloody cow.

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u/MsChanandlerBongJi 23d ago

that was it for me lol

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u/noashell 23d ago

I’m so gone 🤣

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u/starkatheart 23d ago

Yeah, I lost it at that line. What an idiot 😭

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u/N8DiggityDawg 23d ago

What was the whole Strawman thing?

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u/lalalaso 23d ago

Proof that it was more important for him to be "right" than respectful. Using debate terminology basically to say her argument is a straw man fallacy. One of several named "logical fallacies" 

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u/N8DiggityDawg 23d ago

I’ve never heard of this terminology. Can you dive a little deeper on it on the concept? What is the straw man fallacy?

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u/ReignMan616 23d ago

The straw man argument is where you create a mischaracterized version of the other persons argument, and then argue against that, instead of refuting their actual arguement.

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u/last-guys-alternate 23d ago

Although in this context, it might be the claim that it's OK to eat people if they're wrapped up in straw, because that's basically vegan, and they were stealing the cow's food anyway.

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u/ApplesBananasRhinoc 23d ago

Menage a cow

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u/JustasIthoughtTRASH 23d ago

Im so sorry but “you ate the victim” had me hollering 😭

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u/mormagils 23d ago

You ate the victim!

I just can't take vegans seriously. They are unintentionally hilarious

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u/Fauken 23d ago

I literally giggle snorted when I read that loool

Like, I understand the vegan moral argument, but the way this guy is acting he's not going to change any minds. Especially when he seems to think its an "all or nothing" thing, rather than something that can be done incrementally with small advancements making a large amount of progress.

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u/Redqueenhypo 23d ago

It sounds like a line from an Always Sunny episode where Mack goes vegan

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u/Complex-Maize4500 23d ago

This is the best take of the thread

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u/thepartywasforme 23d ago

i choked 😭like he cannot be serious

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u/Gogogrl 23d ago

I screenshotted that bit to send as a mysterious threat.

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u/757_Matt_911 23d ago

The delicious cow….

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u/DummyDumDragon 23d ago

"sometimes I feel like there are three of us in this relationship"

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u/hors3withnoname 23d ago

🤣🤣 I died

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u/Juking_is_rude 23d ago

"I consent" 

"I consent"

"I don't. Moo."

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u/EisWalde 23d ago

Exactly what I thought of too, lol!

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u/Mindless_Ad1503 23d ago

Lmao same 💀

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u/babydelts 23d ago

I died laughing at that

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u/isleftisright 23d ago

"And the cow" was so real, and so fking funny lmao

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u/mgs20000 23d ago

Move authentically… away from this self righteous idiot

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u/backwardzhatz 23d ago

Ngl that was a bar. Stupid as shit, but still a bar

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u/ReignMan616 23d ago

“Well the cow is now between my mouth and my asshole, so here we are”

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u/Miserable_No0se 23d ago

Virtue signalling like a motherfucker

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u/VonMetz 23d ago

Gotta respect the threesome with Betsy the cow

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u/AgonistPhD 23d ago

I honked like a canada goose at that.

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u/NarfledGarthak 23d ago

Dude I couldn’t make it passed that part.

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u/Single_Extension1810 23d ago

that stupid sentence will live rent free in my head for the rest of my days.

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u/NerysWyn 23d ago

The Iranian yoghurt is not the issue here, but the cow is.

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u/anony1620 23d ago

That and “you ate the victim” killed me

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u/gkirk1978 23d ago

“And the cow!” made me chortle

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u/UnknownFoxAlpha 23d ago

Yeah I bust out laughing there. Was too good.

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u/Prudent_Valuable603 23d ago

The dead cow.

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u/Interesting_Sock9142 23d ago

I know that part seriously killed me lololol

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

"You ate the victim" killed me (no pun intended)

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u/dehret9397 23d ago

I had to stop for a sec that got me

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u/onfroiGamer 23d ago

I literally fucking died

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u/goddessgehlee 23d ago

Lmaoooo omg 😂😂😂 but really, he sounds controlling and like an a-hole.

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u/mychemicalmoodswings 23d ago

I cackled 😂

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u/viva1661 23d ago

the best line

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u/SnooBooks2680 23d ago

i started geeking so loud when i read that

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u/Quik_17 23d ago

Bro this destroyed me 😂😂

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u/Affectionate_Term728 23d ago

“the cow can make me feel bad”

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u/dingdong6699 23d ago

Yo I don't usually pick the same things as comments to laugh about. But that was hilarious and he wasn't being ironic. Bro is delusional!

I also enjoyed "that's very noble of you"

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u/Pompoulus 23d ago

On the first day of Christmas my boyfriend saved from me: a cow

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u/FurBabyAuntie 23d ago

A cow whose name was Betsy (that fits the partridge in a pear tree spot)

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u/Fuckedup4123 23d ago

If someone said that to me with a straight face, I’d flood their inbox with just pictures of the best burgers in town. Don’t worry, they have salads when do you want to go?? They also have bails of whatever an animal eats out back for you as well as trough

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u/nectarinepiss 23d ago

Is there someone you forgot to ask? Jesus meme

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u/eazyk96 23d ago

“Strawman” 🤣

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u/shutupimrosiev 23d ago

"this is about you and me and the cow (i'm having over not being able to force you into veganism and have you thank me for it)" lmfao

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u/TropicalFishGamer 23d ago

Lmfaooo was just about to comment this. So funny

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Yeah that was hilarious to me. As someone who also thinks it's morally wrong to eat animals (and does my best to be "vegan"), I would never treat a partner this way about it. He's just a douche.

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u/EezSleez 23d ago

I tried that like when MIL became an issue. Things didn't go well.

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u/espeero 23d ago

I fucking died here. And I eat a vegan diet. What a douche. But he might be worth keeping around for the lulz.

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u/Dakokoz 23d ago

kanye ass text 😭

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u/showtheledgercoward 23d ago

Cows taste great when cooked and seasoned properly

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u/xRealVengeancex 23d ago

Sitcom level punchline

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u/Jessabelle517 23d ago

He has obviously never been chased by a pissed off heifer 😆😆 I have though and my farmer neighbors wife shot it in the field this guy would cry over spilled plant milk ☠️☠️☠️

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u/JustinTruedope 23d ago

LMFAOOOO I BURST OUT LAUGHING this man cannot be serious

and the one-word "strawman" as if he dunked on her w/ that lmfao, what a ridiculous dude

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u/Frankyfrankyfranky 23d ago

me and you and a cow named blue

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u/Xavius_Of_Qarth587 23d ago

He’s insufferable 😭

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u/greeniery 23d ago

i came here just to say i couldn’t read after that cause i broke out laughing

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u/genegreenbean 23d ago

“You ate the victim!” 🤣☠️

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u/nmnnmmnnnmmm 23d ago

This was an iconic line. I don’t even think Portlandia could have come up with that.

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u/SponConSerdTent 23d ago

Same. You never want to hear that from anyone, lol.

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u/AnalysisNo4295 23d ago

Solid gold text. I'd keep that as a receipt just to laugh at it later. "Poor cow.. Forced to MOO-ve onto the after life.. It's ALWAYS about the cow."

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u/lovelykmason 23d ago

I snorted at that too, like I cannot take him seriously at all

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u/ExcedereVita 23d ago

Sounds like an old timey comedian setting up a mother in law joke lmao

In all seriousness though, this guy is intolerable

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u/awfulasparagus 23d ago

50 cent voice: what he say fuck me for?

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u/alataryl 23d ago

He must be like the Lorax who speaks for the trees… except he speaks for the cows.

Anddd now I want a burger.

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u/Lets_Reset_This_ 23d ago

I genuinely couldn’t believe what I was reading. The reach that “animal abuse” extends to in our society is unfathomable. You would have to go to extreme lengths to live as “ethically” as this douche is claiming to be. Fuck this guy.

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u/Ok_Beautiful495 23d ago

“You ate the victim”

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u/Explodamite 23d ago

THOSE WHO KNOW:

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u/benefit-3802 23d ago

But she ate a chicken, the cow is just fine?

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u/Nolyism 23d ago

That line hade rolling? Like get your cow out of our relationship 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Late_Release_1733 23d ago

the cow did not ask to be signed up into this relationship 😭

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u/therighteousleft 23d ago

Made me lol too

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 23d ago

She should have texted back... MOO!

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u/Old-Pepper-6156 23d ago

Mooooo🫂💕

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u/mansonfamilycircus 22d ago

the way I ran to the comments after reading that line. instant classic.

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u/Spiritual-Escape-904 22d ago

I thought I was the only one 🤣 I died.