Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]

Reminds me of an apocryphal story I saw years ago in a comment on some blog, which was meant to demonstrate the absurdity of sectarianism in Northern Ireland and which I think also demonstrates something else.

A foreign journalist driving alone in Belfast was stopped by some scary looking militia guys. One of them leaned into the car and asked “Protestant or Catholic?” the journalist replied, truthfully, “Atheist”. The militia guy’s next question was “Protestant atheist or Catholic atheist?”

Have you ever looked at a tree and thought, ‘Can I drink this?’

1. If your bit depends on the audience being too stupid to remember that fruit juice exists, it’s a bad bit.
2. American dairy products often contain trace chemical contaminants from sources much scarier than trees. Link
3. Interestingly, wood pulp does have a history as a food additive, but it’s less of a “millennial nonsense” thing and more of a “ripoff scheme sometimes attempted by the agro-food establishment during periods of lax government oversight” thing. Link