I put on my robe and... well, I feel like a wizard. Follow

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Bacon is delicious!

You think wrong.

Bacon is ******* awesome.

Also, I went to McDonalds yesterday because I had a craving for hamburger for some reason and they had all big signs saying "100% Beef!" next to their burgers, even the ones with bacon on them.

I do need to go to some fastfood chain in Pakistan just to see what they use instead of bacon.

That robe is freaking awesome Kali.

Maybe some people don't eat bacon because it's positively disgusting and terrible for you, and maybe not everyone is a hedonistic self-destructive drain on the planet. Just maybe.

Totally agree Maz, that's one of the reasons I'm Wiccan. We don't even have rules really, the Wiccan Rede is more of a guideline than an actual rule. I think it's a much better policy to give people credit for their own intelligence, and let them decide for themselves what is right or wrong. Having arbitrary rules like "don't have sex before you get married" or "don't eat pork" and giving no logical reason for it, just annoys me.

I'm not a big fan of bacon myself though. I really don't get the obsession that so many people seem to have with bacon. When I do eat pork, I much prefer ham or sausage.

Please tell me this didn't seriously confuse you or cause you to think this was somehow inaccurate.

Well actually... I am a pirate too. I go to pirate events during the summer, AND I just got the lead in a community theater production of The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree. So not only am I a pirate, I'm a pirate captain.

I had expected you to dress like the locals. I hope you can at least wear shorts and a tank top?
Nice stars!

Nil, I didn't eat bacon before, I even stopped eating pork pâté because I think it smells funny long before it became relevant.

Interestingly, people making a huge deal about eating halal are a rather recent development because some PR folk thought it'd be a good idea to make people feel like they're following Islam by picking this over stuff that's actually hard to follow.

I personally really like the Ahmadiyya view because it focuses a lot more on humanist values, I just need to figure out their statements about Jesus.

I don't wear shorts and a tank top at home either, I haven't tried. I know there's a lady from Oklahoma here who wears short sleeved shirts and skirts (at least knee length), and some Indian/Pakistani expat people who are here on holiday who dress similarly. Short sleeves are usually okay, but it's just not that great an idea in this weather anyway. I've not got unlimited sunscreen!

Meh. I have no idea. In some areas it'd be completely okay because those areas are sealed off to the male population. Generally people would probably just ask me to put on more clothes. In here, not so much, there's barely anyone here who hasn't lived in NA/EU at some point, so they'd know.

Interestingly, there's this happening in UAE. Especially in Dubai, Emiratis are a minority (18% of the population, I believe?) and while they have a lot more rights than everyone else, they can't really do much.

Edited, Jun 3rd 2012 5:11am by Kalivha

Meh, if I concerned myself with this stuff, I'd be vegetarian.

Over here, nothing that isn't halal would be available short of buying the chickens myself and killing them (which I could do at the market, but wtf). In the UK (and Europe in general), the value for money is just much much better if it's halal. Plus I like my awesome cute Shia shopowner.