On 10/13/2012 9:48 AM, Rupert wrote:
> On Oct 13, 5:47 pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
>> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Rupert wrote:
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>>> On Oct 12, 6:10 pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
>>>> On 10/12/2012 7:48 AM, Rupert wrote:
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>>>>> On Oct 12, 4:17 pm, "The Undead Edward M. Kennedy" > wrote:
>>>>>> None of them, unfortunately, will actually admit to their existence on
>>>>>> the usenet.
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>>>>>> --Tedward
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>>>>> It would be very easy for you to verify the existence of many world-
>>>>> class vegan athletes if you wished to. Google is your friend.
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>>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! It would be very easy for *you* simply to list the
>>>> names of 50-100 of them, if there really were "quite a few" such who are
>>>> *currently* "world-class" athletes who are also "vegan". I *did*
>>>> attempt to Google such a list, and as I already posted, a) most of them
>>>> are not "vegan" but rather some degree of vegetarian, and b) most of
>>>> them weren't even vegetarian during their years as active "world-class"
>>>> athletes.
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>>>> Your claim is bullshit.
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>>> http://kaleuniversity.org/3888-famou...n-bodybuilders
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>>> "Dave Scott (six-time winner
>>> of Hawaii's Ironman Triathlon), Sixto Linares (world record
>>> holder for the 24-hour triathlon),
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>> These lists are just stupid. Why are "vegans" so ****ing insecure they
>> feel they need to put them together?
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> The point of the list is to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible
> to get peak nutrition on a vegan diet.

No, that's *not* the point of the list, and you ****ing well know it.
The point of the list is to try to attach some of the prestige of
"world-class" athletes to "veganism".


>> Any why is the list of *real*
>> "world-class" athletes who are "vegan" so short, while the list of
>> ****ing ****witted showbiz celebrity "vegans" so long?
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>> Here's the basic truth - a truth with real meat in it: "vegans" very
>> rarely are people of substance.
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> You have no particular rational grounds for saying that.

I have every rational grounds for saying it. It's a fact.


>> "veganism" is the victory of style over
>> substance, and that's always a bad thing - always.
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