What made you Lol Today?

[Tet]

In the meantime: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38164921

Result.

Result? Seriously? Wow. I'm almost ashamed of the Bank Of England for caving in over this. They should have stood their ground and stuck with what they had.

[Jobdone]

Why does it matter tho?

Like if they stop using tallow, and it might make some other people happier, with no change in my quality of life.

Sounds like a win win.

[NeglectedField]

That veggie restaurant that was turning people away for trying to use the fiver were being fucking tossers though, if you ask me. Can imagine them turning away a homeless bloke who'd been given one by a kind stranger.

[Smerphy]

Why does it matter tho?

Like if they stop using tallow, and it might make some other people happier, with no change in my quality of life.

Sounds like a win win.

Yeah I didn't get the criticisms of vegetarians who didn't like it, the Scottish notes aren't being made with animal fat so it's not like the English ones had to be.

[WorMzy]

Unfortunately, they do: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38169194

But they're also looking to fix the problem.

[Nantha]

mmhmm, so what about all the other stuff that uses tallow in the manufacturing process, tyres, plastic bags, shampoo etc?

[WorMzy]

You don't use it, or at least try to avoid it. It's a bit easier to not buy shitty shampoo than it is to not receive shitty money in your change/from a cash machine.

[Ensorcelled]

World gone fucking mad. It's not as if steak is currency or anything. Jesus wept.

[Nantha]

You don't use it, or at least try to avoid it. It's a bit easier to not buy shitty shampoo than it is to not receive shitty money in your change/from a cash machine.

It's not particularly easy to avoid when basically everything you buy is responsible for animal death in one way or another, and it's not 'shit shampoo' either.
Is this just a case of ''well cows are cute so..." or is there environmental reasoning behind it? if so i can think of a hundred different causes more worthy.
Also the majority of people, retailers etc, can't pick and choose what money to handle.
The world has indeed gone mad. With all the shite going on, and the horrific shit we're about to face within the next 50 or so years, the fact that this is news is absolute insanity.
Another retarded incident that puts people off being associated with vegetarian and veganism

[Gandalf the Red]

I originally posted it as it genuinely made me laugh that people were being so petty about something that to the vast majority of the world is not even an issue.

I reckon most of the people who signed the petition didn't even have any views on the matter until someone on Facebook told them "animals are dying to make the new £5 notes". Then they probably went to McDonalds or KFC after they had been a SJW.

I quite like vegetarians (even some vegans) but this sort of thing gives them all a bad reputation. It's an animal by product, no animal was killed just to make money, it was already dead. So not using it would be wasteful.

Far more important things happening in the real world. What about the dogs in Korea for example? Now that's a subject worth petitioning about. Even the Daily Mirror is going on about that. Not the fact they get killed and eaten, more that the whole process is cruel.

[Fjar]

The more time people spend losing their shit over things that don't matter, the more time the government has to quietly do things that do matter, and people would lose their shit about, if only they weren't so busy losing their shit over people losing their shit over things that don't fucking matter.

</remove tin foil hat>

[WorMzy]

Just because something doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean it doesn't matter. And as I said:

Feel free to bring light to the bigger issues

If you don't give a shit if your money has animal products in it, good for you. Don't get pissed off that other people do give a shit, just leave us to it.

[Matty_the_Emo_Slayer]

animals are dying to make the new £5 notes

Animal singular. Even with all the millions of notes being produced the trace amounts of tallow still only equate to about half the weight of fat in the average heifer.

[Gandalf the Red]

animals are dying to make the new £5 notes

Animal singular. Even with all the millions of notes being produced the trace amounts of tallow still only equate to about half the weight of fat in the average heifer.

I was pointing out the shock tactics that are being used.

[tranmerefan]

The more time people spend losing their shit over things that don't matter, the more time the government has to quietly do things that do matter, and people would lose their shit about, if only they weren't so busy losing their shit over people losing their shit over things that don't fucking matter.

</remove tin foil hat>

More people are losing their shit over this than the fact the Government knows I texted my mother this evening and what it was about, or the fact that for some inexplicable reason the Food Standards Agency can view my pornhub history...