One for the Twilight fans

[Eddie Teach]

they're still a source of food? 

So is Soylent Green.

[Eddie Teach]

He's right. Cows don't look like people, nor can they be transformed into one.

Nor do vampires exist.  So arguing that the analogy fictional humans are to real cattle as fictional vampires are to real people cannot be countered by claiming that real humans don't look like real cattle.  The analogy doesn't compare real humans to real cattle.

Fictional humans don't look like real cattle either, except perhaps in fan fic by Teh Brain.

[grumbler]

Fictional humans don't look like real cattle either, except perhaps in fan fic by Teh Brain.

Or in vampire movies and books.

[grumbler]

I think the chick is kinda cute.

By real standards, or internet standards?  I think she is cute, but not by internet standards (aka "the girls where I work are cuter").

[MadImmortalMan]

Some girls lose all their cuteness when they open their mouths and begin to speak.

[Ed Anger]

I thought Miss Stewart has a John Kerry face.

[Korea]

That sums it up exactly.

[Caliga]

By real standards, or internet standards?  I think she is cute, but not by internet standards (aka "the girls where I work are cuter").

I'm usually the first person mocking internet standards, but I'm being quite serious here.  The strange thing is that most of my floor is Accounting... so it's baffling to me why so many hot chicks work here.

[Eddie Teach]

Fictional humans don't look like real cattle either, except perhaps in fan fic by Teh Brain.

Or in vampire movies and books.

In vampire books, the humans look like vampires, except with a bit more pigmentation. They don't look anything like cattle, even if they are used for the same purpose.

[Ed Anger]

By real standards, or internet standards?  I think she is cute, but not by internet standards (aka "the girls where I work are cuter").

I'm usually the first person mocking internet standards, but I'm being quite serious here.  The strange thing is that most of my floor is Accounting... so it's baffling to me why so many hot chicks work here.

The chicks are flooding bidness classes at your local university. be there or be square.

[Drakken]

Fictional humans don't look like real cattle either, except perhaps in fan fic by Teh Brain.

Or in vampire movies and books.

In vampire books, the humans look like vampires, except with a bit more pigmentation. They don't look anything like cattle, even if they are used for the same purpose.

Not in the Guide to the Sabbat. Sabbies nickname them  "Kegs", "Cows", or "Cattles". 

Okey, it is not a "vampire novel", but still it is the only book remotely involving vampires that treat humans as they are for vampires : food.

[Eddie Teach]

I suspect those nicknames did not originate from the physical appearance of the humans.

And physical appearance aside, in any remotely traditional vampire mythos, the vampires were once human themselves. Thus it's completely natural they'd have thoughts about humans that went beyond "mmm, yummy."

[grumbler]

In vampire books, the humans look like vampires, except with a bit more pigmentation. They don't look anything like cattle, even if they are used for the same purpose.

That's not what they "look like" to vampires.*  To vampires, they "look" more like cattle than they do like vampires.

Or something like that.



*To vampires in books where vampires think of people as fud.

[grumbler]

I suspect those nicknames did not originate from the physical appearance of the humans.

I suspect that you are right, but since no one is arguing this, it is moot.

[Eddie Teach]

Grumbler- does this


"look like"



or



I ask because apparently that term means more than simply visual shapes and colors to you.

That's not what they "look like" to vampires.*  To vampires, they "look" more like cattle than they do like vampires.

Vampires might lump humans in with cattle, but it would be due to utility, not appearance.