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Post by racechick on Jan 29, 2016 8:11:20 GMT
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Post by stonemonkey on Jan 29, 2016 17:25:01 GMT
That reminds me of a story from a documentary I watched, this guy went to kill himself off the golden gate bridge but the moment he let go and started to fall he thought he didn't want to die. He got himself feet down with his legs bent for hitting the water, his legs and hips were smashed when he did but he survived the fall and went really deep. Then he felt something nudge him and he thought 'great, I survived the fall now I'm going to be eaten be a shark' but it turned out to be a seal which took him to the surface.
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Post by racechick on Jan 29, 2016 18:37:03 GMT
Amazing creatures. I don't know how people can hurt animals like that, well any animals really. I hate it when I hear animals have been hurt.
There was a story the other day when the RSPCA found a dog, he was a gorgeous dog, and every bone in his body had been broken. It was the worst case they'd ever seen. They couldn't save him, he had to be put down. Who would do that to a dog? So sad. Poor little thing.
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Post by stonemonkey on Feb 10, 2016 20:26:43 GMT
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Post by racechick on Feb 10, 2016 20:34:25 GMT
Oh I saw him! He's gorgeous! I'd have him! If only I didn't travel. down side of travelling, can't have animals. I'm sure he'll have lots of offers for a home.
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Post by stonemonkey on Feb 10, 2016 20:45:59 GMT
..... down side of travelling, can't have animals. ...... There's always the lovebugz, you can take them wherever you go.
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Post by racechick on Feb 10, 2016 21:23:48 GMT
..... down side of travelling, can't have animals. ...... There's always the lovebugz, you can take them wherever you go. Lol. Think I'm happy to give those a miss.
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Post by racechick on Feb 9, 2017 13:19:13 GMT
the marmots. warped sense of humour me. oops. Wrong video, hang on. Here we go....
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Post by Hammer on Feb 15, 2017 6:20:38 GMT
This isn't a nice animal story, more like a deranged rant which I found on the net....and it made me just laugh my ass off through the whole thing. I swear with the right delivery, this is stand up comedy stuff. You won't believe what a big problem this guy has with a....a....an ocean sunfish! So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.]
Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them.
THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH)
They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.
They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (??). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fucking go.
So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck!
There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons. "If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job. They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them. "Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question. And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
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Post by stonemonkey on Feb 15, 2017 7:12:13 GMT
You'll be glad to hear I read all that. One question though, how the **** did that manage to jump onto a boat? I'm trying to imagine something like the scene from jaws where the shark jumps onto the boat and eats Robert Shaw but instead some poor bugger is squished under that thing.
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Post by Hammer on Feb 15, 2017 8:16:12 GMT
That's a good question, especially since they can hardly move according to this rant.
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Post by Wß on Feb 20, 2017 14:27:26 GMT
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Post by racechick on Feb 20, 2017 21:30:58 GMT
Disgusting! Horrific! Not a nice animal story at all.
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Post by stonemonkey on Feb 20, 2017 21:45:53 GMT
'Then he hit a speedbump way too fast and heard something crunch as his head hit the roof'
Is that better?
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Post by racechick on Feb 21, 2017 1:09:42 GMT
Squashed spider on head, alive spider on head. Yes it's better. But if either were on my head when I was driving I'd crash. I'd go crazy.
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Post by Wß on Mar 15, 2017 1:00:15 GMT
Hammer this is right up your alley man.
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Post by racechick on Mar 15, 2017 1:17:11 GMT
I'm more of a dog person, but some of those cats are really beautiful.
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Post by Hammer on Mar 15, 2017 3:36:27 GMT
Interesting video, thx Wß . Though I was never a cat person until I lived with Dexter for about a year. Now I'm both dog and cat. But I can't have dogs in this pigeon hole I'm currently living in. Don't now about the selective breeding, in the video the lady mentioned about being criticized since there are many other homeless cats out there...but her justification was "but look at these guys, they're so pretty!" Turned me off a bit. I do love the long haired bengal tiger look at 5:18. It's got the rare 'flat face' look, very much like Dexter. If I were to get another cat, I'd aim for something like that. Or a pure British Shorthair, they look badass! Btw Dexter is a mix of 2 breeds...if you've seen Stuart Little? Smokey (British Shorthair) is the dad, Snowbell (Long hair Persian) is the mother.
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Post by Wß on Mar 15, 2017 12:29:14 GMT
Not a cat person for the most part, they're too indpendent. And about the breeding, I couldn't agree more but man those coats are gorgeous.
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Post by Hammer on Mar 24, 2017 8:57:00 GMT
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