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Post by Alyssa on Mar 24, 2011 20:33:55 GMT -5
If you have to ask yourself "Hmm, I wonder if that is hot?", don't touch it. just don't. because it's most likely just out of the oven.
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Post by Geodude 🇺🇦 🌻 on Mar 24, 2011 23:13:41 GMT -5
Picking mostly number one seeds in a tournament to win is a terrible idea regardless of the past. Yeah I'm speaking specifically about college basketball in the United States. xD
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 7:10:58 GMT -5
"Stool" is another word for "poop".
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Post by Breakingchains on Mar 27, 2011 17:44:28 GMT -5
I learned about Juan Pujol Garcia, who played the Nazis for a bunch of fools during WWII and got a medal... from the nazis. They never caught on. ...I think I have a new hero now. xD
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Post by M is for Morphine on Mar 27, 2011 18:46:04 GMT -5
I learned about Juan Pujol Garcia, who played the Nazis for a bunch of fools during WWII and got a medal... from the nazis. They never caught on. ...I think I have a new hero now. xD This made my day, you have no idea.
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Post by Omni on Mar 28, 2011 16:23:31 GMT -5
'Wise' comes from 'wit' which comes from 'videre/video/visum' = 'to see, observe, comprehend, understand.' 'Dom' comes from 'dominus' = 'master.' So 'wisdom' is 'mastery of (fore)sight/understanding.'
Similarly, 'emotion' basically means 'outside movement/arousal.' 'Feeling' is based more on 'perceive/touch,' which is why it's also used for physical sensations.
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Post by Lizzie on Mar 28, 2011 18:21:01 GMT -5
Funyuns+Ketchup=Does not taste good. Period. End of story.
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Post by krimzon on Mar 28, 2011 22:40:58 GMT -5
I tried Funyuns and ketchup and it was the bombdig.
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Post by Komori on Apr 4, 2011 2:53:34 GMT -5
I learned that as many as 500 million birds are killed by housecats every year. www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents.
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Post by insanepurpleone on Apr 4, 2011 3:51:59 GMT -5
I learned that as many as 500 million birds are killed by housecats every year. www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents. Interesting.. My dad would only allow outdoor cats when I was growing up, and I don't know if they were too dumb to catch anything or the birds were smart enough to stay away, but we very rarely found evidence of them killing anything. Of course, they were well-fed, and I lived out in the country where it was probably easier for birds to go somewhere cats wouldn't come after them than it is for birds in densely populated areas.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2011 5:10:30 GMT -5
I learned that as many as 500 million birds are killed by housecats every year. www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents. My two cats have always been inner ones because we never wanted them to get hit by cars or get trapped. We do let them out (supervised) on the deck for thirty minutes once and awhile in the summer. I never liked the cats at this barn I used to ride horses at, because it brought back birds and mice to the owner of the place all the time.
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Post by Omni on Apr 4, 2011 12:38:33 GMT -5
I learned that as many as 500 million birds are killed by housecats every year. www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents. Hey now, slow down there. Carnivores have their part in things, too. If foxes, wolves and such didn't hunt down rabbits, we'd be overrun by rabbits. It was said in Charlotte's Web that if it weren't for spiders, insects would become so numerous that they'd destroy the earth. (Okay, so that's insectivores, but still.) It may very well be the same with cats and birds, especially when you consider introduced, invasive species of birds. Starlings for example. They were brought over to America, started flourishing, and started causing problems. With such numbers, it's likely that cats are helping to keep them from becoming even more out-of-control. If anything, I'd say keeping them inside is more likely to be damaging to the ecosystem. Not to mention that having outside cats can help keep mice and other pests from spreading disease, causing damage to crops and property, and whatnot.
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Post by Terra on Apr 4, 2011 12:53:48 GMT -5
I learned that as many as 500 million birds are killed by housecats every year. www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents. Hey now, slow down there. Carnivores have their part in things, too. If foxes, wolves and such didn't hunt down rabbits, we'd be overrun by rabbits. It was said in Charlotte's Web that if it weren't for spiders, insects would become so numerous that they'd destroy the earth. (Okay, so that's insectivores, but still.) It may very well be the same with cats and birds, especially when you consider introduced, invasive species of birds. Starlings for example. They were brought over to America, started flourishing, and started causing problems. With such numbers, it's likely that cats are helping to keep them from becoming even more out-of-control. If anything, I'd say keeping them inside is more likely to be damaging to the ecosystem. Not to mention that having outside cats can help keep mice and other pests from spreading disease, causing damage to crops and property, and whatnot. Not all birds are invasive species, though. Some, like the catbirds mentioned in the article, are truly endangered by this. In fact, the article states that household cats are considered invasive species. Their population growth is not checked by natural predators at anywhere near the level of animals living in nature, so there is a disproportionate number of them killing off small animals.
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Post by Tam on Apr 4, 2011 13:01:18 GMT -5
I learned that as many as 500 million birds are killed by housecats every year. www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents. Hey now, slow down there. Carnivores have their part in things, too. If foxes, wolves and such didn't hunt down rabbits, we'd be overrun by rabbits. It was said in Charlotte's Web that if it weren't for spiders, insects would become so numerous that they'd destroy the earth. (Okay, so that's insectivores, but still.) It may very well be the same with cats and birds, especially when you consider introduced, invasive species of birds. Starlings for example. They were brought over to America, started flourishing, and started causing problems. With such numbers, it's likely that cats are helping to keep them from becoming even more out-of-control. If anything, I'd say keeping them inside is more likely to be damaging to the ecosystem. Not to mention that having outside cats can help keep mice and other pests from spreading disease, causing damage to crops and property, and whatnot. I don't think she meant to say that the bird-eating habits of carnivores in general is a bad thing. ^^; (Komori, if I'm wrong, I apologize.) I think she was specifically talking about well-fed house cats that don't need to hunt being allowed outside to kill birds for no reason. But at the same time, I would also protest that any effect the cats have on the local ecosystem is a pretty tiny one compared to the effect the people who own the cats are making everyday and are probably almost entirely unaware of. Even well-intentioned bird-feeding can be a pretty damaging thing to an ecosystem, because birds who are too used to eating seed from people's feeders can forget how to gather food by themselves at the same time as losing their fear of humans, making them more susceptible to the various nasty things humans and their creations can do to birds, whether intentionally or unintentionally. I live on a farm, and my normally-indoors cat practically lives outside in the summer. We have tons of mice and gophers that like to dig into the walls of our house, and letting him outside means that we don't have to put out poisons that could leak and spread and disrupt the environment in huge ways. And with the number of hawks and foxes and coyotes we have around our place, I can promise you that my cat catching a mouse every three days isn't really putting undue stress on the ecosystem. xP
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Post by Sq on Apr 4, 2011 13:04:16 GMT -5
*has always hated that people let their cat wander outside* Irresponsible cat owners, damaging ecosystems and upsetting my bird-feeding grandparents. It's especially fun when people completely forget about their so-called "pets" and leave them, often un-neutered or spayed, to mate all over the place! And then they make a bunch of little baby kittens to fend for themselves and kill birds and grow up to breed with each other in the neighbors' back yards.
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