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Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Inescapable Duck posted:

IIRC, wild horses evolved natively in places like the Mongolian plains, which are nature's sensory deprivation chamber.

Plus, racehorses are a super skittish and probably overly inbred case, ponies are more belligerent little shits and work horses tend to be huge and super chill.

Looks like someone just outed themselves as a filthy horse person :toughguy:

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Hispanic! At The Disco
Dec 25, 2011


They're called Centaurs you racist bastard.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Hispanic! At The Disco posted:

They're called Centaurs you racist bastard.

Centaur-Americans :colbert:

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Ahem, that's equine-american. Centaur is a loaded word.

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen
So half-horse/half people from Greece (their native country mind you) are also called “Equine-Americans”?

Who’s the speciest now?

dialhforhero
Apr 3, 2008
Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️
Quit horsing around

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen



Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

horses are dumb loving animals and it kind of astounds me that they haven't gone extinct

My dude, let me introduce you to an animal known as the Koala.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Choco1980 posted:

My dude, let me introduce you to an animal known as the Koala.

Koala's are always high as gently caress and loaded with STDs. Nothing short of a dinosaur extinction level event will kill those filthy bastards.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Solice Kirsk posted:

Koala's are always high as gently caress and loaded with STDs. Nothing short of a dinosaur extinction level event will kill those filthy bastards.

Not quite, they're actually digesting what little nutrients they can get from eucalyptus leaves. It's more of a food coma :eng101:. They didn't really have predators until British settlers rocked up with cats and dogs in tow, so they had no need to care about anything past eating lunch.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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So they're basically tree humans?

Lizard Combatant
Sep 29, 2010

I have some notes.
They've somehow managed to survive on a diet of poison out of sheer belligerence, how smart can they be?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Koalas basically occupy a similar biological niche as sloths, but even more specialised, and have really complicated stomachs to digest poisonous leaves. Also those trees are super goddamn flammable.

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Lizard Combatant posted:

They've somehow managed to survive on a diet of poison out of sheer belligerence, how smart can they be?

at some point some kind of little protomarsupial tried to go eat some delicious fruit and was bullied and, filled with the greatest possible case of sour grapes, decided it was going to instead only eat the poison-filled leaves of a tree that explodes sometimes

millions of years later their distant offspring now comfortably fills the ecological niche of being total fuckheads

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Choco1980 posted:

My dude, let me introduce you to an animal known as the Koala.
See also Pandas, an animal that has managed to do away with their sex drive and making them probably the first large animal to evolve into extinction.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Collateral Damage posted:

See also Pandas, an animal that has managed to do away with their sex drive and making them probably the first large animal to evolve into extinction.

Only the first one we know about. Pretty sure we have a lot of potential fossil cases of species that overspecialised and possibly inbred to the point of extinction.

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Collateral Damage posted:

See also Pandas, an animal that has managed to do away with their sex drive and making them probably the first large animal to evolve into extinction.

pandas have shown one of the major downsides to sexual reproduction which is that it's actually possible to be too dumb to gently caress

they're either going to go extinct or start reproducing via budding

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

cock hero flux posted:

pandas have shown one of the major downsides to sexual reproduction which is that it's actually possible to be too dumb to gently caress

they're either going to go extinct or start reproducing via budding

They just don't like to do it in captivity where people can see

And besides which how would you like to be a large virile animal in China?

Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010

cock hero flux posted:

pandas have shown one of the major downsides to sexual reproduction which is that it's actually possible to be too dumb to gently caress
That's not a downside, that's natural selection.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

cock hero flux posted:

at some point some kind of little protomarsupial tried to go eat some delicious fruit and was bullied and, filled with the greatest possible case of sour grapes, decided it was going to instead only eat the poison-filled leaves of a tree that explodes sometimes

millions of years later their distant offspring now comfortably fills the ecological niche of being total fuckheads

Also they love fighting in the middle of traffic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTKW8NKAt4

.... which really annoys Sharon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUIcROdc3VI

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Pandas breed just fine in the wild. They're just not into it in captivity. Many animals aren't. I used to be really into fish keeping and was reading that some species need special lighting that's the exact same spectrum and brightness of a certain full moon with a ripple machine making just the right size of ripples because those are the environmental conditions that trigger their seasonal spawning cycle.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Oooooh, like me and two bourbons. Guess that makes sense. Let's start giving pandas bourbon and mood lighting.

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



Solice Kirsk posted:

Koala's are always high as gently caress and loaded with STDs. Nothing short of a dinosaur extinction level event will kill those filthy bastards.

Reported for mod sass.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

cock hero flux posted:

pandas have shown one of the major downsides to sexual reproduction which is that it's actually possible to be too dumb to gently caress

they're either going to go extinct or start reproducing via budding

The giant panda is a carnivore that decided meat was just too much hassle and started eating bamboo instead.

Bamboo is...not exactly the best of foods. So not only did they, for some inexplicable reason, decide to eat the worst thing they could find they do it with a carnivorous digestive tract.

They're a carnivore. 99% of their diet is basically wood. What I'm saying is that pandas are bafflingly stupid and make no drat sense.

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos
If I wanted to have a bit of romance the last thing I'd want is to be confronted by a panda, even if I was a panda too

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLxhp1ERpw

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

Sagebrush posted:

i decided to support these stupid dead forums a little more

:nfpa: : nfpa :


will be very handy for this thread, pyf chemistry thread, horrible mechanical failures, schadenfreude, etc

This is absolutely perfect.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

:nfpa:

Ground-flooring this one.

Someone in the OSHA thread just bought this for some reason. It's a fire diamond used to identify dangerous compounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_704
Normally all three numbers go up to 4, that's the most dangerous level possible.

Someone joked about making it go up to 5 somehow, and then someone combined it with :five:.

Actual usages? No clue.

Edit: ^^^ dammit it took me several minutes to remember that :five: was called : five :

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Possibly useful for responding to good chemistry jokes

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

WeAreTheRomans posted:

Possibly useful for responding to good chemistry jokes

Maybe, but all the good ones argon.

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Carbon dioxide posted:

Maybe, but all the good ones argon.
I'm sure there are some we could have if goons didn't avoid interaction.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Carbon dioxide posted:

Maybe, but all the good ones argon.
Someone edit that smiley to be a vote of 1 so I can edit it in here.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

ToxicSlurpee posted:

The giant panda is a carnivore that decided meat was just too much hassle and started eating bamboo instead.

Bamboo is...not exactly the best of foods. So not only did they, for some inexplicable reason, decide to eat the worst thing they could find they do it with a carnivorous digestive tract.

They're a carnivore. 99% of their diet is basically wood. What I'm saying is that pandas are bafflingly stupid and make no drat sense.

Exactly how sure are we that pandas only eat bamboo in the wild, and that they aren't just gradually starving in zoos thanks to a dumb self-perpetuating myth?

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I'm sure there are some we could have if goons didn't avoid interaction.

I'm glad that my work in combining :five: and the NFPA diamond resulted in a good solution. :v:

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Zamujasa posted:

I'm glad that my work in combining :five: and the NFPA diamond resulted in a good solution. :v:

(tit)rated a 5

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



The last two pages of this thread have been weird but I loved a bunch of the posts regarding pandas, goons and centaurs.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Guillermus posted:

The last two pages of this thread have been weird but I loved a bunch of the posts regarding pandas, goons and centaurs.

What are three things that never get laid.

quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest

Solice Kirsk posted:

What are three things that never get laid.


mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Solice Kirsk posted:

What are three things that never get laid.


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WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Solice Kirsk posted:

What are three things that never get laid.



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