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ToxicFrog posted:I'm sad I missed out on its stay in PYF, I would have loved a kitty sixer from Pastry or Bird. Chickens wallow? I did not know that.
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Proteus Jones posted:Chickens wallow? I did not know that. they take dust baths! chickens are great
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:those are pretty clearly asphalt shingles  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof
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Proteus Jones posted:Chickens wallow? I did not know that. Chickens love their loving dust baths and they are going to hate me forever, or at least until I give them more mealworms, when things warm up and we fully enclose that raised bed in chickenwire and start planting things in it again. They can deal with it, though, they've completely destroyed the southwestern flowerbed to turn it into a set of dust baths (it's ok, it was a garbage flowerbed anyways) and the slope at the back of the yard looks like it's been used as an artillery test range because it's covered in chicken-sized craters. On warm days they also praise the sun by finding a sunbeam and then just falling over in a boneless heap that looks very much like they are dead.
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Chickens can and will absorb an astounding amount of dust, they will flop around and relax all their feathers just so there's more room to scoop up as much dirt as possible in there. It's amazing and kind of endearing, unless you really need them to be clean for some reason.
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Gorgeous.
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Well, drat, I was wondering if the Rosie mentioned in the thread title was the same Rosie from the AI threads. Suspicion confirmed.
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When I was in the Peace Corps my host family had chickens and they used to do this all the time (the chickens, not my host family): It's weird seeing chickens at eye level. Also we had an incident where a chicken forgot where her eggs were and sat on some duck eggs instead, so for a few months I got to watch this: 
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Moon Slayer posted:Also we had an incident where a chicken forgot where her eggs were and sat on some duck eggs instead, so for a few months I got to watch this: Somewhere there's either a very sad duck mom or a very talented duck mom
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I never did learn what happened to duck mom, but the chicken eggs that were abandoned were wrapped up and kept warm and when they hatched they imprinted on my host sister. Except baby chickens can't really tell people apart so they would just follow anybody around, peeping all the time. They'd be following behind someone and then if another person walked past they'd veer off to follow them. We'd hand-feed them rice and they'd sit on my shoulder when they got bigger. I was super bored without electricity so this was my primary source of entertainment for a few months. Don't read this if you are easily bummed out: And then we ate a few of them. EDIT: Oh, also chicken mom would take the ducks down to an area of standing water to drink and the ducks would jump in and swim about and chicken mom would freak out because she thought her babies were drowning but then they'd just hop out and she'd forget. Moon Slayer fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Moon Slayer posted:EDIT: Oh, also chicken mom would take the ducks down to an area of standing water to drink and the ducks would jump in and swim about and chicken mom would freak out because she thought her babies were drowning but then they'd just hop out and she'd forget.  We didn't have a confused chicken mom, but I did hatch a mallard egg I found in a park and raise the duck alongside some chicks. They were mildly confused when the duck enjoyed jumping in a small pool we had set up, but mostly they just rolled with it.
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Be careful letting chickens sit on your shoulder while you feed them. They are good fun though, I love coming home and having two bawking/making GBS threads rear end in a top hat birds come running up to me as soon as I get home (unironically) 
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Now you've got me going back through my old Peace Corps photos, and I had forgotten how popular that fence was: This is definitely the best picture I've taken of anything ever, but this was the most useless loving cat in the history of cats. I'd watch rats crawl over the top of my mosquito net almost every single night; never saw this cat catch a single one in two years. e: he was a happy little rear end in a top hat though, probably because he never had to do anything. Moon Slayer fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Moon Slayer posted:Now you've got me going back through my old Peace Corps photos, and I had forgotten how popular that fence was: I think most cats have figured out at this point that while the ancient pact says that they get food and shelter in exchange for hunting vermin, they can usually get away with purring and looking cute if they're feeling lazy.
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Moon Slayer posted:Also we had an incident where a chicken forgot where her eggs were and sat on some duck eggs instead, so for a few months I got to watch this: her face
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Hey I'm looking for the link to the HOT NEW poo poo FROM NVIDIA thread, anyone got it?
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Kirk's razor meltdown or is it something else? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3459842
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Carthag Tuek posted:Kirk's razor meltdown or is it something else? Thats the one! big thnaks
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Carthag Tuek posted:Kirk's razor meltdown or is it something else? You know in hindsight it's really funny to watch people flip out over what appears to be a proto-Nintendo Switch.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:You know in hindsight it's really funny to watch people flip out over what appears to be a proto-Nintendo Switch. its kinda wild that its been 8 years tbh imagine how janky that thing would be if it had ever come to market
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Carthag Tuek posted:its kinda wild that its been 8 years tbh Oh yeah, like if nothing else it took a while for battery capacity to get to a place where anything like that would be practical.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Oh yeah, like if nothing else it took a while for battery capacity to get to a place where anything like that would be practical. In retrospect Nintendo's history of handhelds makes a lot of sense in that they basically designed the device over what the battery technology of the day could handle for a reasonable amount of time.
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So is the "don't make death threats" thread that is in every forum and in the bookmarked threads a warning before hard implementation? Or is it just the new normal where every time you're browsing for what to read they want to remind us not to threaten to kill people.
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pentyne posted:So is the "don't make death threats" thread that is in every forum and in the bookmarked threads a warning before hard implementation? Or is it just the new normal where every time you're browsing for what to read they want to remind us not to threaten to kill people. It’ll go away after a week or five days, I forget which. But people have already gotten perma’d for it. It’s certainly not warning of an upcoming change.
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"Reminder: murder continues to be illegal, both on and off the forums"
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pentyne posted:So is the "don't make death threats" thread that is in every forum and in the bookmarked threads a warning before hard implementation? Or is it just the new normal where every time you're browsing for what to read they want to remind us not to threaten to kill people. Some people weren't getting the message despite it being an announcement at the top of every subforum so they had to make it show up in people's bookmarks, too.
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Moon Slayer posted:Some people weren't getting the message despite it being an announcement at the top of every subforum so they had to make it show up in people's bookmarks, too. That was more for the sake of people who browse through bookmarks rather than going to subforums or doing it on a phone app where it gives a notification.
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I only noticed it on my work machine because SALR punts it to the bottom of updated threads.
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pentyne posted:So is the "don't make death threats" thread that is in every forum and in the bookmarked threads a warning before hard implementation? Or is it just the new normal where every time you're browsing for what to read they want to remind us not to threaten to kill people. maybe you should stop being in the target audience for the "dont threaten to kill people" announcement
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"My 'don't threaten to kill people' announcement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my announcement."
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Hopefully the people posting in the bicycle subforum and the LEGO GOONS MEGATHREAD will stop making death threats now that there is forum-wide announcement to remind them of it being bad to do.
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I thought it was because so many people were making fun of the idea that Avs' threats to trump were somehow bad since they were wildly fantastical and implausible and the rest of the forum just didn't "get" her humor.
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wesleywillis posted:Well, drat, I was wondering if the Rosie mentioned in the thread title was the same Rosie from the AI threads. Wait, Did I miss something? Is that Daves Rosie? ED: Nevermind, Found the post. Applesnots fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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pentyne posted:I thought it was because so many people were making fun of the idea that Avs' threats to trump were somehow bad since they were wildly fantastical and implausible and the rest of the forum just didn't "get" her humor. I think it is largely just people venting in the political subforums, and some Internet tough guys, too. The Secret Service contacted Lowtax once way back because of a thread in LF about assassinating Obama, I think, and then maybe once or twice again since over the years. I'm extremely foreign and also very stupid, so I don't know anything about US politics and never really used those subforums, but I have the vague impression of a lot of US Goons needing to vent about politics and that the form the venting takes sometimes is probably what is being disparaged. Part of what is neat about SA is the range that it has, and it creates situations that are sort of inadvertently funny, like someone logging onto SA in order to post their favorite cat pictures or discuss model trains, being met with an announcement about not making death threats.
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A lotta people awful mad about not being allowed to threaten the prez. Wonder how much overlap there is with people mad they aren't allowed to use slurs anymore.
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I thought people who liked slurs also liked the president
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Only most of them, there's always exceptions Also the contrarians who will go out of their way to try and say them because now that it's forbidden, it is and always was the heart of comedy and being banned from saying them is the death of comedy Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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I hope that the next forums-wide announcement will be the result of a slightly less heated thing, like instead of a reminder about not making death threats or harassing anyone, it'll be like an informative bulletin from Pet Island, reminding everyone cross-site to not feed ducks bread.
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