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"How long is it until you can be fairly confident that your tropical fish won't die?"
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Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.
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Well, I heard that if it's still alive after a year then it has achieved immortality. and will NEVER die.
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Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.
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Reminds me of a poster common in British maternity hospitals in the early 80s which said "THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF LIFE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS." Most examples had the words "THE LAST FIVE CAN BE FAIRLY DICEY, TOO" added to them within minutes.
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Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.
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"I just think it [homosexuality] is unnatural."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, you don't get gay animals."
"Actually, you do - one in five male mallard ducks are gay."
"Ducks aren't animals."
(Conversation with a customer)
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Posted by JT on 31 Dec 2010.
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That's right! They live in the river, which makes them fish; and every vegetarian knows that fish don't really count as meat, so they can't be animals, can they?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 31 Dec 2010.
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"You got somebody, he’s really weird, and his sexual orientation is that he likes to have sex with ducks. Is he protected under hate crime?" - Pat Robertson
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 31 Dec 2010.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPcBI...
(The song's irritating, but the brunette one's cute.)
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Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2011.
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I assume he was one of these people (all too common, and a strong argument in favour of regular culling IMO) that confuses "animals" with "mammals." On the other hand, it's also just within the realm of possibility that he knows something we don't; i.e. that all ducks are in fact robots.
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Posted by JT on 5 Jan 2011.
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"That's Himalayan salt, it doesn't contain sodium."
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Posted by JT on 30 Dec 2010.
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Potassium chloride is sometimes sold as "salt substitute", and tastes very similar to table salt.
As for "Himalayan salt"... a bit of Googling doesn't find much about its detailed composition, but does find a lot of material that wouldn't be out of place here... such as "Crystal salt is immune to electromagnetic fields", and "Himalayan salt is called white gold because it contains ions of stored sunlight." Jeezus!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Dec 2010.
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OK, ignore my first comment - Himalayan salt is indeed, as you'd expect, mostly NaCl. [+]
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Dec 2010.
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...and stored sunlight.
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Posted by JT on 4 Jan 2011.
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"COLD SNAP TO LAST WEEKS"
...headline of a British newspaper. Well, quite - it's winter FFS!
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Posted by JT on 28 Nov 2010.
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As so often happens at this time of year, the main topic of discussion in the British news right now is "It's snowing".
The stereotype is true - we _do_ talk about the weather all the time!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 29 Nov 2010.
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"If we keep evolving, will we be able to teach dogs to drive us round?"
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Posted by JT on 20 Nov 2010.
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"Are those chillis?" "No, they're fuchsias."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Aug 2010.
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That's going to be an - erm - interesting curry.
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Posted by JT on 15 Aug 2010.
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"I have a 3 legged tabby cat. Im looking 4 a prostetic leg with tabby fur on it but i cant find any?" (sic)
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Posted by JT on 17 Apr 2010.
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Paris Hilton on ferrets: "...they're not the most intelligent animals..."
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Posted by JT on 15 Apr 2010.
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This shouldn't be funny as it's just a personal opinion (a wrong one, IMO, but all the same. But, coming from her...
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Posted by JT on 15 Apr 2010.
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Do you think they are the most intelligent animals?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Apr 2010.
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Well, humans are supposedly the most intelligent animals. However, the vast majority of humans I meet are less intelligent than the majority of ferrets I meet. Therefore...
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Posted by JT on 16 Apr 2010.
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Do ferrets give birth?
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Posted by JT on 5 Apr 2010.
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Nope. They lay eggs.
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Posted by Socky on 5 Apr 2010.
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I'm considering a Nature category. We've got a lot of animal related quotes scattered all over the place at the moment. Maybe they should be given a good home.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Apr 2010.
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Actually, I was going to suggest that. I've been putting most of them in Science, but they do need their own, I think.
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Posted by JT on 8 Apr 2010.
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"Does fog affect visibility of stars?"
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Posted by JT on 12 Feb 2010.
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