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"How long is it until you can be fairly confident that your tropical fish won't die?"
    Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Well, I heard that if it's still alive after a year then it has achieved immortality. and will NEVER die.
    Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.
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.
    Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.

"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)
    Posted by JT on 31 Dec 2010. + (2) - (0) Permalink
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?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 31 Dec 2010.
"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
    Posted by CheddarBBQ on 31 Dec 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPcBI...

(The song's irritating, but the brunette one's cute.)
    Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2011.
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.
    Posted by JT on 5 Jan 2011.

"That's Himalayan salt, it doesn't contain sodium."
    Posted by JT on 30 Dec 2010. + (2) - (0) Permalink
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!
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Dec 2010.
OK, ignore my first comment - Himalayan salt is indeed, as you'd expect, mostly NaCl. [+]
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Dec 2010.
...and stored sunlight.
    Posted by JT on 4 Jan 2011.

"COLD SNAP TO LAST WEEKS"

...headline of a British newspaper. Well, quite - it's winter FFS!
    Posted by JT on 28 Nov 2010. + (1) - (0) Permalink
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!
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 29 Nov 2010.

"If we keep evolving, will we be able to teach dogs to drive us round?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Nov 2010. + (0) - (0) Permalink

"How come birds can live on seeds? You wouldn't have thought there'd be any nutrition in a seed."
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Sep 2010. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Err... isn't nutrition what seeds are all about?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Sep 2010.

"Are those chillis?" "No, they're fuchsias."
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Aug 2010. + (1) - (0) Permalink
That's going to be an - erm - interesting curry.
    Posted by JT on 15 Aug 2010.

"Ferret Kits For Sale"
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Jul 2010. + (3) - (2) Permalink
Do they come with paint and glue? (Contributed by my father.)
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Jul 2010.
I remember when ferrets first came out. Not only did you have to get them in kit form and build them yourself, you had to type in all the software too.
    Posted by JT on 2 Jul 2010.

We've had a lot of rain in the summer for the last few years. Do you think it's got anything to do with the cloud of ash?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 May 2010. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Since the rain started first, I expect not.
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 May 2010.

"I have a 3 legged tabby cat. Im looking 4 a prostetic leg with tabby fur on it but i cant find any?" (sic)
    Posted by JT on 17 Apr 2010. + (1) - (0) Permalink