Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Sibyl, Jun 16, 2017.

  1. Spider

    Spider Dirty Old Man Premium Member

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    It's always nice to hear from adoring fans. :)
     
  2. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    Spiders are cool that's why Spiderman has such cool powers...... Walking on walls would be a hoot
     
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  3. Oddish

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    Yeah, I love spiders too.

    Ferris actually doesn't get off Scot free at the end of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"... because he skipped school, his sister did as well, intending to catch him. She then had the "misunderstanding" with the principal, called the police, was subsequently arrested, and her mom had to abandon work to bail her out. And, Mrs. B. stated that she had intended to take the commission and buy Ferris a car. A commission that she didn't get.

    The moral: Skip school, lose a car. :nyah:
     
  4. auntiehill

    auntiehill The Blooness Premium Member

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    At my age, I can't recognize letters more than 2 feet away but I can recognize an idiot from 50 yards.
     
  5. JirinPanthosa

    JirinPanthosa Admiral Admiral

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    Could a giant domesticate a tiger?

    That is, if a human who had the same relative size to tigers as humans to house cats raised a tiger from birth, could they get it to behave like a house cat?
     
  6. Oddish

    Oddish Admiral Admiral

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    I'm not even sure people our size ever managed to domesticate cats. They just started hanging out with us because we stored food, which attracted their natural prey (mice and rats). Now, we just feed them directly (and provide warm laps and belly rubs).
     
  7. Finn

    Finn Bad Batch of TrekBBS Admiral

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    No. The wild cat we domesticated wasn't an apex predator.
     
  8. JirinPanthosa

    JirinPanthosa Admiral Admiral

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    True, but if the human was big enough not to look like potential prey, the tiger never learned from the pack to depend on hunting, and the human provided all the food, how would the tiger behave?
     
  9. Finn

    Finn Bad Batch of TrekBBS Admiral

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    It won’t know how not to be an apex predator.
     
  10. Worf factor9

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    You are obviously not a politician, good for you. ;)
     
  11. Mr. Laser Beam

    Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    I ate WAY too much pizza today.
     
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  12. Aragorn

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    Taking my car in tomorrow and I couldn't find the valet key that can't open the trunk. Then I remembered that was my last car, and of course the current car wouldn't have a trunk release handle lock because it's a hatchback!!!
     
  13. JirinPanthosa

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    Wolves figured it out. Granted it took a really long time.
     
  14. Oddish

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    It would depend on if there were giant rodents who were attracted by the giants' food stores, the kind of thing that would encourage tigers to hang around.

    Remember that wolves, unlike most cats, are social animals, which made them easier to domesticate.
     
  15. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    Giant Rodents. R.O.U.S nooooooo that only happened to Princess Buttercup
     
  16. Oddish

    Oddish Admiral Admiral

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    I don't think they exist.
     
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  17. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    Ooh nice........ Here's a collection of quotes

     
  18. Mr. Laser Beam

    Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    The A/C unit in my hotel room actually knows when I’m in the room. And it’s kinda freaking me out. :wtf:
     
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  19. Locutus of Bored

    Locutus of Bored Yo, Dawg! I Heard You Like Avatars... In Memoriam

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    You mean it's got a motion sensor, which has been around in various forms since the 1940s? Or does it track the location of your phone because you gave an app access to your location data?