Too bad you can't cull the excess fat or stupid populations in a simular fashion... surprised to even here about this in New Jersey, of all places... hmmm....
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
quote:Too bad you can't cull the excess fat or stupid populations in a simular fashion...
Define stupid, Comrade General Secretary.
Posted by FawnDoo (Member # 1421) on :
Yeah, define things a little more for us. Who else would be caught up in this modest proposal of yours? Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Bad time to have a glandular or mental disorder around PW. I thought there was a guy that did something like that last century, mm, Hister or something like that.
Can you add people of another color, sexual orientation, or religion to that list? It just seems too short.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
... uh, yeah. when in doubt, yield to the need to support the of 'Life, Liberty, etc'...
especially the Spam part. sorry. should never post at odd hours...
uh, well the beauty of fat and stupitity is that it's a template. kinda fits... everything.
except maybe the folks who know thier deifiecencies and desire to change them. uh, my aim was mostly at the 'Jerry Springer' crowd, uh... guys?
/me meekly feels the peer pressure and nods head. 'Mommy, can you hand me my asshat back?'
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
I swear i'm gonna spend the rest of the day, Very Karma conscience... Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I haven't seen a retraction like that since I had to make one.
I deal with stupid people all the time, ones that can not be taught anything. Some of them are even cops......
Jeff hasn't popped in yet, you think he would....
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
lol...For God's sake, I hope you people are joking. Somebody mentions active eugenics, and you all call Hitler on him... Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
And besides, PW wasn't gonna kill them. He was gonna put them in special camps...special work camps...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
You have to admit, though, it's interesting that no-one ever suggests that maybe there are too many people on the deer's property...
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: And besides, PW wasn't gonna kill them. He was gonna put them in special camps...special work camps...
Well, work WILL set you free.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
... not that i should encourage this line of thought...
can i televise this? I could make some serious money making a Reality TV version of 'Battle Royale'
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Deer me, TSN, you are so correct.
What, PW, putting special people in special work camps? Build your camp tall enough and you can call it something like, mm, an office building.
You know, at first Hitler wasn't going to kill the Jews, he tried things like deporting them, but so many countries limited the number of people coming in that he came up with the final solution. Note it has never been called the first solution. Not defending the extermination of any people, just making a point.
Like the US not recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel just to please the Arab states...
Shit, where's my rifle, dear meet for the table tonight. So sorry I drifted.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: You have to admit, though, it's interesting that no-one ever suggests that maybe there are too many people on the deer's property...
They're called hippies, vegans, mother-earthers, Gaians, permaculturists, etc, etc.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I thought that they were suburbanites.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Aren't the suburbanites pretty much the ones who want the deers sniped? Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"They're called hippies, vegans, mother-earthers, Gaians, permaculturists, etc, etc."
Oh, like they count...
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Like the US not recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel just to please the Arab states...
Like the US giving weapons to Israel and Saudi Arabia...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Thanks Mars, I forgot that one.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Is the plural of deer deer, or deers?
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Deer. Just like the plural of beer is beer, damnit.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
And the plural of Ferengi is Ferengi. Or should be.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
And the plural of focus is foci goddammit! Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
About time you showed up.
Dan, don't lose this threads focuses please.
Isn't their planet Ferengar? Wouldn't that make then Ferengarians or Ferengarites?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
*pouts* How come nobody ever says that to Pensive?
Ferenginar, actually...so, Ferenginarian...but, we're human, and we're not from Huma...and the Klingons aren't from Kling - or wait! ..;P
And speaking of Ferengi and getting the thread back on topic, I wonder how deer meat would do right now on the Ferengi Futures Market.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Since John Smith received his revelation from the angel Moroni, shouldn't they be called Morons instead of Mormons?
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: *pouts* How come nobody ever says that to Pensive?
Ferenginar, actually...so, Ferenginarian...but, we're human, and we're not from Huma...and the Klingons aren't from Kling - or wait! ..;P
And speaking of Ferengi and getting the thread back on topic, I wonder how deer meat would do right now on the Ferengi Futures Market.
i'm most famous for playing a halfling with NO focus what's so ever...
of course her name was Nyca, BTW...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Did I not compare PW to Hister? Dang Danny.
That's a Nyca name.
Jeff, is this hunt going to lower your insurance rates?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Joseph Smith.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Joseph Merrick.
-------------------- "...I don't know what you mean by 'equal justice under the lawwr'." -the White Hose, 5. Jul. 2007
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Captain R.M. Merrick
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Merrimac
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
Maryland
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Manitoba
I just killed it didn't I? Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Manos, the Hands of Fate.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Morgoth, the Enemy, who also begins with an M.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
Masterbate! It's healthy and looking at a girl doing it burns calories! Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You need to pout more.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
See, I kept telling people that we are good for the sole, look what we've done to PW, and he's newish.
Other than the not happy threads have we kept one on track for any length of time? I think the record is zero posts on topic, including the first post, so we will have to beat it by having a non existent thread go off topic before it starts.
Then it snowed, a mere 8 inches, and it was shoveled, plowed, and, being in luck, it was blowed too. This made it go down, of course, and, since it was lucky it didn't just melt away uselessly. This makes the snow, as one would imagine, very happy indeed. Wouldn't you want to be like snow?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness: Fool! YOU! Broke. It.
Whoops, it doesn't start with M. So sue me.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
The 1st time i drove home from NAS Jax to Cleveland, it was winter time. I spent most of my two weeks under the blankets, yelling 'Fuck this, Dad. I'm going back to the Florida...'
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness: The 1st time i drove home from NAS Jax to Cleveland, it was winter time. I spent most of my two weeks under the blankets, yelling 'Fuck this, Dad. I'm going back to the Florida...'
Florida wuss. Posted by Zefram (Member # 1568) on :
Up here in Idaho it's a balmy 21 F (-6 C). That's much better than last week when we hit -15 F (-26 C).
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
That's pretty close to here in Illinois. It was only that cold for a few days the other week (last week? I've lost all track of time) and now it's about -11C at night and -4 during the day...got about 5 inches of snow, I was walking about in it with a steady ~15km/h wind swirling everything into fairy wonderland, bout 3am this morning...something cool about standing 3m from a train doing 90kph and blowing the snow along itself and obscuring the streetlights...it was kinda like a book, or something. Or maybe an Internet Raytracing Competition entry... ;P
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Zefram:
quote:Up here in Idaho it's a balmy 21 F (-6 C). That's much better than last week when we hit -15 F (-26 C).
You left out the Rankine scale, you heartless bastard!
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
The temps here in the middle of nowhere dropped down to -44 C on Tuesday. And that's not counting the wind chill. At that temp you can spit at a wall and it would bounce back at you. I wish summer would get here soon, I would much prefer +40 over -40 any day of the week.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
This is the coldest winter we've had in a long time...and although it was about -30 or so recently, that was *with* wind chill. Actual temperature was closer to -20. During 'normal' years the temperature varies by 40-50 degrees all year...where do you live where it varies by 80?
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
He'd be in the never-never land of the Canadian prairie... somewhere in Saskatchewan, as I recall.
And it can get pretty damned cold here in NB as well. The coldest we've had this season so far was only -25 or so, I think.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Yeah, the great land of Saskatchewan. If you've ever heard the "Moose Jaw" song by John Wing it'll pretty much explain everything. It's been warming up a bit the last couple of days, we might even see temps in the minus teens next week. And who says global warming is bad?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I didn't know there were places on Earth where there was that much seasonal variation in temperature. Showeth me mine ignorance.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Yeah, we have quite the weather here sometimes. In summer it can be sunny in the morning, and by noon a thunderstorm might roll through, knock down a tree maybe two, and by 2 PM it'll be sunny again. I really like the weather here in the summer. It's winter that kills me.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Speaking of the weather on 2 threads now, I'd like to say what the hell to the snow falling outside that's being chased by *lightning and thunder.*
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Obligatory Lewis Black reference.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: That's pretty close to here in Illinois. It was only that cold for a few days the other week (last week? I've lost all track of time) and now it's about -11C at night and -4 during the day...got about 5 inches of snow, I was walking about in it with a steady ~15km/h wind swirling everything into fairy wonderland, bout 3am this morning...something cool about standing 3m from a train doing 90kph and blowing the snow along itself and obscuring the streetlights...it was kinda like a book, or something. Or maybe an Internet Raytracing Competition entry... ;P
You live in Illinois and you use metric? People must look at you funny. Not funny ha-ha.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
B.J., being in the aerospace industry I'm surprised you yourself don't use metric. Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: B.J., being in the aerospace industry I'm surprised you yourself don't use metric.
We use Hyster Forklifts (some bolts are Metric). some pieces of SE i work on ashore have Metric Hardware. SOME aviation components (hardware on some motors, think the Harrier's Motor) use metric. it's just not standard yet (and unlikely)...
never measured my penis in metrics, either...
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Oh, I'd *love* to use metric, but the problem is it's just way too ingrained into everything. It's not just going from using inches to millimeters in my dimensions (or the average person having to use kilometers instead of miles), it's the fact that all the processes, standards, standard parts, standard sheet metal thicknesses, etc. are all based in English units. *That's* where all the problem is in trying to convert this country to metric.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Here in St. Louis, on Thursday, we got eight inches of snow. Today (Monday), it was almost 75°F (24°C). By Wednesday, it's supposed to be below freezing again.
It's not even the first time something like this has happened this year.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I use metric because I'll be damned if I'm going to use the outdated, complicated Imperial system just because the people around me do. Besides, everything I read about my various interests is usually in metric, and most of my friends aren't from my lovely little country
Also, when I was living in Texas, on Thanksgiving (which is Thursday) it was about 25C/80F, like normal apparently; then on Saturday it *snowed* which is rare at any time of year in Texas; then on Monday, it was 25/80 again. Something about the jet stream having a seizure.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Texas has Thanksgiving on the same day as everyone else? I am shocked.
The snow has been replaced with nice bogs of mud here.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
It's not the same day in every country. For example, the countries that don't have it (i.e. all of them), or how Canada has a Thanksgiving on some day or another.
Edit: All of them but USA and Canada ;P
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
That danged sarcasm got you again Danny. Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Sarcasm can be met with sarcasm! It's in the rule book, lemme dig it out...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Not 'can be' butt must be.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That's no reason to call him a butt, though.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Cootie face.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Oh, I missed the 'e', Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
*steers topic bus back on course*
I can understand why some people would have a problem with this sort of "planned cull" but get real folks, too many deer are too many deer. That causes problems. Relocation doesn't help because it just relocates the problem somewhere else.
Too many deer spreads disease such as Chronic Wasting Disease, which is becoming a concern up here in Nowhereville. Add in the fact that there won't be enough food going around and pretty soon you'll be up to your eyeballs in half rotten, half eaten deer and the ever popular roadkill. At least with a controlled hunt most people would haul their kills back to the butcher to be made into deer jerky (which is really quite good by the way)
*steers topic bus right into a wall (4 wheeled piece of junk)*
Did anyone catch Mythbusters this week? Particularly the snow myth episode? Now is it just me or were Kari, Grant, and Tori just looking for an excuse to stick a pig tongue to a flag-pole?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
No, the problem is too many people crowding the deer in to a smaller habitat.
You were supposed to play Jeff and steer the topic in to a deer.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I suppose you have a point, it is New Jersey that we're talking about. We don't have that problem up here since there's probably more deer than there are people. But it's obvious there won't be a planned culling of people anytime soon, so it's either leave them alone and let them eventually starve to death, or use a more proactive method of population control.
Some people would say don't interfere with nature, but we've already interfered. The only thing that we can do is interfere some more in an attempt to keep things in balance. Whatever balance the people who live there deem fit to have.
I've never gone hunting, even if I wanted to I'd probably never get around to loading up my truck and heading into the bush. And even if I did go, I might not even be able to pull the trigger. Deer are just too damn cute, but too much of a cute thing is worse in the long run than killing off a few.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
No, no people culling. I do not have a problem with shooting Bambi personally, since they taste good almost anyway they are cooked. I believe that letting them waste way would be a crime, PETA be fucked. Since we have made their living area smaller and smaller maybe PETA would be better off trying to get people culled. They could even start with themselves.
The balance would be to cull them to a point just below what their alloted area will support, allowing for several years of births to repopulate the area before another culling is needed, say ten. Of course the total environment would need to be figured, average food supply, planned habitat reductions, Jeff driving through the area, and the such, but it can be guesstimated.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
And as long as we're culling them every so often, we should place the cullings such that they never evolve past a certain level of technology and become a threat.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
They are wishing they had thought of that.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
I say re-introduce wolves and other large predators to the area. Might cut down on people trying to expand into the area as well.
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