General / Off-Topic The Odd Thread

[Lora Craft69]

Well, we are predators. The rabbit will run away from you the same way it would run from a fox and a fox will run away from you the same way it would run from a wolf.
They don't run away from us because humans were mean to them in the past. They just see something different than them and run.

Now, there are animals in certain parts of the world that don't run from humans. But that is not because "they didn't see a human before therefore they are not afraid", which is a trope that gets thrown around a lot. They don't run away because their environment is void of predators altogether.

But we humans are great at taking things personally. "It didn't run away - that must mean it senses I'm a good person" and similar nonsense.

Never too old to learn.
I always thought they ran because they learned to see us a predators but what you say makes a lot more sense.

I'm a good person but the only thing my neighbors dog senses is when I have treats for him in my pocket or not.

 

[Manticore]

That's entirely true but I meant it in a different context.
Most animals in the wild will run away when humans come near them.
They see us as a dangerous threat.
It's the effect of millennia of hunting.
Domesticated animals on the other hand trust us blindly.
Yes we are great in befriending them and there's where I contradict myself a bit but at the meantime many species fear us for obvious reasons.

Quite so.......

 

[phong]

This is the ODD thread.No place for sensible and rational discussion.Oddness only,please

 

[Flimley]

Manticore, manticore, party on ... excellent !

Flimley

 

[Lora Craft69]

This is the ODD thread.No place for sensible and rational discussion.Oddness only,please

Okay.

Source: https://media.giphy.com/media/wUzk9ClilVnJS/giphy.gif

 

[Manticore]

Manticore, manticore, party on ... excellent !

Flimley

Rock on Flimley!

Okay.

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[Hanni79]

Found on Dilbert.com :

GonzoI eddi_the_Bad_Hombre • a month ago
Software developers created spellcheck and were declared heroes. Then they created autocorrect and were rightly recognized as villains who made a mistake the first time.

Found on http://spassprediger.com/spassprediger-com-picdump-104/ :

HA ! Spellcheck THAT !


Feel my love, can-opener !

-BONK-

 

[phong]

 

[Chris Simon]

-BONK-

LMAO. That really made me smile.
I always wanted bigger cat like Caracal or Ocelot. They're awesome.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Feel my love, can-opener !

-BONK-

The cat has difficulty in appreciating distances !

 

[Patrick_68000]

LMAO. That really made me smile.
I always wanted bigger cat like Caracal or Ocelot. They're awesome.

The Bengal cat are great too.

 

[Manticore]

 

[Patrick_68000]

I want the same thing !

 

[Chris Simon]

I want the same thing !

It would be very uncomfortable.

 

[Patrick_68000]

It would be very uncomfortable.

But very sweet and warm.

 

[Chris Simon]

But very sweet and warm.

I don't know man.
I had cats hanging from various parts of my body in the past. And none of those occasions were "sweet and warm".

 

[Patrick_68000]

I don't know man.
I had cats hanging from various parts of my body in the past. And none of those occasions were "sweet and warm".

You did not have the good furs probably.

 

[K M Butler]

would depend upon the method of attachment where.

 

[Chris Simon]

would depend upon the method of attachment where.

Well, there are two ways of attaching a cat to your face.
1) claws
2) duct tape

 

[Patrick_68000]

Well, there are two ways of attaching a cat to your face.
1) claws
2) duct tape

On the picture no need.

The cats are supported on the shoulders of the man and also on his head.

Concerning the cat under the chin, I guess this cat is supported with his hind legs on the arms of the man.

For my part, my last cat used to climb on my shoulders, on my skull, and jump from the top of the trees on my back, and I never felt his claws.