First off: BUT: No making fun of this dude unless you can get that low and still make it back up without intervention and/or needing surgery afterwards. https://t.co/YcNtDpc7eL
The blockage of the Suez canal by the beached Ever Given container ship has prompted fresh international efforts to find an alternative to the world’s most important shipping corridor.
UN officials are understood to be reviewing plans to construct a new canal along the Egypt-Israel border, having previously dismissed ideas for a much longer route through Iraq and Syria as too hazardous.
The blockage of the Suez canal is estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of pounds, as well as threatening Europe’s vital supply chains from Asia
I like Squirrels, but they are chewing, digging, destructive little bastards... like most rodents. Rodents in general are often pests because of their front incisors, which constantly grow, wear unevenly so use sharpens them and they have flaps to stop them from eating bits, making it just time before they bore a hole through any material softer or more brittle than their teeth. Normally meaning anything less than well secured metal fencing can be gnawed through with enough effort.
(Pet rats not given enough to chew can sometimes get their incisor growth out of alignment making it hard for them to eat, the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen done to a conscious animal that I know wasn’t hurting it, is tooth trimming, which is like clipping nails but for teeth.)
Also like rodents they scavenge for bedding material, once long ago a storm frayed a woven blue tarp covering our wooden dog house, and somewhere I have photos of a squirrel pulling at the threads. Over a few hours completely destroying the tarp, carrying mouthfuls of blue bits back to its home.
Bird enthusiasts generally try to keep squirrels away from their feeders, because they'll empty them out before any birds get to them, often destroying them in the process.
I wouldn't do anything cruel to them - hopefully that catapult always slings them into the trees, where they can latch on to avoid a splat.
My Mom loves squirrels, and she routinely feeds them, as well as the local crows, in her front yard. Her house is a corner lot with a big front yard, which is a magnet for local suburban wildlife.
Raccoons, on the other hand, can suck a lemon in Hell.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
Ha, yeah, a few years ago, a squirrel methodically disassembled something--probably a cushion or a stuffed animal or something--and brought the batting bit by bit into the tree in our front yard for a nest. I can't imagine someone being angry enough to hurt the squirrel for it, though.
(Rabbits have the same thing with their incisors, BTW, and it's a huge problem with people who buy bunnies from pet stores and don't educate themselves about how to care for them.)
Yesterday, we discovered incontravertible evidence that aliens exist. Yesterday morning, as I was getting out of bed, I reached for my glasses, which I ALWAYS take off last thing before getting into bed at night and place on the bedstand, and knocked them off the bedstand, between it and the wall. I retrieved my spare pair from my clothes cupboard and looked for the ones I'd dropped. I couldn't find them. I decided to deal with it later, and went to eat breakfast.
While I was doing that, Mrs. S and daughter decided to look. They pulled the bedstand away from the wall and cleaned out everything that had fallen behind it (difficult to do, because the bedstand is heavy, and barely fits between the bed and the closet). Mrs. S picked up everything else that was stored between my side of the bed and the closet, and still didn't find them. We concluded that, when the possible is ruled out, the impossible must have happened. Aliens took my glasses!
That settled, at least for the nonce, I crossed the hallway and went into the bedroom that has been my office for the past year. There, I discovered that, not only had the aliens taken my glasses, they had (probably after finding no orifices amenable to probing) LEFT THEM ON MY DESK!
At least that corner of the bedroom is all straightened out, now. And Mrs. S found one of the Hong Kong Star Ferry shirts we'd bought for our youngest when we were in Hong Kong back in 84-85. Now our youngest has a four-month-old of his own, and we're going to take it to her when we visit in June. (The colors in the picture are off, probably because it was taken at night under a yellow light. The shirt is really bright navy blue with white piping.)
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Reason: Corrected a word.
Supposably the old fashioned way of getting high/drunk off Fly Agaric mushrooms, literally this guy -> , was to drink the urine of your local shaman after they consumed a lot of the mushroom, using the Shaman and their liver as a filter to remove unpleasant and toxic chemicals that make for a bad trip.
Supposably the old fashioned way of getting high/drunk off Fly Agaric mushrooms, literally this guy -> , was to drink the urine of your local shaman after they consumed a lot of the mushroom, using the Shaman and their liver as a filter to remove unpleasant and toxic chemicals that make for a bad trip.
Nobody drinks shaman pee, yuk!
You have your reindeer eat the mushroom and then drink its urine, of course.
I don’t know where to put this, so I think here will do. I knew part of this story, but not all of it, I think there are some books I need to find.
That time in the 60s where in an attempt to eventually communicate with aliens, a man hired a woman to live with dolphins and teach them english, while he helped telepathically from his isolation tank above their work. That she also gave the dolphin handjobs is what made this story famous but is not even the strangest part. 45 min long doc.