Mendhak...

[BillGeek]

Have you noticed how miserable the weather is of late?

[Atheist]

Its been great over here for the past few weeks! An introduction for the summer to come...aaah....

[mendhak]

[mendhak]

Summer sucks. It's hot, I can't sleep. And the sun rises too early. These stupid birds keep twittering like Mactards on caffeine. And they don't even get the sunrise right. The sun rises at 6AM here, these morons were up at 4AM tweeting away. Twitter twitter twitter derrrhhh. How stupid do you have to be to get the sunrise wrong by 2 hours!

I just couldn't take it anymore. I opened a window... (I never open a window) and shouted, I actually shouted at them, I said "Dude, shuttup! Morons." They don't understand language of course, I know that. The purpose was to startle them so that they'd fly away.

They ignored me! Can you believe that!? Not only did they get the sunrise wrong, they ignored their flight instincts to fly off when startled. I hate those stupid birds and it's all because of this damn summer.

"Ooh, it's the summer, what a wonderful time to be out at the beach drinking a few pints eh eh eh. La dee daa dee daah." Shuttup foo! Don't leave the house! You're like the damn birds!

[kregg]

Summer sucks. It's hot, I can't sleep. And the sun rises too early. These stupid birds keep twittering like Mactards on caffeine. And they don't even get the sunrise right. The sun rises at 6AM here, these morons were up at 4AM tweeting away. Twitter twitter twitter derrrhhh. How stupid do you have to be to get the sunrise wrong by 2 hours!

I just couldn't take it anymore. I opened a window... (I never open a window) and shouted, I actually shouted at them, I said "Dude, shuttup! Morons." They don't understand language of course, I know that. The purpose was to startle them so that they'd fly away.

They ignored me! Can you believe that!? Not only did they get the sunrise wrong, they ignored their flight instincts to fly off when startled. I hate those stupid birds and it's all because of this damn summer.

"Ooh, it's the summer, what a wonderful time to be out at the beach drinking a few pints eh eh eh. La dee daa dee daah." Shuttup foo! Don't leave the house! You're like the damn birds!

This is what happens when you mistake LSD for medication.

[wossname]

Try 11 cups of expresso instead.

[BillGeek]

Someone has a bit of frustration bottled up, eh?

[homer13j]

They ignored me! Can you believe that!? Not only did they get the sunrise wrong, they ignored their flight instincts to fly off when startled. I hate those stupid birds and it's all because of this damn summer.

Years ago I had a problem with a crow that would sit outside my bedroom window every morning just before dawn and caw loudly to all his friends claiming this was his territory.

One day he was greeted by one of these in action:



And I never heard from him again.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Not only did they get the sunrise wrong, they ignored their flight instincts to fly off when startled.

They were true to their instincts, they just weren't startled. In fact, they were expecting you to do that.

A couple years back I was doing something on the computer in the middle of the afternoon when a faint sound made its way into my consciousness. It sounded like a faint quack, which I knew couldn't be right, as I live in a desert with no water within a mile of me. I figured it was the neighbors doing something weird, yet the faint quack was repeated every fifteen seconds or so for so long that I finally had to go see what it was. When I opened the door, there was a duck on my doorstep, and its buddies were on the other side of the hedge. I swear those feathery bustards were laughing.

So if I can be doorbell ditched by a duck, you can be taunted by songbirds.

[EntityX]

That reminds me of a little jack rabbit that got in the habit of staying in my garage which is always open. I don't even have a door on my garage anymore so it is definitely always open. I eventually figured out exactly where the little guy was hanging out. It was in the engine compartment of my Geo Metro. He would climb up in there and sit I think on the transmission. I opened the hood one time and saw him or her sitting there and he didn't even move. One day I went in my garage and saw it dead on the floor. No evidence as to why it died. Jack rabbits are very plentiful where I live but I seldom see the youngsters that are much smaller than the average full grown rabbit and this guy was definitely a youngster.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

I suspect it's because even the rabbits inhibit their habits when carrots turn green.

[EntityX]

Here's another little story about animals. When I was growing up living in that house that I posted via Google Earth a little while back we had this tabby cat that was really good at catching rats. There were times when it seems like almost every day this cat of ours would leave a dead rat right at our front doorstep on the welcome mat. It amazed me how many rats this cat killed. What I thought was really weird is that in all the years I lived at that house(about 16 years) I never once saw a live rat or mouse just the dead ones that this cat or maybe another cat of ours caught. Rats are probably pretty good at evading humans but I guess not good enough at evading cats. If it wasn't for our cat I wouldn't have thought that we had any rats at all around our house but then again if we didn't perhaps the rat population would be great enough that I would occassionally see one now and then.

[mendhak]

When in Sri Lanka, our school was bombed. Us foreigners were shortly evacuated as the LTTE were making more incursions into Colombo. We had to get rid of our cat which had been with us for 3 months, and so on the way to the airport, 18 miles from our house, we dropped the cat off on a desolate highway. 2 months later, we returned to Sri Lanka, and it was there at the doorsteps waiting for us. CatNav FTW.

[abhijit]

When in Sri Lanka, our school was bombed. Us foreigners were shortly evacuated as the LTTE were making more incursions into Colombo. We had to get rid of our cat which had been with us for 3 months, and so on the way to the airport, 18 miles from our house, we dropped the cat off on a desolate highway. 2 months later, we returned to Sri Lanka, and it was there at the doorsteps waiting for us. CatNav FTW.

Cats have the homing instinct built in. We had a stray cat back home in Mumbai. She used to deliver litters like clock work. I was about six when I witnessed this process of birthing. It was amazing to watch. My granny, who was annoyed having to deal with kittens all the time, took the cat in a rickshaw and dropped her off in another suburb. After a week, the cat found its way back home. That suburb was at least 10 kilometers away.

[EntityX]

I've heard stories like the ones you two just told but where the distances covered were considerably greater.

[abhijit]

I've heard stories like the ones you two just told but where the distances covered were considerably greater.

Homing pigeons might have been involved.

[Bonker Gudd]

[mendhak]

Did I say we dropped the cat 18 miles away? I meant we dropped it off on the planet Omicron Persei 8, 1000 light years away.

[EntityX]

That was a very spiritually advanced cat that had the ability to dematerialize its body and then rematerialize it at any other location it desired. I'm trying to develop that same ability myself.

[abhijit]

Did I say we dropped the cat 18 miles away? I meant we dropped it off on the planet Omicron Persei 8, 1000 light years away.

You should have used the same mechanism and transported the LTTE rebels instead.

[BillGeek]

we dropped it off on the planet Omicron Persei 8, 1000 light years away.

Are you sure it was Omicron Persei 8, and not 7 or 9? What gender was this cat?