I can understand this guy’s impulse to abandon the disgraceful, violent and cruel species into which he was born and join a herd of more noble creatures:
You can tell the goats find it puzzling, though. Open thread!
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I can understand this guy’s impulse to abandon the disgraceful, violent and cruel species into which he was born and join a herd of more noble creatures:
You can tell the goats find it puzzling, though. Open thread!
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redshirt
Marvel’s Goat Man opens May 2020!
srv
Before Fukashima was fashionable.
BGinCHI
Even Cole has a better chance than this guy of getting a date with a human girl.
redshirt
@BGinCHI: I’ll take that bet.
srv
And you people think Trump is an unserious person:
beltane
That man is a very ugly goat.
BGinCHI
@redshirt: I admit it could be within the margin of error.
Iowa Old Lady
@srv: Jeebus. It’s like he has no political instincts at all.
Or maybe he does, and he’s just responding to a different audience.
Still that’s clunky for a man who’s supposed to appeal to Latino voters because of his fluent Spanish.
Amir Khalid
Why the helmet? What are those things on his arms and legs? What’s that in his mouth?
I’m not even a goat, and I too am mystified.
MattF
Via jwz, similar idea: “Observation of Predation in Humans.”
beltane
@Iowa Old Lady: It’s good that Jeb is fluent in Spanish. That way, when Latinos tell him to go f*ck himself he’ll be able to understand what they’re saying.
Doug R
It’s from Mad Max: Furry Road.
goblue72
So that’s what Mickey Kaus is up to.
Frankensteinbeck
@Amir Khalid:
The thing in his mouth is an artificial tongue, because human tongues are not long enough to stick out and scream like a goat.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@srv: Welp, that settles it. The white guy has spoken.
BGinCHI
@Frankensteinbeck: Apparently you have never been to a heavy metal concert.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: I’m guessing that helmet is to protect his noggin if he goes arse-over-tea-kettle on that steep hill. In the article, it says the prostheses are to help him walk on all fours like a goat.
schrodinger's cat
Check out the comment section of the NYT editorial on the GOP field hate mongering about immigrants, depressing.
redshirt
@Amir Khalid:
We normals cannot understand the Supers who live among us.
BGinCHI
@schrodinger’s cat: Jesus, are they for it? If so, they beat the WaPo and Chi Trib to it.
Dear newspapers: you suck. Please go out of business.
ETA: I thought you meant the editorial itself. Never mind.
JPL
The Republicans aren’t even trying to be the inclusive party.
Frankensteinbeck
@BGinCHI:
No, but I have met goats, and they make some of the most primal noises in the animal kingdom. Other animals have calls, go ‘meow’ or ‘woof’. A goat just opens its mouth, sticks out its tongue, and yells.
trollhattan
@goblue72:
It only took thirteen comments to revive one of the classics. :-P
Iowa Old Lady
@Frankensteinbeck: I can’t tell if you’re punking me. I mean, looking at the picture has already shattered my sense of what’s likely.
schrodinger's cat
Speaking of climbing animals, have you guys seen the kitteh that rock climbs?
redshirt
My neighbor got two goats a couple of years ago and my gosh as babies they were the cutest things ever! Hopping and pooping blackberries all over the place.
Now? They’re like 200 pound rocks that are still friendly but big and goaty. Intimidating.
schrodinger's cat
@BGinCHI: I realized my mistake and edited my comment. No the NYT editorial was taking the hatemongers to task.
Amir Khalid
@Iowa Old Lady:
Remember when Jeb’s exclamation point quit? Well, they’ve found a replacement.
goblue72
@Iowa Old Lady: I’d like to think that most voters would be appalled by the rampant xenophobia on display by the GOP. Sadly, rampant xenophobia is embedded in the DNA of a lot of white voters.
The virulently anti-immigrant Know-Nothings (the American Party / Know-Nothing Party) shocked the Democrats and the Whigs in the 1850s with a series of local and state electoral victories. (they were the Tea Party of the day, but an actual party, and not a Whig astroturf group). Absent the slavery issue which split the party in two, the Know-Nothings were on a roll for even more shocking electoral successes.
And lets not forget the Yellow Peril movements of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
the more I see of him, the more I’m reminded of the old man: Doesn’t really seem to stand for a whole lot, mostly motivated by class and clan entitlement*; willing to pander on everything from serious issues down to his choice of entertainment and snack food (remember pork rinds and the Oak Rdige Boys?) to race-baiting; not really stupid (like Dubya) but he seems weirdly disconnected in a way that’s difficult to define– the stairs go all the way to the top, but he sometimes seems to have stopped to rest a couple of flights down. And weak, a man with no real character or moral compass beyond that entitlement. The fact that he has a shot at being president is one more moment when I feel like we’re living in a dark comedy.
* a moment that crystallized George W Bush and his whole family for me.
Tree With Water
“What’s a mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds”?
Pilot to co-pilot after they glance a mountain goat outside the cockpit window, staring back at them.
It’s a Gary Larson cartoon.
trollhattan
For all the worrywarts concerned Douche Duggar isn’t getting a fair shake, I think Betty has found his new occupation, out of the public’s eye and all the goat nookie he can chase down.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@redshirt: how’s the smell?
Frankensteinbeck
@Iowa Old Lady:
I am punking you, in the sense that I don’t know what the thing in his mouth is for. I am not punking you, in the sense that goats have a peculiar and distinctive expression when they make their peculiar and distinctive noises.
redshirt
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Goaty.
Iowa Old Lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s like he’s not fully awake yet or something.
That glasses cleaning video is unbelievable. She’s lucky he didn’t wipe his nose.
Helmut Monotreme
Isn’t the thing in his mouth the grass he is eating?
srv
Even before Spock:
Iowa Old Lady
@Amir Khalid: Ah, Captain Picard.
I was actually thinking of him just today in regard to Republican policy proclamations.
4% growth! Make it so!
Yeah, that’ll do it.
redshirt
@Helmut Monotreme: Yes. And?
Calouste
@Iowa Old Lady: Well, Jeb?! is just saying what all the other GOP candidates say, including Bobby Jindal, whose own parents weren’t citizens when he was born in the US.
Gimlet
I thought they would name it for the Gipper.
as he has done with most every other political tradition, Trump blew up the rules. He took just seven questions in 45 minutes, using them as launching points for extended riffs.
Trump waxed on almost poetically about the wall that could bear his name on the Southwest border.
“I want it to be so beautiful because maybe someday they’re going to call it the Trump wall,” he said.
He repeatedly taunted one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who was holding his own town hall a few miles away, as a feckless bore with “a very small crowd.”
The crowd who filled the 850 seats in the auditorium of the Pinkerton Academy, and more watching from an overflow room, cheered uproariously until the end, when “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by 1980s band Twisted Sister blared over the speakers.
redshirt
@srv: Carter is not only a real American hero, but a world hero.
the Conster
I was a 4H goat club co-leader for several years, showing goats at fairs all over northeast CT. They’re really wonderful animals. It’s not true that they’ll eat anything, but they do a great job clearing out poison ivy and other invasive species. Mine used to eat oak leaves like potato chips, but oak leaves aren’t the best things for them. Their favorite things were always the euonymous if they got out of their field. My goats used to walk along side me down the dirt roads in my rural town, and were the best behaved pets I’ve ever had.
trollhattan
Ha-ha-ha-ha, eat it, McDonnell.
MattF
@srv: We have here the basis for a new pedagogical exhibit in the Museum of Political Dysfunction. I picture a ‘Hall of Stupidity’– on one side, a diorama with Rick Perry entitled ‘Moronic’, and on the other side a diorama with Jeb! entitled ‘Clueless’. And with explanatory text written by expert curators in posters on the walls setting out the delicate distinction between the two.
NotMax
Life membership in Aashley-Maadison?
Gimlet
If he were forced to pick a presidential candidate today, basketball legend Charles Barkley says he would vote for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. — “Right now, I like John Kasich, the governor of Ohio,” Barkley said on ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike” on Wednesday.
redshirt
@Gimlet:
Oh, so disappointing, Sir Charles.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Off the topics we’ve settled on in this thread — sorry. But Muppet had been doing well with housetraining for the past few weeks, and suddenly started having accidents in the house over the past week — culminating in refusing to do anything when I took her out last night, then 10 minutes after being brought back in the house, peeing on the bed. (And she sleeps on that bed too.) It had rained, and she doesn’t really like the wet grass — but peeing on the bed?
So Muppet’s at the vet now being checked for a UTI, and I’m going back to square one with housetraining. But I need someone to talk me down and tell me she’ll eventually figure it out. If it were the floor, I wouldn’t panic — but the bed?
NotMax
@Frankensteinbeck
Primal vocalizations? Tasmanian Devil (not the cartoon).
Fair warning for those with cats – they may become freaked out by the audio.
trollhattan
@Gimlet:
Since Chuck leans Republican at least he picked the least sociopathic Republican (unless he’s just disguising it better than the others).
Gimlet
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
Urgency and no control if UTI or bladder spasm.
NotMax
FYWP apparently doesn’t accept that link as it has some unusual characters in it.
Perhaps this alternate will work.
JPL
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Was she at one time crate trained? If you have a crate, you might try that.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@redshirt: He’s been a conservative/Republican for a long time. No surprise there.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: Yeah, Barkley was a Republican until (I’m pretty sure) the invasion of Iraq and (apparently) through the Obama years. This story is IIRC from the Clinton years
Tommy
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: I can’t talk you down. My cat I rescued pisses many times throughout my house. Had her for about eight years now and it is just what it like to live with her. I’ve done everything to stop it. Nothing works.
The only up side is the places I am the most. My bed. Office chair. She never pisses in or around them. Other places, not so much.
Tommy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I know many don’t like Charles. He has a past that isn’t the best. But I kind of love the dude. I had not heard what you just said but I totally can hear him saying it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Tommy: Yeah, he’s fun. This story is from his time as a Democrat
Inquiring minds wanna know: Did McCain ever pay off the bet?
redshirt
@Tommy:
Your house must smell wonderful.
Elizabelle
Goats intrigue me. Here’s a good essay on them from Jon Katz in Slate, a few years back.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: That sounds like the voice of hell itself!
redshirt
@Elizabelle: My neighbor walks her goats with her 3 dogs and quite obviously the goats are the best behaved.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Gimlet: Ding ding — we have a winner! Just got back from the vet. Crystals and mild UTI, which the vet thinks caused a spasm.
I’m oddly happy that my dog is sick. Go figure.
Gimlet
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
Time will tell.
The crystals may mean gravel-stone formation and the need to change the ph of the urine.
Crystals-gravel-stones can irritate the bladder and cause spasm same as UTI and they don’t respond to an antibiotic but a change in ph or some other medication.
Elizabelle
@redshirt: Would love to see that. Goats sound kind of smart.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
With a cat, I would definitely say there’s a serious medical issue. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same with a dog — from what I’ve heard, dogs don’t like to pee in “their” places, which is why they don’t pee in their crate when you crate-train them.
Muppet looks like a pretty small doggie in the pictures, so she might actually be happier if you crate train her. I’ve heard that sometimes small dogs start to think they have to patrol the entire house to keep things safe and it freaks them out. Having a “den” in their crate makes them feel secure because they only have to be “in charge” of that small area.
Elizabelle
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Sounds treatable. Best to little Muppet.
Elizabelle
Greek PM Tsipras calling for new elections on September 20. What do you guys think will happen with that?
I am ashamed of Germany’s bullying. They should not get away with it.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@the Conster:
Here in Los Angeles, the parks department sometimes uses them to keep brush under control. We have a lot of steep hillsides where it’s potentially dangerous for humans to work, and someone finally thought, We should hire some goats to do this.
I’m pretty sure they’re contractors, though, so they have to pay for their own health insurance. ;-)
schrodinger's cat
@Elizabelle: Far right wing win? Tspiras completely folded after the initial bravado.
ETA: Greece needs to quit the Eurozone and start using their own currency.
Elizabelle
@schrodinger’s cat: The first would be a tragedy. Agreed re currency.
PurpleGirl
@Tommy: You might want to look up Jackson Galaxy (My Cat From Hell) on the internet. He’s dealt with cats who piss all over a house and taught the humans how to handle the problem.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): The maximum amount of time I could leave the greyhounds when I was watching them was 14 hours, in their crates. That was about the time it took me to take the train to Manhattan for work, work, and the train back to Peekskill. When I got home, I’d go down to the basement first, open their crate doors and the dogs would run outside. In the years I watched them, they never soiled their crates.
Gimlet
@schrodinger’s cat:
@Elizabelle: Far right wing win? Tspiras completely folded after the initial bravado.
Maybe Tspiras’ finance minister, Varoufakis will run and win.
Matt McIrvin
@PurpleGirl: Whenever I see that guy I think he’s David Cross playing him.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@JPL: @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Yep, she has a crate. She’d been doing well, though. After the first month she was consistently ringing the bell to go outside during the day, so she got more and more time out of the crate until I realized that I was never putting her in it anymore. Then a couple of weeks ago I tried closing the bedroom door and letting her spend the night on the bed rather than crating her, and she didn’t have any accidents until last night.
That’s why I was so freaked out — no experience with a 99% housetrained dog suddenly becoming so untrustworthy, and having her pee on what she identifies as her bed was jarring because it’s just not what healthy or well-adjusted dogs do.
The vet’s optimistic that all will be right again soon. In the meantime, I took the crate out again last night, and I’m reinforcing the housetraining a bit more. Can’t hurt. And she gets more treats.
Tree With Water
@Elizabelle: Smart? I’ll say. If goats had thumbs, they’d herd us. That’s why they’re so ornery. They know it, too.
Elizabelle
@Tree With Water: Goats and border collies would be our new animal overlords.
Although they might offer a more humane regime than Jeff Bezos.
Paul in KY
@srv: Never knew this about Pres. Carter. What a stud! All of those people who had to go down there.
Paul in KY
@redshirt: Charles is like Cedric Maxwell: “I make a lot more money than most of the brothers’.
Paul in KY
@Tommy: Can’t believe you live with it. That cat would be an outdoor cat, under the Paul in KY hegemony.
That has to be hurting your house.