Or whatever.
While researching this morning’s octopoid article I encountered this:
Link.
Seems like they’ve got the whole male privilege thing sorted out.
Those slacker female praying mantises–manti? Entomological etymologists please weigh in–take note.
Of course, nothing will ever replace this.
Or this.
How’s your date night going Juicers?
redshirt
Is it also just spiders that do this, or are most females in the world killing males after sex?
Hillary Rettig
@redshirt: you sound worried
redshirt
@Hillary Rettig: I die all the time. NBD.
I was surprised to read in your earlier thread that Octopi mate once then die. Does not seem like a successful strategy.
Jeffro
Win on the second cartoon. Like, big win.
Nature is a horror show; dating, only slightly less so
Hillary Rettig
@redshirt: let’s hope they enjoy it
TaMara (HFG)
@Hillary Rettig: Hey there! I thought of you when I posted this today.
Beavers to the Rescue
Mind out of the gutter you pervs, it’s about Beavers helping solve the drought crisis in California.
Hillary Rettig
@Jeffro: a ton of wisdom packed into your pithy comment
Hillary Rettig
@TaMara (HFG): very cool!
NobodySpecial
What’s a ‘date’?
Hillary Rettig
@NobodySpecial: awwww.
Punchy
@TaMara (HFG): So Oregon State grads are helping out their southern neighbor, eh?
Redshift
@TaMara (HFG): Aw, c’mon! That’s nowhere near the best headline for a story on that topic. Gold goes to Gizmodo:
The Plan to Make California Wet By Spreading Beavers Up and Down the State
redshirt
I’ve got quite a few beaver stories if anyone is interested.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
Why did the male preying mantis not want to go home at closing time?
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He knew the missus would bit his head off when he got home
Mike J
Octopode
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Come on, you still have your inner romantic. Admit it.
Mike J
@redshirt:
My friends and I spent an afternoon hanging out in Balmer’s inner harbor once many years ago. You can’t imagine how disappointed we were with the Imax spectacular, Beavers. Imagine one of those, 60 feet tall!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Obligatory
Major Major Major Major
As a scientist, this anthropomorphism offends me!
NotMax
Sub-head probably should have read legs instead of arms.
Octopuses have 8 tentacles, two of which are used as arms (which 2 can vary from octopus to octopus), the other 6 serve as legs.
redshirt
@Mike J: Fascinating.
Did you know beavers are driven to dam by the sound of running water?
NotMax
There was an attempt to start a mini-chain of fast food places here called Tako Taco. Kind of a niche market for that.
NotMax
@redshirt
And all along thought they waddled there. Who or what serves as chauffeur?
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Toads?
TaMara (HFG)
@Redshift: I saw that this morning. LOL Click-bait if I’ve ever seen it.
WarMunchkin
Oh, Fridays are date nights…?
srv
If liberals and Obama are the cause of the huge rise in white suicides, the least they could do is eat them.
Imagine what a Hillary presidency would do to the suicide rate. Black widow potus.
Omnes Omnibus
@WarMunchkin: I never really believed in setting a routine Date Night. Then again, I am divorced. I think the two facts are unrelated.
NotMax
Easy listening for a late Friday night.
Just because.
redshirt
@NotMax: Their impulsive need to arrest moving water. It’s their reason for being and I can respect it.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: No one is denying that. But who drove?
Kropadope
@srv: What the fuck is wrong with you?
Mike J
@NotMax: If you can’t sing harmony with yourself you have real problems.
Watching Meet me in St Louis on TCM. Not once do they go to Dressel’s in U City for house made potato chips. and beer.
Mike J
Ted Cruz Says He Won’t Ban Dildos If He Becomes President
“What people do in their own private time with themselves is their own business and it’s none of government’s business.”
FLIP
FLOP
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Id?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J:
I assume this matters to the plot. Or is it a failure to properly set the scene? I have been in the Airport and driven through it on my way to/from Memphis and/or NOLA.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: You did? I still say Toad.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: I used to drive through it to/from Memphis/Columbia, and my first roommate was from Clayton so we’d go there for the weekends.
Kropadope
@efgoldman: Oh, you must mean like the dozens and dozens of unprovoked attacks that show up in every election thread which are mostly unsourced, repeatedly disproven, or way overstated in the rare instances where the poster has an actual point.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Have you ever seen a beaver trail? They build trails from the water into the forest. Real trails, well maintained. I’ve seen beaver harbors, deep channels dug out so as to float the logs up to the dam site. I’ve seen 100 foot long dams, 15 feet high.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Yes, beaver exist in Wisconsin. And you are missing my literary reference which doesn’t surprise me.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: You’ve never seen a beaver harbor.
Mike J
BTW, did you see the footage of Hillary playing, and winning, dominos in Harlem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2YAPr42NMk
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Prove it. And then read “The Wind in the Willows.” Christ, I really need to quit assuming that people read books when they were kids.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Are you getting angry about beaver facts?
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: if you missed my reference, fine. Don’t try to make it a fight.
NotMax
@Mike J
Okay, how about this one then? Modern video editing is a wonderment. (That Buster Keaton was able to accomplish essentially the same thing on film in the 1920s using primitive hand-cranked cameras remains beyond astonishing.)
cbear
@redshirt:
Have you ever seen a grown man naked, Joey?
Sorry, it had to be done.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Fact: Beaver lodges have at a minimum two levels.
Mike J
@NotMax: The first line of vocals (1:20ish) sound like Jeff Buckley. Not really after that, but there was a quality there that sounded familiar.
NotMax
@Mike J
Have a problem with that movie. Find Margaret O’Brien’s character too obnoxious and bratty; spoils it for me.
Cacti
Well, it looks like operation Panderfex Maximus was a dud.
Fly to the other side of the world, give the same stump speech you’ve been giving for the past year to people who can’t vote for you…
And not even get a photo op with Frank the first.
Sounds like a Tad Devine masterpiece.
redshirt
@Cacti: Remember when Barack went to Berlin in 2008? So epic.
Mike J
@Cacti: Do you read r/enoughsandersspam/ ? I think you’d find it entertaining.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: And? 1. I know that. 2. Why does this matter to a conversation that means you have never read “The Wind in the Willows.”
Cacti
@redshirt:
Both of the current D campaigns are amateur hour compared to the Obama team.
superfly
or this
NotMax
So glad it’s not a political thread.
Was getting to the point that had to keep checking the masthead to make sure I hadn’t accidentally wandered onto panties-in-a-wad.com.
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@superfly: Golly.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Sigh. Why is your story so important? No, I’ve never read it.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: If you don’t understand what I said, you are dumber than treebark.
Kropadope
@Cacti:
Cuz, you know, it’s not at all possible that he went to the Vatican City out of personal interest?
Not everything he does has to be about the campaign. He’s asking his supporters to direct some of the money intended him to Congressional candidates too. Maybe these are the first couple signs of his impending concession.
But of course not, because everything Bernie does is inherently evil. It will be declared so prior to a full, or sometimes even partial, accounting of the facts. Why it’s evil can be determined later. It’s pretty much the same way Republicans behave toward Obama.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Is Treebark a character in this story? Like an Ent?
Suzanne
@efgoldman: You need to take mrs. efgoldman out for a good time, STAT.
ruemara
Don’t really date. I just sorta wound up in relationships. Thinkng about stepping into the dating pool but I think it just drives my demons to the surface. Been a hell of a week, no, month.
Major Major Major Major
Testing new computer 123
Suzanne
God DAMN, I voted for Bernie (though I also am okay with HRC winning), and Sanders supporters have got to be the most irritation people on the face of the earth.
gene108
@Omnes Omnibus:
Geologic TOAD?
Taconic Ordovician Allegheny Devonian
Taconic Orogeny
Allegheny Orogeny
Kropadope
@efgoldman: So, he’s not allowed to take a little time off from a campaign he pretty much already lost?
Oh, of course not, because he’s always wrong, the reason why to be determined later.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: It took me three hours in line, because my polling place was tiny, to boot—only had eight booths. The line was almost half a mile long.
Kropadope
@efgoldman:
It’s just silly shit for people who are determined to mock Bernie for basically everything to do what comes naturally to them,.
Anne Laurie
@Cacti:
Tad’s blaming it all on Jeff Weaver, who seems eager to take all credit.
Cynics on twitter are wondering whether this indicates a war between Sanders’ two top advisors. If so, which one jumps ship? And is the one who does so first the “winner” or the “loser”?
I considered posting about this, again, but it’s getting very little attention in the lamestream media. Maybe they’re saving all the good stories for Sunday…
opiejeanne
@redshirt: Have you heard of Toad’s Wild Ride?
Frankensteinbeck
Cannibalism is hugely common in nature. Preventing cannibalism is the overwhelming director of spider mating behavior evolution. I have watched red-knee tarantulas mate (as part of a repopulation program!) and it’s hysterical how slowly and cautiously he moves through the whole process, then runs like his ass is on fire the moment it’s over. Jumping spiders, including the gorgeous peacock spiders, have evolved a really cool dance ‘language’ so they can communicate species and gender and mate safely. Some male crab spiders tie down their mate so they’ll have time to get away. The golden silk orb weaver male is so tiny compared to the female that he climbs her leg and mates by stealth. Since female preying mantises just would not stop eating the males, the males evolved a behavior where if they die, it turns off a lot of restraints and they mate extra-vigorously to ensure that they’re the one who fertilizers all her eggs. It’s a fun topic.
cbear
@Frankensteinbeck:
Sadly, North Carolinians are blocked from viewing videos depicting this act by XHamster.com due to their ridiculous religious freedom laws. Take that, you bastards!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cacti: It was an invitation he couldn’t refuse. Whether it was an invitation he ever received has not yet been determined.
opiejeanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ha!
I am here seeking solace because the internet is especially vile tonight in all places that are not Balloon Juice.
Arclite
Watched Deadpool tonight. OMFG was that funny.
amk
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BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Bernie’s not the only one NOT IN NEW YORK, HRC is here in LA for fundraisers(it sounded like on the news, one for her and one for the party). Of course, there is an upcoming primary in CA.
sm*t cl*de
Mantids. Or mantides.
different-church-lady
@Kropadope:
He’s Catholic curious?
different-church-lady
@Kropadope:
Has it occurred to you they’re not actually interested in mocking Bernie so much as getting under your paper-thin skin?
NotMax
TCM alert.
2 a.m. (Eastern) on Monday, April 18.
A Pig Across Paris. Rarely shown French dark farce/buddy adventure.
Richard Mayhew
@NotMax: if it was, we would be making money
NCSteve
Cephalopod intelligence is the best model for thinking about how very different E.T.’s might be from us available to us. Evolved on a totally separate track, though possibly as the result of something very like the feedback loop that started as we evolved greater manual dexterity.
Uncle Cosmo
@different-church-lady: Keep in mind that while the Jews invented guilt, the Catholics perfected it.
M.C. Simon Milligan
@sm*t cl*de: Mantid is a synonym for mantis and is an English word derived from the taxonomical family mantidae, which is a back-formed neologism from mantis. Its plural is mantids. Plural of mantis is mantises or mantes. The word is borrowed from the Greek word for a seer or prophet which would have the plural manteis.
Just use mantises.
sukabi
@Mike J: Of course he won’t ban dildos…. if he did, he’d have to immediately resign office, and leave the country.
eta… and he <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/ted-cruzs-former-roommate-just-revealed-his-self-pleasuring-technique-only-click-if-youve-already-had-lunch/"sleeps with one under his pillow…