Posts by Jake Pollock
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I was wondering if Bob had moved on to Woody Guthrie's children's albums, but obviously his tastes are a lot more contemporary these days.
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As Andrew Geddis has pointed out on Dim Post, Cosgrove seems to lost his luggage twice in a year, not three times. If he was travelling in the US, that's perfectly feasible.
And I'm sure Damian Christie will be able to tell you that even in New Zealand it's possible for luggage to get lost and stay lost.
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Sacha do you really need to rain on the parade?
ETA: Which is to say, woohoo.
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What animal would have been “natural”, given the situation described to you?
Here's a good starting place for choosing a suitable beast of burden.
Seeing as Ben could survive in the cold for as long as it took to turn the wheel, it doesn't seem like much of a problem for, say, horses wearing coats.
Vicious, solitary, territorial animals with sharp teeth, big claws and no history of domestication, not so much.
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Smile at it as well, don't be afraid to show a little teeth. They really don't like that.
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Yep. Squint back, and turn your head away. He'll approach you, or at least lay his head down.
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here is a reasonably good explanation of the purpose of the polar bear experiments I saw somewhere online:
Because when training an animal to perform a task that involves pulling a heavy weight on command, the polar bear is the natural choice. And they have the added advantage of blending right into their new Tunisian home . . .
I don't buy the 'it's all about the characters' thing either. It might have been about the characters for the first three or four seasons, but the characters turned into bodies perpetually running away from flaming arrows and mortar shells some time in season five.
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If you want your attack to be more successful, you should squint in order to lull them into a false sense of security.
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I've never understood how they know in a group of people which one is the allergic one, and why they do it?
Because, for a cat, squinting ones eyes and looking away is a sign of pleasure or contentment. Whereas widening ones eyes is seen as a threat. For humans the meanings of these expressions are the other way around, so when the allergic person squints at the cat, the cat takes it as an invitation, and when the person who wants the cat widens their eyes, the cat displays indifference and goes elsewhere.
It's knowledge, bro.
ETA: What Bart said.