I love that the reason for the panda kindergarten is, essentially, that pandas have crap social skills and need to learn some. I just have this image of an adult panda dressed in a leisure suit, going up to a hot lady panda at a panda bar, and hitting on her awkwardly and getting whacked in the face with a paw for his effort.
Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Feb 27, 2006 8:02:23 am PST #9839 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Kat - Feb 27, 2006 8:07:32 am PST #9840 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Holy GOD the baby pandas are so cute I CANNOT stand it.
The one attached to the human's leg? so cute.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 8:08:12 am PST #9841 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DXMachina - Feb 27, 2006 8:09:58 am PST #9842 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
RIP, Dennis Weaver. [link]
Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 8:11:28 am PST #9843 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I love that the reason for the panda kindergarten is, essentially, that pandas have crap social skills and need to learn some.
This is actually one of the big questions I have about panda breeding programs in general -- one of the major reasons pandas are endangered is because they have little to no interest in mating. I would be totally sad if they became extinct and all, but shouldn't we be concentrating our efforts onto species that WANT to survive?
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 8:13:07 am PST #9844 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
shouldn't we be concentrating our efforts onto species that WANT to survive?
No! They're cute!
Why are pandas uninterested in mating? Is this a new thing? If so, is it our fault in any way? If it's not, why are they now in danger? Is that our fault?
And then there's the cute thing.
Nutty - Feb 27, 2006 8:13:14 am PST #9845 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Pandas are cute. They have a cute-mandate to survive. Vultures, despite their general usefulness and smartastica, are not cute. (Luckily, they're not endangered either.)
Nutty, you were namedropped a bit this weekend. Although now I don't remember why.
It was the pants, I know it. My pants-reputation precedes me across the continent.
Consuela - Feb 27, 2006 8:14:56 am PST #9846 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Nah, I think I needed someone more snarky and less invested in OMG Pretty Boys Fucking around me. (Although Dana and Shrift totally brought the snark, but I didn't get to hang with them as much as I'd meant to...)
Also? Slash grandmothers just freak me the fuck out. @@
sarameg - Feb 27, 2006 8:18:53 am PST #9847 of 10002
one of the major reasons pandas are endangered is because they have little to no interest in mating.
The boy cheetah at my zoo can't figure out the mating thing. Which is rather inconvenient. They've even tried instructional sessions in which their geriatric male cheetah and the mate have a go in his presence, but...he can't figure it out. He's also really lazy.
This never fails to crack me up.
Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 8:21:55 am PST #9848 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The boy cheetah at my zoo can't figure out the mating thing. Which is rather inconvenient. They've even tried instructional sessions in which their geriatric male cheetah and the mate have a go in his presence, but...he can't figure it out.
My grandparents had a gay labrador when my mom was growing up -- they kept trying to put him out there as a stud (there's a back problem that this dog didn't have that's common among labs, so his stock was pretty valuable), but he just wasn't interested. He wanted other boy labs.