More scary stuff from craxy Erik Keroack, from Daily Kos: [link]
Really, don't click on the link if you're not in the mood to get angry....
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2006 12:37:15 pm PST #756 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2006 12:40:54 pm PST #757 of 10007
brillig
Why can't we have a bonobo to run the federal reproductive health programs?
Cause then men would be hanging from the trees, penis fencing with each other.
and we'd be taking pictures.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 16, 2006 12:45:26 pm PST #758 of 10007
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Don't we already have this at frat parties?
Kathy A - Nov 16, 2006 12:48:29 pm PST #759 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
IIRC, bonoboes are the only primate other than man who can recognize their reflection in the mirror as themselves, and not as a separate animal. (Elephants can do this, too.)
Megan E. - Nov 16, 2006 12:50:38 pm PST #760 of 10007
But apparently if you've had sex with too many people you use up all that oxytocin:
I thought it was our Thetans that used up all our oxytocin!
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2006 12:52:07 pm PST #761 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I thought it was our Thetans that used up all our oxytocin!
They would, but the midichlorians help.
brenda m - Nov 16, 2006 12:53:27 pm PST #762 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
IIRC, bonoboes are the only primate other than man who can recognize their reflection in the mirror as themselves, and not as a separate animal. (Elephants can do this, too.)
Dolphins, too.
Zenkitty - Nov 16, 2006 1:16:28 pm PST #763 of 10007
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
IIRC, bonoboes are the only primate other than man who can recognize their reflection in the mirror as themselves, and not as a separate animal. (Elephants can do this, too.)
I read about another species of primate (chimp? macaque? dunno) where out of a group of them, only one "got it", and she immediately began using the mirror to inspect her private parts.
(eta: ehh, I think I'm conflating two things I read. I think there was one of a group of ?macaques? who got it, and then there was a group of chimps that started inspecting themselves.)
I maintain I had one cat that figured it out, but of course cats can't do that.
brenda m - Nov 16, 2006 1:23:48 pm PST #764 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Or so they'd have us believe.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2006 2:25:04 pm PST #765 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dolphin: Described in the May issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that dolphins not only can recognize themselves in a mirror but also can notice changes in their appearance.
Prior to this research, only higher primates, such humans and chimpanzees, had demonstrated self-recognition in mirrors.
Elephants: Elephants can recognize themselves in mirrors, according to a new study. Humans, great apes, and dolphins are the only other animals known to possess this form of self-awareness.
Capuchin: Whereas gorillas, chimpanzees, and other apes recognize themselves in mirrors, monkeys do not, researchers found. But unlike most animals, the 14 monkeys in the test did not mistake their reflections for living creatures, putting the monkeys' level of self-awareness somewhere between that of dogs and orangutans.
All from National Geographic.