Their blood is used for medical testing. Vital in vaccine testing, I think. Ideally, they are only blood donors, not killed (but it does have an impact on the wild population, IIRC from whatever it was I watched.)
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Oct 25, 2016 3:34:45 pm PDT #107 of 30002
Sheryl - Oct 25, 2016 3:40:45 pm PDT #108 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay, Gary's getting home tonight rather than tomorrow. He's been away since Saturday on business. I've been wrangling destructo-toddler by myself, which is exhausting when I'm 100%, let alone with my foot in a brace.
Zenkitty - Oct 25, 2016 3:41:23 pm PDT #109 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Thanks, Suzi. You too! I hate this uncertainty.
Horseshoe crabs aren't really crabs, they're more like Jillifonts, and they're really ancient, like cockroaches, unchanged for millions of years, and they have blue blood which is used in some medical testing procedure I forgot, and so they're harvested and probed and their blood is stolen and then they're released back into the sea with a fantastic story of alien abduction, but they're being overharvested because they can only take so much of that Close Encounters shit, so farming them is a good idea and also probably profitable. And that's all I know about horseshoe crabs. Over to you, billytea.
Jesse - Oct 25, 2016 3:46:36 pm PDT #110 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have voted! Now I'm on my way to a salon for a Madam President mani-pedi and a glass of champagne.
Man, that sounds like an excellent birthday.
Knock on wood, but four years from now, there will be kids in high school for whom a white male president is just in History.
Amy - Oct 25, 2016 3:52:14 pm PDT #111 of 30002
Because books.
Horseshoe crabs are pretty cool! I had no idea.
I'm sorry about the layoffs, Zen and Suzi. That's no fun to get through.
brenda's birthday does indeed sound awesome, as befits brenda!
In my news, almost-13-year-olds girls = oh lord, give me strength.
SuziQ - Oct 25, 2016 3:57:06 pm PDT #112 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Today my coping mechanism has been a delux pedicure then I'm headed to Torrid to find some long yoga pants and a witchy t-shirt.
sj - Oct 25, 2016 4:28:12 pm PDT #113 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Sheryl, I'm glad Gary is coming home early. Destructo toddlers are exhausting. How old is the little guy now?
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 25, 2016 4:34:13 pm PDT #114 of 30002
"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
Define complaints about quality.
The complaints I saw were about lack of coordination between different care providers causing problems, and about poor quality of nursing (with the implication that lower pay is drawing less qualified nurses; I don't know how the pay scales actually stack up).
No Canadian I've ever met would get within a mile of the US system.
This I actually have seen—more than one minor pro hockey player delaying their return home to Canada so they could get medical care under their US doctors. May have been something about familiarity with the team's doctors though.
Sheryl - Oct 25, 2016 4:45:42 pm PDT #115 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
sj, he's 15 months old, and walking. We're all in trouble now .
sj - Oct 25, 2016 4:47:55 pm PDT #116 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ltc is walking too and completely fearless. She's also getting really good at taking off her clothes which she thinks is hilarious.