Fair Cop dropping hints on Twitter

Neurotrash - I thought you’d photoshopped a spacehopper onto the Magritte picture. Imagine my disappointment to click on it and find it was the boring kind of non-MN surrealism. 😆

The bird who shagged Stephen Fry's mate's head in that documentary that IIRC was also partially about Douglas Adams?

This thread is becoming more surreal than Magritte.

Tinsel Yes, it was based on a book called Last Chance to See by Mark Cawardine and Douglas Adams. Hilarious!

[quote EmbarrassingAdmissions]I've really enjoyed this thread (except for the seals sad) the creativity humour and random chat on threads like this make MN for me

Do you recall the ghastly things that were revealed about dolphins in a particularly classic thread?

I am angry and sick and tired of how dolphins try and make out they are nice and friendly and cute when they are anything but. They are one of the most aggressive species in the animal kingdom, regularly involved in GANG RAPES of other dolphins that sometimes goes on for days, they also kill their OWN children so that the mother pays more attention to her husband dolphin so he can have sex with her without her being distracted by her child and they also are aggressive to humans when nobody is looking (I.e in the sea when nobody is around, not when they have an audience like at a sea world centre) But everyone says “aww dolphins are so cute and so friendly” but their not.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3386868-AIBU-to-be-livid-how-dolphins-are-portrayed-compared-to-how-they-are[/quote]
I missed the dolphins thread you might have just wiped out my evening whilst I read it

With respect to Scott Newgent this has just launched...

www.trevoices.org/

I’ve come straight to the last page after and found Scrimp’s slugs again!

maybe the thread already slipped?

The thread is slippier than a spacehopper covered in slug slime sliding down a slide greased in baby oil.

Reminds me of the gloriously inept, and not unsurprisingly nearly extinct kakapo parrot that has forgotten it can't fly and persists on merrily launching itself from high tree branches.

The ‘bouncing down the rocks & see who makes it’ approach thins them out quickly and massively slashes the parenting load. Literal violence, innit. However I am very surprised to hear there were enough left over to eat on a regular basis.

The ‘bouncing down the rocks & see who makes it’ approach thins them out quickly and massively slashes the parenting load.

Hmm...

Contemplates the frequency with which DS picks at lunch, eats about 1/4 of it, disappears, reappears half an hour later saying "what's for tea?"

No, bad, bad thoughts. Must not have bad, bad thoughts.

I need to reread/relished to HHGTTG too.

I’ve always thought “Go stick your head in a pig” is the perfect insult.

It was once thought that barnacle geese hatched out of goose barnacles attached to ships at sea - their shells washing up on the west coast of Scotland in the autumn. This belief grew because goose barnacles have black-and-white stripes (like the geese) and the nests of barnacle geese were never seen. As a result, people even considered the barnacle goose acceptable to eat on Fridays and during Lent, despite the Church's ban on eating meat at these times, because it was not 'born of the flesh'.

You definitely should SirSamuel. Some of the stuff about fanaticism in Life, the Universe and Everything often springs to mind lately...(crikket etc.)
His insistence on being a "radical atheist" also feels relevant to the gender apostates! Sometimes just being a non-believer is not enough.

"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."

Or alternatively:
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple." It's so much easier, right Watson/Radcliffe/Grint et al?

This feels even further off topic...but I think maybe the thread already slipped?

To get to the grass—and the water, where they are more protected from predators—the birds must plummet from their high-altitude nests following their parents.

Why haven't we evolved to do that? Sounds better than Mum & Toddler Group (or whatever their called now)

Well, you’d think the barnacle geese would consider nesting a bit lower down. I wonder why they can’t feed the chicks grass?

To be fair to the parent geese, it seems as if there's some reason that they can't feed the chicks the grass that they need:

As soon as 24 hours after hatching, goslings need to leave the nest to feed on grass, which their parents do not and cannot feed them.

To get to the grass—and the water, where they are more protected from predators—the birds must plummet from their high-altitude nests following their parents.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/how-barnacle-geese-survive-extreme-falls/

I'm surprised any of us has a decent grasp of reality - trust in Mother Nature etc. Pah - yes, the species will survive in grand indifference to the quality of life or survival of the individual.

Nature red in tooth and claw, innit?

Bear Grylls was going on about how endangered they are which is absolutely unfucking surprising if you think the only ones that survive to breed are the ones that were smashed repeatedly on rocks and therefore think that's the way to go. Makes seals copying penguin rape rather tame in comparison.

I need to re-read hitchhiker's guide.

And this is why, whenever someone tells you that something must be good because it is "natural" you should laugh in their face.

That sounds like my daughter’s early years.