Fair Cop dropping hints on Twitter

[teawamutu]

About something big about to happen to a red organisation beginning with 'S' that they won't like.

V unfair to vaguetweet IMO - anyone else seen it?

My best friend at university studied Zoology and did her dissertation on sexual dimporphism and biological imperatives in reproduction. She was fucking ashen by her graduation day.

But yeah, you know, biology exists.

What if it's a class action. Another Cowboy riding into town? Could be

As u were😁

Leopard slugs are hermaphrodites!

Google "how long would a barnacle's penis be if it were the size of a human..."

Are you sure that's wise, Neuro?

If we are talking Barnacles has anyone seen the Hostile Planet documentary on Disney+ where the Barnacle geese nest 10 miles up a cliff top and then, before the chicks can fly, decide that they need to go and do geese things on water. The dad goose flies off and the chicks ignore him because they are bonded to the mother. And then the mother jumps out of the nest and calls the chicks and, even though they cannot fly, they jump out of this nest 10 miles up (ish, I wasn't measuring it) and then the chicks bounce off every single rock face on the long, long journey down to the ground. Only half of all Barnacle chicks survive past the first four weeks because once they get to the water - if they do - things eat them there too. No orcas or seals though.

@UncleShady

If we are talking Barnacles has anyone seen the Hostile Planet documentary on Disney+ where the Barnacle geese nest 10 miles up a cliff top and then, before the chicks can fly, decide that they need to go and do geese things on water. The dad goose flies off and the chicks ignore him because they are bonded to the mother. And then the mother jumps out of the nest and calls the chicks and, even though they cannot fly, they jump out of this nest 10 miles up (ish, I wasn't measuring it) and then the chicks bounce off every single rock face on the long, long journey down to the ground. Only half of all Barnacle chicks survive past the first four weeks because once they get to the water - if they do - things eat them there too. No orcas or seals though.

Holy shit. Makes me think of this from the incomparable Douglas Adams:

That sounds like my daughter’s early years.

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

I need to re-read hitchhiker's guide.

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.

Nature red in tooth and claw, innit?

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.

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 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)

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?

@EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus

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

Strategic incompetence? Think how quickly feeding a nest full of goslings grass all effing day long would get. The ‘bouncing down the rocks & see who makes it’ approach thins them out quickly and massively slashes the parenting load. 🤷‍♂️

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'.

I need to reread/relished to HHGTTG too.

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

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.

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.

@EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus

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

Think it was a Planet Earth episode (other BBC nature extravaganzas a possibility) with penguins (again) making their way over rocks and over cliffs and ending up covered in blood and battered just from the daily commute.

Prob not the right thing to think, but 'FGS just move to somewhere a bit more accessible, dickheads' was unavoidable.

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.

maybe the thread already slipped?

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

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