Big Mum Is Watching You! :D :D :D
edit: I typed that all in capitals, and it came out with only capital initials...it's not the first time I see this phenomenon happening...mmm...
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Big Mum Is Watching You! :D :D :D
edit: I typed that all in capitals, and it came out with only capital initials...it's not the first time I see this phenomenon happening...mmm...
i think that is perhaps to keep people from yelling at one another....some sort of censor like that which removes um...foul (fowl) words!
VBM - do you know that when hens..and chickens argue, they hurl fowl words at each other..ouch!!! Oh dear. What I wanna know is.. what's the difference between a hen and a chicken?
uhm...female and male maybe? that's what my translating mind says...
my fowl words was sort of a pun type joke. i know that bad words are foul words... but i know that the censor sometimes picks up things that are not intended to be foul, like when nome was talking about his shuttle****s..so i was making reference to the fowl that is censored as well as the badness....perhaps that was just totally overexplained, but whatever!
anyhow, hens and chickens are sort of the same thing, i believe....hens are what female chickens are called, and male chickens are called roosters. sort of like a female horse that is full grown is a mare and a male is either a stud or gelding. (baby horses are a different story, collectively they are called foals, while the males are called colts and the females, fillies.....seems excessively complicated)
That explains a lot about horses, I was always confused on that point! And haha, that's a very clever pun (that's not sarcasm, it's really genuine...I thought it was funny).
(*didn't get the pun* *will look some words up*)
Heey English is complicated... you give too many names to males and fenmales and kids... we often just have a female form (usually from the same root of the male anyway) and an endearment for the kids, except a few exceptions... Well sometimes it's more complicated but it's not words that are commonly used so I'm not meant to know them well ;)
Btw Russian has like 3 different words for young horses, depending on their age or even the period when they're born... And the words vary in different regions so... good job I'm not into those things much ;)
I don't know if this is the part you didn't understand, but anyway: on the "sig" post I was referring to the giant birdies in my avatar by their actual name, but the last half of the word also happens to be a swear word which also happens to be another name for a rooster. So the fowl/foul joke was pretty funny to me.
Do you know Russian?
Ah I missed that but actually now it's all clear after looking up 'foul' and especially 'fowl' :D
Oh I had missed the question: I'm attempting to learn Russian, but fluency is far away, but at least I got to the funny point when you understand a bit and can say things somehow, which is when learning a language starts to be satisfying.
Yeah, it's fun when you can start to figure out sentences based on context and try to work out a coherent statement. The only language I know enough of is Spanish, but I never speak it to anyone. I would be too embarrassed even if I had the chance! Are you able to speak Russian with someone? How many languages do you know, anyway?
I don't speak Russian if not at lessons, now that it's holiday I'm trying to keep it with songs (I luckily found a band I like and enjoy translating lyrics), which in my view it's the best way to improve a language, that's how my English started to take off.
Argh, the show off in me likes the question about languages.. I speak Italian as native, obviously...English fluently, French relatively fluently (I manage to read books, I'm impressed myself), Russian at the point I just explained, German probably a bit worse than Russian now that I forgot a lot of it (never been really good at it, I really don't like it), and some basic Spanish cos I've never studied it but I can understand quite a lot and say some basic things just basing on similarities with Italian.
As we're on the random thread and as usual I managed to take the discussion to languages, I want some opinions... I have to take one more language next year at Uni, and I'm in doubt between French and German...I'd choose French cos I already know it and to improve, or German to re-learn it cos it'd be one more language I can say I know and unfortunately in this part of the world it's far too useful... Any thoughts? The fact is that it's just 1 year so maybe even if German was written on my curriculum, I'd actually still know French better, somaybe Franch is better cos at least i'd have on my curriculum something I actually know...
(pardon any extra nonsense, it's half past midnight already!)
I don't know what to tell you, Koa. I love both French and German. I'm going to take them both in college, but I've been trying to decide which to take first, too. *shrug* I already know basic French (written French, that is -- I'm very bad at understanding spoken languages), and I know tiny bits of German. Is it better to know one language thoroughly and another almost not at all, or only half-know two languages? I can't decide.
Yeah that's the problem... one good, or two somehow? It's an impossible choice...
Me too, I'm very bad at spoken languages... I've recently read a book in French (of course I can understand many words because they're similar to Italian) but didn't manage to watch a film... Also in English, it's often hard for me to understand speaking. Of course it's a matter of practice...
crazy governmental black holes ... where money is light and... nothing else is matter... yeah.
I used to think I couldn't wait to be an old lady and do nothing but read books. But now I don't want to grow up and yet I'm gonna turn 20 in no time... :(
Why can't we stay 21 forever?
ajoe - I don't know about anybody else, but it gets way better after 21. Also, love the new avatar.
yes life is better after 21....very much so...
my random rambling? i just found out recently that i have been the victim of identity theft. unfortunately for me, it was not some sort of random thing, it was done by an ex of mine. he used my ID to connect a phone for himself (in a bastardized version of both of our names) in a city i didnt live in. all of this was done EIGHT years ago, but i only just found out when i tried to connect a phone in my new city (just happens it was the city he did it in). its really strange because here it is only TELUS that you can get a phone through, in BC and AB and i had a phone with TELUS in BC right up until recently. it was only when i was trying to change it to Calgary that this was discovered. so now i cant get a phone here until i pay the $696.42 that they figure i owe. even though they admit that it was identity fraud, they insist that it is my problem and i have to either pay it or go to the RCMP (canadian police). this is so bizarre. the acccount was in a name that was NEVER legally mine, in a place i can prove i never lived but i told the woman, that the way things are now, it would cost me far more than that bill in therapy if i had to contact him now and deal with this through the law. frankly that is one door better left closed. but .... now what???
AAHH! It sounds horribly aggravating and, unfortunately, I can offer no advice better than "sue the pants off of everyone involved."
Would a dancing banana chorus line make you feel any better?
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Actually, I'd choose to never grow older than 19... (cos here everybody wants to be 18, cos you become an adult and can drive, and it's interesting to have those new rights... I know 21 is a big thing in the usa but here it's just an age like the others, so... 19 forever please!!!) (maybe it gets better after 21, but not already at 22 I guess... :D)Quote:
Originally Posted by ajoe
and...vbm, that's :eek: :eek: :eek: ... well there's not much more to say really... If you need a professional killer for the guilty of that crime, I volunteer :D
My random thought: I'm leaving to my holiday in England tomorrow. Wish me luck cos I'm visiting my first and only love... it's not love at all anymore, but hoepfully we'd at least get on well enough not to scream at each other 24/7 ... Apart from that, I'll try to be a perfect tourist and see as much Englishness as I can... I love England.
Of course that means I'll be on the forums less frequently, and probably more quickly than now... But I'll probably pop in from time to time :)
Have fun, Koa! At first I thought you meant England was your first and only love, maybe you should just skip that part of it and spend all your time enjoying England. Just kidding...good luck. :)
oops...should I rephrase that? :blush:
Here’s sort of a random thought. I got this from Harpers Weekly Reader; they got it from the Shreveport Times.
“In Shreveport, Louisiana, police arrested a man in a wheelchair for shooting a man on crutches who apparently hit the accused over the head with a crutch.”
LOL! I mean, how awful. :p People are just violent, I guess.
Oh, I missed Koa leave! :( Oh well, have lots of fun, Koa! :D :banana: England is a nice place.
:bday_2: to you,
:bday_2: to you,
:bday_2: ravana...
:bday_2: to you!
(and many mooore!)
ooops!!!!!
sorry to have missed this ravana: :bday_2: :) :bday_2: :) :bday_2: :) :bday_2: :)
a child said to me the other day (i'd pointed to the dragonflies above the pond):
"the Dragons are flying."
this was said as if he'd learned a lesson, and was making sure that i knew as well that dragons do, indeed, fly.
I MUST rant to someone, I got a virus on my computer and while there could have been a lot more damage, it seems that all of our digital pictures are infected and I don't know if we can retrieve them!
:mad: :mad: :mad:
There must be a couple hundred pictures from the past five years. My avatar, which must be saved on this site or something, is the only remnant of these pictures until we can figure out if they're retrievable or not.
:mad: :mad: :mad:
For anyone who's seen the movie Clue, just think of Mrs. White giving her "flames on the side of my face" speech, and that's how I feel.
*deep breath*
Thank you for listening...or reading...you're as good as a therapist.
i missed my friend's bday celebration some time ago :( :( and today my other friend is haviing a bday and i'm afraid i'd miss it again this time...(damn job !!!)
Like your new avatar, sub. Sorry about your friend's birthday!
Are your pictures OK now nome?
Sorry, sub. Hope it works out.
The only small problem I have right now is that ants seem to have made a new anthill in my garden. Right on the lawn. So I´m trying to figure out if I should kill them all , commiting mass ant murder, or live and let live.
I´m a vegetarian and do not really like to kill living beings. On the other hand - they bit me first! And I think they eat my plants. Oh, the agony of ethical dilemmas :-).
A friend has a lizard that eats ants. Perhaps I can borrow that one and let nature have it´s course. That´s the "Live and let a lizard kill them all sollution"
yea, it's pretty spooky to have some small creatures yet there are thousands of them making nest around your home. but isagel if u borrow the lizard, dont' you think that u do intend to kill those ants though indirectly..i mean u put it there intentionally :)
and i'm trying to be a vegetarian some time ago but failed :( well not really failed, i mean i only eat fish now..how did u do it anyway?
CHeers
I can just accidently drop the lizard on the ants? Ooops .
I saw this documentary about slaughterhouses and the cruel way they treat animals.
Then I thought,"well - carrots are rather tasty".
isagel, chances are very good that your ants are not eating your plants but they will probably be farming aphids somewhere in the neighborhood. as a rule, ants follow a single path to and from their farm, so maybe try and follow them to see where they are going.
ants and aphids work similar to humans and cattle.
aphids suck sap from your plants (roses especially, but also some garden veggies and other ornamentals) but when they tap into the plant they actually take more fluid from the plant than they can digest, so they secret a honey like stuff from their backsides....
anyhow, the ants LOVE this stuff, so they will protect the aphids from predators and ensure them a source of food in exchange for this "honeydew" (that's what the secretion is called). sort of a symbiotic relationship between them, but negating all of your work in the garden, as the aphids will literally suck the plant dead.
if you actually have that going on there, i would reccomment a little diotomacious earth, which is a dusty type powder that you can sprinkle around the anthill generously. it is completely biological in origin and perfectly harmless to pets and children and the environmnet. it is actually ground up diatoms (so like oyster shells, but not quite). anyhow you could literally eat this stuff with a spoon, if you so desired and it wouldnt do you any harm. however, when the ants crawl across it, which they must if you put it in their path, then it is too abrasive for them, and does permanent damage to their bellies. (do you need more details??). you must reapply the powder every time you get a good rainfall, or wind.
as far as killing other creatures, bear in mind the whole circle of life theory. and really if you are protecting your food source there is nothing malicious in that. animals would do the same, but with less compassion. do what you have to do.....
if all else fails you could be walking through your yard with a huge pot of boiling hot water mixed with cayene pepper and stumble and accidentally spill the whole thing on their hill..what shame.....but accidents happen, dont they?
thus speak an ants researcher.
Isagel, the thing is i often wonder do plants also scream when farmer take them from the grounds, but we juct can't hear them..? :rolleyes"//// or am i having too much imagination?
Hey, I remember reading a short story on that topic. A scientist invented a machine that lets him hear plants, but then he starts hearing plants screaming and he's suddenly terrified to hurt anything. I think it was by Roald Dahl, in a collection called Skin. Some of those stories were pretty twisted.
Thats why i sometimes wonder when some vegetarians stated that they dont eat meat cause they pitty animals...and how bout plants? arent they living creatures as well? i agree that someone only eat veggies cause of healt reason..not really agree with those who use philosophical bases
Haha, I guess it just comes down to whether or not the thing you're eating once had eyes. By which definition you wouldn't eat potatoes, either :), but I think potatoes with eyes are incredibly disgusting and creepy anyway...I'm twitching just thinking about it.
Oh yeah, I still don't know about my pictures yet Isagel; thanks for asking. I think that if they are permanently gone I have reconciled myself to the fact...:bawling:
Just kidding ;). These emoticons are addictive. Anyway, I've never owned a camera (they were from my dad's digital one), but on the same day I found out about the virus I bought a nice film camera, which I've been meaning to do for a while. So I made myself feel better :).
I hope your ant problem ends well. I definitely think extermination is justifiable; if they weren't sitting nice and cozy in your backyard they would probably be out in the wild serving as a feast for an anteater (not that I know anything about where anteaters live...)
i dont think it has anything to do with eating things with eyes. my step-dad was a half vegetarian, he would eat chicken and fish, but not pork or beef. so i declared that he would only eat things that never had eyeLASHES.
i think it has to do with how our teeth and digestive systems are set up. we are far more omnivorous than some vegetarians would have you believe, but we definitely do share our digestive and cooling systems with herbivores.
anyhow, more on this later...my son needs computer....