From the BBC: US woman fights off lion with pen (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6301575.stm).
Statistics show that mountain lion attacks on people apparently increased dramatically since 1986. For example, in California alone, there were only two fatal attacks in 1890 and 1909, and then no further attacks for 77 years, until 1986. From 1986 through 1995, nine verified attacks occurred, an average rate of almost one per year.
Recent incidents involving cougars and humans in southern California, western Texas, and eastern Colorado have compelled authorities in these states to issue warnings to the public about the dangers of attacks.
But hey, ""it's only a few of them, right? Nooooooothing to worry about, so don't, right? I mean, just look at this mean motherfucker:
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42498000/jpg/_42498107_lion.jpg)
Typical of his kind.
I'm sure a lot of people in South America felt the same way about a certain tiny, aggressive Africanised honey bee in Brazil once upon a time. But then again those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
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But you're talking about the acts and opinions of a vocal minority of mountain lions here. Don't expand that to assuming that all mountain lions want the death of humans.
I'm sure that most of them are perfectly content to just gnaw off a leg, and then let the bloodied and maimed victim crawl away.
What symbol do these wannabe furries use for their worship? I gotta know what to burn on their lawn.
maybe nox knows
(sorry, couldn't resist)
i for one welcome our feline overlords
Quote from: James McMurrayWhat symbol do these wannabe furries use for their worship? I gotta know what to burn on their lawn.
A Burning Wheel? :O
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Maybe they worship the KKK. Wouldn't that be ironic? :)
Quote from: beeberi for one welcome our feline overlords
You would. Cat-lover.
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Something I didn't know about mountain lions: their bite is poisonous. Sort of. The dude who recently got mauled has taken a turn for the worse because of bacterial infection. Cat bites, it seems, get infected much more easily than dog bites. This seems mostly due to the fact that cat teeth, being sharp and needle-like, essentially inject bacteria deep into the bite (http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/animal_bite_infections.jsp).; however, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the bacteria in cat mouths are different from other animals', in a way that facilitates infection. (This study (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/340/2/85) is suggestive, but since it's based on bite wounds as opposed to saliva samples, the difference between cats and dogs may simply be a matter of the cats having a more efficient bacteria-injection method.)
One could speculate that the bacterial infections caused by cats are useful to them as predators. At least one other animal, the Komodo dragon, is believed to benefit from having bacteria in its saliva; its bite, if not immediately fatal, often leads to fatal infections. Prey that succumb can then be tracked by smell and consumed.
Aren't feline teeth also serrated in a manner in which canine teeth aren't? You know, the reason a knife kept kashrut can't have nicks in the blade is essentially to avoid pockets that harbor trace bits of food and generate bacteria that can contaminate other foods.
By the way -- to further villifiy the evils of cats -- just this Saturday night I was at a friend's house. One of their cats took a liking to me and very gingerly set up nest in my lap for a while as I scritched behind her ears. Later that evening -- long after the cat was gone, but before washing my hands -- I absent-mindedly rubbed my right eye, which then proceded to swell shut in a massive allergic reaction.
Bastards. Dirty, colluding bastards.
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Quote from: Ian AbsentiaYou know, the reason a knife kept kashrut can't have nicks in the blade is essentially to avoid pockets that harbor trace bits of food and generate bacteria that can contaminate other foods.
That's an interesting rationalization, and may well be true, but a lot of religious customs have no recorded meaning or motivation except what was inserted after the fact. E.g., the need for a perfect blade has also been explained on humane grounds, to minimize the animal's suffering. (Again, maybe true, maybe not.)
Point taken. Where I stated "essentially", I should have used the word "functionally". From a modernist point of view, kashrut boils down to a system of hygiene. From a traditionalist point of view, it is a system of principle and moral discipline. Either way, it's something those fucking mountain lions with their serrated teeth will never understand.
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What's really cool is how little legal protection the bastards currently have. We can do all the things they deserve to them and nobody'll care!
What about Florida? Don't the Feds protect their cowardly, fur-covered asses down there? I believe they call themselves "panthers" there. :rolleyes:
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Maybe, but all in due time brother. All in due time.
Quote from: James McMurrayWhat's really cool is how little legal protection the bastards currently have. We can do all the things they deserve to them and nobody'll care!
Well you could try...but I'd put my money on the lion.
Why? Did they start learning to use guns or something? Perhaps they've developed armor technology and anti-somnambulant drugs?
I hope not, but if so it just means we have to kick things up another notch.
Send the humans back the fuck where they came from and MAUL 'EM!!!!!!!
I think this thread shows really just how pathetic and devoid of reasonable arguments the muslim apologists really are.
Also comparing animals who kill for food to animals who deliberately plot to murder women, children and infants is a disgusting insult to the 4 legged animals.
BTW, one of those vermin you all love so much, a muslim who tried to set off a suicide bomb on a london subway, DELIBERATELY turned his back towards a woman with a very young child and hit the detonator on the suicide bomd he had in his backpack.
Fortunately the worthless piece of shit rolled a critical failure on his "Make bomb to murder innocent people with" skill and the bomb more or less just slowly melted.
I suppose if he had managed to murder that woman and her young child, we'd all be reminded of the MOST important thing: "IT'S ONLY A FEW OF THEM! *CLICK* ONLY A FEW OF THEM! *CLICK* ONLY A FEW OF THEM!"
There are times I honestly don't know who I feel more hate and disgust for, the muslim terrorists or the muslim apologists.
You know who I'm disgusted with?
Quote from: Thanatos02You know who I'm disgusted with?
I'll bet it's your GM. XP, right?
Quote from: Dominus NoxAlso comparing animals who kill for food...
Chee-hee! That's so cute. You really think that mountain lions attack humans for food? You ignorant choad. :haw:
QuoteBTW, one of those vermin you all love so much...
Crows?
Quote...a muslim...
Oh.
QuoteI suppose if he had managed to murder that woman and her young child, we'd all be reminded of the MOST important thing: "IT'S ONLY A FEW OF THEM! *CLICK* ONLY A FEW OF THEM! *CLICK* ONLY A FEW OF THEM!"
And you'd *CLICK* be here to *CLICK* remind us all *CLICK* that
all muslims are guilty for the crimes of the few *CLICK*.
QuoteThere are times I honestly don't know who I feel more hate and disgust for...
Crows?
Quote...the muslim terrorists or the muslim apologists.
Oh.
Hey, Nox. Please go fuck yourself and stop thread-crapping in my thread about the dangerous spread of anti-human mountain lion violence.
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Quote from: Ian AbsentiaWhat about Florida? Don't the Feds protect their cowardly, fur-covered asses down there? I believe they call themselves "panthers" there. :rolleyes:
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They're much more cunning down in Florida. While I lived down there in Naples, they had themselves put on the endangered species list, and did all their dirty work through their alligator lackies, giving themselves deniability.
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaCrows?
Crows rawk the house.
What we need to do is to make the crows our allies, and arm them to fight the mountain lions.
EDIT: But only the mountain lions who are actually out to kill the humans, of course!
Quote from: SigmundThey're much more cunning down in Florida. While I lived down there in Naples, they had themselves put on the endangered species list, and did all their dirty work through their alligator lackies, giving themselves deniability.
I don't know who I hate more, those damn mountain lions or their PC apologist. Endangered species list - isn't this just another way, they fuckin' live of our society, draining precious resources, denying food for other more deserving animals and munching on us poor honest humans who rightfully belong on this blessed Earth ? Fuckin' PC mountain lions apologist...
Regards,
David R
Quote from: SigmundThey're much more cunning down in Florida. While I lived down there in Naples, they had themselves put on the endangered species list, and did all their dirty work through their alligator lackies, giving themselves deniability.
Do you think the gators are salvagable? If we get rid of the mountain lions/panthers would they mellow out? Or are they already too far gone? I mean, face it, gators are not all that bright and easily misled. If we rid the state of their evil feline masterminds, maybe they could be rehabilitated. Either that or luggage.
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Quote from: Dominus NoxI think this thread shows really just how pathetic and devoid of reasonable arguments the muslim apologists really are.
You're right it is. Of course, it isn't meant to be one, so it makes sense that it sucks at it. :)
When trying to divine meaning from this thread, ignore Muslims and instead think phrases like "great big joke" and "Nox's expence." It'll come clear soon enough.
Quote from: JimBobOzI'll bet it's your GM. XP, right?
Actually, Ian had it right. It's crows, damn their feathery hides.
Quote from: flyingmiceDo you think the gators are salvagable? If we get rid of the mountain lions/panthers would they mellow out? Or are they already too far gone? I mean, face it, gators are not all that bright and easily misled. If we rid the state of their evil feline masterminds, maybe they could be rehabilitated. Either that or luggage.
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Definitely luggage. They're too nasty tempered for salvage, and they make really nice luggage. Not bad boots either, and although not the best, they aren't bad as appetisers.
Quote from: Thanatos02Actually, Ian had it right. It's crows, damn their feathery hides.
Oooh! Yeah! They way they all sit in a mob up n a tree, laughing their little black-beaked heads off at you! Thank God for hand grenades!
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Quote from: SigmundDefinitely luggage. They're too nasty tempered for salvage, and they make really nice luggage. Not bad boots either, and although not the best, they aren't bad as appetisers.
What are you, some poncy Brit? There's a "z" in 'appetizers!' :O
But otherwise - boots, luggage, chow. Check.
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I believe it's technically referred to as a murder, not a mob. If I'm wrong, add Denzel Washington to the list of removables: he's the one that taught me that.
Quote from: James McMurrayI believe it's technically referred to as a murder, not a mob. If I'm wrong, add Denzel Washington to the list of removables: he's the one that taught me that.
Murder Inc. = Mob = Mafia = Cosa Nostra = Crows. All the same thing.
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A Murder of Crows
Man, that's just too good not to already be a book title.
Awful mouthy for a guy shouting panther praises in his sig. Don't make me burn a...
guys, did we ever decide what mountain lions worship?
Anyway, don't make me burn something on your lawn!
Hmmm... perhaps a turd of some sort?
Quote from: James McMurrayAwful mouthy for a guy shouting panther praises in his sig. Don't make me burn a...
guys, did we ever decide what mountain lions worship?
Themselves, I assume.
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Hmm... That would work. Then we could kill two lions with one stone: the one we burn on the lawn and the family we scare away by doing it.
Nice!
Quote from: James McMurrayAwful mouthy for a guy shouting panther praises in his sig.
PANTHER POWER, BABY!
"If you don't relate to these cats, the power structure will organize these cats against you."
Quote from: flyingmiceThank God for hand grenades!
You mean you
support crows having access to hand grenades? It's bad enough that they drop
turds on my wife's car*.
You cold, deluded bastard.
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(*I kid you not. Somehow she's gotten on their bad side. They yell at her and shit on the car when she drives it. Me? I know which side the bread's buttered on. I feed them and talk to them. They only yell at me when I wear a red shirt, which seems to really bother them for some reason. Oh, and
à propos of nothing, I also get on quite well with my muslim neighbors. One of our city's largest mosques is nearby and we have a huge east African population hereabouts. I don't feed them, but somehow I manage to escape murder and mayhem at their maniacal whim.)
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaYou mean you support crows having access to hand grenades?
So long as the pin's been pulled.
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaIt's bad enough that they drop turds on my wife's car.
Lawncrappers!
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaYou cold, deluded bastard.
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Hey! My parrents were married! Just not to each other!
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Quote from: flyingmiceHey! My parrents were married! Just not to each other!
You know, I mis-read this mis-spelling as "My
parrots were married" which just takes this thread right off the fucking rails.
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Quote from: Ian AbsentiaYou know, I mis-read this mis-spelling as "My parrots were married" which just takes this thread right off the fucking rails.
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Mis-read? Mis-spelling, yes. I don't see a mis-reading... :O
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Quote from: flyingmiceWhat are you, some poncy Brit? There's a "z" in 'appetizers!' :O
But otherwise - boots, luggage, chow. Check.
-clash
Nope, just loopy on good flu meds.
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaYou know, I mis-read this mis-spelling as "My parrots were married" which just takes this thread right off the fucking rails.
That is what you think takes this thread right off the fucking rails? :raise: :D
Pfft! like it ever had rails! :D
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Quote from: flyingmiceHey! My parrents were married! Just not to each other!
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*Hums 'Geraldine and John'*
This is all well and true but what about gay Muslim teenage mutant mountain lions? Surely a mention of this particularly relevant minority of mountain dwelling felines is something to be encouraged?:D
Silence! Speak not the names of the secret GML overlords lest they hear you and appear.
By the way, I swung by a GML rally this weekend. I figured I'd shout some epithets, maybe a slur or two, then throw a beer bottle and run away. I changed my mind though. Something about the way they kept chanting "We're here, we're queer, and we'll eat your fucking face if you don't like it" made me decide I'd rather go for a burger.
This is why we need to amend the law to allow the open carrying of sniper rifles.
The GOLD PANTHERS strive to rise above these antics!
We will SURVIVE the long drought!!
We will not STARVE!!!
We will eat of the FLESH again!!!!
'Scuse me, I'm going for lunch.
Quote from: James McMurrayBy the way, I swung by a GML rally this weekend. I figured I'd shout some epithets, maybe a slur or two, then throw a beer bottle and run away. I changed my mind though. Something about the way they kept chanting "We're here, we're queer, and we'll eat your fucking face if you don't like it" made me decide I'd rather go for a burger.
This is why we need to amend the law to allow the open carrying of sniper rifles.
Most, if not all, of our society's ills could be cured by a simple application of this principle.
-clash
Quote. . . we'll eat your fucking face if you don't like it. . .
Nah, faces taste nasty. You ever tried one?
I ate guy's face once; man, that was just fucking gross!! It was all cartilege, there was mucus everywhere. Awful, it was simply awful.
Now getting inside the ribcage, there's some Good Eats! (Been watching lots of Alton Brown.)
If I remember correctly, those guys who crashed in the Andes said the palm of the hand was a good bit.
"Long Pig" is the term I'm familiar with (not to be confused with "Long Duck", which is cat or possibly small dog). And, yeah -- apparently the craw of the hand, the meaty bit at the base of the thumb.
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Quote from: James McMurrayBy the way, I swung by a GML rally this weekend. I figured I'd shout some epithets, maybe a slur or two, then throw a beer bottle and run away. I changed my mind though. Something about the way they kept chanting "We're here, we're queer, and we'll eat your fucking face if you don't like it" made me decide I'd rather go for a burger.
This is why we need to amend the law to allow the open carrying of sniper rifles.
Ha ha ha!:D :D :D :D :D