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The Rat
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/11/2009 : 05:16:18 [Permalink]
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| I guess its a good thing either Adam or Eve werent switch-hitters, then we wouldnt be here to laugh at Phelpses. Great story. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/11/2009 : 16:49:58 [Permalink]
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Um. Sounds like the zookeepers have some responsibility here.
If they are trying to breed ducks, why not put one of each sex into the enclosure, leave them be, and hope for the best? You know, sort of give them less freedom of choice for a bit?
At least try it. Then, after they either breed or refuse to, let the happy male couple be reunited. Not that I'm saying that's a good strategy for other species (such as humans), but these are endangered ducks.
"Extinction in the UK" is a dumb phrase. That's like running out of mole rats in Arkansas. In New Zealand, blue ducks are not facing extinction, but are endangered. The zoo might consider getting requesting a few more ducks from the Kiwis for their breeding program, maybe with the promise to give back some of the hatchlings.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 03/12/2009 : 05:27:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Then, after they either breed or refuse to, let the happy male couple be reunited.
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That tears it, I'm reporting you to Fred Phelps! |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 05:55:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Then, after they either breed or refuse to, let the happy male couple be reunited.
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That tears it, I'm reporting you to Fred Phelps! |
I had to throw that in, or it'd look as though I might think that gays can be "reformed." I'm walkin' a PC tightrope, here. I'm assuming the male ducks may be bisexual. They may turn out to be thoroughly festive, however. (Not that I see anything wrong with that!) In that case, the female is going to remain disappointed.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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the_ignored
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 05:57:46 [Permalink]
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Get a load of this:
Gay penguins stealing eggs from straight penguins.
Somebody report to Phelps, Rapture Ready, etc.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 06:23:43 [Permalink]
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BINGO: Now that may illustrate at least one evolutionary reason for gayness. If a gay couple steals fertile eggs, the mated hetero pair will probably be induced to lay eggs again.
This means two clutches of eggs are potentially being hatched instead of one. So it makes sense for the species to make good use of the non-hetero-mated pairs like this.
Wouldn't there almost always be a few extra males or extra females to pair off after all the both-gender pairings have been made? By stealing eggs (and potentially feeding hatchlings), these gay birds help the species to survive.
After fencing off the egg-thieves from the other birds, the keepers said, "It's not discrimination." (Actually it is discrimination.) It would have been instructive to learn how well the gay birds tended the eggs and raised the young.
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 13:07:07 [Permalink]
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Okay, okay, it's hard to see how that behavior is advantageous to survival.
And it's just my opinion, but when it comes down to a duck boinking a duck corpse, homosexuality don't even count as a factor. That researcher was just trying to sex up his title. (Maybe he'd heard rumors about his paper reviewers.)
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Simon
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 14:17:06 [Permalink]
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| Maybe there had been earlier reports of heterosexual necrophilia in Anas platyrhynchos (and the family name is only one letter away from a gay joke) and he just needed it to be the first something to get published. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 16:22:56 [Permalink]
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At a meeting of out local naturalist club about twenty years ago we had a presentation by a researcher who was studying nesting shorebirds in the Arctic. While there they documented a male American Golden Plover try to mate with the carcass of a male Black-bellied Plover, a case of inter-specific homosexual necrophilia! |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Prop 8 should straighten out these fowl bastards!
