Topic: QC Readers vs. Nature (Read 9499 times)

Quartsize · « **on:** 23 Jun 2008, 02:15 »

ITT, please post pictures of yourself interacting with the other representatives of Kingdom Animalia.

No that giraffe is not off in the distance, it really is that small! (May 2008)

The Snow Leopard and I became fast friends when we both agreed that meat is awesomely delicious and that he was truly indeed a kick ass cat.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 03:49 »

Old picture (1968 - age 21) and even older picture (1958 - age 11):

I was off school for a year with TB when I was 13, and so my family had to find things for me to do - travelling the canals of England (Wales in this case, as it's the Llangollen canal) in this little boat my mother made was one of them:

Paul

Drill King · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 05:10 »

I loooooovee the above pictures. Especially the cats one.

Quartsize · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 07:17 »

Dang that be a huge swan. Awesome pictures.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 07:20 »

Or maybe just a tiny Paul?

Aminal · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 08:30 »

This is a Tiny Frog I rescued from a church we were cleaning out in New Orleans. Note my fashionable Tyvek suit!

RobbieOC · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 09:30 »

Can you see it? Or is it blending in too much? They do that, you know.

When you rub them, they stand up for you.

This is Wedge, the turtle. He has been alive for almost three years now! I bought him while I was an exchange student in Japan, so he's still there with a friend of mine. His bigger and stronger brother Biggs died recently, which is sad.

Junodog · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 17:48 »

That's me driving up to this road. I'd also post a picture with me and a bear, but I can never get outside quick enough to be right next to thems. Here's a bear across the alley from where I live, at least...

Edited to actually fit the thread because I don't know how to read.

0bsessions · « **Reply #8 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 18:22 »

This poorly disguised photothread is not fooling me!

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #9 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 19:33 »

I was hoping for some animals getting decked, I am sad this is not so

morca007 · « **Reply #10 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 20:44 »

pwhodges- Is that a Leica IIIf hanging from your neck?

Aminal · « **Reply #11 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 21:33 »

Now that's a photowhore.

pwhodges · « **Reply #12 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 23:32 »

IIIf Red Dial + Summitar lens. I had a IIIc with Summar lens as well. Here's the IIIf with Elmar 3.5cm:

Not an animal - but an old Leica is part of Nature, I reckon - possibly the nicest object I've ever owned.

calenlass · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 00:03 »

Is there a photo of me punching that horse in the nose at the farm on the Island when he tried to bite me?

FiskFisk33 · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 01:47 »

Me 'n my cat.
I have two more cats, and all of them loves when im at the computer, they sleep in my knee

(i dont have the computer in that closet anymore ^^)

imapiratearg · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 06:46 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 23 Jun 2008, 19:33

I was hoping for some animals getting decked, I am sad this is not so

Me too! Someone needs to wrestle a grizzly and take pictures.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 06:59 »

It's a shame that I don't have any pictures of me going head to head with that plate and a half of ribs I ate for lunch on monday. It basically would have shown how I feel about animals.

FiskFisk33 · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 07:29 »

Meat is murder but animals are assholes

ledhendrix · « **Reply #18 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 11:13 »

Thinly veiled excuse for a photothread I present you with a bird of prey.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #19 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 21:42 »

Oh jeez, these pics are soooo old. Like nearly three years old --I took them for my senior portraits. The next time I go back home, I'll have to take my digital camera and take some new ones with the baby cows!! (They are so damn cute!) --And the FOUR ORANGE KITTENS that were born a month or so ago (my family is notorious for having black, grey, and calico cats. We had 1 orange one that I got from a friend, and we found a stray in town, so we brought her home and she had four orange kitties, 1 black one, and a calico...aaaaanyway...)

axerton · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 22:35 »

Quote from: ledhendrix on 24 Jun 2008, 11:13

Thinly veiled excuse for a photothread I present you with a bird of prey.

Dude if that is you with it on your arm then that tops every photo you have ever posted and gives you permanent status as coolest forumite ever.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 Jun 2008, 23:04 »

And if he's the guy juuuuuuuust inside of the frame, he is officially the creepiest guy on the forum (seriously...givin' me the heebie-jeebies).

Cagia · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 02:28 »

My little brush with nature.

It has to be one of the few non-venomous snakes in Australia. This country's wildlife is fucking evil.

FiskFisk33 · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 02:48 »

I dont have any problems with insect and snake fobia and so on, but a long trip to australia would proboably change that

Cagia · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 02:59 »

It's not that bad here though to quote a fellow Australian; "As long as you knock your shoes out every morning, and don't go poking in holes in the ground, and wear long pants with thick socks and heavy boots, and don't swim north of the Tropic of Capricorn in the wet season, and don't swim at all in the Northern Territory, and keep a forked stick handy, and an antivenine kit, and stay within a 10 minute helicopter flight of a hospital, you're perfectly safe. Most of the time."

It's not just the bugs and reptiles that get you. Even 'harmless' animals such as the Koala and the Platypus can attack and seriously injure people. Hell, the Platypus is poisonous.

And don't even get me started on Drop Bears...

FiskFisk33 · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 04:20 »

O_O

...Ouch!

axerton · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 04:28 »

man go away, the aussies here is dedicated to promoting our land in the hope of eventually converting everyone, you are undoing all our good work, and anyway that's bullshit there really aren't that many dangerous creatures around I've lived in the bush all my life and seen maybe 5 snakes in that entire time, and at least we don't have giagantic maul-your-face-off-bears wandering around.

FiskFisk33 · « **Reply #27 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 04:31 »

i feel much safer here in sweden

our most venomous snake cant kill anything bigger than a bunny, our most venomous spider has the same type of poison as the black widow, except it has so little of it you wont even end up on hospital and none of our larger creatures are especially agressive.

0bsessions · « **Reply #28 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 06:45 »

Who the fuck are all of you people?

Oli · « **Reply #29 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 09:38 »

Quote from: axerton on 24 Jun 2008, 22:35

Dude if that is you with it on your arm then that tops every photo you have ever posted and gives you permanent status as coolest forumite ever.

Not to undermine Ledhendrix's coolness or anything but it's pretty common to be allowed to wear the glove and have a bird of prey perch on your hand at bird shows (there's a proper term for these I'm sure).

Still though birds of prey are awesome.

RobbieOC · « **Reply #30 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 10:00 »

I think the term is just "falconing".

ledhendrix · « **Reply #31 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 10:55 »

Quote from: axerton on 24 Jun 2008, 22:35

Dude if that is you with it on your arm then that tops every photo you have ever posted and gives you permanent status as coolest forumite ever.

Yeah It's me.
Yeah It's Falconing
Yeah I'm cool.

0bsessions · « **Reply #32 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 10:58 »

My suspicion is that he was only trying to train the bird to carry him in an effort to legitimately never touch his feet to the ground again.

waterloosunset · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 02:07 »

wait...a aplatypus is poisonous??? what part? do they have fangs in that beak? i knew they were part duck, beaver and some other stuff, but part snake????

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 02:10 »

They have spurs on their hind legs that are loaded with poison.

The Kangaroo has something similar but it isn't for poisoning; it's for disemboweling you when they kick.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 02:46 »

Quote from: axerton on 24 Jun 2008, 22:35

Quote from: ledhendrix on 24 Jun 2008, 11:13
Thinly veiled excuse for a photothread I present you with a bird of prey.

Dude if that is you with it on your arm then that tops every photo you have ever posted and gives you permanent status as coolest forumite ever.

But his feet are touching the ground.

squawk · « **Reply #36 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 02:51 »

You can't see his feet. What if the falcon is lifting him up

waterloosunset · « **Reply #37 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 04:50 »

Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 27 Jun 2008, 02:10

They have spurs on their hind legs that are loaded with poison.

The Kangaroo has something similar but it isn't for poisoning; it's for disemboweling you when they kick.

well that's two reasons never to travel down under. poisonous duck-beasts, murderous kangaroos, hordes of deadly snakes and men who think their beer having a seat belt is more important than their child!!!

Spluff · « **Reply #38 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 06:39 »

I'm pretty sure anybody who's dumb enough to provoke a large, muscular creature that's bigger than they are deserves to be disemboweled.

There's a term for it - natural selection.

McTaggart · « **Reply #39 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 11:36 »

You know it's actually really easy to not get killed by wildlife here.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #40 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 12:09 »

It's pretty easy to do that anywhere, really. You just gots to have a bit of common sense.

Slick · « **Reply #41 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 12:36 »

The platypus is the most compelling argument for god I've ever seen.

Like, evolution/natural selection makes perfect sense and fits with the world as we experience, and we think we've got a sound theory, but wait, oh shit, what the fuck is up with the platypus? Bitch lays eggs, has a beak, poisonous feet, and is a mammal anyways. It is like god just had some stuff left over after making everything else and didn't want it to go to waste. How else do you explain that fucker?

jhocking · « **Reply #42 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 12:42 »

Quote from: Slick on 27 Jun 2008, 12:36

The platypus is the most compelling argument for god I've ever seen.

Perhaps, but I can see why creationists don't bring it up often. I mean, to come up with that shit you'd have to be one crazy motherfucker, and who wants to worship a crazy god?

Liz · « **Reply #43 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 12:45 »

Both of these men have good points.

Slick · « **Reply #44 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 13:00 »

Liz · « **Reply #45 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 13:05 »

So good...

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #46 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 13:13 »

Quote from: Slick on 27 Jun 2008, 12:36

The platypus is the most compelling argument for god I've ever seen.

i don't know. you could also argue that the opposite is also true.

i mean, evolution functions because mutations fill previously under-utilized niches in the food chain, right? well, the duck-billed, egg-laying, poison-footed mammal niche is a hard one to access so it's highly unlikely that anything would evolve to fill it...but if something did, then it would undoubtedly thrive because it has no competition.

Oli · « **Reply #47 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 13:15 »

I think, but I am by no means sure, that the platypus is commonly used as an example of the evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals. I seem to remember reading that somewhere at any rate.

Slick · « **Reply #48 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 13:28 »

FEAR THE PLATYPUS

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #49 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 13:30 »

...I dunno. He's still pretty darn cute. Kinda hard to fear something that makes me go all gooey.

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