How about something we ALL can enjoy ? by AURaptor

America loves a winner!

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 6:24 PM

WHOZIT

I have to see my brother and fat sister-inlaw tomorow, I'm not enjoying anything...I'm going to get drunk now...and tomorow.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 6:53 PM

You know, if you really don't want to spend time with your family but feel obligated because of a holiday... Maybe you shouldn't?

I mean if you feel that way about your brother and his wife I'm sure they're going to be thrilled with you showing up fall over drunk. Why not skip it? Why do we force grudging efforts at sentimentality and closeness into our relationships when we don't even feel it? Doesn't that just make everyone more frustrated and make the holiday worse for everyone involved?

Well, good luck anyway.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:15 PM

If only logic worked on relatives Byte...

I was hoping for puppies, but surprise Bo Jackson is cool too. :)

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:26 PM

Seriously the only thing about Thanksgiving I approve of, the one single redeeming quality, is catching up with family. If you don't get along with your family it has to be awful so why put yourself and everyone else through that? I don't get it.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:18 PM

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Seriously the only thing about Thanksgiving I approve of, the one single redeeming quality, is catching up with family. If you don't get along with your family it has to be awful so why put yourself and everyone else through that? I don't get it.

I don't spend Thanksgiving with my family, Christmas either. Haven't since 2000. Reaching this state of freedom and peace of mind was not as simple as: "Hey we don't get along so why don't we not hang out? Cool, OK!" Separation only happened after years of attempted communication that failed painfully and at times spectacularly.

A majority of people cannot see things as clearly as you assume, especially when family and holidays are concerned. Byte, I'd think you would understand that relationships between human beings are never simple and rarely follow any kind of logic.

If your family is like that, you are very lucky.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:25 PM

America loves a winner!

Wow... an entire thread jacked.

Where's the love?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:31 PM

And because this went and turned serious, I'm going with cats and dogs:

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:41 PM

CHRISISALL

Something we can ALL enjoy?
This.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:41 PM

I do not understand. There are many things I don't understand, and I suppose in this case I do not need to.

Chris: Did you make that???

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:13 PM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Chris: Did you make that???

No, it's a QMX little damn replica I just fixed up a tiny bit with the painting, but man do I love it!

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 12:55 AM

AGENTROUKA

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Wow... an entire thread jacked.

Where's the love?

I enjoyed the video very much! :D I'm a sucker for happy surprise videos.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:42 AM

America loves a winner!

The dogs and cats vid was near impossible not to watch in its entirety.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:13 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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This Is Why You Should Never Hire Elephant Seals to Be Production Assistants

A film crew was shooting a documentary about the penguins of South Georgia when a group of elephant seals tried to steal the spotlight and knocked down the cameraman’s tent, a humorous video uploaded to YouTube by Atlantic Productions on Nov. 25 suggests. Unfortunately we don’t see the seals actually do the damage; we just see a cluster of them flopping on top of a mangled orange tent.

They have my sympathy; having worked with elephant seals, I can guarantee; few things smell as bad. I agree; they should bury it.

(....but they're not "4 ton", those are babies--even the biggest one hasn't got a proboscis yet.)

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:28 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
You know, if you really don't want to spend time with your family but feel obligated because of a holiday... Maybe you shouldn't?

I mean if you feel that way about your brother and his wife I'm sure they're going to be thrilled with you showing up fall over drunk. Why not skip it? Why do we force grudging efforts at sentimentality and closeness into our relationships when we don't even feel it? Doesn't that just make everyone more frustrated and make the holiday worse for everyone involved?

Well, good luck anyway.

If I don't go there will pay hell to pay unless I have a REALLY good excuse (like surgery) I have no choice. I'll have to listen to fatso who has no sence of humor bitch about everything...pray for me.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:38 AM

America loves a winner!

Per the elephant seal vid, why must they get so gorram close to those behemoths? If not for their own safety, then for the sake of keeping their very expensive camera equipment in one piece. Brave souls, those cameramen.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:53 AM

America loves a winner!

Hey, a feel good story is a feel good story.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 10:20 AM

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Originally posted by whozit:

If I don't go there will pay hell to pay unless I have a REALLY good excuse (like surgery) I have no choice. I'll have to listen to fatso who has no sence of humor bitch about everything...pray for me.

:(

Maybe we should invent a new holiday for people who have to go through this on Thanksgiving and their relatives are probably going to keep all the good leftovers anyway.

On the Saturday after thanksgiving, people who have had a terrible one get to have a second one minus all the annoyances, and they get to be thankful they don't have to see family for another year.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 12:35 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Rap, to answer your question, when it comes to E.S.s, getting close is no problem. They move like slugs--yes, a big Beachmaster can chase you, but he's the only one, and unlike CSLs (Ca. Sea Lions), Elephant Seals are big babies, no desire to go after humans...they're also dumb as fence posts, also unlike CSLs. The only time it might be a problem is in mating season and with the big guys, and even then, only rarely.

There's also the fact that "true seals" like ESs and Harbor Seals literally CAN'T move very fast on land, they ROCK that lard forward..."eared seals" (CSLs, fur seals, etc.) front flippers will support their weight, and their flexible pelvis lets their back legs work like (tied together) LEGS. You can't outrun a CSL on land...you can pretty much outWALK an ES. ESs can't move any faster than five miles per hour on land--fastest timed was a short burst at 8 mph. CSLs only reach top speeds on land of 13-14 mph, but they can sustain it, and that's a big difference if you're running away from one!

This:

Versus this:

(Note how that pelvis lets them really get up to speed!)

Down at Ano Nuevo, where our ESs hang out year round, they actually lead tours right through the pod (or "herd"), we walk right past 'em at only a few feet away. They have no interest in humans and spend their time out of the ocean just lazing about, no desire to move much:

At MMC I used to hose out/clean pens early in the morning...I never even had to take a board in with the ESs, they just lay around making that wonderful noise of theirs ( http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/523/files/eseal3.au); with CSLs, you NEVER went in the pen alone, and NEVER without a board! Sneaky, fast, aggressive, SMART buggers.

But they both share something in common: curiosity. I have no doubt this bunch of juveniles got curious about the equipment, and discovered sitting on it was warmer than sitting on the ground...end of tent/equipment.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:04 PM

America loves a winner!

Fine vids, Niki. Thanks for sharing.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 5:41 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Should NEVER get me started in pinnipeds...or MMC...I can go all day!

...and of course now I can't resist. Here's my Jim up at MMC back when I worked there, when the seals kept knocking the fences we built over 'cuz they were held together with bailing wire and spit!). This was '75 or so, back when MMC first began:

The ESs only needed short fences (the CSLs got tall, heavy ones!), but it took four or five of us to hold one down to force feed/medicate/take blood (this is my crew back then doing just that):

First we had old, donated bathtubs and tarps on the ground:

Then we got these huge metal tubs (which had to be drained, turned over and scrubbed every day) and we built wooden ramps:

Then we had cement floors and specially-made ceramic tubs and ramps which, thankfully, we didn't have to manhandle:

and now they've got it friggin' WHIPPED:

Built-in pools (of two or three depths!), sprinkler system, lighting, everything solar, note the heated pads...rescued ESs today live the life of Riley.

MMC is built on an old Nike missile base (we kept freezers in the missile siloh)...this is how it was when I worked there:

A couple of years later, when we had better pens (that's Charles, going down into the siloh entrance).

And as it is now:

Only took 35 years! MMC was always great at fund raising; the new facility knocks my socks off.

Got no photos of me at work, since I was usually the one wielding the camera. But here's your giggle for the day...found this, it's me back then at our annual party:

Okay, I'll quit now...this just took me back... ;o)

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 6:00 PM

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Originally posted by whozit:
If I don't go there will pay hell to pay unless I have a REALLY good excuse (like surgery) I have no choice. I'll have to listen to fatso who has no sence of humor bitch about everything...pray for me.

I know exactly what you mean with that first sentence. Not so kumbaya about the "fatso" in the second. I'm sure she's unbearable, but I doubt that it's because of her body. Put blame where it's due: her brain and emotional state.

Het, but let's go with this model of RWED on Thanksgiving - a frame from the dogs and cats video I posted above. Dog cat and rat hanging out and happy with each other. Kind of like con and lib and whozit, maybe? ;)

Peace all.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 6:01 PM