I will say that skj47 is not unduly brief.
Brevity is seldom a trait of the exhaustively literate.
Brevity is seldom a trait of the exhaustively literate.
Global doom and gloom.
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Hello; I stand chastised. I do fail to recognize such troubling events. A perfect example of my failure of perspective is that when I think of dogs and cats, I often consider that the large amount of food they consume could be redirected to be available as human food and help with hunger. My bad.
It gets even worse with cats. My lack of perspective extends to how house cats which are let outside do ravage local song birds and local wildlife. My property apparently is the territory of Robins every spring. They try to make a nest in the rafters of my stick build carport and when they do a neighbors cat climbs up on my truck and into the nest to get the chicks. Every spring I tear down the early start of nests when they start in the rafters until they move to a safer place. This last spring they nested on an old piece of exercise equipment on the back porch. In the past they used a crook in my drain spout. They raised four to fledge this last spring. But in my defense my neighbor has not yet shaved the cat.
So sorry.
Well, I'm glad I took the time to read this one more carefully...now I see that you said "pets", rather than "parts"...
This is on a different level of feline wackiness. One minute they're water skiing all butch, and the next they're posing on the set of a christmas card shoot all cuddly and in a butter wouldn't melt way.
Nice cats by the way, but I think they'd look better shaved
This is very interesting Jeff. The phrase "global warming" was only coined relatively recently and a lot of top scientists dissed it, a lot still do. I watched a documentary some time ago now and these "things" come in cycles. It's all to do with the earths journey through space. Not just locally around the sun, which gives us our seasons, but on a far bigger and longer scale than that. Earth goes round the sun and the sun drags us with it as it hurtles through the milky way, and the milky way itself is speeding through the universe, on a collision course with Andromeda as well! There are certain areas of the milky way which we pass through every so many thousands of years which can have a doomsday effect on us.
One of these doomsday events is something that we are all familiar with, yet none of us gave gone through one, and that is an ice age. They reckon every 10000 years or so we go through one. And some scientists believe one could start up again in the next 1500 years or so. The last time the uk went through an ice age it was completely buried under several kilometres of solid ice for thousands of years, until the earth got back to a more pleasant part of the milky way. I've seen computer generated models of past ice ages over the past hundreds of thousands of years and the waxing and waning of the ice caps is frightening. It's a genuine thing.
But mention ice age in the current climate of global warming this and global warming that and it rightfully so sounds absurd.
The term "global warming" is already quite out of date; it was yet another catch-phrase that was coined to make it easier for the average person to know exactly which purported end-of-the-world calamity was being discussed at any given moment by the talking heads that deliver the news. The problem was that a severe winter would hit, or an extended cold snap, and even the people who let TV do all their thinking for them started to say "Now, wait a minute here...this can't be global warming; I'm feeling distinctly chilly right now..."
Spin doctors got on the case and decided that "global warming" was too specific; it was just too easy to find examples that made it seem less apocalyptic and not nearly frightening enough. What was needed was a more vague, ambiguous terminology that didn't really say anything, and so could not be argued with. Thus the appearance of "climate change"; this was perfect, because whether it got colder, warmer, hotter, drier or started to rain squirrels out of the sky...it was still climate change and it was going to destroy us all and it was still your fault.
Spin doctors got on the case and decided that "global warming" was too specific; it was just too easy to find examples that made it seem less apocalyptic and not nearly frightening enough. What was needed was a more vague, ambiguous terminology that didn't really say anything, and so could not be argued with. Thus the appearance of "climate change"; this was perfect, because whether it got colder, warmer, hotter, drier or started to rain squirrels out of the sky...it was still climate change and it was going to destroy us all and it was still your fault.
