[Non-political] News that makes you Laugh/Cry/Both...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:08 am

Relax, they're vulnerable to birds (or aircraft for that matter), having rocks dropped on them, and fire. Pokemon teaches us this, and it's basically accurate. So next time you see a spider, just hope for a Birdemic or call for an air strike. Or burn the house down, that should work.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:18 am

Shrapnel wrote:
...You Lost Me wrote:News about spiders
Now I can't sleep. Thanks.

That article totally needed a little spider animation crawling across the page after about 30 seconds after loading (or maybe it does and AdBlock thwarted it for me).

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

This sounds like the opener for a movie rather than the end.

Anywho, something to help you sleep Shrapnel:

Sweet dreams

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:27 am

It's funny because L. reclusa has six eyes, not eight and is not on that chart.

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:55 am

...You Lost Me wrote:News about spiders

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy

Makes me wonder if that statement is limited to spiders.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:14 pm

It is kind of funny because from what i have read, poisoning spiders is a crappy solution for many reasons. Eggs protect vs toxins. Spiders are resistant to toxins as well. Spiders are mobile and simply go where the prey is.

The only reason it may work is by killing whatever the spiders were eating.
For now.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:59 pm

Denmark to ban sex with animals

The absence of a law on bestiality led to a growth in animal sex tourism industry in the country.

ಠ_ಠ

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:04 pm

It's true. Sweden too. Like I've always said, there's a reason necrophilia is a misdemeanor in Florida.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:42 pm

Yet it's a capital offensive to walk down the street while black.

Way to go, FL!

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:11 pm

i really love the doublethink behind that.
enslaving them for milk and their offspring, killing them so you can eat them and wear their skin on your body are all okay . . but sticking your dick into them is wrong! And it is wrong for you to let them stick their dick into you as well!
personally, i find bestiality disgusting, the same way i find gay men disgusting(which is strange because some of my best friends and colleagues and superiors at work are gay and i get along with them fine, so maybe disgusting would not be the best word to describe it, but not being a native english speaker myself i am not sure what would be a good word for that situation to be described with) as well, but as long as i don't have to know about it i don't really find myself caring about it . .

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:29 pm

See, I would have a similar opinion of bestiality (ie, that it should be at least as legal as killing and "enslaving" the animals), except for the whole issue of consent.

I'm just amused that the lack of a law led to a "growth in animal sex tourism industry in the country," while the same did not (so far as I know...) happen in US states that similarly lacked laws against bestiality until only a few years ago.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:34 pm

well, bestiality was a cornerstone of the danish porn industry if i remember correctly, so that's a bit different than bubba being lonely and bessy being available i guess . .

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:52 pm

Actually, the funny thing is, California was the last state I know of to actually make a law against it, around 2005.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:55 pm

I've heard that dolphins are trained in the US via sexual rewards

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:08 am

Stahlseele wrote:the same way i find gay men disgusting(which is strange because some of my best friends and colleagues and superiors at work are gay and i get along with them fine, so maybe disgusting would not be the best word to describe it, but not being a native english speaker myself i am not sure what would be a good word for that situation to be described with)

"the same way I find the act of gay-man-sex disgusting" is probably what you're after. The way you worded it implies you think the very existence of those people is a vile affront to your sensibilities, as opposed to "man bits are gross and I don't want to see that happening when I go to the restaurant".

tussock · Post by **tussock** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:24 am

I've heard that husbands are trained in the US via sexual rewards.

I do hope they mean they're banning sex with non-human animals though. Obviously plants are cool, a bit of fruit and veg, various kinds of pudding. What about animal products? Because cream seems popular. Leather too, which is also cows. So, really live non-human animals, and dead ones not yet dismembered. Got to be careful with laws.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:59 am

Wait... do we actually much care if people are having sex with dead, non-disemboweled animals--in a "we are morally outraged" sense, I mean?

Sure, we probably care in that it's fucking vile (no pun intended), but do we care in a legal sense beyond the fact some people would probably kill animals to have sex with them in which case we just charge them with animal abuse/destruction of property/hunting without a license, and probably "try them in the court of public opinion," by which I mean run articles with the person's face and name saying "this disgusting fuck killed a horse to fuck it, shun him with all your might?"

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:42 am

We do not want people to have sex with uncured animal corpses from a public health standpoint. You can get some pretty nasty diseases from dead animals, some of which you can then spread to other humans.

-Username17

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:35 am

Ok, also a good point.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:29 pm

In other news:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/ ... al#2mhh9ed
KILL THEM!
KILL THEM WITH FIRE!

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:31 pm

Now see, that's much less scary than the one about the spiders.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:32 pm

The one about the spiders was only scary because there are so fucking many of them . .
If there is only one spider, one clown is much more scary <.<

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:40 pm

Promise this one's not about spiders.

The 10,000 hour rule is wrong.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:20 pm

I assumed the 10K hour rule was a variant of the 3 second (or 5 second in some places) rule.

But it's good to see things saying that genetics plays a part and basically some people are just inherently awesome at things: it means if I'm shit at something, there's no need to bother with it, because clearly that's not what I'm made for.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:52 am

That's a strawman of what Gladwell said. In a book discussing several factors that make outliers, he pointed out that all the top folks in any field have more than 10k hours of practice. Not that 10k hours make anyone into the leader in some field, just that in addition to other aptitudes and advantages, top of the heap folks all have had a lot of practice.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:07 am

fectin wrote:That's a strawman of what Gladwell said. In a book discussing several factors that make outliers, he pointed out that all the top folks in any field have more than 10k hours of practice. Not that 10k hours make anyone into the leader in some field, just that in addition to other aptitudes and advantages, top of the heap folks all have had a lot of practice.

Except, did random chess playing kid have 10k hours of practice?

Ultimately, the 10k hours thing boils down to:

Well, I've noticed that people who are really good at something usually have done it more than people who are not as good. This could be because doing the thing makes it you better at it, or it could be because when you are an absurdly talented athlete people pay you tons of money to do that all day.

Also, I'm going to assign a completely arbitrary number that is in no way actually meaningful. 10,000 hours. There, give me all the awards.