Men sitting with knees three feet apart on crowded public transportation, in a full auditorium, or somewhere else that other people might need to sit next to them = manspreading
Men sitting with knees three feet apart in a 90% empty bus, a chair not connected to other seats, or any other setting where they’re not encroaching on others’ seating options or personal space = whatever, people can sit how they like
Listen, I love our cat Wonka, but there’s no denying he is a Screamy Boi.
This is partly because he is deaf so just doesn’t know his own volume, but also partly because he is not, in fact, super duper clever. We are talking about a cat who used to be very angry at his reflection in mirrors before he figured out what they were, and subsequently used to hiss and spit at posters with other cats in them, but never the ginger cats. I wondered if he thought the other ginger cats were his reflection.
But our cat Wonka has Opinions and he doesn’t hesitate to voice them, loudly, at any and all opportunities. He is capable of an impressive amount of noise when vexed.
When I was working full time in emergency, we suddenly needed a cat blood donor. You can’t store cat blood in bags ready for use like you can with dog blood or human blood, so you have to bleed them fresh each time. It’s also kinda of dangerous because you’re taking a fair amount of blood from a relatively small animal, so we routinely put donating cats on intravenous fluids to keep their blood pressure up.
I had worked the night shift so my intention was to drop my screamy cat back at the clinic, then sleep for a few hours.
I pity the vets that had to handle him.
When I returned in the evening to collect him, I had two nurses help restrain him so I could unwrap the catheter from his leg.
He screamed like you wouldn’t believe. He wailed and thrashed and moaned like some sort of devil cat in the midst of a murder.
He screamed so loud and with such emotion that the entire emergency vet clinic stopped what they were doing and rushed into the treatment room to help. The surgical nurses came in, the surgeon paged through to the room, clients in the waiting room with real, sick and urgent cases insisted they could wait until we’d ‘saved’ the creature in the midst of its death wails. His screams brought the entire emergency clinic to a standstill.
@jerseydevious read Creature of the Night and causally presented to me the idea of Batman being something Dick willed to life to bring justice to his parents’ killer, and i ran 20 miles with it
I watched WITHOUT sound at first and can I just say, big mistake.
Guys, this is really horrible? It’s not a water bird having fun; it’s an owl being mistreated. Owls aren’t meant to get wet because their feathers don’t have the same kind of waterproof coating as other birds. They don’t readily dry and if they so much as fly in the rain they can struggle to keep warm, go mouldy and die. This animal can’t stop itself from spinning or resist in any way because it’s legs are restrained and its feathers are waterlogged. Owls are meant to be wild animals and they shouldn’t be treated like this or kept as pets.
Owls can die very easily of the cold after being dunked in water, and it’s most likely the poor thing got sick after this vile video was shot. When I say I hate how internet culture treats animals, I specifically mean examples like this!
Alright, here’s a tip: When a goose starts coming at you like this, don’t freak out. Just reach down and grab its neck, right behind its head. Holding just tightly enough to keep a grip, keep it close to you, and hook your other arm over its back and under its belly. Lift it up, hold its body firmly against you, keep ahold of the neck so it can’t bite you, and you have a goose. Carry it around a bit, show it to small children, then go throw it (gently) into the nearest body of water. It’ll leave you alone.
Make sure you have a good grip on the feet/legs though, they’ve got some serious claws.
Also if you try this keep those wings wrapped up tightly, to prevent injury to either you or the bird.
^Good points.
You want to have your arm over the closed wings, and can usually use the hand on that arm to kinda pin the legs to the body. If you have a jacket on, the foot claws probably aren’t going to be much of an issue anyway, but you need to keep the wings up close to the body so it can’t hurt itself flapping. Also, don’t hold onto the neck tightly- you aren’t trying to strangle it.
I’m a pretty small person and can hold a goose under one arm, it’s not too difficult. Sometimes you can even let go of their head+neck and they’ll be too confused to bite. If you do keep hold of the neck, do it gently- just strong enough to keep the head away from your face. You don’t want to hurt the goose, it’s not malicious, you only want to demonstrate that it should avoid you.
If a goose is going after a small child nearby or is being aggressive towards you, you can usually change its mind it by showing challenging body language. Lift your shoulders up real high, talk loudly to it, wave or flap your arms a bit against your sides, and march towards it like you mean business. Most will decide not to mess with you. If they do, they’ll do this low-head thing like in the video, which makes them real easy to grab. Little kids like it when you save them from a goose and then let them pet it.
I suggest tossing them into water because it’s the best way to let them go without having to worry about dropping them or getting hit by wings or claws. Just let go of the neck first. They’ll usually make a big splash, ruffle their feathers indignantly, and swim away from you.
Do NOT try any of this with swans! They’ll hurt you.
Ducks generally aren’t aggressive, but this will work easily on them. You can hold a duck under each arm.
Penguin falls down resulting in best sound ever [x]
oh my god
NOOOOOOO
they all gasped like OHHH
IM CRYING IM PHYSICALLY CRYING HE FALLS AND THERE ALL LIKE WHAAAAWHOA U OK BRO AND HE GETS UP LIKE *SIGH* YEAH ITS FINE
Having a bad day? push play, and within six seconds all you will feel is tears of laughter streaming down your face and the stomach cramps of laughing too hard.
This is one of the finest things ever captured on film.
unquestionably sea horses are one of the most bizarre looking sea creatures. Pipefish, a close cousin is even weirder. Look at these fishes and you will agree with me.
Along with sea horses and sea dragons, the pipefish belong to the group
Syngnathidae. There are thousands of species living in the oceans.
Like their sea horse brethren, the male pipefishes also do parenting duties like carrying eggs and also “giving birth”.
Most of the pipefish species live in the coral reefs. Some can also be spotted in sea grass beds. Here are some more photos of them.
I hope that you will enjoy this post.
Pipefish, like seahorses, are incredibly difficult to keep in captivity and fragile so it’s best left to highly experienced keepers or professional facilities.
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