Fun fact about kiwis! They produce the largest egg by body size of any bird; in fact, it's not much smaller than an ostrich egg. The Kiwi is about the size of a chicken. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
The egg weighs 15-20% of the female's own body weight. It takes up so much room that her belly is visibly distended (sometimes touching the ground), and she's unable to eat for 2-3 days before laying. Bewilderingly, the actual laying process seems easy. Once the egg is laid, she abandons it (who can blame her??) and it's incubated by the father.
The egg also contains the highest proportion of yolk of any bird; 65%, compared to 35-40% of other birds. The mother has to eat around three times normal amount to produce the egg, but the chick arrives so well provisioned (an attached yolk sac, which it continues to absorb after birth) that the parents don't have to feed it. The chicks hatch fully-feathered and with their eyes open, and some species are fully independent at 4-6 weeks. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Ditto our bases in Japan, South Korea, Qatar -- which all of a sudden Individual-1 claimed was a state sponsor of terrorism??!?! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ -- and basically everywhere else we have a permanent base.
Basically: we're not actually that altruistic, or that much of a "sucker" -- we are where we are because it's in our interest, first and foremost.
I've had the Death Wish Black Blood of the Earth, and I'm not sure it actually did anything for me. I'm about 75% certain that I'm immune to caffeine. I still have a double-shot in the afternoon though, to take a break from reading Wonkette writing code.
Republicans think they should eliminate Medicare for seniors. That working families are eager to die or go bankrupt w/o adequate/affordable healthcare. No choices. No options. Just "Healthcare for the rich only".
“These people are coming out and speaking a bunch of ignorance about my friend,” Blythe said. “I don’t like that. So we came out and just drowned them out. That’s the easiest way. There’s no point in engaging these people.”
My ex had this grandpa "Deuter" -- short for Deuteronomy because he was, like, 102 -- who drove everyone crazy saying wildly racist and sexist things every time he opened his mouth. He was legally blind, almost entirely deaf, and was just so pitifully ancient and feeble that it was pointless to argue with him. His family dreaded holidays, especially when new people were expected, because they knew Deuter would be there in those dark glasses that blind people wear like the terminator, just drooling and dropping casual comments that made everyone want to vomit.
After years of ruined Christmases, my ex had a brilliant idea. He bought everyone kazoos. Whenever Deuter said something awful, the whole family would blast the kazoo in response and take a drink.
“Is this Billy Holiday? My, what a beautiful negress she was…”
“HWAARRRRRWRRR!”
"Do you know, I once saw two women dressed in trousers on the beach. And they were SOUL KISSING!”
“HWAWWAWWRRRRRR!”
"I’m quite financially comfortable. Thank Jesus for the Jews.”
“HWAARRRRRWRWWRR!”
“I say, does anybody hear that?”
“WHHHHARWWWWWRWRWR!”
Everyone got wasted and he had no idea what was going on. It was so perfectly absurd I felt like I'd been animated into a Simpsons episode.
Wonder if the Westbroers originally thought a band called Lamb of God was coming to support them. What a rude shock that would have been.
I love the idea of drowning out bigots with kazoos.
Ha ha ha. A client was naughty.
Fun fact about kiwis! They produce the largest egg by body size of any bird; in fact, it's not much smaller than an ostrich egg. The Kiwi is about the size of a chicken. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
The egg weighs 15-20% of the female's own body weight. It takes up so much room that her belly is visibly distended (sometimes touching the ground), and she's unable to eat for 2-3 days before laying. Bewilderingly, the actual laying process seems easy. Once the egg is laid, she abandons it (who can blame her??) and it's incubated by the father.
The egg also contains the highest proportion of yolk of any bird; 65%, compared to 35-40% of other birds. The mother has to eat around three times normal amount to produce the egg, but the chick arrives so well provisioned (an attached yolk sac, which it continues to absorb after birth) that the parents don't have to feed it. The chicks hatch fully-feathered and with their eyes open, and some species are fully independent at 4-6 weeks. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Ditto our bases in Japan, South Korea, Qatar -- which all of a sudden Individual-1 claimed was a state sponsor of terrorism??!?! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ -- and basically everywhere else we have a permanent base.
Basically: we're not actually that altruistic, or that much of a "sucker" -- we are where we are because it's in our interest, first and foremost.
I've had the Death Wish Black Blood of the Earth, and I'm not sure it actually did anything for me. I'm about 75% certain that I'm immune to caffeine. I still have a double-shot in the afternoon though, to take a break from reading Wonkette writing code.
Republicans think they should eliminate Medicare for seniors. That working families are eager to die or go bankrupt w/o adequate/affordable healthcare. No choices. No options. Just "Healthcare for the rich only".
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You no eat my friends!
I think it's more an issue of underaged pee snuff tapes, since these are rich white men we're talking about. That means they'll be waiting forever.
Brit Hume doesn't look like he knows the definition of 'living well' beyond the numbers in his slush funds.
As long as there's no more for those urban takers.
Paging Mitch McConnell.....
Jill Fucking Stein !
ISWYDT.
“These people are coming out and speaking a bunch of ignorance about my friend,” Blythe said. “I don’t like that. So we came out and just drowned them out. That’s the easiest way. There’s no point in engaging these people.”
let this be our rallying cry
Never underestimate the power of a kazoo.
My ex had this grandpa "Deuter" -- short for Deuteronomy because he was, like, 102 -- who drove everyone crazy saying wildly racist and sexist things every time he opened his mouth. He was legally blind, almost entirely deaf, and was just so pitifully ancient and feeble that it was pointless to argue with him. His family dreaded holidays, especially when new people were expected, because they knew Deuter would be there in those dark glasses that blind people wear like the terminator, just drooling and dropping casual comments that made everyone want to vomit.
After years of ruined Christmases, my ex had a brilliant idea. He bought everyone kazoos. Whenever Deuter said something awful, the whole family would blast the kazoo in response and take a drink.
“Is this Billy Holiday? My, what a beautiful negress she was…”
“HWAARRRRRWRRR!”
"Do you know, I once saw two women dressed in trousers on the beach. And they were SOUL KISSING!”
“HWAWWAWWRRRRRR!”
"I’m quite financially comfortable. Thank Jesus for the Jews.”
“HWAARRRRRWRWWRR!”
“I say, does anybody hear that?”
“WHHHHARWWWWWRWRWR!”
Everyone got wasted and he had no idea what was going on. It was so perfectly absurd I felt like I'd been animated into a Simpsons episode.
Plus, they're rich in vitamin C.