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Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:55 am

okey dokey i'll do this before eating (i hate insomnia, ohwell its only CLAIT tommorow)

anyway, without the polotics it goes thusly:
all animals want to survive, some take it further with the will to dominate.
its usually the sentient species that do this (dolphins, and.. well.. us, great apes lose out by a whisker in this one) but other animals do too, especially hive mentality ones (ants, termites)
in this will to dominate we tend to get a bit... xenophobic (we fear anything differant, like it or not, the various races of mankind are differant, may be skin deep (literally) but it exists, you cant fight off 3 million years of evolution telling you strangers are dangerous in a few thousand)
anyway, xenophobia and the will to dominate dont mix.
well, they do, but in an electricity and water kind of way.

Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:08 am

Do dream catchers really work?

Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:19 am

wouldnt know.
A: dont have one
and
B: dont remember any of my dreams anyway.
except the pink flying hippos, but thats another story.

Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:19 am

Why do cats lick to eat mice?

What makes a clock tick?

If a Black Bear was born Albino, what is it?

Are pandas just severly beat up or missing sleep?

Do cows like to eat cheese?

Why is bungie so bungie?

Is masterchief really a firefighter?

Spongebob squarepants has rectangular pants. Whats up with that?

Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:23 am

Why do cats lick to eat mice?
its a cat thing, very rough tongues, they literally lick their prey... to eaten.

What makes a clock tick?
the metrenome keeps it in pace, this ticks.

If a Black Bear was born Albino, what is it?
and albino black bear ofcourse.

Are pandas just severly beat up or missing sleep?
beat up because they miss sleep

Do cows like to eat cheese?
probably kill the things.

Why is bungie so bungie?
.. do what now?

Is masterchief really a firefighter?
no.
he gets PWNed by Samus Aran though.

Spongebob squarepants has rectangular pants. Whats up with that?
whats up with spongebob to begin with!

Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:37 am

About the PE teacher thin...I dunno, but our PE teachers are pretty fit 0.o and loud. Only one is fat since she had kids. 0.o but she's a great dance teacher :P hehe

Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:41 am

I don't need an answer, these are just random things I've wondered about.

Who on earth was the person who looked at a toad or a frog and decided that their legs would be good eatin?

Are there wild/non-domesticated cows?

So why are pandas black and white? Camouflage would seem to be the obvious answer, but their colors don't really do that.


And.. that's all for now... my brain is refusing to cooperate with me atm :D

Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:48 am

same person who looked at ants and thought "mmmm chocolate" i guess?

nope, bred into extinction.

not a clue to be honest, black/white doesnt strike me as a forest camoflague scheme.

Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:55 am

Shollia wrote:Who on earth was the person who looked at a toad or a frog and decided that their legs would be good eatin?


Actually, I think their legs are good for the body or something. And they taste like "chicken". I wouldn't know 'cause I never tried even though some restuarants here offer those. Seeing those frogs/toads in the market is enough to make me lose my appetite.

And if that worries you, in mainland China (or some other place I don't know) they make even more worrying things. Jelly bits are from tyres. Now tell me how can anyone look at a tyre and think of jelly. :P They just do, apparently, to make money. And the jelly is nice and pretty and clear and does not have any sign of a tyre at all.

And mouldy oranges. They manage to bleach it or something and bring out the nice and shininess of the orange. Then be clever and stick a "sunkist" label on. :lol: Amuses me muchly

watericesage wrote:Do dream catchers really work?

I suppose so. But I think mine worn out after a while.

Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:21 am

_jaye_ wrote:
watericesage wrote:Do dream catchers really work?

I suppose so. But I think mine worn out after a while.


I have a dreamcatcher that I've had since I was like 5 that my uncle made me XD I dunno if it works. I go through cycles - sometimes I'll get really irritated because every day of the week I'll wake up from a dream, or I'll half-wake up, and it leaves me feeling kind of disoriented. other times I'll go ages without remembering a single dream. I do remember last night's though.

a bunch of people. on an island thingy. and I was there. and there were...copper...things. like holes, with molten copper at the bottom, and for some reason we needed copper, but there were monsters that attacked you and dragged you into the hole if you tried to take the copper. but then some dude helped someone else get out of it - I think it was me, but I was watching it from third person view - and there was some honor thing where you were supposed to fight your way out on your own and the dude was like 'psh, whatever.' and then one of the copper monsters warned me about a jade/emerald/somethinggreen monster and not to mess with it, but a friend of mine did and a thing popped up and it had a spike and it poked her. O.o and something with a really, really big library. huge library. and some lady that got all mad that was like out out OUT.

</randomEidy!dreams>

Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:35 am

Shollia wrote:I don't need an answer, these are just random things I've wondered about.

Who on earth was the person who looked at a toad or a frog and decided that their legs would be good eatin?

Are there wild/non-domesticated cows?

So why are pandas black and white? Camouflage would seem to be the obvious answer, but their colors don't really do that.


And.. that's all for now... my brain is refusing to cooperate with me atm :D


1. Because the frog's legs were more attractive than his wife's so he wanted to marry the frog instead, but then decided since those legs are so attractive, he ate them.

2. Yes. Those are called buffalo. Or more commonly known as turtles.

3. They are the by-product of Masterchief and Samus.

Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:52 am

Actually cattle were probably bred down from Aurochs... at least most cattle that we commanly think of as cattle.
Other breeds of what were whild cattle are now exctinct.
The Aurochs used to be massive black/brown cattle that roamed all over Europe, but unfortunately they were hunted and bred into extinction. They've been bred back from other cattle breeds, however, they are much smaller then what they once were, and only look like what they had been.

Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:18 am

_jaye_ wrote:
Shollia wrote:Who on earth was the person who looked at a toad or a frog and decided that their legs would be good eatin?


Actually, I think their legs are good for the body or something. And they taste like "chicken". I wouldn't know 'cause I never tried even though some restuarants here offer those. Seeing those frogs/toads in the market is enough to make me lose my appetite.

And if that worries you, in mainland China (or some other place I don't know) they make even more worrying things. Jelly bits are from tyres. Now tell me how can anyone look at a tyre and think of jelly. :P They just do, apparently, to make money. And the jelly is nice and pretty and clear and does not have any sign of a tyre at all.

And mouldy oranges. They manage to bleach it or something and bring out the nice and shininess of the orange. Then be clever and stick a "sunkist" label on. :lol: Amuses me muchly

watericesage wrote:Do dream catchers really work?

I suppose so. But I think mine worn out after a while.


*rolls around in a tyre*



Subliminal........Messaging.....



(Anyway. My dreamcatched oddly used to work, but I think part of it is the confidence that you're not gonna have a bad dream, etc...)
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:43 am

I've been attending a course on philosophy and the teacher likes to ask infuriating philosophical questions like:

How do you know that you know?
How do you know that what you know is right?
Does the Authority (law, government, parents, teachers etc) ask us do something because it is right or is something right because the Authority says so?

EDIT: And a fun little philosophical problem...

An unrepentant conman and habitual liar was sentenced to death. The judge ordered that on day he was to be killed, he could choose to write a statement which was totally true. If he told a truth, he would be pardoned from execution and instead be imprisoned for 10 years. If he told an untruth, he would be executed.

On that day, the conman wrote the following statement, "I will be executed."

Should he be executed or imprisoned?


(This is similar to another problem: A person says, "I am lying". With this statement, is he lying or telling the truth?)

Try answering those. :roll:
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:47 am

Qanda wrote:I've been attending a course on philosophy and the teacher likes to ask infuriating philosophical questions like:

How do you know that you know?
How do you know that what you know is right?
Does the Authority (law, government, parents, teachers etc) ask us do something because it is right or is something right because the Authority says so?

Try answering those. :roll:


Yay for philly! I'm doing philly next year for IB :D Maybe then i can answer these :D but yea, I have a friend who does philly and he says it's funnerful! Ok, I'll quit it and ask XD Similar sort of question...

How do you know you exist, or if anyone else exist?
Who are you?

And etc. Aren't they interesting? :D

*starts rolling around in a tyre too!*
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