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#10220 Loki

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 09:10 AM

amphibian, on 24 January 2012 - 08:47 AM, said:

Loki, on 24 January 2012 - 08:15 AM, said:

Oh, and optimal body temperature for my turtle is 26 degrees NOT 24 degress like my old vet told me (with turtles such a small difference in temperature is actual very large) and Tarquin is a GIRL not a boy! How can you justify calling yourself a reptile expert when you can't even tell if they are male or female??? Stupid goddamn quack vet!!!!

Do you know how hard it is to sex certain animals?

Yes, that sounds dirty, but I'm talking about identifying the sexual characteristics of animals like baby chickens, certain reptiles and fishes. It is so hard that the training for it can't actually be explained. You just stand there and observe while someone more experienced than you makes the call and eventually you pick up enough details, hunches and old wives' tales to be able to do it yourself.

This post was brought to you by perhaps the most random Wikipedia page I have ever landed on in my life: Chicken Sexing.

Given that the vet claims to be an expert on turtle husbandry etc and the fact that the new vet explained how you tell the difference and now that I know I'm pretty sure I could tell my 12 year old sister how to tell the difference and she could take one look at Tarquin and tell she is a girl. So while it is hard to tell the sex of some reptiles, Australian short-necked turtles rank amongst the easiest of reptiles to sex (tell the sex of, you dirty people!).

If I'm paying someone $160 for the consultation alone I expect them to be able to tell me, correctly, if my turtle is male or female.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 01:12 AM

I still have this cold flu thing :-( hopefully today will be the worst of it over.... Now to lie on the couch and watch movies...

That Elephant is looking rather frayed at the edges

#10222 Shiara

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 05:18 AM

Briar King, on 25 January 2012 - 04:34 AM, said:

Ugh I had one of my fucking migraines that puts me on the edge puking or ceasing out all day today. Its 10:30pm here and its finally gone since about an hr ago. Ive been sitting in the dark all day.

Ouch, have to say I'm glad mine don't get that bad...

*casting the shaved knuckle*

#10223 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:42 AM

Grandfather's in the hospital.

Was shaking, had really low blood pressure. Had a heart attack, which surprised nobody, but the REASON surprised everyone.
He had a tiny, ~3 mm cut on his leg, which proceeded to get infected.

Which he did nothing about for 3 WEEKS. Basically courting gangrene and sepsis. The doctor recommended that they amputate his leg just to be safe - but he, being a man stubborn enough to live for 3 weeks with an infectedly painful leg, obviously refused.

So now he's in the hospital taking 3 courses of antibiotics and keeping his fingers crossed.

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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

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#10224 Gothos

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:49 AM

Now that's just rough, Stormy. Fingers crossed.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#10225 tiam

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 03:42 PM

Adjutant Stormy, on 25 January 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:

Chin up AS. He sounds like the most manly grandad ever so im sure hell recover

fingers crossed here

#10226 Abyss

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 06:16 PM

amphibian, on 24 January 2012 - 08:47 AM, said:

Do you know how hard it is to sex certain animals?

No, but Apt does.

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#10227 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 07:58 PM

Where the hell is everybody these days? The board is less busy than it has been in recent times. What happened? Did everybody go off and live their proper lives or sumthin'?

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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#10228 JLV

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:03 PM

QuickTidal, on 25 January 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Where the hell is everybody these days? The board is less busy than it has been in recent times. What happened? Did everybody go off and live their proper lives or sumthin'?

Abyss has been too busy lately. It's hard to maintain 70 different accounts and personalities at the same time, ya know?

#10229 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:07 PM

JLV, on 25 January 2012 - 08:03 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 25 January 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Where the hell is everybody these days? The board is less busy than it has been in recent times. What happened? Did everybody go off and live their proper lives or sumthin'?

Abyss has been too busy lately. It's hard to maintain 70 different accounts and personalities at the same time, ya know?

Haha! I think that's a new theory on Abyss' identity. Nice one!

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#10230 JLV

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:17 PM

Don't give me credit, I picked that up from someone around here..

#10231 Abyss

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:54 PM

Don't be stupid.

It's only 12 accounts and most of the personalities are similar.

- Abyss, ...or AM i...?

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#10232 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:55 PM

Abyss, on 25 January 2012 - 08:54 PM, said:

Don't be stupid.

It's only 12 accounts and most of the personalities are similar.

- Abyss, ...or AM i...?

As long as you're not Apt.

wait...

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#10233 Gothos

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 10:48 PM

I've always been doubting and double-guessing my choices, but I could really, really do without that right now. The more I think about stuff, the worse the decision I make turns out to be. Wish I wasn't thinking that much, but lately there's been scarcely anything else on my mind.

Fuck you, brain.

#10234 Silencer

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:43 AM

@Quick - I'm still around, but amazingly with all the free time between uni year's I'm actually busier than ever for some reason. Work, sure, but that's not enough to account. :S

Guess some people are reading OST, others are waiting to get OST, and still others are moving on, perhaps?

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#10235 Loki

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 01:17 AM

JLV, on 25 January 2012 - 08:03 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 25 January 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Where the hell is everybody these days? The board is less busy than it has been in recent times. What happened? Did everybody go off and live their proper lives or sumthin'?

Abyss has been too busy lately. It's hard to maintain 70 different accounts and personalities at the same time, ya know?

Not to mention his duties on the Justice League as well as defending Gotham tend to take up a lot of his time these days. Society just ain't what it used to be...

Gothos, on 25 January 2012 - 10:48 PM, said:

Matador does this - the more he thinks something over the more likely he is to make the wrong decision. I keep telling him to just act on his initail feeling/thought/reaction and have more faith in his instincts then his intellect but he even over thinks that. Funnily, he never over thinks things regarding his job and medicine. I think it is a confidence thing - he is confident in his abilities as a doctor so he just goes with what he knows - in other aeras of life he is less confident and so he worries that he'll get things wrong and then overthinks things to the point that I reckon he loses all direction. Just try going with your instincts for awhile, G-man, and see what happens.

Silencer, on 26 January 2012 - 12:43 AM, said:

I'm always here for you, Silencer

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Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#10236 pathos

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 06:17 AM

Got caught like 15 minutes from any cover in a giant lightening storm.. and didnt have my umbrella.. and had a bag full of electronics.

It was the worst possible spot on my walk home and then my phone died so i couldnt call for a lift... after i got to cover and started to drip dry and ring out my shirt i got a call off to a friend but he had to first organise a car to come pick me up... it was a very kak 40 minutes.

At least it wasnt cold though... prob 23 degrees and the run for cover helped

You never have the same problem twice when you set it on fire

#10237 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 07:23 AM

So - update on my G-father. Messing with my groove.

Updated - he's not going to have his leg amputated, BUT he's not going to be able to walk for the next 5 weeks.

Which means that everyone in the family is going to be taking turns helping him to the bathroom everyday.

I'm slated for Fridays. That messes with my groove intensely.

#10238 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 07:45 AM

Also, I just fucking witnessed an advert for FFXIII2, THAT'S RIGHT, FF13 2. TWO. WHAT THE BALLS.

#10239 Silencer

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 09:12 AM

You didn't know? And yeah...wtf...

Messing with my groove?

PEOPLE. IT SAID CLEARLY AT THE BASE OF THE SIGN-OUT SHEET. "NOBODY LEAVES UNTIL THE BLUE BINS ARE DONE TODAY!"

...SO WHY THE FUCK DID EVERYBODY LEAVE YET AGAIN!?!??!??!

On the plus side, work finished super-early. :apt:

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<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.