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Frantic about minor deaths

 
 
Chumly
 
Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 06:36 am
Thwangggggg!

A large robin smacked right into one of the bay windows.
It was dead instantly, blood seeping out its beak; major brain hemorrhage.

My wife demanded I immediately pick it up and put it in the garbage, so the dog would not eat it.

I obeyed, but not because I thought the dog would eat the dead thing, but because my wife gets frantic about minor deaths and expects an immediate resolution.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 07:00 am
@Chumly,


All deaths diminish us, even the moth whose ass is driven through his brain by my windscreen diminishes me.
aidan
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 07:05 am
@farmerman,
fm said:
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even the moth whose ass is driven through his brain by my windscreen diminishes me.
and yet you're still here? You must have started out pretty damn substantial...

Chumly - I'm just curious - I get kind of freaked out when my dog tries to eat carrion of any sort, because I believe she can get sick from it. Is there any truth in that?
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 07:15 am
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:



All deaths diminish us, even the moth whose ass is driven through his brain by my windscreen diminishes me.


What about the animals you eat.

Do they, too, diminish you?
Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 07:21 am
@dlowan,
Quote:
What about the animals you eat.

Do they, too, diminish you?


Oh . . . would that they did . . .
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 07:34 am
@Setanta,
Lol!!~!


I find deaths like that of this bird hard to handle too.

It seems so sad that they have to deal with aspects of our world that they cannot understand.

At least it sounds quick.
farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 09:49 am
@dlowan,
we call the flattened remains of animals that have left this earth via a chevy bumper,"road chicken"
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 10:00 am
http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2009/2/28/Argyle.186.g.gif
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Chumly
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 10:49 am
Loudon Wainwright sings the rarely performed Dead Skunk at Rockpalast Germany in 1984. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqTSev-_lQ
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candide
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 11:02 am
@Chumly,
I have a Vegan buddy that hit a Squirrel got out of the car and burried and had a funeral for it right there, a nice one.
Chumly
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 11:19 am
@candide,
As things stand, eating lower on the food chain is a safer bet both environmentally and healthwise.

Food choices aside, there's little doubt that the global environment would be in better shape, and man would have a safer future, if we had a smaller population worldwide.
candide
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 12:12 pm
@Chumly,
Thats for sure. Man is bad for man.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 12:59 pm
I had several birds hit a rather large window at my house, luckily none died, they all got up at some point and continued, but I did not want to take chances and
put up several decorative stickers up that window to prevent them from flying
into it - it worked!
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GeneralTsao
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 01:44 pm
@candide,
candide wrote:

I have a Vegan buddy that hit a Squirrel got out of the car and burried and had a funeral for it right there, a nice one.

But did this person switch to riding a bike in order to protect other animals from the 4-wheeled weapon?
GeneralTsao
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 01:48 pm
@Chumly,
Chumly wrote:


Food choices aside, there's little doubt that the global environment would be in better shape, and man would have a safer future, if we had a smaller population worldwide.

So I wonder why the people who believe this way don't contribute to the well-being of the environment and just off themselves?
Chumly
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 02:23 pm
@GeneralTsao,
Naturally we're pragmatists..........knowing that events will intercede.
GeneralTsao
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 07:51 pm
@Chumly,
Hmm? Please explain.
roger
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 08:12 pm
@GeneralTsao,
GeneralTsao wrote:

candide wrote:

I have a Vegan buddy that hit a Squirrel got out of the car and burried and had a funeral for it right there, a nice one.

But did this person switch to riding a bike in order to protect other animals from the 4-wheeled weapon?


You get flipped over the handlebars on account of a squirrel tangled in the spokes, you will lose all sympathy for the damn tree rats. Some people are called squirrely for a reason, that being that they are as unpredictable as squirrels.
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 08:14 pm
@roger,
Like...er....RATS?
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 28 Feb, 2009 08:15 pm
@aidan,
I don't think it hurts them, aidan. A dog's stomach in a marvel of nature, second maybe to a buzzard's. They digest bones, and everything.
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