Lola at the Coffee House

I saw a film yesterday vonny about vultures.

In it there was a long sequence showing a crowd of vultures strip a wildebeest carcass to a skeleton in 20 minutes with interference from some jackals and hyenas.

Because it happened too fast to see parts of it were repeated in slow motion in order to study the pecking order.

It was intellectually interesting as a comparison with the banking profession but "aesthetically pleasing" is was not and I would never attempt to try to make it so.

If that means that I'm "not living" then I'm going to have to put up with it.

I could have chosen other examples to make the point but I'm too aware of the delicate sensibilities one expects to find in a respectable coffee house.

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I saw it too - BBC2. I started off disliking vultures, finished up admiring them! Admired the single mother vulture who was trying to feed her youngster, and also to shield it from the sun with her wings - all in vain, as apparently a nasty eagle came along when she left the vulnerable youngster alone.

Didn't see it, but have seen vultures down the road at the Ringwood Raptor centre. They're very affectionate animals, very popular with the crowd.

This is aesthetically pleasing imo.

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/publicprogrammes/documents/Michelangeloteachersresourcelores.pdf

And this--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edouard_Manet_-_Olympia_-_Google_Art_Project_3.jpg

They're horrid, filthy, nasty, little buggers aren't they von?

Did you see that ad, for a beer, that showed two hooligans watching football with a vulture stood in the middle of a big, fancy silver platter on the sideboard pulling apart a turkey carcass which the lads had finished with. With special attention to the sinews which are vultures favourite cut.

Some ads have real class.

Not horrid and not filthy - they are quite striking! And they do a wonderful job - you obviously didn't pay attention to the programme.

I know it was claimed that the decline of vultures in India had cost the economy 35 billion of something.

Nevertheless, I still think that they are horrid, filthy, nasty, little buggers. And the wildebeests are horrid, filthy, nasty, big buggers.

Our local turkey vultures are horrid. Their only defensive weapon is to puke all over everything . The black vultures are almost like the most fastidious birds , but they dine on fish and theres none of that diving headfirst into a rotting carcass.

A TURKEY VULTURE (hard to love one of these)




A BLACK VULTURE IN FLIGHT

I love our local vultures. They keep the roads cleaner and also provide a bit of comedy when they tear into someone's trash bags.

So they put highway sanitation engineers out of a job do they and make Obarmy's job more difficult?

Outsourcing jobs to vultures.

Sheesh!!!

You can keep the lawn trim ed if you have a few guinea pigs under a moveable cage.

You can keep it trimmed better if you keep it under several inches of concrete.

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Only if you ignore the cost and the beauty.

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