They look like they're about to go for each other's throats. "Let me just get a little closer here...rarrr!nom!nom!"
Yes, both like turtles, but different species of turtles.
Not that it has anything to do with turtles, but extremely sanguine rat.
7: King of the Turtle People, indeed.
That was awesome, LB. Because I'm a Rat and my sister is a Tiger. I'll eat her lunch whenever I want!
8: And so Darwin is refuted.
13: Or he's vindicated, you're just looking in the wrong place. Here's a link to what I mentioned upthread:
It has been found that the parasite has the ability to change the behaviour of its host: infected rats and mice are less fearful of cats--in fact, some of the infected rats seek out cat-urine-marked areas. This effect is advantageous to the parasite, which will be able to proliferate as a cat could eat the infected rat and then reproduce.
14: I love the toxo idea in the context of this picture -- cats were just a gateway drug for this rat, but he needed a bigger rush. Next week, he's in the tiger cage. Soon he'll be advertising online for lions willing to dress up in a sabertooth outfit.
OP: And yet, my mind is plagued by a singularly superficial concern:
14: I find that parasite fascinating, partly because the idea of a parasite that alters the host's behavior and thought process is supremely creepy
Oddly enough, I'm not plagued by the superficial concern. If the R wins, he'll automatically become one of the frontrunners for the R 2012 nomination. And he's supremely creepy looking on TV, and he sounds like the perfect candidate to bring about the reality TV version of the The HandMaiden's Tale and I have no wish to go there, so I will be vehemently voting against that guy.
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['The rat thing is pretty cool.']
Speaking of things from Virginia: Regrets: Dave Matthews Band.
14,15:That parasite, as explained on Wiki, has inspired in me (no metaphor here) to absolutely Burroughsian (William, not Edgar) speculations on human civilisation and culture. You would think the inhibition of such paranoias would be a survival mechanism for it.
care to expound, or does the last sentence contain all clues?
Your prerogative; I'm going to steal it from your mind anyway.
Stanley, that DMB piece is pretty amazing.
Don't you know I'm interested in your theories? You big lug.
I assume it goes something like that there are so many nasties in the world that survival requires a sort of dementia in the oblivious kind of way, thus leading to a completely oblivious people, whose art and such is so immersed in such that we cannot ever know how much we don't know we don't know. The genes for which may or may not be turned on by little doodads who live inside cat poop.
I don't mean to derogate. I think it has legs.
22: I lost it when he started singing like Dave Matthews.
Hilarious, Stanley. Someday, when he realizes that John Mayer totally sucks, that will be my brother.
The Hobbies one is awesome. All of them are pretty good.
That video in 17: let me be first to tell you it's awesome.
Oh man, the Kid one? I'm dyin' over here.
