I’ll even go even further and say that plants suffer too. The plant feels a cut like that with a knife, hedge trimmer, or even a circular saw. It’s not for nothing that it cries “tears.” A tree “cries” resin, a lettuce cut from the stem weeps, a dandelion “cries” milky fluid…
And we humans think it doesn’t hurt. Vegans and vegetarians should think about that too. Okay, I’m probably going too far, but I had to say it.
Apart from all: The things plants are capable of, we humans only dream of. The rhizomes of plants are capable of forming new plants when severed.
Sorry, I’m being quiet again!
I don’t know whether plants “feel”, physically or emotionally. Most scientists say no.
But I’ve always said we shouldn’t be so cavalier, throwing aside the possibility, because we’re not plants, so we have no way to tell for certain.
And I’ve said that to vegetarians, when they go on about harming animals…. Aren’t they harming plants? I’ve apologized to tomato plants and bean vines and such, for taking their babies.
I read once about some Buddhist monks who claimed to live on air, so they wouldn’t harm any living thing. It was disproved (surprise!) but their followers didn’t believe that, and still tried it.
I eat meat… It’s my place in the universe. Animals and plants are not that far apart. Living things are part of a cycle. In the end we all feed each other. In that cycle, I’m no more important to the universe than a tree. We living things need to be grateful and respectful to each other.
It’s that crazy? Who knows. But I’m not ashamed of it.
She leaves a note, that even this outrageous propaganda acknowledges says she’ll be back in “an hour or so”…
And the family is starving, and overwhelmed with distress… their socks unmended, the water pitcher on the floor, the lamp’s wick untrimmed and its shade askew… the father helpless to deal with it.
Of course, she didn’t have a hard workday, herself. Boiling laundry over the woodstove, cooking, cleaning… those don’t count.
And if Father stopped off for an hour or so to have a beer on his way home, that doesn’t count either.
Being made up, with prosthetics, for his role in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” … a 2008 movie, based on a 1922 story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, about a man who is born old, and ages backward into an 85 year old baby.
It would be interesting to compare the way he looks in the right-hand picture with the way he looks when he’s actually that age …
But fortunately for him, he’s not that old yet, and I couldn’t find a picture that’s supposed to be how he looks at 60-ish in the movie.
Besides, he doesn’t even look 60-ish in real life anyway, though he is.
Taken ca 1906, most likely in Kensington, with a hidden camera, by amateur photographer Edward Linley Sambourne, who happened to be the chief cartoonist for “Punch” (the English satirical magazine.)
He took many photos of women walking to work, walking children to school, etc, with greater freedom than they’d had in Victorian times.
Their corsets and their skirts were both shorter, their hairdos less formal… The fabrics and the layers of clothing they wore could also be lighter. Though they were burdened by giant, fashionable hats, they still had a modern spring to their steps.
BTW my grandmother once showed me a picture of herself around that year… Not quite out of her teens, she wore braids like that, but her hair never got that long. She looped them back up, crossing each other, and pinned them to the back of her head, and wore one of those black silk bows, in the center. In the picture you see the edges of it peeking out from behind her head.
Speaking of black silk, that beautifully pleated skirt is probably made of it.
I looked and I looked, and I could only find two apples.
So I went looking… Not for the answer, but to see whether there was a better copy of the puzzle.
And of course I discovered that, once again, and in spite of the nice borders, we don’t have the whole puzzle. It’s cut off on the right and left sides.
I found it online, and because I knew what the other two looked like, I immediately found the 3rd apple.
Look! A Doggysaurus! (And he saur us, too!)
Max does a killer impression of Dino.
So that’s where Susan left her dinosaur.
Cute, isn’t he?
His name is Spot.
pretty rotten thing to do!.
That’s horrible! Really really mean.
Maybe they didn’t expect that result…. nevertheless I’m tired of researchers who have a “they’re only animals” outlook.
Causing heartbreak, or not even seeing that you might be about to cause heartbreak, whether to people, elephants, birds or frogs, is unpardonable.
I don’t even know whether frogs can feel emotional attachment…. Supposedly not, but I’m not inside a frog.
Throwing grief into their lives would be an inhumane way to test for it
It’s hard on humans, too.
Yes, I included them, in “people, elephants, birds or frogs.”
Whoever or whatever this experiment was performed on, it’s disgraceful.
That was and is mean! Really aweful!
I’ll even go even further and say that plants suffer too. The plant feels a cut like that with a knife, hedge trimmer, or even a circular saw. It’s not for nothing that it cries “tears.” A tree “cries” resin, a lettuce cut from the stem weeps, a dandelion “cries” milky fluid…
And we humans think it doesn’t hurt. Vegans and vegetarians should think about that too. Okay, I’m probably going too far, but I had to say it.
Apart from all: The things plants are capable of, we humans only dream of. The rhizomes of plants are capable of forming new plants when severed.
Sorry, I’m being quiet again!
Agree, Marge. Damn!!!!
I don’t know whether plants “feel”, physically or emotionally. Most scientists say no.
But I’ve always said we shouldn’t be so cavalier, throwing aside the possibility, because we’re not plants, so we have no way to tell for certain.
And I’ve said that to vegetarians, when they go on about harming animals…. Aren’t they harming plants? I’ve apologized to tomato plants and bean vines and such, for taking their babies.
I read once about some Buddhist monks who claimed to live on air, so they wouldn’t harm any living thing. It was disproved (surprise!) but their followers didn’t believe that, and still tried it.
I eat meat… It’s my place in the universe. Animals and plants are not that far apart. Living things are part of a cycle. In the end we all feed each other. In that cycle, I’m no more important to the universe than a tree. We living things need to be grateful and respectful to each other.
It’s that crazy? Who knows. But I’m not ashamed of it.
Please don’t feel that you have to be quiet.
Most scientist say insects can’t feel pain either. HAH!
They didn’t ask any insects.
🥺
She leaves a note, that even this outrageous propaganda acknowledges says she’ll be back in “an hour or so”…
And the family is starving, and overwhelmed with distress… their socks unmended, the water pitcher on the floor, the lamp’s wick untrimmed and its shade askew… the father helpless to deal with it.
Of course, she didn’t have a hard workday, herself. Boiling laundry over the woodstove, cooking, cleaning… those don’t count.
And if Father stopped off for an hour or so to have a beer on his way home, that doesn’t count either.
You might recognize that
But how did he get so old?
It would be interesting to compare the way he looks in the right-hand picture with the way he looks when he’s actually that age …
But fortunately for him, he’s not that old yet, and I couldn’t find a picture that’s supposed to be how he looks at 60-ish in the movie.
Besides, he doesn’t even look 60-ish in real life anyway, though he is.
Didn’t Jonathan Winters do the same thing on “Mork and Mindy?”
I don’t think he regressed, though… Or maybe the show wasn’t on long enough for him to get young.
Kramer prepares to burst into Jerry’s apartment backstage on “Seinfeld’
I get to go first!!
“Hello, God? Can you hear me now?”
The Church of the Immaculate Reception.
LOL
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Now let’s talk about how batteries are more expensive than a tank of gas…
It’s too bad all the misinformation online doesn’t come with an explanation of who’s posting it.
Instead of making things better, companies like Facebook, and especially Twitter, are no longer fact checking or disallowing misleading content.
Saturn photographed in daylight
Taken ca 1906, most likely in Kensington, with a hidden camera, by amateur photographer Edward Linley Sambourne, who happened to be the chief cartoonist for “Punch” (the English satirical magazine.)
He took many photos of women walking to work, walking children to school, etc, with greater freedom than they’d had in Victorian times.
Their corsets and their skirts were both shorter, their hairdos less formal… The fabrics and the layers of clothing they wore could also be lighter. Though they were burdened by giant, fashionable hats, they still had a modern spring to their steps.
BTW my grandmother once showed me a picture of herself around that year… Not quite out of her teens, she wore braids like that, but her hair never got that long. She looped them back up, crossing each other, and pinned them to the back of her head, and wore one of those black silk bows, in the center. In the picture you see the edges of it peeking out from behind her head.
Speaking of black silk, that beautifully pleated skirt is probably made of it.
Something from an Indiana Jones movie? Part of an excavation at Pompeii?
Giza pyramid
So Indiana Jones then.
Trench on the Death Star?
First thing that came to me.
can you find three apples?
I was about to give up when I spotted one!
Okay, it happened again!
I looked and I looked, and I could only find two apples.
So I went looking… Not for the answer, but to see whether there was a better copy of the puzzle.
And of course I discovered that, once again, and in spite of the nice borders, we don’t have the whole puzzle. It’s cut off on the right and left sides.
I found it online, and because I knew what the other two looked like, I immediately found the 3rd apple.
Try this one:
Oh…. And after you find them…. in case you want to compare…
The ones I found are
Yes. In my refrigerator.
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Two Great Stonefaces!
Your dog doesn’t care if you are famous or not, accomplished or anonymous, successful or a flop, wealthy or poor.
Unless you’re too poor to buy doggie treats.
I mean, then he might want to have… you know…. a little conversation.
I’m leaving for a dental appointment now. Coincidence?
Note that the Museum people knew exactly who to call.
“Bringing up Baby” was on last night…
I was just going to say that it reminded me of that.
Trying to remember how long ago I posted a clip from it here, so I could find it.
Even I recognised him, so I’m thinking that most here will too, photographed for a publicity shot in 1933.
he just doesn’t give damn
That, he didn’t.