I don't agree to that. ;)

But this isn't a "product, ingredient list".
It's an English language grammatical construction.

True. Which makes me wonder if these "one size fits all" product would in fact be any good for sockage.

I guess we have to call them "sandally-socky novelty footwear".

Darn it all.

You forget that japan is in the future and it makes sense then. Until it is in the past and it makes no sense just like the pet rock it seemed like a great idea at the time.

Tiger! Nice to see you. How have you been?

Sadly, people have lost this skill and they'll probably be thrown away once they develop holes.

Any people who develop holes should be thrown away immediately.

Cannabis Club Sud???

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You could hardly get the proper angle on the brush to allow that to really get the crumbs up off the floor. And you'd best use a short wastebasket for ease in emptying the dustpan.

THE BEST CHEWABLE DOG TOY
 

We've raised five Labrador Retrievers and a couple of nondescript graduates from the local pound.
We spent countless $ on dog toys... only to have the beast destroy each one in just a few minutes of play.

But my wife has now "invented" the least expensive, most enjoyed,
and almost utterly indestructible dog toy.

From her "orphan sock" laundry basket and the plastic bottle recycling bin, we have...

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Of the three she made, the best was with a gym sock with a wide mouth
plastic bottle, capped and still containing a few kernels of pop corn.

Next was a capped shampoo bottle, and last was the "almost ran" coke bottle with no cap.

We just haven't yet figured out how to patent this scientific discovery, or how to make money off it.

Benny has an old fencing sock he just adores.

I'm not too big on one function appliances but if you need to kick the ice cream habit this thing makes a creamy dessert from frozen bananas and other fruits. yonanas

Lamplighter, that thing wouldn't stand up to my Shih Tzu for a day!

And I understand the desire for inexpensive dog toys and have used the sock toy in the past. However, it tends to tell them that ALL socks are toys and they then get into your laundry basket and there goes your socks AND your underwear!

Try it... s/he may not be the ultimate destroying machine you think.;)

I certainly do NOT advocate putting plastic bottles in your underwear,
but some ballet danseurs have found a special use for orphan gym socks. :rolleyes:

Plastic water bottles are a fine cheap toy. 2 liters for the bigger breeds...They love the sound they make when they chew on them.

Is it okay for dogs to ingest chewed bits of plastic?

It probably doesn't hurt the plastic at all. :rolleyes:



But the thing out our dog toy is that the dogs chew and crunch,
but for some unknown reason, they don't chew down into the plastic container.
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Sure. Bisphenol A is good for them, it gives them superpowers and stuff.

Also, if your dog cuts his mouth open on a plastic bottle or aluminum can it's considered good luck. :eyebrow:

Thank I have been crazy mostly, and you.

That's pretty expensive for a tube.
But I suppose the one you use to steal petrol from your neighbours would be too big.

For the macho guy who likes tea/coffee...

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...also, wash that damn spoon.

Those aren't cubes!

And they're not mouldy either.

Mouldy? that's sic.

$6 fer squirrel panties?!

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I've seen cows standing around a big tub of water in a pasture, drinking away.

I had never seen one of these before yesterday.
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It's clearly for the cows, and they clearly use it. I don't know how they learn to use it though. They press their noses against the balls, and press them down into their holes, into the water. They have to use a bit of force, because the balls have buoyancy and are not small. It's kind of hard to push them in. But once you push them down, there's plenty of water down in there. When you let go of them, they pop right back up into place, so the inside has to be shaped to guide the balls back into the hole.

I'm not sure what the point is. Prevent evaporation? Keep small animals and deer out? Keep it clean? The water was actually kind of dirty with cud and cow backwash in it.

How do they learn that there is water in there? The younger ones can see the older ones doing it, I'm sure, but how was that first cow trained?

At Miami-Jacobs.

Had to look that one up. They must just be local to you. Are they a joke, or are they actually good?

Ptobably all that plus mosquitoes.
They probably left them out there for a few weeks without the balls at first.

Those boys have cow-spit hands now. Eurgh.

So did I.

I Googled it.

We're both wrong. It keeps the water from freezing over in the winter.

Interesting.

Though it does the stuff we said too.

In old cow byres here in Scotland I've seen cow operated taps for drinking water in the stalls. Above a cow-mouth-sized drinking dish there is a large metal flap which the cow has to press to get the water to flow into the bowl. How they learnt I don't know ...

That's neat. I'd like to see one doing that.

Reading Chocky (John Wyndham) I remember Chocky asking Matthew why, if cows can work out when to gather together to be milked, they can't learn how to open the gate. Even at ten I was able to answer "because it has no benefit to them".

I am still trying to train Diz to understand that head butting at night does not equal food. And despite how much he dislikes the sound of the alarm it really does mean 7 minutes of snuggle and then food.

And I was just able to look up this particular model. And at the risk of looking way to excited about this, it's really pretty cool.

You run a water line to this thing, and a float controlled valve, much like a float in the back of your toilet, fills the tank from below. Since you are running the water to it underground, below the frost line, it doesn't freeze in the winter, even in cold climates. The livestock just have to be actively using it so that the cold water in the tank is constantly being replaced by fresh water from the relatively warm underground pipe. In the summer, that same underground pipe means the water is cooler for the cows. And the balls keep the water temperature fairly constant.

The one I saw was about 300 yards uphill from the nearest building that had an obvious water supply, but I suppose you can run a hose underground for 300 yards. There was a dilapidated shed about 80 yards from this watering tank, and maybe the plumbing came from that shed.

I'm still not shaking your hand during Mass.

I don't blame you.
But you want to hear something gross?

My mom grew up in dairy farm country, and she would lick the salt licks left out for the cows. She also would say that she would deliberately step in warm cow patties while barefoot because it felt good, but I don't know if that's true. I believe the salt lick thing, but not the cow poop one.

apparently they're not Irish Cows.
Not so!

I really wonder. Do cows care about the temperature of the water they drink?
Like, I'm fairly sure my puppy never cared if his water was cold or warm. He in fact seemed to prefer fairly tepid water to chilled water.

How would you go about trying to scientifically prove "enjoyment", not mere preference but actual sensual pleasure, from animals' reaction to various temperatures of accessible water?

There might be very good reasons why we would have evolved positive reactions to chilled beverage that other animals may not have evolved. And even if they show tendencies towards, or preferences for, certain temperatures of water, can we show ways that they actually ENJOY or otherwise have positive "emotional" reactions to having chilled water versus room-temperature water?

I'm mildly skeptical of, but mostly down with, the idea that animals PREFER colder water. Cold water is a good indicator of fresher spring-fed sources of water. But... while on my most animal-loving level, I want to equate that with ENJOYMENT OF colder water, is there any way to empirically show the sort of emotional enjoyment that we feel towards having cold drinks, in other animals?
Like, i'm serious - if anyone can help me understand, i'm not asking in a rhetorical, no-they-don't sort of way - i'm legitimately dead curious as to whether we can be sure that they really do have the sort of emotional concept of 'enjoying' something they prefer that we do.

That's nothing. How do you know when you see the color that we agree is called blue, you are seeing the same thing that I see when I see the color that we agree is called blue. Maybe my blue is more vivid than yours. How will we ever know? And we can communicate.

Your puppy never cared... but had a preference?

I think animals would prefer cooler water in the summer simply because it's so dang hot outside. (And, by extension, rather warmer water in the winter.) But I live in a state where the animals sometimes die of heatstroke unless the ranchers go out there and hose them down repeatedly. Maybe in more northern climates the temperature doesn't matter so much.

Why the pesky blighter! Send in the badgers I say.

You can have empirical evidence of preference, by giving access to both, and checking frequency of use. You can have empirical evidence that brain areas associated with pleasure get activated by certain experiences. But, like glatt said, you can't be certain that other humans experience what you consider pleasure, let alone creatures with a different brain, different sensory apparattus, and drastically different life experiences.

But, if you consider the hypothesis that pleasure is just one way of reinforcing beneficial behaviors in the Rube Goldberg structure of the brain, then a marked preference (reinforced behavior) might be evidence for what the animal would experience as pleasure, if there were no other behavior reinforcers (ie pain when choosing the other alternative) detected.

eta: As for the puppy, one possible behavior modifier to look out for might be aversion to novelty in consumption. If the puppy's water is almost always lukewarm, it may be surprised and suspicious if the water is cold one day. Dogs aren't usually known for being particularly picky, but it would have to be something to rule out if an experiment were attempted.

Ok. Here's what I'm getting from this discussion:

Ibram has pondered the sensuality of cattle.



Oh, and Sundae? The badgers don't give a shit.:D

Oh they will. They are being blamed for spreading TB in cows and culling starts soon.

:eek:

I had a doublesided all hot pink 500 piece puzzle. Looks like the white album one is easier. At least it has a picture on the box. The pink one came in a glass jar.

Good thing that one is a "collector's edition," since that means that you can't break the plastic on it or the value goes down.

I have a Lightening McQueen hologram puzzle at work that confounds adults. Its super easy if you flip it over and do the white.

Products you knew should never have existed
 

There should be such a thread this thing....

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New vest inflates when you receive Likes on Facebook
BTW, one "ad choice" that came with the link was for "Other inflatable items".

It's only a very short hop to those virtual reality sex get-ups.

Fart pads.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-mo...rn-inventions/

I thought that was going to be more of a 'shart'-pad situation...

You gotta be shitting me...

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Pregnant babby's babby can has babby too?

WTF? That is NOT how it works. WTFFF?

Sony crap that worls