And you're asking us not to be fearful of this doggie?
This one is my brother's dog, and he's 80 lbs of pure Labrador need love.
I was recently explaining to Sally that I would never bring the giant beast over if you were visiting, it would sort of be like you showing up at my place with a giant bumblebee.
Gotta face the fear
Fear? That doggie looks like a great big happy dufus. Love the sideways ear.
He's just _that_ close to ripping off that naked hand.
You are right M. Jean, my nieces and nephew just have little stumps where their hands used to be. (one really questions my brother and sister-in-law's parenting skills)
It's hard to talk someone out of their dog fear. Even once owning a 120 pound beast who's farts were worse than his bite hasn't done it.
Even more difficult considering that dogs tend to get bitey around fear.
That's exactly the catch-22! How to present a confident bluster when you know dread is flooding from your every pore?
Maybe there's a non-fear spray, like new car smell.
Dogs don't smell fear, but horses are another matter.
I bites yer teef.
i find all dogs but labs and retrievers either annoying or terrifying, i dont know what it is about those two breeds, but they make me go aaaaaah
Dude in the background is all "yeah, horsefight. Let's go do something interesting"
Break out the cigars,
This life is for squirrels.
We're off to the drugstore
To whistle at girls.
Walt Kelly
Horse fight contest in Guangxi. I had no idea!
That is pretty damn creepy horse on horse fight action. It's like watching drunks bash each other on the heads with sherry bottes on a hot day. (old neighbourhood, not current neighbourhood) (sometimes I miss old neighbourhood) (not often)
do you have a link for the horse fight image you posted, L.M.?
I'm not scared of dogs but I sure as shit am scared of horses. Nasty, secretive big teeth brutes with all kinds of kinetic head-smashing-in-hoof-kick potential stored up for whenever they might feel like lashing out.
Angus Wilson's Old Men at the Zoo begins with a giraffe kicking somebody to death. It's a good thirty-five years since I read it, but I'll never forget it.
good animal fight towards the end of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiMWJ1xBo8w
I would not want to be on the wrong end of a giraffe fight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCIGFdBt8
i like horses. robs giraffe fight is only slightly more creepy then watching giraffes fuck (and im not googling giraffe fuck(also did you know that giraffes have the same number of ve rtavreas as other mammals)
http://www.giraffes.org/amorous-giraffe.jpg
So, instead of giraffe fuck you googled amorous giraffe and ended up with an image that looks like a Victorian wedding night.
I don't have a link for that horse image. Richard sent it to me because I was making fun of his fear of horses.
it creeps me out the giraffe sex
Dogs smell fear, but they also smell "I don't give a shit". So you can give off fear and as long as you also have bravado you're fine. Unless the dog is nuts or has been trained to disregard their "I don't smell a shit" you're fine. People are the same way.
Sounds like the powers of characters in a computer game. Gotta make sure you keep enough bravado to counterbalance the fear.
I don't want the amorous giraffe/horse fight/cute doggy thread to end yet, so I'm posting this picture of Jeanne Randolph's dog so that we can collectively sigh.
Looks like a pyjama bag.
It's dreaming of a t-bone steak.
Did I ever tell you my concentric-waves-of-dogs theory?
Ever notice how every year or two there's a trendy dog that everyone has, and you can't walk down queen street without tripping over them? This year it's pugs, last year chihuahuas, year before that dalmatians, etc, etc. Notice how, even though dogs live about 15 years, you never see last year's dog? Now I know that heartless hipster owners don't get last year's model put to sleep and then go buy a new one, (even though I told my girlfriend that) so what happens? Here's my theory: Single hipsters buy this year's dog in order to attract a mate. Once they live for a while in a trendy condo, they start having kids, and move to the suburbs, pooch in tow, so they can drive a minivan, and go to the mall. A fresh crop of hipsters replaces them, with new dogs, downtown. If my theory is correct, you should be able to do a dog census of the GTA , and show waves of dog breeds expanding from the city centre (iso-canine lines) , with the least trendy dogs farthest from the core.
"classic" dogs, such as black labs, are exempt from this theory, of course.
Well Bat-boy and his litter-mate were originally sent to a shelter due to a divorce, so black labs ain't exempt. (And your theory does not take into account how many designer dogs end up elsewhere when the babies arrive.)
a few years ago the trend was 'matching dogs'. Usually they were small-smallish and sometimes wearing little coats. You still see the occasional set of matching dogs around, maybe because they are so darn irritating that nobody wanted to move into with them.
That's why we need dog rental services. I've been saying this for years, but they're finally starting to catch on.
No! Seal rentals!
Any one with one of these at the dog park would hook up so fast.
Oh look, some lucky couple was so anxious to get it on that they forgot the seal in the dog park.
that seal being so cute is the reason why we cant kill the pests, if it looked like a giant insect, no one would care.
looks like a scrumptuous rice-flour bean cake to me.
thats yr new art project
Courtesy of joester (we will bludgeon this joke to death)
I WANT A PRINT OF THAT
Just hit command-P!
Maybe I should do an instructable so you can make your own.
Does it come through that the wine glass is full of BLOOOOOOD?
Oh, Joester, this is so funny!
I think the wine is too transparent. Not that I've ever seen a wineglass full of blood, but I think it would be more opaque.
Maybe you could dribble a bit on the snow-white linen.
rice cakes don't bleed! mmmmm, yummy...thanks for making that picture joester.
Courtesy of Rob Cruickshank (because that baby seal makes every photo *POP* and we never get tired of it)
(posted by VB via SM)
Courtesy of joester (thickening the plot):
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- L.M. 1-04-2008 10:25 pm
And you're asking us not to be fearful of this doggie?
- M.Jean 1-05-2008 2:26 am
This one is my brother's dog, and he's 80 lbs of pure Labrador
needlove.I was recently explaining to Sally that I would never bring the giant beast over if you were visiting, it would sort of be like you showing up at my place with a giant bumblebee.
- L.M. 1-05-2008 2:57 am
Gotta face the fear
- M.Jean 1-05-2008 8:10 am
Fear? That doggie looks like a great big happy dufus. Love the sideways ear.
- sally mckay 1-05-2008 8:41 am
He's just _that_ close to ripping off that naked hand.
- M.Jean 1-05-2008 6:13 pm
You are right M. Jean, my nieces and nephew just have little stumps where their hands used to be. (one really questions my brother and sister-in-law's parenting skills)
- L.M. 1-05-2008 8:36 pm
It's hard to talk someone out of their dog fear. Even once owning a 120 pound beast who's farts were worse than his bite hasn't done it.
- joester (guest) 1-05-2008 9:14 pm
Even more difficult considering that dogs tend to get bitey around fear.
- sally mckay 1-05-2008 9:53 pm
That's exactly the catch-22! How to present a confident bluster when you know dread is flooding from your every pore?
Maybe there's a non-fear spray, like new car smell.
- M.Jean 1-05-2008 10:24 pm
Dogs don't smell fear, but horses are another matter.
- L.M. 1-05-2008 11:25 pm
I bites yer teef.
- sally mckay 1-05-2008 11:27 pm
i find all dogs but labs and retrievers either annoying or terrifying, i dont know what it is about those two breeds, but they make me go aaaaaah
- anthony (guest) 1-06-2008 4:21 pm
Dude in the background is all "yeah, horsefight. Let's go do something interesting"
- rob (guest) 1-06-2008 6:41 pm
Break out the cigars,
This life is for squirrels.
We're off to the drugstore
To whistle at girls.
Walt Kelly
- M.Jean 1-06-2008 7:34 pm
Horse fight contest in Guangxi. I had no idea!
- sally mckay 1-06-2008 9:36 pm
That is pretty damn creepy horse on horse fight action. It's like watching drunks bash each other on the heads with sherry bottes on a hot day. (old neighbourhood, not current neighbourhood) (sometimes I miss old neighbourhood) (not often)
- L.M. 1-06-2008 10:02 pm
do you have a link for the horse fight image you posted, L.M.?
I'm not scared of dogs but I sure as shit am scared of horses. Nasty, secretive big teeth brutes with all kinds of kinetic head-smashing-in-hoof-kick potential stored up for whenever they might feel like lashing out.
- sally mckay 1-06-2008 10:18 pm
Angus Wilson's Old Men at the Zoo begins with a giraffe kicking somebody to death. It's a good thirty-five years since I read it, but I'll never forget it.
- M.Jean 1-06-2008 10:23 pm
good animal fight towards the end of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiMWJ1xBo8w
- rob (guest) 1-06-2008 10:30 pm
I would not want to be on the wrong end of a giraffe fight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCIGFdBt8
- rob (guest) 1-06-2008 10:34 pm
i like horses. robs giraffe fight is only slightly more creepy then watching giraffes fuck (and im not googling giraffe fuck(also did you know that giraffes have the same number of ve rtavreas as other mammals)
- anthony (guest) 1-06-2008 10:44 pm
http://www.giraffes.org/amorous-giraffe.jpg
- anthony (guest) 1-06-2008 10:49 pm
So, instead of giraffe fuck you googled amorous giraffe and ended up with an image that looks like a Victorian wedding night.
I don't have a link for that horse image. Richard sent it to me because I was making fun of his fear of horses.
- L.M. 1-06-2008 11:18 pm
it creeps me out the giraffe sex
- anthony (guest) 1-07-2008 6:48 am
Dogs smell fear, but they also smell "I don't give a shit". So you can give off fear and as long as you also have bravado you're fine. Unless the dog is nuts or has been trained to disregard their "I don't smell a shit" you're fine. People are the same way.
- joester (guest) 1-07-2008 10:00 am
Sounds like the powers of characters in a computer game. Gotta make sure you keep enough bravado to counterbalance the fear.
- M.Jean 1-07-2008 4:45 pm
I don't want the amorous giraffe/horse fight/cute doggy thread to end yet, so I'm posting this picture of Jeanne Randolph's dog so that we can collectively sigh.
- L.M. 1-07-2008 11:59 pm
Looks like a pyjama bag.
- M.Jean 1-08-2008 12:25 am
It's dreaming of a t-bone steak.
Did I ever tell you my concentric-waves-of-dogs theory?
Ever notice how every year or two there's a trendy dog that everyone has, and you can't walk down queen street without tripping over them? This year it's pugs, last year chihuahuas, year before that dalmatians, etc, etc. Notice how, even though dogs live about 15 years, you never see last year's dog? Now I know that heartless hipster owners don't get last year's model put to sleep and then go buy a new one, (even though I told my girlfriend that) so what happens? Here's my theory: Single hipsters buy this year's dog in order to attract a mate. Once they live for a while in a trendy condo, they start having kids, and move to the suburbs, pooch in tow, so they can drive a minivan, and go to the mall. A fresh crop of hipsters replaces them, with new dogs, downtown. If my theory is correct, you should be able to do a dog census of the GTA , and show waves of dog breeds expanding from the city centre (iso-canine lines) , with the least trendy dogs farthest from the core.
"classic" dogs, such as black labs, are exempt from this theory, of course.
- rob (guest) 1-08-2008 4:25 am
Well Bat-boy and his litter-mate were originally sent to a shelter due to a divorce, so black labs ain't exempt. (And your theory does not take into account how many designer dogs end up elsewhere when the babies arrive.)
- L.M. 1-08-2008 5:42 am
a few years ago the trend was 'matching dogs'. Usually they were small-smallish and sometimes wearing little coats. You still see the occasional set of matching dogs around, maybe because they are so darn irritating that nobody wanted to move into with them.
- sally mckay 1-08-2008 6:10 am
That's why we need dog rental services. I've been saying this for years, but they're finally starting to catch on.
- rob (guest) 1-08-2008 6:28 am
No! Seal rentals!
Any one with one of these at the dog park would hook up so fast.
- L.M. 1-09-2008 12:43 am
Oh look, some lucky couple was so anxious to get it on that they forgot the seal in the dog park.
- L.M. 1-09-2008 12:48 am
that seal being so cute is the reason why we cant kill the pests, if it looked like a giant insect, no one would care.
- anthony (guest) 1-09-2008 3:49 am
looks like a scrumptuous rice-flour bean cake to me.
- sally mckay 1-09-2008 8:13 am
thats yr new art project
- anthony (guest) 1-09-2008 11:27 am
Courtesy of joester (we will bludgeon this joke to death)
- L.M. 1-12-2008 6:42 am
I WANT A PRINT OF THAT
- anthony (guest) 1-12-2008 8:50 am
Just hit command-P!
Maybe I should do an instructable so you can make your own.
Does it come through that the wine glass is full of BLOOOOOOD?
- joester (guest) 1-12-2008 9:05 am
Oh, Joester, this is so funny!
I think the wine is too transparent. Not that I've ever seen a wineglass full of blood, but I think it would be more opaque.
Maybe you could dribble a bit on the snow-white linen.
- M.Jean 1-12-2008 7:38 pm
rice cakes don't bleed! mmmmm, yummy...thanks for making that picture joester.
- sally mckay 1-12-2008 9:48 pm
Courtesy of Rob Cruickshank (because that baby seal makes every photo *POP* and we never get tired of it)
- L.M. 1-15-2008 5:37 am
(posted by VB via SM)
- sally mckay 1-15-2008 6:02 am
Courtesy of joester (thickening the plot):
- L.M. 1-15-2008 9:18 pm