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venus de lmao
Apr 30, 2007

Call me "pixeltits"

MikeJF posted:

Also, because wombats never stop growing, we know who the largest ever wombat was: the oldest ever wombat! Patrick, who lived to the age of 32 and had his own wheelbarrow.



*ancient megawombats notwithstanding

Look at how happy this person is to be hanging out with Patrick. :3:

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Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
https://twitter.com/NaturelsWeird/status/1143646241827512320

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

MikeJF posted:

Although to be fair, people often forget that Australia doesn't actually have any native large land predators.

Had.

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Wombats do cubical poos.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003





True. :smith:

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

MikeJF posted:

Although to be fair, people often forget that Australia doesn't actually have any native large land predators. That's why the introduction of the dingo, and later the cat and fox, had such an impact.

The biggest on the mainland was the devil (limited to a very small range in the south), and they're about half the size of a wombat and prefer carrion if they can get it. After that you've got things like quolls, about half the size of a cat. It's why I always laugh at the whole 'Australia is dangerous' meme. You guys have wolves! And cougars! And bears!

That said wombats are still ridiculous little tanks of solid muscle. If they're being chased they'll sometimes just stop and let whoever's chasing them run into them and knock themselves over. Or if they can (less cute) they'll dive down a hole and when the dingo sticks their head in, they flex their butt upwards and crush the dingo head with the power of rear end.

Australia is dangerous because most of those large predators ignore or run away from humans unless you aggravate them or they’re desperately hungry. You go to Australia and one wrong step has you get injected with brain-melting toxin by something you couldn’t see.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

chitoryu12 posted:

Australia is dangerous because most of those large predators ignore or run away from humans unless you aggravate them or they’re desperately hungry. You go to Australia and one wrong step has you get injected with brain-melting toxin by something you couldn’t see.

Also - for now at least - northern hemisphere wolves and bears don't hide in sun visors, shoes and toilets waiting for their chance.

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Also - for now at least - northern hemisphere wolves and bears don't hide in sun visors, shoes and toilets waiting for their chance.

Cougars, on the other hand

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻
I often browse this thread at work on my iPhone, but my Safari browser doesn’t seem to like the gifv’s. Anything I can do with that?

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

Dr Christmas posted:

I often browse this thread at work on my iPhone, but my Safari browser doesn’t seem to like the gifv’s. Anything I can do with that?

Use awful app.

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Also - for now at least - northern hemisphere wolves and bears don't hide in sun visors, shoes and toilets waiting for their chance.

No, you just haven't noticed them yet.

BaronVonVaderham
Jul 31, 2011

All hail the queen!
I've found the best angle of Rexie.

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
the amount that i wanna touch ALL of that is insane

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
Saí-verde (green honeycreeper) couple

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

Phy posted:

Cougars, on the other hand

Just carry a flask of wine in case of surprise cougar encounters, you’ll be fine.


https://twitter.com/duck_page/status/1177234468148527110?s=21

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

You'll never see a cougar. I've lived in this town for twenty five years. I've seen prints down by the river in the middle of town. They're there. But I've never seen one.

Now, moose. Moose will gently caress you up.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

I always love this one.

"Oh I'm a big scary birb...gimme dat popsticle."

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.
https://twitter.com/zEChPHPqG2t32nT/status/1177088639668350976

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
Cats are enjoying the older trees at my parents yard, the trees in our yard are young and got no interesting branches to climb, like candle sticks.





goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1177479898668994560

(BTW don't, whatever you do, look at the replies - David Lammy is a black Labour MP, so I'll leave it to your imagination what kind of replies he gets)

DrSnakeLaser
Sep 6, 2011


MikeJF posted:

That said wombats are still ridiculous little tanks of solid muscle. If they're being chased they'll sometimes just stop and let whoever's chasing them run into them and knock themselves over. Or if they can (less cute) they'll dive down a hole and when the dingo sticks their head in, they flex their butt upwards and crush the dingo head with the power of rear end.

That spoiler fact is amazing. Wombats have an insanely thick rear end-hide right? So can they even enjoy butt scratches?

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
Found these old photos taken many years ago, some random farm cats





Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1177479898668994560

(BTW don't, whatever you do, look at the replies - David Lammy is a black Labour MP, so I'll leave it to your imagination what kind of replies he gets)

It always concerns me why the camera operator in these types of videos don't just help? And makes me suspicious that they threw the cat in there in the first place. YouTube currently has a problem of channels that intentionally put animals in harms way the 'save them' for the camera.

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe

Mega Comrade posted:

It always concerns me why the camera operator in these types of videos don't just help? And makes me suspicious that they threw the cat in there in the first place. YouTube currently has a problem of channels that intentionally put animals in harms way the 'save them' for the camera.

I've seen this type of situation on like a home surveillance tape where you can understand that nobody was watching at the time. Like, maybe the person came home, noticed the dog/cat was all wet and then reviewed the tape. But yea, this one definitely seems like there's just a person standing there watching which is hosed up. The cat looked terrified.

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon

His Divine Shadow posted:

Cats are enjoying the older trees at my parents yard, the trees in our yard are young and got no interesting branches to climb, like candle sticks.







These are really nice photos :3: Beautiful cats!

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

His Divine Shadow posted:

Cats are enjoying the older trees at my parents yard, the trees in our yard are young and got no interesting branches to climb, like candle sticks.







Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
So we are posting cats on trees now





Elias_Maluco has a new favorite as of 16:56 on Sep 27, 2019

Cercueil
Sep 21, 2006




Morg enjoying the freshly vacuumed carpet and giving me her typical angry face whenever I try to photo her.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Elias_Maluco posted:

So we are posting cats on trees now

Why would we do that when there are perfectly good boys in trees already?

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.
https://twitter.com/Bodegacats_/status/1177715493324693509

Old Boot
May 9, 2012



Buglord
https://twitter.com/dorrismccomics/status/1177203595265171456

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!
https://i.imgur.com/CnuVxQE.gifv

https://i.imgur.com/CuWRWqg.gifv

ILL Machina has a new favorite as of 01:52 on Sep 28, 2019

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
For cats in trees, I don't have a picture of it, obviously but when I was about 10-12 years old, we were still getting real actual trees for our Christmas tree, we didn't get a reusable plastic one until about halfway through my teens. This is important because the real trees have sturdier branches, which our cats at the time loved to climb, particularly MK (Miss Kitty; my sister named her) who we're pretty sure was a Maine Coone/Tortie mix.

I get up at 3 in the morning for a glass of water, shuffle down the hallway, and shuffle past the tree in the living room. And stop. Shuffle back, turn, stare at the tree.
MK has, somehow without toppling the entire thing, wiggled her way up the tree to head height and popped her head through the branches like a fuzzy ornament. We stare at each other for a second.
"... Get out of the tree."
-Rustlerustle, THUMP- -Sound of cat running away-

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon
Great story and great mental image :3:

A Maine Coon/Tortie mix sounds like the feline version of hitting the brakes and gas pedal at the same time, all the time.

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.
https://twitter.com/SneksWithHands/status/1176905524216041472

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/fBeipM8.mp4

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




DrSnakeLaser posted:

That spoiler fact is amazing. Wombats have an insanely thick rear end-hide right? So can they even enjoy butt scratches?

I dunno. Back scritches seem to be A-OK

https://i.imgur.com/vzwY6Hd.mp4

They certainly can get itchybutt

https://twitter.com/bindiirwin/status/1094707021884973056

I think the preponderance of evidence is that they would enjoy a good butt scritch, but don't be gentle about it.

MikeJF has a new favorite as of 05:10 on Sep 28, 2019

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

His bark is worse than his bite.

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Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011




Snakes are thought to have evolved from burrowing lizards that intially possessed limbs, so it's unlikely the snake would be jelly :eng101:

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