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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

MariusLecter posted:

Looks delicious.

What its made from is a mystery, where it comes from no-one knows

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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

My two kitties on the couch, having a wrestlewash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPRmmXOy5A

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

I really need a better phone. Or at least a less busted one.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

hiddenriverninja posted:

Today I learned I am less heroic than a rat.

Well, your bodyweight would set off a landmine, but a rat's bodyweight won't. So they're more suited to the task, if that makes you feel any better.

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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Sel Nar posted:

Alcohol stuff
Beer and wine aren't distilled, so he wouldn't have been using a "still" :eng101: I don't think there is a word for the collective beermaking/winemaking equipment, though ("brewery" and "winery" refer to commercial businesses).

A still is the piece of equipment used to boil off alcohol from a liquid, then capture and condense the vapour. This concentrates the alcohol. There's only so much alcohol percentage you can get from just fermentation because the yeast eventually dies (alcohol kills yeast), so if you want to make spirits you have to distil. And it's illegal to home-distil pretty much everywhere (hence moonshine)

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Sel Nar posted:

Thanks for explaining that; I admit, I'm pretty much a non-drinker, and I was less than a year old when Dad had his beer-making project, so I knew I was going to get some of the mechanical facts wrong. I'm just relating the stories as they pop up, and hoping you guys get a good chuckle at some of the antics and shenanigans that the most awesome dad in the world got up to.

Oh, sure. Keep 'em coming :) I just like explaining stuff.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

drrockso20 posted:

I apologize for any tears this may bring you; http://imgur.com/gallery/7vdEQrM

The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCnRqZw4WiE

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015


https://youtu.be/Vbn9WvTNm8I?t=14s

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Ozz81 posted:

It's the big cat equivalent of your mom licking her thumb and wiping your cheek..."aw mom, GROSS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZIelH9-s4k

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Does anyone else find it odd to use "person" as a synonym for "human" rather than for "individual"? Butterscotch is a person too! Just a short furry alien one that can't speak human languages.

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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015


Happy New Year to you too Maru! :3:

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Cythereal posted:

That poor kitty. :(

They're fine. Ears are up, body is relaxed. Not scared or stressed, just inundated by puppies.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Instead of making the walls higher, make them go all the way over. As in: get a covered litter box. No jumping over walls required. Kitty goes in the entrance in the front, turns around to stick their face out into the light, dumps, scratches litter everywhere and most of that litter hits the walls and falls back in the tray.

I think they usually come with flaps on the front, to keep the litter from getting kicked out the entrance, but when I put the tray down with the flap on the cats didn't know what to do and pissed on my clothes instead. I just take the flap off. Still some stray litter pellets, but not a great deal.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015


https://www.facebook.com/jamieLkoala/videos/453839294824298/?pnref=story

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

"Ushanka" would make a great name for a cat.

This guy looks like a wizard. Or maybe...

a conurer?

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

luloo123 posted:

NASA Got Sick of all that Conspiracy Thing and Released over 10,000 Photos from the Apollo Moon Mission

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015...o-moon-mission/





Great photos, but crappy journalism there. It wasn't NASA posting them officially, it's just a private individual working with NASA historians and various others, posting high-res shots that were already in the public domain. It also isn't from "the" mission - there were six lunar landings in total, and the shots are from all of them, not just Apollo 11 (the first landing).

e: actually, it's from the whole project. There are some from 13 in there too.

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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Tambaloneus posted:

A couple years ago I was at the Melbourne zoo and got a little bit of video of some baby meerkats. The voices of the ladies talking about them part way through are zoo staff from another exhibit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPEXsKdXjU

Next time I'm taking a better camera and hopefully get some more meerkat babbies on film because holy goddamn these lil fuzzballs are just cute personified.

The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne has Meerkat residents too :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqlHaNer7g

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015


"I got it I got it oops. Oh. Sorry there bud"
"... I'LL KILL YOU RARGH!"

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Your cat is loving enormous, dude.

Choco1980 posted:

It's a barkrito! :haw:

No, it's a sausage roll :D

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Chili posted:

We're back to 100% with Butterscotch! Totally healthy and his mouth is nice and fresh after his dental cleaning.

Also, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDbrIO25aZc You know, you'd think that after him pulling crap like this every night at around 4AM it would get old, but it still cracks both of us up.

Always happy to show you guys Butterscotch being pleased with himself, as so often he has a Herzogian Look of Horror on his face.

Awwwwwwww! What a happy boy! :3:

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Oh my god that cat and the ferrets thing is unbearably cute.

After some digging, here's their twitter: https://twitter.com/garo004giru

https://twitter.com/garo004giru/status/652112215609184256

https://twitter.com/garo004giru/status/698838580152512512
https://twitter.com/garo004giru/status/695943138418909184

Aaaaaaaaaaah I can't take it :kimchi:

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Inzombiac posted:

I have a serious question:

As a hairy Caucasian dude, I cannot fathom living in a place that breaks 100 F on a regular basis. Does Australia have giant ice tubs for people to run into between shops with AC?

No.... though Perth has a maze made of water that they turn on on really hot days.

Also: sure, Melbourne is temperate on average. And that's the problem with averages: Melbourne is mostly outliers :cheeky:

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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Angry Salami posted:







Just got back from a holiday in Thailand, where I met this lovely family of elephants!

(It was on a tour organized by the wonderful Elephant Nature Park, not part of a tourist show. These elephants are owned by a local Karen village, but they're free to do as they like - but they're smart enough to know tourists have bags of cucumber to feed them!)

Elephant Nature Park is amazing. It's a retirement home for old, abused elephants, where they look after them and give them everything they could want to enjoy their lives. Some day I'm going to go back there and volunteer with them.

I found some shots of my trip there, but none especially cute. So have a pic of my old kitty, Amber, who died a few years ago at around 18 years of age.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

My new phone just arrived! I got it just for you, Cute Pictures Thread, since my old phone's camera was horribly blurry.

Here's one of my sweet potatoes, James:

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

xcheopis posted:

That is a fat potato. :)

Yeah, he's getting a bit of pudge on him. The vet said he's ok with it as long as he doesn't get fatter. Fuzzbucket practically inhales his food. I need to feed him less.

e: here's the other sweet potato, his brother, Wolfgang:


He is a soft, fluffy, warm cloud with eyes.

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Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015


My cat really liked this video. He watched the whole thing intently.

Here's a vid of a cool cat: https://m.facebook.com/felinesofny/?refid=52&_ft_=qid.6257668837543387289%3Amf_story_key.-8175349623955183077&__tn__=C

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Unlimited puppies!
https://youtu.be/RMKSMae_rcw

I'm honestly not sure if it belongs in this thread, but I don't know where else it could go.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015



Look at this tum! Look at this tum!

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:

Every white foofy cat I've known has been a snarling terror, so as much as I want to snorfle that belly I just know it's a trap and I'm about to be hurt real real bad.



I'd still do it though. God help me, I'd still snorfle that belly.

Nah, he's an absolute sweetheart, though scared of strangers. He and his brother both enjoy tummy rubs, which is just wonderful because I've never had cats before who did.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

I'm thoroughly a cat person. Those dog videos make me wish I understood dogs. They seem like great people, but I don't know as much about how they communicate, what they need, and how they behave as I do cats.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

porkswordonboard posted:

I have no idea at all if this correlates to you, but I know a few people who think about dogs the way they think about kids. Having them seems so consuming and stressful, I mean--the training! The walks and treats and food and they can destroy your house! You can't leave them alone too long, and they don't live as long as cats can. The effort it takes to care for a dog is so much different then cats. But when you get down to it, what many dogs want is just to make you happy. They want, essentially, to please. Cats aren't necessarily as concerned with this, and most don't require such attention. Which makes them great, because they're independent, they're subtler.

But I don't really hold with the whole "cat person/dog person" stuff, generally. Some people are fully in one camp or another-and that's fine-I just think it's more fluid then that. People who have owned dogs and end up owning a cat, or vice versa, tend to be cagey about it. I had someone try to justify owning a cat to me once by saying "but he's just like a dog!" No, he's just a more demonstrative cat. You don't have to choose. You can love an animal because it's your buddy, it's your companion, your savior or your little household demon. But you love them, by god, even when they pee on your new loving shoes.

I know this probably has little to do with you, Hyperlynx (a name that seems fitting) but it's just a ramble. I think it's fascinating, but I work all day with dogs and own two cats, and set myself firmly in the middle of loving all of 'em. Those shoes weren't that comfortable anyways.

I meant more that I understand cats pretty well, just from experience and reading up, so I know how to read their body language and so react to their mood. How to approach politely, when to back off, that sort of thing. I have almost no clue about dog body language. I find myself looking for cat cues and having to remind myself that it's a different animal altogether. It's like people who don't know how to talk to kids, and are like "ok, it's a kid. I have no idea what to do with you". I'd like to be able to "speak dog" better, I guess.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Six-Of-Hearts posted:

This catte is a level 40 necromancer, waiting to cast a spell and wreck your stuff.

Looks more like a kung fu master to me. Waiting to pounce and wreck your stuff.

Hyperlynx
Sep 13, 2015

Octolady posted:

Hi guys, sorry to be a downer but my cat suddenly passed away this morning due to a severe reaction to anaesthesia during a routine dental check up. He was black and white and the best cat ever.

I'm completely at a loving loss, please post images of cute cats :(

I'm sorry :( I was inconsolable when I first lost a cat. It sucks, and I feel for you.

Here's my buddy James keeping my foot warm while he waits for dinner.

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