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Post by crowschmo on Oct 18, 2019 15:47:09 GMT -5
There is a spider in the corner of my bathroom. Not one of those big, creepy things that I catch with a cup and chuck outside; you know - those ones you wonder if they'll bite you in your sleep and you'll have some horrible reaction to. No. He/She is not wandering around my house giving me the "ewwwwWWWWwws". Just chillin'. Waiting. For...something. I do occasionally get those little gnats flying around. Or those things with pincer-butts (earwigs?). But, seeing this little guy or gal made me start to wonder. What kind of existence is that - just sitting...and waiting. What goes through their teeny little minds? Do they contemplate the universe while they sit and grow ever hungrier? I mean, I know there are probably more things behind my walls than I realize - or want to realize - but...hmmm. What do our eight-legged friends think about while they're just hangin' around? Do they lose their little marbles? Do they have marbles to lose? (I'd like to think so). Don't know. Just don't know.  Is this a Coleman Francis thread, or more of a Sloan thread? ?? Just chuck whatever you want to throw at the cosmos in here. |
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 22, 2019 11:13:09 GMT -5
Anyone on here ever work at a pet shop? I always wondered: What do they do with all the puppies and kittens at night when the store closes? Or on days that the store is closed? Holidays? Power outages? Snowy days?
They're babies. Are they just left ALONE all night and during days that are closed? Does someone go in and check on them when the store is closed? One would hope. I would think that someone goes in and cleans them up and feeds them when the store isn't open. (Or maybe even takes them home if there's like a storm coming or something?)
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 23, 2019 3:41:54 GMT -5
What goes through their teeny little minds? Do they contemplate the universe while they sit and grow ever hungrier? I mean, I know there are probably more things behind my walls than I realize - or want to realize - but...hmmm. What do our eight-legged friends think about while they're just hangin' around? Do they lose their little marbles? Do they have marbles to lose? (I'd like to think so). I don't know that they go bored in the same way we do (and their minds are likely very simple compared to ours). It could be that they're just interested in the hunt process. Having said that, outside spiders can tell when storms are coming and go to the trouble of folding their nets sometimes. And then there's that one South American spider that keeps a pet frog as part of a symbiotic relationship, so... hard to say. I imagine spiders love the hunt and the anticipation, but that's supposition. Heh... I think the thread could go anywhere, but the replies'll be different. Anyone on here ever work at a pet shop? I always wondered: What do they do with all the puppies and kittens at night when the store closes? Or on days that the store is closed? Holidays? Power outages? Snowy days? They're babies. Are they just left ALONE all night and during days that are closed? Does someone go in and check on them when the store is closed? One would hope. I would think that someone goes in and cleans them up and feeds them when the store isn't open. (Or maybe even takes them home if there's like a storm coming or something?) I think this one probably depends on pet shops. I'm generally leery of pet shops since so many of them wind up being terrible places, but I think that there must have been some good ones where the animals were genuinely treated well. I do know that (at least where I live) there are humane societies where people go for pets, and those places have caretakers and volunteers who go to make sure the animals are well treated. But boredom is a huge problem for animals, one that humans are too willing to turn blind eyes to. |
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 17, 2019 16:26:59 GMT -5
I'm of the mind that the majority of humans, as a species, suffer from mental illness.
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Post by crowschmo on May 1, 2020 11:35:06 GMT -5
Our bird seed is on the deck in a metal trash can with a lid. Not the smartest thing to do, I guess. May be time to put it in the garage. There was a huge raccoon rummaging through it last night. I heard it and looked out. He/she had taken the lid off with ease. This was the first time that had happened even though we've had one out there for a few years. At least it wasn't a bear.  A neighbor had told me once that raccoons had pushed her trash can over to get up on to reach something. I saw a video where a baby was stuck in a ditch and the raccoons (the mamma and other kids) had formed a ladder by hanging on to each other and lowering themselves down so the one kid could get up. Smart critters. |
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 31, 2020 14:36:17 GMT -5
How do memories stay in your head? Were you ever just sitting around and a memory of something that happened to you years ago, or a memory of a place you visited just pops in your head out of the blue?
I just think it's amazing that whatever chemicals or electromagnetic whatsis just go around in your brain and one is able to just conjure memories and keep all that in their heads (hopefully) their entire lives.
To be alive is just mind boggling. (And how does one's mind even boggle?)
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 9, 2020 20:23:06 GMT -5
Olives are weird.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 2, 2021 20:51:59 GMT -5
Whenever I go for a walk on the beach, I'm always hoping a seagull will drop an oyster and there will be a pearl inside worth a few thou.
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Post by crowschmo on Mar 14, 2021 21:01:43 GMT -5
I bet if I crushed some beer cans, stuck them to a board and painted everything gold I could sell it as "art."
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 16, 2021 13:49:30 GMT -5
Possibly, possibly. Put some thought into what the golden beer cans are or represent, you could make a case that might fetch a little cash.
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Post by crowschmo on Mar 19, 2021 21:51:05 GMT -5
^^^^^^ It represents our crushed (formerly golden) dreams.
So, what's with all the volcanoes erupting and earth quakes lately? I hope the poles aren't shifting. Well, I know they are, but I don't want them to shift dramatically in my life time.
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Post by sol-survivor on Mar 20, 2021 10:29:47 GMT -5
^^^ Perhaps someone should start checking on isolated islands to see if there are any James Bond style megalomaniacs plotting something.
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Post by crowschmo on Mar 20, 2021 19:29:48 GMT -5
I'm sure they'll tell us their whole plan before they kill us.
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Post by crowschmo on Mar 21, 2021 16:57:25 GMT -5
Something weird happened yesterday. I guess you could call it weird. I was watching a video on YouTube by an uploader named Joe Girard (so check out the video if you're into theories about movies and books and such). I think the title was "Ice Cream." (Edit: Eye Scream). It was about breaking down the movie The Shining and director Stanley Kubrick. There's lots of weird theories about this movie and Kubrick out there. Like how there is a "confession" of how the moon landings were faked through imagery (Danny's Apollo 11 shirt and other things).  But, anyway, this guy was saying that if you put the movie on forward, and have a superimposed image of the movie running in reverse, a lot of the scenes line up, like: When Jack is putzing around in the lobby where he had his typewriter set up, and he's bouncing that ball, you can see a baseball bat on one of the couches. In that same moment in the reverse image later in the movie, you see Wendy wielding that bat and knocking him on the head and him falling down the stairs (or falling up in this case). When Mr. Halloran (Scatman Crothers) is showing Wendy and Danny the freezer where they can find all their food for the winter, in that same instance in the reverse image, Wendy is locking Jack up in that freezer. There's a whole bunch more and I can't remember everything, but it's very intriguing. Some of what he says is a bit of a stretch, of course, and others commenting pointed out that it doesn't EXACTLY match up, that there's a time lag, indicating maybe the guy making the video was just manufacturing these connections, but it's still a very interesting watch, but fair warning: the video is over 2 hours long. Anyway, it was all these weird, creepy connections (some of which could be all hoo-ey). And I was well aware that it could be all conjecture on the guy's part, but it was still, like - ooh. But the weird part wasn't the video itself. I was watching the video on my TV instead of on my computer, so when I exited YouTube, my TV was back on the channel I had previously been watching, which was HGTV. The show Love It or List It was on and the title of the episode (which showed up on the screen because I had just gone back to it) was.... Wait for it...... "All Work and No Play." BOOM!Is there a connection? Ancient Alien Theorists say, "yes."  |
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Post by Grape on Apr 5, 2021 9:59:36 GMT -5
^^^ Perhaps someone should start checking on isolated islands to see if there are any James Bond style megalomaniacs plotting something. That's no way to talk about the British Prime Minister! |
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