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...It made me laugh, anyway: Lifeguard[^]
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well you must realise cats have skills beyond our perception:
I remember one neighborhood fluffy white as [clean] snow Persian cat that had no trouble catching birds, it'd low-creep up to them the way any other cat would. I know birds are tiny brained and key on movement, but you'd think a bright white thing getting closer warrants a longer look.
I reckon that Persian did in more sparrows and starlings than the rest of the cats put together.
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Some of 'em are just really good at it.
The neighbours bird feeder has a sign: "McDijalds" as Dij* treats it as a source of McNuggets ...
* Our cat: Named "Dij" as "short for Digital" because as a Kitten he was ON (and doing a Wall of Death round the room) or OFF (and you could have plucked his whiskers and he wouldn't have noticed)
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Whats there to laugh about? This is serious business. A neighbor had a bigger bird house on a pole in his garden. The sort that is basically only a platform with a roof on top and open at both ends. The pole and the 'cat climbing protection' were no obstacle for our little ninja. She simply jumped right into the bird house and paitiently waited inside for the birds. Actually not such a dumb idea. The only flaw was that long striped tail hanging out of one end of the bird house.
This went on for quite a while. The neighbor, an elderly and otherwise quiet man, got really excited when he saw what little bird was sitting in his bird house. Another neighbor's boy tried to shoot the poor cat with an air rifle, but could not get her while she was running for cover. No use. Kittie just adjusted her timing and came back when she thought that nobody would see her. It finally ended with the bird house falling off the pole, cat and all.
It's another story what happened when more than ten years later another neighbor decided to build a cage for his prized doves behind the house. Fortunately he never quite found out who paid the doves a visit almost every night.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah, we had one that loved fish. So she'd come home, and dump a dead Koi on the carpet. We never did find out whose pond she was raiding (and thankfully they never found out whose cat was so busy).
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Did you ever see a cat that did not love fish? Actually surprising for an animal that is perfectly adapted to live in the north African desert, hates to get wet and can even resort to drink salt water if it must.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I know what you mean, she hated getting wet, but loved hunting fish, and adored prawns - try to eat them yourself and she'd yell at you until you gave her some.
Strange cat, she only ever washed herself when we locked her in for a week over fireworks night, and most of the time was a suspicious yellow and grey. At the end of a week imprisoned she was sparkly white and grey, for a while.
Also kidnapped other smaller cats and dragged them home to nurse whether they liked it or not. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Strange cat, she only ever washed herself when we locked her in for a week over fireworks night, and most of the time was a suspicious yellow and grey. At the end of a week imprisoned she was sparkly white and grey, for a while.
When cats stop to clean themselves they have a serious problem. It was probably more like she always kept clean, but enjoyed a regular 'dust bath' somewhere outside. Natural flea powder.
OriginalGriff wrote: Also kidnapped other smaller cats and dragged them home to nurse whether they liked it or not.
Alpha cat. If you had let her, she would have been the mom of a whole pack of daughters and selected and approved males, kept them all in line and taken care of all of them, including loads of kittens.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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As much as I love cats, I do have one myself, they're a disaster for the global ecosystem, killing of birds, mice and other small animals in numbers you wouldn't believe[^].
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They do good work, keeping bird and rodent numbers down and encouraging the survivors to be more observant!
That said, they are the only creature where a single individual - Tibbles - has killed an entire species all on his own: The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren | All About Birds[^]
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The true disaster for any ecosystem is a certain sort of monkey that has taken over the entire planet. Cats, rodents and a number of other species have simply adapted and do their best to profit from this success. As long as it lasts.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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just incase u are using windows 10/edge etc and forgot to turn off send all my data to cloud this should be a reminder
Privacy – Microsoft privacy[^]
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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tl;dr did you actually read all that or just post it because it is probably corporate drivel and you don't like us.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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50. Insect piano sound? (4)
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Beep ?
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Oh, well done - I was nowhere near...
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... and I see no tangible reason it should have received any Academy Award nominations.
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Other than conspiracies, I suspect it was the same reason they nominated Return of the King. Sometimes they just nominate a movie because it's at the end of a long stretch of work. A "here's for everything but not this" award.
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oscars: self back patting and minorities' appeasement; absolutely nothing to do with movies.
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I just got back from the Matrix...
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I want an Armoured Riding Attack Rhino!
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The reason is to promote movies and Hollywood among the panther population.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I dunno about academy awards, but it was a good and fun movies.
Further half of the awards are awarded to the most successful movie on the box office... so there is that, since Black Panther made a killing (at the box office).
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A while back, I upgraded my grandfather to Windows 10. He was running an old, old install of Windows 7 that was as slow as molasses. At the time, upgrade to Windows 10 were still free. So when I went to put an SSD in his computer, I figured I may as well bring him up to Windows 10 as well.
Although many people dislike Windows 10, it has been mostly great for him. It has been fast, it has been stable, and it hasn't become infested with malware.
But there's one thing that nearly ruins it for him.
When I ran the Windows 10 upgrade, it removed the old FreeCell game and replaced it with the flashy Microsoft Solitaire Collection, which include a fancy new FreeCell with more animations, uglier cards, annoying sound effects, and integration with your XBox account.
Now, my grandfather is no luddite, but he liked his old FreeCell. It was dependable. It worked. And he really has no desire to create an XBox account so he can duke it out with his buddies to see who is highest on the FreeCell leaderboard.
No big deal, though. It's extremely easy to re-install the old FreeCell app, and get rid of the new Solitaire app.
But every time there's a major Windows update, the installer goes out of its way to hunt down and eliminate all traces of the old FreeCell application and replace it with the newest version of Microsoft Solitaire Collection™.
Come on, Microsoft! If I'm running Windows 10, and I've gone out of my way to acquire and install the super-old FreeCell app, it's probably because I really. I don't appreciate you bundling a FreeCell assassin agent into the Windows 10 installer that mercilessly hunts down and destroys my grandfather's favourite game every time there's a big update.
Now I'm going to have to go and create a super-secret portable hack of FreeCell that stays out of the registry and disguises itself well enough to escape the reach of the Windows 10 installer's roving FreeCell hit squads.
On a side note, I hope you're all having a terrific weekend!
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