This plan may have a flaw or two, but really I think it's a solid base for world-improvement.
Not to speak in defense of mosquitos, but, according to a friend of mine who researched this very topic to make herself feel better after a particularly nasty summer evening of mosquito snack-bar mosquitos can fly higher than any other pollinating insect and thus are responsible for many of the flowers and plants and bloom on high mountains. So, living in the land of lovely tall mountains, perhaps we should not annihilate the just yet. Instead, I propose the following: Only female mosquitos bite. So. We should keep all the female mosquitos in some kind of bio-dome. Nice, well furnished with plants and tasty blood pools, but NO PEOPLE. Then, the male mosquitos could go pollinate stuff and maybe once a month be rounded up (technicalities left to biologists) and brought to the bio-dome for some R&R and breeding. Also, this would lead to a much smaller mosquito mortality rate as the entire world of humans would say to themselves "Oh, there's a lovely mosquito. Thanks for that dreamy vision of daffodils on my hike yesterday" instead of, "AHHH!! KILL IT KILL IT!!"
Mr Miller, that is so mad it may actually work .
Seriously though, I can remember some research undertaken by Chulalongkorn Uni in Bangkok where the goal was to breed sterile mosquitos with the reasoning that if they couldn't mate the species couldn't survive and dengue fever and malaria would die out. Not sure of the outcome but I think that they would have taken the pollination aspect into acount when trying to make a species artificially extinct.
You sure it was a pigeon? Usually those are not really tablefare, whereas Doves (often linguistically confused around here) are quite tasty.
My dog being called Boot I have nasty images here.
Erm...I thought nutty, nothing special I probably wouldn't order it again, but it wasn't bad.
EDIT: it was in Paris where they eat weird things anyway, said Pigeon on the menu.
I've seen pidgeon on the menu in a few places in Bern - taube, right? I had it once - fortunately it was a small tasting course - it was tough and the skin was served on it - easily removed, but unappealing and thick.
That's what I meant by linguistic confusion. In German Taube could be a dove or a pigeon:
dove [zool.] die Taube - Pl. die Tauben [Ornithologie]
pigeon [zool.] die Taube - Pl. die Tauben [Ornithologie]
I really doubt they server pigeons here. The absense of pigeons in cities (compared to Venice etc.) is not that it is table-fare, but that there is a guy who is hired to take them out early morning before the little old ladies come out and make a fuss about it.
Dove is pretty good, but it depends on how it is cooked. An overcooked dove probably tastes like a pigeon. In Texas we used to stick a jalapeno in the dove and wrap bacon around it to keep it moist - quite tasty...
Unfortunately the loud, shrill buzzing sound that keeps you awake all night. That comes more from the males than the females.
Shrill noise coming from males. Sounds about right in our house sometimes.
I can't speak for the other breeds, but the Chihuahua's you see being carried are actually on recon missions for their planned world domination. Years ago, one of them realized their legs would prevent them from acheiving their goal within a reasonable time period; thus "being carried" was devised (Chi's tolerate other dogs in bags, accepting their valuable info- but have made it clear they will be dominated as well). Chi's Owner's (including myself) have long suspected something is going on. DJ Bobo and the upcoming film "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" are all part of their devious plan.
Now we know that pointless animals tend to be the cute ones, so you can go ahead and vote for yours on the Continuum of Cute
If the Panda is the most pointless animal, does the one below qualify as the most "pointful" animal?
Is this then the Mullet Head of pointful creatures?
That's not the half of it!
I definetely agree with the koala thing. The stink like stinky eucalptus pee, sleep all day, eat a crap tonne of leaves and rape their chicks. Not very nice. And to top if off have really sharp claws and aren't really cuddly at all....
Isn't this thing also called the penis fish?? I think it also swims up your penis..... OUCH for the guys!!
i know this is an old thread, but... i jus got this red panda link in the mail.
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