xkcd

by **The Cat** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:35 pm UTC

Funny stuff.

by **Adam H** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:06 pm UTC

roband wrote:Oh yeah, I got that. I just hate being licked by dogs.

When my gf's family rehomed a golden retriever, he was very licky. No-one else minded, but I trained him not to lick me. To this day, he rarely does it to me, but continues as he used to with everyone else.

My german shepherd will stick her face right up to mine, and she'll occasionally flick her tongue out, but she is oh so careful not to touch it to my face because she knows I'll flip out.

Dogs are hilarious. Mine spent yesterday evening with a squeek toy in her mouth frantically racing back and forth on our slippery hardwood (uh, fake hardwood) floor, squeeking as fast as she could. You'd assume she just doesn't get enough exercise, but she plays intense games of frisbee almost every day (yesterday included)... Apparently it's just so much fun to slide around on the floor with a noisy fake animal in her mouth!

by **Dason** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:08 pm UTC

Adam H wrote:Dogs are hilarious. Mine spent yesterday evening with a squeek toy in her mouth frantically racing back and forth on our slippery hardwood (uh, fake hardwood) floor, squeeking as fast as she could. You'd assume she just doesn't get enough exercise, but she plays intense games of frisbee almost every day (yesterday included)... Apparently it's just so much fun to slide around on the floor with a noisy fake animal in her mouth!

Do you not do that? It's SO FUN!!!

by **roband** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:14 pm UTC

Adam H wrote:
roband wrote:Oh yeah, I got that. I just hate being licked by dogs.

When my gf's family rehomed a golden retriever, he was very licky. No-one else minded, but I trained him not to lick me. To this day, he rarely does it to me, but continues as he used to with everyone else.
My german shepherd will stick her face right up to mine, and she'll occasionally flick her tongue out, but she is oh so careful not to touch it to my face because she knows I'll flip out.

Dogs are hilarious. Mine spent yesterday evening with a squeek toy in her mouth frantically racing back and forth on our slippery hardwood (uh, fake hardwood) floor, squeeking as fast as she could. You'd assume she just doesn't get enough exercise, but she plays intense games of frisbee almost every day (yesterday included)... Apparently it's just so much fun to slide around on the floor with a noisy fake animal in her mouth!

Awww. The aforementioned retriever's brother is a German Shepherd, he's getting a bit old bless him. Can't play as hard as he used to. Great dog though.

I want my own SO BAD.

by **SecondTalon** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:38 pm UTC

Dos lick. It's what they do. My dogs lick as an apology when I yell at them for licking me after I told them to stop licking me.

So.. just throwing that out. I'm not saying don't get a dog. Dogs are fun. I'm saying get used to dogs licking.

by **roband** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:43 pm UTC

Oh yeah, I get that. And with a puppy it'd probably be cuter than a slobbering retriever or a shepherd who may have just been eating his own faeces

by **SecondTalon** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:45 pm UTC

.... you haven't been around many puppies, have you?

Puppy breath is like, 50% puppy kibble, 50% puppy poo.

by **roband** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:55 pm UTC

Yeahhhh but puppy shit is cuter than adult dog shi... Yeah I see your point. TIL'd.

by **broken_escalator** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:34 pm UTC

And if you have other pets with that puppy, that ratio goes to shits.

I'm told cat poop is a rare delicasy in puppy culture.

by **SecondTalon** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:51 pm UTC

You could totally market Kitty Krunchies^TM to dogs, if dogs had money.

by **Shivahn** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:59 pm UTC

SexyTalon wrote:You could totally market Kitty Krunchies^TM to dogs, if dogs had money.

Dogs' lack of money has often been a problem when it comes to my marketing schemes.

by **sophyturtle** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:27 pm UTC

Too few dogs have disposable income these days. What ever happened to rich people leaving their estates to their pets?

by **SlyReaper** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:44 pm UTC

So I've just started playing Skyrim after a graphics card upgrade. There goes my free time.

by **broken_escalator** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:58 pm UTC

Skyrim isn't realistic enough. My dog follower wasn't pooping in the house, nor trying to eat everything.

by **emceng** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:01 pm UTC

SexyTalon wrote:.... you haven't been around many puppies, have you?

Puppy breath is like, 50% puppy kibble, 50% puppy poo.

Really? Most of the dogs we've had seem to acquire the taste for ice muffins when they're older. My dog didn't do it until she was at least a year old. My sister's 3 month old is about the same.

by **Magnanimous** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:02 pm UTC

There's a mod for that.

(There isn't.)

by **broken_escalator** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:17 pm UTC

There should be, damnit.

by **SecondTalon** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:21 pm UTC

emceng wrote:
SexyTalon wrote:.... you haven't been around many puppies, have you?

Puppy breath is like, 50% puppy kibble, 50% puppy poo.

Really? Most of the dogs we've had seem to acquire the taste for ice muffins when they're older. My dog didn't do it until she was at least a year old. My sister's 3 month old is about the same.

That's.. odd as pretty much all the puppies I've been around seem to enjoy eating poo for a bit, and tend to drop the trait completely around the year mark.

by **Hyphe** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:10 pm UTC

emceng wrote:ice muffins

... ice muffins? Ice muffins? What kind of bizarre slang is this?

by **Adam H** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:14 pm UTC

Should I google it on my work computer? I... don't think I should...

by **Whelan** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:15 pm UTC

Hyphe, I feel compelled to inform you I love the Olgaf fox avatar.

by **Hyphe** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:24 pm UTC

Cripes! Whelan, you have reminded me to update my signature.

Also, happy St. David's Day!

by **micco** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:01 pm UTC

The traffic lights under my window have remained green for the past two years. And the puddles of water outside make me quite happy.

by **It Should Be Real** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:51 pm UTC

I'm considering starting a blog with recipes for cheap, simple, tasty things you can bake with very little specialised equipment. Would this be of interest to anyone here?

by **roband** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:59 pm UTC

Yes, it would to me.

by **Whelan** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:13 am UTC

As a student, I endorse this idea.

by **ArgonV** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:24 am UTC

It Should Be Real wrote:I'm considering starting a blog with recipes for cheap, simple, tasty things you can bake with very little specialised equipment. Would this be of interest to anyone here?

I can help you out with a few recipes if you need some.

by **suffer-cait** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:41 am UTC

i would love this and i have a recipie or two i might contribute.

by **PhoenixEnigma** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:43 am UTC

It Should Be Real wrote:I'm considering starting a blog with recipes for cheap, simple, tasty things you can bake with very little specialised equipment. Would this be of interest to anyone here?

I am interested in your ideas and wish to subscribe to your ~~newsletter~~ blog.

by **UniqueScreenname** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:16 am UTC

Armadillo Al, I love your avatar.

by **poxic** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:22 am UTC

poxic, one week ago, wrote:I expect to see crocuses next week, and the start of cherry blossoms in two (on the sunny bits of street).

Also, lots and lots of weathertf.

I found crocuses this week! Six of them, blossoms up but still closed, and only in one spot, but still.

I think the weathertf delayed most of them. (Two inches of snow yesterday. The hell...)

by **UniqueScreenname** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:51 am UTC

I once said I think that people actually look like the people they put in their avatar pictures. For some reason this also applies to poxic. Maybe I think there are several humanoid bunnies around that spend their time on the internet.

by **Ubik** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:27 am UTC

Inspired by the latest xkcd (#1024):

No, lake, I am your water!

by **Ptolom** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:21 pm UTC

I just had to spend £80 on four fucking tubes of grease. Focusing mechanisms need some pretty swanky lube.

by **Menacing Spike** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:39 pm UTC

Piratebay legal exchanges are pretty funny: http://static.thepiratebay.se/warner_resp.txt

by **emceng** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:49 pm UTC

Hyphe wrote:
emceng wrote:ice muffins

... ice muffins? Ice muffins? What kind of bizarre slang is this?

I live in Minnesota. The poo gets frozen.

My dog also apparently watched too much South Park, and was a fan of Mr. Hanky. One Christmas she came in from being in the yard, and her head was coated in poo. She'd decided to have a nice roll in the fresh stuff.

Next year at Christmas we let her back in the house after being out in the yard. A little bit later she starts to get sick. Like 5 pounds of poo-vomit in the middle of the floor.

by **SlyReaper** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:20 pm UTC

A dog rolling in poo is nothing. Wait until it rolls around in the decomposing remains of a badger. Mine did that once. The stench was unbearable, even after we'd washed him down.

by **SecondTalon** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:21 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:A dog rolling in poo is nothing. Wait until it rolls around in the decomposing remains of a badger. Mine did that once. The stench was unbearable, even after we'd washed him down.

Nothing more fun than giving a dog a bath at 3am because there's apparently a dead skunk covered in fermented badger semen in the backyard somewhere, and boy howdy did the dog find it.

by **elminster** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:34 pm UTC

I always find stealth fetish videos on youtube kind of creepy. At first you think it's odd that there's a video of, say, just a persons feet... then you notice the entire channel is only videos of their feet with people commenting on them called things like "Footlover2847" (Made up).
Like.... come on people, there's proper sites for that kind thing.

by **RollingHead** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:57 pm UTC

It Should Be Real wrote:I'm considering starting a blog with recipes for cheap, simple, tasty things you can bake with very little specialised equipment. Would this be of interest to anyone here?

Absolutely! Now I just need a working oven...

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