Posts by Kracklite
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Islander,
Here's a question, what would be your favourite aquarium pet? Octopus or mantis shrimp? Both clever, both weird (that's a plus for me - I love cats, like Lovecraft, but could they be just a bit more... eldritch?). The latter live longer, however.
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Yes, there’s this, this and this!
In a novel that I wrote a while back,* I couldn’t resist adding a character whose office is panelled in slabs of polished stone rather like this (hope the link makes it – I had a bit of difficulty).
*Fingers crossed. Typesetting and illustration is under way, but the publishing industry is in flux these days, and my publisher himself isn’t in the best of health.
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That’s “Dr” actually.
I do lots of voices. This is just one of them. You should hear my Cornish accent.
Now, as for arthropods. Mantis shrimps. Really amazing. Hyperspectral vision, can even see – and communicate – using polarised light.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Heather Gaye,
Yes, of course.
Well, I’m not sure if ammonites are that interesting – even nautiloids, thought to be the most primitive cephalopods, seem to be more robust.
This
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12127790?print=true
seems to indicate that they weren’t really able to deal with very large prey. Mind you, it could only relate to one species. I think that there is a bit of excessive generalisation going on.
Trilobites, on the other hand, are really cool. I recommend Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey as a read. He’s a specialist in trilobites and writes very eloquently. His discussions of the eyes of Phacops are the origin of the pun in his title.
They were an incredibly diverse, long-lasting and successful group and they all seemed to vanish in a mass extinction. Horseshoe crabs are their closest known living relatives, but considering how little of the deep sea has been explored, I live in hope that some true living trilobites, like the coelacanth, will be found.
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Tea. Lie down. OK?
Try deep breaths, counting to ten and that sort of thing. I hear that when hyperventilating occurs, one should breathe into a bag to prevent over-oxygenation. Obviously the word "victim" gets to you.
On the off chance that you... no you didn't. Even in quoting you miss the point. It is not about whether you are able to assert yourself with dignity, it's whether you allowed any dignity in your characteristation of others, which you ostentatiously failed to do by being a puerile smartarse from the very first.
We know who "Little P" was, it's obvious that you chose your moniker because you are the same or wish to emulate them. Your lies are tiresome and you've ceased to be entertaining. You were fun, but nothing lasts forever. Time to pull the plug. Come back when you have a full crop of pubic hair.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to recordari,
Snap!
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Sacha,
… and I’ve had some perverse entertainment.
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The only people who make it impossible to assert themselves in a dignified manner are those who refuse to assert themselves in a dignified manner to begin with, and that requires fundamentally a respect for those one addresses.
You're under stress, that's obvious. I suggest a cup of tea and a lie down.
Well, you're not even entertaining now. Professional victims are simply tiresome.
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Oh come on, now the wailing is getting monotonous. Higher, lower… you know, a bit of melody. Please.
Smugness, a troll complaining of smugness? Oh really, that’s not even old.
Dribblette, I have just demonstrated to you how a Chinese finger trap works – the more you struggle, the tighter it gets. More specifically, the more you complain, the more you prove my point about your childish sense of thwarted entitlement.
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Translation of above: "Waah!"
Translation of "Quod erat demonstrandum": Thus it is proven.
Actually, I am roughly an old schoolmaster. A middle aged university tutor/lecturer/intellectual odd-job man and what have you. Dunno about everyone else here.
… I know, I know, Do Not Feed The Troll.
What about feeding on the troll? There aren’t any flies about (a combination of the cold and the spiders I care for took care of them), so I can’t pull their wings off.