Love those Chinooks - sweep the snow from the trees across the mountain top in seconds - the winter cold too - the underfoot crunch of truly cold snow - the sound of stars reflecting off the snow - 200 elk bedded down outside the house.A warm chinook wind coming over the mountains from the south bringing -55 f. up to +34 f in a matter of 24-hours. and grilling in shorts and a t-shirt in those conditions. MAGNIFICENT memories.
say no more brother! i grew up in california im cool manWe had a couple of young gay men who'd bought property from an old-time neighbor and heavy equipment operator (one of the most honest, respectful, hard-working and decent men I've ever known) down on the Tanana River over 30 years ago, with the buyers of that property getting caught up in the Happy Creek Greenhouse raid (9 homes involved; whole 'nother long-ish story of cannabis injustice, betrayal by long-time insiders flipped under fear, and feds/badged extortionists).
They had 'some' curtilage around the property, and they'd garden in the buff; the locals referred to them as 'the nudies.' and that's where it ended... until they got caught up in the previously mentioned federal bust.
Yeah, but the really important question is, which bathroom do they want to use... in the private stall... behind the closed door... in the building with lots of other people inside more often than not....Transvestite Rove Beetle
Description:
This is a large, predatory Staphylinid beetle that carries out 3 different kinds of mimicry!! and has the incredible name of "Transvestite Rove Beetle", and for a very good reason. It is 2 to 2.5 cm long, robust and hairy and covered with lumps and bumps. It is truly ugly and impressive.
Habitat:
Tropical forest along a river gorge in the Chorreadero Park, 10 km above Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico. It was found mostly on large, flat leaves. It is fast and flies readily. It can unfold its wings from under it's tiny reduced elytra so fast that it can't be seen doing it.
Notes:
This is an amazing beetle! It is a specialized predator of flies and will visit carrion, dung, rotting fruit and other stinky things to capture flies. It's first type of mimicry is to imitate bird droppings, and in fact the first time we saw it on leaves, that's what we thought it was. Incredibly, it also smears a dung-smelling liquid from it's pygidial glands onto the leaf and sits there like a bird dropping waiting for a fly to come investigate (See Pamsai's spotting of this beetle from Costa Rica smearing a leaf with its fly-attracting liquid http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/164...). The second type of mimicry it displays is that of a wasp. The tip of the tail is bright red or orange and is usually pointed upwards in a menacing manner, wasp-like or even scorpion-like. The wings are wasp-like when unfolded for flight (which is very fast) and the whole effect in flight is that of a wasp. A scary wasp. The wings are even colored similar to that of a wasp (see the last picture with the wings unfolded). The third type of mimicry is called reproductive mimicry and is the reason this beetle is called the transvestite rove beetle. There are large "butch" males which protect stinky fly-infestable sites to which females might come in order to have preferential mating privileges. Then there are small "feminine" males which imitate females in looks and behavior, in order to slip amongst the harem of females for mating, unnoticed by the large guardian males. This species has a distribution in tropical forests from central Mexico (along the gulf coast) through Chiapas and into Central America. It has been reported as far south as Argentina.
Transvestite Rove Beetle
This is a large, predatory Staphylinid beetle that carries out 3 different kinds of mimicry!! and has the incredible name ofwww.projectnoah.org
Where the bugsn'all hang out...I'm sureYeah, but the really important question is, which bathroom do they want to use... in the private stall... behind the closed door... in the building with lots of other people inside more often than not....
Where the bugsn'all hang out...I'm sure
dont you know using a public toilet is how you get all teh cooties and ghezWhere the bugsn'all hang out...I'm sure
goddammit - rove beetles can't squatdont you know using a public toilet is how you get all teh cooties and ghez
this is why you dont sit on the seat, you do the squat and hover
but they can hovergoddammit - rove beetles can't squat
A naked human body is traumatizing?!A mate of mine was telling me of a report of some children in a woman's changing room who saw a man getting changed in there and were horrified to see his penis, the man said "haven't you seen a woman's penis before?".
According to you lot traumatising children like this is ok so long as we don't offend the man claiming to be a woman.
Bringing children into an adults changing room... sounds made up.A mate of mine was telling me of a report of some children in a woman's changing room who saw a man getting changed in there and were horrified to see his penis, the man said "haven't you seen a woman's penis before?".
According to you lot traumatising children like this is ok so long as we don't offend the man claiming to be a woman.
A mate of mine was telling me of a report of some children in a woman's changing room who saw a man getting changed in there and were horrified to see his penis, the man said "haven't you seen a woman's penis before?".
According to you lot traumatising children like this is ok so long as we don't offend the man claiming to be a woman.
right, or is this some kind of free range changing room with no walls/ doors on their stalls?Bringing children into an adults changing room... sounds made up.
Those are my favorite kind. And the unisex restrooms with no walls or stalls are the absolute BEST!!right, or is this some kind of free range changing room with no walls/ doors on their stalls?
It's not vanity that makes most people avoid predators, its called human intuition/survival instinct, and yea, old people tend to lack that instinct after a certain age.Those are my favorite kind. and the unisex restrooms with no walls or stalls are the absolute BEST!!
But then most humans, by the time they get to their senior years, have pretty much lost any real sense of vanity anyway. And the fears that someone might be looking is merely an illusion born of egocentricism.
The excessive and inaccurate use of the term 'predator' has been a built-in part of this whole goat rope from the beginning. The tendency of many to see 'predator' in anything not like themselves.It's not vanity that makes most people avoid predators, its called human intuition/survival instinct, and yea, old people tend to lack that instinct after a certain age.