volvoxvsmarla @ volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee

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In The Big Bang Theory without the laugh track, Raj becomes just a huuuuuuge asshole.

To be fair, with or without a laugh track, TBBT is depressing as fuck. I feel incredibly sorry for the faith of most characters.

A friend who had two breds from the same parents (different litter) said that you can predict the personality better in breds, while with unknown mixes you can get a manic dog and that they all have behavioral problems.

As you might have guessed by now, I am very much not a dog person. And I have no place to judge her statement. But I can imagine that there are a lot of dog owners who think like that.

Btw I'm in Germany, so is the friend. There is some Nazi joke in all of this that I am too lazy to make.

It's probably area and/or country dependent

Imagine you wanted children and then someone would come along and castrate you because there's a problem with overpopulation. You take away an individaul's choice of reproduction for the greater good. And it makes sense, but the lack of consent or even understandment does not sit well with me.

Putting down pets is another thing. You make the decision whether a (sick/suffering) animal is going to die, while we are refusing to allow people to make this decision for themselves in most countries.

I absolutely see your point and I would not say you are wrong about it. But to me these are ethical questions that I just don't wish to answer because there is not really a right answer.

In a sense I think it is about dogs being in an urban environment. There is just no good place for them to move from a to b. Even if you pick up the poop in the park, there are parts of it left in the grass. The few trees in a city (next to sidewalks I mean) will be peed at and a lot of trees don't take this well. If I am on a narrow sidewalk and someone with a dog passes they can hardly keep their leashed dog at such a close distance that they wouldn't end up striving me. And the question is also, is this the life you want for this animal? Having it on a short leash for 99% of the time?

No one would argue that keeping a horse in your city apartment is a bad idea. Yet somehow for dogs it is normalized.

To be honest, I've never seen anyone take a dog from a shelter. With cats - yes, and I only know a handful of people who own a specific type of cat. But everyone I know and all people I meet have specific dog breeds or known mixes that were planned - both in the making and adoption.

But that's something everyone should decide for themself.

Honestly I'm not so sure about that. I'm actually annoyed by the lack of regulation. Why is pet breeding still a thing? Owning a pet seems like something that should be phased out (while working on getting the numbers of new born pets down).

Don't get me wrong, I like animals, I've grown up with a cat who lived to 21 years and I consider him more of a brother than a pet, and I love cats, but I wouldn't want to repeat this again. With cats you are damned if you let them outside and damned if you don't. Dogs should just not exist in public spaces. A lot of people are afraid of dogs and every dog "doesn't bite" before he bites one for the first time. I also don't care if they bite or not, I don't want an animal touching me or my stuff, period. The trees suffer, the playgrounds are surrounded by shit, and people tense up in a subway or restaurant when there's a dog. Unless you are a farmer with a huge piece of land you just should not have a dog. (Or need an animal for disability reasons of course.)

You know what, it's so much easier to say you're an omnivore and end up eating meat once a year than to say you are a vegan who makes an exception about once a year. The first label would earn you a "wait so you're basically vegan?!" vs "you're not vegan then and you're a dirty cheater".

It's bizarre to me that harcore vegans want to own a pet to begin with. Keeping bees for honey is bad, but separating a kitten from its mother at an early age and castrating it for your convenience and deciding how they live (restricted to an apartment or not) is totally fine?

I understand that most pets live a good life, but man, I can't bring myself to make choices like these. I mean there are ways to circumvent it (get an older cat from an asylum for example) but it doesn't really remove the "pet dilemma" to me.

You will most likely also toss your tooth brush, makeup, hair brush, and any book you own.

The sun is a deadly laser... For poop stains

Jesus those guys are amazing

Do you remember what it was called even? We just called it The Dutch Jump Dance but my guess it is not the native dance of your people

So, heres the very basic version; you start with your feet apart at the distance of your hips approximately, you jump

1. up and down
2. up and down
3. right foot forward left back
4. Left foot forward right back
5. Right food forward and lifted, left back (see note)
6. Left food forward and lifted, right back
7. Like 5
8. Slightly rotate to the left, foot still up
9. Like 5
10. Like 6

Note: That's what I remember you do with a partner who does the same facing you. From step 5 onwards your right feet (in 6 the left feet) touch

Yeah it was around that time and I am very certain you have the right one in mind. It ended up being the secret "I participated in the Holland exchange" dance in our school and I can still kick it

I graduated from an elite university in my country within the STEM field, being the second best in the year or so. I can't find a job because I never networked or did internships. I studied for the exams (which was easy) and otherwise got drunk with students and people from absolutely not my field. It feels like I wasted 6 years of my life.

People, for real, network. No one cares for your grades once you look for a job. They care whether you have experience, and you get both experience and the chance to talk about it when you network.

I used to get ukrainian emails every now and then. And then once I got a "confirm your signature to the petition" email and I checked. It was a petition to allow men to leave the country. A girl with my name signed it (wanted to sign it), and she stated wanting to leave with her 58 year old dad as the reason.

I ended up signing the petition myself, stating I wanted XY to leave with her dad as the reason.

I still wish there was a way to get in touch with her. I guess it was the same person who every now and then signed up for newsletters etc. I hope they found a way to leave. I wish there was a way I could help her directly. I keep imagining it was me and my dad stuck in a war torn country. My father has a super popular first name so the chances aren't even that low that our dads share the same name too.

I did an exchange program with the Netherlands once (Mgr Frencken College or something) and this sentence and a weird ass kick dance was all I learnt

I think you can add on de keukentafel?

Absolutely. Everyone knows rice is illiterate, they should have taken barley

Oh can you tell me one?