Random Thoughts 2: Arbitrary Speculations

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...a statement that is then followed up by more explanations about how that question does not accurately represent everything else that comes with the German phrase. :)

Yes, please return to my original post and reread it. Your description of how it doesn't fit the nuance doesn't make sense because the "missed nuance" is exactly what your stated translation offers.
 
...a statement that is then followed up by more explanations about how that question does not accurately represent everything else that comes with the German phrase. :)
Each language has its own internal history. English speakers (except the current Queen's paternal uncle, Donald Trump voters and Nigel Farage) generally aren't supporters of National-Socialism.
 
If you told me that Radiohead's song The Drugs Don't Work was written about coffee, I would believe it.
 
I'd like a Raccoon as a pet. They're cute, smart and have hands.
Why aren't they domesticated yet ?
What have Americans (including Natives) been doing all those centuries that was more important ?
 
AFAIK

None of my ex gfs are married.
 
Raccoons are cute. Girls are cute. Girls also think boys are cute. I sense a connection.
 
I'd like a Raccoon as a pet. They're cute, smart and have hands.
Why aren't they domesticated yet ?
What have Americans (including Natives) been doing all those centuries that was more important ?

Related anecdote:

Spoiler :

This prison I was in had a bunch of raccoons living on the grounds. Because inmates generally lack for stuff to do a lot of sitting around on benches happens, and raccoons being generally curious would hang out with us. Of course this led to them concluding that inmates represented a potential food source, since we would feed them. One of our snack sources was a row of vending machines accessed by our ID cards (if they were 'charged' with vending money). It was fairly common to see a guy sliding his card into a vending machine with one or two raccoons standing on their hind legs with their faces pressed to the glass. They were always intrigued by how people could get the little wheel to turn and drop food on demand.
 
So the raccoons never figured out how to use ID cards? We're saved.
 
So the raccoons never figured out how to use ID cards? We're saved.

They might have. All I can say for sure is that they didn't figure out how to get them issued to themselves.They also would have had a hard time transferring money from their books to their card since they weren't officially incarcerated.

Plus they would have had a height problem. Even the biggest ones were a solid couple feet short of being able to reach the controls. Though a friend of mine did wind up with a soda he didn't want when a raccoon pushed the lowest button on the soda machine for him. The lowest button always seems to be reserved for some heinous thing that no one drinks unless the machine is otherwise empty.
 
As the aforementioned videos prove, height is not a problem for raccoons.
 
As the aforementioned videos prove, height is not a problem for raccoons.


He doesn't really climb on the glass. I think the face of a vending machine would prove insurmountable.

On a not really related note...this being the random thoughts thread after all...when I was in the Navy stationed in San Diego we had a drunk guy that died from pulling a vending machine over on himself.
 
This is one of those phrases that some atheists use when they think they're being clever, when in reality it just makes them look silly because the fact that humans are biologically categorized as animals is news only to the most moronic Christians from the rural areas of the Bible Belt.
I use it when it seems necessary to educate people about basic physical anthropology and biology. After all, the "rural areas of the Bible Belt" is where I spent 10 years of my childhood, and I attended a county school with mandatory morning prayers, grace at noon, and I got dirty looks for mentioning the word "evolution" in an astronomy class (as in stellar evolution).

If you claim to be a rock or plant, be my guest. It won't alter the fact that humans are animals.

why do you feel the need to say this
Because it's true, and because I get super-annoyed when people get on a soapbox and insist that I don't have the moral right to include a cat or dog as part of my family.

(also you need the government's permission but that's just semantics)
I need the building manager's permission, along with paying a nonrefundable fee of $250/cat, but I've got that covered. I'm allowed two cats, and currently have just the one since Chloe died last year. Enough time has passed for mourning and to assess Maddy's mindset, and I've concluded that adopting another cat would be beneficial for both of us.

It remains to find one who's not too old, too young, who doesn't come with behavioral or health problems, who Maddy would get along with (and vice-versa), plus that indefinable "cattitude" that tells me that this is the perfect new addition to the family.
 
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