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ToroidalBoat said:
Arthropods (crabs, lobsters, bugs) are like this alien evolutionary tangent compared to other life on Earth.

Instead of skin or scales, they have an exoskeleton. Instead of normal eyes, they have freaky compound eyes. Instead of the usual organs, they have weird alien ones like "book lungs" or holes for air.
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Crustaceans are a hundred times freakier than insects, once you venture beyond your friendly Decapod (shrimps, crabs and lobsters) neighborhood. More crustaceans are adapted to the parasitic mode of life than any other arthropod groups, and their specializations are extreme. The adult female rhizocephalan barnacle, for example, are little more than a bag of cells that ramify in the host's tissue like cancer. Parasitic copepods can be similarly alien-looking blobs that sucks blood from their hosts. Tongue worms are parasites of the airways of vertebrates (usually reptiles but may infect humans in rare cases) that looks so much like a segmented worm that for a long time they were thought to be "arthropod-allies" akin to the velvet worm. It was not until the study of the fine structures of their sperm and their nervous system did people recognize them as highly specialized crustaceans.

And what's not to love about the amazing tongue-replacing parasite?
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The catdog tv special great parent mystery was originally meant to be nickelodeons second feature length animated movie. Yeah you see catdog was at one point going to be nickelodeon's next big cash cow franchise after rugrats. The second nickelodeon game on playstation would have been a catdog game (never released) and I still remember catdog merchandise being everywhere back in 98-99. Everything from burger king toys to school supplies. Which is actually a joke they made on the show itself.

Realy it wAs that awkward time where the Rugrats popularity and marketability was starting to fade but before they had spongebob to slap on everything they could to sell.
 
horrorfan89 said:
The catdog tv special great parent mystery was originally meant to be nickelodeons second feature length animated movie. Yeah you see catdog was at one point going to be nickelodeon's next big cash cow franchise after rugrats. The second nickelodeon game on playstation would have been a catdog game (never released) and I still remember catdog merchandise being everywhere back in 98-99. Everything from burger king toys to school supplies. Which is actually a joke they made on the show itself.

Realy it wAs that awkward time where the Rugrats popularity and marketability was starting to fade but before they had spongebob to slap on everything they could to sell.
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I never liked Rugrats. That shit looked creepy and gave me nightmares.
 
Coleslaw said:
The 25th amendment is the only amendment to the Constitution with a typo.
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The 17th has one too although arguably it isn't a typo but a grammatical error. The both involve the inappropriate inclusion or deletion of an "s" though.
The mistake in the 17th: "The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures." This is ungrammatical and it should be "legislature" at the end, not a plural, to match the singular in the opening phrase.
The sentence where the 25th Amendment typo occurs is a train wreck even without it:
"Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." The word "department" (bolded and sized up) should be plural.
 
the logo for the band kiss
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is so similar to the SS lightning bolts
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that when touring or selling merchandise or albums in Germany the band needs to use a variant on their logo that uses two z's backwards instead. When asked about this a few years ago, Ace Freely who designed the logo said it was a coincidence and s's that resemble bolts of lightning was just something he thought looked cool.
 
Every state in the United States has a single legislative branch, much like the federal government. Also, like the federal government, every state save one has a bicameral legislature with a House and Senate. The one exception is Nebraska, which has a unicameral legislature, called the Unicameral, although its members are called Senators.
 
I'll give ya two, because the first one is a comment in medias res from something in my stash that some of you might not find a use for.

1.
“It seems like my son’s school also tries to label an unusually high number of boys as ADHD. What amazes me is the number of parents who are willing to medicate their children with mind-altering drugs and not take the time to really look into what is going on with child. Like you said, many times it is kids being kids. In my child’s case it was a vision problem. You seem like a reasonable human being and if your child REALLY did have ADHD, I am sure you would have made sure he received the proper medication, but like me, you had to make DAMN sure. My pediatrician convinced me that ADHD medication is a last resort AFTER the adults have researched all possible reasons OTHER THAN ADHD. A nurturing, grounded parent KNOWS their child and has a responsibly to be that child’s biggest fan and advocate.

After the birth of my first son, my Mother told me this – “Every child needs to feel like there is one person in this world who ABSOLUTELY ADORES and BELIEVES in them. Make sure you are that person for your child.”

I try very hard to be “that person” for both my children and I can see that you are “that person” for your child because you saw in your child what others were missing and you fought for your child. Your Ex wife probably attacks your parenting but you should know its nothing more than projection.

You are a good parent and you did the right thing for your child.”

My comment on above is that I hear from some slags that they hate children. That tells me a lot of things, but finding this in my stash makes me a little sad because unknowingly those slags are saying are less than a person. There is nothing within them with all the advantages they have that would make them worthy of that level of special support for a developing person in their own image.


2. Okay if the above doesn't do it for ya, here's ol' man tech mage Wraith for something silly.
Remember Raymond's older brother from Everybody Loves Raymond, brad Garrett? He has a special history with the Transformers. In the old 80s cartoon, he voices a decepticon known as Trypticon, a massive city that turned into a giant purple-ish tyrannosaurus rex robot monster. Trypticon wasn't bright, and he used a lot of energy.
Trypticon's main enemy was an autobot named Metroplex, a city that turned into a more humanoid robot that dealt with him.
If you want them fighting, it's not out of the realm of possibility to replace the voices of the two characters with Ray Romano and Brad from that sitcom. You will never unhear a giant robot t-rex pounding on a giant city-robot screaming, "Mother always liked you best, Raymond!"
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Arthropods (crabs, lobsters, bugs) are like this alien evolutionary tangent compared to other life on Earth.
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They can even have hair in their eyes.

That's just wrong.

Also, their mouths can be eldritch abominations. Arthropods are so freakish, it's no wonder they're always depicted like more normal* life in animation, unless they're meant to be scary. If the latter, their forms are always just rendered more or less realistically. Remember that SpongeBob butterfly episode?

*(see A Bug's Life, Antz, or Bee Movie)
 
Despite trapitalist countries having looser laws on prostitution, it is LESS common than in terfcialist countries. This is mainly due to the fact that men of trapitalist countries aren't forced to hire a prostitute to satisfy their sexual desires, but also that even cis women live a more prosperous lifestyle in a trapitalist economy so they don't need to resort to whoring themselves out to feed their families.
Shiversblood said:
I wonder what benefit it would be to actually splice the dna of a bug, and a actual human.
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Such a thing already exists.
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Remember this song, Torn?


That's actually the third time someone recorded it. It was originally a Danish song made in the 93, re-recorded two years later in English, the version you know now was made another two years after that.
 
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