Hoi Squeamous

[linkinparkltd]

Impertinent one would have thought.

Tangential and impertinent.

 

[Ery]

Thanks CM, that's really kind of you.

 

[cute girl]

I'd be the short squat one. You are, I think, taller and blonder than me?

You want to be Meatloaf? :O

 

[~*~Ashlyn~*~]

I love those ones too! God we're sad.

 

[Katelyns expecting™]

You've done well there. I'm glad you are using your degree in your job. The nearest I get is talking about vineyard pests!

 

[Mz.Swaggerific]

Giant Centipede Eviscerates Mouse

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Goes well to Piano Trio in E flat, D.929 - IV. Allegro moderato - Franz Schubert

That's horrible. There are some sick fuckers out there.

 

[The Ignorant Masses]

Yeah, I heard it during a lecture once....as a type of epithelial cell. I just liked the word. Should be squamous really but I mis-spelled it. I wish it was more interesting than that :dry:.

 

[vee ftw.]

Maybe that was worded poorly. I object to an animal doing what it's doing naturally but in a completely alien, man-made environment while a bunch of baying juveniles take amusement from it. I don't have a problem with what it's doing.....more the people who out of some sick morbid fascination are filming and photographing an animal obviously in pain, having staged the whole thing. It's barbaric.

And it fucks me right off that this is ok, yet when I work on animals I get protestors yelling abuse at me, despite the fact that if I was involved in anything like this I would be fired and possibly imprisoned.

 

[Rasheed H]

They are classed as "diplopoda" of the subphylum "myriapoda" of the phylum "arthropoda" of the kingdom of "animalia".

"creepy crawlies" for short :blink:

:snooty: I knew that...well the latter part anyways

 

[audicamaro]

:lol:

Mellow JP is more unsettling than regular JP

Strange but true.

It does feel a bit strange .

 

[weezyFTW]

Ewe don't have teh internets. :blink:

Tsk! You have to watch it on a TV screen on the sofa shirley?

 

[H D A]

I didn't enjoy the video

1) because I think giant psycho centipedes are pretty gross.

2) because it was filmed for vicarious pleasure rather than any natural science insight. As rule people who keep pets that prey on mice, such as spiders, snakes and giant centipedes, feed them dead ones warmed up to body temp. They don't usually lob a live one into the cage for fun.

3) It is actually possible to pick pet spiders and snakes up - the latter quite enjoy it - but giant centipedes are very poisonous and are not desperately cuddly.

 

[dancerchickayana]

Dupe

 

[lbclerk]

I think it's just nature to be entirely fair.

You growing a cawk on the ear on a mouses back, now that's sick

 

[LadySnyper]

It's not really my paper. The science behind it belongs to the lab, but the technical side is what I advised on. I'm surprised they gave me a co-authorship to be honest, but I have reasoned that if I hadn't been doing my job so well they would have got half as much info as they needed, and I did advise them with some specific things they didn't know how to do. Although to be honest I would have been happy with an acknowledgement.

Anyway, the paper is about a gene that among other things contributes to limb formation. It's present in mammals, amphibians, fish, even in animals without limbs where it's expressed in the region they would form if they had them (ie torso). The lab wanted to find out how it goes about helping limbs to form, all the various things that interact with it to do its job. I have to be a bit vague anyway because there's a competition issue and I don't want to get in trouble .

Promise I won't plagiarise.

Cross my heart ... with a kidney and pump pish through my veins.

 

[E M]

So did you go into a career in biologism or do something else.

 

[Meeeeow]

Is it possible for you to explain to the hard of thinking what your paper is about. Just an overview like, not the paper itself. It's an area which is a totally closed book to me, most other people as well I should think.

 

[Sek S]

So, we create genetically altered mice and we help with storage of mouse, fish and rat lines and assisted reproduction (like IVF). None of it is that difficult to understand,

Yeah , it sounds it. :blink:

Who amongst us hasn't created a genetically modified mouse.

Are you now happy with what you do or do you see it as a stepping stone to other things. For example would you wish to work in the academic labs, or do you prefer the "fiddly" bits you are currently working on.

I'm not making a value judgement there, though I can see how it might sound as if I am. Just curious on how you see your career developing.

 

[adiabaticfire]

Ok, I work in a technical support division. The academic labs use our services to do things that are fiddly. So, we create genetically altered mice and we help with storage of mouse, fish and rat lines and assisted reproduction (like IVF). I suppose we help them maintain and create their animal colonies is the best summary. None of it is that difficult to understand, it's just fiddly work that scientists can't be arsed to learn. Like, you buy your shoes from a shop because you can't be bothered with cobbling them yourself type of thing....and if you did they'd probably fall apart in a few weeks.

It's like this week's episode of South Park was based on you or something else. :O

Uncanny.

Have you ever grown an ear on a mouse.

If yes, is there anything you wouldn't grow on a mouse. :naughty:

 

[Wowww]

its a cross between a squeak & a mousse.