Hoi Squeamous

I had assumed the mis-spelling.

In what circumstances were you attending this lecture. Were you tax dodging at the time and if so to what end.
 
Giant Centipede Eviscerates Mouse

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=RoXfYvoUsxg[/youtube]

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

If yes, is there anything you wouldn't grow on a mouse. :naughty:
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I'll probably have to wait a couple of years to see it. I don't have cable and the DVD box sets are only out up to the fifth season so far. I'm not sure I like the way they always portray us as being obsessed with putting extra arses on everything but I suppose I'll live with it :dry:.

I once glued my glove to a mouse by accident, but no I've never grown anything on one. I would probably draw the line at an extra arse.
 
Poor predatory animals. It's not half the fun for them with dead prey.

Not only have they been taken from their natural environment, but they've had their hunting skills demoted to munching warmed up dead stuff to appease our sense of squeamousness. :no:
 
Squeamous said:
Hardest game in the woooorld....

Nope, just went for a new job and got it. It took lots of training to do but I was paid for it. Truth be told I didn't know what it was all about and I kind of landed on my feet.
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So are you still working as a technician or did you really go back to square one and re-train from there.
 
Squeamous said:
I didn't tell them my specialisation was in botany...that's what my final year was on :shifty:. You have to lie a little bit don't you? I mean a lie of omission isn't as bad as one of addition, and I was desperate.....right? :unsure:.

So are you working for defra or something or a private company? I know people from my course who are working for banks or in the service sector....now that's a real waste of a science degree I think.
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No sadly I'm working in the service sector for a wine company. Wasn't doing too badly within the company but cutbacks and relocation have just stripped my department back to the post I was in two years ago. I graduated specializing in ecology, primarily also botany and spent a few years working in conservation officer posts for various charities, and within environmental education. Most of these were short term contracts as they often are and because i stupidly decided to stay in the west country where opportunities are limited, I was forced to take customer services roles in between "proper jobs" and now I'm kinda stuck. I'm looking for jobs further afield again though now.
 
Biggles said:
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.
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That's meaningless, the motivation is neither here nor there. The fact of the matter is that in nature the big bug thing would kill the mouse and eat it. Not necessarily in that order. It would not get a dead one and heat it up to body temperature prior to eating it.

You are verging on anthropomorphising in order to pass judgement on morons. The fact is that what they recorded is more natural than filming a warmed up corpse being eaten.

Why they did it is irrelevant.

In fact it probably gave us a better "natural science insight" for that. As they didn't fell encumbered by the normal social mores when filming it. The BBC would have shown something much more sanitised.
 
It's different in the ways I explained. Either I'm bad at explaining, in which case I apologise, or you're a bit fick, in which case you should. Maybe someone else can adjudicate.
 
Mr JP Fugley said:
I had assumed the mis-spelling.

In what circumstances were you attending this lecture. Were you tax dodging at the time and if so to what end.
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Well! That's a very cynical way of putting it! :shifty:

I believe I was trying to pass exams at the time and going to 2/3 lectures was a prerequisite for being allowed to stay on in the uni bar for another year.
 
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