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What annoys you most?; Rant here if you need to!
Topic Started: Mar 3 2013, 08:45 AM (309,849 Views)
CyborgIguana
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Murdock129
Jul 28 2013, 10:45 PM
CyborgIguana
Jul 28 2013, 10:34 PM
People with no respect for nature. When I see someone drowning an anthill for fun it makes me so boiling mad, I just want to walk straight up to them and punch them where it counts!!
I'm with you on everything except the fact that you chose ants as your example

There are many things wrong with humanity that isn't wrong with animals. We exploit each other, we have slavery, we have war, we don't belong in the ecosystem, we wreck the world around us with little regard for anything but ourselves, we kill all the species that belong in each place we enter and so on

Ants do almost all the same evil things humans do. Besides being better at cooperation than us (though only within their own colonies) there is literally nothing that humans do bad that I can think of that Ants do not also do. Albeit on a smaller scale, but that's merely due to them being noticeably smaller. If ants were as big as say, cats, they'd be ruling the world and would likely have killed off nearly every other species by now

Ants a ****ing evil and no one can convince me otherwise
I'm not a huge fan of ants either, I was just giving an example. ;)
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Farkle
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~Rad as Heck~

I can see the problems with ants, but when your mom invites her friends over and their kids come too and the kids end up running around with a lighter burning up lightning bugs for fun, THAT'S when I get mad. >:(
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Yes. Or my brother who loves crippling them and watching them struggle all twisted and broken.
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My creepy, loud, badmouth alcoholic neighbour.
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CyborgIguana
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Sheather
Jul 28 2013, 11:29 PM
Do not forget the majestic aardvark, either. The aardvark legions shall not be forgotten!

Speaking of aardvarks, my mom is so annoying because she insists they are the same as anteaters. Her classification for other animals is so weird too. For example, she calls all big cats tigers except for cheetahs which she usually calls leopards. Like there could be a show on TV about lions, and she calls them tigers. Then later another show about leopards, and she calls them tigers too. I don't get it - it's not like they all look alike. xD
Oh god, this annoys me so much. I'm not saying people have to know everything about animals, but they should be able to tell that two animals that look quite clearly different are separate species. At my local museum apparently the Styracosaurus skull belongs to a Triceratops, and the Quetzalcoatlus skeleton hanging from the ceiling is a Pteranodon.

But especially boggling is your mom's classification system. Even my parents know the difference between a tiger and a leopard, but strangely they still can't seem to wrap their heads around the difference between an Allosaurus and a T.rex even though they look equally different from each other as a tiger and a leopard do (if not even more so). Pretty much the only difference my parents know between Allo and Rex is that one is slightly smaller than the other.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Jul 29 2013, 06:49 PM.
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Farkle
Jul 29 2013, 03:39 PM
I can see the problems with ants, but when your mom invites her friends over and their kids come too and the kids end up running around with a lighter burning up lightning bugs for fun, THAT'S when I get mad. >:(
To be honest I like to watch my Fire belly toads devour their crickets >:)
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At my local museum apparently the Styracosaurus skull belongs to a Triceratops, and the Quetzalcoatlus skeleton hanging from the ceiling is a Pteranodon.

In your parents defense it's an easy mistake to make, when you are not very knowledgeable about dinosaurs and other such creatures from prehistory it is easy to assign all dinosaurs (which while they have large differences are somewhat similar) to just a few famous ones, especially when in reality you have no actual interest in the subject, meaning learning the differences really isn't something you'd put time into

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Even my parents know the difference between a tiger and a leopard, but strangely they still can't seem to wrap their heads around the difference between an Allosaurus and a T.rex

This is a little unfair. Firstly most people who aren't fascinated by animals like us tend to focus on one main aspect of an animal and tell them apart from that. Tigers have stripes, Leopards have spots, Lions have manes, Panthers are black.

While there are distinguishing features between T-Rex and Allosaurus up until recently their designs in popular media were extremely similar and besides the fact one is bigger than the other, and the smaller one has larger arms there isn't much to tell them apart by, certainly not something as simple and notable as 'one has stripes, one has spots'. Furthermore Tigers and Leopards actually are around today allowing for a visual memory of what each one looks like, while T-Rex and Allosaurus are only ever seen in reconstructions at best, hence not as much to go on (especially as reconstructions are usually less memorable than the actual creature)

On another subject I hate when I'm painting my warhammer, I've painted all kinds of awesome large fancy monsters, and then I am left with a huge block of infantry, usually 20 or so small models that need to be painted in virtually the exact same way

Especially since I refuse to paint new purchases till I've done the old stuff (for the most part*) so I have about 30 Abyssal Dwarfs before I can start work on my Baleful Vasilisk and my Colossus of Rhodes.

*I have about 80 Basic Dwarfs and 100 Basic Gnoblars to do but forgive me, I won't be doing them any time soon, I'd rather keep my sanity
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I was talking about people in general as for the Styracosaurus part, my parents do indeed know that that's not a Triceratops skull. And I guess it's true that extinct animals are not as familiar to most people as modern animals, so now I can see why some people would lump similar dinosaur genera into one genus that they're familiar with (for example my parents have also called terror birds and gastornithids "dodos" on several occasions). Anyway, I love my parents and would never judge them based on the fact that they don't share the same interests as me, but I just intended to make an observation related to Sheather's post.

Anyway, sorry if my rant was rude or insensitive, I still struggle sometimes with getting it through my head that most aspects of paleontology really aren't common knowledge and that the next time I hear someone make an incorrect comment about prehistoric animals, I should just let it slide.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Jul 29 2013, 08:06 PM.
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Pull my finger!

How up north, most of my cousins fed the ducks swimming around.
Oh well, they were already used to humans anyway.
Though I'll admit I threw a piece of bread to the ducks, and I don't know whether
to feel guilty or sit there and derp.

They've been having lost their fear of humans....
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Neighbour's dog leaving 'presents' in my yard.
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Sheather
Jul 29 2013, 03:45 PM
Yes. Or my brother who loves crippling them and watching them struggle all twisted and broken.
People at my school stamp on innocent snails! :'( >:(
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Pull my finger!

Back at elementary school, this doofus I heard killed a praying mantis.... :(
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Similis
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Rainfall when I have to go out, clear sky when I need to stay in.
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^ Forgetting to close the window at night then it rains! -.-
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I once forgot to close them and slept through a horrible storm with windows wide open. Didn't even know it was storming until I saw everything wet by morning. Good thing my windows are on the balcony, under a part of the roof, or I'd have a puddle on the floor.
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