Lost discussion thread revisited or what????

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-07-2015, 08:04 AM

In haste, of course...

**144man** · 03-07-2015, 08:11 AM

Of course

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-07-2015, 10:59 AM

I've always found those two words 'of course' to be a most convenient response.

They give the impression of understanding the other person's thoughts or needs and being in agreement with them...yet also inferring that one might also be about to do something purely in one's own interests, whether anyone else likes it, or not.

**144man** · 03-07-2015, 01:22 PM

Exactly...

**Jerry Oz** · 03-07-2015, 01:31 PM

You know it...

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-07-2015, 01:54 PM

You got it....

**Jerry Oz** · 03-07-2015, 04:12 PM

I feel you...

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-07-2015, 04:13 PM

There you go...

**Jerry Oz** · 03-07-2015, 04:46 PM

I'm glad we are eye-to-eye on this...

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-07-2015, 05:00 PM

Moving forwards....

**Jerry Oz** · 03-07-2015, 05:55 PM

As we eventually must. I've been working on my book and I'm into chapter three. That's the furthest I've gotten.

**arr&bee** · 03-09-2015, 05:32 PM

Haaaaaaaaaaaa,and then the musrat said to the bird..oh are we back on?

**Jerry Oz** · 03-09-2015, 06:53 PM

That's it. He didn't know that the bird was a narc. What follows next is a game of cat and titmouse.

**144man** · 03-09-2015, 07:08 PM

How about a game of "weasel and woodpecker"?

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-09-2015, 07:28 PM

Very popular down in Hornchurch Country Park.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-09-2015, 08:58 PM

How do you determine the winner?

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-10-2015, 05:14 AM

It's just a flight of fancy, I feel.

**144man** · 03-10-2015, 08:01 AM

If you don't get eaten, you're a winner!

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-10-2015, 08:05 AM

That photo IS a fake, surely.....?

**144man** · 03-10-2015, 08:06 AM

No, not at all.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-10-2015, 08:26 AM

The woodpecker and weasel would have fought on the ground, had the weasel been able to make contact...which is very unlikely, unless the bird was sick, and then it wouldn't have been strong enough first to get off the ground after the attack, let alone carry a small weasel on its back for long enough to be photographed...

the weasel would have gone underneath for the bird's throat....
but the woodpecker would normally then have flown almost vertically upwards to escape, throwing off the weasel, if it possibly could, and the weasel would then be holding on to the lower part of the bird as it took flight, not the upper part

if unable to leave the ground, the weasel would have prevailed, wounded the bird, and killed it on the ground

the woodpecker is flying at the wrong angle in the shot.....

and both are too conveniently poised, in definition which is too precise.

They can say what they like. It's a fake...as much as that shot of the koala in the crocodile's mouth.....

**144man** · 03-10-2015, 08:34 AM

It fooled all the News Channels then. I haven't seen anywhere in the media suggesting it's a fake.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-10-2015, 08:53 AM

Well, you just did. Here.

If it were shown to me on film footage, then slowed and halted, I would certainly then believe it.

Otherwise, there are too many details which conflict with how a woodpecker and a weasel will naturally behave.

The image is just too posed....similar to the greetings cards with cats and dogs together. They are cute..very effective, but still contrived.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-10-2015, 05:20 PM

Actually, the woodpecker was offering ferry services for other animals in the woods. Nothing fake about it at all.

**arr&bee** · 03-10-2015, 08:35 PM

That woodpecker owes me money...stop thief.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-10-2015, 11:47 PM

Looks like he owes the weasel money as well.

**144man** · 03-11-2015, 08:45 AM

He was a very young weasel, so he rode half-price.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-11-2015, 12:25 PM

He would have been charged the full amount, but he weaseled his way to a discount.

**144man** · 03-11-2015, 01:35 PM

He's a high-flyer. He will go far.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-11-2015, 03:18 PM

If asked in private, the woodpecker would tell you that he's a hanger-on.

**arr&bee** · 03-11-2015, 08:18 PM

The weasel works for me...get that money.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-11-2015, 08:33 PM

You might make a lot of money if you could fake pictures like that one....

**arr&bee** · 03-11-2015, 08:34 PM

That weasel is real...[i think].

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-11-2015, 08:41 PM

Yes, it was certainly real, when it was photographed.

It just was never really standing on that woodpecker's back, in that position.

**arr&bee** · 03-11-2015, 08:44 PM

Really???why that weasel and i paid him a bonus.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-11-2015, 08:50 PM

He'd make a nice hat, with matching accessories.

**arr&bee** · 03-11-2015, 08:52 PM

Now i'm gonna have to put the buzzards on the case.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-11-2015, 08:54 PM

You'll have far more credibility in doing that, than trying to put a weasel on a woodpecker.

**arr&bee** · 03-11-2015, 09:03 PM

That woodpecker may have pecked his last wood,my buzzards have no mercy.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-11-2015, 09:05 PM

My vultures are no angels of mercy, either.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-12-2015, 12:13 PM

Y'all better be careful. That weasel is well connected. As a matter of fact, most lawyers are actually weasels.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-12-2015, 02:20 PM

Lawyers certainly hang around longer than that there weasel ever did.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-12-2015, 02:50 PM

If only people could help each other like the woodpeckers and weasels do in the wild. The woodpecker gives the weasel a ride and the weasel finds a reason not to pay for it.

Well, on second thought, maybe they learned that from us...

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-12-2015, 03:39 PM

Yes, we have reasons for doing things, and they don't.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-12-2015, 05:20 PM

We're generally selfish. Even our selflessness has a selfish motivation at its root.

The first law of nature is self-preservation. First law of humanity is to want more than you practically need. It dawned on me just the other day that money is by its very purpose a wasteful possession. Its value to the possessor is nothing until it is utilized, so it does us no good to have it if we're not using it. That makes greed even more senseless, doesn't it?

Don't ask me what this has to do with anything, though. But I guess I thought about it because most of our reasons for doing things are based on selfish motivations.

**arr&bee** · 03-12-2015, 05:49 PM

Selfish is good...just send cash.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-12-2015, 06:45 PM

I send an IOU if you mail me a piece of paper and ten dollars [[so I can buy a pen). You might want to also send a stamped and self-addressed envelope.

**westgrandboulevard** · 03-12-2015, 07:44 PM

Times are hard, and so is he.

**Jerry Oz** · 03-13-2015, 01:53 PM

That is true. And if he presents the IOU personally at the date and time listed [[11:28:16 PM [[EST) on February 29, 2020), he can expect that I'll pay up.

**arr&bee** · 03-13-2015, 04:18 PM

Jerry,you need a pen[no problem]i'll give you one free shipping[did i studder]...of course as with any deal there's one tiny teeny weeny little small thing that we need from you,now for a limited time only[jerry you so lucky]we're offering stock in this wonderful company and jerry that one small pen gets you in[jerry you so lucky]now all we need is just 5000% over factory invoice down and for you our new stockholder just10,000 a month for just forty years did i mention how lucky you are to get in on the ground floor.