What do people use pet animals for

[The Wizard Joseph]

 
"Engine purrs like a kitten" is supposed to be just a figure of speech.

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Dogs are not wolves.

And gods are not primates.

And kittens are not sparkplugs.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

[Cain]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

Sure, in approximately the same way that birth control takes away women's slack.

In other words, you're a fucking moron.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

Sure, in approximately the same way that birth control takes away women's slack.

Closer to a hysterectomy/ovohysterectomy. Or castration. Learn some damn biology.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Oh shit.


Someone's gonna get Nigel'd.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

Sure, in approximately the same way that birth control takes away women's slack.

Closer to a hysterectomy/ovohysterectomy. Or castration. Learn some damn biology.

I've HAD a hysterectomy, and it's remarkably effective birth control, as it happens.

Are you familiar with the concept of anthropomorphizing? It's very common in children and people with low intellectual sophistication.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That aside, the simile was not about the biological details, which, trust me, I am exceedingly familiar with, but about the release from the burden of biological imperatives that allows those of us so blessed by modern medical practices to live happier, healthier, longer lives.

Like women who have the option of not being pregnant, or animals who have been spayed or neutered.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh shit.


Someone's gonna get Nigel'd.

Nah

He's just addicted to being wrong. Lucky bastard still has the youth and stamina to do that stuff. Oh god, the RUSH.

I've been there. Someday his luck will run out and he'll hit rock bottom, like I did. If he's lucky he'll end up in a 12-step group, sharing tales of the wrongness they've experienced and the degeneracy the sweet hit of being wrong drove them to.

If he's unlucky... well, best not to dwell on that.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

Sure, in approximately the same way that birth control takes away women's slack.

Closer to a hysterectomy/ovohysterectomy. Or castration. Learn some damn biology.

I've HAD a hysterectomy, and it's remarkably effective birth control, as it happens.

Are you familiar with the concept of anthropomorphizing? It's very common in children and people with low intellectual sophistication.

Are you familiar with the Mediocrity Principle?

That aside, the simile was not about the biological details, which, trust me, I am exceedingly familiar with, but about the release from the burden of biological imperatives that allows those of us so blessed by modern medical practices to live happier, healthier, longer lives.

Like women who have the option of not being pregnant, or animals who have been spayed or neutered.

We are all nothing but biology (unless you're some kind of cyborg, or you have an artificial leg or something like that South African athlete who shot his girlfriend)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hey bro, just FYI this is a bad place to bloviate on scientific or political topics you don't know anything about.

http://www.livescience.com/31997-dogs-and-humans-evolved-together.html

Nonetheless still gotta agree that neutering takes away animals' slack though.

Sure, in approximately the same way that birth control takes away women's slack.

Closer to a hysterectomy/ovohysterectomy. Or castration. Learn some damn biology.

I've HAD a hysterectomy, and it's remarkably effective birth control, as it happens.

Are you familiar with the concept of anthropomorphizing? It's very common in children and people with low intellectual sophistication.

Are you familiar with the Mediocrity Principle?

Is this your way of trying to make yourself feel better about being a half-assed student who didn't do enough undergrad work to get a job after graduation? That's an amusing implication, as the context of your very invocation of the mediocrity principle implies you don't understand it. That might explain a few things to you, if you were only smart enough to get them.

That aside, the simile was not about the biological details, which, trust me, I am exceedingly familiar with, but about the release from the burden of biological imperatives that allows those of us so blessed by modern medical practices to live happier, healthier, longer lives.

Like women who have the option of not being pregnant, or animals who have been spayed or neutered.

We are all nothing but biology (unless you're some kind of cyborg, or you have an artificial leg or something like that South African athlete who shot his girlfriend)

I might have some kind of a clue that we're nothing but biology... or so you might have cottoned, if you had the attention span for paying attention to details like that. Which is rather a huge part of the reason that altering our biology has the potential to improve or degrade our lives, depending on the outcome... and science is all about outcomes. It's too bad you can't grasp that, or you might have a job as a scientist.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Poor li'l babe trying to play a game he already outclassed at, and doesn't know it.

[Reginald Ret]

I was wondering where the next batch of Discord would come from.