THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Still sending prayers to her and her family.
I too am sending prayers to the jaguar and her family.
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I too am sending prayers to the jaguar and her family.
'I learned my lesson': Woman who was mauled by a jaguar when she leaned over a security fence to take a photo admits she did a foolish thing
YES you did
but insists the zoo needs to improve safety
So, you didn't learned your lesson you stupid bitch.
They should just ban people from the zoo
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@TimeBandit I agree the zoo should improve safety. IT taught me everything must be idiot proof.
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
IT taught me everything must be idiot proof
IT taught me that if you make it idiot-proof, the world will make a better idiot
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@TimeBandit seen this one before, but I disagree. I do my best effort to make stuff idiot proof
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I do my best effort to make stuff idiot proof
I do my best to make it so easy to use that my mother could use it.
She can't figure out how to use an ATM
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
She can't figure out how to use an ATM
On an unrelated thing, I have a hard time convincing technical people on the payment industry that vending-machines shouldn't be called called ATMs.
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
She can't figure out how to use an ATM
On an unrelated thing, I have a hard time convincing technical people on the payment industry that vending-machines shouldn't be called called ATMs.
I have a hard time convincing my wife and kids that I shouldn't be called an ATM.
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
vending-machines shouldn't be called called ATMs.
Automated Transfer Machine! It transfers your money into product! Simple, yes?
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@remi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra If she's anything like mine, she's probably just happy and won't feel a thing. We tried training ours to not eat random shit (sometimes, literally shit...) by "hiding" small treats dunked into hot chili powder. She gulped them all down and never showed the slightest sign of discomfort.
Of course we haven't got @anotherusername supply of nuclear-war-grade chilies, so maybe it would have worked with stronger ones.
Do dogs even have the right receptors to taste capsaicin?
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@djls45 is there any smell that dogs don't like? No, I regret asking that, I don't wanna know about anything bad enough for dogs to dislike it.
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 is there any smell that dogs don't like? No, I regret asking that, I don't wanna know about anything bad enough for dogs to dislike it.
Skunks would probably be on top of that list.
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@djls45 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Do dogs even have the right receptors to taste capsaicin?
The way my dogs eat, that would not be a problem. Taste? Only if the stomach can taste. Eating by inhalation - it's a thing.
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@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Eating by inhalation - it's a thing.
Hence the idiomatic "wolfing down one's food."
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 is there any smell that dogs don't like? No, I regret asking that, I don't wanna know about anything bad enough for dogs to dislike it.
Skunks would probably be on top of that list.
Our old dogs were never bothered by skunk smell. For that matter, neither am I after having a 120-pound Labrador run inside and jump on my lap so many times after being sprayed by a skunk...
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 is there any smell that dogs don't like? No, I regret asking that, I don't wanna know about anything bad enough for dogs to dislike it.
Skunks would probably be on top of that list.
Our old dogs were never bothered by skunk smell. For that matter, neither am I after having a 120-pound Labrador run inside and jump on my lap so many times after being sprayed by a skunk...
"My dog has no nose!" - "How does he smell?" - "Terrible!"
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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@djls45 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@remi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra If she's anything like mine, she's probably just happy and won't feel a thing. We tried training ours to not eat random shit (sometimes, literally shit...) by "hiding" small treats dunked into hot chili powder. She gulped them all down and never showed the slightest sign of discomfort.
Of course we haven't got @anotherusername supply of nuclear-war-grade chilies, so maybe it would have worked with stronger ones.
Do dogs even have the right receptors to taste capsaicin?
It's not a matter of tasting it – capsaicinoids bind to TRPV1, a protein which functions as a thermoreceptor. As far as I know, it affects mammals pretty indiscriminately.
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@sockpuppet7 Cats seem to hate the smell of citrus peels, so maybe that works for them.
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@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@sockpuppet7 Cats seem to hate the smell of citrus peels, so maybe that works for them.
I was told cats hate citrus, so I bought a very expensive indoor citrus tree. The cats ate it in weeks.
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@Cursorkeys said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@sockpuppet7 Cats seem to hate the smell of citrus peels, so maybe that works for them.
I was told hats hate citrus, so I bought a very expensive indoor citrus tree. The cats ate it in weeks.
I feel it's the same thing with things like dogs and chocolate/onions/whatever. Most of my bitches love chocolate, but I've been told it's deadly for dogs.
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@kazitor said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's not a matter of tasting it – capsaicinoids bind to TRPV1, a protein which functions as a thermoreceptor.
I had not realized that "heat" is not just a metaphor here.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Most of my bitches love chocolate, but I've been told it's deadly for dogs.
(Warning: Auto-playing video with sound)
Signs of chocolate poisoning usually appear within 6 to 12 hours after your dog has eaten it, may last up to 72 hours, and include the following:
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Restlessness
Increased urination
Tremors
Elevated or abnormal heart rate
Seizures
Collapse and deathToxicity depends on dose, of course, and that depends on the type of chocolate and size of the dog, as well as how much it ate. Generally, dark has more theobromine and caffeine than milk chocolate, and cocoa powder is worst of all. The effects also depend on the age and health of the dog.
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@HardwareGeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Toxicity depends on dose, of course, and that depends on the type of chocolate and size of the dog, as well as how much it ate.
Medium, and a whole fucking box of Ho Hos. I'm only slightly surprised she didn't eat the aluminum with it. The carnage was real.
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An AI that runs in the background, scans every video you play, detects every time someone says "why?" and dynamically replaces the next voice line with "because I'm Batman!".
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@kazitor said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@remi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra If she's anything like mine, she's probably just happy and won't feel a thing. We tried training ours to not eat random shit (sometimes, literally shit...) by "hiding" small treats dunked into hot chili powder. She gulped them all down and never showed the slightest sign of discomfort.
Of course we haven't got @anotherusername supply of nuclear-war-grade chilies, so maybe it would have worked with stronger ones.
Do dogs even have the right receptors to taste capsaicin?
It's not a matter of tasting it – capsaicinoids bind to TRPV1, a protein which functions as a thermoreceptor. As far as I know, it affects mammals pretty indiscriminately.
As far as I know, birds are the only warm-blooded creature that isn't affected by capsaicin. Their TRPV1 receptors are wired differently, I guess, and they're immune to it.
@dcon said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Taste? Only if the stomach can taste.
Well... actually... as it just so happens, the receptors that detect heat are found everywhere in the body.
Stomach cramps aren't terribly fun. Neither are nausea and vomiting... luckily it takes quite a bit of spiciness to trigger those kinds of symptoms... you pretty much have to be asking for it...
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@anotherusername And you're one to very much know about that!
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@Benjamin-Hall Indeed.
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@Cursorkeys said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I was told cats hate citrus,
@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I feel it's the same thing with things like dogs and chocolate/onions/whatever
No - it's different in that they don't hate them; they're simply not good for them.
'whatever' also including grapes. xylitol, avocados and macadamia nuts
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@PJH TIL grapes are quite toxic to dogs.
My german shepherd used to somehow eat only the seeds of grapes.
How she managed to open each grape and extract the seed while leaving the rest of the fruit is beyond me, but I guess she knew what she was doing.
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
How she managed to open each grape and extract the seed while leaving the rest of the fruit is beyond me, but I guess she knew what she was doing.
Much the same way I expect my dog managed to eat the chocolates (yes, I know*) from a box of Quality Street, that had been left alone in the wrong place, yet still leave the wrappers all over the place.
Never figured that one out.
* diarrhoea for a couple of days was all.
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@PJH said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Cursorkeys said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I was told cats hate citrus,
@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I feel it's the same thing with things like dogs and chocolate/onions/whatever
No - it's different in that they don't hate them; they're simply not good for them.
'whatever' also including grapes. xylitol, avocados and macadamia nuts
TIL, I can report though that the LD50 for other household plants seems to be 'all you can afford'. Little fuzzy terrorists.
My parents have Maine Coons, one ate a cactus. That has to be out of sheer bloody-mindedness surely?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Most of my bitches love chocolate, but I've been told it's deadly for dogs.
It's poisonous to dogs - lethal depends on the quantity and the dog.
We had a Golden Retriever who ate a 400 gram bar of Cadbury's milk chocolate without any issues, but he weighed 30kg and Retrievers have pretty tough digestive systems.
Some tiny handbag dog may not do so well.
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@loopback0 I think the Golden Retriever will be absolutely fine if he eats a tiny handbag dog. Or even just the whole handbag.
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@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@loopback0 I think the Golden Retriever will be absolutely fine if he eats a tiny handbag dog. Or even just the whole handbag.
Maybe. Carnivore liver contains toxic levels of Vitamin A, as some unfortunate polar explorers discovered.
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@jinpa said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Carnivore liver contains toxic levels of Vitamin A, as some unfortunate polar explorers discovered.
Just how large is the liver of a tiny handbag dog? Compared with that of a polar bear? Dose matters!
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@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@jinpa said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Carnivore liver contains toxic levels of Vitamin A, as some unfortunate polar explorers discovered.
Just how large is the liver of a tiny handbag dog? Compared with that of a polar bear? Dose matters!
Actually it was the livers of their huskies (?) they ate, not polar bears. (It was a survival situation.)
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@jinpa said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Carnivore liver contains toxic levels of Vitamin A, as some unfortunate polar explorers discovered.
For the interested
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During the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1914, Douglas Mawson and two companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz, undertook an ill-fated mapping journey. Ninnis died when he fell down a crevasse, together with the sledge carrying most of their food supplies, and later Mertz became ill and died. Only Mawson returned.
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In 1969, Cleland and Southcott proposed that Mertz died of vitamin A toxicity and Mawson suffered from the effects of hypervitaminosis A because, with little food left, they were forced to eat their surviving dogs, including the liver. This hypothesis was supported by Shearman in 1978.
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After re-evaluating this hypothesis, I propose that Mawson and Mertz suffered from the effects of severe food deprivation, not from hypervitaminosis A, and that Mertz died as he was unable to tolerate the change from his usual vegetarian diet to a diet of mainly dog meat. I also suggest that Mertz’s condition was aggravated by the psychological stress of being forced to eat the dogs he had cared for for 18 months.
There remains the mystery of what caused the illness that claimed Mertz’s life and so nearly took Mawson’s. Some polar experts are convinced that the problem was merely poor diet and exhaustion, but doctors have suggested [ed] it was caused by husky meat—specifically, the dogs’ vitamin-enriched livers, which contain such high concentrations of Vitamin A that they can bring on a condition known as “hypervitaminosis A”–a condition that causes drying and fissuring of the skin, hair loss, nausea and, in high doses, madness, precisely the symptoms displayed by the fortunate Douglas Mawson, and the luckless Xavier Mertz.
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"(Warning: Dumb)"
Despite the fact that this is the bad ideas thread, this warning is on point. Thanks for ruining my faith in humanity this early in the week.
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@cvi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Thanks for ruining my faith in humanity this early in the week
Whatever you are doing on the weekend that restores your faith in humanity for the next week, I want to try it.
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@PJH Ugh wasn't there an episode of New Tricks where the serial killer fed a cop guy dog livers in his "beef broth"?
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@Captain said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PJH Ugh wasn't there an episode of New Tricks where the serial killer fed a cop guy dog livers in his "beef broth"?
Not sure about the actual liver, but Old Dogs (Wikia) looks close to what you're remembering.
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@PJH Yeah, that's the one.
Poor old Jack LOVED the beef broth the guy kept bringing over. Dude was harvesting organs because it was such a rare poison.
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@boomzilla Those comments are very Twitter.
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@DoctorJones said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
cringes at hearing windmills, fans, and wind turbines being lumped together
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@Zecc I'm sure that, given time, a turbine might mill its commutator brushes.
I've no explanation for "fan". Do turbines typically have some sort of ventilation on the back like bigger motors do?