The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Shadow Wolf]

So, my sister and her husband owe my nephew and his girlfriend some money ($50). My sister, who is about 30 years older than they are, who makes around a six-digit income a year, has resorted to "telling mom on them," and insisting they are hounding them to basically buy my nephew's headlight bulbs for his car (which my nephew needs that money so he can get a headlight for his car), and they just don't get how stressed they are and how much they are adding, and they're just being rude brats about it, and how they just need to grow up.
I will never understand how my sister, who makes enough money to live easily and comfortably in San Francisco, is always and constantly broke living in poor/cheap rural Indiana. I'm planning things out to go to the "big city" and make it on less. Seriously, WTF is her problem?
And then her immature attitude of "me, me, me, me, me" and not wanting to grow up and accept her life as it is (out of 4 kids, she has custody of only 1, and even her cats ran away from her). She's of the sort who believes herself never wrong, and to her everything can be made out into a Disney Princess fantasy (and that it's something every girl just inherently and naturally wants).

 

[Revoltingest]

Didn't you get one of these already?

You should get one of these instead

Tis a folding bike for me.
I always carry one in Mr Van when I travel.
Perhaps an electric option some day though.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I wish I could wave a magic wand and get rid of conspiracy theories so visiting with my friend would ever again get painfully awkward for me.
It's sad to see a country girl who hunts and knows guns (as well as her dad) fall for a conspiracy theory that tries to completely remove all the math the Vegas shooter did to make his shots as a consideration and say that's not what he did (suicide note, apparently) and create total utter bunk about ballistics, ammo velocity, and penetration capabilities of the guy's arsenal. Hasn't heard his brother seems to be holding back on stuff, but there's all this "stuff" that points to a false flag operation.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

At least tonight the World Trade Towers weren't brought down by holographic projectors.

 

[Revoltingest]

I plan to take my 20' trailer on next week's trip.
(Not sure everything I'm bringing back will fit on the shorter blue one.)
So that means swapping the hi-strength wheels to it today...in the rain.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've had these yellow jacket/hornet looking thingies buzzing around my room for a few days now, and they have bothered me none (not even after I swatted one with my hand thinking it a fly). No stings, and they seem to be non-aggressive (which is puzzling me about what they really are). Then along comes my dog, who for some reason really, REALLY just absolutely ****ing hates stinging insects, I here a loud, forceful "snap, snap, chomp, snap....snap, snap," and find a dead whatever they are in front of her.
Remarkably, that I am aware of she has only been stung once expressing her extreme hostility and aggressiveness towards the stingers (or whatever slur/derogatory word her mind might use for them). Whatever it is that drives her hatred, she seems to have perfected her craft, because the bodies look like they just died instead of being snapped at with teeth.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

In observing the specimen provided by my dog, I have noticed the "stinger portion" of such insects remains highly sensitive to stimuli, and will move back in forth in response, even after rigor mortis has stiffened the limbs. Or perhaps a "residual energy" of sorts, as the thing keeps moving even when I better control/eliminate stimuli the corpse is exposed to.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Or I'll just go with a story of a vengeful stinger of the body of a murdered whatever insect it is, viciously murdered and now it eternally seeks the sting it was robbed of in life.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have acquired a second specimen, cause of death unknown. While specimen A still has a wiggling stinger part, specimen B--presumably killed after specimen A as I found B on my bed just now--is far more stiff, and its stinger part (as in the entire back part) appears "flinched" or retracted, perhaps suggesting a slower, more painful death.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Hours later, and specimen A still responds, but a slower, more methodical type of response.
Specimen B is as stiff as it gets, and I have lost all interest in it.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

What really is death, I ponder as I notice A's leg slowly moving back and forth.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

After doing some more research, based on appearance I do believe A and B to be yellow jackets. But there is now the question of why have these yellow jackets lacked the aggressiveness they are characterized as having?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

A's leg has started moving in a different direction, and more rapidly. I did find this interesting bit on Wikipedia when looking into these observations I've been making.
The cause is unknown, but [cadaveric spasms] are usually associated with violent deaths happening under extremely physical circumstances with intense emotion.[3]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

And B is just a dead bug. No movement, no changes, nadda.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

A's stinger part has also become more responsive, and even curling up faster and more so than previously observed.

 

[Revoltingest]

I have no desire to own a yacht.
Not even to ride on one.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I got to watch the new Pirates movie. My only real complaint, as with the second one, they really could have cut a lot of it out and made it not 2 hours long. And I did ignore the "we are way overdoing this" part of it, and just saw it as an "horo"-and-a-half long sex joke, with a few drug jokes for S&Gs. And then about 30 minutes of clicheish bore.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have no desire to own a yacht.
Not even to ride on one.

Good thing, because I'd be paddling alongside in a canoe, and making fun of your yacht.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've noticed no movement from A for some for about an hour now, but I'm still curious over this responsiveness to being poked that causes the stinger part to curl up.

 

[Revoltingest]

Good thing, because I'd be paddling alongside in a canoe, and making fun of your yacht.

Would a yacht owner even notice a little speck below?