Aug 25 2012

Anti-Caturday post

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The word for the day is PINK. Pink is a soft, non-threatening color associated with girls…and is therefore harmless and pleasant. Cats are not pink. But other, more interesting, animals are.

Very girly. By the way, that one secretes cyanide in defense, so much as you might be tempted, don’t play with it.

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theophontes (坏蛋)

25 August 2012 at 9:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Pink Cat. Where is your ~~god~~ millipede now?
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mikmik

25 August 2012 at 9:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

How are you supposed to brush it if it is secreting cyanide at you? At least pink cat haz purrz.
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Rip Steakface

25 August 2012 at 9:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Maybe the cyanide excretion is what Mr. Akin thought of for “legitimate rape” (what are the tags for Comic Sans?).
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michaeld

25 August 2012 at 9:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

BAD accompanying article… Millipedes are not insects! …. now my inner invertebrate zoologist is all riled up….
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Crudely Wrott

25 August 2012 at 9:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’d have guessed centipede.

I would pick it up. With gloves. Nostrils upwind. Not squeezing too hard so as to be able to put it back down intact.

I have handled several venomous and poisonous critters without ill effect. What I haven’t learned to deal with are yellow jackets. Bastards are just to fast, not to mention airborne.

Ain’t life so damned fantastic?
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Crudely Wrott

25 August 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

edit, my five: I owe an o.
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carolw

25 August 2012 at 9:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It looks like candy. Sweet, poisonous candy.
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Larry

25 August 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Now if the existence of this bug doesn’t scream for a creator, I don’t know what would. I mean, who else but a crotchety, vindictive, psychopathic god would make something so pink and beautiful, smell like almonds, and yet be so deadly with its built-in chemical warfare factory?
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ChasCPeterson

25 August 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Beautiful millipede!
One that would fit right in at the ToysRUs Barbie aisle.
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Dick the Damned

25 August 2012 at 11:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Larry,

Now if the existence of this bug doesn’t scream for a creator, I don’t know what would.

I guess ‘He’ must’ve been exercising ‘His’ feminine side.

It makes you think – how can anyone believe this bug was created by a deity, rather than for it to have evolved? (Well, i guess the Christer’s Bible Bogey was asshole enough to do it.)
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aspidoscelis

25 August 2012 at 1:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

In the interests of combating the tendency to post cool images with attribution absent or hidden, this one is from Dr. Somsak Panha of the World Wildlife Fund. In this case (unlike the last), it’s just hidden – two links out from this post…
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'Tis Himself

25 August 2012 at 1:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Cats are not pink.

Here’s a pink car complete with cats!

Oh wait, I think I misread something.
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Happiestsadist, opener of the Crack of Doom

25 August 2012 at 1:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It looks amazing. And cute. And deadly. <3

Slightly fierce pink makeup it shall be for me today, then.
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Ace of Sevens

25 August 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shynx_cat.jpg

Pink cat that isn’t shooped.
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efiokmfeokpwe

25 August 2012 at 1:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m curious about the whole ‘red as a warning” thing… I remember a study done on horses as to what color the fence should be, and the result was that green and brown colors was best, while red was almost invisible to the horse. And maybe this is true to other animals as well? So maybe red isn’t a warning color in nature, but rather a cloaking device?
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ChasCPeterson

25 August 2012 at 2:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The more I look at this the more I think there are 2 animals here. The frillier millipede’s in the foreground with its head at the top as it looks to be crawling over the (thereby obscured) head of the other, spikier guy, for which I see only one pair of legs per segment, suggesting centipede.
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Antiochus Epiphanes

25 August 2012 at 3:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

ChasP…I think you’re right.
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Brownian

25 August 2012 at 3:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

By the way, that one secretes cyanide in defense

That may be preferable to what my cat secretes in defense of his presumed territory.
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Nightjar

25 August 2012 at 3:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Chas and AE,

I was thinking the same thing, looks like two animals. After googling around a bit I found this. The caption of that picture reads “mating couple, male on top”. Interesting.
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cicely

25 August 2012 at 3:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Many times, the cats in my dreams are available in day-glo colors, regrettably including neon pink.

I like the turquoise ones best.

I have no history of dreaming about somethingpedes in any color—but I bet I will, now.
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Rip Steakface, Comic Sans is achieved thusly:
<q> Insert Stoopid Here </q>
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JohnnieCanuck

25 August 2012 at 3:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Somebody needs to tell Steve over at WebEcoist that puce isn’t pink.

It’s reddish-brown, the colour of a flea.
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Brownian

25 August 2012 at 3:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Many times, the cats in my dreams are available in day-glo colors, regrettably including neon pink.

Louis Wain, is that you?
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cicely

25 August 2012 at 3:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

No. Mine are not usually that elaborate, and are never available in fractals.
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skeptifem

25 August 2012 at 4:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Does is secrete cyanide For The Cure??
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katkinkate

25 August 2012 at 6:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I thought puce was a purplish pink, or a blue-tinted magenta.
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katkinkate

25 August 2012 at 6:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Well I should have looked it up before my previous quote. Its a muted pinkish grey/brown. Almost a pinkish mushroom colour. On the internet you learn something new every day.
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Olav

25 August 2012 at 7:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Crudely Wrott:

I’d have guessed centipede.

Me too. Millipedes are usually thick and round and worm-like in appearance, with (many) short legs.

I would pick it up. With gloves.

Not me, not even with gloves. Those things can be fast. They would run up your arm and *into* your sleeve or glove before you know it.
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RFW

25 August 2012 at 7:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@ #5 Crudely Wrott says:

What I haven’t learned to deal with are yellow jackets. Bastards are just too fast, not to mention airborne.

I spent three days this week digging out clumps of grass in an area where I want to plant California poppies for next summer. By hand. With a trowel. On my hands and knees.

In the middle of the area is a cast iron storm sewer grate — out of which fly yellow jackets who have constructed a nest down below.

All’s well that ends well: when I had to dig close to the grate, I kept a sharp eye on it and if there was the slightest sign of disturbance or irritation among the YJ’s (a few sentinels buzzing up into the open to check things out), I ceased and desisted until they quieted down. And thus the job was finished without a sting.

Good thing, too: these days I have some mobility problems that, had I been attacked en masse, would have made it very awkward to rise from the ground and escape in a timely fashion.

I just wish all yellow jacket nests were in such suitable places, where no one can come on them accidentally. They’re devious sons of bitches and far too often nest where you don’t notice them until they’ve begun stinging your noggin.

But perhaps better short tempered yellow jackets than cyanide secreting centipedes.

Now, where’s that great big ol’ fuzzy cat of mine to return me to the proper frame of mind for this thread???
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RFW

25 August 2012 at 7:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Puce: from the French for flea; the color of a flea, a purplish brown or a brownish purple.

Many people incorrectly think of it as a sort of vomit green, thanks to the work “puke”.
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chakolate

25 August 2012 at 8:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Am I the only one who sees a pink millipede (four legs per segment) eating a pink centipede (two legs per segment)?
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Kagehi

25 August 2012 at 9:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sigh.. Once more we fall prey to the modern interpretation of color, and “pinkification” of femininity…

But, cool bugs.
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Ye Olde Blacksmith - Spocktopus cuddler

25 August 2012 at 9:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

OMFSM, they’re screwing! It’s bug p0rn.

Yay!
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shoeguy

26 August 2012 at 12:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Normally I like the anti-caturday critters, but that one is creepy, even if it is pink. Actually the pink kind of makes it creepier. With so many species of cuttlefish out there, why go anywhere else.
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rolfschmidt

26 August 2012 at 1:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I assume the “soft, non threatening” thing is tongue in cheek. Everyone who’s watched QI with Stephen Fry knows that pink was the boy colour associated with strength and anger until only 50 years ago.
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theophontes (坏蛋)

26 August 2012 at 2:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@ Ace of Sevens

~~Shynx cat~~ Sphynx cat.

/pedant

@ rolfschmidt

With cowboys (and other manly men), the “male” partner would indicate with a blue handkerchief and the “female” partner with a red handkerchief. (There was a lack of women back them “good ol’ days” out west.) Link here. Whether this became baby blue and baby ~~red~~ pink later is anyone’s guess.

The dutch indicate the babies sex by serving pink and white “muisjes” at the birth of a girl – boys are blue and white.
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Ace of Sevens

26 August 2012 at 2:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@theophantes. I’m not the one who uploaded kitty to Wikipedia. That is the actual address of the pic. I suspect Shynx is the cat’s name.
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StevoR

26 August 2012 at 8:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Speaking personally (as opposed to telepathically getting somebody else to say it for me! If only!*) I’d call that red not pink myself.

* Telepathy if it existed. Hmm… Good thing or horror? Who knows. Minds are strange and unique and messed up things.
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StevoR

26 August 2012 at 8:26 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@ 29. RFW :

Many people incorrectly think of it as a sort of vomit green, thanks to the work “puke”.

Will never forget the time we were looking at a n aertshow & my Mum – a nurse – noted that colour used was a “bile vomit green”!
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StevoR

26 August 2012 at 8:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

.. an artshow .. That was supposed to be. Goshdurned dangnabbed typos.
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birgerjohansson

27 August 2012 at 6:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This is a very small hooder from the planet Masada (see the novels by Neal Asher).
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tengalaxies

27 August 2012 at 7:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

These lovely millipedes were all over our basement when I was growing up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpaphe_haydeniana

I’m sure I handled them. I remember the almond smell of the cyanide. No ill effects that I know if.