Why are you overlooking the possibility that crabs are turning into cats? Given the popularity on the latter on the popular internet social media sites* perhaps crabs are finally catching on and have decided to catch up on the trends.
*Which I avoid, my info is entirely second hand.
Snarki, child of Lokisays
“Yoo hoomans will PAY for this indignity!”
cheerfulcharliesays
Meanwhile, in Perth, Australia, they are having a huge mouse population explosion. It is claimed that driving is like popping bubble wrap as drivers run over the mice swarms in the streets. No sign yet of mice evolving into crabs though. Pop! Pop! Pop!, Google Perth mouse plague for more info.
submoronsays
cheerfulcharlie @ 3. Aussie mouse swarms were shown on a BBC series called Swarm: Nature’s Incredible Invasions many years ago so it happens there occasionally. I can’t find it online alas.
Several years ago i stayed in shearer quarters in rural Australia. It was common to wake up at night with mice crawling over you. We saw a lot of very fat well-fed snakes and farm cats that had given up catching mice to the point where they ignored the mice walking in front of them.
moxiesays
have you checked the Evil Cat lately?
UnknownEric the Apostatesays
Looks like a lost Robyn Hitchcock song: “The Cat With the Seafood Head.”
Alan G. Humphreysays
That is one crabby looking cat, or
The orange crabby turns over a new shell.
indianajonessays
Not quite a crocoduck, but enough to give creationists something to sweat about perhaps?
chrislawsonsays
Crabcat dismayed by Justice League rejection.
stevewatsonsays
Seen on local Mastodon this AM:
Scientists have crossed the DNA of a crab with a cheetah.
They had to cancel the project because things went sideways real fast. groan
StevoRsays
@3. cheerfulcharlie : “Meanwhile, in Perth, Australia, they are having a huge mouse population explosion.”
Not just in Perth.
Farmers in South Australia, Western Australia and parts of northern NSW are seeing unusually high numbers of mice. Some estimates put the number at more than 8,000 mice per hectare.
Citizen science website FeralScan shows reports of mice in every grain-growing state, from west of Brisbane to north of Sydney and close to the Adelaide CBD, along with extensive hotspots in WA.
@ ^ John Morales : I never claimed mouse plagues were new or intended to imply that. Whatever made you think I did?
StevoRsays
@ ^ John Morales : I never claimed mouse plagues were new or intended to imply that. Whatever made you think I did?
John Moralessays
Whatever made you think I thought you did? :)
I was amplifying. Expanding. Showing.
(Paranoia is not pretty)
Hemidactylussays
John Morales
You one-upped StevoR in @13 then called him paranoid in @16.
Work on them people skills there mate.
John Moralessays
Did I really? Interesting fantasies you have, Hemidactylus.
I explained what I did, but no. Your antipathy perverts your perception.
(You project, BTW)
StevoRsays
@16. John Morales : “Whatever made you think I thought you did?”
Your comment #13 :
Not exactly a new phenomenon, StevoR.
Which yeah, I know having been through and well aware of past mouse plagues.
John Moralessays
This blog is USA-centric, so not every reader does.
And since it was your comment, it was you I ostensibly addressed.
Anyway, I was neither saying you claimed it was unique nor dissing you as Hemidactylus projected.
I was noting there is a history of it. And Hemidactylus taking umbrage ostensibly on your behalf is cringe.
I lived in Birdwood for 11 years until 2020, and I assure you the bunnies were hopping around.
Behind the school, the supermarket. Before that, Springton since 1997. One acre.
—
Anyway, I suppose I technically was one-upping you, and yeah I noted (Paranoia is not pretty).
Fact remains I did not thing what you thought I thought.
StevoRsays
@ ^ John Morales : Okay. fair enough. You did ask.
Yeah, I do recall those plagues. I remember the Portugese millipede* plagues as a kid too! Luckily the nematode solved that although we do still see some around occassionally.
Why are you overlooking the possibility that crabs are turning into cats? Given the popularity on the latter on the popular internet social media sites* perhaps crabs are finally catching on and have decided to catch up on the trends.
*Which I avoid, my info is entirely second hand.
“Yoo hoomans will PAY for this indignity!”
Meanwhile, in Perth, Australia, they are having a huge mouse population explosion. It is claimed that driving is like popping bubble wrap as drivers run over the mice swarms in the streets. No sign yet of mice evolving into crabs though. Pop! Pop! Pop!, Google Perth mouse plague for more info.
cheerfulcharlie @ 3. Aussie mouse swarms were shown on a BBC series called Swarm: Nature’s Incredible Invasions many years ago so it happens there occasionally. I can’t find it online alas.
Several years ago i stayed in shearer quarters in rural Australia. It was common to wake up at night with mice crawling over you. We saw a lot of very fat well-fed snakes and farm cats that had given up catching mice to the point where they ignored the mice walking in front of them.
have you checked the Evil Cat lately?
Looks like a lost Robyn Hitchcock song: “The Cat With the Seafood Head.”
That is one crabby looking cat, or
The orange crabby turns over a new shell.
Not quite a crocoduck, but enough to give creationists something to sweat about perhaps?
Crabcat dismayed by Justice League rejection.
Seen on local Mastodon this AM:
Scientists have crossed the DNA of a crab with a cheetah.
They had to cancel the project because things went sideways real fast.
groan
@3. cheerfulcharlie : “Meanwhile, in Perth, Australia, they are having a huge mouse population explosion.”
Not just in Perth.
Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/wa-mouse-plague-what-you-need-to-know/106696538
Not exactly a new phenomenon, StevoR: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/australias-mouse-plagues.html
@ ^ John Morales : I never claimed mouse plagues were new or intended to imply that. Whatever made you think I did?
@ ^ John Morales : I never claimed mouse plagues were new or intended to imply that. Whatever made you think I did?
Whatever made you think I thought you did? :)
I was amplifying. Expanding. Showing.
(Paranoia is not pretty)
John Morales
You one-upped StevoR in @13 then called him paranoid in @16.
Work on them people skills there mate.
Did I really? Interesting fantasies you have, Hemidactylus.
I explained what I did, but no. Your antipathy perverts your perception.
(You project, BTW)
@16. John Morales : “Whatever made you think I thought you did?”
Your comment #13 :
Which yeah, I know having been through and well aware of past mouse plagues.
This blog is USA-centric, so not every reader does.
And since it was your comment, it was you I ostensibly addressed.
Anyway, I was neither saying you claimed it was unique nor dissing you as Hemidactylus projected.
I was noting there is a history of it. And Hemidactylus taking umbrage ostensibly on your behalf is cringe.
Hey, remember the locust plague in SA? Similar. Lived through it.
(https://pir.sa.gov.au/crops-and-plants/weeds-and-plant-pests/plant-pests/pests-and-diseases-of-significant-concern/australian-plague-locust)
Bunnies? Quite the thing.
I lived in Birdwood for 11 years until 2020, and I assure you the bunnies were hopping around.
Behind the school, the supermarket. Before that, Springton since 1997. One acre.
—
Anyway, I suppose I technically was one-upping you, and yeah I noted (Paranoia is not pretty).
Fact remains I did not thing what you thought I thought.
@ ^ John Morales : Okay. fair enough. You did ask.
Yeah, I do recall those plagues. I remember the Portugese millipede* plagues as a kid too! Luckily the nematode solved that although we do still see some around occassionally.
.* Yup these :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommatoiulus_moreleti
Were in plague numbers up in the Adelaide Hills once.back when I was in high school. Absolutely stank when they were crushed too.
[OK. I get you get me. Riffing, not dissing. Ta]
Cringe equals calling out John Morales. Self serving definition that.
BTW I have praised you for good contributions in the past and am sincere with that sentiment. You seem unduly focused on the criticism.
Aaaww… there, there.
‘Work on them people skills there mate.’ applies no less to you.
You should know by now my comments are bespoke.
And I well remember you have this thing about my ‘people skills’.
One of my people skills is to be irritating as fuck. Almost a superpower, really.
Working on it, see? ;)