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Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species?
Jamie found an amusing bit this morning on Scientific American where the author proposes that dog breeds are different species. Now some of you might recoil when you hear this suggestion, but if you read the article to see why he makes this suggestion I suspect you'll crack a smile and appreciate the elegance of the solution.
And yet, if I have a man with different skin colour, or even simply different clothing, other men will consider his life worth less than even the smallest dog.
Bah, I'd fuck a nice asian girl any day. What's your point?
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Whenever someone tells me they have a dog, I ask them what make it is. Try it, the reaction is brilliant.
Summation 2
1) Creationists claim the science doesn't provide thorough enough proof of evolution
2) Evolutionary biologists should fudge their results to re-define something as being proof
3) ???
4) Profit
Something makes me think this scheme would just give creationists a big stick labelled "evolutionists fudge their results; it's all a load of cobblers" to beat the biologists with.
If a Slashdot reader has evolved to the point where he has no sense of humour whatsoever and is therefore incapable of mating with female humans, does that make said Slashdot reader a new species?
Something to ponder tonight.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
It Makes sense, there just defending their spices! So Barking is just Alien language, they're communicating their plans for world Domination with each other!
The spice must flow?
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
You know what's funny? Dogs know dogs. They can be big, small, tall, round, thin, with or without tails, brown, red, white, spotted, yellow, shaggy, short haired, long legged, squat, etc, etc, etc. There is a massive amount of variation on display within the dog family.
But despite it all, dogs know dogs. Upon seeing another, they'll wag their tails or bark for a rotweiller the same as they would for a terrier. They'll all roam about in their little packs, somehow instinctively knowing they they naturally should.
And yet, if I have a man with different skin colour, or even simply different clothing, other men will consider his life worth less than even the smallest dog.
Makes you think.
Is it just too late at night, or does that sound like the start of the Lassie 2012 presidential election campaign? If you won, it'd be very bad news -- four dog years is barely seven months and the next campaign'd be kicking off -- we'd never have any time free of election adverts!
Bah, I've seen the offspring of a 4 kilo terrier and a 35 kilo labrador.
Sure, the little bugger needed to get on the couch to get his groove on, but he still made it ;-)
Puppies were the same size as dad after only a few weeks, didn't make him any less proud though...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Their plans for a world Dalmatian? This sounds pretty serious...
sounds rather spotty ...
They look the same in the end
rewriting history since 2109
Yeah, but will you smell her butt?
Wait, don't answer that.
You're 17 degrees of separation out from her? That's sad. I'm at both 0 and 1. Once with her, once with one of her lesbian lovers. Well, it was in the same night, in the same bed.
But, ewww. I hate it when someone says "When you sleep with someone, you're sleeping with everyone they've been with.". I've never slept with Billy Bob Thornton, but he did work the camera that night.
Under some of the suggested logic, would that make me a superior species to you? :) I know it makes me a higher species than many Slashdot readers, where I don't live in my mother's basement, I have opportunities to copulate, and I have procreated.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Sexist.
He's looking for a date, apparently.
And keep the airplanes from landing in the backyard.
I suppose you could build some sort of multi-feline interferometer, and interpret the varying frequency of their mewing according to their individual proximity to objects.
Assuming you're reasonably confident not to be bumping into the ceiling or falling down holes, "how many cats can lead blind people" would be 3. 2 would lead to blind spots, 4 or more would provide redundant overlap.
I do not want to write the obvious answer, I do not want to write the obvious answer, I have to get that mental picture out of my head...
Why, why do you write about fucking asian girls in a thread about dogs, can you tell us? This is /., not SA!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yeah, but will you smell her butt?
Wait, don't answer that.
Smell it? I'd lick it!
You sure picked the right name. I dunno how many people I know who could engage in a philosophic discussion about the social implications and relative superiority of sniffing each others' butts.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Sure, and I take that first commandment very serious. I'd hate to have other Gods besides me.
So every time those Jehova's Witnesses come by to talk about God, I'm delighted, I love talking about myself!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Hence the don't answer that.
That's a bad bad idea.
Everyone knows cats are covertly taking over the world. It's just a matter of time before they all get the signal, and the humans are either enslaved or killed.
Sure, use 3 cats to guide a blind person. When the day comes, they'll lead him in front of a bus. When the bus stops because they just hit him, they'll kill all the occupants too. How else do you expect a cat to make a bus stop? :)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
because I AM a dog -
that was me you saw fucking
that asian chick in alt.bestiality
she gives fantastic head, BTW
Is the tequila for the chimp?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I used to fuck anything that moved, but then I thought, "Why limit myself?" Movement is overrated.
Some people here would fuck anything that moves. What's your point?
Actually, I consider mobility to be a deal breaker. It makes it easier for them to get away.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Sweet, the radios I planted in the wilderness tuned to Rush Limbaugh have succeeded in creating the first wolf-Republican hybrid!
Now if I can just the the ostriches to pay attention to the Joe Biden, Rahm Emmanuel and Obama speeches, my dream of Wild Kingdom: DC edition will be near completion.
Well, he's come to the right place.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Epifanny. The outside of the butt?
Movement is overrated.
Ah, a Victorian. How quaint.
Augh! It burns!
It burrrrrnnssssss........
To quote Steve Martin:
"I learned about sex from watching dogs in the neighborhood ... the most important thing I learned was: never let go of the girl no matter how hard she tries to shake you off."
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