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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    background said:

    I prefer to think of it as harmonic distortion, rather than noise,  well apart from the totally random things like the Covenanter's prison. I hardly ever comment, I mean I'm on 902 posts, and that's taken 22 years.

    you have to wonder what on earth I managed to find to make 40K comments about cheeky 

    Wow, I feel like I blab a lot and I only have 27K.  

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908

    barbult said:

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    • background, I appreciate your comment quality control process. That which comes out in the end is great. I wonder what was discarded along the way. Maybe best not to know?

    Yup, the 'How I got thrown out of Sunday school' story illustrates the depths of depravity that I am protecting you all from. angel

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    I think it must have been heat management kicking in.  The power adapter was scorching hot.  To be fair it's absolutely roasting in here even though it's currently around 8:15pm.  Just switched it all off to cool down and thankfully my display is back to full bright!

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    There's not a person on earth can teach me anything regards "Signal-To-Noise", I consider myself an artist.
    In addition, never undersestimate far more important aspects such as the beauty and use of "Jitter".

     

     

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    BTW, just an observation but it sounds as if Lola's gonna be left on her own when Richard goes on his trip.

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908
    edited June 23

    I'm sure he will have set up some fiendish traps for any unexpected visitors.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    background said:

    I'm sure he will have set up some fiendish traps for any unexpected visitors.

    I'm not sure my contribution is needed - have you seen what Lola has done to keep me away from her credit card?

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422
    edited June 24

    I'd go as far to say I'm gonna need to see Lola happy together with another man before I'd give up on her.

     

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  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    I'm just kidding, I can take a hint  :-D

     

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422
    edited June 24

    Best I don't post this in the main thread, but regards "Tea at the Cafe" and that one where he returned home late, both make me wonder why Richard is having to eat cat food when he's presumably a semi-human-brained character.

    My dog (RIP after a very long and happy life) barely ate any dog food in his entire life.  I just used to give him whatever I was having.  The only time he ever ate dog food was as a puppy, and once in a full moon if I saw something new and interesting I thought he might like (which he hardly ever did).

    He ate everything I did, of course in smaller amounts but otherwise 100% identical meals.  For example if I did beef, mashed potatoes, sprouts, and onions in gravy, then he got exactly the same on his dish.  There was some food he would not eat, but he lived like a human (or like a king as I often used to tell him).

    So yeah, I must say I feel sorry for Richard in that respect.  He probably deserves it when he messes up, but he surely shouldn't have to live on it.  It makes me wonder if Jack will have the heart to slip Richard a full-on meal while at the cafe!

     

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    3DIO said:

    Best I don't post this in the main thread, but the most recent render, and that one where he returned home late, both make me wonder why Richard is having to eat cat food when he's presumably a semi-human-brained character.  My dog (RIP after a very long and happy life) barely ate any dog food in his entire life.  I just used to give him whatever I was having.  The only time he ever ate dog food was as a puppy, and once in a full moon if I saw something new and interesting I thought he might like (which he hardly ever did).

    He ate everything I did, of course in smaller amounts but otherwise 100% identical meals.  For example if I did beef, mashed potatoes, sprouts, and onions in gravy, then he got exactly the same on his dish.  There was some food he would not eat, but he lived like a human (or like a king as I often used to tell him).

    So yeah, I must say I feel sorry for Richard in that respect.  He probably deserves it when he messes up, but he surely shouldn't have to live on it.  It makes me wonder if Jack will have the heart to slip Richard a full-on meal while at the cafe!

    I've heard that human food is not good for domestic animals. Some human foods (chocolate) are toxic, I hear. I'm not a vet and have no pet, so don't take my word for it. You picked the right thread to discuss it, I think. 
    Richard demonstrates human behavior at times (talking, driving? a car), while remaining a cat. He likes cat food and cat treats just fine. In fact, at the cafe, he seemed quite excited that they actually had cat food and cat bowls to eat it from. While at Christmas dinner at Jack's house, he had a seat at the table, so I guess he eats whatever he wants! His efforts to carve the turkey were not appreciated, though.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,783
    Cats are obligate carnivores, unlike dogs. Their metabolisms are totally carnivorous and it's very difficult to get the correct nutrients into them with the type of omnivorous diet that suits dogs. Furthermore, cats and sharing of food, put it this way: Not happening. If they're having it, it's theirs. If you're having it and they want it, it's theirs. That's a particularly cat way of sharing. Would you expect a Tiger to share? If not, why expect a much smaller predator with the same sort of personality to share? Cats are tigers in a smaller body. They know it, too. Regards, Richard.
  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    So, Other-Richard, did I make you too big over in the other thread. I wasn't sure what size was appropriate.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    Cats are not omnivores the way dogs are, there are a lot of things they can't safely eat. (Mice are lobbying hard to get themselves added to the list, so far without success.)

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    barbult said:

    He likes cat food and cat treats just fine. In fact, at the cafe, he seemed quite excited that they actually had cat food and cat bowls to eat it from.

    I know, in fact that's what prompted me to post cause it seems odd he would prefer that stuff over human food  :-D

    He did also eat chocolate, but due to what people keep saying, he got no more than a tiny piece of it (just so he never felt refused of something I was eating).  He literally was never refused anything I ate, not ever, not even once!  Walkies to the takeaway for a pizza or doner kebab?  He knew instinctively that once we got back home, that he was about to get a pile of that doner kebab or a slice of that pizza (which of course he always did).

     

     

     

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    Sorry, hadn't seen the other posts when writing that reply.

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422
    edited June 24

    @OtherRichard
    Indeed, cats and dogs are very different beasts!

    @Richard
    :-D

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  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908

    Now see if you tried that with a fish it wouldn't work, first off you'd have trouble getting it to the takeaway, and secondly putting human food in the fishtank would probably just result in a cloudy mess.in the water.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,783
    edited June 24

    barbult said:

    So, Other-Richard, did I make you too big over in the other thread. I wasn't sure what size was appropriate.

    Not bad a size at all for a Maine Coon. The self portrait I did below is about the right scale, maybe a little on the small side. Our Toby can stand on his hind legs and just see onto the 930mm/36" high kitchen worktop, Ozzie is a couple of inches smaller. I had to set the tail length slider to 300%, which looks pretty close to what you must have done, too. 

    I do like the story and await it's unfolding with trepidation.

    Regards,

    (Other) Richard.

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Moved here from the other thread:

    You are all suffering from extraordinary heat. Here in Florida, we will have months in the mid 90s F with miserably high humidity, but we have air conditioning to deal with that, because that is ordinary, not extraordinary for us. I hope your weather returns to normal soon

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,081

    its pretty cold for this time of the year in Adelaide 

    but many people further north in your hemisphere would probably be running around in shorts

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,783

    We holidayed near Cairns in far north Queensland, going in July to be as cool as possible. 

    Most locals had jumpers on. We, on the other hand, got so hot we had to leap in the swimming pool as soon as we stopped in a campsite. The fact it was raining made no difference to us, but the campsite owner thought we were barmy.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    its pretty cold for this time of the year in Adelaide 

    but many people further north in your hemisphere would probably be running around in shorts

    That is true. I grew up in Iowa, and it can actually get hotter there than down here in Florida where I live. But it only lasts a day or two at that temperature, and the humidity is not as bad. It will be shorts weather there for the summer months. I'm so used to the heat here now, that I have to wear a sweater or sweatshirt if it gets down close to 70 F. At 55 F I need a light parka, hat and gloves. In Antatctica, the cruise gave us heavy parkas with heavy liners. We brought them home, but they will not see the light of day here in Florida.

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422
    edited June 25

    background said:

    Now see if you tried that with a fish it wouldn't work, first off you'd have trouble getting it to the takeaway, and secondly putting human food in the fishtank would probably just result in a cloudy mess.in the water.

    That reminds me, something he definitely did not like was vinegar.  Whenever we returned home after a walkies to the fish and chips shop, I'd have to pull his chips from the bottom of the tray where the vinegar hadn't hit, whenever they took it upon themselves to add it without even asking!

     

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  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,631
    edited June 25

    I only skimmed the last few pages of this thread. I figured much of it was transplanted from the original thread.

    Just a gentle thought. I looked at the title of this thread, and thought it might be the original thread instead.

    Maybe you can shorten the title of this thread to something like. "Barbult's Tangent Thread?"

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103
    edited June 25
    Good suggestion Ron. I get confused, too. I'll try to fix it later today. Thanks for the suggestion.
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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    The thread is now named barbult's Discursion Thread.  I wanted to keep Richard's use of "discursion" in the name. 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,081

    I went on a discursion down to the shops the other day

    people stared at me the whole trip

    as I boogied down the whole way

    devil

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