barbult's Discursion Thread

barbult · June 23

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

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

background · June 23

barbult said:

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.

background · June 23

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

Richard Haseltine · June 23

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?

barbult · June 24

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.

richardandtracy · June 24

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.

barbult · June 24

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

Richard Haseltine · June 24

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.)

background · June 24

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.

richardandtracy · 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.

barbult · June 25

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

WendyLuvsCatz · June 25

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

richardandtracy · June 25

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.

barbult · June 25

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.

Ron Knights · 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?"

barbult · June 25

Good suggestion Ron. I get confused, too. I'll try to fix it later today. Thanks for the suggestion.

barbult · June 25

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

WendyLuvsCatz · June 26

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

barbult · June 26

Stayin' alive is a good daily activity.

Ron Knights · June 26

Barbult I'm glad you thought it was a good idea to shorten the name..

But did you want to use "discussion" instead of discursion?

Gotta admit "Discursion" has a certain ring to it!

By the way I just got back from a doctor's appointment. Everything is fine.

But apparently I'm shrinking. I am 3 inches shorter!?

barbult · June 26

3 inches! Maybe you are just slumping. I definitely want "discursion". Google the definition. It is perfect.

Ron Knights · June 26

It's hard for me to stand on the scales for a weigh-in. Balance is the issue. Same thing for standing against the wall for height management.

I have two bad knees. One has a torn minescus and no cartillage.

Yeah discursion is a good word.

Sounds like the story of my life!

Richard Haseltine · June 28

3DIO said:

barbult said:

Stayin' alive is a good daily activity.

It is for as long as it works!

It comes with a lifetime guarantee

barbult · June 28

Richard Haseltine said:

3DIO said:

barbult said:

Stayin' alive is a good daily activity.

It is for as long as it works!

It comes with a lifetime guarantee

WendyLuvsCatz · June 29

nan

needless to say, D|S is frozen

barbult · June 29

Nan, not a number. Yup something went wrong there.

richardandtracy · June 29

I have never managed to do that. Congratulations Wendy.

We always reference my late mum as 'Gran' and my wife's mum as 'Nanny', so we never have a 'Nan' in our household, even when not experimenting at the outer reaches of mathematics.

Regards,

Richard

WendyLuvsCatz · June 29

oh I managed to get everything to appear as gibberish once, like if you open a compressed file in notepad

just a copy of a line of one of my saved Hunyuan objects as a dsf to show what I mean

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SimonJM · June 29

barbult said:

Nan, not a number. Yup something went wrong there.

Shades of Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner - "I am not a number, I am a free man!"

garrett_3d · June 30

SimonJM said:

barbult said:

Nan, not a number. Yup something went wrong there.

Shades of Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner - "I am not a number, I am a free man!"

Or Jean Valjean in Les Mis. 24601!

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