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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,612

    You could always adopt the Hollywood system and ask your friends to stand in shallow trenches..

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,763

    I think that is hilarious.

    OK I think Tom Cruise does that. Who else?

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,122

    No, no, no. Go all 1970's and wear 8" stacks... wink

    Regards,

    Richard

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,612

    Ron Knights said:

    I think that is hilarious.

    OK I think Tom Cruise does that. Who else?

    I think Alan Ladd did it (well, insisted his co-stars did it), or maybe he stood on a box - searching is giving mixed results.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,565

    Why do people think Ron needs to try to look taller than he is? Did I miss something?
    Ron, you are still taller than I am (by half and inch). 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,612

    barbult said:

    Why do people think Ron needs to try to look taller than he is? Did I miss something?
    Ron, you are still taller than I am (by half and inch). 

    He was commenting that he had shrunk, rather than saying he was too short in general.

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,763

    I'm feeling inferior because I shrunk down to 5 ft 8 1/2 inches.

    But I'm still taller than Tom Holland who plays Spider-Man!

    But he's rich, and has a hot wife!

  • ElorElor Posts: 4,144

    Ron Knights said:

    OK I think Tom Cruise does that. Who else?

    Former French President and prison inmate Nicolas Sarkozy is around 1,65m tall (around 5 feet and 5 inches I think), his wife is 10 cm taller and you barely see it on photos.

    There is also a photo of him taken with George Bush where Sarkozy is possibly standing on some sort of box:

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,763

    laughsmiley

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,763
    edited September 7

    Sorry l shouldn't have posted this.

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,122
    edited September 11

    Seeing Barbult's latest image reminded me of an occasion at home with our last but one cat 'Rooster', a ginger & white Maine Coon with one non-Maine Coon grandparent. Rooster was totally uninterested in most birds, but had a deep and abiding hatred of Magpies.

    One summer afternoon he appeared to be asleep in our open conservatory doorway. There were Pigeons, Blue Tits, Blackbirds, Thrushes & Sparrows on the grass in front of him, all within 25ft, and he was lying there, eyes closed, front paws tucked under his chest, apparently asleep. A Magpie landed on the grass 45ft away, and Rooster exploded into motion. He went from 0 to flat out in an eyeblink. He raced through the flock near him, knocking a Ring Collar Dove off its feet as he raced towards the Magpie, The Magpie made a mad scramble to get back in the air and lost a single tail feather as Rooster launched himself into the air to get it.

    Thoroughly annoyed and loudly muttering/grumbling to himself, Rooster plodded back to his sleeping spot through the charnage left of the bird feeding area. There were feathers everywhere and the flock of Sparrows and a Robin all shouted their disgust at him from the bushes next to the lawn. Once he settled back down to 'sleep', all the acceptable birds came back to feed.

    Basically, cats are weird.

    Regards,

    Richard

     

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,612

    richardandtracy said:

    Seeing Barbult's latest image reminded me of an occasion at home with our last but one cat 'Rooster', a ginger & white Maine Coon with one non-Maine Coon grandparent. Rooster was totally uninterested in most birds, but had a deep and abiding hatred of Magpies.

    One summer afternoon he appeared to be asleep in our open conservatory doorway. There were Pigeons, Blue Tits, Blackbirds, Thrushes & Sparrows on the grass in front of him, all within 25ft, and he was lying there, eyes closed, front paws tucked under his chest, apparently asleep. A Magpie landed on the grass 45ft away, and Rooster exploded into motion. He went from 0 to flat out in an eyeblink. He raced through the flock near him, knocking a Ring Collar Dove off its feet as he raced towards the Magpie, The Magpie made a mad scramble to get back in the air and lost a single tail feather as Rooster launched himself into the air to get it.

    Thoroughly annoyed and loudly muttering/grumbling to himself, Rooster plodded back to his sleeping spot through the charnage left of the bird feeding area. There were feathers everywhere and the flock of Sparrows and a Robin all shouted their disgust at him from the bushes next to the lawn. Once he settled back down to 'sleep', all the acceptable birds came back to feed.

    Basically, cats are weird.

    Regards,

    Richard

    cats are also dumber than birds. The current one tried sneaking up on a crow that was strutting across the lawn. When she got a little too close the crow turned, looked at her until she sat up, and hopped off a few feet. The cat then started to try to sneak up on the crow again. This repeated three or four times.

    The cat before the cat before this also tried sneaking up on a little bird foraging in the grass. When she got too close the bird took off, hovered briefly over her head, and then landed at an acceptable distance behind her. The cat turned round and resume sneaking. Again, this repeated seveal times before the bird flew off.

    I'm pretty sure that in a mammal vs. dinosaur contest the dinosaurs would win.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,628
    edited September 12

    some fancy pedigree cats are just clueless and wouldn't survive without humans cheeky

    I seem to always get the basic moggie kind that find something to kill no matter how hard I try to prevent it

    even my strictly indoor one managed to find, kill and bring me a mouse who dared to broach my house

    when I had ones that went outdoors I was constantly finding half eaten kills under my bed of all varieties 

    avian, rodent, reptillian

    usually feathers and feet, or headless if the latter

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  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,874

    I've seen parakeets in a park in the London area some years ago. So far none nearer to me (South coast near Southampton) but maybe the seagulls keep them away laugh

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,628

    3DIO 's video is not available in my country (Australia) but parakeets definitely are

     

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,122
    There have been Parakeets near Torbay for close to a century. There are also luminous scorpions on the Isle of Sheppey and have been since before WW2. Regards, Richard.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,612

    Also wallabies https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/wallabies-in-uk

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,628
    edited September 12

    our tiny scorpions glow but they don't have a venomous sting

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,122
    They may be the same species as the Sheppey ones. I suspect someone knows where they came from, even though I don't. Regards, Richard.
  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,122
    edited September 14

    @3DIO, have you actually been to Kent? What you see here is very far from civilisation...

    There's a Wikipedia entry on the scorpions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetratrichobothrius_flavicaudis

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 8,122

    Cats. CATS!

    I spent the weekend under the paw, and spent a bit more time than I wanted in a pose not too dis-similar to the one I modelled below:

    OK, I'm not quite remotely as shapely as the model, but the cat.. I suspect the cat pose is correctly inferred from the pressure points and claw punctures on my back even though I couldn't see him. I did get head butted a number of times as fleabag moved around on my back. And he also trod on my skull. Didn't sit only on my head, but did drape up/down, down/up and across my back too. At one stage I had paws draped on either side of my neck and his chin on my neck & head.

    It seems my tag line should be 'Seriously under the paw'.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,628

    the kitchen needs Larry

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,565

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    the kitchen needs Larry

    It sounds like Larry already has a full time job at Number 10. 

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