The Official Random Video Thread!

[MasterBlaster]

An oldie but goody.

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[SeanKroll]

I love that the bus stop bench says Keep Our City Clean and Safe. That guy cleaned up.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've been listening to these guys lately. Odd, as I don't normally listen to any music.

https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY

 

[squisher]

Cool. I can dig it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[FireFighterZero]

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[MasterBlaster]

Now I are wiser!

 

[stig]

Ever seen one, Jim?

 

[FireFighterZero]

Nope.

Too cold up here for 'dillers.

 

[stig]

I knew that.
Just figured you might have been south at some point.

Cute as hell, they are.

 

[Mick!]

Strange that rattlesnakes didn’t get the memo.

 

[stig]

???
Lost me, Mick.

 

[Mick!]

Too cold for armadillos in the winter but cold blooded snakes thrive.

 

[FireFighterZero]

If a rattle snake can make it up here, you figure a 'diller could.


I assume.



Never been south Stig. Been east and west a lot, north some too.

Never south.


We have frogs and turtles and salamander and such, which you think would be less resilient than a armadillo, but I guess not.

 

[stig]

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[MasterBlaster]

I had a pet dillo as a kid. It could scratch the shit outta me or my brother!

Barely caught any leprosy at all.

 

[Merle Nelson]

Strange that rattlesnakes didn?t get the memo.

Don't they survive underground, often in dens with other snakes, through winters?

 

[Mick!]

I’m guessing that’s their modus operandi Merle.

 

[stig]

This is interesting, but hardly accurate.

Like, did no dutch people die?

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[cory]

the elephant vid was cool. Googling led me to that guy's website. Elephant wisdom is, um, heavy. https://alanmcsmith.weebly.com

 

[gf beranek]

That was pretty cool, Cory. Thanks for posting it.

 

[cory]

 

[Tree09]

Yeah that's insane. He doesn't even flinch. I'm pretty sure i wouldn't last more than a few hours in that environment lol

Sig, even if the numbers are slightly off, it still is a useful visual to see the waste and stupidity of war. A similar visual dealing with the economics of it would also be highly interesting. I've heard that Russia joining the Pacific theatre was more convincing to the Japanese than the atomic bombs (the incendiary bombing of Tokyo killed more), and seeing that a country could sustain such an incredible loss and still prevail and still be continuing forward really drives that point home. The amount of personnel and materiel that Russia was willing to expend is truly horrifying.

 

[gf beranek]

I wouldn't last either. But apparently standing your ground is the right thing to do. I'll bet, both that man and animal know each other from similar past experience.

 

[cory]

I'll bet, both that man and animal know each other from similar past experience.

Very well may be, though the guy in the vid writing later about the incident doesn't mention that they were familiar with each other.

Perhaps it was more they are both highly sentient beings and were tuned in closely to the situation at hand, and were basically able to read each other as the encounter unfolded. In reading a bit about it, he said it occurred in an area where there was some poaching pressure which would seem to add a further element of danger given that the elephant would presumably have to sort out whether the guy is a poacher, and the guy would have to sort out if the elephant is sorting that out.