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Postby JackRiddler » Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:40 pm

Possibly the most successful RI thread is "Images Only, no captions, no words."

Sometimes I gotta comment!

So this is the thread for commenting on said images.

RULES:
You may not post an image here unless it's quoted from the Images Only thread. Always post images there first if you want to comment here. When taking an image from Images Only, use Quote function so we see who posted it.


Voila, the first:



Do you guys know what this is? It's evolution creating pornography for bees. No kidding, the bees go nuts for this flower, they fly over and hump it. But it's not their sex, it's the flower's.

Some species of bee, I learned from xkcd.com of all places, are extinct and known to scientists only thanks to the evidence of flowers like this one.

Mind blowing, n'est-ce pas?

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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby MacCruiskeen » Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:12 pm

JackRiddler wrote:pornography for bees


It's got an inflatable-doll's mouth. (Plus a jester's hat, presumably to show that the joke is on the bees.)
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:51 pm

Yes, I saw. It looks like a Pokemon.
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:23 pm

Great idea, Jack. Thanks.

Commenting upon Allegro's photo, I too, see a jester's hat, but it's sitting atop a duckling's head. The duckling being a rolly-polly toy-like creation, wearing a black vest and pants with his little yellow duckling feet sticking out, caught with beak agape at the moment of realization after contemplating 'reality' we are all illusions to others.
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby brainpanhandler » Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:45 pm

JackRiddler » Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:51 pm wrote:Yes, I saw. It looks like a Pokemon.


Pokemon? How old are you jack?

Clearly it's an evil motley jester grimace from McDonaldland .
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby JackRiddler » Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:53 pm

brainpanhandler » Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:45 pm wrote:
JackRiddler » Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:51 pm wrote:Yes, I saw. It looks like a Pokemon.


Pokemon? How old are you jack?

Clearly it's an evil motley jester grimace from McDonaldland .


Hm, though I'm 48 and have little personal interest in these matters, I know (in rough chronological order) Pokemon, Finding Nemo, Maroon 5 and have seen all the Potter movies in the theater. How did this happen?
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby seemslikeadream » Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:57 pm

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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby Allegro » Sun Sep 22, 2013 4:52 pm

She's cute, isn't she! Which was Allegro's horticultural post of a portraiture for this, right here, as a smiley esprit de corps type a thing without the invitation :hihi:, Certainly.
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:51 am

The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Upon Us: Can Humans Survive?
By Good German on September 30, 2013 in News

Annalee Newitz writes at the Daily Beast/Newsweek:

Over the past four years, bee colonies have undergone a disturbing transformation. As helpless beekeepers looked on, the machinelike efficiency of these communal insects devolved into inexplicable disorganization. Worker bees would fly away, never to return; adolescent bees wandered aimlessly in the hive; and the daily jobs in the colony were left undone until honey production stopped and eggs died of neglect. Colony collapse disorder, as it is known, has claimed roughly 30 percent of bee colonies every winter since 2007.

If bees go extinct, their loss will trigger an extinction domino effect, because crops from apples to broccoli rely on these insects for pollination. At the same time, over a third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction, and Harvard evolutionary biologist and conservationist E.O. Wilson estimates that 27,000 species of all kinds go extinct per year.

Are we in the first act of a mass extinction that will end in the death of millions of plant and animal species across the planet, including us? Proponents of the “sixth extinction” theory believe the answer is yes.

Our planet has been through five mass extinctions before. The dinosaur extinction was the most recent, but hardly the most deadly: dinosaurs were among the 76 percent of all species on earth that were extinguished, but 185 million years before that, there was a mass extinction so devastating that paleontologists have nicknamed it the Great Dying. At that time, 95 percent of all species on the planet were wiped out over a span of roughly 100,000 years.

The climate change that occurred during the Great Dying—most likely involving megavolcanoes that erupted for centuries in Siberia—was similar to the one our planet is undergoing right now. Regardless of whether humans are responsible, the sixth mass extinction on earth is going to happen. We have ample evidence that earth is headed for disaster, from elevated rates of extinction among birds and amphibians to superstorms and the recent Midwestern drought, corroborating the idea that we might be living through the early days of a new mass extinction.

Assigning blame is less important than figuring out how to prepare for the inevitable and survive it—not just as humans alone on a world gone to hell, but along with the planet’s myriad ecosystems as well. The long-term goal for Homo sapiens as a species right now should be to survive for at least another million years. It’s not much to ask. As we know, a few species have survived for billions of years, and many have survived for tens of millions. Our ancient ancestors started exploring the world beyond Africa over a million years ago and lived through harsh conditions while another human group, the Neanderthals, did not. This isn’t just because we are lucky. It’s because as a species we are extremely cunning when it comes to survival. And so it seems fitting to pick the next million years as the first distant horizon where we’ll set our sights.

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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby minime » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:46 pm

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The Dude: "Fuckin' Congress, Man."

Walter: "A three-ring goddamn circus, I can tell you that much. Not the United States of America I grew up in, that's for damn sure. Just another reason Barack Hussein Obama is unfit to lead this country."

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Walter: "A pretty convenient distraction from Benghazi, don't you think?"

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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:25 pm

Wow. minime, did you think of that? It's perfect!
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby minime » Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:29 pm

JackRiddler » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:25 pm wrote:Wow. minime, did you think of that? It's perfect!


It flows, doesn't it?

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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby Iamwhomiam » Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:37 pm

Regarding this photo:

Wayne Sperling is shown in this undated handout photo provided by the Denver District Attorney's Office. Sperling and Lorinda Bailey, accused of starving their four sons and keeping them in squalid conditions, are due in court to face charges Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. The couple have each been charged with four counts of felony child abuse. The boys are ages 2, 4, 5 and 6. An affidavit says they weren't toilet trained, had no schooling and spoke in "their own language" of grunts to each other. Authorities found the children living in a residence full of cat and human feces, urine, and flies. All have been placed in protective care. (Denver District Arttorney's Office)
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Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:52 pm

I fixed that image code so that it's going to the .jpg instead of the .php server.
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Re: Comments On Images Only Thread

Postby Mask » Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:08 pm

Iamwhomiam » Tue Oct 08, 2013 7:37 pm wrote:Regarding this photo:

Wayne Sperling is shown in this undated handout photo provided by the Denver District Attorney's Office. Sperling and Lorinda Bailey, accused of starving their four sons and keeping them in squalid conditions, are due in court to face charges Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. The couple have each been charged with four counts of felony child abuse. The boys are ages 2, 4, 5 and 6. An affidavit says they weren't toilet trained, had no schooling and spoke in "their own language" of grunts to each other. Authorities found the children living in a residence full of cat and human feces, urine, and flies. All have been placed in protective care. (Denver District Arttorney's Office)


This story reminded me of this thread.
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