I've spent precious little time where it was illegal for me to drink (or at least where remotely enforced--I'm sure Jamaica had a drinking age, but it's so far down on the list of things to prosecute), and alcohol was always readily available, including at home. We weren't mixing up cocktails when we got home from school, or anything, but my sister was drinking wine with meals when she was around ten. I didn't know people drank egg nog without alcohol until I went to university. Unalcoholic cider was an American weirdness. I'm not sure when it occurred to me that rum punch was alcoholised fruit punch. It was a whole different (lifelong) constant for me.
All that being said, I didn't get hammered until about sixteen. We decided to have one of every cocktail on the menu. Good god, the bed spins. It was rough.
Paled in the face of the binge underage drinking I witnessed when I moved to Michigan, but those relatives are perhaps not the best people to gauge any excesses by. I did feel dirty buying for them, though.
Hamster Hotel lets you live like a rodent
A hamster-themed hotel in Nantes, France, offers rooms and layouts inspired by hamster-cages. Rooms have hamster wheels, the food is all grains and seeds, the water comes out of hamster bottles, etc.
Awww... who's a cute widdle coelacanth?
First photo of baby coelacanth
Above is the world's first photograph of a baby coelacanth, recently taken by Japanese researchers off Indonesia's Sulawesi Island. A cryptozoology favorite, coelacanths were thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was found alive in 1938.
A hamster-themed hotel in Nantes, France, offers rooms and layouts inspired by hamster-cages. Rooms have hamster wheels, the food is all grains and seeds, the water comes out of hamster bottles, etc.
The scary thing is that someone, somewhere is reading this and thinking "FINALLY!!"
The funniest thing about seeing that on Countdown yesterday was seeing KO gently broach the topic of furries. "Um, I think some of the local-news coverage , um, misses the point of this one."
KO gently broach the topic of furries
The fact that KO even knows about furries (and doesn't make fun of them) makes me like him even more.
Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Extinction
I only posted this because "Dung Fungus" would be an awesome band name....
There was a little mockage, but just a touch, zenkitty.
What he said was like "Monty Python sketches aside, the local news coverage misses the point if they treat this as a joke...the fact is there are consenting adults that like to take other consenting adults on the big hamster wheel..."
God, I about died.
But he didn't blush, so I guess it was a *little* funny.
It's so hot when he gets all flustered, like by Musto.
