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[beamie564]

Let's start the training. My coach is this cat:

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That's funny!

Psinter's Mission Number 34: Capture a baby chicken to touch it.

Please tell me some of your other missions

 

[zoobyshoe]

I must admit it was comical. If I see someone else chased by a bird I would probably laugh too.

I grew up in a small rural town and my first summer job when I was a kid was collecting eggs at a local egg farm. For six hours a day I walked through this huge three story chicken barn surrounded by a huge mass of chickens who all wanted to kill me. They pecked relentlessly at my legs and by the end of the day I had no feeling left in them. It was a surreal experience.

 

[WWGD]

How did you guess? Man, she got all hysterical about it. I was definitely not expecting that reaction. It was just so sudden that I got scared for a while there and made a run for it. I was like: "Ahhh, what the?... What's this reaction?! What do... What the..." *while running*

Afterwards, I tried to sneak, but she went nuts about it again and I couldn't get closer. I think she was overreacting . I wasn't going to hurt them, I just wanted to touch them. .

I guess unlike Colonel Sanders, you don't do chicken right.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of a fun day. I was walking and thinking about an old joke and, without notice, I started smiling. I noticed this after people walking opposite my direction started smiling back, thinking I was smiling at them.

 

[jim hardy]

Kind of a fun day. I was walking and thinking about an old joke and, without notice, I started smiling. I noticed this after people walking opposite my direction started smiling back, thinking I was smiling at them.

I've often speculated it's not all visual, includes some sort of "vibes" that' are sensed subliminally .
You were after all in a happy frame of mind.

 

[WWGD]

I've often speculated it's not all visual, includes some sort of "vibes" that' are sensed subliminally .
You were after all in a happy frame of mind.

Could be, I have noticed something similar a few times. Weirdly, if you just choose to smile for a while, it seems you start actually feeling happier, maybe somehow "resonating with happiness" . And it seems memory is also mood-specific in that when you are happy, you tend to remember other happy experiences. Still, seems like a recipe for disaster , or at least difficulties, if/when you are depressed.

 

[zoobyshoe]

And it seems memory is also mood-specific in that when you are happy, you tend to remember other happy experiences.

The psychiatric community now calls that, "Emotional Google": you automatically call up memories that are similar in mood to the one you're currently in.

 

[WWGD]

The psychiatric community now calls that, "Emotional Google": you automatically call up memories that are similar in mood to the one you're currently in.

Doesn't bode well for depressed people --- depressive feedback loop

 

[zoobyshoe]

Doesn't bode well for depressed people --- depressive feedback loop

Exactly. Things that aren't relevant to your current mood get filtered out. Confirmation bias, "I can't remember a time when I wasn't depressed."

 

[zoobyshoe]

The psychiatric community now calls that, "Emotional Google"...

Incidentally, I just made this up.

 

[WWGD]

Incidentally, I just made this up.

Hey, my post on resonance of emotions is $science lite^{\infty}$

 

[zoobyshoe]

My post about being hounded by murderous chickens was true, though. I was taking their eggs.

 

[Psinter]

Unless the bird is a cassowary.

http://pickle.nine.com.au/2016/04/11/09/44/fatal-cassowary-attack

(Yes, 90 years ago, but attacks do happen even today now and then, they are just not fatal.)

Wow. What an ugly chicken. I mean, bird.

Please tell me some of your other missions

For the record they are classified. Maybe in the future they will get unclassified.

I grew up in a small rural town and my first summer job when I was a kid was collecting eggs at a local egg farm. For six hours a day I walked through this huge three story chicken barn surrounded by a huge mass of chickens who all wanted to kill me. They pecked relentlessly at my legs and by the end of the day I had no feeling left in them. It was a surreal experience.

Poor zooby! I hope the salary was good and that your legs recovered. That was Chicken Siege.

dictionary's definition of siege - a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.

my definition of siege - a relentless and vicious attack.

Surrender zooby, surrender! Chicken used peck...

Here is someone else (very famous, a classic in the game industry) being chased by chickens:
http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Link-Being-Chased-By-a-Bunch-Of-Powerful-Berserk-Cucco-Chickens-In-The-Legend-Of-Zelda-Majoras-Mask.gif

And here too. That's why you don't mess with that Village.

I guess unlike Colonel Sanders, you don't do chicken right.

You are telling me.

 

[Astronuc]

Clean one's wind instruments occasionally.

He withered away for 7 years. Doctors didn’t realize his passion was killing him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rs-didnt-realize-his-passion-was-killing-him/

An X-ray suggested pneumonia, a blood clot in the lungs or an exacerbation of the still mysterious HP. A CT scan ruled out a clot but showed that the lung scarring that had started seven years earlier had gotten worse.

Doctors gave him a cocktail of drugs to treat what they thought was bacterial pneumonia. When those didn’t work, they added Posaconazole therapy, used to treat pneumonia caused by fungi.

Despite their efforts, the man died on Oct. 10, 2014.

According to the paper, when doctors initially tried diagnosing the man’s illness, they overlooked his daily hobby: playing the bagpipes.

Tests conducted on the man’s bagpipes found a slew of fungi and yeast living inside the musical instrument.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I have software with a loophole, things going into it never come out.

 

[jim hardy]

things going into it never come out.

I have a garage that's like that.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I have a garage that's like that.

 

[fresh_42]

Just read on the news ticker of a news channel:

He, who must not be named triggered a measles alert in Japan.

There are no better jokes than those written by real life.

 

[Bystander]

He, who must not be named

"Who he?"

 

[fresh_42]

This one Canadian who tries singing and is sent abroad on a regular basis for even the Canadians don't want to have him around.

 

[Bystander]

Oh ... Him.

 

[fresh_42]

Oh ... Him.

What annoys me the most is, that he ruins my prejudices as I really like Shania Twain and Brian Adams.

 

[Bystander]

Looks like everyone's watching Red Eye.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Yeh... my Stanford professor in on air!

 

[DiracPool]

I'm watching "13 days" on NatGeo and they said that the nuclear bombs in Cuba can hit everywhere in the USA but Seattle, but now I'm hearing that the North Korea nuclear bombs can't hit anywhere in the USA but Seattle. In live in Seattle. Should I stay or should I go now?

 

[WWGD]

I'm watching "13 days" on NatGeo and they said that the nuclear bombs in Cuba can hit everywhere in the USA but Seattle, but now I'm hearing that the North Korea nuclear bombs can't hit anywhere in the USA but Seattle. In live in Seattle. Should I stay or should I go now?

Seems strange, I can't tell anything particular to the NW that would make it so hard for Seattle to be hit.

 

[WWGD]

I wasted a break I got. I won a whole broiled chicken at the supermarket, as part of customer appreciation day (at a place I barely go to, since it is expensive). I did eat around 2/3 the chicken. I saved the rest for the following day, but then left it in my backpack overnight, only to find it moldy in the morning when I was about to eat it. What a waste, I became a representative of the statistic that 1/3 of all fod produced ( in the US, I think) goes bad and it is then thrown out.

 

[strangerep]

Clean one's wind instruments [bagpipes] occasionally.

I always suspected something seriously dodgy about bagpipes, and not just the sound.

 

[Evo]

I wasted a break I got. I won a whole broiled chicken at the supermarket, as part of customer appreciation day (at a place I barely go to, since it is expensive). I did eat around 2/3 the chicken. I saved the rest for the following day, but then left it in my backpack overnight, only to find it moldy in the morning when I was about to eat it. What a waste, I became a representative of the statistic that 1/3 of all fod produced ( in the US, I think) goes bad and it is then thrown out.

Ewwww. it shouldn't go bad overnight! That means it was already rotting when you ate it!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ewwww. it shouldn't go bad overnight! That means it was already rotting when you ate it!

I don't know what mold grown on chicken, but fruit can be good one day and have mold on it the next when you don't put it in the fridge.