I don't have kids, true. But this seems really -really- freakin' creepy and morbid to me. And not in a good way; I like good morbid. this is like... asking for a bad horror movie trope to happen to you. Geh.
Poor saggy dog. XD Though I've done the same thing myself, more or less; I had a cat that had gotten up to 22lb! About four years later, he's down to 17lb (he is a rather large cat, to be fair) but now he's kind of ... well, saggy, because he's old enough his skin didn't shrink back up. Oh well, saggy cats are huggable cats, and I'm sure that goes for dachshunds too. I'm sure he's much, much happier at a more normal weight.
More or less. The people that are causing the majority of these extinctions (rhinos, big cats , and so forth) are a) highly unlikely to see any of these ads, and b) if they did, would laugh at them, ignore them, or use them for rifle practice.
The people that are trying to stop them are outgunned, outmanned, and out-ruthlessed by their enemies and short of just popping a cap in every poacher's head in methodical fashion, there's not a lot to be done.
As for things like the tuna issue... again, the target for concern isn't the average joe that will see this ad in their copy of Smithsonian... it's the fat-pocketed politicians and large seafood conglomerates, and they aren't going to listen to any ad campaign either, no matter how succinct the design. All they listen to is money and unless you stab them in the pocketbook, they won't lift a finger.
Not to bust the bubble here but... Octopi turn white as a terror reflex. The octopus isn't trying to mimic the boat, it's scared out of its tiny cephalopod mind at being hooked and then dropped into the bottom of a boat, so the first thing it does is bleach in fear. The video cuts off, but you can see it starting to turn back to a wan brown at the end. If they'd dropped it onto a blue boat, it still would've turned white/gray.
People would totally go. That is if they actually did her story justice and didn't poop out some pandery crap that betrays the strength of her character. I mean, hell. Xena managed it for several seasons, and she's still a pop culture icon. More so than Hercules (the alternative boy version at the time).
I get the jaggedy lines periodically, but not the pain (thank god). Still, the visual distortion is bad enough I can't see through it, which is frustrating because I do commercial art for a living and watching what you're trying to work on collapse into distorted rainbow lightning bolts is a nightmare. Plus you never know how long the episode is going to last.
More likely it'd simply been abandoned. Dogs with hair prone to matting can start doing so in an incredibly short amount of time.
I volunteer at a city humane society. We often see an increase in abandoned pets at or shortly after the end of every month, as people leave their rented apartments/trailers/etc and instead of taking their pets with them, simply dump them outside with a 'they'll take care of themselves' or 'someone will take them in, I'm sure'.
We get a few mat messes a month, although I have to say this one's pretty awful. At least a couple of months. He sure cleaned up cute though.
In point of fact, there isn't really anything particularly wrong with spam. Despite the fact that it's been chopped up and pressed into a rectangular solid, there aren't any ingredients on its label that you can't pronounce. That's more than you can say for most stuff, these days. (Pork and Ham, Salt, Water, modified food starch (to stick it together), sugar, sodium nitrite (to prevent botulism).) That's it.
Me, I just fry it till it's brown and crispy and then cook eggs in the leftover grease.
As a resident of the city... it's Tucson! Not Tuscon. TusCon is a local sci-fi/fantasy convention... (or was, I don't know if it's still going or not.)
Wow. Talk abut Neanderthals and suddenly the Wordy Wackologists bleed out of the woodwork in droves. I've seen comments like this on Amazon, usually involving mention of contrails and the Illuminati.
The people that are trying to stop them are outgunned, outmanned, and out-ruthlessed by their enemies and short of just popping a cap in every poacher's head in methodical fashion, there's not a lot to be done.
As for things like the tuna issue... again, the target for concern isn't the average joe that will see this ad in their copy of Smithsonian... it's the fat-pocketed politicians and large seafood conglomerates, and they aren't going to listen to any ad campaign either, no matter how succinct the design. All they listen to is money and unless you stab them in the pocketbook, they won't lift a finger.
Octopi turn white as a terror reflex. The octopus isn't trying to mimic the boat, it's scared out of its tiny cephalopod mind at being hooked and then dropped into the bottom of a boat, so the first thing it does is bleach in fear. The video cuts off, but you can see it starting to turn back to a wan brown at the end. If they'd dropped it onto a blue boat, it still would've turned white/gray.
There's an awfully cantankerous parrot in the aviary too...
Who'm I kidding. More like 'abjectly terrifying'. I think I did this in a haunted house once.
I volunteer at a city humane society. We often see an increase in abandoned pets at or shortly after the end of every month, as people leave their rented apartments/trailers/etc and instead of taking their pets with them, simply dump them outside with a 'they'll take care of themselves' or 'someone will take them in, I'm sure'.
We get a few mat messes a month, although I have to say this one's pretty awful. At least a couple of months. He sure cleaned up cute though.
(Pork and Ham, Salt, Water, modified food starch (to stick it together), sugar, sodium nitrite (to prevent botulism).) That's it.
Me, I just fry it till it's brown and crispy and then cook eggs in the leftover grease.
We are amused. Have you considered standup?