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Girl extreme reaction to 7 pod brown pepper
grinterLactose intolerant and superhot chili.
She's going to make one heck of a milkshake tomorrow!
SNL Does Ira Glass
grinterfixed
*dead for missing video!
Dog Won't Mind
grinter*isdupe
Exploding Chili
grinterI draw the line at blowing up food.
That train of thought, taken to its logical conclusion, would dictate that every piece of art is thoughtless because the money that went towards creating it could instead be spent on feeding the hungry or helping the poor. Where do you draw the line?
Exploding Chili
grinterThe total amount of food in the world has little to do with this. My opinion is that, considering:
- that billions are undernourished
- deforestation in the name of food (and spice) production is rampant
- people worked long and hard to grow and harvest those crops for very little pay
- and Yes, a large amount of petroleum was invested into producing and distributing these spices
..it is distasteful to destroy such a huge amount of high value food because it looks pretty.
I wouldn't say you're an ass...just uneducated. We (the human race) currently produce -far- more food than is needed to feed everyone on the planet. Resources diverted from growing food is utterly irrelevant. The problem is, and has always been, getting the food to those who need it. And the reasons it doesn't get to those people are almost always political and/or economic. IOW, someone didn't get their payoff, or someone diverts supplies to sell elsewhere for their own profit.
The land/oil used for producing and transporting spices is too small to have any effect on this.
Double Caste South African Comedian talks Apartheid
grinterOhhh! ....yeah, I was confused.
I'd like to see a clip of him doing that material at the Apollo.
I was watching this and thinking...wow the audience at the Apollo Theatre sure has changed. Never knew there was an Apollo theater (actual name is Hammersmith Apollo) in west London.
What Is It Kitty? Has There Been a Catastrophe?
grinterIt looks like a reaction to a new boyfriend taking the cat's old place in the bed.
Exploding Chili
grinterI realize I'm being a troll here.
but 'downvote' for the billions who go hungry or eat the same bland tasteless food every day, and for the land cleared to grow those wasted spices, or to extract the oil that shipped them to the studio.
To everyone who thinks I'm an ass... feel free to pick and downvote one of my videos that shows my hypocrisy... I have no doubt there are many.
Virgin Galactic's third rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo flight
grinterjust can't stop staring at that string near the rocket nozzle whiping around in the wind.
Octopus Plays With Coconut
grinterThanks for the article. It kinda reads like an add for Jennifer Mathers' 'octopuses are smart' book. Her 2008 Consciousness and Cognition paper does a better job at laying out the most cephalopod behaviors impressive behaviors:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810006001504
. Don't get me wrong; I think cephaolopods totally awesome, but I don't see the case for them being cognitive leaps and bounds above other invertebrates. The behaviors that they are capable of are found elsewhere among inverts, yet people (often encouraged by Mathers or her coauthors on that book) seem to imply they are basically eight armed dogs of the sea:
Behavioral conditioning in the lab (which Mathers likes to call "learning") - Bees, butterflies
Moving objects to close off burrows - mantis shrimp
Carrying objects as temporary refuges - crabs
Individual recognition - wasps, lobsters?, mantis shrimp.
Complex spatial navigation - ants, bees.
Learning via observation - I'm not aware of other inverts that do this, but the cephalopod evidence is also pretty weak.
Maybe there are some more recent, and more convincing results?
Octopus Plays With Coconut
grinterI'm aware that's the general perception, I just haven't seen any convincing research (maybe I'm a hard ass?).
If you know of some examples, post links here, they would certainly be relevant to this video.
There is a reasonable body of evidence that suggests octopi actually have reasonable problem solving skills.
When placed in man made situations that they couldn't have encountered before, individuals have demonstrated a remarkable (for an invertebrate) ability to adapt. This would suggest that the abilities are not innate (in the sense of evolved behaviours over generations of trial and error).
Octopus Plays With Coconut
grinterreturning* to his evolutionary roots, eh?
..also, why is everyone (or maybe just people who produce pop science content) obsessed with octopus intelligence? Like many cool things that octopus do, this is complex behavior.. but likely innate, and not a sign of intelligence.
*Dear inevitable trolls: I do not mean to imply that cephalopods evolved from bivalves, only that they had a molluscan ancestor with an external shell.
Maybe he was raised by a family of bivalve mollusks??
Hehehe, a clam adoption agency in ⓢⓟⓞⓝⓖⓔⓑⓞⓑ universe
Big Cat Condoms
grinter*promote giving a f&%k
Henri 8 - "Artiste"
grinter*related=http://videosift.com/video/Henri-LeKitty-Halloween
Confused little girl meets her fathers twin for the 1st time
grinter*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Little-Girl-Double-Takes-her-Fathers-Twin