Vents: Random Acts of Venting!

[Dexter Morgan]

Sick in the head is right. Sadly I seem to know lots of sick people. Normal fellows that seem to snap and do something sick just when you don't expect it. Now I had my cruel moments when I was a kid, me and a BB gun was a thing to be feared if you were anything that moved. But when I start beating myself up for my past sins, I am given pause by some of the people I have come across.

Cats seem to be the victims of a lot of this angst. At first I thought you were the rare guy that appreciates cats, then while reading elsewhere on the boards I gleaned you were a woman. That explains the concern, whereas I have found that myself and one friend are the only guys that aren't card carrying members of the secret society of cat haters.

KFC and I have a local history as they have had a bad habit in their past of not cooking the chicken all the way. They are better about it over the last few years and I have forgiven them of the horror stories I have went through with them. I love KFC chicken, if it doesn't cluck when I bite into it.

I am mystified as to why someone would hurt chickens though. I have known some sick people, but that one gets by me. We eat them, but somehow that is different. Torture is so wrong and I think those who do it injure themselves deeply.

Meh..can't write any more. I have someone chattering at me and can't get a hint that I am busy.

Sometimes, I think people don't realize that animals are living creatures that experience pain. They think Aww... they're just dumb animals, they haven't got enough brains to feel pain. And that is very,very sad.  People should stop and think, how they would feel, if that was done to them. Same goes with food and water. People sometimes don't feed and water their pets.  How would a person feel, if they had no food and water ,for an extended period of time? People don't take the time to think things over. The first thing I do in the morning, before anything else, is feed and water all of my animals. Nothing else is done, until I'm done taking care of them. They are my #1 priority. I don't eat until my animals are fed... period. I also spend every penny I make on them. They are my LIFE LOL!!!! I've had cut back recently because, I got carried away, and was spending waaaaaay too much every week on them. LOL!!! I can't help myself, I love to give them everything their hearts desire. 

KFC has a lot of problems with undercooked chicken. The thighs are a real big problem. The pressure cookers are all set on timers, that supposedly are the proper times, and temperatures to cook the chicken.  Notice I said "supposedly". One problem is when they cook the chicken when it's half frozen.  Another problem is with the extra crispy chicken, that thick layer of breading is harder to cook through. After the chicken comes up, the cooks can't tell by a visual inspection, wether or not it's cooked all the way through. And they can't refry it because, the pressure cookers wont open ,until the full cycle is complete. It is a pain in the ass. 

[Dexter Morgan]

I think that may be the reason that many people become vegetarians....it's the way the animals are treated when meat is mass produced. I've tried that route and I can't do it. I enjoy eating meat, so I guess that makes me a hypocrite of sorts, but I don't understand the torture of animals either. I understand survival of the fittest and the pecking order and all that, but I don't understand why it has to be cruel.

I would love to be meat free, but I just can't.  I agree, just because they will be food, doesn't give people the right to abuse them.  Some people are just stupid. I have faith that someday they will get caught up with. 

[lex]

I think that may be the reason that many people become vegetarians....it's the way the animals are treated when meat is mass produced. I've tried that route and I can't do it. I enjoy eating meat, so I guess that makes me a hypocrite of sorts, but I don't understand the torture of animals either. I understand survival of the fittest and the pecking order and all that, but I don't understand why it has to be cruel.

If you get away from eating meat for a while its not hard to stay away from it. The smell of the blood from it will about turn your stomach when you set down to eat with those eating meat. It's almost as bad as being a fresh non-smoker who has to be around smokers.

I was full blown Vegan for over a year, no animal products at all. I embraced it as part of some wacky idea to lose some weight, being you don't see a lot of fat vegetarians. Then I decided to try some insane rice diet and lasted 9 days on it of rice and fruit. The problem was no protein and on day 10 I turned into a werewolf practically. I smelled the blood of some meat on the table and felt like my fangs grew and I snapped and dug in. It was disgusting and rich, but my protein cravings were satisfied and I haven't been back to the vegan lifestyle since.

That year did cure my upset stomach. I was always having heartburn after meals. But since then I have rarely ever had heartburn and I could also eat hot spicy foods again without dying after my year off from animal products.

[lex]

Sometimes, I think people don't realize that animals are living creatures that experience pain. They think Aww... they're just dumb animals, they haven't got enough brains to feel pain. And that is very,very sad.  People should stop and think, how they would feel, if that was done to them. Same goes with food and water. People sometimes don't feed and water their pets.  How would a person feel, if they had no food and water ,for an extended period of time? People don't take the time to think things over. The first thing I do in the morning, before anything else, is feed and water all of my animals. Nothing else is done, until I'm done taking care of them. They are my #1 priority. I don't eat until my animals are fed... period. I also spend every penny I make on them. They are my LIFE LOL!!!! I've had cut back recently because, I got carried away, and was spending waaaaaay too much every week on them. LOL!!! I can't help myself, I love to give them everything their hearts desire. 

KFC has a lot of problems with undercooked chicken. The thighs are a real big problem. The pressure cookers are all set on timers, that supposedly are the proper times, and temperatures to cook the chicken.  Notice I said "supposedly". One problem is when they cook the chicken when it's half frozen.  Another problem is with the extra crispy chicken, that thick layer of breading is harder to cook through. After the chicken comes up, the cooks can't tell by a visual inspection, wether or not it's cooked all the way through. And they can't refry it because, the pressure cookers wont open ,until the full cycle is complete. It is a pain in the ass. 

People who don't think animals don't have feelings are just plain ignorant. If one observes animals with some objectivity you will see that they have a range of emotions and individual quirks and uniquenesses. This is easy for me to see perhaps because I was raised that way. I thought everyone spoke to animals as if they understand and was surprised when I grew up and discovered how ignorant and savage people could be towards animals.

My father, who's blood is more pure Cherokee than mine, seemed to be able to communicate far better than I could. He built perches in the backyard and would set out at night and owls could fly in, land on them and he would talk to them. And they would hoot and make noises back to him. One day an owl had become injured very badly and it came to my parents house and laid down on their steps. It was if it knew it could come to Dad for help. He coaxed it into a box and called the DNR to come get it because they would take it to a proper vet. They were a bit surprised Mom said.

She told me he conversed with the owl until it was taken away, then later he had to explain to a bunch of owls that came up to the house that night curious what had happened to it. She told me there was a fox that would come up in the backyard at night too sometimes and set and talk to Dad then play in the yard like a frisky puppy dog.

I feel from my experiences that animals not only have feelings but are very sentient beings. Perhaps not as smart as we are by a long shot, but to measure one's friends by their intelligence is a sad and pathetic way of life.

But people will do savage things to animals. Mostly I feel because they are immature and unenlightened. As children, humans can be savage and cruel and must be educated by their elders if they are to ever grow. Childhood isn't always about age, as some people never grow up. Our society hasn't done its self any favors by how its destroyed the family unit, the mechanism for which by nature we are trained to grow. Instead of humans I fear we will have raised a generation or two of animals.

[Dexter Morgan]

People who don't think animals don't have feelings are just plain ignorant. If one observes animals with some objectivity you will see that they have a range of emotions and individual quirks and uniquenesses. This is easy for me to see perhaps because I was raised that way. I thought everyone spoke to animals as if they understand and was surprised when I grew up and discovered how ignorant and savage people could be towards animals.

My father, who's blood is more pure Cherokee than mine, seemed to be able to communicate far better than I could. He built perches in the backyard and would set out at night and owls could fly in, land on them and he would talk to them. And they would hoot and make noises back to him. One day an owl had become injured very badly and it came to my parents house and laid down on their steps. It was if it knew it could come to Dad for help. He coaxed it into a box and called the DNR to come get it because they would take it to a proper vet. They were a bit surprised Mom said.

She told me he conversed with the owl until it was taken away, then later he had to explain to a bunch of owls that came up to the house that night curious what had happened to it. She told me there was a fox that would come up in the backyard at night too sometimes and set and talk to Dad then play in the yard like a frisky puppy dog.

I feel from my experiences that animals not only have feelings but are very sentient beings. Perhaps not as smart as we are by a long shot, but to measure one's friends by their intelligence is a sad and pathetic way of life.

But people will do savage things to animals. Mostly I feel because they are immature and unenlightened. As children, humans can be savage and cruel and must be educated by their elders if they are to ever grow. Childhood isn't always about age, as some people never grow up. Our society hasn't done its self any favors by how its destroyed the family unit, the mechanism for which by nature we are trained to grow. Instead of humans I fear we will have raised a generation or two of animals.

I think I would get along great with your Dad. I treat my animals like humans. I talk to them just like they're human too LOL!!!! I think they communicate with each other telepathically.  Have you ever just sat there, and watched 2 cats, staring at each other,and all of a sudden, at the exact same time, they jump up,and take off together. I truly believe they communicate that way.  It probably sounds crazy to people, but I've been around cats for a long time,and I've studied their mannerisms,and that's the conclusion, I've come up with. They also feel anguish in their hearts ,when something happens to their mate, or friend too. I've seen cats pretty much shut down, when they've lost a friend. It sounds bad but, I think people abuse animals because, they can't get away with hurting humans, so they take it out on innocent animals, that can't fight back. That makes me sick. 

This might sound strange,and I don't know if you've read about it on the other threads, but I have a Red Tailed Hawk that flys beside my car, when I leave my yard. I think it's my spiritual protector. I always feel a great sense of peace,and comfort when it's there. 

[lex]

I think I would get along great with your Dad. I treat my animals like humans. I talk to them just like they're human too LOL!!!! I think they communicate with each other telepathically.  Have you ever just sat there, and watched 2 cats, staring at each other,and all of a sudden, at the exact same time, they jump up,and take off together. I truly believe they communicate that way.  It probably sounds crazy to people, but I've been around cats for a long time,and I've studied their mannerisms,and that's the conclusion, I've come up with. They also feel anguish in their hearts ,when something happens to their mate, or friend too. I've seen cats pretty much shut down, when they've lost a friend. It sounds bad but, I think people abuse animals because, they can't get away with hurting humans, so they take it out on innocent animals, that can't fight back. That makes me sick. 

This might sound strange,and I don't know if you've read about it on the other threads, but I have a Red Tailed Hawk that flys beside my car, when I leave my yard. I think it's my spiritual protector. I always feel a great sense of peace,and comfort when it's there. 

I think they may seem telepathic because of their communication is varied from ours. Cats are pretty quick and they will zoom off after something seemingly in concert when its just "catlike reflexes". They have expressions for about everything, its not a stretch of the imagination that they can read each other.

My experience has been with dogs. I have found they can be very attentive to you and will follow your lead. They communicate with subtleties as well I have observed and I started to mimic them. I found I could make both of our dogs alert and looking about with just a slight low muffled bark, an almost clearing of the throat. I had noticed this noise from one of them whenever it noticed something was moving down the road.

The smarter dog would always look to where I was looking and look that way as well. It's amazing how smart some dogs can be. They are also emotional and hate neglect once you work with them. To put a dog out on a chain in the yard is a cold blooded cruelty that breaks my heart. A dog is a pack animal to to put it out alone is like punishing it. I feel if you can't keep doings with you at all times, then don't bother having them.  This is NOT a lifestyle many people will embrace, but I feel if they truly understood their dogs they wouldn't treat them as such or at least wouldn't keep them period.

That's interesting about that hawk, have you put a perch up for him so him might land and visit with you? It's not like you can put out some bird seed for him though like you can the other birds. So it would be interesting to see if he dropped in.

I am a Christian and I believe our job at creation was to be caretakers of creation and its creatures. Since we fell we have epically sucked at this job to the point of being anti-caretakers and hellbent on destroying creation about us and its creatures.  I don't feel animals are "wild" and run from us because its their nature. I feel that they have enough sense to know that as a species we are alien and evil.

Walk out into a woods and if you don't know how to move through it, it will seem as empty and quiet as can be. Everything there knows you are there and it all hides its self because it knows to because man is in the area. Sure you can stop moving for long enough and attention spans will falter and things will start moving again, but remind it that you are there and it will freeze or flee.

There we are at best strangers to be wary of, and at worse, destroyers of life. Writing about this makes me miss the wild for its been too long since I have wondered the woods and been awed at the magic I see in it. I shall have to venture forth in spite of adversities.

As far as why people abuse animals, you are right I think. The dark heart of man beats to a savage drum that delights in the frenzy of blood. I know savagery because I have been a savage myself. I believe it was part of my path of learning and growing. Knowing said territory I can say with authority that people who are engaging in cruelties are to say the least, a bit unhinged.

But that is like saying, "For a madman, he was quite mad, wasn't he?"

[Sandy Eggo]

Okay, my neighbor has been crankin' music for two days. Normally I wouldn't mind, but it's so loud it's vibrating the floor and I have to close my patio door and turn up the tv to hear it. It's loud. She's listening to Joan Baez...I think she's depressed.

[Dexter Morgan]

Okay, my neighbor has been crankin' music for two days. Normally I wouldn't mind, but it's so loud it's vibrating the floor and I have to close my patio door and turn up the tv to hear it. It's loud. She's listening to Joan Baez...I think she's depressed.

I hate it when people don't show respect, to others around them. When I lived in town, we had kids that drove around, with their radios blasting,and they would pull up to the stop sign, in front of my house,and peel out,and squeal  their tires.  We got woke up many nights, because of the little punks. I finally got tired of it,and reported it to the police. They told me it was a public street,and they had just as much right to use it as I did.  I hate cops. 

[lex]

My next door neighbor drinks like a fish and plays his collection of records pretty loud. I can hear it and sometimes it wakes me up but frankly it's a tomb where I live and he's the only hell that gets raised in it. So mostly nobody ever complains about him. Mostly.

As far as kids and noisy music, the town I live in has an extremely high police to population ratio and they love to bust kids for being annoying. They have ordinances for about anything you can imagine, squealing tires, loud radios, that is all covered. If you call the cops about kids squealing tires and loud music here, consider them busted.

Someone jamming music that loud of 2 days straight here would have had the cops called on them a day ago. I had the cops called on me once for my TV being too loud. It was setting in a window, a small TV set and I was enjoying the breeze and TV at the same time. Knock, knock it was the cops telling me they had a complaint about my TV.

Now what I really hate, and I mean hate is those sub-base kickers that punk kids put in their cars and ride around jamming some asinine rap music to. That "boom boom boom" takes me to a bad place instantly.

[Dexter Morgan]

My next door neighbor drinks like a fish and plays his collection of records pretty loud. I can hear it and sometimes it wakes me up but frankly it's a tomb where I live and he's the only hell that gets raised in it. So mostly nobody ever complains about him. Mostly.

As far as kids and noisy music, the town I live in has an extremely high police to population ratio and they love to bust kids for being annoying. They have ordinances for about anything you can imagine, squealing tires, loud radios, that is all covered. If you call the cops about kids squealing tires and loud music here, consider them busted.

Someone jamming music that loud of 2 days straight here would have had the cops called on them a day ago. I had the cops called on me once for my TV being too loud. It was setting in a window, a small TV set and I was enjoying the breeze and TV at the same time. Knock, knock it was the cops telling me they had a complaint about my TV.

Now what I really hate, and I mean hate is those sub-base kickers that punk kids put in their cars and ride around jamming some asinine rap music to. That "boom boom boom" takes me to a bad place instantly.

I hate those too. Where I work, cars go by blasting their radios sooo loud ,we can feel the vibration in the floors.  Now that is loud!!! One has to wonder, if those guys are 1. deaf  2. stupid  3. brain dead /or/4. all of the above at the same time.  LMAO!!!!  No brain no pain. 

[tallulahdahling]

Armadillos?  You need to get a llama, I've heard that a bunch of critters, are scared to death of them. 

A llama........hummmmmm--maybe I can get Michael Jacksons--Lord knows he could tell some tales!   

[lex]

I hate those too. Where I work, cars go by blasting their radios sooo loud ,we can feel the vibration in the floors.  Now that is loud!!! One has to wonder, if those guys are 1. deaf  2. stupid  3. brain dead /or/4. all of the above at the same time.  LMAO!!!!  No brain no pain. 

5. Jammin' out.

I had one of those obnoxious stereos once in a Sidekick. One might wonder where one stuffs a stereo like that in a Sidekick, well they are a clown car. I think Suzuki knows something about folding time/space or magic when it comes to that car.

Anyway, what rattles the silverware and your teeth is the bass kicker. Mine was just as obnoxious as they get, but inside the car it wasn't any louder than the rest of the music. It was just that the bass was very rich, full, thick and you could feel it. It made the music come alive like nothing else. I would rock out to Def Leopards "Gods of War" and the intro to that song was AWESOME when the bass drum punctuated it. 

Now again, it's the bass kicker that is both the sinner and saint here. Bass is low frequency and those tend to penetrate as all low freq stuff tends to do if I am not mistaken. We communicate with submarines with Ultra Low Freq radios because the waves can dig into the ocean and they can be picked up.

To be responsible and polite, one should dial down or off the bass kicker until out on the highway or out away from population.

But the mad scientist in me wants to find a pulsing pattern at the right frequency to record that would stimulate and excite females sexually due to the throbbing, pulsing vibrations that penetrate even buildings a block away. The possibilities are endless with such a find. Aside from the obvious, one could sell it as a weapon to the pentagon where American troops could use it in lands where the women are suppressed in all manor. It might stir up some revolution or at least keep the moral of our troops up.

[Dexter Morgan]

A llama........hummmmmm--maybe I can get Michael Jacksons--Lord knows he could tell some tales!   

he he 

[Dexter Morgan]

5. Jammin' out.

I had one of those obnoxious stereos once in a Sidekick. One might wonder where one stuffs a stereo like that in a Sidekick, well they are a clown car. I think Suzuki knows something about folding time/space or magic when it comes to that car.

Anyway, what rattles the silverware and your teeth is the bass kicker. Mine was just as obnoxious as they get, but inside the car it wasn't any louder than the rest of the music. It was just that the bass was very rich, full, thick and you could feel it. It made the music come alive like nothing else. I would rock out to Def Leopards "Gods of War" and the intro to that song was AWESOME when the bass drum punctuated it. 

Now again, it's the bass kicker that is both the sinner and saint here. Bass is low frequency and those tend to penetrate as all low freq stuff tends to do if I am not mistaken. We communicate with submarines with Ultra Low Freq radios because the waves can dig into the ocean and they can be picked up.

To be responsible and polite, one should dial down or off the bass kicker until out on the highway or out away from population.

But the mad scientist in me wants to find a pulsing pattern at the right frequency to record that would stimulate and excite females sexually due to the throbbing, pulsing vibrations that penetrate even buildings a block away. The possibilities are endless with such a find. Aside from the obvious, one could sell it as a weapon to the pentagon where American troops could use it in lands where the women are suppressed in all manor. It might stir up some revolution or at least keep the moral of our troops up.

[Palehorse]