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[Victoria Watcher]

CRD warns against swimming in Thetis, Prior lakes due to algae bloom

Blue-green algae can produce cyanotoxins that can cause headaches and abdominal pain in humans and lead to lethal liver damage in dogs

https://www.timescol...e-bloom-5958673

[Victoria Watcher]

Closing parks in dry weather is not the best option: fire chief

 

“I’d much rather have the park full of responsible people than have it empty.”

https://www.timescol...e-chief-7461462

[todd]

“I’d much rather have the park full of responsible people than have it empty,” he said.

People who are going to smoke in the park or have a campfire don’t care and will do what they want no matter what, Hurst said.

“I can’t protect the park from stupid.”


https://www.timescol...e-chief-7461462




The big picture.

[Victoria Watcher]

Refreshing.

[todd]

I’m gonna go cliff jumping.

[dasmo]

It’s the biggest danger. Stupidity….

[Nparker]

I wish we could protect elections/voting from stupid.

[Victoria Watcher]

I like how he says when CoV ran it they did it wrong. Of course!

[dasmo]

NO PARK FOR YOU! That is the way. Our governments have all turned into Soup …..

[Nparker]

Closing access to parks so people can enjoy them. 

#clownworld Orwell edition

[todd]

It’s the biggest danger. Stupidity….

I was about 11 years old when I did a belly flop off the grad 98 in Sooke. If you look down while jumping it turns you horizontal, apparently. Could barely move my jaw for two weeks. But I still look back with joy


in the us navy I’m told they teacher you to hold your nose and groin while jumping, in the event you need to jump overboard. Especially off an aircraft carrier

Edited by todd, 27 August 2023 - 07:35 AM.

[dasmo]

Sounds like a good plan. Where is the groin on an Octopus?

[todd]

Sounds like a good plan. Where is the groin on an Octopus?

“...The eight-armed marine creature has a long, detachable penis in order to mate with females that are five times bigger than itself.

When a female swims by, the male Argonaut sends his penis off to swim to the female and mate with her.

In fact, the penis is a ball of sperm in a tentacle called a hectocotylus and females can be fertilised by more than one, by storing them in the mantle cavity.

The male dies soon after his unique ordeal, whereas the female can mate several times and even store multiple hectocotyli in a special cavity until they’re needed.

In the past, scientists that caught female specimens confused the attached penises for parasitic worms..”: https://www.dailymai...x-revealed.html

[Nparker]

This is why octo**rn has never really caught on.

[Matt R.]

Never really caught on? Come on.

[Nparker]

No pun intended. I must have been unconsciously channeling my inner aastra.

[Matt R.]

No no, I mean you’re wrong. Tentacle **rn has totally “caught on”.

[todd]

I’m trying to have a serious discussion about science.

[dasmo]

I’m trying to have a serious discussion about science.

That was your first mistake….

[Nparker]

...Tentacle **rn has totally “caught on”.

Tentacle **rn and octo**rn are not synonymous.