JadedWolf

Jadedmeister, I can't comment on the Netherlands but in South Africa we Pet Psychics and Pet Behavioral experts ( Pet Psychologists ) who do claim to understand what is going on in the mind of pets. So don't dismiss the fact that pets have feellings and thoughts too that correlate at times with ours I don't discounts that they have feelings and thoughts at all. I do very much doubt our cat will ever feel guilty about chasing birds though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Gl6T0CC2I#t=86

Its good that you moved so swiftly to prevent said murder, what would happen later when kitty gets older and reflects on its life. Imagine the guilt Cats hunt - its what they do. They're obligate carnivores and as they can't produce etinol, taurine, and arachidonic acid IIRC and they have to get it from the flesh, organs and/or bones or prey. Or cat food. But while you can take the animal hunting out of the cat food, you can't take the animal hunting instinct out of the cat. But murder is murder, and what about the long term psychological consequences when Kitty realizes all the lives that he/she has ended? Just because Kitty is an animal this needs to be considered...don't you think? Don't worry Bruce, we can't afford a cat therapist but we are going to try to council her ourselves with the help of some self-help literature. She's going through a rough patch, but we are going to make sure she gets through it. In all seriousness, the bird must've had a death wish because it came back later that day. I was looking for the cat since it was her feeding time and saw her having a go on the same bird. It looked quite rough and I was quite sure the bird was dead but as it turned out she was only playing with the silly bird. I wonder if she even had her claws out, because when we the birdie hopped into our neighbours garden, who stuffs animals for a living and as such has a good idea of their anatomy, he gave the bird a good checkup and said that the bird was just fine. Weird, but our kitty has brought live animals into our garden before so it seems it's just play to her.

Off-topic: I once met a fellow who claimed to practise the sword stroke of the assistant in this rather quaint ceremony every morning. He said whenever he did he imagined that he was cutting off the head of his best friend. So... I asked him who his best friend was - he answered his girlfriend was his best friend. I then asked him what his girlfriend thought of that. I don't remember what he answered, but he completely failed to see the connection. In all fairness, the guy probably had a social disorder. Nonetheless, the bizarre obsession and reverence some people have for this weird suicide ritual never ceases to amaze me. On topic: And Greece is through. There is no God.

Goodbye Japan. You did your best, but sadly it wasn't good enough. Good luck next tournament. A shame, after the WC in Japan and S-Korea I had high hopes for both teams, but Japan hasn't improved at all and South-Korea has only gotten worse.

Interesting statistic: Suarez had never lost a match in which he bit someone.

Okay, that's it. Suarez needs to be muzzled. And so unnessecary when Uruguay scores a few minutes later. I imagine this was Suarez' last game this tounament. Great player but as a person... He has a few screws loose up there.

Just prevented my kitty from committing foul murder against a young bird that flew into our garden. Said birdie was mostly without tail feathers so couldn't fly very well and was helping itself to some of the berries in our garden when our kitty pounced. Luckily our kitty isn't very experienced yet with hunting so she only managed to get some feathers, and I quickly pushed the kitty back inside. The bird wasn't very smart either though because it didn't seem to even attempt to fly away much, even though I did see it fly. It was still sitting there in our garden afterwards, which kind of worried me. But when I took a small branch with some berries, offering it to the birdie, it did quickly fly away. Odd. The birdie probably though that since I was screaming bloody murder and chasing it earlier I must've been a bad sort. It can't have known I was in fact screaming bloody murder and chasing our cat instead.

Are you absolutely sure you posted this in the right thread? That's not a "what you did today", unless of course you were taking the pictures. Either that or this is a really, really crude way of announcing your new relationship status.

That must've been rather a bit awkward: "US exchange student pulled from Tubingen university marble vagina" Story here: http://www.news.com.au/world/us-exchange-student-pulled-from-tubingen-university-marble-vagina/story-fndir2ev-1226963283491

Or a U.S. - Russia match if Russia manages to win against Algeria. That ought to be fun too.

I certainly hope so, but you never know. Germany might want to do the honourable thing and try to win. Which would suck.

The good news is that both the U.S. and Germany could just go for a draw in the last match and they would both go through. Maybe not great sportsmanship, but hey.

What a shame.

Hah! A lot of people are rejoicing now, and not just in the U.S.!

The 1-1. Exactly what this game needed.

U.S.A. so unlucky there.

Speaking of cringeworthy, that looked painful. Portuguese defending straight from the manual.

Cringeworthy defending there.

Not many of those sound believable to me. Then again, sometimes conspiracy theories are actually true.

They're the team that's looked the best so far, I'd put Colombia second. That said, there's plenty of precedent for teams starting out weak and playing themselves into great form throughout the tourney. If this tournament has taught me anything so far is that there seem to be no favourites. France does look good, but how will they fare against tougher opponents? As for Colombia... Eh, no. I don't see it. Edit: That being said, I'm still sticking with Germany at least reaching the finals. They may have played a ... less than spectacular game, but I still think they have the metal.

Poor Iran, they really did not deserve to lose this.