Recent content by Verp

Yes, I talk to both to my cat and my cockroaches. Why? Because why not, that's why.

Incidentally, this is how I feel about my pet cockroaches.

Nope. If kids bring you joy, that's very nice, but I'd rather not be exposed to them. Never outside my own childhood have I even remotely liked a single child under the age of ten or humored the thought of having one. I avoid small children like the plague -- they're almost like really creepy...

I used to be an obnoxious misanthrope so I do sort of get misanthropes even though I don't share their sentiments anymore. I don't hate anybody, but I do consider it to be a pity that more people aren't fascinated with the variety and complexity of human life. People call me a pessimist because...

No surgical operations should ever be conducted on another person for non-medical reasons without their consent. This includes circumcision of all genders and "corrective" aesthetic surgery on ambiguous genitalia. Not your junk, therefore not altered according to your aesthetic preferences, end...

I wanted to be a paleontologist. When I grew up, I realised that A: my country has hardly any fossil record to speak of and B: in order to get a paying job on the field of paleontology, you basically have to wait for some old paleontologist to die and even then some other silverback will fill...

It drives me crazy when people say pigeons are filthy, extremely dumb, and carry a lot of diseases just waiting to jump on you. None of these are true. It's like people have conveniently decided to forget the importance of pigeons in our history because EWW A SKY RAT POOPED ON MY CAR! But...

Pointing at the dirty dishes is only going to work if you know leaving dirty dishes is a bad thing to do in the first place. If I had no idea that it's common courtecy to wash the dirty dishes and I had trouble piecing concepts like this together (much like non-human animals do), you know what...

I find it somehow funny that one of the reasons why OP came to the conclusion that humans are inferior to animals is likely to be thanks to a certain trait that brings us closer to many other animals: we are inherently very biased towards memorising and reacting to the ways in which others...

Nice explanation, except it's not really true. Cats who have lived to the fullest with their mother and even may still live with their mother indulge in that behaviour as well, and with animals they have no intent to actually eat. Even the most skillful mouser may and often does play with their...

Nope, wrong. Brown hyenas that live in coastal areas are known to kill baby seals even when there's no apparent reason other than boredom. Edit: Also, just about any predator and even many herbivores kill for sport or at least torment less imposing animals if they happen to be in the mood and...

I don't consider Americans dumb -- to me it just seems that the odds are often heavily stacked against them becoming smart.

I don't know, honestly. Bully had some good things going for it but it was also very underwhelming to me. The whole faction popularity thing was a joke -- the mechanic was rendered useless by the fact that you couldn't really do anything about your popularity among a clique except maybe skip...

Probably Aerodactyl. It's a huge dragon-pterosaur hybrid that looks a bit like Ridley from Metroid games and you can use it as your personal mode of transport -- how cool is that? I also happen to like Miltank and Tauros a lot because I like cattle and they're not half bad as team members either...

Hot/spicy isn't a taste. It's another kind of sensation caused by an irritant called capsaicin (when the source of the spiciness is a kind of pepper), which you can feel with your other body parts. I would know, I accidentally got cayenne in my eye the other day...