Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[gatso]

Errrm i think lots of people have got this wrong.....


AAAAT
TTTTA
AAATT
TTTAA
333AA
AAKKT
AAQQT
AAJJT
AATTK
AATTQ
AATTJ
AATT9


So AATT8 is the 13th nuts

You're talking about the 5-card hand.  I think tikay was referring to the hole cards the player had - that's what we were answering.  Both are equally valid I'd guess.

this could get properly confusing.

if someone has AAATT that is in fact the 2nd nuts, not the 3rd as in flushy's list, as AAAAT is no longer possible so only TTTTA can be beating it

[tikay]

Mother Hen & Son, Ben, a lovely lad.

[tikay]

She has to try & get in every picture.

[tikay]

Played kalooki against Compo in Luton on Wednesday. Never let him shuffle the cards.

[Chompy]

Whatever happened to Tenacious-D?

Was the bald guy Jack's brother?

I thought Jack Black would go on to become a sort of modern-day Robin Williams, if he could contain his amphetimine consumption, he is, or was, as funny as anyone I've ever seen.

I believe Dave Groehl was behind their big hit and played the devil in the video. That's just what my builder told me though, too lazy to go and do any research on Google.
Dave Groehl = the best thing in music in the last 20 years. Also penned the best song of all time by QOTSA...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YnyRUzgqj7k
PS, Is Ben known as Ben Hen? If not, why not?

[tikay]

Whatever happened to Tenacious-D?

Was the bald guy Jack's brother?

I thought Jack Black would go on to become a sort of modern-day Robin Williams, if he could contain his amphetimine consumption, he is, or was, as funny as anyone I've ever seen.

I believe Dave Groehl was behind their big hit and played the devil in the video. That's just what my builder told me though, too lazy to go and do any research on Google.
Dave Groehl = the best thing in music in the last 20 years. Also penned the best song of all time by QOTSA...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YnyRUzgqj7k
PS, Is Ben known as Ben Hen? If not, why not?

"Tribute" was a great Vid, but so were all Tenacious-D's Vids.

[tikay]

Steve Kirk sent me two amazing pictures yesterday - a mantis, & a humming bird.

Here's one of each.

I've seen a few mantis, & a few humming birds, but this was awesome stuff.

First, here's a regular humming bord, & a regular mantis.

[tikay]

Now, look at this.

The hummingbird has been caught by the mantis.

[tikay]

....and quickly killed.

[tikay]

Birdwatchers Digest .com described it like this.....

As you can see from the photographs this hungry mantis captured and killed a hummingbird not much smaller than itself. The mantis used its spiny left foreleg to impale the hummingbird through the chest while leaving his right leg free.

We surmised that the mantis ran the hummer through and dangled its full weight on its foreleg while he consumed the flesh of the hummingbird from the abdomen. After he had his fill, the mantis gave his foreleg several swift jerks and freed his leg.

[tikay]

Impressed by this, & not realising a mantis could do such things, I went a-googling.

My oh my, these mantis have a whole little world of their own.

For starters, they are, as a group, "praying mantis", not "preying mantis", as I'd always assumed. They are predatory, not prey. They camaflouge themselves so well, on branches, on bushes, they are rarely caught by predators.

Yeah, yeah, so do lots of insects.

They can also change their skin hue - to black, or brown, say, after a forest fire, to hide themselves in a bare landscape.

But when you get to their sex life, it gets really interesting. They do "cannibal sex".

One website said this, of mantis mating....

The female may start feeding by biting off the male’s head (as with any prey), and if mating had begun, the male’s movements may become even more vigorous in its delivery of sperm.

A whole new meaning to "do you give head?".

It went on.....

....a quantifiable increase in the duration of copulation among males who are cannibalized....

There, it lasts longer minus head.

Some males apparently wise up to this.

This is further supported in a study where males were seen to approach hungry females with more caution, and were shown to remain mounted on hungry females for a longer time, indicating that males actively avoiding cannibalism may mate with multiple females. The act of dismounting is one of the most dangerous times for males during copulation, for it is at this time that females most frequently cannibalize their mates. This increase in mounting duration was thought to indicate that males would be more prone to wait for an opportune time to dismount from a hungry female rather than from a satiated female that would be less likely to cannibalize her mate.

So, don't be falling asleep after sex, right?

And how about this......

Many gardeners consider mantises to be desirable insects, as they prey upon many harmful insect species. Organic gardeners who avoid pesticides may encourage mantises as a form of biological pest control. Tens of thousands of mantis egg cases are sold each year in some garden stores for this purpose

They are, luckily, non-venemous, & a bite from one won't harm you.

Who'd have thought?

[MANTIS01]

The female may start feeding by biting off the male’s head

FML

[tikay]

The female may start feeding by biting off the male’s head

FML

Gotta be a whole lot worse than a broken banjo string.

[totalise]

great photos TK, nature in all its guises will never cease to be fascinating.

[Bongo]

Thanks to this thread Google thinks I'm a bird enthusiast and is serving me adds for a social network for bird lovers.