The General Chat Thread (2025)

Puggles said:
Every day at 7 p.m. I get the urge to do long division. What the hell is wrong with me? Like old school pen and paper, writing it out.

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Remember when we were in school learning long division, and exasperated, we’d shout, “Yeah but…WHEN ARE WE EVER GONNA USE THIS IN REAL LIFE?!”

Now you know…promptly at 7PM. 😉
 
Herbaceous said:
You’re correct - he was most likely attacking his reflection in the window, trying to defend his territory (this occurs most often during breeding season).

I used to work at a place where one of our buildings had a green roof, and every single year, Canada geese would nest up there. If you have ever met a Canada goose, their nickname of “cobra chicken” is apt - they can be quite aggressive (and they hiss!).

Anyway, mom goose would be happily sitting there incubating the eggs, while dad goose fought endless, valiant battles against his own reflection in the building’s glass windows.
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I have had a Grey Shrikethrush doing the same for over 2 years now - keeps our vehicle wing mirrors very clean, but he has recently found a friend/rival and has been paying our vehicles less attention - I actually had to remove a cobweb from my passenger wing mirror on Friday.

iNaturalist Grey Shrikethrush Observations by SNSSO
 
I remember when living in Melbourne (Australia) we somehow managed to adopt a couple of wild Magpies. Every morning and early evening they would stand at our frond door and peck at it until we opened it. They would both walk inside, up the passage way, through the sun room into the kitchen then up to the fridge and peck at it until we opened it and put a handful of minced streak on a plate for them.

They'd sit on the kitchen bench, eat the meat then happily walk back to the front door, peck on it till we open it then walked out and disappeared for the day till that evening. That went on for god knows how long but was fun :)
 
I geuss that just goes to show if you are kind to wild animals (generally) and don't threraten them they will eventually trust you. We have three opossums who visit us every day and will sit donw next to us and eat. We can walk past and over them and they dont budge - but we have never tried to touch them or chase them away eiher. We have a racoon that is the same. We used to have three chipmonks that would eat out of my hand but the cats chased them away. Had to rescue a couple of them from the cats initially :)

I am a firm believer in animals know if a human is going to hurt them or not. They sense the trust, especiaslly when you are trying to help them.
 
When I lived in Brisbane I played golf. Unfortuanately kangaroos thought golf coures with there lush grass made a good home. That creayed a problem for us golfers as the roos had right of way so if onme was on the fairway infront of us - we had to wait for it to move before we could play on. Made for an interested round of golf :)

A bit like Moose in Anchorage Alaska - they too have right of way on the roads.
 
Wombat457 said:
I geuss that just goes to show if you are kind to wild animals (generally) and don't threraten them they will eventually trust you. We have three opossums who visit us every day and will sit donw next to us and eat. We can walk past and over them and they dont budge - but we have never tried to touch them or chase them away eiher. We have a racoon that is the same. We used to have three chipmonks that would eat out of my hand but the cats chased them away. Had to rescue a couple of them from the cats initially :)

I am a firm believer in animals know if a human is going to hurt them or not. They sense the trust, especiaslly when you are trying to help them.
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Apparently opossums are smarter than "most" squirrels. We have been feeding our squirrels for well over a decade and over the past had a few that were trusting enough to come to the door for a peanut, but mostly they just sit on the deck rail and stare at the door (AKA food dispensing chute), wait for it to open, frantically jump on a tree when it opens, and then run up and down the tree for a few minutes chasing each other after it closes before coming to the deck rail for the peanuts or seeds we placed there!
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Anyone interested in some 2-foot-long gutter icles with leaves and garbage on them? I was getting some water in my basement and traced it to my gutters above that part of the house being frozen, so I had to climb up there with a ladder and gardening tools to break up the ice. I probably looked like an as$ho1e on a ladder, wearing shorts, doing gardening on his roof. 🙃 🤣
 
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