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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentMaybe steel bracelets should be marketed as “vegan”.
Vintage shagreen/stingray?
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Gyges
·Well they cannot be, because they typically get loaded up with wrist cheese after a bit. However, it is perfectly allowable to label them as gluten-free.
Syrte, out of curiosity (since no subject is taboo in this thread except vintage shagreen/stingray, which obviously no one wishes to discuss), may I ask if you've taken your alias from the Valerian & Laureline album L'Empire des mille planetès? (The adventure takes place in a planet called Syrte and a watch is involved).
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MMMD
·...Could anyone tip me off where I could source a koala skin strap? Now that would really bring out my personality...
Yeah this has all been discussed before.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/universal-genève-forum-now-open.3556/page-2#post-41223
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Uscjake87
·Dang, now you guys are making me feel guilty for saving up to buy a tiger with my covid cash. 😀
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Syrte
·Well they cannot be, because they typically get loaded up with wrist cheese after a bit. However, it is perfectly allowable to label them as gluten-free.
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oinkitt
·There's one thing I wonder though. If you bought a lion cub at Harrod's back in the day, did it ever occur to anyone that those things actually grow up? I've seen an adult lion in a zoo and they're pretty awe-inspiring creatures, especially when they roar. I was very happy to be at the other side of the fence and the plexiglas.
There is a doco on the guys who bought the lion cub from Harrods.
They were 2 Aussie hipsters who live over a furniture store in London. When it got big and they realised it was too much for them they took it back to Africa and released it.
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timecube
·Ha! Things I haven’t thought about forever.
Sea Monkeys were a disappointment. They were almost microscopic. Being originally from Michigan my grandparents would go to Florida every winter and return with a baby American alligator for the grandkids. The one major memory is a gator hissing at my dog then latching onto its nose and the dog shaking it’s head on an attempt to rid itself if this strange creature.
I never had them, but.....
circa 2000 or so, I got as a curiosity, a small sealed bowl (approx 10") that was billed as a complete, closed ecosystem, filled with red shrimp (similarly sized as your "monkeys" but much more colorful) water, sand, seaweed and algae. One was advised to keep it in indirect sunlight, and shake the bowl occasionally to scrape up algae and "entertain" the residents.
In theory, it could last indefinitely, as long as it got sunlight to grow the algae, which fed the shrimp, which pooped fertilizer. In practice, over time the shrimp began eating each other, until by 2010 there was only one left (no longer able to reproduce). The last lonely shrimp died in 2017. I was impressed. they made lousy pets. would not recommend.
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Sam11
·It always amuses me how strong emotions arise when elephant straps are mentioned. It is as if we place the importance of sentience of one species over another. Unless one is a vegan and wear plastic shoes I think all other arguments are rather emotionally driven. I must also add that the manufacturing of man made materials are not without harm to the environment.
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Gyges
·It always amuses me how strong emotions arise when elephant straps are mentioned. It is as if we place the importance of sentience of one species over another. Unless one is a vegan and wear plastic shoes I think all other arguments are rather emotionally driven. I must also add that the manufacturing of man made materials are not without harm to the environment.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/12/ivory-trade-elephants-future-forest-poachers
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BrianPankow
·Brian: related to the trombone player in Chicago?
