Excuse me? Other than a great childhood, a couple guns from my dad, and a ceramic bear from my mother, my parents didn't give me shit and they even told me I they weren't going to give me shit so I would appreciate what I did have. I worked for every damned thing I have ever owned. Everything.
And no, my dad wasn't a child of Okies, he came from a long line of Texans. My mother's family were the Okies.
Yup, being associated with the Okies is bad. Sports betting between the governors is a big thing in fly over country. Next time you have a Nebraska quarter, take a good look at it. Why did they have to put a Sooner Schooner on their quarter? And why did they sneak off and join the big ten? Yup, a thing of shame.
Most animals forget who their close relatives are soon after they no longer need parental care. In nature for most species, most inbreeding is avoided by driving the male children out of the area, so they've probably wandered far away by the time they have any chance of mating. That's not foolproof - a child may wander in a big circle and be back several years later when it's grown strong enough to challenge its father for herd bull, and none of the herd will recognize it - but it works well enough that harmful recessive genes won't manifest often enough to endanger the continuation of the species, and not so well that harmful recessives are never eliminated. (Among humans, it's rare for harmful recessives to manifest short of many generations of inbreeding, like a Pharoah or a Hapsberg. But allow incest and you allow molestation, and that leads to insanity and murder in just one generation.)
In the artificial environment of a zoo, if the zookeepers don't swap young animals with other zoos to avoid inbreeding, mature animals will be caged with their relatives, and _don't remember_ that they are relatives.
kenny, your dad was a child of Oakies. You on the other hand were given everything...and shat on it...
ReplyDeleteExcuse me? Other than a great childhood, a couple guns from my dad, and a ceramic bear from my mother, my parents didn't give me shit and they even told me I they weren't going to give me shit so I would appreciate what I did have. I worked for every damned thing I have ever owned. Everything.
DeleteAnd no, my dad wasn't a child of Okies, he came from a long line of Texans. My mother's family were the Okies.
Yup, being associated with the Okies is bad. Sports betting between the governors is a big thing in fly over country. Next time you have a Nebraska quarter, take a good look at it. Why did they have to put a Sooner Schooner on their quarter?
DeleteAnd why did they sneak off and join the big ten? Yup, a thing of shame.
2 hippos mating brimgs to mind Michael Moore fucking Whoopie Goldberg in a hot tub.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that image.
DeleteGoing to the basement now to find my brain bleach
Coelacanth
Abrams Skank err Tank.
Deletethe horror of that thought picture...
DeleteI shall most surely be off my feed for some time to come...
Fiona must be related to a certain member of Congress from Minnesota that has a penchant for the same behavior.
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She weighs a ton - who's gonna stop her?
ReplyDeleteThat sort of thing would never, never occur in the wild.
ReplyDeleteWe keep these stories going to keep you and other reprobates out of our great un-infesting state.
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Most animals forget who their close relatives are soon after they no longer need parental care. In nature for most species, most inbreeding is avoided by driving the male children out of the area, so they've probably wandered far away by the time they have any chance of mating. That's not foolproof - a child may wander in a big circle and be back several years later when it's grown strong enough to challenge its father for herd bull, and none of the herd will recognize it - but it works well enough that harmful recessive genes won't manifest often enough to endanger the continuation of the species, and not so well that harmful recessives are never eliminated. (Among humans, it's rare for harmful recessives to manifest short of many generations of inbreeding, like a Pharoah or a Hapsberg. But allow incest and you allow molestation, and that leads to insanity and murder in just one generation.)
ReplyDeleteIn the artificial environment of a zoo, if the zookeepers don't swap young animals with other zoos to avoid inbreeding, mature animals will be caged with their relatives, and _don't remember_ that they are relatives.