No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.

I would have if I expected it to be delivered. It wasn’t supposed to be there for another week, hence my surprise.

We have a parcel room.

They don’t use it half the time.

Same thing happened to me.

I ordered an expensive instrument, and they said it’d be delivered the week after Thanksgiving.

Got an email that it was delivered to my porch the day after Thanksgiving, when I was all the way across town.

I didn’t want to leave a $1,300 lute on my doorstep for anyone to snatch, so I drove the hour home to secure it. It wasn’t there after all, so I installed their stupid app and it told me it would be delivered next week.

One of the worst buying experiences I’ve ever had. 1/10, would not recommend.

Thanks, I could kind of tell CO by comparing to those around it, but that’s not an option the way DC is presented.

The green is almost exactly the same in value as the red or orange, whatever that color is.

Coding data in color is a pet-peeve of mine. As a colorblind person, maps like this are nearly useless to me.

Do you enjoy audiobooks? You can listen to pretty much anything and go for a hike.

I got pretty big into them a while back when I had an hour commute before podcasts were a big thing.

Stella Splendens always takes me back to the 14th century.

Oh, there’s just some fun games on the Wii that are impossible to play elsewhere, like Boom Blox or Excite Truck.

Is that a wiimote? Good for you.

I’m sure it’s nothing personal.

Well, windows keeps trying to change me.

Linux makes me want to change.

Exactly.

Everyone knows you drink it.

Ah, the old merge and commit genocide.

Seen this before, we don’t need a sequel.

What happens when the bird lands on the dog’s eyes and scratches it? How confident are you that the dog won’t give a warning nip?

Furthermore, mammal saliva is toxic to birds. This is stupid in more ways than one.

It only takes one time being surprised.

It’s always a risk. Would you want your best friend to go into a polar bear enclosure alone even if the bear had never mauled anyone or acted like it wanted to?

It’s never worth the risk if you value the little bird’s life.

Many professional trainers believe that hard mouth can be a hereditary affliction. When selecting a puppy, by all means check out the parents first. Still, there is really no surefire way to tell if a dog is going to be predisposed to damaging birds once it grows up. That part likely falls in the luck-of-the-draw department. There are, however, precautions you can take while training your retriever puppy that may help prevent the dog from developing hard mouth. Common sense applies in most cases.

I mean, they’re literally bred to grab birds.

Please don’t do this.

A dog has a very strong predator instinct, and one little bite is all it takes to kill the budgie very painfully.

It looks very cute, but it’s a recipe for disaster.