Happy Birthday NGN:)
You do know that it was your birthday on EI last Thursday....
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Did you know that NGN is the only one of the most prolific posters not to have an avatar. So lets propose one.
Nicegirlsarenice - Three years and counting
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07-07-09, 18:33Alec HoranNicegirlsarenice - Three years and counting
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07-07-09, 18:38Alec Horan
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14-07-09, 16:27Belshaft7You would have nice use the same as me... polar opposites on the posting count so as my avatar doesn't get seen on the boards very often I guess it wouldn't matter :)Quote:
Originally Posted by alechoran
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14-07-09, 22:20nicegirlsarenice
I think people use their avatar to be unique and to reflect a little bit about them. Being one of the only people who's posted a lot and having none is sort of unique and stands out in itself. :P :cool:
Otherwise I'd put something like this:
http://www.mycuteanimals.com/wp-cont...sh-450x348.jpg -
14-07-09, 22:22Doozer
Kinda goes with your beastality and pedophillic tendecies
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14-07-09, 22:30nicegirlsarenice
Or maybe one of these:
http://www.mycuteanimals.com/wp-cont...sh-450x348.jpg
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/226973...ies-barrow.jpg
http://darwen.us/darrell/blographics/070730a.jpg
http://travel.9msn.com.au/img/malays...-article-2.jpg
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_...anariset-2.jpg
Unfortunately Orangutans may now be going extinct. :( They're starving to death as their homes are being cut down and destroyed and their own lands and being made extinct. Please try to fight against it in whatever way you can. You would starve as well if your home was torn apart and all your food robbed. :( This world is going down a very, very bad path and will probably end up in extinction for all human life if we don't fight to change it.... -
14-07-09, 22:35Doozer
Your not going to start asking us for money are you?
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14-07-09, 22:47Banned UserIf its not Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey then it must be.....
Birutė Galdikas
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14-07-09, 22:50nicegirlsarenice>_>Quote:
Originally Posted by doozer121
There's a number of websites out there you can adopt an Orangutan from for a very small amount and see him and realise how he's progressing from your donation. They'll also often send you stuff like newsletters, posters etc. if you become a member.
http://www.orangutan-sos.org is a good one I think because they let you donate what you want and you can also volunteer to do work yourself for saving Orangutans, especially the Sumatran ones that are in most danger.
You can also let people know about it online because I think many people just don't realise what's happening to these guys, who are our literal relatives. Known as "the people of the forest", legend has it that the Orangutans can speak, but choose not to. Looking at the state of humanity today where we're on the brink of making ourselves extinct with a nuclear accident etc.... they were right!! The Orangutans should be in fact given social welfare and compensation for their loss of home by the people who are tearing their homes apart and killing them in the process. They really need our help if they're going to even survive as a species... maybe in the future things will be different and with "Great Ape Personhood" and similar rights being drawn up, maybe there's hope yet if we act now.
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14-07-09, 22:54Doozer
Lets face it, if they can talk they can voice their own concerns, and if theres a nuclular accident that swipes us off the earth, im afraid all the money in the world is gonna save them
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14-07-09, 23:14nicegirlsareniceWell, we don't know what's going to happen, but we can at least try to save ourselves and our descendants and protect the rights of our relatives. What makes us superior to them?! Bigger brains?! That's all it is really... they are the same as us in every other way. Look, I'm not saying that we should treat them exactly as equals, but what they're doing now is committing genocide against them! Making their species extinct!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by doozer121
Maybe there'll be a huge shift in policy. Just because you own a gun doesn't mean it's going to go off. Right now it's as though there are loaded guns and grenades being handed around by little children, but that might all change.
There could be a major accident at some point and then people might see the error of their ways. There's supposed to be projects underway for sending humans to outer space so that they might live there, grow crops etc. there without depending on earth. Personally I doubt that will happen in our lifetime, but maybe we could survive. -
14-07-09, 23:25Doozer
What makes us superiour to them is our ability to reason
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15-07-09, 00:03nicegirlsarenicePeople argue that, but what is "ability to reason"? Is it just a way for humans to propel themselves as being somehow higher up than animals...?Quote:
Originally Posted by doozer121
Orangutans are the second smartest species on the planet (despite primatologists previously thinking Chimpanzees were just because they're closer to their evolutionary heir fool the Human).
Orangutans can reason just as well as you or I. They just lack the raw brainpower because their brain is only 1/3 the size of ours. For that reason they don't grasp language very well (but they can be taught it and taught to say things through it)... they don't speak to us so people think they can't reason?
That's ridiculous. And anyone who has ever had a half-smart cat or dog as a pet at home will know animals can think and feel emotions and so on just fine. -
15-07-09, 00:07berwheelbarrowwell at least look at the positive side we are after locating Nads wheelbarrow:D:D:D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by nicegirlsarenice
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15-07-09, 10:12DoozerHold on a second, I have never said that animals dont feel emotion, but thats not being able to reason or think abstractly. Now as reguards brain size, we dont have the biggest brains on this planetQuote:
Originally Posted by nicegirlsarenice
Brain size, body weight and intelligence -
15-07-09, 18:50Alec Horan
Funny how a thread about an avatar turns into a debate about Animal Rights.
You might enjoy this quote from Voltaire
Hold then the same view of the dog which has lost his master, which has sought him in all the thoroughfares with cries of sorrow, which comes into the house troubled and restless, goes downstairs, goes upstairs; goes from room to room, finds at last in his study the master he loves, and betokens his gladness by soft whimpers, frisks, and caresses.
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so greatly surpasses man in fidelity and friendship, and nail him down to a table and dissect him alive, to show you the mesaraic veins! You discover in him all the same organs of feeling as in yourself. Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel?
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17-07-09, 01:17ninebythree
Speaking of adopting Orangutans is interesting , considering there is a monkey in LA looking for a new home:D
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