Roses are red
Violets are blue
Cyanosis follows severe haemorrhaging
And no amount of sugar will save you
Violets are blue
Cyanosis follows severe haemorrhaging
And no amount of sugar will save you
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Adriano
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Also the sickly smell of death and decay
Charlie Stross
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The question is: Are they actually dead at that point? What constitutes death for a plant? It's not lack of brain activity.
Warning: Go too far down this road and you realize that the #potatoes that will happily begin growing shoots if you leave them in the sack for too long are alive and screaming when you drop them into boiling water.
doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687…
After all, part of the point of #cooking is to kill otherwise still-alive organisms before eating.
@cstross
#ValentinesDay #biology #botany
MarjorieR
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •You just have to make it weird…
(Currently very much enjoying The Regicide Report, btw. Well done!)
Quinn Norton
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •@valkenberg I steal flowers for R in the spring. He's never given flowers, and plans never to 😂
Still, severed plant genitals are better than severed heads, no?
sunflowerinrain
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I loathe having to say thank you and pretend to be pleased when given cut flowers.
(Didn't even attempt the pretence that time it was a bunch of rare protected wild orchids.)
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I had this one particularly stupid cat who kept trying to teach me to hunt by bringing me a live earthworm every morning.
You do not want to wake up by treading barefoot on a live earthworm on your way to the bathroom.
Jaime Robertson
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I am not sure how a cat can get a whole, full grown (deceased) rabbit through a cat flap, but apparently consuming it in the scullery is sometimes preferable to doing so in the fields or garden.
Perils of rural life.
Quinn Norton
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Charlie Stross
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If you compare a house cat and a velociraptor, they both fill(ed) the same environmental niche: crepuscular ambush hunting hypercarnivores that bite their prey's neck to sever the spinal cord then bunny-kick to disembowel.
We have made pets out of velociraptor analogues.
Fear us.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Why not both.gif
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •well, yes, it's exactly the same, because it's about the context, not the gift. i know this is stupid, but it's romantic because it's a gift you only give in a romantic circumstance (well, red flowers).
if we had a long tradition of giving disemboweled rodents, then that would be romantic as well (as opposed to, for a cat: look, i'm a family member! i'm providing food too! which i suppose for a cat is quite close)
Angus McIntyre
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •There's a real double standard here, because people can be really picky about WHICH severed genitalia are acceptable.
Get it right, and it's "sweet" and “romantic”. But make one tiny mistake, and suddenly the person you love most is calling you a “monster" and a "serial killer”.
I hate Valentine’s Day.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Quite a few of those severed genitalia can be a bit tricky with a cat in the house too.
I mean I was under strict instructions to never ever bring lilies anyway…
Kevin Granade
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •> I fail to see what's romantic about thrusting
> it's somewhere on the same continuum as a gift of disemboweled rodents from your pet cat.
> like the severed limbs of traitors that used to be impaled on the gatehouse of London Bridge
Ok now I'm confused are you for or against?
:3
Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •You are clearly a romantic.
And an intellectual.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Charlie Stross • •@Charlie Stross but. but. disemboweled rodents are one of the best ways to show love and care for somebody!
together with releasing an alive but weakened rodent in such a way that they can have the pleasure to hunt it themselves, of course
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Robrab
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Quasars shift red
Hot stars burn blue
Space is warped
And so are you.
Ps keep writing.
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