Things you wish you could say

[Xouie]

This:

In the real world, scientists never, EVER get to say “I leave you to research the details/source/data” in a professional report or setting. If we did, we would be clearing out our desks by the end of the day.

So saying it makes you sound less — not more — informed.

 

[CSAchook]

Did it not ever, even for one moment, occur to you that you should NOT put a package labeled LIVE ANIMALS inside a mailbox. In summer. In the middle of the afternoon. In a desert??? Or are you just too lazy to walk to my door

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Did it not ever, even for one moment, occur to you that you should NOT put a package labeled LIVE ANIMALS inside a mailbox. In summer. In the middle of the afternoon. In a desert??? Or are you just too lazy to walk to my door

Oh no! What was it?

 

[CarpCharacin]

This:

In the real world, scientists never, EVER get to say “I leave you to research the details/source/data” in a professional report or setting. If we did, we would be clearing out our desks by the end of the day.

So saying it makes you sound less — not more — informed.

Sounds like something I'm guilty of TBH. Anyway, what especially bugs me is when people raise vague objections for reasons like "There are disagreements among scientists! Why should I trust their conclusions more than those of random people?". You can't really provide someone with data if they can't state what specifically they're referring to, and conflicting findings should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis rather than "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".

 

[NatJ]

I just need to say: Turkeys are weird!

(That would have been off-topic in the thread I was just reading, where a "weird growth" turned out to be a perfectly normal part of the turkey. So I'm saying it here. Thanks to @Nabiki for making such a useful thread!)

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

“If you know your chickens are Easter eggers, why are you still calling them ameraucanas?”

 

[CarpCharacin]

“If you know your chickens are Easter eggers, why are you still calling them ameraucanas?”

For the street cred.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

For the street cred.

Ameraucanas aren’t even that rare, they’re just less common than Easter eggers.

 

[CSAchook]

Oh no! What was it?

Live bugs for my reptiles. The bugs didn’t survive But it turns out that the chickens enjoy baked bugs so that is sort of a silver lining.

 

[R2elk]

I just need to say: Turkeys are weird!

(That would have been off-topic in the thread I was just reading, where a "weird growth" turned out to be a perfectly normal part of the turkey. So I'm saying it here. Thanks to @Nabiki for making such a useful thread!)

Turkeys are unique. Guineas are weird.