A Pirates Life for Me

[Jedi_Khan]

I am still confused, if no one likes or trusts them how did they get the space ships to travel. Next if they don't like leaving the ground then why would they travel to another planet. Granted 800 years or so is a long time with much being able to happen.

As for the children's stories, the English wolf is extinct for that very reason. Shark numbers are down. Many species of snakes are killed on sight in many places. Tigers may never recover, grizzly bears just recently were seen in California again. The Florida Alligator was going extinct till they made a hunting season for it, (I can explain this on request.) All of these animals are supposedly dangerous to humans, so they were wiped out. Why not so with basilisks?


Now this is completely unrelated, but I was watching scifi the other day and they played a movie called Basilisk, and the monster was a snake. Why the hell have people made this lizard into a snake? I blame Harry Potter.

Well, you have to consider that the Basilisk race as a whole is thousands of years old, and they have somehow spread out across the galaxy from their ancestral homeworld (which has been forgotten). Now as to how they got around, one theory says that young Basilisks, no bigger than a garden snake, snuck onto a ship, that had landed on their world, hunting for rodents. The ship took off, and they were spread out across the galaxy.

Another theory is that traders came to a world, found a nest of eggs, thought that they were would be worth something on the market, if marketed right, and then the rest is history.

Now as to why the Basilisks are not extinct: they are highly intelligent, sentient creatures. So, they learned quickly to become very elusive (so quickly that it seems to be instinct), and snakes, by design, are stealthy critters. Now add a brain to that and you've got one hell of a hunt on your hands (if you decide to go hunting for Basilisks).

As for Basilisk becoming a snake, blame who you want, it's just is.

 

[cats]

But they are lizards, lizards of ruin and destruction. Hell if you sudy the legends they turn fertile ground and forests, into deserts. The stone comes much later, and wasn't a part of the original legends.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

You don't look a million.


So jedi office? Home or work?

lol oh babe you know I use that great moisturizer it helps a lot...

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

But they are lizards, lizards of ruin and destruction. Hell if you sudy the legends they turn fertile ground and forests, into deserts. The stone comes much later, and wasn't a part of the original legends.

*smiles* Basilisks can be either a snake or a lizard... though I think that because Rowling broguth a lot of attention to them, and it was beneficial for her for them to be snakes, that everyone assumes that they are just snakes...

 

[rengadeirishman]

Basilisks are historically described as large multilimbed lizards, big snakes, or a three foot tall rooster with a snakes teeth and tail, and is supposedly related to the cockatrice. Supposedly they can kill with a single glance and later accounts say they kill anything that touches it, inluding if someone trys to slay it and touches it with a weapon. According to some legends it can be killed by looking at itself through a mirror, or by hearing the sound of a roosters cry.
It is referred to as king of serpents, but one must remember lizards and snakes were both referred to as serpents in the medium aeveum. Supposedly it got this name not only from its power, but from a crown shaped crest on its head. Supposedly it was hatched by a serpents egg being incubated by a cockerel, contrary to the cockatrice, which was a chicken egg incubated in a serpents nest.

for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk

 

[cats]

Fascinating. That was a good explanation. I will now take the opportunity to say Jhona wasn't swallowed by a whale.

 

[rengadeirishman]

aye, thats true, he was swallowed by a "great fish"

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

boys are funny...

 

[rengadeirishman]

we try

 

[cats]

It is to keep women from noticing... well I don't want to say.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

LOL *huggles for you two*

 

[rengadeirishman]

so how are you all today?

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

I am good... because I am eating a banana

 

[rengadeirishman]

thats hawt, lol.

im engaged in an argument with some self righteous bittseach about smoking in the authors hangout

 

[cats]

Yes smokers are discriminated against, and yes I don't care. Minor note, the US is trying to stop other countries from requiring surgeons general warnings on them.

Sucking on a banana is hawt, eating one makes my dick hurt.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

*blinks* now that is interesting...

 

[cats]

Cigarettes are a strong American export.

 

[rengadeirishman]

the bastard basically said that my father was unreliable, a junkie, and lacked the capacity to be a responible member of society.

And i am against anyone being discriminated against. Smokers are no worse the anyone else is.

 

[cats]

I'd discriminate against smokers, but no more then the current, drinkers to a similar extent, and cell-phone users to a larger extent. Oh and any one on super sweet 16, 5 minutes and I feel sick.

 

[rengadeirishman]

I'd discriminate against smokers, but no more then the current, drinkers to a similar extent, and cell-phone users to a larger extent. Oh and any one on super sweet 16, 5 minutes and I feel sick.

this guys up here saying that "you cant expect smokers to be reliable, they are drug addicts after all" and "anyone with half a brain would not do it." and he told me "that you obviously do not have the capacity to be responible member of society." then followed it with a little smiley. He would not be so bold to say that to me if he werent hidden in his mothers basement insulting my honour and the honour of my family through a keyboard.

i dont generally let what people on the internet say bother me, but his words amount to insulting my late father, and that i shall not brook.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

I personally think it is gross... but just because a peron smokes doesn't mean that they're weak... Some people are just assholes...

 

[rengadeirishman]

the thing is, I smoke. I dont go out and try to get others to smoke, if you want too, awesome, if you dont, thats cool too. And im perfectly willing to surrender things like restaurants and whatnot. But a bar, is in my opinion, going too far. If a an individual owner doesnt want smoking there, thats fine. But its not the governments business to legislate it.

The problem is, people are so scared of their own shadows that everything has to be perfectly safe at all times, and their willing to give up personal liberty for all, and keep giving the government more and more power, for some concept of safety. The thing is, if you dont smoke you are not in terrible danger from smoking. A whiff of secondhand smoke as you walk down the street is not gonna harm you. nor will a night in the bar where other people are smoking. Seconhand smoke will only harm you if your constantly having it breathed in your face, without any ventilation and whatnot.

what it boils down to is this. I dont tell you how to live, all i ask is that you dont tell me how to either.

seems quite fair to me.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

bye my lover boys... I have work tomorrow and I am already exhausted *kisses both, sighs, and falls asleep*

 

[rengadeirishman]

goodnight love

 

[cats]

I can agree with those statements.

So what do you think about Clinton's brief use of the line item veto?

What always got to me was a set of commercials on TV. They had group of children singing, "I won't smoke ... I will cough hack and choke." I may have lost something in the shortening. But they told little kids to cough and essentially be rude to smokers. I find that unnecessary, but I generally am not negative to people.

Similarly I decided to agree with gay marriage when my state voted not to recognize the marriage license of gay couples that were married in other states. First off the few places that have gay marriage include "This license is only valid here," so it is purely hypothetical. Second it is literally unconstitutional for a state not to recognize the laws of another state, including licenses.