Awesome Pictures Thread

[Shannow]

Florida compared to the NT?

 

[lamaros]

They shot the croc because it was threatening kids, not just for giggles.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-19/palumpa-problem-croc-schot/4581876

[Merusk]

They do the same thing in Florida if relocation doesn't work or it's an immediate threat.  There may be a size thing in there, too but all the ones I've heard of being dealt with were small enough to capture and relocate.  (They were found in my grandparent's community lake.)

[KallDrexx]

Taxidermy is awesome

[Signe]

Taxidermy is weird.

[murdoc]

Taxidermy is weird.

[satael]

20th Century Death (spoilered for size, not content)

[Segoris]

226 million deaths by diarrhea? What a shitty way to go. Though, I can't imagine that number is very solid.

[IainC]

226 million deaths by diarrhea? What a shitty way to go. Though, I can't imagine that number is very solid.

It was a seat of the pants calculation.

[proudft]

So they didn't really run the numbers?

[tgr]

I think the numbers were a bit too fluid

[Segoris]

All I know is that something about this stinks, but good luck starting a movement to flush out the data.

[Kail]

It only looks bad because they're showing all their data on a log scale.

[proudft]

The young squirts they have working as statisticians these days are really cramping the graph's style.

[Nevermore]

These are shitty puns.

[Segoris]

I thought this smear campaign of puns was on a roll too, even if those young squirt statisticians are getting a bum deal.

[Bzalthek]

Things are looking up for the future of F13.  Runaway puns about shit. 

Do we really want to be a loose skid mark on some tube of the internet?

[Khaldun]

I could imagine the conversation fertilizing some future discussion.

[Lakov_Sanite]

This post is also scatological.

[Khaldun]

Ceci n'est pas un poop.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Merde, are we still going with this?

[Merusk]

Running gags always give us fits.

[calapine]

I present the Gastric-brooding frog:



Mother frogs swallowed the fertilized eggs. A hormone prevents the production of stomach acid and the frog has to fast during the two months breeding period. Then the babies hatch through the mouth.

Another example what happens when mother nature does LSD! Sadly these creature died out in the 1980s, now researchers want to clone them and bring them back.

[Engels]

Than the babies hatch through the mouth.

And THEN the grammar snake hatches on the forums

[calapine]

I am so, so sorry. I fixed it.  

[Segoris]

I think the grammar snake is being more of a whiny bitch than it usually is in this case. Then again, maybe I have become more tolerant as it is almost unnecessary on these forums usually.

See, "than" is used when comparing ("more than usual, "the amount I care is less than normal," etc). "Then" has a time element to it ("then again, sometimes being an annoying snake is fun," "way back then," etc).

 

[calapine]

oh, I know the rule. It was more a slip of the pen, really. I think my most common mistake is wonky phrasing: often it feels to me that my sentences sound 'wooden' but I am unable to find the problem.

[Merusk]

It's clearly because you're autistic. /sagenod.

[Ingmar]

It's clearly because you're autistic. /sagenod.

It is only a few letters different from Austrian, certainly. 

[Raph]

I present the Gastric-brooding frog:

And no one has photoshopped this recursively yet? How can this be?

[Engels]

I am so, so sorry. I fixed it.  

You are a lovely person. I am keeping that image for posterity.

[Lantyssa]

I present the Gastric-brooding frog:

It's frogs, all the way in.

[Sky]

And no one has photoshopped this recursively yet? How can this be?

I'm surprised by the lack of X to the Z.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Story (on HuffPo)

[Lantyssa]

Not.  Awesome.

Scary pictures is that-a-way ->