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Sindobook:
Regarding 'Panda B' yes it is true.
I'm sorrey to report that he passed away just several hours ago. Cause of death was complications resulting from repeated acute myocardial infarction. He was 'stable' for a while but recently his condition had worsened despite Tuan Tuan's best attempts to keep him alive.
Tuan Tuan was with him till the end and has declared tommorow a day of mourning among all Pandas in his rememberance.
Panda B is survived by countless Pandas, too many to mention.
Nothing more to say on this right now :(
Sindobook:
Yes.
According to Long Shan, B- was known for a while as the 'great teacher'. He revolutionized the art and seemed eager to pass on his skills to his many followers. Long Shan revealed that he developed his famed 'panda hands' technique and the newer 'two-paw discount' with B-'s help, and that the world had lost a great 'practitioner[1]' with his passing.
Tuan Tuan gave a short speech in which he complimented B-'s help during the difficult time following the injuries he sustained during the Wolong earthquake.
This led into Ling Ling's speech. After the quake, B- left his Dojo in the West, gathered a team of Pandas and led them on a relief mission in Wolong. When a brigade of troops from the PLA[2] showed up, ordering the 'unauthorized gathering' of Pandas to disperse and return to their homes, B- told the troops that he and his friends were willing to die for the cause and they would have to shoot him if they wanted him to stop. When the troops trained their rifles on B- and his fellow Pandas, they returned by taunting the troops and asked them if they were willing to face the punishments they would receive by the state for their actions[3]. Ling Ling still remembered the bewildered expressions on the troops' faces as they quickly backed off, and they would not return to bug the team of Pandas for the remainder of the relief effort.
As is traditional Panda B- left his worldly possessions to a number of small animals under his care including the Chinchilla K. A. -, [deleted], and a friend of Mr. Sparkles, the Netherland Dwarf Bunny L. -.
[1] as in "Practitioner of the art".
[2] People's Liberation Army.
[3] Pandas are considered national treasures in China, it is not uncommon for smugglers or hunters of Pandas, or even anyone who intentionally harms a Panda, to be put to death.
Sindobook:
Multi:
1) Yes it certainly has all the trappings of one, but only someone who knew it or knew what they were looking at would pick up on those types of things in the first place (99.9% of the people out there wouldn't recognize anything unusual).
2) No, I don't think it is any more than expected or is normal with time. And there is a enough new people coming in for sustained growth.
3) Yes, this snake is one to watch out for, as in "do not approach". Again not because he alone is dangerous but the other animals that are around him might be. He is average height and average weight for an animal of his type, but the semi-distinctive features I discussed earlier... and his special item is a camera with this lens: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-50mm-Lens-Digital-Cameras/dp/B000I1YIDQ which is also pretty rare irl so. Between the both of these, it should stand out if you know what you're looking for. You don't have to fear all snakes, especially if they are alone and you outnumber them. But this is one to specifically watch out for.
4) Yes, she is fine. Honest no problems.
5) Yes, most of them tend to be a rather goofy group, incredibly narcissistic and self-serving, needlessly competitive, not to mention a dime a dozen. And most utterly useless. My suggestion would be to stop, take a look around; find friends, family, others close to you or whatever and ask them. Basically people you know in some other way. Some of them have to have skills, even if mostly basic it's honestly time and effort that matters more than anything else.
Sindobook:
Multi:
1) The contest is here: http://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Challenge.aspx?ID=3520
And no it is not my contest or in any way related to me.
Stay safe and have fun.
2) Yes I am fully aware of that spike, there is definitely a spike there, but no, I don't know what the origin is. It happened just several hours ago, and it takes at least 24 hours (sometimes more) for analysis data to come in. Please just be patient, it's not an emergency by any means; the incident was months ago and there's really not a lot there.
3) Yeah it's kinda sad.
Most of mine end up saying this:
This video is most popular with these groups: Gender / Age
1) Female / 13-17
2) Male / 35-44
3) Male / 45-54
4) Female / 18-24
I don't know how accurate the data really is but :(
Sindobook:
I think I know what happened, and I'm not going to go into much detail b'cos this is honestly a pretty boring topic for me.
The video was taken 5+ months ago, and the reason it suddenly generated so much controversy was b'cos someone decided to post a link to it from the fb page or a 4c thread about pets, or some combination thereof.
When asked, Mr. Sparkles volunteered this description of the incident.
At the local small animal meet, N and C playing together, with N climbing onto C's back and so on. Suddenly out of nowhere M appears and decides she wants to play too, she tries to hop onto N's back but can't, then she tries to paw N off C's back, presumably so she can climb onto C's back in her place. Finally she just hovers around the two of them and generally acts annoying. At one point, C starts to look a bit perturbed, she blocks M but M just won't let up, then M even put her paws around N and picks her up for a short time, etc. This continues for about a minute until C says rather forced 'all right everyone let's all hop around' to the rest of the bunnies in order to distract M, at first some of the bunnies question this but most follow suit and M is distracted enough by constant hopping that she stops bothering N and C.
In the after-incedent report, Simon talked to N and C, neither of whom could outright recognize M by sight or smell (before they met). "Every time we tried to take a photo, she would appear out of nowhere and get into the photo with us. I don't think she gets out very much. We didn't think much of it at first, but by the end of the day it was getting really old."
Mr. Sparkles noted that M at one point tried to pull the same deal on K and her friend S. But K gave her a stern/scary look while S and her one other friend flanked her, trying to look as imposing as possible. M grudgingly backed off. Afterwards he overheard K joking "annoying bunny is annoying" to her friends.
I've watched the videos again I really don't think much of it, it may seem kinda goofy but this type of 'annoying' behavior isn't all that unusual for small animals and if handled properly (ie. like K handled it) it generally isn't an issue.
For people / owners, when mixing your small animals, my advice is to just let them do their own thing and work it out among themselves. 95% of the time they will, the only time you need to separate them is if they start to fight outright and only then if blood is drawn.
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