oy...pita scolds...mice eat each other sometimes starving or not...extend some compassion for all the millions that are snuffed to placate squeamish apartment dwellers...
maybe the aliens would be descended from something gentle like plant eaters instead of the predators that we came from...then they would be much less likely to be so rapacious...on the other hand predators tend to be at the top of the food chain for a reason so the chances of a bovine with enough intelligence to invent a space ship seems pretty unlikely
i remember as a little kid the dentist had one of those old fashioned drills that ran using a pulley system...the pulley went up through this multi-jointed arm and down to a motor that ran it all..it was way slower than a modern drill. the dentist had tied bits of cloth on the pulley and they would fly around when he ran it...he would tell me they were rabbits and to watch them go round as a distraction...i guess it worked seeing as that's what i remember and not the pain from the drill
prohibition, whether it is alcohol or a relatively benign drug like pot, is ALWAYS going to spawn criminal enterprise because people will ALWAYS want their recreational substances. what i'll never understand is why the US didn't learn that lesson the first time
the lancaster symphony did a mozart concert where they all dressed in period costumes...and at the start, the conductor explained that in mozart's time, it was common and pretty much expected that there would be applause between movements and even during the course of a movement so feel free to applaud whenever you want...sure enough there was some, kind of slightly embarrassed, clapping between movements that grew more relaxed as the concert went on...it was refreshing that the "clap scolds" had to hold their tongues for once
overreaction...the samples of what he said were innocuous "proceed to this or that" messages that were nothing life or death...but i bet dad does time for it before its over
or incense burner that got sat on