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I am a lazy photographer; I also work at a zoo:
This can be hard work:
^This is Jags, a creatively named Jaguar at the Cat Survival Trust, actually shot straight through bars
^Me apparently looking stressed during a Photoshoot for the editor of BBC Wildlife magazine; no pressure then..
^At Terry's joint at the Cat Survival Trust, with Snow Leopard cubs
The wonderful Doctor Terry Moore, with Alpha and Omega shot by Bad Mannors; cheers Andy! :D
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Male.30-ish late thirties. Work in conservation. If you have problems with highly educated professionals looking after often highly endangered species READ THIS and think of the fucking carbon footprint made by the human race going off to look at animals in the wild (and the devestation this would course) if they couldn't experience animals at Zoological collections. This naturally doesn't apply to celebrities and wildlife documentry makers, who are exempt from any carbon footprint concerns, such as Joanna fucking Lumley
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Me, Zombified, by the wonderful Happy Toast! :)
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My flickr photostream can be found Here
I am a lazy photographer; I also work at a zoo:
This can be hard work:
^This is Jags, a creatively named Jaguar at the Cat Survival Trust, actually shot straight through bars
^Me apparently looking stressed during a Photoshoot for the editor of BBC Wildlife magazine; no pressure then..
^At Terry's joint at the Cat Survival Trust, with Snow Leopard cubs
The wonderful Doctor Terry Moore, with Alpha and Omega shot by Bad Mannors; cheers Andy! :D
Clicky for HUGENESS
Clicky for truly epic (~500kb)
Male.
jahled AT madasafish DOT com
Me, Zombified, by the wonderful Happy Toast! :)
Kittens..
This goes without saying
^Click for the thread
Out the blue
Sickrik made this, it makes me cry tears watching it: :)
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Quite brilliant, Lord Vader! The style is bound to catch on
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» Pathological Liars
Oh, I just remembered this
Where I work is full of learned academics, some of whome have more letters after their name than i've got in my first and last name together. They have scientific meetings where they discuss conservation and related scientific matters. Apparently, one of the fellows is a bit worse for wear in the sanity department, but tolerated on account of being harmless and the money he gives. He once famously stood up at a scientific meeting and announced his friend was breeding a pheonix.
Priceless
(Thu 29th Nov 2007, 16:45, More)
Oh, I just remembered this
Where I work is full of learned academics, some of whome have more letters after their name than i've got in my first and last name together. They have scientific meetings where they discuss conservation and related scientific matters. Apparently, one of the fellows is a bit worse for wear in the sanity department, but tolerated on account of being harmless and the money he gives. He once famously stood up at a scientific meeting and announced his friend was breeding a pheonix.
Priceless
(Thu 29th Nov 2007, 16:45, More)
» Eccentrics
Kitten Cowboy
This just occurred to me as ever so slightly eccentric: Where I live (East Finchley) there's a bloke who goes around wearing a broad rimmed cowboy hat. Slightly odd, but fair enough.
I while ago I happened to get off the same tube train as him and was walking behind him, where I noticed he had a picture of a kitten stuck to the back of this cowboy hat. I thought this so strikingly strange I actually piped up the courage to ask him why he had a picture of a kitten on the back of his cowboy hat.
"To ward off muggers," was his reply.
I think I was so startled by the sincerity of his tone I actually nodded and said something stupid like "Why of course."
Must be a b3tard I reckon
(Fri 31st Oct 2008, 13:46, More)
Kitten Cowboy
This just occurred to me as ever so slightly eccentric: Where I live (East Finchley) there's a bloke who goes around wearing a broad rimmed cowboy hat. Slightly odd, but fair enough.
I while ago I happened to get off the same tube train as him and was walking behind him, where I noticed he had a picture of a kitten stuck to the back of this cowboy hat. I thought this so strikingly strange I actually piped up the courage to ask him why he had a picture of a kitten on the back of his cowboy hat.
"To ward off muggers," was his reply.
I think I was so startled by the sincerity of his tone I actually nodded and said something stupid like "Why of course."
Must be a b3tard I reckon
(Fri 31st Oct 2008, 13:46, More)
» Eccentrics
Well, I will dust this off for another airing, for it is apt
Where I work is full of learned academics, some of whome have more letters after their name than i've got in my first and last name together. They have scientific meetings where they discuss conservation and related scientific matters. Apparently, one of the fellows is a bit worse for wear in the sanity department, but tolerated on account of being harmless and the money he gives. He once famously stood up at a scientific meeting and announced his friend was breeding a pheonix.
Priceless
Update: They actually revoked his status as a fellow not so long ago, I wonder why ;)
(Fri 31st Oct 2008, 11:50, More)
Well, I will dust this off for another airing, for it is apt
Where I work is full of learned academics, some of whome have more letters after their name than i've got in my first and last name together. They have scientific meetings where they discuss conservation and related scientific matters. Apparently, one of the fellows is a bit worse for wear in the sanity department, but tolerated on account of being harmless and the money he gives. He once famously stood up at a scientific meeting and announced his friend was breeding a pheonix.
Priceless
Update: They actually revoked his status as a fellow not so long ago, I wonder why ;)
(Fri 31st Oct 2008, 11:50, More)
» Pathological Liars
I just read this on another website, make your own mind up:
A friend of a friend's parents, brother ... maybe sister (I wasn't paying much attention at this part of the story ) ... well, it's kinda irrelevant really. A guy and girl living together in their own house a few weeks ago had to take their pet snake to the vet. Now my friend knows this, because he use to go to the house a lot. The snake was treated more like a dog, I guess, than a snake. It would slither around the house by itself and curl up on the bed at night. It was friendly and this guy never minded the snake even though this is a really big snake. The couple had it for over a year and never had problems.
Anyway, back to the story. The guy and girl took the snake to the vet because it hadn't been eating for quiet a while and they were getting worried. The vet checked out the snake, ran some test and found nothing wrong - so in the end he just told them to bring it back if it hadn't started eating within a week.
The week goes by and the pair are back with the snake still not eating. Again, the vet runs his tests with no clear answer. So he asks them if there's been anything different, if anything had changed? The guy responds with nothing had changed except it had stopped eating.
The lady said the same, then added that a while ago she'd woken up during the night and noticed that the snake was lying perfectly straight, parallel with the bed and in between herself and the guy.
The vet looked at them with a stark face and simply said, We've got to put down your snake.
What? They replied obviously shocked.
We've got to put the snake down.
Why?
You don't want to know.
Why!?
Really, you don't want to know.
The bloke at that stage got a bit pissed off and raised his voice wanting to know why he wanted to kill his pet snake of over a year.
Finally the vet responds - because it was sizing you up. It was going to eat you.
(Thu 29th Nov 2007, 16:36, More)
I just read this on another website, make your own mind up:
A friend of a friend's parents, brother ... maybe sister (I wasn't paying much attention at this part of the story ) ... well, it's kinda irrelevant really. A guy and girl living together in their own house a few weeks ago had to take their pet snake to the vet. Now my friend knows this, because he use to go to the house a lot. The snake was treated more like a dog, I guess, than a snake. It would slither around the house by itself and curl up on the bed at night. It was friendly and this guy never minded the snake even though this is a really big snake. The couple had it for over a year and never had problems.
Anyway, back to the story. The guy and girl took the snake to the vet because it hadn't been eating for quiet a while and they were getting worried. The vet checked out the snake, ran some test and found nothing wrong - so in the end he just told them to bring it back if it hadn't started eating within a week.
The week goes by and the pair are back with the snake still not eating. Again, the vet runs his tests with no clear answer. So he asks them if there's been anything different, if anything had changed? The guy responds with nothing had changed except it had stopped eating.
The lady said the same, then added that a while ago she'd woken up during the night and noticed that the snake was lying perfectly straight, parallel with the bed and in between herself and the guy.
The vet looked at them with a stark face and simply said, We've got to put down your snake.
What? They replied obviously shocked.
We've got to put the snake down.
Why?
You don't want to know.
Why!?
Really, you don't want to know.
The bloke at that stage got a bit pissed off and raised his voice wanting to know why he wanted to kill his pet snake of over a year.
Finally the vet responds - because it was sizing you up. It was going to eat you.
(Thu 29th Nov 2007, 16:36, More)
» That's me on TV!
I just remembered this
As a nipper aged about ten, I was on a kid's TV show Magpie, expressing my view that zoo's are cruel because they imprison animals.
Somewhat ironic given I now work at one
(Thu 11th Jun 2009, 18:49, More)
I just remembered this
As a nipper aged about ten, I was on a kid's TV show Magpie, expressing my view that zoo's are cruel because they imprison animals.
Somewhat ironic given I now work at one
(Thu 11th Jun 2009, 18:49, More)