"As you can see, they killed waaaaaaay more lemmings than they could possibly eat and basically decided to build houses out of them."
That's from 2014. I was just googling "lemmings" today. Don't ask me why.
October 31, 2019
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I can picture an grizzled old owl saying to a lemming, like Walt Kowalski in GRAN TORINO, "We used to stack @#$%s like you five feet high. Use you as nests. Now, get off my forest."
Last summer, when the photo was taken, the Canadian Arctic lemming population reached record levels and carpeted the tundra with rodents.
Faced with a superabundance of prey, snowy owls went completely bonkers.
Now I'm picturing a vast tundra landscape that's been completely coated with a blanket of lemmings. And also frantic snowy owls desperately and futilely building all sorts of structures out of lemmings in hopes of not being overrun and literally buried in lemmings.
Don't ask me why.
Need a lemmings tag?
That's from 2014. I was just googling "lemmings" today. Don't ask me why.
Someone called you a lemming because you voted for Hillary?
"Pile those Persians high."
I was just googling "lemmings" today. Don't ask me why.
Wouldn't have anything to do with your post at 6:39 AM, would it?
When life gives you lemmings....
You just wrote earlier about the Democrats on the precipice. They’ll go over the cliff just like lemmings.
Better than googling owls. At least lemmings are mammals. Mammals don't do stuff like that.
AA: "I was just googling "lemmings" today. Don't ask me why."
OK then I will guess: Because it's cold and you misspelled leggings?
The Owlets are snackin'!
Apparently tribbles are space lemmings.
I just assumed the lemmings were Democrats voting on pre-impeachment rules.
Now I'm picturing a vast tundra landscape that's been completely coated with a blanket of lemmings.
I recall a winter around Fairbanks that was at the peak of the hare cycle. The hares lined up along the roads and committed mass suicide. Paved in white fur the roads were, and when the little suckers weren't waiting in line to die they were chewing through coax cables.
Is this a metaphor for the latest House vote?
the definition via the Urban dictionary:
A member of a crowd with no originality or voice of his own. One who speaks or repeats only what he has been told. A tool. A cretin.
"Ya think he'll do it?"
"He's a lemming, he'll do anything he's told."
FWIW, that was my first thought of the word.
She said, 'don't ask'. We live in a world where people can't follow simple instructions, tsk.
Dead lemmings huh? Metaphorically I'm sure.
Yes, Big Mike.
The one with the precipice.
Thought I could get an illustration.
He didn’t ask. He told.
There's something extraordinarily cute about fat owlets.
Gahrie: no, someone called Ann a lemming because she voted for McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Obama, and the other Clinton. A cruelly neutral record (for Madison).
As you can see, they killed waaaaaaay more lemmings than they could possibly eat and basically decided to build houses out of them.
Excuuuuuse me! I very much doubt that's up to code.
Talk about bringin' down yer property values!
Somehow, this fits into the whole Democrat lemmings going off an impeachment cliff story. Although I suspect that even though the snowy owls will eat decaying lemmings, they'd turn up their nose at Shifty Schiff, Nadler, et. al. Some things are just too repulsive.
It’s incredibly offensive because it is a caricature of a French person, meaning it exaggerates the French form to reinforce racist perceptions.
Oh the horror, the incredible horror.
I imagine that having a furry home is very cozy during the cold weather, but once the weather warms up, it's going to get smelly in there.
The owls can be forgiven for not anticipating this outcome.
The lemmings voted today. They chose to become nesting material, rather than think.
Are snowy owls orange, becuase their methods remind of someone.
Drats...the moderation time lag makes commenting moot.
Thanks for all the fish Althouse.
I immediately thought of the Throne in Game of Thrones.
It's a cookbooook!
Maybe the lemmings had just finished watching the film "300".
There was certainly a lot of body-stacking going on there.
"Don't ask me why."
House Democrats. Duh.
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Gahrie: no, someone called Ann a lemming because she voted for McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Obama, and the other Clinton. A cruelly neutral record (for Madison).
Why did you leave Romney and bush off that list? They were both on the same team as everyone on that last and you know she voted for them.
They are just as much traitors as the Democrats and we were no less fools for supporting them.
In Italy they would make lemmingcello out of them.
Don't ask me why.
Could it have something to do with this:
They've walked out to the precipice and they don't see a reason to turn back. Turn back because you are on the precipice! No, the precipice is why they must do it.
Naturalists used to believe lemmings coped with their population explosions by mass suicide. They don't.
That doesn't apply to Democrats and their Clinton addiction, however. Mass political suicide is their only solution.
There is an Osprey nest by Lake Washington. I have the privilege of watching the Osprey family from April through September. They migrate south in the middle of September.
It's really impressive to watch the Osprey bombard, break old branches still hanging off the tree, and add them to the nest. It's a YUGE display of raptor vitality.
Naturalists used to believe lemmings coped with their population explosions by mass suicide. They don't
For a change, Snopes gets something right. The legend of the lemmings jumping off cliffs to their doom, supposedly documented in the Disney documentary "White Wilderness," is false. Here's the money quote:
"None of what was shown in the film was realistic lemming behavior, however. Disney’s White Wilderness was filmed the Canadian province of Alberta, which is not a native habitat for lemmings and is landlocked with no outlet to the sea. The filmmakers had to import lemmings to Alberta for use in the documentary (reportedly by purchasing them from Inuit children who had caught them in other provinces); through the use of carefully controlled camera angles and tight editing, the filmmakers made no more than a few dozen lemmings look like a much larger number, placing them on turntables to create a frenzied migration effect and then herding them off a cliff and into the water (which was actually the Bow River, not an Arctic sea)."
So the filmmakers basically herded the little critters off a cliff that they wouldn't normally have jumped off.
The closest I can think of is some anthropologists who wanted to confirm some legends about Eskimo, Inuit--dunno the preferred nomenclature--freezing their shit and using it as knives. The scientists froze their shit and tried to cut stuff and it didn't work out. It's similar in that it's using a frozen thing in a creatively spontaneous way, and kinda gross. But it still takes a bird to build a home out of frozen dead creatures.
"daskol said...
Better than googling owls. At least lemmings are mammals. Mammals don't do stuff like that."
Weasels in a chicken house - at least the owls make use of their kills.
A strange fact I read in a Time-Life book about arctic wildlife is that lemmings compete with reindeer for the same foodstuffs, so it's common for reindeer to stomp lemmings, then consume the grassy contents of the lemmings viscera.
Sort of like how we get our fill of greens, nicely processed by the deer.
Naturalists used to believe lemmings coped with their population explosions by mass suicide.
In keeping with their tendency to goofy ideas, that goofy idea was mostly promoted by psychiatrists and their ilk: The Suicidal Animal: Science and the Nature of Self-Destruction
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