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My wife was hired as a teenager to "babysit" a dog that the owners treated like a human baby. They put it in a carriage to push it around, and they put diapers on it. It seems to be a trend that has mushroomed as time has gone on. Pets are becoming pseudo children and society has gone from tolerating it to encouraging it.

It might be more prevalent, but it's not new. I remember my father telling me about a time when he still lived with his parents, and a couple who lived nearby were moving to town and couldn't take their dog.

My grandfather liked dogs, so he said he'd take it. My father went with him to get the dog, and the people were telling him about how the dog would only eat things like steak. My grandfather just said okay. Dad said the dog was put out in the yard with the other dogs, and fed table scraps. He said the dog ignored it for a day or two, but then he wasn't so particular.
 
I stopped at PetSmart today to get dog food, since it's right by the drugstore I needed to go to. While I was waiting to check out I noticed a display of dog pajamas.

It is now official. I have seen it all.
My ex wife had a Shih tzu that she groomed herself. She clipped him so close that she put him in some dogy pajamas. The poor dog moped around like he was sick; she almost took him to the vet. My mother thought he was embarrassed, they took off those pajamas and he was back to his happy go lucky self.
 
My ex wife had a Shih tzu that she groomed herself. She clipped him so close that she put him in some dogy pajamas. The poor dog moped around like he was sick; she almost took him to the vet. My mother thought he was embarrassed, they took off those pajamas and he was back to his happy go lucky self.

It seems like dogs can be embarrassed, or ashamed. I've seen it before (but I'm still not treating them like they were human).
 
My ex wife had a Shih tzu that she groomed herself. She clipped him so close that she put him in some dogy pajamas. The poor dog moped around like he was sick; she almost took him to the vet. My mother thought he was embarrassed, they took off those pajamas and he was back to his happy go lucky self.
Friend of a friend has a dog, Friend got him some pyjamas, he loves them.. I have no pic of the dog in the pyjamas 1736652890679.png
 
If the earth revolves, why is Jupiter (according to Google sky map) always in the same spot. I see it for months on end always in the same spot. I see others line up during other times of the year but without fail, brightest "star" in the sky, always in the same spot.

I noticed this because one can plainly see that everything moves in the sky during the hour or so before dark while I sit at the greenhouse when locking up the fowl each night. See it in the southern sky day after day. Doesn't even matter what season, always in the same spot. Why?
 
Jupiter does move, East to West relative to us, but because it is so far from the Earth, it seems to stay in the same place thru the night and if you could see it in daytime, it barely "appears" to move all the time.
 
"Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life."

"We are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race."

"In the course of ages, we shall find ourselves the inferior race."

"This at once proves that the mischief is already done, that our servitude has commenced in good earnest, that we have raised a race of beings whom it is beyond our power to destroy."


Samuel Butler. 1863
 
"Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life."

"We are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race."

"In the course of ages, we shall find ourselves the inferior race."

"This at once proves that the mischief is already done, that our servitude has commenced in good earnest, that we have raised a race of beings whom it is beyond our power to destroy."


Samuel Butler. 1863
If ever there should have been a title of 'Unfortunate Truth', this should have been it.
Good thing to bring it to the forefront, Greybeard. Thank you.

Now I'm thinking about that word. Forefront.
Ain't that a double dip on an observation or expectation?
I understand a lot of "fore's", but unable to reconcile this one.
Is it the first before the first? Or the first before the most important first, or most satisfying first? Something different?
 
Not bad for cold weather. We were at 16 degrees this morning. Expecting 10 degrees with sub-zero wind chills by next morning.
I know. Canadian friends are laughing. It's okay. We'll send them some hot/humid this coming summer. I want to see Silver sweat without his toboggan.
 
If ever there should have been a title of 'Unfortunate Truth', this should have been it.
Good thing to bring it to the forefront, Greybeard. Thank you.

Now I'm thinking about that word. Forefront.
Ain't that a double dip on an observation or expectation?
I understand a lot of "fore's", but unable to reconcile this one.
Is it the first before the first? Or the first before the most important first, or most satisfying first? Something different?
It's the difference between sitting on the very front row or the 14th row back in a 100 row of tables in a strip joint.
 

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