Oh my gosh, it’s like something you see in a movie it’s so stupid. I don’t think anyone could make up that kind of story. No one‘s imagination is that insane.
There is very little in nature more spectacular or beautiful than the stunning display of aerobatics given by bats around dusk and particularly when the insects they prey on are just skimming the surface of the water.
If this is a true story, it’s from the theatre of the absurd. We’ve had several bats in our rural home, but fortunately, or unfortunately for them, we’re tennis players. That’s all you need to chase bats outdoors again—a tennis racket! (Success every time, even with a cathedral ceiling in our bedroom.)
When I visited Austin, I went to go see bats ON PURPOSE. And I visited Thailand, there were bats outside of the window in the dorm I was staying in and I loved looking at them. There was netting between the window and where the bats were so I was completely safe even with the window open. I had an actual bat in my house that was stuck between my air conditioner unit and the windowsill and it took my husband like a day to get it out and we just thought it was funny. I did tell him to wear gloves mask, but that was it. We didn’t call anyone, we didn’t get any shots, I love bats—they are so cute— and I’m a nurse. This lady is nuts.
I see bats every night. They are serving their purpose. Eating those pesky mosquitos. Makes me wonder what the lady and her husband do when they are bit by a mosquito?
Risk from mosquito is greater than risk from a bat. She should have been happy the bat flew away to eat bugs. I really do hate neurotics setting policy for the rest of us.
Thankfully I am too cheap to have ever afforded a paper who denied what was happening in Germany years ago. Your line, “We are a part of nature, inseparable, and this extreme estrangement from nature is the source of so much misery.” Is wise but I preferred this one: “Lady, THE BAT DID NOT TOUCH YOU AND FLEW AWAY.” Your appreciation of reality as opposed to incessant self love is refreshing.
I was raised on the NYT and have not read it since the mid 2000s. That’s when I finally shed the last of my northeast narcissism/coastal elitism/coastal ignorance arrogance. It took about 30+ years of living in Ohio to shake it all off. And I was a professional in academia and healthcare. Looking back it’s an embarrassment that it took so long. The whole “we’re smarter than everyone else “ keeps people trapped.
I see no solution for the USA, except a cordial separation into 2 or 3 nations, with 1 of them being reserved for psycho-woketard lefties. All such psychos would be sent to prosper (or not) in that place set aside for them. But a large sector of every Western nations has a substantial sector of its population living with this strange disorder. Another tenet of this disorder is Russophobia, despite all the evidence that the RF is part of the rational, reasoning, calm, non-atheist (non-pedophilic) normal world. The West is dying b/c the number of people with disorders like this are not healing, they're metastasizing as a social cognitive disease.
The NY Times piece is ridiculous beyond belief. The real knob in the whole affair though is the husband. Jeez mate! Grow a pair! Bad things happen when mentally unstable women panic and weak men go along with it meekly.
List of scary things to avoid at all costs, accept injections to prevent, accept 15-minute cities to prevent , start wars against, or shout down: Bad orange man, rabies, covid, monkeypox, bird flu, transphobia, climate change, any desire to control the border, lack of joy from presidential candidates, "weird" vice presidential candidates, Vladimir Putin. And of course, make sure anyone that promotes or minimizes these scary things is censored.
I know, I know...it's like Saville and the BBC - but I still shudder at the demise of debate in our own Guardian too.
Now if ever a title was a misnomer there you have it. 'Guardian' now only of the bat-shit lunacy you describe. Guilt, shame, nostalgia ....but I wouldn't subject the budgie to it being a cage-liner now.
Unbelievable, and so contrived. Definitely, fluoride in the water. Hurt my brain to read it.
It’s a fucking Beckett play!
Oh my gosh, it’s like something you see in a movie it’s so stupid. I don’t think anyone could make up that kind of story. No one‘s imagination is that insane.
There is very little in nature more spectacular or beautiful than the stunning display of aerobatics given by bats around dusk and particularly when the insects they prey on are just skimming the surface of the water.
Maybe the bat needs a shot after seeing insane human
If this is a true story, it’s from the theatre of the absurd. We’ve had several bats in our rural home, but fortunately, or unfortunately for them, we’re tennis players. That’s all you need to chase bats outdoors again—a tennis racket! (Success every time, even with a cathedral ceiling in our bedroom.)
When I visited Austin, I went to go see bats ON PURPOSE. And I visited Thailand, there were bats outside of the window in the dorm I was staying in and I loved looking at them. There was netting between the window and where the bats were so I was completely safe even with the window open. I had an actual bat in my house that was stuck between my air conditioner unit and the windowsill and it took my husband like a day to get it out and we just thought it was funny. I did tell him to wear gloves mask, but that was it. We didn’t call anyone, we didn’t get any shots, I love bats—they are so cute— and I’m a nurse. This lady is nuts.
I see bats every night. They are serving their purpose. Eating those pesky mosquitos. Makes me wonder what the lady and her husband do when they are bit by a mosquito?
Risk from mosquito is greater than risk from a bat. She should have been happy the bat flew away to eat bugs. I really do hate neurotics setting policy for the rest of us.
Thankfully I am too cheap to have ever afforded a paper who denied what was happening in Germany years ago. Your line, “We are a part of nature, inseparable, and this extreme estrangement from nature is the source of so much misery.” Is wise but I preferred this one: “Lady, THE BAT DID NOT TOUCH YOU AND FLEW AWAY.” Your appreciation of reality as opposed to incessant self love is refreshing.
I was raised on the NYT and have not read it since the mid 2000s. That’s when I finally shed the last of my northeast narcissism/coastal elitism/coastal ignorance arrogance. It took about 30+ years of living in Ohio to shake it all off. And I was a professional in academia and healthcare. Looking back it’s an embarrassment that it took so long. The whole “we’re smarter than everyone else “ keeps people trapped.
I see no solution for the USA, except a cordial separation into 2 or 3 nations, with 1 of them being reserved for psycho-woketard lefties. All such psychos would be sent to prosper (or not) in that place set aside for them. But a large sector of every Western nations has a substantial sector of its population living with this strange disorder. Another tenet of this disorder is Russophobia, despite all the evidence that the RF is part of the rational, reasoning, calm, non-atheist (non-pedophilic) normal world. The West is dying b/c the number of people with disorders like this are not healing, they're metastasizing as a social cognitive disease.
The NY Times piece is ridiculous beyond belief. The real knob in the whole affair though is the husband. Jeez mate! Grow a pair! Bad things happen when mentally unstable women panic and weak men go along with it meekly.
Fear is the mind killer.
Tragic.
List of scary things to avoid at all costs, accept injections to prevent, accept 15-minute cities to prevent , start wars against, or shout down: Bad orange man, rabies, covid, monkeypox, bird flu, transphobia, climate change, any desire to control the border, lack of joy from presidential candidates, "weird" vice presidential candidates, Vladimir Putin. And of course, make sure anyone that promotes or minimizes these scary things is censored.
I know, I know...it's like Saville and the BBC - but I still shudder at the demise of debate in our own Guardian too.
Now if ever a title was a misnomer there you have it. 'Guardian' now only of the bat-shit lunacy you describe. Guilt, shame, nostalgia ....but I wouldn't subject the budgie to it being a cage-liner now.
Guardian was ever thus. Banned from my house for 30+ years along with my sister who insisted on reading it.
It sounds like fiction, and more likely a propaganda piece. I doubt this happened.
Surely