A tuatara. I don’t know what makes it unusual. The new twenty cent piece has a Maori statue, the older one a Kiwi, the fifty cent piece has the Endeavour, the one dollar piece a Kiwui, the two dollar piece a crane of some sort. I did my banking at Westpac.
I find it strange that someone who has 29 posts and just signed up should decide to repost some stuff from LJ, which someone anonymous have posted over there. You may very well be a long time lurker, but in my book, reposting stuff someone else dug up, things that you can’t search for and check if in fact that “research” adds up or not - well, to me, that doesn’t add up. Starting that post with “Is Ilsa_Lund banned yet?” does nothing for your credibility either.
Does anyone know if the feature “find all posts by [username]” in the drop down meny is available for guests?
{Gruffly} He’s clean, boys. As for tuataras, I would have accepted their “third eye”, or pineal gland, the fact that they’re not actually lizards but the only surviving Rhynchocephalia and thus “living fossils”, all the others having died out 100 million years ago, or the fact that they look really cool.
Now that that’s settled and tomndeb has spoken, let’s drop this bullshit: and Ilsa, don’t let these cowardly bastards get to you, mate - ignore them and they’ll crawl back under their rocks.
Also the only reptile in which the males lack a penis.
Although this is new since I lived in New Zealand, I suspect it’s a Great Egret.
It was going to be an egress, but she exited.
No, I don’t believe they can.
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This issue of lying about oneself also serves to justify the ban on editing one’s own posts, which someone asked about recently. If a liar was determined to change his or her own story, and was willing to do some work to make the change consistent, he or she could easily do it, if not for the self-editing ban. [end slight hijack.]
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In discussing Kaitlin, the pronoun “he or she” takes on entirely new meaning, dunnit? No longer a clumsy substitute for the non-grammatical “they,” it takes an almost poetic appropriateness. [end total non-sequitur].
Egrets, I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention … But more, much more than this, I did it my way.
It’s a kotuku, or White Heron.
Same species (Egretta alba) - it’s called Great Egret, or Great White Egret, elsewhere in its range. The species occurs throughout much of the world, but is quite rare in New Zealand. It was used as the emblem for the New Zealand Wildlife Service when I worked for them in the early 1980s. I always thought it was kind of odd that they used such a widespread species as their symbol, instead of one of the many species found only in NZ.
Well, Ilsa’s conclusively proven he knows more than me about herpetology and New Zealand coinage. Case closed.
If the subject was Paul Verhoeven films, on the other hand…
Of course, the best weay to deal with suspected liars is the honor system.
Well, that is how we have dealt with sock puppets until such time as they have made themselves too obvious or too obnoxious.
Ah. There you go, then. Mind you, a lot of the indigenous species either look generic or dumb: even kiwis are a pretty silly looking lot, when it comes down to it - you couldn’t really picture one holding an olive branch in one foot and a sheaf of arrows in another: it’d fall over, for a start.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here…are you saying that the determination as to whether or not someone is a sock is based on the assumption that the accused will speak truthfully about his origins? I was making light of the idea that someone could prove the veracity of their statements by providing answers to questions that can easily be found on google, as long as that person promises not to cheat.
I could say I live in Pakistan, and you can ask me all the numismatics questions you like about Pakistani currency, and with about 5 minutes I should be able to answer them all, and promise I didn’t google it. Doesn’t mean that I don’t live in Texas, or disprove the fact I’ve never left the U.S.A.
I promise, on my honor, that I am not a sock puppet.
Colibri, further research reveals that the kotuku were considered sacred by Maori because of their beauty and rarity, and were hence a accorded an exalted semi-mythical status: they weren’t to know that the things were widespread everywhere else.
Zero Gravitas, did you read tomndeb’s earlier post? To refresh your memory, you can “choose to drop the matter or to call attention to your posting with what will be deemed harassment in any future posts.” To paraphrase, shut up or be shut up.
Tom said sock puppets will expose themselves by their obviousness and obnoxiousness. The sock puppet telling the truth is not a requirement. As recent events have shown, one lying individual (and sock puppets are lying by definition) is not capable of outwitting the collective scrutiny of this board. As soon as a sock puppets calls attention to himself (by being obvious and obnoxious) he will quickly be exposed.
You made an ironic comment that we “the best way” to treat (suspected) liars was an honor system. I pointed out that sock puppets (which are also part of this discussion) are, indeed, treated on the honor system until they out themselves. We do not make users fill out exhaustive questionnaires of personal information which we dutifully check with references and detective work to determine whether they have lied. Nor do we monitor each poster’s IP addresses or electronic signatures to ensure that no one posts from the same device using multiple names. If a poster presents evidence that they may be a sock, we will then examine their IP, style, presentation, and some other things to determine whether they are, indeed, whom they claim to be, but until they make themselves obnoxious, we do tend to run on an honor system. (If we find that they are a sockpuppet, they are unceremoniously banned, but we do not spend our days seeking socks.)
Me neither. Usually you can find them right away if you look behind the washing.
That’s probably why you’re not getting laid.
If you did they would likely be more frayed of you.
Maybe if the shoe was on the other foot you’d think differently.
That’s because you haven’t walked a mile in my shoes.
Usually they put their foot in their mouth and reveal themselves.
Have you smelled your feet?
Then how do you spend your days? Breaking rocks? Fleecing flocks? Fixing clocks? Mending smocks? Curing pox? Smoking lox? In detox? Filling box?
Well you should, darn it.
Moderators should be kept barefoot and pregnant.
Ha!