Cute Knut the Polar Bear and Doctor Who & CSI Babbling (with spoilers)

[misscam]

The polar bear debate. All this over cute Knut, who proves once again baby animals are deadly with the awww-factor. (This picture always do it to me. AWWW WANT ON ICON. Football and the cute, what's not to love? AWWWW. HEHEHE. Okay, enough.) And if this can be used to raise some awareness on the rather dire straits of polar bears, I say that is a good thing. He's not always going to be little and cute, but polar bears are awesome animals. The world would be poorer without them. Therefore cute is an acceptable weapon for the greater good.

When I see a fic titled Dårlig Ulv, my heart weeps a little. BAD NORWEGIAN. BAD. It's all the show's fault for using it in the first place, of course. Someone probably used Babelfish when putting that in the script. For shame. ("Dårlig ulv" can either read as a wolf that tasted real bad, or a wolf that got sick. Both leave slightly amusing mental images, but not the one "Bad Wolf" is meant to convey, me thinks.)

... And this is still my biggest problem with "Doomsday". There might possibly be something wrong with me.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who fandom gears up for series three that starts in a little over a week. And the BBC website has updated with wallpapers that can be seen as vaguely spoilery. There is snogging! Okay, other sources reveal it's a "genetic transfer", but HOY SNOGGING. This is where I reveal myself as a very bad Doctor/Rose shipper, since I find this stuff rather hot and look forward to it. Also think I like Martha so far. And want snogging icon with "Genetic transfer. With tongues" on. And I am very pleased with self for being excited over Doctor Who again. HOTNESS! ALIENS! FUNNY! TARDIS! MARTHA'S LEATHER JACKET! CPR! SHINY! It might be a very good series indeed.

Fandom reacts some. Fandom reacts some more. A mod returns to react to reactions. Nothing too bad yet, but I think we'll get wank at one point or another. This shocks no one, I'm sure.

That reminds me next week is the CSI episode where Grissom comforts Sara with actual touching. HOY TOUCHING. Given how CSI fandom is CSI fandom, this is bound to cause wank. This shocks no one, I'm sure.

I'll try to keep all updated. And the wankshelter stocked with plenty of alcohol. HOY ALCOHOL.

Anyone wanna predict a Doctor Who or CSI wank? (Not just in vague ways, that's cheating.) If you get one right, I will give you honourary title of Wankic.

Comments

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

Animal rights activists want to kill a polar bear just because...why exactly? It's not like polar bears are domesticated, and it's not like the zoo had a choice--there was a baby polar bear that they, I suppose, could have just let starve to death. I wonder if the animal rights activists would have been cool with that, considering that's how it would have happened in "nature". "Nature" doesn't have lethal injections for when momma bear decides she doesn't want baby bear.

The article is right about non-domesticated animals--the insanely adorable polar bear will grow up to be as much a polar bear as a zoo environment allows. That's one of the dangers of dog/wolf crosses and in one case I know personally about, a dog/dingo cross. The dog/dingo was adopted from a shelter and was a great member of the family until one of the kids got mauled when they sneaked up on him and his dingo instincts kicked in. Kid got bit in the face, several stitches later, and the dog/dingo was put down. I imagine a fully wild animal wouldn't act much differently. Last I heard, bears don't imprint, so it's not the same danger that the efforts here to raise the extremely endangered California Condors face (all condor chicks are fed with puppets that look like condors so they don't imprint on a person, such things like that).

But then, I suppose a dead bear can get in touch with its inner bear much easier than a live bear that's been handled by humans...

*cough* Excuse the rant...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Bears don't imprint and bears don't do herds. We had a case here in Norway with a chimp who was raised by humans and then wouldn't fit into a chimp group after. He got some bad behavioral problems. But it was eventually solved and he's still at that zoo.

But that's not a concern with polar bears, at least.