People keep criticising me for not putting my personal thoughts up here more regularly. I thought I was; then I looked at the dates of personal posts and realised how much of my life I’m losing to a pretty-much unconscious existence, with intermittent periods of awareness. I wonder if everyone’s lives are like that? So…

They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning Aah, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Whatever happened to Flipper, Skippy, The Littlest Hobo, Lassie and the rest? Have animals stopped caring for mankind? Or has the caring animal simply become extinct?

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Australian platypus research has implications for understanding the evolution of human sex determination Good lord. Evidence for a higher will is finally found. Bow down beneath the randomly evolutionary platypus.

Fleeing villagers mistook disco lights for aliens