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My Adopted Cat Is The Best Climbing Partner Ever
Most pet cats will become timid or defensive when outdoors, but not Millie – after being adopted by her mountain-climbing owner Craig Armstrong, Millie has become a feline hiking and mountain-climbing legend.
“She literally loves to climb things… if there’s high-ground she’ll seek it out,” Armstrong said in an interview with Bored Panda. He had nothing but praise for the tenacious little athlete: “Generally she does best on slabby routes where she can scramble from ledge to ledge. She’s an incredible athlete but steep juggy routes just aren’t her thing. When bouldering, though, she’s done some pretty amazing gaps and dynos.”
“I go on a lot of weekend climbing adventures. It never seemed odd to me, just seemed like something I’d do with my pet, take her places,” explained Armstrong. Ever since Millie climbed up onto his shoulder at the Furburbia adoption center in Utah, Armstrong knew they’d make a good team.
There are, of course, pros and cons to taking your cat hiking – “We camp in my truck; She peed in there one night, but she caught a mouse in there one night, too.” Armstrong hopes that they can become a team in other aspects of his life as well; “I’m still waiting for the day we come across a group of pretty ladies and they love Millie and invite us to their campfire that night.“
He also had plenty of advice for owners who might consider hiking with their own cats. “Get them used to their name and to you as a safe place. In talus fields or thick woods she’ll get distracted and climb trees or explore tiny caves and under boulders and stop following sometimes. It’s taken a lot of practice and many trips to get Millie to the point where she follows me down a trail past areas like thickets that would have distracted her otherwise.”
Via Bored Panda
SO AWESOME.
If all the world’s dogs were to vanish, how would the world change?
recently watched the film If Cats Disappeared from the World and I have very many feelings ;-;
Haru: i’m cold
Makoto: Ahh! Here, Haru, have my jacket!
Nagisa: Rei-chan, I’m cold too!
Rei: nagISA-KUN HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU IT’S DANGEROUS TO BE OUT IN THESE TEMPERATURES WITHOUT PROPER ATTIRE HERE IVE CALCULATED THE EXACT NUMBER OF LAYERS YOU NEED TO STAY WARM AND STILL BE BEAUTIFUL THE THEORY’S PERFECT I BASED IT ON THE TEMPERATURE OF-
Nagisa, tearing up: Rei-chan I love you
20 Dialogue Prompts Part 2
Here is a list of twenty dialogue prompts! Thank you everyone for contributing!
- “You know, until you pointed it out, I never really noticed that horn on your head.”
- “Honey, this relationship isn’t going to work out if you keep getting charged for murder”
- “I don’t know what your teacher told you, but milk isn’t real.”
- “Uh, Mr Reaper sir? Do you still do the game for your life thing?” “That depends on the game. I am tired of chess.” “What about golf?”
- “You have angered our feline overlords! Now you must endure the litter tray of doo-doom!”
there’s some lava bending going on there….
so she separated the ground down to the mantle layer (magma chamber)?
then floated that chunk on lava then air bended it over?This is often cited as the single most powerful feat in bending in the entire franchise, and I’m inclined to agree. Kyoshi Island also manages to wind up quite a distance from the mainland–let’s assume it’s still on the continental shelf, otherwise MY GOD–and is large enough to sustain a reasonably-sized village with agriculture. Unless there’s an earthbending equivalent of the great comet going on, this is nuts.
Avatar Kyoshi also lived to 230 years old.
All of this begs the question to me–what the hell was up with her? Did she get a spirit-world power boost or something? These things are all very much outside the norm, even in a world of such extraordinary people.
What’s everybody’s theory on this?
She was just that strong
My thought has always been that Kyoshi was one of the few Avatars that was completely at peace with who and what she was. Every other Avatar we’ve seen – even the best of them like Aang and Korra – are conflicted over what they have to do and how they do it. Guilt and self-loathing over their responsibilities and actions, regret over what they could have done better.
Kyoshi, however, never doubted herself. Even without being arrogant, she always saw that what she did had to be done. She took what were the only options. You see this even in the advice she gives to subsequent Avatars: Be decisive. Be final. Commit.
Because of that, she was one of the few (Maybe only) Avatars who was able to completely encompass the powers available to them. No part of her subconsciously didn’t want to use them. There was no hesitancy buried so deep that she even didn’t realize it, Unlike Aang, or Roku, or Koruk, or Korra, or Yangchen, or even Wan, she was able to give herself over totally to whatever she was doing and hold nothing back.
That’s why she was able to accomplish feats of bending and skill that no other Avatar could equal: Because she, alone of all the Avatars, had she SHEER CHUTZPHA to do it.
other avatars ask “can i do it?”
kyoshi says “of course i can.”
Believe in yourself like Avatar Kyoshi believed in herself. Encompass the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi. I am a bad-ass and I WILL JUST DO IT
Controversy of “excité(e)”
26/7/2018
I’m sure that if you have studied French at all in the past, your French prof has inevitably said “you can’t say ‘excité(e)’ because it means ‘aroused/horny.’”
While this used to be the case, the word is actually changing to mean “excited” because of the English influence over the language (however sad that might be). With that being said, it can still mean “aroused” depending on how you use it so you should always be clear with the meaning.
This situation really shows why it’s important to keep up with shifts in language and why it’s important to visit a country where your target language is spoken every so often. Language is an ever-changing phenomenon and while we like to think of it as stagnant, it’s quite the opposite.
As for this case, I’m sure your French prof still prefers that you use “j’ai hâte de…” instead of “excité(e)” but just know that in everyday conversation, you can use “excité(e)” if you want.
Huh from a French native speaker POV (mine, which is an individual POV) “excité-e” in everyday conversations is just not used a lot and sounds strange. Also, as I’ve just checked with another French native speaker, it sounds forced.
The only “every day” setting of the verb “exciter” we could find was a pejorative one. Like “il s’excite tout seul” (meaning: “He’s getting worked up on his own over nothing”) or “Oh c’est bon t’excite pas!” (meaning: “You’re getting on my nerves because you’re getting angry over nothing”).
“J’ai trop hâte de” to express “I’m excited to” is much better. Or “j’en peux plus d’attendre”, “j’ai trop envie qu’on soit à [event you’re excited for]”.
If you are in a formal setting, NEVER use “excité-e” (for example, to your boss/a recruiter, it would sound so bad) but use “J’ai hâte de” (and don’t use the other examples above, of course).
There is no notable English influence on this tbh?? Most French people don’t know much about English except from the obvious and the teasing about “marketing vocabulary”… The English influence is a known phenomenom, but I don’t think it affected this word?
If you must use “excité-e” for whatever reason, don’t say “Je suis excité-e de [verb]”. “Je suis trop content-e de [verb]” seems more lively and less stilted.
“Je suis excité-e à l’idée de” is already a bit better, but then again it doesn’t sound very natural.
Tl;dr: “Excité-e” still very much means “aroused” in French and in my native French speaker opinion sounds fake in informal conversations. You can use “J’ai trop hâte de [verb]” or “J’en peux plus d’attendre” instead. In formal conversations, you can use “j’ai hâte de [verb]”.
Plume de Lynx 