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Show off.

Is it her Birthday?
In that case Happy Birthday to you Babe.

Happy Birthday Ange, hope you get some nice things and have a good day.

As much as it pains me to respond to a Bucky-started thread, many happy returns Ange. I bet one more growth ring just adds to your cuteness.

Happy Birthday to our favourite Yorkie.

Since you made me a cake I shall return the favour...

Happy birthday, Mrs V xx

hAPPY bIRTHDAY aNGE.............

As much as it pains me to respond to a Bucky-started thread ..

Well dear you could have opened it before I did. Now of all people this bloody rice-eating subi has to open a b'day thread ..

*Buckaroo* wrote:As much as it pains me to respond to a Bucky-started thread ..

Well dear you could have opened it before I did. Now of all people this bloody rice-eating subi has to open a b'day thread ..

Don't most people eat rice?

Batfink Begins wrote:

*Buckaroo* wrote:As much as it pains me to respond to a Bucky-started thread ..

Well dear you could have opened it before I did. Now of all people this bloody rice-eating subi has to open a b'day thread ..

Don't most people eat rice?

Some people eat mice...Link!

Jebus. Another reason to feel lucky about not living there.

Some people also eat Bats and Dogs. [Remind me to stay away from Indonesia]

Link to a very Happy Christmas!


Eat a bat for lunch everyday! Link [And Guam as well]

Holy Neurons! Eating Bats Makes You Batty


Maybe you really are what you eat. This would solve the long-time mystery of why so many of Guam's Chamorro people - up to a third per village - suffered a devastating neurological disease. A new study suggests that they gorged on flying fox bats that in turn had feasted on neurotoxin-laden cycad seeds.

"Through the consumption of cycad-fed flying foxes, the Chamorro people may have unwittingly ingested large quantities of cycad neurotoxins," say Clark Monson of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Sandra Banack of California State University, Fullerton, and Paul Cox of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, in the June issue of Conservation Biology.

Guam's indigenous Chamorro people historically had a high incidence of a neurological disease with similarities to Lou Gehrig's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Called ALS-PDC (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-Parkinsonian dementia complex), the disease's symptoms range from muscle weakness and paralysis to dementia. The rate of ALS-PDC has been as much as 100 times higher in Guam's Chamorro people than in the continental U.S.

Monson and his colleagues hypothesized that the answer might be another thing unique to Guam's Chamorro people: they love to eat the local flying foxes. These bats, which have a three-foot wing span, are served at Chamorro weddings, village fiestas and religious events. The preparation is simple: wash and boil whole, and then eat the entire bat - wings, brains, fur and all.

Eating too many of these flying foxes could be dangerous because they like to eat cycad seeds, which contain a neurotoxin called BMAA (beta-methylamino L-alanine). The bats are probably neurotoxin-rich because studies have shown that when rats ingest BMAA, most (90%) of it stays in their bodies rather than being excreted.

Several lines of evidence support the link between eating these bats and contracting the neurological disease. Previous studies have shown that Chamorro populations outside of Guam do not have higher incidences of the disease, suggesting that it is caused by an environmental factor. In addition, the disease is three times more common in men than in women, and men like to eat the entire bat while women tend to eat only the breast meat. Finally, the incidence of the disease rose after people began hunting flying foxes for commercial trade and then dropped as the bat population fell.

Eating wildlife has threatened people's health in other cases. Thousands of people in Kyushu, Japan, who ate mercury-contaminated fish suffered neurological problems, birth defects or even death. And people living in the Faroe Islands eat whale meat and have high levels of mercury and PCBs.

Eating wild animals that have not been commercially traded for a long time may be particularly risky because they could have unknown health risks. "We urge caution in the consumption of recently commercialized wildlife species," say Monson and his colleagues.

Batfink Begins wrote:

*Buckaroo* wrote:As much as it pains me to respond to a Bucky-started thread ..

Well dear you could have opened it before I did. Now of all people this bloody rice-eating subi has to open a b'day thread ..

Don't most people eat rice?

Are you short and dark as well ?

*Buckaroo* wrote:
Are you short and dark as well ?

Nah, I'm big and pasty white.

However, I do eat rice. I eat wild rice, plain white, basmati, brown, vermicelli amongst others. I also eat rice composite snacks. I'm a f*cking all-rounder of rice.

Happy Birthday again Angela Muck, I've burped on your thread. Soz me lady.

Happy Birthday.

hey Ange, you must watch this song with volume turned to max. All hair on my body stands up when I listen to this. And faith in human spirit reaffirmed.

Good times not far away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpKRd2xQeq8

Batfink Begins wrote:

*Buckaroo* wrote:
Are you short and dark as well ?

Nah, I'm big and pasty white.

You do not satisfy club membership rules.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

And Vikas, a lot of Indians eat dogs as well. Don't know about bats though, so you should be safe.

Really? I didn't know that. Is it served in restaurants?

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Really? I didn't know that. Is it served in restaurants?

It may be. Delicacy of the Naga people.

JB wrote:Show off.

I thought she would like it .. keeping in mind her techno-pop tastes. I could be terribly wrong though .. often am.

p.s. your fairness, pliss forgive this subi if the opening post looks farked up. It's your birthday and I have no right to spoil it.
I will go and sit in a corner onlee.

*Buckaroo* wrote:

JB wrote:Show off.

I thought she would like it .. keeping in mind her techno-pop tastes. I could be terribly wrong though .. often am.

She told me she hates it and you've RUINED her birthday.

Buckaroo - what the feck are you talking about? Hush your mouth.