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Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up

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On 2025-12-11 03:21, c186282 wrote:
> On 12/10/25 07:10, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-12-10 12:14, c186282 wrote:

...

>> And can bring illness.
>>
>> I noticed one in my kitchen years ago. I closed the door to the rest 
>> of the house, and put poison bait on both sides of the door. Kept the 
>> patio door open for some hours, hoping she would get out. Apparently 
>> she did.
>>
>> But now and then I get a rat in the patio, and I put bait again. One 
>> bit is enough, they just take up to two weeks to die. This is on 
>> purpose, so that they don't relate the bait to their friends dying. 
>> Clever animals.
>>
>> One rat got trapped inside a shed I have in the patio, that has the 
>> laundry machine inside. She almost made a hole in the door frame to 
>> get out. I put poison, then two weeks later flushed the floor with a 
>> hose. I did not want smells in the room where I hang the clothes to 
>> dry (I can no longer hang them out on the sun, danger of air 
>> bombardment in the form of bird/pigeon poo).
> 
>    It's amazing how well something with a peanut brain
>    can outwit we wise mighty humans  :-)
> 
>    A few birds are even smarter than rats. Fortunately
>    they don't hide in crevices behind cupboards or
>    chew electrical wires.

Pigeons poo. They poo a lot. The damn things do not have sphincters, so 
they poo with the effort of taking off. Right on my door steps. They 
also poo on top of my car, in the middle of the glass.

They poo in my patio, anywhere. I can no longer hang my clothes to dry, 
I have to dry them out inside which costs money.

> 
>    Anyway, the lesson is that we shouldn't be TOO proud.
>    Hundreds of times more brain and, at least survival-wise,
>    we're barely ahead of many other little creatures. That's
>    a poor return on neural investment !
> 
...>>> Fortunately the house was 'underwater' and I had
>>> no intention of paying off the ridiculous mortgage.
>>> Was just 'caretaking' until the bank took it :-)
>>
>> I had to ask ChatGPT about the meaning of being underwater :-)
>> Curious expression.
> 
>    It became quite common in USA, maybe ten years ago.
> 
>    Basically means you owe more than the property is worth.

Yeah. Terrible situation. Probably happened to many people here with the 
house building bubble a decade ago, when it burst.
>    Do now hear it applied to somewhat similar situations,
>    like running up so much CC debt that you'll NEVER be
>    able to pay it down. Even heard it applied to "relationships",
>    as in losing so much cred with a sig other that the
>    relationship is doomed, now in a flaming death spiral.
> 
>>> On the 'survival scale', rats ARE much better
>>> than humans.
> 
>    We keep wanting to make AI people ... as if we don't
>    have enough already. For posterity, maybe we should
>    work on some AI stainless-steel RATS instead, a
>    little easier, COULD survive nuke wars or meteors
>    or whatever  :-)
> 
Heh.
-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-10 06:14 -0500
  Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:10 +0100
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-10 21:21 -0500
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