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rustred

Photographs welcome.

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rustred

why are they always in the places that have giraffes?

The habitat section is short, but it is asking the question the longer replies keep avoiding. Hot conditions exist in many places. The sightings stay concentrated in places where there is already an explanation for a giraffe being there.

If temperature is the explanation, why does the explanation need a separate list of permitted places?

cansleeve
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Temperature is not the only condition in a habitat. Food, water and other animals matter.

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rustred
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Then the descriptions should stop beginning and ending with the temperature.

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brickwork
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When there is one somewhere else it is described as an escape. That puts it back inside the zoo explanation even while it is outside the zoo.

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metricsea
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No report and no animal are not the same observation. But I agree that a map of reported sightings would be more useful than repeating “Africa”.

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windowseat
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And put ticketed places on that map differently. It is still a claim about where somebody was allowed to look.

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kestrel
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Are we counting places without them, or places nobody here has checked? Those are not the same list.

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In Flat Giraffers · where are the group admins?

rustred
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There are new replies every day. I thought one of them was still around.

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In Side Quests · why this corner though

rustred
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I'd sit at the other end.

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In Big Zoo · why does the zoo argument end with giraffes?

rustred
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The last word is doing a lot of work precisely because nobody wants it in the accounts. They will discuss the cost of the giraffe. They will discuss the value of the giraffe. The giraffe itself is the one settled item.

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In Flat Giraffers · why is the animal allowed to outlive its explanation?

rustred
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A recognizable shape is not the whole complaint. It is a shape which seems to arrive already demonstrating the lesson. The branch is nearly always where the neck needs it to be.

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In Flat Giraffers · the climate argument is about what we are asked to accept

rustred
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Replying to brickwork

The usual reply is a greener photograph. It still has the same giant animal in the middle doing the work of convincing you that the place can support it.

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In Paper Trails · same exhibition. three weeks apart

rustred
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The men in the first photograph have their hands right inside it.

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In Paper Trails · the pattern deserves its own argument

rustred
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Someone had to match the spots across that shoulder. I'd like to see it after they finished.

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In Flat Giraffers · before the battery is a very specific cutoff

rustred
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Replying to nailbrush

The section says battery, not photography. That difference is exactly why the cutoff interests me.

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In Big Zoo · how is the giraffe supposed to change an election?

rustred
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The second part. A distraction does not have to make you like the people arranging it. It can make you dislike them enough to spend the day doing something else.

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In Flat Giraffers · Same patch, different decade

rustred
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Replying to flatlander

Then what would count as a different animal to you?

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In Flat Giraffers · the centre of gravity is the part nobody answers

rustred
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People answer this with pictures of horses as though a horse has the same amount of neck above it.

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In Big Zoo · why are they always in the places that have giraffes?

rustred
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Replying to cansleeve

Then the descriptions should stop beginning and ending with the temperature.

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In Big Zoo · that’s my mum talking. she wasn’t there that day.

rustred
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The picture is from inside the enclosure. Look where you are standing

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In Big Zoo · the park shut in 1998. this was filmed last week.

rustred
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It moves right at the end. I thought the whole thing was a still

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In Flat Giraffers · he was seventeen when i was in primary school

rustred
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Replying to marl

Then why print it under age

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In Big Zoo · they were writing down conversations at the gardens

rustred
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Replying to nailbrush

Maybe. I still want to know who added the names of people who weren't at the gardens.

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In Big Zoo · they were writing down conversations at the gardens

rustred
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Replying to mothproof

That doesn't make adding the names any better

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In Big Zoo · they were writing down conversations at the gardens

rustred
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They put other names on the list. Even their own recording wouldn't account for that

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