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 Nooooo

We find it easier and safer to associate with pets, while I know people around here, also know lots of cats and dogs, they come running because I scratch them behind their ears, Ratbag wont eat until he has had 10-minutes of stroking first.

Two little dogs up the road used to rush down to tell me whenever the kids living there left the gate open, I would follow them back, they go back inside the gate, I pull it shut, they stick their heads back thru the bars, and I would stroke them, luckily I got two hands, BUT sometimes a 3rd older dog was outside too.

 Depends on if they answer to names

 my voice, and tone of said voice, Cats and Dogs could not care less why I call them, as long as I call for them.

Ratbag has a position from which he can monitor a lot of front doors

I have always seen lemonie as being different.

Anyway, animals would sense from you body language that you were calling talking to them.

Seeing its important to make eye contact when you talk to a human, I suspect you automatically make eye contact with animals, and animals understand eye contact for sure.

Aspie find it hard to make eye contact with people they talk to, meaning we don't get to read facial expressions, which leads to poor communication skills, which explains our preference for communicating in text, but certainly we can make eye contact with animals okay.

 Humans crave for skin to skin contact with other humans, a lot of Aspies need the same but also find it offensive. Years ago, half my life away, I was a bit the same.

Dogs and cats go crazy over me, they crave for similar contact from humans, even talking to them, they don't understand a word, but the tone of voice, soothing tone, makes them comfortable, your body language is communication too, they can sense your mood, they soon know if they should not know you. 

Chris, your birds might have each other, but sometimes they would get tired of each other, and then you would have fresh conversation for them.

What I see your birds as saying, is that you are a interesting person, and they consider you very safe, you voice makes them feel relaxed.

Maybe you have a soft voice like me? Look at Goodhart's pets, your pets, any surprise that Aspies enjoy animals? (Dr Doolittle was a Aspie?)

I got so much gear in my home, I can not have a cat as its likely they will hurt themselves, but I know most dogs and cats in the area, and they know me. Even aggressive dogs don't stay aggressive long, I offer the back of my hand for them to sniff, because the other way is seen to be aggressive behavior by me, plus my fingers might tempt them.

Years ago there was an abandoned dog, I rang the SPCA but the Lady officer was not going near the dog she said as he was growing, she was going to toss biscuits at him, it took her a minute to get the biscuits from her van, when she returned, I had already made a new friend, the dog was wagging his tail, grinning sitting up. Yes he was very hungry, but he needed a friend to talk to first. (Ps, the SPCA homed him a street away from me, and therefore I still see him.)

 I eat anything that doesn't eat me first!

Worm? maggot?

Being Aspergers I can shoot George or Suzy without any compunction

Is incorrect, as most Aspies will find that VERY hard to do, so you are Aspie with some non Aspie traits The MK3 version :-)

Tim, is that a real word? Do you have a link to a on-line-spelling dictionary for Latin? is it a combination?


 What does "Depiug Naila mean in Latin?

 Tim, your spelling must be pretty good too?

 I think thats most Aspies trouble

 I got a lady friend, whom knows nothing about computers, and 3 days ago she sat in front of my public use PC to do a email, and she was a natural touch typist, she has never used any keyboard before. She is very Bipolar, she has no skills like us, yet there she was touch typing 

 I once watched a parrot (Lilly) go nuts eating away the perch she was sitting on, until the bar broke apart and she ended up on the floor.

Once she was walking from the lounge, across the passage and into the dining room, her usual hang out.

but lying on the floor, in the passage, blocking her path was Cass the Alsatian, (she found us after apparently having been abandoned)

Cass was not going to move, and Lilly was not going around the long way (out another door, and in via the kitchen) so she bit Cass.

Cass moved quickly looking very hurt because she could not understand why good friends like Lilly on her  would bit each other. (Lilly was smaller than Cass's head.

The cats would snuggle up to Cass, and they would all sleep, and Cass would do her best to empty the cat bowl, you could always tell, when she used her big tongue to polish the empty bowl.

Cass's hobby was chasing cats, she never hurt them, and she was fair about it, always giving them a head start. Once I saw Cass siting next to Pumpkin Face who was on a low wall, PF was not interested in games, Cass was sitting there with a big smile, trying to provoke PF into running, so I gave Cass a hug, while PF sneaked off. (slowly, not running)

 You mean the NZ Moa?

The Moa is extinct.

I got a news item somewhere saying that the female Moa very likely forced most of the males to leave, just keeping a few select specimens. But I wonder if the chosen few were happy, as the females were bigger and stronger.

 How long until they are extinct?

Could that be why there has never been a lady president running the USA?

Ladies, before reacting please note the strategically placed "?" in the previous line.

 Great, C can you read things in meeting room one? If not I will try and change settings on the other topics so you can access everything, links to the ten commandants etc

I try for meeting room one now, and I will let Tim know its fixed, Goodhart will arrive here shortly anyway so will Dr What

Chris, meeting with Sharon this morning great, she is from out of area, local advocate utterly useless. The big meeting is 2 hours away

 postponed, just in time

Quit! 

 can you not go on line at home?

I got Aaron's Mac and Ipod on wireless, plus 4 PCs wired into my router, which is limping but nobody is slowed, I go a bad line, nobody is moaning.

See if you can share a wireless network with a trusted neighbor

 get a second job then

You had not got rid of your first job yet, thus it is a second job

 And you think this forum IS  legal and nothing offensive?

 Does it not depend on the Female?

What about Predator Woods? Maybe he should have stuck on one wife plus pictures

 good answer, its not looks but personality that builds strong relationships

Predator Woods went for looks

 Our Work and Income NZ department pays out, unemployment, sickness, invalids benefits.

a few years ago when things were good, they reduced the size of their big office. I predicted that would be a mistake.

With the recession lots of people got unemployed, but as I predicted than thing things get bad, you can count on WINZ to be a growth industry.

their email addresses have 001 before the @, when they leave then return, it becomes a 002 then 003. Last recession there was one at 008

PS this aspie helps the benefit advocates by getting emails and direct dials, for one WINZ person, I put their email versions 001 to 009 into the Bc field, the one the does not bounce, is valid. For direct dials, they all use software numbers, so I work out the prefix for a location, and begin dialing in sequence (late at night) and listen to voice mails, and write down their names, to compile a phone listing. I even found the CEO at national office.

I get full Income Support, I never smoked in my life as that is a phobia, so I am $50 or so better off per week than smokers on the same Income Support of about $300 per week NZ.

tell me more about building a laptop, I do it with desk tops, but laptops? 

I meant, I did not know you could buy the parts separate, I though laptops were all proprietary.