The World's Most Pointless Animal

InFront · 31-07-2006 2:08am #1

Firstly, I didnt post this in the Animal forum because theyre all animal lovers and wouldnt attract the same diverse opinion as AH.
I know that God made everything for a reason and wants us to enjoy the earth, and I dont think any animal is worthless. But there are some whose purpose is at best - baffling.

Im talking about the panda of course. wtf!? It just sits there and breeds and eats. Does it even make a noise? This is one that has always puzzled me since childhood. It just doesnt do anything.

Im sure some others will come up with some pretty interesting suggestions. The sloth, the moth and the beetle are three that Im sure most people would struggle to understand.

Basq · 31-07-2006 2:10am

Yore Ma...

.... had to be done - better sooner than later!

Rhyme · 31-07-2006 2:11am

Platypus... natures joke.

Platypus

smashey · 31-07-2006 2:12am

InFront wrote:

Firstly, I didnt post this in the Animal forum because theyre all animal lovers and wouldnt attract the same diverse opinion as AH.
I know that God made everything for a reason and wants us to enjoy the earth, and I dont think any animal is worthless. But there are some whose purpose is at best - baffling.

Im talking about the panda of course. wtf!? It just sits there and breeds and eats. Does it even make a noise? This is one that has always puzzled me since childhood. It just doesnt do anything.

Im sure some others will come up with some pretty interesting suggestions. The sloth, the moth and the beetle are three that Im sure most people would struggle to understand.

Sounds like a good life to me. The same could apply to lions. All they do is sleep, eat, and in the dominant male's case, breed. The panda is lucky in that he doesn't have to hunt food.

wyndham · 31-07-2006 2:14am

The human.

slipss · 31-07-2006 2:15am

Panda beares aren't actually bears thier cats. I know that has nothing to do with anything, but I have this weird overwhelming urge to tell everyone I meet that if they mention pandas, I don't even know if its true, I thought I seen it on a nature program one time but I could have dreamt it. (dreamt is the only word in the english language that ends in mt).

Caryatnid · 31-07-2006 2:17am

InFront wrote:

Im talking about the panda of course. wtf!? It just sits there and breeds and eats. Does it even make a noise?

What's the point of humans......?
I know people who just sit there and breed and eat.
Sometimes it is preferable for certain people not to make noises.
My point: Not necessarily bad traits that the panda has.
Anyway. Surely the 'point' of animals is to survive and procreate. If you really talk about the 'point' of animals you're gonna start talking about nature and evolution and religion. Again, what's the point of humans?

Have I ruined the thread now?

Edit: Slipps/Wyndham/Smashey -> you guys are fast!

InFront · 31-07-2006 2:24am

basquille wrote:

Yore Ma...

Yore Nan

My point: Not necessarily bad traits that the panda has.
Anyway. Surely the 'point' of animals is to survive and procreate. If you really talk about the 'point' of animals you're gonna start talking about nature and evolution and religion. Again, what's the point of humans?

I just mean pointless in terms of the human perspective. Even if that is anthropomorphism, I would say any animal who seems to have no motivational interest and has his diet and his mate all there laid out for him, and does nothing, exciting, is a pretty pointless animal.

*Entertain meee*!

31-07-2006 2:25am

I think we should start here and exterminate panda100.Whave to cut the head off the beast.

InFront · 31-07-2006 2:28am

I forgot about panda100. Well we might as well start locally!

Ruu_Old · 31-07-2006 2:35am

Ah whats with the panda bashing, they are brilliant. They are natures version of the loveable dole boy.

slipss · 31-07-2006 2:37am

cats I tell ye. CATS!!!

Ruu_Old · 31-07-2006 2:39am

slipss wrote:

cats I tell ye. CATS!!!

Whoa, lets not say things we'll regret. Samurai Pizza Cats!

They own a pizza shop and fight crime.

slipss · 31-07-2006 2:52am

Ruu wrote:

Whoa, lets not say things we'll regret. Samurai Pizza Cats! They own a pizza shop and fight crime.

Wow creepy, whats the deal with those guys? I think I might remember them from somewhere, whats up?. Ahh crap, you do realise they'll be in my nightmares tonight. Hopefully they might replace the little cartoon cow that grows up to be a mince pie though.

Zillah · 31-07-2006 3:44am

Its not quite a bear...its not quite a zebra...its just, a panda...

peepsbates · 31-07-2006 3:59am

wasps are the worst, i bleedin hate em i mean bees are ok with there little furry pelts n all, but wasps make me freak out im scared s***less of them:eek:

2Tagz · 31-07-2006 4:09am

I would say that it depends on your perspective really, a sloth may seem pointless to a human but to a flea it's a godsend..

2Tagz · 31-07-2006 4:16am

Sorry, just noticed InFronts earlier post so would would have to say Suicide Bombers as most pointless animals. BTW anthropomorphism, I like it..

Black Swan · 31-07-2006 4:30am

InFront wrote:

Im talking about the panda of course. wtf!? It just sits there and breeds and eats. Does it even make a noise? This is one that has always puzzled me since childhood. It just doesnt do anything.

A space ship lands on Earth. The space travelers observe an infestation of over 6 billion creatures that make a lot of noise, pollute and overpopulate the planet, and kill, mistreat, and make war on their fellow creatures. These space travelers wonder what value these crude creatures have to the planet or the universe?:rolleyes:

joseph brand · 31-07-2006 8:04am

one time but I could have dreamt it. (dreamt is the only word in the english language that ends in mt).

Hilarious

Who the F**k likes fleas and ticks??? Some insects clear the land of rotting corpses and stuff, but TICKS!, they feed on the living /shudder.

joseph brand · 31-07-2006 8:06am

Oh yeah, don't cows farts do lots of harm to the Ozone, and THEY don't bat an eyelid. (Cows have big eyelids)

TerrorFirmer · 31-07-2006 8:11am

I want to own a sloth when I'm older.

Imagine this guy swinging around your room...

I suppose I'd settle for a Panda too...

Black Swan · 31-07-2006 8:16am

joseph brand wrote:

Oh yeah, don't cows farts do lots of harm to the Ozone, and THEY don't bat an eyelid. (Cows have big eyelids)

Oh, did you hear about the study that was funded for Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, to measure the amount of methane gas emitted by cows belching? Real study funded by the US government at $70,000 USD per year for two years!:rolleyes:

Dave! · 31-07-2006 8:20am

Daddy long-legs!

bizmark · 31-07-2006 9:01am

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

A space ship lands on Earth. The space travelers observe an infestation of over 6 billion creatures that make a lot of noise, pollute and overpopulate the planet, and kill, mistreat, and make war on their fellow creatures. These space travelers wonder what value these crude creatures have to the planet or the universe?:rolleyes:

Oh! A self hating human haven’t seen one of them around before :rolleyes:

I recommend self hating humans as the most pointless animals on the planet if you can’t see the over whelming superiority and value to this planet and perhapes many coutless others in the future of your own species then theirs no hope for you really.

Reku · 31-07-2006 9:16am

slipss wrote:

Panda beares aren't actually bears thier cats. I know that has nothing to do with anything, but I have this weird overwhelming urge to tell everyone I meet that if they mention pandas, I don't even know if its true, I thought I seen it on a nature program one time but I could have dreamt it. (dreamt is the only word in the english language that ends in mt).

And yet:
"The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca "black-and-white cat-foot") is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Panda

"Giant pandas are classified as bears and have the digestive system of a carnivore, but they have adapted to a vegetarian diet and depend almost exclusively on bamboo as a food source."
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/our_solutions/endangered_species/giant_panda/index.cfm

You want to back up your statement with some evidence? Though I think the guys from WWF would pretty much be the experts.

Terry · 31-07-2006 9:19am

farohar wrote:

And yet:
"The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca "black-and-white cat-foot") is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Panda

"Giant pandas are classified as bears and have the digestive system of a carnivore, but they have adapted to a vegetarian diet and depend almost exclusively on bamboo as a food source."
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/our_solutions/endangered_species/giant_panda/index.cfm

You want to back up your statement with some evidence? Though I think the guys from WWF would pretty much be the experts.

you just read the first sentence in his post, didn't you?
then you got all het up and decided that you would show him up.

Dragan · 31-07-2006 9:20am

InFront wrote:

Im talking about the panda of course. wtf!? It just sits there and breeds and eats.

Em....sounds to me like the Panda has reached a massive level of enlightenment over the old homo-sapien.

All they need to do is eat and fu*k while we fill our lives with pointlessness.

Who is the most pointless animal again???

Dyr · 31-07-2006 9:23am

slipss. wrote:

(dreamt is the only word in the english language that ends in mt).

theres the past tense of blame too...blemt

Reku · 31-07-2006 10:11am

julep wrote:

you just read the first sentence in his post, didn't you?
then you got all het up and decided that you would show him up.

Opening anything up with a statement when you have no idea of how truthful it is only spreads bad info, best to deal with it, or do you want Ireland to become America 2?

Gordon · 31-07-2006 10:36am

Pandas are actually insects.

The World's Most Pointless Animal

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