Wearable Warnings
OK, this is a Photo Blog, but seeing how today is the third anniversary of christopher-hill.com, I'll make a traditional post about some weird shit I've found on the internet.As you all know, Nick's cat Jimmy is living with me until Nick & Rach find a cat friendly home in Edinburgh. And as you all also know, Nick's cat Jimmy is a gaysexual. Since I am his current parent or guardian and am responsible for his welfare, I have been training him to fight and hunt like a proper cat instead of poofing about and hiding at the first hint of trouble. He has been putting these skills to the test by catching mice and letting them loose in my lounge and by fighting with the stupid black cat that lives next door but one.
When he wanders in after a fight, one thing that always fascinates me is his tail. It grows to 3 times its normal girth. I grab him and inspect the tail and say "How do you do that? How do you manipulate the hairs that grow on your tail at will so as to make your appearance more formidable?" He just looks at me, he can't answer because he is a cat and they don't have the verbiage, but if he could answer he would explain that it is an automatic function of the feline sympathetic nervous system which he has no automatic control over, and that it is a similar kind of thing to how when us humans are threatened, the central nervous system pumps blood away from the skin to the muscles, aiding fight or flight. It is a simple product of natural selection in the animal kingdom, he would say.
Of course, humans are more intelligent than cats. We've invented things like cars and computers and automatic cork screws far beyond the capabilities of something a mere cat could dream up. We don't need to wait for natural selection to catch up with our needs we can just go out and create it ourselves. Which is exactly what these folks have done here.,
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