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[Le Stu]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

The Government can be made up of MPs or Lords. So basically the ruling party can have just about anybody in the government, so long as they are eligible to become a Lord.

Thanks. So, I suppose we really can't stop this sort of thing happening then, I guess. Ah well..

[Shaki]

Originally Posted by TheTickingTime-Bomb

I think I understand now.

You are saying that because the natural laws/universal constants themselves exist (we can observe the effects of their existence), but have no mass or energy, then we might be wrong about existing "things" requiring mass and energy. Well, just mass because all mass is energy!

Would this be analogous to asking why gravity which has no mass, exists?

Gravity is a force which is an effect of mass itself - so it does really exist in the form of mass. The laws of the universe are probably like this, an effect of the universe itself.

Existence really does depend on mass and energy. A thought for example has laws and is unobservable, but is simply an effect of physical activity in the brain which obviously has mass.

There is an accessible book about this sort of shit that I'd recommend called "The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead" by Marcus Chown which clears up in simple terms a lot of these beard-scratchers.

Aye, but fit aboot all those shoes at the side of motorways?!

[Godzilla Blues]

Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

So the animals that can't lick their own assholes, how do they keep their asses clean?

Well there's a lot of animals and you haven't specified anything that you know of that has a scrupulously clean arse whilst also being of poor flexibility, but the ones that go in water I imagine get cleaned that way. I've seen mighty hairy cow type species that have huge dangleberries on their fur below the arse so I don't think they are using their Andrex wet wipes. Or tongue. Maybe when they mate the male holds back a spurt of jism to give the old entrance area a quick clean down, a kind of dual purpose shag if you will.

[idol_wild]

Maybe their food contains plenty of fibre, thus making them produce nothing but tidy poops. No wiping or cleansing required.

[Original Spies]

I love a tidy poo that doesn't require a wipe. I usually wipe anyway, to be safe, but everytime I do, I know I just wasted 4 or 5 seconds of my life that could have been spent pulling up trousers.

[Godzilla Blues]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

Maybe their food contains plenty of fibre, thus making them produce nothing but tidy poops. No wiping or cleansing required.

Yeah well I suppose a diet made up mainly of vegetation would lead to plenty of fibre, however the trajectory of the poo must lead to fur/poo interface. Maybe on short haired species it's just less noticeable. I can't say I've ever inspected an animal's anus that closely.

[milner]

its always safer to wipe just incase there are any rouge bits still hanging that you dont seem to feel.

[Le Stu]

Roger's Profanasaurus defines a clean tidy poo as an 'arse angel'

I'm not sure why dogs lick their butts, but this is how they reinfect themselves with worms, according to a program I was watching last night. This is also why poochy smoochies are a bad idea unless you're sure said dog is up on its course of meds.

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by Le Stu

I'm not sure why dogs lick their butts

I think I can hazard a fairly accurate guess as to why they lick their balls though.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Godzilla Blues

. I can't say I've ever inspected an animal's anus that closely.

I bet that's a sentence you never thought you'd hear yourself say.

Especially if it began with "Yes m'lord".