I've had a few dates do this to me in the past.
Posted on 04/30/2017 4:17:22 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
Rassim Khelifa was standing by a pond in the Swiss Alps collecting insect eggs one day, when he noticed something strange. A dragonfly being hotly pursued by another suddenly took a dive and crashed to the ground, seemingly dead on the spot, before springing back to life and making a grand escape once the coast was clear. The observations that followed confirmed a previously unknown phenomenon – the insect had faked its death to give a wannabe lover the slip.
Khelifa, a biologist at the University of Zurich, had spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 gathering the eggs of dragonflies and damsel flies at ponds in the Swiss Alps, with the aim of running experiments on larval response to temperature. But his chance encounter with these would-be mates lured his curiosity in a different direction – was this kind of behavior widespread?
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Why don’t they just say that they have a headache.
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This is pretty extreme. Fake sleep or fake headaches won’t stop those persistent males.
Exactly.
As a child, I was terrified of dragonflies.
Now, we hang out together at the lake in the summer time.
Dragonly lawyers are too expensive.
I once dated a girl who looked like Christy Brinkley, spent my money like Chelsea Clinton and put out like mother Theresa.
I mean, how many nights a week does a girl have to wash and set her hair?
How many weekends do they have family get togethers?
How many weeks a month does a girl have her period?
NO, it's the precursor to divorce..........
Dragon fly headache.
LOL. It’s always funny, when we hear about mating or sexual activity in other forms of life, and then apply those concepts to humans..............
Gals do that all the time. Old wife trick. LOL
The Walking (Fake?) Dead, starring Lindsay Lohan as the Walking Dead (Perhaps.) Is she really a Walking Dead Woman or just Faking to avoid her boyfriend’s lust? And what about him? He looks a little green about the gills. Find out next week...
This brings to mind the miracle food that will reduce a woman’s sex drive by 75% instantly. Wedding cake!
So, now I know who was dating my GF. You poor b***ard.
I've had a few dates do this to me in the past.
Not tonight, honey, I’m dead.
feminine wiles. They all have them even the bugs.
My ex did that all the time.
L
“Female dragonflies fake death to avoid lusting males”
seems rather extreme. couldn’t the girl dragonfly just explain to the boy dragonfly that she had a headache?
“This brings to mind the miracle food that will reduce a woman’s sex drive by 75% instantly. Wedding cake!”
ROTFLOL!
Post of the week
I thought so. LIke fresh meat for the Tiger Pen.
It has been a slow week.
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