What use is a panda?

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I find it mind boggling that in this era of virtually untreatable diseases ( Sars/HIV - the Chinese should know about them ) and poverty on a global scale, that various governments would spend millions of their respective currency ( mainly US Dollars and Chinese Yuan ) on shipping pandas all over the world to fail to mate, have IVF, then live in heated wooden huts ( pandas have a lot of them naturally in the wild of course ). Now admittedly this idea of wasting money can be, and frequently is, applied to various other subjects such as space travel and weapons - and I'm not going to try to defend or attack them. But I'm sure we could all agree that national security is important and space travel does hold some pretty interesting possibilities. But saving the pandas? Where does that get us? Are we grinding down panda bones to make a cancer cure? Are they immune to Sars type viruses? What use is a panda?

This is from http://www.letpandasdie.com

― L.P.D! Webmaster (letpandasdie.com), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Hi LPD,

Did these panda creatures slash your tires? If so, lemme know and they will pay dearly for their mistake.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

"Panda". Even the name sounds like the very embodiment of evil.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I really want JW and this guy to talk this out. Like, with huge images and animated gifs and stuff.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I really want JW and this guy to talk this out. Like, with huge images and animated gifs and stuff.
-- Gravel Puzzleworth (mostlyconnec...), October 9th, 2004. (later)

ok!?!

What have i just volunteered for?

Who is JW?

― L.P.D! Webmaster (letpandasdie.com), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Utility is not a reason for preserving animal species (or rather, lack of utility is not a reason for allowing them to die) - biodiversity is a good in itself. That said, I've never particularly liked pandas, as they look fake. Not a reason to let them die though.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

What use is a hippo, but to flip out and kill people? People should look into this.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago)

surely we need a reason to preserve and maintain them (at great expense) rather than a reason not to? Anyway why should we look after a species that won't even fuck for its own survival.

*** coming soon www.lethipposdieaswell.com

― L.P.D! Webmaster (letpandasdie.com), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

you know before I thought we should spend ALL our money on saving them. but you've changed my mind. Let's slice the furry bastards up.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't know - people seem to like helping pandas, and an entire species is an important scientific resource. Also, it's not really the case that pandas are just too lazy to have sex - the destruction of the bamboo forests have had a huge impact on a species that needs a lot of space in order to reproduce*.

*I might be making this up - it sounds right, but I know absolutely nothing about pandas.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes, for their enormous waterbeds.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 October 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Corky & The Juice Pigs to thread.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 9 October 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

WTF? Corky & The Juice Pigs to thread? / waterbeds? i have no bloody idea what that means. *confused*

― L.P.D! Webmaster (letpandasdie.com), Saturday, 9 October 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

It's ILX slang for "oh god, some newcomer with a lame website to spam has turned up and is repeating himself ad nauseam on mulitple threads while trying to seem like hey, I'm just one of the guys".

(and I agree with you about pandas, but just go now, okay?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

TS: giant pandas v. red pandas

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pandacide.com/

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

lol @ red pandas

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

aaron, some corny indie fuck just played me a pandacide sampler

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

panda tacos!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

aaron, some corny indie fuck just played me a pandacide sampler

I believe it.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

good eatin' on a panda.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.jp/tfkyg294/pandadog.jpg

― gem (trisk), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago)

i once saw a panda that could play the ukelele

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 05:17 (twenty years ago)

I UNILATERALLY SUPPORT PANDAS

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Monday, 11 October 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago)

I suggest you read The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen and then get back to us on this.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago)

"Utility is not a reason for preserving animal species (or rather, lack of utility is not a reason for allowing them to die) - biodiversity is a good in itself"

I unilaterally support the person who said this.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago)

that baby panda pic is the cutest thing ever, is it real? it looks so sad:-(

― awwwwwwwwwwww, Monday, 11 October 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/06/article-1291638388975-0C5D875F000005DC-815871_466x330.jpg

One of these is a real panda

― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

<3 this story

would do that job

― ENBB, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago)

can't even fathom the degeneracy required to think 'what use is a panda?'

eugenics, nuclear weapons, agent orange, khmer rouge, panda hatred: the evil of instrumental rationalism knows no bounds

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

I UNILATERALLY SUPPORT PANDAS

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:31 (6 years ago)

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.villiard.com/images/animaux/ours/bebe-pandas.jpg

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 27 January 2011 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

Little fucker ate yr sandwiches.

― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 27 January 2011 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

apparently rather than being a strange offshoot of the bear family, it is actually the case that bears evolved away from pandas, making pandas the senior bear.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.zooatlanta.org/media/image/ZooATL_double_Po_pandacam.jpg

;_;

― eid orb (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

;_;

― br8080 (dayo), Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

;_;

― Evil Eau (dog latin), Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.wimp.com/crazypanda/

― Concatenated without abruption (Michael White), Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

NAKH!

I spent a longer time than I should admit to watching the San Diego Zoo pandacam yesterday. Mostly she was just hanging out, munching on some bamboo but I think that's generally (with the exception of crazy panda in that vid) what they, you know, do.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/

Not on cam right now tho. Sad.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tw6EA1NgA

― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago)

Smithsonian’s National Zoo Press Release: National Zoo Animals React to the Earthquake

According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake.

Another use ruled out.

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago)

so ilx dislikes monkeys AND pandas? srsly, fuck ilx.

― Mordy, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago)

― IT IS EXECUTION (Z S), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrmi7l1xlc1qzrlhgo1_250.gif

― ᒓᴥᒔ (ENBB), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago)

describe this panda's dancing in four words or fewer

― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

new baby panda at National Zoo in DC

― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago)

“I’ve been crying all day,” said Holly O’Brien-Yao, 58, of Falls Church, as she stood outside the roped-off panda compound.
Tears of joy? “Of course,” she said.
“I’ve been praying for something really wonderful to happen to me, and this does it,” she said.
“I remember doing it with Tai Shan and how beautiful it was,” she said. “It makes me feel better. It’s a warm and fuzzy feeling. . . . I’ve needed this for so long.”

thank you based panda

― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago)

delicious imo

http://lgcdn.candyfavorites.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/p/a/panda_black.jpg_1.jpg

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago)

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/index.html

New baby panda since last July, doesn't seem to be doing much at the moment though.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/Su2ZwPZ.jpg

apparently this is a panda eating a lamb

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:57 (twelve years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Greek_lc_lamda_thin.svg/150px-Greek_lc_lamda_thin.svg.png

― bbag bbag my nebby shot me down (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:08 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/vKxImUk.jpg

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 11:47 (twelve years ago)

quality post by dmac btw

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 11:47 (twelve years ago)

will be seeing pandas on Saturday

― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 12:23 (twelve years ago)

I wasted five minutes a few months ago laughing uncontrollably, trying to explain that stupid "eats shoots & leaves" joke to my mother

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 4 April 2013 01:53 (twelve years ago)

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