Frog and scorpion

[FierceKitty]

A scorpion comes to the riverbank and asks a frog to carry her over. "You'll sting me and kill me", objects the frog. "No, I'd die too then", she points out. The frog sighs, moves over, and eats the scorpion, who stings him as a last act.
"Why did you do that?", asks a second frog. "You'll die now."
"I know, but at least my story won't be stuck into a hundred narratives that it has no relevance to!"

[mmcv]

An important life lesson

[d_Guy]

This is why I have great admiration for frogs (except when they remain in a warming pot of water).

[Ithoriel]

This is why I have great admiration for frogs (except when they remain in a warming pot of water).

"While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to modern biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out.Changing location is a natural thermoregulation strategy for frogs and other ectotherms, and is necessary for survival in the wild." - Wikipedia


Boiling A Frog by Christopher Brookmyre was a popular title when we were looking to replace the local public libraries' computer system and became the default test search as we evaluated potential replacements along with the, alas entirely fictional, Windsurfing For Dogs purportedly written by our head of cataloguing. It was the first time I'd come across the idea that a frog, boiled slowly enough would cook and while I quickly discovered that was not true the underlying idea that the failure to act against a problematic situation will cause it to increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions has stayed with me. Indeed it has been on my mind very recently.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

This forum is becoming far too philosophical of late.....    

[d_Guy]

Next you'll be saying they don't turn into princes when kissed.  

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Heard of it but never seen it

[fred.]

We had a visitor in the garden yesterday



Don't often see frogs - not sure where there are any nearby ponds. 

[Steve J]

We have frogs in our and our nighbours front gardens, where there are no ponds. Apparently they only use the ponds to lay their spawn, content most of the time with long grass, shrubs etc.