Pants
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Well, then, yes.
Honestly, I've not got a lot of interest in Myers-Briggs. I don't doubt the validity of the classifications, or the practicality in some ways, but I loath the idea of four-letter identities. That said, it's been a few years since I was particularly active on a forum and I feel it's time I find a new one. You lot look like you have some fantastic conversations, and that's hard to find.
About me? 22/m/Canada. Oh, but there's got to be more than that, yeah?
The name, Pants, it's short for Panties. And Panties is short for Panthrophile. See, back in high school (and now) I was quite interested in snakes, particularly Colubrids (typical snakes). Colubridae is a garbage taxon, the ornithologists and paleontoligists and entomologists of old just threw any snake there rather than making the effort to actually sort out phylogenies. nWithin the family Colubridae is a genus called Elaphe, the ratsnakes. Everyone knows that it's not a valid genus and in 2002 a man named Utiger made an effort to split it up into maybe 8 new genera, one of which was Pantherophis. It's a controversial name, a lot of people refuse to use it because of the weak evidence presented by Utiger, but the fact is that Elaphe needs to be split and Utiger's divisions make sense.
Back when I made the name I kept a lot of snakes from 'Pantherophis' (corns, yellow and grey rats), I was a Panthrophile. Nowadays my only three snakes are from the other side of the Pacific, 'Orthreophis', but they're still former Elaphe. Big suckers, actually. There's one that, no matter how many times she fails to eat me, refused to accept that I'm not food. Another is much more timid and the other is docile and tractible. That's something that I like about them, they've got honest-to-god personalities. Intelligence, more than you might expect from a snake.
Example: About two weeks after I moved them into a new cage I came home from work to see snakes in the snake cage. A little tired, I walked to the next room to see a snake in the next cage. Gradually it dawned on me that that second cage is the rat cage; there shouldn't be a snake there. Apparently the smallest one had managed to escape her own cage and she then made a b-line for the rats. She found a way in, ate them all and couldn't fit back out with her belly distended. She's gone and banana fished herself. The natural question is how she got out of her own cage, and I couldn't figure it. I put her back in and left her. Not half an hour later she was wormed half-way through an electrical cord hole at the back of the cage (the hole was much smaller than her, at least smaller than non-rat-filled part of her, but they're flixible things). Clever girl. It took her two weeks to find it the first time, half an hour the second time. Evidently she's got a memory, it lasts at least a few hours and she only needs to see something once. Who knew?
Oh, but I'm rambling.
Yes, INTP they tell me. My interests are varied, likely somewhat inline with some of you lot. I'm especially keen on most things biological. Animals, but more recently sociobiology and biological psychology as well. Evolution and adaptation. Politics, but not real politics. More political ideals, generally a good ways left of center and socially liberal. I enjoy reading, scheming, drinking and waking up with mysterious injuries. I have best friends and aquantances, nothing in between.
In hindsight, I've no idea what I was planning to say in this introduction but I've said what I've said and I'll post it. I've got to say, I'm looking forward to my time on your forum.
So, howdy!
Honestly, I've not got a lot of interest in Myers-Briggs. I don't doubt the validity of the classifications, or the practicality in some ways, but I loath the idea of four-letter identities. That said, it's been a few years since I was particularly active on a forum and I feel it's time I find a new one. You lot look like you have some fantastic conversations, and that's hard to find.
About me? 22/m/Canada. Oh, but there's got to be more than that, yeah?
The name, Pants, it's short for Panties. And Panties is short for Panthrophile. See, back in high school (and now) I was quite interested in snakes, particularly Colubrids (typical snakes). Colubridae is a garbage taxon, the ornithologists and paleontoligists and entomologists of old just threw any snake there rather than making the effort to actually sort out phylogenies. nWithin the family Colubridae is a genus called Elaphe, the ratsnakes. Everyone knows that it's not a valid genus and in 2002 a man named Utiger made an effort to split it up into maybe 8 new genera, one of which was Pantherophis. It's a controversial name, a lot of people refuse to use it because of the weak evidence presented by Utiger, but the fact is that Elaphe needs to be split and Utiger's divisions make sense.
Back when I made the name I kept a lot of snakes from 'Pantherophis' (corns, yellow and grey rats), I was a Panthrophile. Nowadays my only three snakes are from the other side of the Pacific, 'Orthreophis', but they're still former Elaphe. Big suckers, actually. There's one that, no matter how many times she fails to eat me, refused to accept that I'm not food. Another is much more timid and the other is docile and tractible. That's something that I like about them, they've got honest-to-god personalities. Intelligence, more than you might expect from a snake.
Example: About two weeks after I moved them into a new cage I came home from work to see snakes in the snake cage. A little tired, I walked to the next room to see a snake in the next cage. Gradually it dawned on me that that second cage is the rat cage; there shouldn't be a snake there. Apparently the smallest one had managed to escape her own cage and she then made a b-line for the rats. She found a way in, ate them all and couldn't fit back out with her belly distended. She's gone and banana fished herself. The natural question is how she got out of her own cage, and I couldn't figure it. I put her back in and left her. Not half an hour later she was wormed half-way through an electrical cord hole at the back of the cage (the hole was much smaller than her, at least smaller than non-rat-filled part of her, but they're flixible things). Clever girl. It took her two weeks to find it the first time, half an hour the second time. Evidently she's got a memory, it lasts at least a few hours and she only needs to see something once. Who knew?
Oh, but I'm rambling.
Yes, INTP they tell me. My interests are varied, likely somewhat inline with some of you lot. I'm especially keen on most things biological. Animals, but more recently sociobiology and biological psychology as well. Evolution and adaptation. Politics, but not real politics. More political ideals, generally a good ways left of center and socially liberal. I enjoy reading, scheming, drinking and waking up with mysterious injuries. I have best friends and aquantances, nothing in between.
In hindsight, I've no idea what I was planning to say in this introduction but I've said what I've said and I'll post it. I've got to say, I'm looking forward to my time on your forum.
So, howdy!
I was raised on RHS periodicals and seed exchanges. I dreamed of following Kingdon-Ward on plant hunting expeditions.... I attempted to collect every member of the genera Thalictrum, Lilium, Notholirion, Nomocharis and Cardiocrinum. Those Fritillaria freaks are just weird 
