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The Panda-in-a-bag

Kiki — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:45:57 +0000

Okay! So I lied. Sue me!

It’s true, we Pandas almost only eat bamboo, and if people don’t stop cutting it down, we die. Fact. Still, I can eat whatever I want and I am small enough to fit in a bag, ha!

Man, life is sweet! I get carried around all day, although I get a camera shoved in my face now and again, but hey! I’d do anything to survive these days. Wouldn’t you?

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Today, the giant panda’s future remains uncertain. This peaceful, bamboo-eating member of the bear family faces a number of threats. Its forest habitat, in the mountainous areas of southwest China, is fragmented and giant panda populations are small and isolated from each other. Meanwhile, poaching remains an ever-present threat.

Over 50 reserves created
By mid-2005, the Chinese government had established over 50 panda reserves, protecting more than 4,000 square miles and over 45 percent of remaining giant panda habitat.

However, habitat destruction continues to pose a threat to the many pandas living outside these areas, and poaching is a further problem. Today, only around 61 percent of the population, or about 980 pandas, are under protection in reserves. As China’s economy continues its rapid development, it is more important than ever to ensure the giant panda’s survival.

(source: http://www.worldwildlife.org)

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Ooops, I farted again!

Bucket — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:14:53 +0000

Hi, my name is Pandackles. You may or may not know me but I don’t give a fart. Did you know we Pandas only fart so much, because we are sick and tired of eating bamboo all day? No, really! I hate bamboo!

So when we went shopping one day, into one of these malls, I demanded to try some ice cream. I was really upset that they wouldn’t let me have it at first, but when I threw a tantrum, they caved.

Here is a pictures of me eating ice cream -

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(Real) Panda facts:

Pandas are found only in the temperate forests of China. Although classified as a carnivore, the panda’s diet consists almost exclusively of bamboo. Despite being one of the most popular animals in the world, pandas are threatened by habitat fragmentation and unsustainable development. It is estimated that as few as 1,600 pandas remain in the wild today. WWF remains the primary international conservation organization protecting pandas in the wild.

(source: www.worldwildlifefund.org)

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Panda Update: Fartybear Jensen

Kiki — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:13:00 +0000

Finally following up on a post from…uhm a while ago, we have indeed kept our word and adopted a Pandabear through the WWF in honour of the great Jensen A. who brought the farting aspect of these cuddly creatures to our attention.

It took a little longer until we got the stuff sent (only the second attempt finally reached our headoffice and the WWF was really patient with us) – we have covered the name on the certificate because we couldn’t adopt it for the Crazy Buckets and the real person likes to stay anonymous. We don’t blame her. We also noted that a real person took a real pen and wrote the adopters name on that card. Yup, no fauxy preprinted rubbish. As classy as a mullet you could say. That picture in the back is allegedly the only picture in existence of the real bear we adopted. If you ask us, he looks like he is up to something.

Now that we have little cuddly Jensenbear (or Pandackles?) we were wondering what to do with it..him…and we thought we will do a little series on him. We are going to take him to see the world and we will make sure has a good time(what’s spanish for donkey show?), after all Pandas are facing extinction.

So, do check back for Fartybear’s own journal soon and see what the little rascal has been up to.

Last but not least: As previously mentioned we were also considering to adopt an Orang Utan for Jared, but have decided to let you guys decide which animal we will adopt on his behalf, so do watch out for a poll somewhere soon (not sure where yet, maybe here, maybe there, maybe everywhere).

-Crazy Buckets-

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A Panda named Jensen

Kiki — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:33:00 +0000

After yesterdays post we wanted to adopt a (farting or non-farting) Panda ourselves and so we did.

To show that the Crazy Buckets are no Hypocrites and because we wanted to, as we are convinced it is the right thing to do, we adopted a Panda today. His name is:

Zhu Xiong (Bamboo Bear)

We found him on the UK WWF website (no not the wrestling guys!) and we soon will be receiving some information about him. This adoption pack will contain:

“… a personalised adoption certificate, a print of the animal and a soft toy. It will also include a fascinating fact booklet about the adopted species, practical tips on how to live a ‘greener’ lifestyle, a greetings card and WWF screensavers“ (oh wow, how exciting…hmm)

We will keep you posted on our adoption and how the Panda is doing (and if he is farting you’ll be the first to know) still remaining hopeful that some of you will be joining us in our efforts.

We are certainly no rich people, just a bunch of Crazy Buckets, but I think we can live with the £2,50 (or yank equivalent of $5,00) being sucked out of our account every month. We just have to cut back on the Ice cream or Purple Nurples to balance the score.

We also decided to rename our Panda Jensen because a) he is just as cuddly and b) in honour of the man who brought the farting Panda to our attention in the first place. And if Jared gets all jealous we can always adopt an Orang-Utan in his honour.

See how inspiring a TV show can be? It can make you a better person. Kripke you should be proud of yourself. Your show goes beyond the Supernatural.

Now *clap*clap* go and find yourself a farting Panda to adopt. Quick, before they are all extinct.

-Your Crazy Buckets-

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Bring Me a Farting Panda!

Kiki — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:48:00 +0000

We over here in Europe are a bit slow sometimes.

It’s not our fault though, I blame the Media. I get through tons of web pages a day which comes with my job, but most people probably haven’t heard or seen the Panda fart, and no I am not talking about the real animal here.

Let’s take a step back to this year’s Supernatural Convention in LA, attended by both Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. During the breakfast get-together (which did not involve anyone having real breakfast I believe) Jensen mentioned the clip he’d seen on TV advocating the accessibility of my favourite media: Youtube.

Jensen on stage impishly claps his hands and quotes the clip “Youtube! Bring me a farting Panda!” – I’d like to see the stats on how many people googled for it afterwards. The clip Jensen had seen must have been the Comedy Central comedy with the guy I only know as the Spencenator from Kings of Queens.

Not knowing any of this, I stumbled across a Korean version of a farting Panda in response to aforementioned googeling youtube (clapping wouldn’t work for some reason, I must complain to Oswalt) and this clip, since it was uploaded last year, had 55,710 hits and probably still counting. Not bad for an endangered species with wind.

For those who have no idea what I am talking about, I bring you: The Farting Panda! Enjoy!

While I have your attention, why not draw it quickly, before it goes of like expired milk, to a more important global disaster than bamboo farts. I am talking about extinction. No one likes to be extinct, not even a Giant Panda, fart or no fart.

So maybe you can do your bit to help this awesome (yes I said awesome!) creature make it through the next few centuries in one big piece without having to be cloned in a lab, which apparently isn’t actually working that well with Pandas.

So what can you do?

Here a few things you could do (which does not include buying a Fiat Panda I’m afraid):

Adopt a Panda - Get your own little farting machine
Simply Donate to any Wildlife Charity (WWF, Giant Panda Club,Pandas International)
Use WWF’s Facebook application
Volunteer or do a Gap Year in China.
Donate Bamboo to Zoos – Not a joke! Private Landowners in the US are welcome to donate Bamboo to Zoos (Atlanta and Memphis) as the cuddly looking bear has a big appetite.
Tell your friends to tell their friends (works with Supernatural, should also work with Pandas)

So, while Global Warming has all the current Media attention, a problem which has actually been around for decades (the warming, not the Media), but ignored by many and left to the Hippies of its time, animal extinction along with animal cruelty is also a major flaw of humanity and almost cancels out all our great inventions and achievements.

Why wait until its gone until we realize what we had. We don’t want a TV show to be cancelled before its time, we should also do our best to keep the Pandas farting. As Dean would probably say “They are freaking worth it”.

-posted by Nana-

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