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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Udie on September 23, 2003, 06:46:18 PM
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Light hearted thread for a change...
When I was in 7th and 8th grade I went to a private school. I had a friend there from Calgary, Canada. Scott was cool maaan, we started a band which started me on my 20 year music cough *career* cough. I'll never forget how he learned about fire ants. We were outside at recess and I kicked over an ant bed. Thousands of them were scurrying about. Scott had never seen anything like this and though it was the coolest thing ever. So, he bent down and picked some of it up in his hand. :eek: Oh the look of stunned realisation on his face, when he realized why I was yelling at him not to do it while he did it. :lol :rofl
Here's my question...
Where you live, do you have
1. Bee's
2. Wasp's/Hornet's/Yellow Jacket's
3. Fireants
4. Scorpion's
5. Deadly Spider's (Brown Recluse/Black Widow types)
6. Rattle Snake's
All of those I have either had in my home or know somebody who has had them in their homes, except for the rattle snake's. I do know people and have a relative that have been bitten by rattler's though.
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We don't have fireants, but we have all the other crap, plus 6" biting centipedes and tarantulas. :)
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All the above, havn't seen any scorpions though..
And I don't live in TX, so, ha.. I'm not from where you are.
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Worst of all.... Liberals
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Yes we have an overpopulation of leetchus liberalis. They slowly drain the life out of the victim.
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I have crabs, does that count?
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We have funny look'n ant's.
(http://members.rogers.com/crazyjay/images/Mantis4.JPG )
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Down in Aus:
Not sure about Fireants and Scorpians but we have everywhere else beaten hands down for venemous spiders and snakes. Always nice to have Funnelwebs, Redbacks and Taipans in the garden.
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We have all of those except for the spiders and snakes. But the ones we do have are twice angry and agressive for some reason. Maybe the heat, or maybe they are RACIST :mad:
Pei, why did you leave the states?
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Originally posted by Animal
Pei, why did you leave the states?
Basically I got bored and felt it was time for something new. I'd been there 4.5 years afterall.
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In Maryland we have lots of mosquitos with west nile, and plenty of venomous ricers.
-SW
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Yes we have an overpopulation of leetchus liberalis. They slowly drain the life out of the victim.
yeah, but first they'll drink all your money
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We have bees..and dogs...and dogs that have bees coming out of their mouths!
;)
Nah...no real poisonous or dangerous stuff here at all.
On land.
The ocean is full of stuff you need to be careful about.
We chatted about this at the 2002 Con...freaked me out about you having to watch out for spiders and snakes.:)
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Our appartment building has pretty bad polar bear infestation this year.
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during the summer my igloo gets lots of bees wasps and bears...
worst of all we have "canadian alliance" people...
and cougars...a couple guys get picked off every year
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Originally posted by Pei
Down in Aus:
Not sure about Fireants and Scorpians but we have everywhere else beaten hands down for venemous spiders and snakes. Always nice to have Funnelwebs, Redbacks and Taipans in the garden.
We have an outbreak of fireants in Brisbane.
They came here in a shipping container or something, not sure exactly how....anyway the Brissy council are doing everything they can to get rid of them before they can spread too far.
I have ten bucks says it's allready too late.
In the last three days I have seen an Eastern King Brown (about 7ft long the bugger, no way I was getting anywhere near that damn thing) a Taipan ,a couple of Black snakes, and this centipede looking thing that was about 6 inches long, a real horrid greeny-blue an yellow colour, with big yellow jaws?, pincers? whatever the hell they are....it looked MEAN.
He he, no match for a size 12 work boot though ;)
Both the Taipan and the King Brown are perfectly capable of injecting lethal to a human doses of venom in a single bight, and both are known for their tendancy to inflict multiple bights. We occasionally see Tiger snakes around here too, not all that often though.
The good part is the local hospital has very good stocks of ant-venom, for both the snakes, and the Funnelweb, who's bight is allso potentially fatal to humans.
I've seen scorpians around here before, but not real often, and they only seem very small ,I'm still not gonna start playing with 'em though.
We have loads of Redback spiders (basically, Black Widows, with a red mark on their abdomen) theres even a song about 'em.....starts out "There was a redback on the toilet seat when I went there last night....I didnt see him in the dark, but boy I felt his bight!!"
Spiders are pretty harmless though, they don't exactly come looking for you, if you are aware that they are about, and take a bit of care with where you stick your hand etc, they arent much of a problem.
Around late April, early May every year we see heaps of funnelwebs as they move about looking for mates, but being big, ugly, black, shiny bastards, they are easy to spot and kill/avoid (they come into my house, they die, they stay outside, I leave 'em alone)
An innerestin' side note.... I used to work on a big cotton farm near Bourke in north western NSW (if it isnt the ******* of the world, you sure can smell it from there) and the banks of the irrigation channels at night would litteraly be crawling with deadly snakes( browns, tigers, taipans and death adders, with the occasional black), we used to have a sort of little flamethrower/firestarter thing, and walk along swooshing fire on the bank ahead so we could pick up the syphon pipes and start them.
Worste was, the syphon pipes were about 6 or 7 ft long lengths of black poli pipe, you shoot flame near a snake, and he'll go stright up that pipe. Interesting job to say the least, no way in hell would I ever do it again.
Allso heard a story from a mate who was in the Army...they were on excersice with some US Army guys in northern Aus.
Apparently this one poor yank soldier crawled into his sleeping bag and suddenly started screaming and thrashing around, his mates thought he was having some kind of fit and held him down so he wouldnt hurt himself, poor guy died of a massive dose of nuerotoxin from a king brown's bights...hundreds of them.
not sure how true that is...hopefully it isnt, but if you are ever in Aus, or anywhere else with dangerous locals, and are camping....dont unroll that bag unil the second you wanna get in it.
'Least we dont have stuff like cougars or bears or wolves or tigers.
Only stuff that will actually eat you down here is sharks and crocodiles.
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Not sure how "On-topic" this is but I think the Simpsons episode were bart has to appologize to the Aussies and ends up ruining there eco system by bringing his frog.
The boot was funny too if anyone remembers this episode
:lol
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1. Bee's
we have
2. Wasp's/Hornet's/Yellow Jacket's
We have
3. Fireants
Keep them !
We don't need this kind of horror :)
4. Scorpion's
We have (not so deadly, but can make you serioulsy sick for 4/5 days)
5. Deadly Spider's (Brown Recluse/Black Widow types)
Well ... except the viper (Vipera aspis) and those in zoo none :)
6. Rattle Snake's
I've heard of a restaurant in Paris where you can eat some ... I guess it don't count :p
but we have some very dangerous species you don't have like :
1. Trotskist
2. Comunists
2'. Revolutionary communists (sub-specie of the communist , less frequent but more agressive ...)
2''. syndicalist-communists (see 2')
3. anarcho-communist s
4. post-communists
The list is endless :D
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Where you live, do you have
1. Bee's
2. Wasp's/Hornet's/Yellow Jacket's
3. Fireants
4. Scorpion's
5. Deadly Spider's (Brown Recluse/Black Widow types)
6. Rattle Snake's
1. Yes
2. Yes on the Wasp and maybe on the Hornet (never seen one)
3. No
4. No
5. No
6. No
England is god's own country - no extreme hazards except the man-made kind.
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Originally posted by straffo
but we have some very dangerous species you don't have like :
1. Trotskist
2. Comunists
2'. Revolutionary communists (sub-specie of the communist , less frequent but more agressive ...)
2''. syndicalist-communists (see 2')
3. anarcho-communist s
4. post-communists
The list is endless :D
:lol
Elect Margaret Thatcher and she will take care of those pests...
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Maggie isn't French, although she is senile.
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That was fast... :)
But why are you now insinuating that senility is somehow akin to being french.. Why do you hate the french so? :(
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lol Bang on form.
Just about all your posts start at some unsupportable interpretation and then are extended until the words "why" and "hate" are used, putting words into the mouth of whoever you might be irritating today. Typically, you do your chronically unfunny, tired and ultimately piss poor parody of I-don't-know-what "Deth to Amreeka" just to round things off.
Firstly Maggie couldn't be elected to office because she is not French. Secondly, she is a senile old haridan who couldn't be elected to office for that very reason.
No Booosh, no Amreeka and no 'hating the French'.
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Wow! You get all that just from reading my last post? :lol
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So you weren't putting words in my mouth? Is this the 'Grunherz Backtrack'?
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Lucky for me I've never been near a Funnel-Web, but seen plenty of redbacks...
White tails are a bugger too, if they bite you I think the bite never heals (or is that an urban legend?)
mind you Huntsman spiders scare the **** outa me...nothing worse then of those barstards crawling around in the car!
Doesn't help being extremely arachnophobic ..
Tronsky
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Well you said this...
Originally posted by Dowding
Maggie isn't French, although she is senile.
Basically you equate the two as if all the french were senile - allow me to demonstrate:
Dowding isnt poor and dirty, although he is the son of a coal miner.
Or in my case you could say.
GRUNHERZ isnt a mass murderer although he is a Croatian..
Get the point?
But anyway the whole thing was a joke, I thought you notice it was odd that I defend the French? Wasnt that obvious?
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Isn't Margaret Thatcher a sub-variant of Rattle Snake ?
she bite ... she kill :)
Renaud singed this :
Miss Maggie ( Mistral gagnant)
Femme du monde ou bien putain
Qui bien souvent êtes les mêmes
Femme normale, star ou boudin,
Femelles en tout genre je vous aime
Même à la dernière des connes,
Je veux dédier ces quelques vers
Issus de mon dégoût des hommes
Et de leur morale guerrière
Car aucune femme sur la planète
N' s'ra jamais plus con que son frère
Ni plus fière, ni plus malhonnête
A part peut-être Madame Thatcher
Femme je t'aime parce que
Lorsque le sport devient la guerre
Y'a pas de gonzesse ou si peu
Dans les hordes de supporters
Ces fanatiques, fous-furieux
Abreuvés de haines et de bières
Déifiant les crétins en bleu,
Insultant les salauds en vert
Y'a pas de gonzesse hooligan,
Imbécile et meurtrière
Y'en a pas même en grande Bretagne
A part bien sûr Madame Thatcher
Femme je t'aime parce que
Une bagnole entre les pognes
Tu n' deviens pas aussi con que
Ces pauvres tarés qui se cognent
Pour un phare un peu amoché
Ou pour un doigt tendu bien haut
Y'en a qui vont jusqu'à flinguer
Pour sauver leur autoradio
Le bras d'honneur de ces cons-là
Aucune femme n'est assez vulgaire
Pour l'employer à tour de bras
A part peut être Madame Thatcher
Femme je t'aime parce que
Tu vas pas mourir à la guerre
Parc' que la vue d'une arme à feu
Fait pas frissonner tes ovaires
Parc' que dans les rangs des chasseurs
Qui dégomment la tourterelle
Et occasionnellement les Beurs,
J'ai jamais vu une femelle
Pas une femme n'est assez minable
Pour astiquer un revolver
Et se sentir invulnérable
A part bien sûr Madame Thatcher
C'est pas d'un cerveau féminin
Qu'est sortie la bombe atomique
Et pas une femme n'a sur les mains
Le sang des indiens d'Amérique
Palestiniens et arméniens
Témoignent du fond de leurs tombeaux
Qu'un génocide c'est masculin
Comme un SS, un torero
Dans cette putain d'humanité
Les assassins sont tous des frères
Pas une femme pour rivaliser
A part peut être Madame Thatcher
Femme je t'aime surtout enfin
Pour ta faiblesse et pour tes yeux
Quand la force de l'homme ne tient
Que dans son flingue ou dans sa queue
Et quand viendra l'heure dernière,
L'enfer s'ra peuplé de crétins
Jouant au foot ou à la guerre,
A celui qui pisse le plus loin
Moi je me changerai en chien si je peux rester sur la Terre
Et comme réverbère quotidien
Je m'offrirai Madame Thatcher
translation :
Women of the world or street
So very often just the same
I love every one I meet
Have they fame or be they plain
Down to the last stupid crow
I praise with every word I utter
I'm disgusted by men now
With their morals from the gutter
'Cause there's no woman in this land
Quite so stupid as her brother
Nor so vain or underhand
Except, maybe, Madame Thatcher
Lady I love you now, I do
'Cause when a sport becomes a war
There's no girls, or very few
Amongst those fans who yell for more
Those with no marbles left to lose
Up to here with hate and beer
Deifying fools in blue
Insulting bastards with a sneer
There is no female hooligan
Imbecilic, filled with murder
No, not even in Britain
Except, for sure, Madame Thatcher
I love woman just because
When she's sitting at the wheel
There's no man-like sense of loss
No urge to kill is yours to feel
For a slightly damaged headlight
Or for two fingers in the air
There are those who wish to fight
To the death if they but dare
An "up yours" their favourite sign
There's no woman so vulgar
To use this symbol all the time
Except, perhaps, Madame Thatcher
How I love you, dear woman
You don't go to war to die
Because the vision of a gun
Does not make you pant and sigh
Amongst those hunters of the night
Who jump on creatures that are frail
And occasionnally an Arabite
I've yet to see a female
There is no woman low enough
To spit and polish a revolver
Just to feel so bloody tough
Except, for sure, Madame Thatcher
The atom bomb was never made
By a human female brain
And no female hand has slayed
Those U.S. peoples of the plain
Palestinians or Armenians
Bear their witness form the grave
That a genocide is masculine
Like a SS or a Green Beret
In this bloody mass of man
Each assassin is a brother
There's no woman to rival them
Except, of course, Madame Thatcher
And lastly Woman, above all
I love hour gentleness so mild
A man draws strength from his own balles
Wich like his gun he shoots from wild
And when the final curtain draws
He'll join the cretins in the harvest
Playing football, playing wars
Or who can piss the farthest
I would join the doggic host
And love my days on earth
As my day to day lampost
I would use Madame Thatcher.
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Wow that song is very very insecure with women in strong agressive roles - I bet it was it written by a french man?
:lol
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We have
1. Bee's
2. Wasp's
3. Snakes, but none of em are dangerous. The worst one gives you pain like a bee sting unless you happen to be alergic to it.
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Non. Je regrette rien.
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Originally posted by -tronski-
White tails are a bugger too, if they bite you I think the bite never heals (or is that an urban legend?)
Yeah they do that necrotisingeatyaflecheeseis thing. Basically it kills the flesh in the infected area. I know someone who had to get a skin graft cos of a whitetail bite.
Two years ago I was hosptalised with severe asthma (after not having it for near on 20 years) and extremely hypoxic. We're pretty sure it was too a whitetail bite, but I didn't get the dead-flesh stuff. The food was so bad I got discharged early by hyperventilating just before the nurse came to do my O2/blood tests :D
I kill all spiders now. I never EVER want to go back to hospital food.
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Where you live, do you have
1. Bee's
Yes
2. Wasp's/Hornet's/Yellow Jacket's
yes
3. Fireants
No
4. Scorpion's
No
5. Deadly Spider's (Brown Recluse/Black Widow types)
Both are in the province but mainly in southern Alberta
6. Rattle Snake's
Some areas of southern Alberta have them
Luckily we get winter half of the year and that takes care of the little bastards.
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1. Bee's - Yeah but not killer ones. We've got the nice, docile European honey bee.
2. Wasp's/Hornet's/Yellow Jacket's
Wasp's yup.
3. Fireants
Nope.
4. Scorpion's
Yes. There's a brick wall 50ft long in some little fishing village in Kent that is home to the only British scorpion....er.....pack? It's thought they were brough ashore by some ship in the 1800s. They're about the size of a finger nail on a pinky and no threat to humans. And incidentally, the exact same shade of red that the brick wall is.
5. Deadly Spider's (Brown Recluse/Black Widow types)
Nope.
6. Rattle Snake's
Nope, just the common Viper, aka the Adder.
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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You aussies should carry a good revolver in 44 mag or 45 with a good home brew snake load. I like a paper wad over powder with number 6-9 shot capped off with a round lead ball. Instant on shot stops on snakes. Even speer shot caps work well on large rattlesnakes. So get out that old large frame revolver and... oops.... nevermind.
lazs
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Why are you so obsessed with gun control in other countries after your whining about foreigners meddling with US gun control?
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So what do you think of the shot load idea dowding? It is light in recoil so good for people with "limp wrists". so you should be able to handle it fine.
lazs
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Is that the best you can do? lol
Face it, you are like an American Beetle when it comes to gun control; obsessed with the subject and its application in countries you have nothing to do with.
Keep dancing, clown.
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Originally posted by Dowding
Why are you so obsessed with gun control in other countries after your whining about foreigners meddling with US gun control?
I think Dowding deserves an answer lazs, not some jab about his limp wrists.
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Yes, leave my limp wrists out of it. I'm sensitive about them and I might just break down and cry. Heh.
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Dowding,
get that argument BS out of my ****ing light hearted thread stunninghunk.
You got wasps where you live?
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Fair enough....I don't think that I am "obsessed". I think that I am taking light hearted jabs at those who are seething under the womanly gun control laws that have been passed in their country.. It was directed at aussies not english. The Aussies have a history of gun ownership and independence and individualism. Dowding and his ilk are the enemies of all those things and I believe that, rather than me being obsessed, it is he that is throwing one of his womanly hissy fits.
I know that 99% of the british (especially on this board) wouldn't be worth kidding so far as guns are concerned.. they are way too far gone.... Just figured the aussies might have a little spunk left in em. 17% percent homsexual or not.
lazs
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Originally posted by straffo
but we have some very dangerous species you don't have like :
1. Trotskist
2. Comunists
2'. Revolutionary communists (sub-specie of the communist , less frequent but more agressive ...)
2''. syndicalist-communists (see 2')
3. anarcho-communist s
4. post-communists
5. Chirac
The list is endless :D [/B]
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I guess I'm a Dowding ilk.
I'd shoot myself but I have no gun. Boo-hoo.;)
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Hmmm. Any mention of guns and you bring control into the equation. Even when guns aren't mentioned, you bring gun control into the equation. Apart from when you're making a myriad of posts about how people playing AH in not quite the way you'd like them to ruin your game, of course.
I guess Beetle takes light hearted jabs too and isn't obsessed by the subject. You two have so much in common in that regard...
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Originally posted by lazs2
So what do you think of the shot load idea dowding? It is light in recoil so good for people with "limp wrists". so you should be able to handle it fine.
lazs
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Sig material.
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Bloody hell, this is funny!
Did you CTRL + C, CTRL + V that into your sig field, Ripsnort? Or have we switched to the right-click mouse menus method?
The fountain of originality quoting the master of mundanity. Classic.
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Only bees and wasps. Very rarely hornets.
Yeah it's a boring place to live in.
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I believe Australia wins the award for the most nasty creatures.
Yeah here in Texas fire ants are no fun. Anyone else like just messing with them when you see a big mound? You do have to be careful though because they come swarming out very fast and they bite like hell.
I have seen a lot of venemous snakes in my lifetime. They really don't bother me and I typically don't kill them. Although I would not like the idea of getting bit, I am not afraid.
However, spiders really scare the heck out of me....and generally freak me out. I do generally have a desire to kill most I come in contact with. I hate walking around outside at night and run into a big web. Also, the brown recluse bite is supposed to be worse long-term than the black widow because of tissue necrosis.
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Originally posted by Dowding
Bloody hell, this is funny!
Did you CTRL + C, CTRL + V that into your sig field, Ripsnort? Or have we switched to the right-click mouse menus method?
The fountain of originality quoting the master of mundanity. Classic.
Hey, if its come to ^^*that*^^ left in your ammunition pouch, have fun with it! LOL! ;)
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Have fun with the personal attack in your sig. It does wonders for your image as an intellectual heavyweight.
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Originally posted by Dowding
Why are you so obsessed with gun control in other countries after your whining about foreigners meddling with US gun control?
Why are you so obsessed with Lazs?
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Why are you so obsessed with Rude?
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dowding, you're a crazy person, and that's coming from one who used to be crazy. So i know what I'm talking about. We're or I am trying to have a FREAKING LIGHT HEARTED THREAD WITH NO BICKERING!!!! Are you so ****ing dense and filled with hate that you can't even participate without starting a pissing match?
again I ask...
DO YOU HAVE MOTHER ****ING WASPS OR BEES WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JEEEESUS H.!!!!!!!!!
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That's an interesting response. A few more exclamation marks wouldn't have gone amiss, but the inconsistent, alternating use of capitals is very well done.
I already answered your question about insects and snakes. We used to have a problem with them but we sent them all to France.
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Wow...I'm on the same side as Dowding on this one.
You guys are jumping on him about hijacking this thread, yet it is lazs' quote, that now resides in Rip's sig, that provoked his response.
Jump on lazs guys, not Dowding.
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I just checked Curval. Grun hijacked first followed by Dowding (who's done more hijacking than any of the others) Laz made a valid comment to this conversation and Dowd went mental on him about guns.
Laz said this "You aussies should carry a good revolver in 44 mag or 45 with a good home brew snake load. I like a paper wad over powder with number 6-9 shot capped off with a round lead ball. Instant on shot stops on snakes. Even speer shot caps work well on large rattlesnakes. So get out that old large frame revolver and... oops.... nevermind.
lazs"
then Dowding said this "Why are you so obsessed with gun control in other countries after your whining about foreigners meddling with US gun control?"
Once again Dowding makes an attack on somebody. And he pulls it out of thin air, further proving his disconnect with reality. Everything Laz said is a good way to handle rattler's and had NOTHING to do with gun control :)
That's it , I'm sending fire ants to England! :D
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No no no! It was straffo' s fault - he said the word communist and I, I just couldn't resist... :)
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
No no no! It was straffo' s fault - he said the word communist and I, I just couldn't resist... :)
that's not what I call personal responsibility! Straffo, made a funny joke that was a tangent of what this thread was about :) OMG I just defended a Frenchman er.. Freedomman :D
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Dowding, they're like faithful old dogs even if you slap them hard in the head they still comeback wagging their tails asking for more, maybe they like it?
Who knows but extremely funny to watch either way. ;)
Carry on....
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To a degree you are correct Udie...but lazs knew he was pushing gun control buttons when he posted that "valid comment".
...and Dowding's response was totally valid in my opinion. Whenever anyone has said ANYTHING about gun control in the US and they are not American he claims that person is obsessing about America and that it is none of their business.
He got a small taste of his own medicine and I congratulate Dowding on pointing it out to him.
Now I'm done.
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Originally posted by Udie
that's not what I call personal responsibility! Straffo, made a funny joke that was a tangent of what this thread was about :) OMG I just defended a Frenchman er.. Freedomman :D
Oh my good !
You should feel so dirty now :D
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Originally posted by straffo
Oh my good !
You should feel so dirty now :D
yes I do, I think some of it rubbed of on me :D I'm going to have to take 9 baths tonight!:lol
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Oh come on curval... it was legit ... both as on topic (snake medicine) and as a dig at any country that would allow it's women to control em.
The aussie gun thing is still current events.. they have a history that they are proud of that is about rugged individualism and being able to take care of themselves. then they shreeeek like schoolgirls and overreact like liberals and when some nut cuts loose in a crowd.
granted... I figured dowding would have a hissy fit but... hell... he is british and doesn't have a clue about guns. He is also one of the few brits dumb enough to jump in on subjects he knows nothing about, so is fun to get a rise out of...
I really wanted to hear from the aussies tho.
shot loads work great on snakes.
lazs
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Oh... anyone else here feel that dowding isn't a real person but just some character in an Ayn Rand novel?
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
Oh... anyone else here feel that dowding isn't a real person but just some character in an Ayn Rand novel?
lazs
Well I think all of you are robots here to fool me in to thinking life is real!
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Originally posted by Udie
yes I do, I think some of it rubbed of on me :D I'm going to have to take 9 baths tonight!:lol
Ready to add 10 more bath ?
Check my last post in LePaul BBS (O'club forum)
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lazs...just take your medicine like a good chap and stop this attempt at justification.
I must say though, when Hillary Clinton is back in the White House, but this time as President, I'm gonna remember your comment about women controlling them.:p
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Originally posted by straffo
Ready to add 10 more bath ?
Check my last post in LePaul BBS (O'club forum)
NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!! I need 20 baths now!!!! :mad:
btw I can't read japanese. Do you know the ordering info? :eek: :lol :rofl
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I ****ing hate spiders.
Imagine my shock when I flipped over an older radiator brace in my dad’s yard when I was cleaning it out, and there 3 inches from my not gloved hand was a black widow.
I am not ashamed to admit I shrieked like a girl.
I did confirm it was a widow before I killed it with carb cleaner. Same yard had paper wasp nest EVERYWHERE!
Even on the ladder my dad used in his house.
Birchwood casey gun cleaner kills them as good as bug spray!
:D
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Anybody else have a mental image of Dowding foaming at the mouth and growling? :D
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hehe yesterday I had to go out into the field to mark some boring locations for the project I'm working on. I had a hammer in my left hand and the marking stake in my right hand. I was looking for a safe place to jump the fence when I dropped the stake next to a little tree, really more of a bush. So I casually kneeled over and picked it up. When I stood up there was a freaking yellow/black spider that was HUGE. I mean the body was like 3" long then add on the legs and the thing was like a 6" or 7" diameter. There it is in all it's glory 2 INCHES FROM MY FACE!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Spiders don't freak me out, unless they are on me. OR if they happen to be BIG and 2 INCHES FROM MY FACE!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
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FUNKED1
If he is a Pink poodle while doing it then yes.
:D
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Wow a thread on insects and snakes the generated into a catfight. Good one! Checking back twas Mietla what started it by including liberals. Several people here are obsessed with politics and lberals and bring it up at every opportunity, eh Grunherz, Mietla etc? I hope you talk about other stuff in real life. It's funny stuff really!
Well back to the point, here in olde Irelande, we have bees and wasps but never had snakes or scorpions or other poisonous creepy crawlies.
The ants are just annoying but in the spirit of the debate we have Trotskyite politicians one of whom has just been locked up for a month for disobeying a court order. That should ensure his re-election. LOL
Oh we do have Horse flies the blood sucking barstewards and painful with it. Just like some government politicians. You know it is easy to drift into political debate. :rofl
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Originally posted by lazs2
The aussie gun thing is still current events.. they have a history that they are proud of that is about rugged individualism and being able to take care of themselves. then they shreeeek like schoolgirls and overreact like liberals and when some nut cuts loose in a crowd.
shot loads work great on snakes.
lazs
Lazs for PM of Aus!! I'd vote for ya :)
Before we went all soft and girly and handed in our weapons, I used to have an old .410 shotgun specifically for dealing with snakes in the yard....think you'll find most every non-urban house did, or something similar.
Mild recoil ,small size and a good spread of shot at 15 yards made it ideal for a snake gun.
Handguns were a bit of a rarity even before the Great Oestregen Surge that overcame our government and disarmed my fellow Aussies, so small shotguns usually filled the anti-snake role.
BTW, I'm not sure on this, but I think all our snakes, deadly or not, are protected fauna, ie, it's illegal to kill them.
but if you have a 6ft King Brown on your patio, I guess the law doesnt count for much.
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This thread ****ing rocks!! LMAO
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He was just trying to give them a safer alternative to flamethrowers dowding. I don't agree with Lazs stance on outlawing flamethrowers, but I do believe having a less environmentally damaging alternative is a good thing.
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Sweden :
1. Bee's
Have them...
2. Wasp's/Hornet's/Yellow Jacket's
Have them...
3. Fireants
Nope...
4. Scorpion's
Nope...
5. Deadly Spider's (Brown Recluse/Black Widow types)
Nope...
6. Rattle Snake's
Have them...
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curval... first you tell me to justify what I said and then when I do..... you tell me to stop justifying what I said and just head to a sensitivity training class like a good citizen...
Point is... it was a friendly jibe between men... the Aussie got it... the brits didn't... understand now?
And yes... we let women run things here too... with predictable results. California is run by women and womenly men. Allmost everything is prohibited for our own good. Taxes continue to rise and socialism is running out bussiness....we are damn near british.
Flamethrowers... I have no objection to flamethrowers in the hands of private citizens but you shouldn't be able to store the chemicals (napalm) in urban areas.. The fire department should also be aware that your house contains napalm. Other than that... normal state and local laws as to burning should apply.
lazs