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Shawnee123 09-23-2009 11:40 AM

I think it'd be thrilling, but not that scary. Fun-scary, maybe.

Sheldonrs 09-23-2009 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 596548)
I think it'd be thrilling, but not that scary. Fun-scary, maybe.

Like straight sex?


:D

ZenGum 09-23-2009 09:05 PM

How would you know? :eyebrow: you been batting for both teams?

Sheldonrs 09-25-2009 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 596618)
How would you know? :eyebrow: you been batting for both teams?

Nope. Hence the question mark. hehehe

TheMercenary 09-25-2009 09:52 AM

We have some big gators around here but holy hell. That thing is huge. I bet if we had those our kids wouldn't be so careless water skiing past the ones on the river banks.

Cloud 09-25-2009 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Hillrick (Post 596289)
Huh. And I thought it was cruel for my daughter to wave a chunk of steak in front of my dog's nose and then pull it away.....

my reaction was similar. A cruel tease? or animal "enrichment"?

Shawnee123 09-25-2009 03:15 PM

Oh no...don't even LOOK at the animals, it's cruel and unfair. :lol:

Hey mom, there's a cow!

LOOK AWAY! WE ARE NEVER TO LOOK AT THE ANIMALS.

;) sorry cloud, that just struck me in a funny way

TheMercenary 09-25-2009 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 597216)
my reaction was similar. A cruel tease? or animal "enrichment"?

I go with "enrichment" if they get to eat a small child every now and then.

Cloud 09-25-2009 03:58 PM

dunno--when I saw the pic, I just thought--that's just mean.

to the poor crocodeely.

(cries you-know-what tears)

Shawnee123 09-25-2009 08:06 PM

I have that kind of sensitivity towards animals, cloud. I've been deep water scuba diving, and one of the training sessions I took was underwater naturalism (or some such title.) One of the things I remember was my instructor talking about natural environment, and how if you pick up a tiny little creature and move him a few feet, you have just separated him from what is natural to him. Maybe a few miles without GPS ;) in human terms.

So, I hadn't thought about that angle, when thinking how neat it would be to see close up like that.

You're right...though we don't know if the animals are happier or sadder...it's not up to us to know, we should just let them be in their own damn environment. They shouldn't be fodder for us thrillseekers to brag about.

There are plenty of thrills in the ocean, in the sky...without disturbing any of it.

Sorry to wax badly poetic. :blush:

Thanks, cloud. :)

richlevy 09-26-2009 12:59 PM

I don't know. The way that croc is clinging to the box it looks like he's trying to hump it.

ZenGum 09-26-2009 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 597121)
We have some big gators around here but holy hell. That thing is huge. I bet if we had those our kids wouldn't be so careless water skiing past the ones on the river banks.

I think there is a bit of camera-angle trickery going on there, but still, it is Biiiiiig. Big old bull salties can reach 6 metres and weigh over 1,500 kg, and aggressively defend their territory.
So if a big one establishes itself in a piece of river too close to human habitation, it gets trapped and relocated to a crocodile farm/tourist trap, where it lives out it's days as shown here. I wish they'd lower bikini chicks in glass cages into my living room.

richlevy 09-27-2009 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 597430)
I wish they'd lower bikini chicks in glass cages into my living room.

They're safer with the croc.;)


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