Nightmare Fuel
I thought we could use a thread for stuff that scares the hell out of ya. Phobia stuff, or, stuff that gives the heebiejeebies, etc.
I'll open with:
Just What The World Needs, Big Caffeinated Spiders
GAH!!!
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This fellow chased me well into adulthood and married life.
My wife teases me about the wolf-man still being after me some nights.
My nightmares are always extremely relevant and topical. They involve real people I genuinely hate, and while the things that are happening may be unrealistic, they are never impossible or supernatural.
Four words.
"We need to talk".
:bolt:
This fellow chased me well into adulthood and married life.
My wife teases me about the wolf-man still being after me some nights.
The only movie monster that ever got to me, as a kid mind you, was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. I caught it on a Saturday afternoon re-run.
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This thing came after me in the dark more than once.
This gave me recurring unexplainable nightmares for years
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Spex, you're showing your age !
But I agree...I recognized it without even playing the video
Spex, you're showing your age !
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I thought we could use a thread for stuff that scares the hell out of ya. Phobia stuff, or, stuff that gives the heebiejeebies, etc.
I'll open with:
Just What The World Needs, Big Caffeinated Spiders
GAH!!!
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Fucking shit. Now I'm switching to tea. Thanks Grav! I thought I was over my spider phobia until 27 seconds ago.
i'll definitely look twice in my coffee cup!
roaches. i can't stand.......roaches!
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This gave me recurring unexplainable nightmares for years
You were just scared of Barry Goldwater. Had nothing to do with the Russkies or the bomb.
I lived in an apartment that had a roach problem like that.
Yes, I'd seen the movie first, which made the whole roach issue far worse for me.
the worst part was that the little bastards wouldn't stay in the kitchen where they belonged.
You were just scared of Barry Goldwater. Had nothing to do with the Russkies or the bomb.
:D
i'll definitely look twice in my coffee cup!
roaches. i can't stand.......roaches!
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OMG! I had to cover my eyes while watching that. So freaking scary. I actually had the chills after the video ended. :lol:
OMG! I had to cover my eyes while watching that. So freaking scary. I actually had the chills after the video ended. :lol:
i keep an airsoft pistol in the garage for when i'm smoking. every now and then one will show up and i'll shoot'em. except, i found out the hard way that they sometimes splatter. all over you.
all over you.
Eew.:greenface
I found out recently about the
Slender Man, also known as The Operator, Der Ritter, Der Großmann or The Thin Man. And, like a dummy, I had to learn more about him. This guy + active imagination = bad times.
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Awww, it's just a cute widdle fwuitbat!
Or are you saying you have nightmares about watermelons?
looks just like a little dog.
From HELL!
Widdle fwuitbat my ass!
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I'm still freaking out over Slender Man. WTF?
I'll never go out by the woods/river at night ever again!
So much for a good night's sleep...:neutral:
The filename says "sixfootrattler". Maybe, if the girl is only four feet tall...but then again, maybe she has small hands.
Great googahmoogah.
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I found out recently about the Slender Man, also known as The Operator, Der Ritter, Der Großmann or The Thin Man. And, like a dummy, I had to learn more about him. This guy + active imagination = bad times.
I want sooo badly to read about it... but then I know I'm just going to freak myself out constantly. I've been debating it for like a month now haha
Most of the stuff in this thread are just ehh..to me.
But not the friggin cockroaches.:yeldead:
For four years, I lived in a rental house that had one gawdawful german cockroach infestation. They were everywhere, mostly living in the walls and erupted out of the electrical sockets and other openings after dark.
Landlord ignored me.
I tried traps. I tried bait. I tried foggers. I tried boric acid. I tried spraying into and around every socket opening. I tried bleach. I even painted over any (cleaned) nesting areas I found to prevent more from being attracted. We kept everything in sealed tupperware, glass and ziploc baggies.
Nothing.
I hired Terminix, who had a money back guarantee. They sprayed and sprayed and I missed a ton of work while they gave it a shot. No luck.
That house needed to be tented.
We finally moved out and to this day, I have PTSD whenever I see a cockroach.
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No, I did NOT watch that damn video.
That is such a beautiful snake. It seems a shame it's dead, though it probably had the fatal misfortune of encroaching on some human's territory.
That is such a beautiful snake. It seems a shame it's dead...
:eyebrow:...The day that thing died should be a national holiday.
of mourning.
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diff topic.
SonofV has told me that he wants to be Slender Man for Halloween. We're working on how to make his arms reaaaaaalllly long. The white face/head will be accomplished with a lycra mask/hood. black suit, white shirt, red tie, those are pretty easy.
Having seen your previous "attempts" at costumes, I just know it will be amazing.
You have a flair for this.
SonofV has told me that he wants to be Slender Man for Halloween. We're working on how to make his arms reaaaaaalllly long.
The claw!
None of this stuff scares me except the snake. I just saw a show on Nat. geo. about how all these freaking pythons and anaconda's are thriving in the Fla. everglades and now they even actually have a Venom Unit that goes around looking for these giant snakes. AND then there is the alligator problem down there; forget it. I HATE Florida and don't ever want to live there. "Oh, darling, there's a man-eating alligator fighting a man-squeezing snake over there by our pond! How sweet!"
Grandma can HAVE Florida. I want to move somewhere where I'm more likely to be eaten by a Yeti.
It's OK, the turkeys got yer back
I don't think them's turkeys.
I think them's guineas.
And they make excellent watchdogs.
I think they're dolphins.
Don't they attack snakes?
Guinea fowl let's go to the videotape!
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Although the commenter saying that the snake is already dead, seems accurate to me
From wikipedia(bold mine):
They eat lice, worms, ants, spiders, weedseeds, and ticks while on range...
AND alert to snakes in the grass without apparent fear? I know what I want for Christmas.
I know what I want for Christmas.
Hear those fukkers before you say that.
Congratulations, sir! It's a, uh--here ya go.
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They made one of those an alien in MIB3.
For the life of me I can't remember what that fish-thing is called.
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Moving on...given the choice between the two...
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...I'd take the Taliban.
For the life of me I can't remember what that fish-thing is called.
the very aptly-named Blobfish!
In my front yard. In Momdigr's flowers. I've been told to refer to 'her' (the spidder, not Momdigr) as Charlotte.
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It's OK, the turkeys got yer back
Speaking of turkeys.
What does the title of the song Young Turks mean? He sings 'young hearts be free tonight...'
I googled about the 'young turks' but I don't get how it relates to the song.
I really don't like that song. It came on I :heartpump Radio and I remembered I never understood that.
Young Turks @ Wikipedia:
The term "Young Turks" has since come to signify any groups or individuals inside an organization who seek prominence and power.
That's prolly no help, I know.
Constipated for life now.
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Black Widow, for the record.
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Whaaaaaaaaaathefuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck is this?
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pretty gross.
this one is fucking gross. if you're squeamish, at all, read the title and move on. it is as nasty as you imagine.
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Fracking is nightmare fuel
Not clicking wormy links.
Biders are okay. Parasites (and removal) are not.
I hate wasps, they really freak me out those bastards are the skinheads of the insect world they'll sting for fuck all just because they can...
Spawns of Satan they are :worried:
Not clicking wormy links.
Biders are okay. Parasites (and removal) are not.
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i keep an airsoft pistol in the garage for when i'm smoking. every now and then one will show up and i'll shoot'em. except, i found out the hard way that they sometimes splatter. all over you.
Many years ago, I was working in the garden. Came across one of these nasty fuckers...
and proceeded to smash it with my rake.
Wereupon its gut juices squirted out onto my HEAD. Whereupon I went instantly into full spaz mode trying to get the stuff off of me. It was gritty and slimy.
GAAAHHHH!!!
WTF is that gruesome looking thing, anyway?
{/shudder}
And does it grow up into anything worse?!
WTF is that gruesome looking thing, anyway?
{/shudder}
That, my friends, is the great North American
Jerusalem Cricket.
Jerusalem crickets are a group of large, flightless insects of the genus Stenopelmatus. They are native to the western United States and parts of Mexico. Its large, human-like head has inspired both Native American and Spanish names.
Despite their common name, Jerusalem crickets are not true crickets, as they belong to the family Stenopelmatidae, while crickets belong to the family Gryllidae; nor are they native to Jerusalem. These nocturnal insects use their strong mandibles to feed primarily on dead organic matter but can also eat other insects. Their highly adapted feet are used for burrowing beneath moist soil to feed on decaying root plants and tubers.
While Jerusalem crickets are not venomous they can emit a foul smell and are capable of inflicting a painful bite.
And does it grow up into anything worse?!
Good lord, I hope not! :eek:
Okay.
Well at least they're useful and not really into attacking the human bean.
Thanks for the info.
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Whaaaaaaaaaathefuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck is this?
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Some info...I make no guarantees.
from
here
How would you explain the presence of a long writhing worm found in the cold remains of last night's cup of coffee? Something you narrowly missed drinking perhaps? But then you notice a large dead huntsman spider on the bench near the coffee cup... hmmm.
Poor old spiders! Their lives are full of tribulations, and some of the worst involve insidious attacks by a variety of lethal parasitic organisms. The worm in the coffee cup, probably a mermithid nematode, is one of these. Mermithid worms are internal parasites whose infective larvae enter spiders directly or via ingested food. Once inside the spider, the tiny worm obtains nourishment from it's hosts body fluids, digestive glands, gonads ('parasitic castration') and muscles. As a consequence the spider becomes progressively more debilitated, but doesn't actually die. This is because the spider's vital organs usually remain intact, even though all of the abdomen, and occasionally part of the cephalothorax, may be filled with worm coils. Eventually in a scene reminiscent of the movie "Alien", the gorged worm bursts out of the body of the debilitated spider, which finally dies after this macabre event.
Before it dies, however the spider often has to perform one more task for it's deadly parasite. In some mermithids, the final free-living stage of the worm is aquatic, so that it is advantageous for the worm if its emergence can take place near a water body - a pond, a creek or puddle. To increase this likelihood, such worms seem able to induce their hapless hosts to seek water, spiders sometimes actually walking into the water before the worm emerges. This behavior may result from thirst-induced activity as the worm consumes the spider's body fluids. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that the spider's water seeking behavior helps to ensure the parasite's survival and propagation.
So what happened in the kitchen during the night? Perhaps the thirsty huntsman spider was carrying a water-dependant parasite and could find only one 'water body' in the kitchen - a cold cup of coffee left on a bench. The weakened spider climbed up the side of the cup and fell in. The tightly coiled worm then emerged from the spider's body into the liquid. The dying spider may then have managed to crawl out of the cup, only to succumb on the kitchen bench. - Mike Gray, Australian Museum
The article is from Nature Australia, Spring 1995
Copyright: The Australian Museum
That, my friends, is the great North American Jerusalem Cricket[/URL].
And
this is her song. The female Mahogany Jerusalem Cricket, anyway.
Some info...I make no guarantees.
from here
That's disgusting, but also incredibly cool. I had no idea that worms lived inside insects and controlled their behavior.
edit: I see that some 25 species of these nematodes are parasites of mosquito larvae, so they aren't all bad.
And this is her song. The female Mahogany Jerusalem Cricket, anyway.
DANA! It's the sound of drums, the sound of drums!
Four words.
"We need to talk".
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That's funny. My 17yr old daughter told me today that this phrase turns her absolutely inside out. When someone says that or "I have to talk to you", she said her stomach turns over, gets all knotty, she breaks out into a sweat and has waves of anxiety. She hates hearing it...
followed by, "close the door, please".
I'd let it burn.
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Absolutely true. The SOB has been following me for weeks.
Don't like snakes?
Don't like spiders?
How about spider-snake?
I don't like spiders and snakes ... and that ain't what it takes ...
How about spider-snake?
Two things:
1. Yee.
2. Ikes.
That is creepy looking. :-X
The love-child of an anglerfish and a rattlesnake. Sweeeet.
I may be wrong - and do feel free to correct me - but it seems that apart from crocs, Australia's rivers don't seem to want to kill people. Which makes them unique in the landscape. So my one guess is the above pic is NOT Australian.
Cue a deluge of photos of Killer Fish From Downunder :)
Or just a deluge of fish.
Same guy and fish. Different angle. Still big, but doesn't appear quite so huge.
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Still a nopefish, though.
Definitely not an Australian fish. Keen anglers tried to introduce them, but they kept getting wiped out by the native fish. True story, I swear. ;)
Looks sorta carpish, scale-wise.
Definitely not an Australian fish. Keen anglers tried to introduce them, but they kept getting wiped out by the native fish. True story, I swear. ;)
xenophobic fish !
I don't think Australian wildlife/ weather/ landscape is necessarily xenophobic.
It just wants to kill anything and everything regardless of whether it's native or imported (Cane Toads excepted - Australian humans did that and they need to do the killing bit too.)
Oz just basically looks at anything and says, "Om nom nom nom."
I've only met one non-Australian Australian.
She was first generation (as we reckon it)
Irish parents moved to Aus, spawned a whiny child, she decamped as soon as she could to come and plague us in England. She hated Ireland (too wet) hated England (not Australia) and hated Australia.
You had to be wary of getting this girl onto the subject of her homeland because she had a list as long as her scrawny arm about how awful it was.
Don't get me wrong, with family and (I hope) friends in Aus I am happy to joke about it.
But this girl was venomous.
She probably wasn't allowed back into Eire because St Patrick got rid of all the snakes.
Gosh - I knew her about 20 years ago. Turns out I hold a fierce grudge.
Actually, no. She was a nasty piece of work. So there.
Saw this over at The Shack, and had to look twice. WTF??
It's a Spiny Orb-Weaver! The first I've seen wit me own eyes.
The abdomen was about the size of a pea (¼-inch-ish).
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Now that is pretty.
If it was the size of a golfball it would be yuck.
Size matters.
Now that is pretty.
You are a strange bird sometimes, Sundae megirl.:eyebrow:
So you fall asleep dreaming you're in Louisiana
... standing at the edge of a slough
LA Times
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Note to other Dwellars: read the article first.
Not a criticism, more an admission of ignorance, I expected spiders and couldn't work out what I was seeing.
Blimey.
That's... sucky.
See it yet?
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My knees are locking just looking at this...
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Rock climbing makes me consider the fact that a cliff face is is the exposed surface after a bunch of rock broke off.
And that chair is probably fastened by sticking into an existing crack a device which attempts to widen that crack, and relies on the hope that it is unable to do so.
My knees are locking just looking at this..
My throat. It got me in my throat.
I can breathe now I can't see it.
The fringe is a nice touch... flutters in the breeze [COLOR="White"]on the way down[/COLOR]
Amanda would lose her shit
They are kind of cute, but there are far too many of them, and if they were inside, I would be unhappy.
When I was a Cub Scout (yeah, I was a Cub Scout, wanna fight about it?) I saw a wolf spider about this size in the corner of the men's room on Trooper's Island.
I took the toilet paper and shat in the woods. True Story.™
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Any you Aussies know what that spider is?
I've heard of parasites but fucking hell that one looks a handful!
Yep, gonna need a bigger boat, fer damn sure.
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"Will you walk into my parlor?", said the spider to the fly...
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GAH!!
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A long time ago I had several nightmares where I'd get hit by a train.
Still would fuel nightmares for me, though I haven't had any in a few years.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Evolution! Defecation's about to commence upon to rotating oscillater!
Yeah, I've seen ladybugs fly often, but the flying spider would demand a coordinated world wide extinction.
Anyone who's read Charlotte's Web knows that spiders can fly. But that one's a hoax.
French naval vessel Latouche-Tréville, in the English Channel, in heavy seas.
No, no indeed, hell no.I've been in worse seas than that. Twice. At night and in the rain.
I'm pretty happy staying in sight of shore these days.
I raise you, crew boats in the gulf of Mexico. In a following sea. SUCKS!
I see videos like that, read about 100ft rogue waves hitting cruise ships, or a Pacific storm, Typhoon Cobra, sinking three USN destroyers, makes a landlubber like me wary of the ocean.
Then I see pictures of these islands with captions like, "if the sea levels rise 1 inch 50 Billion people and their puppies will die instantly". How did these places survive this long?
I've been on the little mailboat to Monhegan Island, a 12 mile trip in open water, in seas with 4-6 foot swells, and that was enough for me to be puking my guts out. I can't imagine anything rough like that video.
I can't imagine anything rough like that video.
When I was on the CGC Confidence in the gulf of Alaska, we had seas breaking over the top of the mast 75 feet above the water line. GOOD TIMES!!!
I went to school with a kid who'd spent three years on tankers running from Texas to New England. He showed slides from his camera mounted on the rail of the stern, pointing at the bow, in heavy seas. I couldn't believe the flexing.
This is a video of a Maersk ship in heavy seas. The first minute of outside is not as impressive as many videos I've seen, but starting just after one minute are shots of ship interiors which are scary. :eek:
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So I watched this video of giant hornets killing honey bees and youtube was kind enough to offer me some Japanese entertainment.
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I would SO not be holding that in my bare hand. Those dudes want to be inside me, eating me from the inside. And they have nasty teeth.
OK, I'm done sleeping for May.
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If this is a real thing (which I doubt):
1. This is awesome.
2. This would creep me right the fuck out if I looked at it every day. I have had dreams where those gigantic high-tension wire pylons came to life and marched across the landscape. They don't need no anthropomorphization.
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I got into an argument at another website when someone suggested the federal government should pass a law mandating those things for the sake of art. I suggested Art pay for the fuckers.
Art would also have to pay for my psychoanalysis.
I hope this 'Art' guy has a ton o' cash.
Australia of course. :haha:
OMG, kill it... kill it with fire. :mg:
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World's Prettiest Tarantula Takes Best in Show 2014
A Socotra Island Blue Baboon spider took top honors at the 29th annual exhibition of the British Tarantula Society.
I'd shoot the pluddermucker with my gnu nug. Yes I would. Look at the target on his abdomen.
That's not a spider. It has 10 legs.
The palpus (or palps or pedipalps) can be very leg-like on a spider, but they're actually considered mouthparts, and are often used like arms to grab food, or for mating.
No. Those are clearly legs. Look at them.
;)
World's Prettiest Tarantula...That's second cousin to Most Pleasant Shark Bite.
That's not a spider. It has 10 legs.
The palpus (or palps or pedipalps) can be very leg-like on a spider, but they're actually considered mouthparts, and are often used like arms to grab food, or for mating.
No. Those are clearly legs. Look at them.;)
Actually, those things are what they use to help scoop in your soul as they crawl across your face at night.
That's not a spider. It has 10 legs.
The palp[i] ... are often used ... for mating.
Saying that a spider has 10 legs is probably like saying that a man has a third leg after seeing him in a locker room.
Hey, leave me out of this. :haha:
The palpus (or palps or pedipalps) can be very leg-like on a spider, but they're actually considered mouthparts, and are often used like arms to grab food, or for mating.
I wonder if that makes me part spider....
Yes, Boris, yes it does. :p:
That's disgusting, but also incredibly cool. I had no idea that worms lived inside insects and controlled their behavior.
Read an article once about this is so common--parasites controlling host behavior for their reproductive purposes (sometimes passing through several host species in an ecosystem, as they xenomorph through different stages of their life cycle)--that if we knew how much this takes place we'd consider parasites the dominant life form.
Crabs don't really bother me as much as spiders.
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Until I reconsider that they're just gigantic armored spiders!!!
Also, that guy's gonna need a bigger comb. His crabs are huge.
Six-spotted Fishing Spider and
Great Raft Spiders, eat the fish they catch... yes, catch... yes, fish. :eek2:
for some reason I hadn't thought about this. I guess i'll never go swimming in a pond again. I can just imagine one of those on top of my head!!!!
What to do... what do you do... besides scream, "A talking spider"?
Mole crickets.
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Pass.
This pic was labeled 'rattlesnake fishing'.
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I was dubious, because the tail is too sharp and thin to have a rattle on it. So, off to Wikipedia, I was. I believe the specimen above is actually a
diamondback water snake.
Wikipedia quote:
When foraging for food they will hang on branches suspended over the water, dipping their head under the surface of the water, until they encounter a fish or other prey. They are frequently found basking on these branches over water, and when approached, they will quickly drop into the water and swim away. If cornered, they will often hiss, and flatten their head or body to appear larger. They only typically resort to biting if physically harassed or handled. Its bite is known to be quite painful due to its sharp teeth meant to keep hold of slippery fish. Unfortunately, this defensive behavior is frequently misinterpreted as aggression and often leads to their being mistaken for the venomous cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), with whom they do share habitat in some places. The brown/tan coloration and diamond shaped pattern also causes these snakes to be mistaken for rattlesnakes, especially when encountered on land by individuals unfamiliar with snakes.
Silly people, you think the snake caught that fish to eat.
Nay nay, it caught that fish to use as bait. :eek:
here fishy fishy fishy fishy.
From Smithsonian... shudder. :eek2:
Here's something interesting
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Whoa, Sarge.
I knew bears could climb fast, but it seems so much faster when they are coming up a tree that you are in.
I woulda been shittin kittens.
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HO-LEE YIKES!!!
He *might* have that camera pointed in the wrong direction.
GAH!! JFC.
Someone please break out the Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch.
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Or a J-DAM.
I was expecting it to leap at the camera.
I was literally leaning away from my monitor, waiting for just that.
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How's that for a headline?
Apparently this guy in Ireland ordered over the internet, "Over 100 killer spiders...", and, "Among the lethal critters found crawling in the house were black widows, funnel-web spiders, scorpions and deadly tarantulas."
Oh, forgot to tell you... you should now panic.
The worst part is after he collected all these critters, he walked away, abandoned them like they were common puppies/kittens or something. :(
Poor little critters. Miles from their natural environment, left without adequate heating or food. They killed the dangerous ones when they found them. Shame.
This featured in several news outlets a couple of days ago:
Mother finds deadly spider eggs in Tesco bananas
Abby Woodgate poked a white lump on her bananas which turned out to be cocoon full of tropical spider eggs
A mother who found eggs belonging to one of the world’s most venomous spiders hidden in her Tesco bananas had to have her vacuum cleaner incinerated after she tried to clean them up.
Pest control experts hired by the supermarket told Abby Woodgate, 30, anything that had been in contact with the bunch and its deadly cargo would have to be burned.
At first she had thought the bananas were mouldy when she noticed a white lump after they were delivered to her home.
But when she poked the mysterious growth with a toothpick, a cocoon opened, revealing dozens of tropical eggs.
She immediately threw the fruit in the bin, but a few eggs dropped on her kitchen floor, which she vacuumed clean.
When she called Tesco's store in Colchester, Essex, staff said they would come round to collect the bananas. Later she received another call saying pest controllers would come round instead.
Mrs Woodgate said: "The pest controllers asked where the eggs were and I told them the bin and they said 'right, we'll take that'.
"Then they asked had anything else come into contact with the eggs, and I told them about my vacuum cleaner, so they said 'we'll have to take that too'. All they could tell me is they thought they were tropical spider eggs."
and...
British supermarkets buy shipments of bananas from tropical countries including Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Colombia, home to some of the world's most venomous spiders.
The Brazilian wandering spider oftens hides in bunches of banana and occasionally stows away in shipments to foreign countries. The species are known to have some of the most toxic venom in the world, causing loss of muscle control and breathing problems, and eventually death.
In November last year, a Tesco store in Kent was forced to close for several hours after a Brazilian wandering spider was found under a box of bananas.
Daily Telegraph
Google News
A few months ago I was at the checkout at my local Tesco when a spider ran out of a bunch of bananas that was about to be weighed.
It shot along the conveyor with commendable despatch and disappeared down the hole where the cables for the card terminal are routed.
The lady on the till, who I know quite well, just smiled and wasn't in the least bit surprised. 'Oh, we get a lot of those' she said.
Now, I don't know if it was completely harmless or whether it had the potential to visit multiple deaths upon the local populace, but I noted that the bananas came from Costa Rica. See above. :eek:
They took the vacuum cleaner? If Tesco didn't buy her a new one, they should.
The Brazilian wandering spider belongs in the Appropriate Names thread :)
The Brazilian wandering spider
What is that? A new trend in ladyscaping?
Also, from Bruce's link:
...and deadly tarantulas.
Aside from me killing myself trying to get away from one, I didn't know tarantulas were deadly.
I don't believe they are. There's hundreds of different kinds of tarantulas so maybe there are some, but I suspect the reporter was just wrapped up in his own sensationalist reporting.
Wiki says no actual species of tarantula are anywhere near deadly, but several other big-spider species, including the Brazilian Wandering Spider, are often mistaken for tarantulas.
EEK, I'm scared of SPIDERS!!!
Scared of spiders? Well how about a cute little monkey?
I dated that chick...
Once.
Looks like it's going to be a bad hair day...
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It probably spins webs out of steel wire. :eek:
Brazilian Wandering spider delivered in Waitrose online shopping
Most customers would welcome a free item in their online grocery shop – but not when it’s a deadly spider and a bulging egg sac
A family were forced to flee their home after finding an aggressive Brazilian Wanderer spider in their online Waitrose delivery.
Tim, a father of two young sons from South London, was cooking breakfast when the family’s Waitrose grocery delivery arrived. As he unpacked a bunch of bananas he was shocked to discover a huge spider with long hairy legs lurking in the fruit.
When he went online to identify the arachnid he was even more horrified to discover it was a Brazilian Wanderer – an aggressive and venomous spider usually found in South and Central America.
Even with the spider successfully captured the family were too frightened to sleep in their home that night. “I keep thinking that the spider could have killed me or my son if he had gone to get a banana".
Waitrose offered the family £150 of shopping vouchers in compensation and said: “The safety of our customers is our absolute priority.
‘We did everything we could to look after our customer during what was a distressing incident and we’ve apologised personally. Although this is highly unusual, we’re taking it very seriously and will be working with our supplier to minimise the risk of this happening again.”
Last month a mother from Essex found eggs from a Brazilian Wandering spider hidden in her Tesco bananas and had to have her vacuum incinerated after she tried to clean them up.
Brazilian Wanderer bites are rarely fatal, but their venom can cause a range of severe side effects including extreme pain, inflammation of the throat and lungs, paralysis, salivation and convulsions.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists Brazilian Wandering spiders as the world's most venomous. The species belongs to the ‘Phoneutria’ genus – which fittingly means ‘murderess’ in Greek.
Tim - who withheld his surname - called the police and the RSPCA, both of whom were unable to handle the creature. Help eventually came from a pest expert who dispatched the spider into a plastic box and put the egg sac into a freezer to kill the offspring.
Daily Telegraph.
....extreme pain, inflammation of the throat and lungs, paralysis, salivation and convulsions.
Much ado about nothing, really. ;)
Brazilian Wanderer bites are rarely fatal, ...
The species belongs to the ‘Phoneutria’ genus – which fittingly means ‘murderess’ in Greek.
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I still wouldn't want one in my shopping, mind!
Heh, image filename is 'jar_of_nope'.
Nope...absolutely.:bolt:
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My knees ought to unlock next week sometime...
took a similar picture this summer. It's amazing what you can do when you tilt the camera.
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The sky doesn't lie, though.
How about Times square...
Even tilted that gives me the shakes :p
@Bruce - eww...no way dewd
In that first cliff picture, the distortion isn't a tilt; it's a fisheye. I think it was probably pretty much vertical originally, but the horizon looked tilted because it was curved down as it moved away from center, and that fact was hidden on the right side by the cliff.
I was wrong. It's called
"Thank God Ledge" on Half Dome.
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OK, I'll just post this and then stop.
The young smartly dressed male in the photo above must be like lots of young males who don't consider that they can die.
Here he is in a collection of short animated GIFs, climbing the face of Half Dome without any safety ropes.
Safety ropes, when used by a skilled climber, don't do anything and basically just get in the way and slow you down. But you use them for a reason. In a three hour climb, where you get a new new handhold or foothold about 10,000 times, you have 10,000 chances to make a mistake that kills you. You may have mad skillz and great stamina, but the math is going to eventually work against you.
Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed Chicago and the world Sunday with two hair-raising skyscraper crossings on the high wire without a safety net or a harness.
...and on the way back he did it blindfolded!
Just the thought of this endeavour brings me out in a cold sweat.
I take my hat off to the chap for having the courage to do it, but I still have to ask myself 'why'?
National Post
I was wrong. It's called "Thank God Ledge" on Half Dome.
I think we should start a campaign to change the name to, "Get Down From There You Idiot".
...and on the way back he did it blindfolded!
I've a feeling blindfolded doesn't make much difference, they work by feel and balance, and seeing wouldn't help. It's not like somebody is going to leave a Lego on the wire.
I agree with the why, but I suppose it's better than working at walmart.
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Bewildering and horrifying in equal measure.
I would rather eat a tarantula (sorry Clod-babies, but they do in Cambodia, ask Mummy never to tell you how people survived the Khemer Rouge).
No more heights please.
Nope nope nope. Give me heights over spiders any day of the week. Even Monday. Funny I'm more afraid of things that probably won't hurt me than things that are obviously dangerous. Well, actually, I won't be crossing anything on a wire, but those glass platform things don't bother me. And spiders chase me, I know they're trying to kill me. They would if they could. I see it in their multiple eyes. *shudders*
I had and worked out of a 52 foot bucket truck. That was plenty for me.
I spent a while trying to figure out exactly where they walked. In Google Earth, Victoria Falls is 1.1 miles long, but they use a
Big Shot Pro line launcher to get the line over to the other side, and the Big Shot Pro can only shoot up in the air about 100 feet or so. So I imagine at a 45 degree angle, it can go about 200 feet. That's far short of the 1.1 miles they would need. (I want a Big Shot launcher, by the way.)
So I think they are going across the short way. I
think they are crossing around here, which is about 250 feet across and crosses a national border.
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LONDON — Got a head for heights? If so, step right this way, across a glass walkway 42 metres above the River Thames.
The Tower Bridge Exhibition, at the city's iconic bascule and suspension bridge spanning the river, has just unveiled a brand new feature at the attraction. New glass floors in the high-level walkways, two years in the planning and costing £1 million ($1.6 million), offer visitors the chance to look down on river below and the estimated 40,000 people who cross the bridge every day.
The two panels measure 11 metres by 1.8 metres and weigh around 530kg each, and their installation mark the biggest change to the exhibition since it opened to the public in 1982. Engineers carefully designed the panels to ensure they don't scratch or crack and installed special lighting to protect the modesty of people walking across them. They'll no doubt be hoping the glass doesn't crack as it did on the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower in Chicago earlier this year.
The project has been funded by the City of London Corporation and the charitable Bridge House Estates. Around 600,000 people a year visit the Tower Bridge Exhibition, generating money that goes to city charities.
The view was somewhat daunting for some of the early visitors. “There is that sense of trepidation,” said Chris Earlie, head of the Tower Bridge Exhibition. “It is more exciting I think because you are not actually that high, you can see everything in detail beneath you. I do a lot of climbing and adventure sports but, even for me, the first time was a bit difficult.”
The ideal time to visit the glass walkway is during one of the 850 times a year that the bridge is lifted.
Mashable.
Mailonline Good selection of images.
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Just a 2 meter Cape Cobra, hanging out on the beach. The pros say when the snake is ready to shed, it itches so they come down to swim.
I wish to put it on record that I do not like snakes in the slightest. I saw plenty dead on the road in the US and the wheels of the car went either side of a live one in deepest Wyoming. Quite near enough for me, thank you very much.
Inspired by Bruce's post, I did a search and came up with an article in the
Daily Mail..
Have a look at the video where a woman kicks sand over the creature and lifts it with a stick to put it somewhere 'safer'.
Applications are invited for a Darwin Award.
A follow up from
Post #210
One of the glass panes that make up Tower Bridge's new 140ft-high transparent walkway has shattered after a visitor dropped a bottle of beer on it.
The bottle is believed to have caused an initial crack in the 3in thick glass, which was then made worse when a woman walked over it in stiletto heels.
The £1million attraction only opened two weeks ago and runs for 36ft between the north and south towers of the bridge.
Each pane of glass is reported to weigh nearly 1,200lb.
On December 1 a parallel walk will open alongside it.
Posting up a picture of the shattered glass, Twitter user Peter Gordon wrote: "Was in tower bridge walkway today, someone dropped a beer bottle; this happened."
Tower Bridge business manager Chris Earlie told ITV: "We are gutted it's happened in the first couple of weeks when it's been open to the public but it's completely safe.
"We should have said no glass on the glass section of the floor. It was a bit shortsighted of us."
Daily TelegraphGREAT CAESAR'S GHOST!!!!
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"Well, crap. Now I gotta burn the place."
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I thought I was okay with the old biders. Excepting Australian ones of course (#notracistjustcareful). But that clip gave me the proper horrors.
shame I can't make a loop from that one.
Stingray goes out for supper. This gives me the heebeejeebees.
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Aaand just so ya know, "Hey Grav, let's go swimmin!"
No. No, indeed. Hell no.
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I don't even remember what that vid was.
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I don't even remember what that vid was.
I think I recognise this one, it's a fine example of its genre.
As far as I remember it's called
A Dirty Great Fuckload of Snakes.
it was some white walls with clouds of tiny black spiders moving and merging and dropping from everyfuckingwhere.
Oh, yeah. In some kind of little shed. Man, I was bending my fragile little mind...Thanks.
Now, snakes I don't mind. I don't get the body shudder from a pile of snakes - if they were earthworms, I'd be shuddering.
Good grief...
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Quickly dead with fire kill it. :flamer:
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RobugtixNose in his phone, steps on a snake and gets bit.
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What a maroon. What an ignoranimus. Hahahahhaaa.
The rare, and elusive spice cabinet snake:
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I'm surprised the windows in a high rise open.
E. Fucking. Gads.
Mysterious green sea creature captured on video in Taiwan
Here is a youtube version of this vid, but the vid at the link is much better quality.
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Someone get a bucket of gas. We're gonna wanna kill this thing with fire.
Likely a Ribbon Worm,
check this one out. :thepain3:
The way they are keeping those snakes is criminal.
Dude knows how to handle himself, *and* the snakes.
Impressive cool.
FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
Also: Are those cobras cross-eyed or what??? That level of fail trying to strike at the mice (I realize they are dead, and maybe not warm) would equal not surviving the wild, looks like.
The way they are keeping those snakes is criminal.
Fuck those snakes sideways with a dead dingo dick.
I
would have closed the door, though, sheesh.
My experience with snakes is limited, but I have had several as pets across the years. When it comes to live feeding, one of the perils of training your snake that the warm wiggling thing equals a tasty meal is that your hand is (very) unfortunately warm and wiggly too. Getting a mistake bite from my corn snake is a surprise, getting a bite from my boa or my anaconda was a surprise and quite painful. Getting a bite from one of those cobras... how did my friend put it?? FUCK THAT SHIT, or, more precisely, my shit would be fucked. no, I would much prefer to train them, from the earliest possible opportunity, that warm does not equal food.
There's MUCH to be said of the advantages of not having to keep a living menagerie / snake pantry. Buying them in bulk, frozen and feeding one at a time after defrosting is waaay easier.
Use a microwave. About five minutes at full power after putting in the frozen food and the snake. :yesnod:
Eh, who needs sleep? Sleep is highly overrated.
Yeah, they don't calls 'em "customers" so much as "bait".
President Michelle Obama
Heard in a CB discussion today. I may not sleep for a month!
Nope, nope, fuckin' nope!!!!!
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...the Iranian Spider-Tailed Vipuhhhh...
don't move, huge spider, while I look you up on the internet to figure out whether to smash you
don't move, huge spider, while I look you up on the internet to figure out whether to smash you
"DIGR
SMASH!!!"
Deadly snake makes escape via 20ft-high telephone wire
Police reveal alarmed locals living in Anglesey, North Wales, reported seeing a Burmese python crawling along the wire and down a drainpipe
A deadly python terrified locals by making a bid for freedom across a telephone wire 20ft in the air.
In scenes "like a horror film" the 12ft-long pet snake escaped from its tank before slithering upstairs and escaping from a bedroom window.
Police were called after alarmed locals living in Anglesey, North Wales, reported seeing the Burmese python crawling along the wire and down a drainpipe.
Sergeant Rob Taylor, from North Wales Police's rural crime unit, took to Twitter to share skin-crawling pictures of the snake on Monday afternoon.
He said the snake had managed to make it across the wire to the opposite house and was halfway down the drainpipe before it was finally captured.
The python - who hasn't been named - was returned safely to his owner with advice on keeping him secure.
Tweeting from his @NWPRuralCrime account Sgt Taylor: "The vast majority of people who own reptiles keep them in secure tanks - but for those who don't this is a timely reminder to do so."
Other web users living on the Welsh island expressed their horror at the image of the python's high-wire escape act.
Timothy Rees Davies wrote on Facebook: "It looks like something from a horror film. They can be very dangerous, its lucky somebody spotted it. It could killed someone, no joke."
While Mary Lewis tweeted: "I would have ran a mile. It sends chills down my spine just looking at it."
Henry Peters added: "Where's Samuel L Jackson when you need him? Forget Hollywood, we need him here in Anglesey."
The Burmese python is native to a large variation of tropic and sub-tropic areas of Southern and Southeast Asia.
It is of the five largest snakes in the world and capable of constricting an adult to death.
They often live near water but are good climbers and can be found in the treetops of jungles catching birds.
Special care is required when handling them as a three-metre long Burmese python is capable of killing a child and a five-metre long snake is capable of overpowering and killing a fully grown adult.
Daily Telegraph I think that's rather lovely, actually.
I wouldn't want it in my rat cage (or my bed!) but I wouldn't describe seeing it 20 feet up as a horror movie.
Kill it. Kill it with ICBMs.
No, ICBMs might take down the phone wire and it could take forever to get the phone company to fix it. :haha:
12 feet is pretty freaking big. No way that guy has it in an enclosure big enough for an animal of that size.
A learning experience in surgery.
He took his scissors and incredibly, before my eyes, and with no warning or preparation of any kind, cut a one-inch hole in the cava.
After everyone reacted with horror, the author now claims it was a fictional account. I don't believe her.
Imagine the patient getting hold of this info.
The ♪ ♫lawsuit♪ ♫ would have been ♪ ♫Awesome♪ ♫.
Reading Monkey's post I read cadaver instead of cava, so reading the link I figured no big deal. Then a little way into it I realized it was a real live patient. :eek:
Yeah, the disclaimer sounds like a CYA move.
He accused her of being ginger.
That's racist.
GAH!!!
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they actually say at the link that it's a full sized broom.
Please to be killing it with fire now.
Please to be killing it with fire now.
Molotov treatment, maybe...I ain't getting close enough to light that thing.
Agree, kill it wit... wait, from the link...
Giant, snake-eating centipede spotted in Texas
Now I'm conflicted. :rollanim:
I've seen them that big on two separate occasions. We killed one with thick-soled feet instead of fire, and left the other one alone.
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See, now that python is a thing of beauty. The insects crawling into people's ears? That's the stuff of nightmares.
And the skycycle - just no.
Now, snakes I don't mind. I don't get the body shudder from a pile of snakes - if they were earthworms, I'd be shuddering.
What if it's just one?
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Have you felt that airline travel was
too isolating?
But wait, you say, Everyone gets both armrests! Isn't that great?
There are no armrests in that picture. And where would they go?
Why don't they just pack everyone in oil and open the fuselage with a huge key on arrival?
I love how the business suit that drew this made the majority of the seats vacant. Makes it seem downright palatial.
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I bet that suit's name is
Penrose.
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Now Ima hafta look every time to make sure there ain't no tarantulas in there...:meanface:
Happy Monkey, that is truly the stuff of nightmares.
But, I am comforted in the knowledge that the children deprived of praise and connection in such an environment will simply keep seeking until they find it. I didn't read much beyond the blog post itself, and it has a powerful bitterness to it, bordering on satire. I wonder if it's really real. Do you know?
It's a real thing. Here's
a bit of a follow-up to the article from the Washington Post. It was written from the perspective of someone fired under the system, so take it with a grain of salt. But if just the objective claims, omitting subjective experience, are accurate, it seems pretty horrible to me.
They're training the minions for 1984, and they are way behind schedule. :mad:
good lord.
to my understanding, the worst (nightmare) scenario here is that this absurd approach won't die quickly, though it will not succeed. that it will just linger, harming students (and potentially good, enthusiastic teachers) before being discarded as the waste of time it unquestionably is.
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Makes me seasick watching it...
Story at CNBC.
Why the fuck would you try landing in 75 mph winds?
ETA: One of the commenters says the vid was sped up. IDK.
good lord.
to my understanding, the worst (nightmare) scenario here is that this absurd approach won't die quickly, though it will not succeed. that it will just linger, harming students (and potentially good, enthusiastic teachers) before being discarded as the waste of time it unquestionably is.
They'll get some swift boaters to give them glowing reviews, and keep moving along like carny hucksters.
This pic just flat-out gives me the heebee-jeebeez:
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Image is the subject of a
'Where Is This?'.
21 Little Nightmares
#18 - Oh, SHIT!
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"I have seen your kung fu, your kung fu is not strong."
I guess his escape from the spider didn't impress his white sensei. ;)
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I don't *want* to do that, but I can conceive doing it.
by the way, I noticed the red tape on his takeoff platform indicating the direction he should aim upon takeoff. but for fuck's sake, why didn't they square off the edge of the platform so that when he pushed off the edge, he didn't get an extra bump to the left. our feet are exquisitely designed and sensitive to forward propulsion. jumping off of a slanted surface in this case is an avoidable complication. [/quibble]
scary fucking jump.
Red Bull sponsors a lot of this stuff. I wonder how often there are Red Bull stunt failures? You don't see any that make it public.
They've had a couple crashes at their air shows but it's always reported as pilot error, or a tragic accident, never the pilot was hopped up on Red Bull. Also, they sponsor a lot of events where the contestants are doing such stupid shit, people automatically blame the contestant when the screw up.
WTF were they thinking?
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Aside from the costumes etc., where and what are those huge cement structures. ?
They remind me of baffles in a waterway to break up wave or tidal surges,
but that's probably not what they are...
Not sure what they are for, but it's an airfield - West Malling in Kent.
Carruthers might be able to identify their purpose.
Not sure what they are for, but it's an airfield - West Malling in Kent.
Carruthers might be able to identify their purpose.
I was a bit puzzled by these structures but they are described as 'blast walls' and were constructed as part of the post WW2 modernisation of RAF airfields.
They were sited on the airfield perimeter track where aircraft were dispersed and refuelled.
I assume that they were constructed in order to contain the blast should an armed and fully fuelled aircraft explode either by accident or design rather than to deflect jet efflux.
Such structures are angled so as to deflect jetblast upwards and wouldn't be as robust as these concrete walls.
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Just giving the subject a little more thought, the walls would also provide a degree of protection from attack.
And maybe to protect others from jet exhaust in a crowded area.
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No, don't get ahead of me...
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Here's the nightmare part: You can have one, for $15,800. Want it in gold, you say? $18,050.
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One of your common orb weavers...Stan, or Bill, maybe.
Looks like the rare and elusive Instagram spider.
Oh.
I have never had a problem with anything I've seen posted in this thread. Spiders, snakes, creepy things, none of it has ever bothered me.
But that wasp fucking got me man. Jesus Christ.
I do not care what entomologists say, that thing is not a wasp. That is a monster.
I like English wasps. On my trip out last week (from which my feet have only just recovered) I even fed the little wasps on Jam (okay, that was to keep them away from my scone.) I've been stung by them, and the stings, while not a barrel of laughs, do not justify the running and squealing and panic that people react with when a single stripy creature buzzes your face.
That would. That would have me reaching for my G-D passport.
And the remedy is...
Fuck that, I'd rather have the spider.
Momdigr killed this this morning in the utility room.
Please to notice the pattern on its back.
Joy.
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That's just a tattoo, all the punks are getting them. ;)
Nope. I'll walk to the ER today.
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I see alot of cool "nightmares" on FB. Sadly, I never made an effort to post them. :blush: I will try to be less lazy. :p:
Hmmm....saw this video on FB. Not sure if this works, but I'm putting a link here. Many of it is public, I think, so you don't need to have an account or logged on to view it.
https://www.facebook.com/keeptheheat/videos/10153655244592069/Aw, that's just a 3 year old girl. ;)
Yee. Ikes.
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Sometimes ya gotta take the bull by the horn...
Ouch.
But he had it coming. Torture an animal, you deserve that.
And it's not even black like the famous Spanish fighting bulls.
I ain't scairt, I can see right through them. :lol:
Uh, yeah, one of them there things..
Just burn it. The whole damn house. I'm done with it, anyway.
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A rolled up newspaper would make quick work of that. You'd probably have to replace the curtain because of the gut stains, but the Venetian blinds could be wiped off.
No no no. Nuke it from space.
I'm a spider lover. Because I live in a country where spiders do not get larger than my thumbnail and can never kill me. I always politely call them Little Sister and appreciate them eating flies.
That is bigger than my rats.
I'm already strapped in awaiting the countdown, thumb on the bid red button.
(to be fair, had a grown up in a country with big biders it may not actually creep me out)
bigger spiders are less scary to me. Seems like you could avoid the pointy bits easier if you can get a hold of the back like you do with a crab
Magic trick goes awry, wears a 6 inch nail through his had, has to wait 30 hours before they remove it. :thepain:
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holyfuckingshit!!!
ArticleShake, slither, and roll. Yeah, yeah, I know, they're harmless.
But don't tell me they can't hurt me, because I'd have a fucking heart attack if I fell in there. :yesnod:
It's a good idea to never touch any wild animal. Venomous or not. Those snakes can carry any number of bacterial infections that can spread to humans. Plus, even non-venomous snakes can bite.
What'll happen is I'll kill myself trying to get away from the harmless little bastards. Prolly turn around and run head first into a tree.:yesnod:
That's funny, not avoiding snakes as I feel the same. It's Gravdigr running away from an orgy. :lol2:
Yeah, no, I ain't working that hard at anything.
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Spiders who catch and eat bats... nom nom nom
That's got to be a strong web.
I find any spider that can eat a mammal nightmarish as fuck.
They catch snakes too. :eek:
"They'll never find me."
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Damned if they don't:
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What happened, do you know?
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My brother says the in car camera has been amazing. If he has a shunt, the camera tells him what he was doing, what his hands were doing with the wheel, what gear he was in, the tach reading, etc. It's sometime very different from his memory.
Watch it again, and keep your eye on the steering wheel.
The removable steering wheel looks to have not been snapped in/on properly, and came off at an inopportune moment, which is always when the shit chooses to hit the fan...
OK, I embiggened it and it's clear what happened, couldn't see the wheel in small mode. :smack: Thank you.
He hit the tire wall at 3.8 Gs. Seemed to handle it just fine.
Tire walls are much more forgiving the Armco or concrete. Looks like some steam coming up from the front, but the car didn't fold.
Glatt, nice analysis, I didn't see the 3.8g's. It seems that the cord for the push to talk radio might have gotten wedged under the wheel but it was the 3rd lap of practice. It was in the left spoke of the wheel and went over the steering column to the center of the car. That's not the way we route it in our shop nor the quick release mechanism that we recommend. This was a spec boxster competing in a Porsche Club race.
Whip Spider...
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Poor baby.
Their eyesight is very poor - it's probably responding to threat rather than attacking. Look at how it makes itself larger and then starts retreating when the "prey" proves impossible to subdue.
Still, my guess is that's a pet. So perhaps it's exercise and all in good fun.
Better than a shoe on a wall anyway.
Their eyesight is very poor
I was thinking the same thing. It feels with its whip, locates the target, and then lunges with its cute little claws.
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I will hear the sound of those wasps clicking against that camera for the rest of my life.
They seem a bit pissed off.
Why on earth did he go to all that trouble?
Oh, I see...
This is a video of me digging an invasive German wasp (Vespula germanica) nest for my research on biological control wasps at Landcare Research in NZ. I'm not removing the nest to kill it. I need to keep the nest alive for my survey for parasites (like mites, fungus, etc.). Some nests will be re-housed into nest boxes for use in behaviour assays.
I have many years of experience and use specialized equipment to do this and still get the odd sting, so please don't try to dig an active nest yourself! As you can see from the copious amount of venom on the camera lens, these wasps meant business.
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Having snake handlers in your bathroom?
Dreamed I had a whip spider as a pet last night.
I had it with me on a National Express coach, and was blowing on it gently to keep it warm.
It was out on the little fold down tray in front of me.
Huh.
I usually dream of mice - am I going up the food chain or down?
German wasps are "yellowjackets". I didn't know they had them in NZ. I hate those buggers as much as fire ants.
Dreamed I had a whip spider as a pet last night.
I had it with me on a National Express coach, and was blowing on it gently to keep it warm.
It was out on the little fold down tray in front of me.
I want one too! Even if just in my dreams.
Still haven't watched the whip spider vid...and might not.
It's really more of a scorpion without a tail and with cute little freaky claws.
Spider nest in a Kentucky home. They claim there are at least 3 similar nests in every home. I don't think I could sleep if I lived in Kentucky.
https://twitter.com/horrifyingpics/status/371723104549998592My house has no such guests.
NOITDON'TSHUTYERFUCKINGMOUTH!!!!!
:p:
A Western Brown Snake, the most venomous is the world, slithers into a guy's house and get it's head caught in a plastic reusable mouse trap. Now this snake, who's venom from one bite will kill six people, is alive and pissed! The guy calls a snake wrangler who comes and
RELEASES THIS SPAWN OF SATAN INTO THE WILD.
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I'm with you 100%. Snakes don't bother me, but when it comes to spiders I have to get Addie to kill them for me.
OMG, a dream come true, someone to ship me live cockroaches.
My eye is drawn to the hand, and then I start looking down the body of the thing, taking in its length, and WTF is that a mouse!?
I was thinking taxidermy (Nope! Chuck Testa.), maybe.
Still, GAH!!!
WTF is that a mouse!?
Only because YOU weren't sleeping when it got hungry. :eek:
Leech vs Worm
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This picture was captioned "There are 4 Copperheads in this picture, if you only see three, they win".
I can't find the fourth. :ipray:
I win!
I see all four!
I won't be mean and show them [COLOR="White"](but did you miss the one bottom right in the leaves?)[/COLOR]
The fourth one (highest in the picture for me) took way too long, I'm dead.
I still only see three, but what do you want from a dead guy. :smack:
EDIT: Ah, found it. Closest one too, must be the one that killed me. Thanks for nothing, St Patrick.
I found all 4 well actually the last 2 found me.
Rather I think. Tail is thick
Did you smell them? Copperheads smell vaguely of cucumbers. And they will occasionally chase you.
I found all four. I also found a
larger version of the pic in which they are more easily distinguished.
Ours are more rust-colored.
Brown Recluse
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This one fell victim to Popdigr, again, in the utility room, which is in my house!!!
Dis shit gotta stop.:mad:
Here's the answer to your problem. Or you can have Addie come over, she kills spiders with her fingers but is prone to chase you with them (not cool!).
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I may need to borrow one of your flamethrowers...
Dis shit gotta stop.:mad:
Damn right, drive them from the castle!
#4 is the one I couldn't find... the one that killed me.
I was bitten by the vertical one.
broken links
In which post?
A steak through the heart...
Schrodinger's Snakes.
One on the hot, one on the ground, then one decided to sink his fangs into the other. Bzzzzt! Dead!
It's bad enough keeping an eye on the ground and the toilet, and tree limbs. But fences, crap.
Chain snake. . .
Snake slalom.
Horizontal slalom?
Good idea. When remote control drones get small enough, I can see kids having fun racing them through the links of a fence.
Findagrave.
Not to be confused with FindaGrav™, which is a latenight, post-$5-buckets-of-beer-night, inter-gender party game.:cool:
Three distinct nightmare scenarios:
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BANGKOK — A Thai man is recovering from a bloody encounter with a 10-foot python that slithered through the plumbing of his home and latched its jaws onto his penis as he was using a squat toilet.
Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling as Thai television stations interviewed him in his hospital bed about the intimate intrusion, and doctors said he would recover. But photos of his blood-splattered bathroom in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, were testimony to his ordeal.
The 38-year-old told Thai TV Channel 7 that he struggled to remove the snake for 30 minutes Wednesday before he managed to free himself with help from his wife and a neighbor. After his wife tied a rope around the snake, Attaporn pried open its jaws before passing out.
Emergency workers dismantled the Asian-style squat toilet, with the python still twined through it. The snake was taken away to be released back into the wild, according to an emergency responder cited by the newspaper Thai Rath.
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Attaporn Boonmakchuay? Biting on... pulling down... Boonmakalaca! Boonmakalaca!
Thai people are stupid. Case in point; "The snake was taken away to be released back into the wild". What are you fucking nuts? :facepalm:
Damn right it should be released into the wild. Some fucktard has probably been keeping it as a pet and let it escape.
No, no, no, this is Thailand not England. They released it into the wild because that's where it came from... and may again. :unsure:
Fought it for half an hour while his wife and or neighbor tied a string on it? Fuck that, cut it's head off... quick.
That motherfucker has to go into a woodchipper after biting my dong.
Fuck that "released to the wild" shit.
I'm surprised - I'd have thought you'd want your snake released into the wild :P
:D
My snake, sure. Not that one, though.
:headshake
Not one that has been trying to pull your dick down the drain for half an hour.
LOOK AT THE BLOOD!
NO TEETH!!!
BAD PYTHON! BAD BAD BAD!
Y'know, it mighta been thirty seconds and *felt* like half a minute.
I've been bitten by big snakes (not on my dick, however) and it's a project getting them loose. They're built to move that material down the gullet.
And they weren't trying to pull you down the toilet by your dick for a half hour, with you wife and neighbor pulling you the other way.
What kind of snake bit you? Dead snake.
I keep seeing that each time the thread gets bumped and freaking out just a little. Those shrooms are so cool!
Those shrooms are so cool!
In bright sunlight, with a bunch of friends... armed friends. :eek:
Caught about four pounds of nope in the groundhog trap...
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...and I shall call him Pepe. - :D
Actually, I'll have to call him long distance. I took him into the next county to release him. Literally, into the next county, about ten miles, I don't want to see that particular sumbitch again. Evah.
Little fella didn't smell at all. Really.
Momdigr came in that morning and said "There's something in the trap." I whooped for joy. And then she said "And it's not a groundhog. Or a rabbit. Or a possum." I said "Oh, no." Then she said "It has white on it." I went to check the trap, thinking/hoping she was wrong. I couldn't smell a skunk and thought "There's no way I'm four feet from a skunk and don't smell it.", so, I pulled the burlap back and liked to jumped outta my skin.
This skunk had managed to get about forty pounds of dirt into the trap before it sprung. No kidding. I guess he thought he was building himself a skunky little condo beside/under Popdigr's shed.
I looked around and Momdigr was like fifty feet away, and asked "Is it a skunk?", I replied "No, it's just a little kitty.", I was gonna say "...a polekitty.", but she was already well on her way to the house.:neutral:
I was riding in the truck with my father, winter, couple feet of snow, when about a mile from home there's my brother in the deep snow holding up a skunk by the tail.
Hey Pop, you gonna stop for dick?
Nope.
:haha:
Nightmare fuel, both of being, as well as seeing...
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I see what you did there. #marlon
in prev pic, I see the garroting action of the chain, but what do you think is the cause of all the fluids under the car?
Likely a puddle seeing everything is uphill from there. Might be runoff or maybe the fire department washed it down as a safety precaution, or to make the pieces of him less slippery to retrieve. :eyebrow:
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Caught about four pounds of nope in the groundhog trap...
Caught another 1½lbs. of nope just a bit ago (hour, or so). Skunks like corn on the cob.
Took him to the same place we took the other one...Far away.
This little feller was absolutely reeking. Popdigr caught a glancing blow of skunkspray on the side of his leg.
P. Yew. Luckily, he was wearing long pants. The pants are a total loss, and the passenger side seat of GrandCherokeeOne may never be the same.:(
Since this little guy meant business, no pics. I think I know how bomb disposal guys feel now.
Nervous, very nervous.
My mother made me wash with tomato juice in the shower stall.
This Brit was swimming in the oceanl, came home and showered. "I got out of the shower and the pain in my ear was just incredible. I was like Irish dancing around the bathroom. I didn't know what to do with myself"
Her husband looked in a something was looking back, so the spider was removed by an emergency nurse practitioner. She said: "It was alive and very wriggly. It was quite big too."
linkHeadline:
Spider's beach vacation ruined
Cute bunnies
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Probably fuel for *someone's* nightmare, but for me an antidote to that scawy bunny wideo.
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No wonder they're all swelled up and round...dey gots no bungholes!
because ... you checked. :facepalm:
:lol2:
Hey, I didn't go a-searchin, but if ya show it to me, I'll look.
:D
...and then God created the spider:
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Nothing like a Vietnamese bed warmer...
God, look how young that kid is, too.
That's what we sent to die for no reason. :mad:
I would have emptied my rifle on that thing.
And then ran all the way home.
how is that even biologically possible for an insect to be that size? I thought the use of spiracles limited the size of insects to just a couple inches.
This little feller was absolutely reeking. Popdigr caught a glancing blow of skunkspray on the side of his leg. P. Yew. Luckily, he was wearing long pants. The pants are a total loss, and the passenger side seat of GrandCherokeeOne may never be the same.:(
Since this little guy meant business, no pics. I think I know how bomb disposal guys feel now.
Nervous, very nervous.
The Master Gardener program had a segment on pest critters and the skunk expert said to throw a drop cloth over the trap because skunks don't want to be all that close to skunk spray either, so they won't spray if they are in a confined space. The caveat to that is if it's a teenager skunk, because like all teenagers, "Yee Haw! Check out mah new toy!" SSSSSSPPPPPPRRRAAAAYYY! "Hot damn, Cletus, do it again!" So your mileage may vary in that case.
But, you'd have the check out line to yourself if you made a hat out of it:
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This Brit was swimming in the oceanl, came home and showered. "I got out of the shower and the pain in my ear was just incredible. I was like Irish dancing around the bathroom. I didn't know what to do with myself"
Her husband looked in a something was looking back, so the spider was removed by an emergency nurse practitioner. She said: "It was alive and very wriggly. It was quite big too."
Sounds familiar
how is that even biologically possible for an insect to be that size? I thought the use of spiracles limited the size of insects to just a couple inches.
My first thought, "Glatt is just making up words now."
Well, ya learn something new every dayMaybe it's two critters fucking.
how is that even biologically possible for an insect to be that size? I thought the use of spiracles limited the size of insects to just a couple inches.
There's something wonky about his hand; it might be a forced perspective thing.
There's something wonky about his hand; it might be a forced perspective thing.
Here is a bigger version. At first I didn't notice the difference; I was so focused on the critter.The hand and arm in the foreground do look a little bigger, I bet you're right, the kid seems to be angling back a bit.
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Because... motherfuckin cobra!
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in my motherfucking shoes!
Glatt's own personal nightmare:
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:D:D:D:D
For the love of God, man!
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Because... motherfuckin cobra!
"...the doctor says you gonna die."
That pretty blue will contrast nicely with the fire...
I wanted to post this in "Wildlife, living next to nature" but was afraid I'd trigger too many people. :shock:
This lovely orb-weaver setup a nice trap in front of a backyard floodlight:
...and soon after dark caught a visitor (last few secs of the video are nice and close if you want to see that)
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and returned to her start position with a well packed meal:
Nice.
'N' creepy.
Don't think I've ever seen a black and gray orb weaver. Ours are the traditional black and yellow:
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The last one I saw (8 years ago or more) was yellow as well and seemed to double in size in a few weeks. This new one is a bit smaller so I was wondering if the color would come out after a few good meals. Hopefully it sticks around. This is it's 3rd location in as many days, but it should get a nice buffet in front of that light.
Hey, G...
Look what's on the back page of the October issue of 'Birds & Blooms' magazine, I just opened it:
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Ima assume that yours is the silver variety, rather than what I called gray.
That's a very healthy spider!
Nice!
Thanks, G-digr, cool facts page. Silver's probably correct, coming out fuzzy gray with my zoomed in camera phone.
Found yet another of those Charlie Daniels spiders.
In my bedroom this time...:speechls:
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Charlie Daniels?
It's a beautiful creature anyway. But even though I have no fear of the old biders (except Australian ones, because everything there is a killer) I'm not sure I'd want it on my lovely yellow cosy throw. Or jumper. Or whatever it is.
Looks a bit big to make me happy in my sleeping environment.
Charlie Daniels?
It's a beautiful creature anyway. But even though I have no fear of the old biders (except Australian ones, because everything there is a killer) I'm not sure I'd want it on my lovely yellow cosy throw. Or jumper. Or whatever it is.
Looks a bit big to make me happy in my sleeping environment.
That spider is a Brown Recluse, which has a bite best described as positively horrible (google brown recluse bite pictures, and brace yourself). Because of the violin pattern on its back, it's known as a 'fiddler'. Charlie Daniels is a well-known American fiddle player/singer. You may have heard his most famous song,
The Devil Went Down To Georgia.
We (Clan Gravdigr) refer to brown recluse spiders as Charlie Daniels Spiders, trying to find humor in a nightmare.
Given your self-described proclivities towards men of a husky nature, you may find Mr. Daniels to have been a beautiful creature himself.:D
Aha! Thank you!
A headline on the BBC website made me laugh in its matter-of-fact tone.
I won't reproduce it exactly here, in case it hits someone's work firewall and gets them into trouble. Which would be silly, as it's just a name for part of the body.
So imagine it:
Spider bites Australian man on p..... again.
And follow the link if you're not at work.
No photos or rude words apart from the anatomically correct one.
Might make some men wince though.
If you see this... it's TOO LATE!!!
If Australian spiders eat mice... what eats them? :eek:
Please also post unmarked card for future reference.
TIA
Please also post unmarked card for future reference.
TIA
This is done.
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You're welcome.:)
Ready for Halloween?
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And now for something really scary...
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Not quite what you think. I think.
Used to be a guy that sold and installed window blinds in Bowling Green, KY.
He had a bug shield on the hood of his truck that said "BLIND MAN DRIVING" in reverse lettering, so ya could read it in your rearview mirror.
I'll see your 'eek', and raise you a 'gasp':
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Was 5 minutes from home when I got the call that I better be there in 3.
My wife had this not so little guy cornered in the hallway. Luckily it was not a bold spider so it stayed still until I got home. With a plastic cup and some paper I had the guy trapped (though I had a shoe on hand in case it made a move for me). He's pretty harmless but scary as hell to see in the house.
Released in the backyard (far from the house). More bugs to eat out there anyway...
Just an fuzzy wuzzy spider... Texas sized. :lol2:
Poorer quality on this guy because it's outside near the top of the 5th floor window of the office building where I work. It's between the window and its web, thus facing outward.
Back of the envelope calculations tell me this guy (at about 2 inches) is up the equivalent of 175 spider floors. So basically if you scaled Burj Khalifa and hung out waiting for a moth.
Nice.
What is the terminal velocity of a spider that size, I wonder. Far less than mine, I reckon.
For what it's worth:
I see about 120 mph for a skydiver's terminal velocity (in the standard flat position with arms/legs out, compared to a Point Break style chase at about 300mph).
This article measuring spiders came up with a max of about 1.7 mph (78 cm/s)
Ballooning: Data from Spiders in Freefall Indicate the Importance of Posture
http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v20_n2/JoA_v20_p107.pdfIn Australia even the Christmas trees are lethal, in a manner of speaking. :eek:
A highly venomous tiger snake (top right) looks like tinsel on this Christmas tree in a Melbourne home.
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It doesn't look like tinsel to me; it looks knitted.
Somebody doesn't know tinsel from garland.
And it doesn't look like garland, either.
It looks like a snake.
It doesn't look like tinsel to me; it looks knitted.
Have a look at Google Images for Tiger Snake.
You'll find several pictures there which illustrate the skin colour and texture perfectly.
Forgive me for not posting a link, but I'm using my iPad at present which makes the finer points of posting somewhat difficult.
I believe what we've got here is failure to communicate.
Here in the colonies, we call the example on the left Tinsel, and the right Garland. At least in my portion of the colonies. ;)
In my portion of the colonies, ain't no such thing as garland. I've heard the word before through media and pop culture references, but never seen it or heard anyone talk about it in person. (The stuff on the left is still tinsel, though.)
What do you call the stuff on the right?
Snake?
That ain't even a real tree!
What do you call the stuff on the right?
"That stuff people draw on cartoon Christmas trees." It's not a thing, I don't have a name for it. The only association I have with the word garland is a garland of flowers you put in your hair:
I believe what we've got here is failure to communicate.
Here in the colonies, we call the example on the left Tinsel, and the right Garland. At least in my portion of the colonies. ;)
Twil concurs; I concur with Twil.
You've let a sheltered life or Texas is stranger than I thought. Why do you think the draw them on cartoon trees? They're copying real trees. Try Googleing Christmas trees or Christmas tree garland.
Sure, I know it's a thing, just like I know snow chains are a thing. But I've never seen them in real life. To be honest I haven't seen tinsel since I was a kid. If you have a real tree it makes it non-recyclable (as in the garbage people won't take it, you have to deal with getting rid of it yourself,) and if you have a fake tree it gets all tangled when you try to put the tree away.
Have a look at Google Images for Tiger Snake.
You'll find several pictures there which illustrate the skin colour and texture perfectly.
It definitely looks most like a snake, but if I were to mistake it for something else, I'd go for brown knitted scarf over tinsel or garland.
tinsel protip: If you take one strand of the silver tinsel, put one end on your wet tongue, tilt your head up and blow, you look like a fountain.
tinsel protip: If you take one strand of the silver tinsel, put one end on your wet tongue, tilt your head up and blow, you look like a fountain.
Please don't try the same thing with a garland.
It might be a snake. ;)
Twil concurs; I concur with Twil.
Wise man.
Christmas - wise man. Get it? Did ya get it? Are ya getting it? I feel like yer not getting it.
I need petrol for my gyrocopter so I can buy a "garland" at the general store. Sure, it's a word. Like wassailing is a word. Everything pictured in posts 499 and 505 is called tinsel.
Please don't try the same thing with a garland.
It might be a snake. ;)
:p:
Thanks for the chuckle.
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That was fucking bizarre.
I believe what we've got here is failure to communicate.
Here in the colonies, we call the example on the left Tinsel, and the right Garland. At least in my portion of the colonies. ;)
No, you're all wrong about the stuff on the left. It's called Lametta. The stuff on the right is tinsel.
Sent by magic.
NO NO NO, THIS is a Lambretta... :p:
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I saw what you did there.;)
That was fucking bizarre.
No,
this is fucking bizarre:
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That fat guy giggling just makes me laugh.
Kill 'em, kill 'em with fire!
Just think though, if a lion were the size of a spider, no way could he attack you.
That would be cute. I'd want one for a pet.
Get a spider, they're adorable!
That is a cool looking bug. The segmentation reminds of one of the monsters in
Kubo and the Two Strings.
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Along came the rain and washed the spider out.
He was super pissed and ready for a fight.
Armed and dangerous, you will never be tight.
Ever arm wrestle a snail? Imagine that on your face in the middle of the night. :facepalm:
Pfft.
Donald Trump's hands don't frighten me.
Same comedian, different joke. :D
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This plucky waitress is evidently not scared of trespassing lizards so big they are mistaken for dogs.
25-year-old French waitress Samia Lila has made international headlines after grabbing the huge reptile by the tail and swinging it out of the restaurant in New South Wales.
She has since been dubbed "goanna girl" - the reptile is thought to be a goanna - and has been widely commended for her bravery.
"I looked at it and thought it was a dog at first!...But then I realised it was a goanna," she told Bega District News.
The lizard is thought to be about 180cm long.
When it went under a customer's table, people in the restaurant started screaming.
“Everyone was screaming, so I started screaming too!", the waitress said.
Ms Lila thought on her feet to shield customers from the creature.
She put a chair in its path before grabbing on to its tail.
The waitress, who is originally from Normandy, commented: "I wasn't scared, I like reptiles so was a bit excited."
People online have been calling for her to get a pay rise because of her brave actions.
One commenter wrote: "I hope Samia gets a pay rise for this effort. She didn't hesitate to protect the guests. Very brave. Thanks Samia for such service today",
Her employer appears proud; the restaurant wrote on Facebook: "Unwelcome visitor in the restaurant today was no match for French waitress Samia ( Goanna Girl )!!"
Ms Lila has been in Australia since November and it was only the second time she had seen a goanna.
Daily TelegraphHeeeeere leezard, leezard, leezard...
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Daily Telegraph
another example of immigrants displacing the native born
SAD!
When your backup camera shows this, burn the car.
Skip to 1:05. That sets up the scariest thing I've seen in a while.
If the embedded video doesn't work, this is the direct link:
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Who lived?
Besides the iPhone?
Wow.
Not my nightmare, but, much respect.
What does Trump look like without a shirt?
Gah. Over and over, GAH!!
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Somethinger bigger.
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Flying Snek, not really, just gliding and only mildly venomous. Isn't that comforting.
I hesitate to call any place that has those things paradise.
Also, GAH!
Sometimes you kill the bull...
Better wear your brogans...
Spiders are dumb we can outsmart them every time. Amirite?
Yeah, it's a set up. But in your nightmares it could happen. :eek:
What in the chocolate-dipped, gold-plated fuck?!?
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Apparently,
flying foxes can swim.:mg:
Also, @ 0:02:
"Ahgidiahgidiahgidiah."
I wonder why it's swimming? It probably can't take off from the water but did it go in accidentally or for food?
Aussie earth worms. :eek:
Why is that person using sticks to hold it? Are they dangerous?
If they're the ones featured in "Planet Earth", they're coated in mucus, which they also coat the walls of their tunnels with. So it may just be gross.
According to Wikipedia, they are not poisonous or any thing. They just feel Yukky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gippsland_earthwormWhy is that person using sticks to hold it? Are they dangerous?
Nah, just
oogy.
Completely unacceptable in every way. *shudder*
Personally I think this is fascinating, but those with snake fears (and who have their houses on pylons to avoid pythons) might not like...
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Nope, think I'll skip that house trick or treating this year... and next year.
You're gonna need a bigger comb.
Just do a quick alignment on the new tires...
"Equilibrate"
That's what I got from that post.
That, and, when a McLaren gets out of alignment, burn it.
Nope, think I'll skip that house trick or treating this year... and next year.
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:shock:
But . . .
why?!?
*
shudder*
Why? It's not really a house, it's a three story museum on the shore of Yangcheng Lake in China. It's a Chinese mitten crab. ;)
Gordon Ramsey is best-watched that way.
Sound works. Mr Ramsey when he is not being an ass is quite pleasant.
Fuck this.<--Short Facebook vid.
For the love of dogs, people, teach your children TO NOT DO THIS.
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Egads.:speechls: A chill literally ran up my spine when I saw that.
Even scarier bigger.
Ima dream about that. I know it.
'Round here (rural SW WA), school buses flash red lights and all traffic in both directions must stop. The lights don't turn off until the kidlets are all safely across the street.
Smart idea, and it works.
But because this is ruralville, there are no "bus stops." School buses stop at each kid's driveway along narrow, winding country roads. Passing a stopped/flashing school bus is strictly verboten.
Traveling anywhere is not recommended during kid pick-up/delivery time. :eyebrow:
Same here, both ways. One morning on the way to work there was a school bus with lights flashing and 2 lanes in each direction dutifully stopped.
After a couple minutes the bus driver comes out of the Dunkin Donuts across the street with a coffee and bag. :meanface:
Same here, both ways. One morning on the way to work there was a school bus with lights flashing and 2 lanes in each direction dutifully stopped.
After a couple minutes the bus driver comes out of the Dunkin Donuts across the street with a coffee and bag. :meanface:
Aw, that ain't right! :eyebrow:
“We got here, what I would say, is the granddaddy of all hornets’ nests.”
~Jude Verret, Louisiana exterminator
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LinkNuts. He's apparently been a licensed exterminator for 12 years, but I'd think he'd have more than a single can of Raid.
omfg.
How much can a shed full of shit cost to burn to the ground?
See? That's where I was at.
$3.00. Whoosh! Prollum solved.
A little, teensy nightmare, but still...
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A little, teensy nightmare, but still...
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What in the world is that? A stuck snake?
Idk about stuck, but yes sir, snek.
I was guessing fried snek. With a chipotle aioli.
Snot Friday.
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Aussie population spread, guess it's a good thing.
And sneks, big mother sneks...
This snek on snek crime has got to stop!
I would have been hung on a cross if I'd posted that in a non NSFW thread.
In fact, I have been.
Good point. Couple, we don't have a lot of rules here, but please limit posting NSFW images to threads that have the NSFW label in the title.
Good point. Couple, we don't have a lot of rules here, but please limit posting NSFW images to threads that have the NSFW label in the title.
Sorry about that.
Where do we find the NSFW threads? We can't seem to see any.
Thanks.
There are a handful of them in the Quality Images and Videos sub forum. We are not an 'adult' or porn site, so you won't see a lot of them, but they're there.
Thanks. Found them. Are we permitted to start our own NSFW thread or do we have to post in an existing one?
You can start your own if you don't see one that fits what you want to post.
I would just ask that you don't go crazy opening a bunch.
Certainly, as long as it's labeled NSFW go for it.
There are only three rules of The Cellar.
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4. Admit that Vise-Grips are hand tools.
Thanks. Found them. Are we permitted to start our own NSFW thread or do we have to post in an existing one?
Did you post this yesterday or tomorrow?
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Travis Gardner assists "Miss Texas" Margana Wood as she makes her way through a pit of rattlesnakes during the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup at Nolan County Coliseum on March 10, 2018 in Sweetwater, Texas.
Warmer than usual weather brought some of the largest crowds in recent memory out to the Nolan County Coliseum on Saturday.
Visitors from across the state and around the world packed themselves inside for the 60th annual World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas.
I really don't know what to say about this event except :eek:.
The Denver Post Eighteen photos there for your delight and delectation of the reptilian kind. ;)
Skin & eat = sweet revenge. :right:
Whatever you do, don't google rattlesnake bite images at lunch time.
:greenface
@ couple - you can also post a link to an image like that in a thread like this and make it clear the link is NSFW
Skin & eat = sweet revenge. :right:
Skin, COOK, and eat. Even sweeter revenge.
The picture of the bloody hand prints is a little macabre.
Let's cook out!
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Let's not!
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Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.
:lol2:
I can't stop looking at the pattern Swimmin Snek makes in the water.
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Is that maternal love or kinky bat sex?
I don't know...Bats be freaky, man.
Bats don't don't bother me much, but those flying foxes creep me right the fuck out.
It's a bat-bomber looking for a target with long curly hair.
Then I'm as safe as it gets. :lol:
This guy is a nightmare, a threat to civilization, too stupid to live...
They pull that mini-car behind their RV, then, they use it to move their little boat like 50 feet from a parking spot to the lake.
I hope...
That boat would pull the Smart car right into the lake.
Shows that owning a Smart Car doesn't mean you're a smart person.
Cellar, meet 'Chonk'...Chonk, Teh Cellar:
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WellofcourseitwasAustralia!He's big enough, that snek might fuck ya back...
He's big enough, that snek might fuck ya back...
EEK!!!
Don't worry, I got him...
Ding Dong the spider's dead,
the spider's dead,
the spider's dead,
Ding Dong the wicked spider's dead.
Uh...Yay tarantula hawk wasp?
Hmm... somehow not relieved.
The spider's probably not dead yet, just paralyzed. The wasp is going to lay eggs in its body, and bury it as live food for its babies.
Hammer Headed Bats They claim the don't eat people, but most of them carry ebola.
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