Generally, a round head is safe. Triangular head means venomous. But yeah, I’m grateful that there aren’t many snakes in the Land of Buckeyes.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:59 am
I fucking hate snakes.
I disturbed one in the garden yesterday, probably a whipsnake.
Just to be sure I've just been looking up European snakes and venomous snakes of France.
Not a good idea, now I don't want to go back in the garden.
Didn't help that my next door neighbour came out and warned me to watch out for Vipers as I'm clearing the scrub.
One of the snakes I've seen here before looks a lot like this one...
...which is the European common Viper.
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On the plus side, I've not heard any scratching noises coming from the roof so it's possible that the snakes have been helping out with the dormouse infestation.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:31 pmGenerally, a round head is safe. Triangular head means venomous. But yeah, I’m grateful that there aren’t many snakes in the Land of Buckeyes.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:59 am
I fucking hate snakes.
I disturbed one in the garden yesterday, probably a whipsnake.
Just to be sure I've just been looking up European snakes and venomous snakes of France.
Not a good idea, now I don't want to go back in the garden.
Didn't help that my next door neighbour came out and warned me to watch out for Vipers as I'm clearing the scrub.
One of the snakes I've seen here before looks a lot like this one...
...which is the European common Viper.
The fat dormouse or edible dormouse (glis glis) is cute enough but the little fuckers get into the house down the chimney and shit everywhere so if a few vipers have been thinning them out for me I'll just put it down to the circle of life.
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I had a squirrel start nesting in my ceiling. Bitch ate a hole in my brand new drywall. I drove her out with some repellent, and had to get the hole sealed behind my gutters.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:13 pmOn the plus side, I've not heard any scratching noises coming from the roof so it's possible that the snakes have been helping out with the dormouse infestation.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:31 pmGenerally, a round head is safe. Triangular head means venomous. But yeah, I’m grateful that there aren’t many snakes in the Land of Buckeyes.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:59 am
I fucking hate snakes.
I disturbed one in the garden yesterday, probably a whipsnake.
Just to be sure I've just been looking up European snakes and venomous snakes of France.
Not a good idea, now I don't want to go back in the garden.
Didn't help that my next door neighbour came out and warned me to watch out for Vipers as I'm clearing the scrub.
One of the snakes I've seen here before looks a lot like this one...
...which is the European common Viper.
The fat dormouse or edible dormouse (glis glis) is cute enough but the little fuckers get into the house down the chimney and shit everywhere so if a few vipers have been thinning them out for me I'll just put it down to the circle of life.
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Looks like you need a cat. They eat all the rodents so the snakes go and hunt elsewhere.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:13 pmOn the plus side, I've not heard any scratching noises coming from the roof so it's possible that the snakes have been helping out with the dormouse infestation.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:31 pmGenerally, a round head is safe. Triangular head means venomous. But yeah, I’m grateful that there aren’t many snakes in the Land of Buckeyes.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:59 am
I fucking hate snakes.
I disturbed one in the garden yesterday, probably a whipsnake.
Just to be sure I've just been looking up European snakes and venomous snakes of France.
Not a good idea, now I don't want to go back in the garden.
Didn't help that my next door neighbour came out and warned me to watch out for Vipers as I'm clearing the scrub.
One of the snakes I've seen here before looks a lot like this one...
...which is the European common Viper.
The fat dormouse or edible dormouse (glis glis) is cute enough but the little fuckers get into the house down the chimney and shit everywhere so if a few vipers have been thinning them out for me I'll just put it down to the circle of life.
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Yeah, when I move out here I'll be looking out for a big semi-feral farmcat to help with the mouse problem.Hastur wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 4:38 amLooks like you need a cat. They eat all the rodents so the snakes go and hunt elsewhere.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:13 pmOn the plus side, I've not heard any scratching noises coming from the roof so it's possible that the snakes have been helping out with the dormouse infestation.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:31 pm
Generally, a round head is safe. Triangular head means venomous. But yeah, I’m grateful that there aren’t many snakes in the Land of Buckeyes.
The fat dormouse or edible dormouse (glis glis) is cute enough but the little fuckers get into the house down the chimney and shit everywhere so if a few vipers have been thinning them out for me I'll just put it down to the circle of life.
Still not heard them moving about in the roof at night. I don't know when the come out of hibernation. They're dormant for 6 months of the year so I'd have thought they would be waking up soon.
They are the size of a small rat so they are large enough to shoot. If I come across a gun shop I might get myself an air pistol.
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yeah fuck snakes, had to kill a rattlesnake at work a few days ago. ran it over with the truck first to even the odds
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I'd like a cat but unless it was a truly badass animal it would become coyote feedMontegriffo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:20 amYeah, when I move out here I'll be looking out for a big semi-feral farmcat to help with the mouse problem.Hastur wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 4:38 amLooks like you need a cat. They eat all the rodents so the snakes go and hunt elsewhere.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:13 pm
On the plus side, I've not heard any scratching noises coming from the roof so it's possible that the snakes have been helping out with the dormouse infestation.
The fat dormouse or edible dormouse (glis glis) is cute enough but the little fuckers get into the house down the chimney and shit everywhere so if a few vipers have been thinning them out for me I'll just put it down to the circle of life.
Still not heard them moving about in the roof at night. I don't know when the come out of hibernation. They're dormant for 6 months of the year so I'd have thought they would be waking up soon.
They are the size of a small rat so they are large enough to shoot. If I come across a gun shop I might get myself an air pistol.
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Since tracing down my surname genealogy and discovering my great, great grandfather was born in England I have decided to start a tea collection. Tea is quite good, it stirs my Anglo sensibilities. I want to try Assam tea on a recommendation and also there is this
I can't wait to try a cup while reminiscing about how my ancestors oppressed shit skins.By the late 1830s, a market for Assam tea was being assessed in London; and the positive feedback led the East India Company to inaugurate a long drawn process of dispossession of agricultural land and forest commons through the infamous 'Wasteland Acts' allowing significant portions of the province by private capital to be transformed into tea plantations. The close symbiotic relationship of the colonial state and plantation capitalism through the colonial period is most succinctly captured in the term Planter-Raj.
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Assam is a strong dark black tea often sold as a breakfast tea.TheReal_ND wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:43 pmSince tracing down my surname genealogy and discovering my great, great grandfather was born in England I have decided to start a tea collection. Tea is quite good, it stirs my Anglo sensibilities. I want to try Assam tea on a recommendation and also there is this
I can't wait to try a cup while reminiscing about how my ancestors oppressed shit skins.By the late 1830s, a market for Assam tea was being assessed in London; and the positive feedback led the East India Company to inaugurate a long drawn process of dispossession of agricultural land and forest commons through the infamous 'Wasteland Acts' allowing significant portions of the province by private capital to be transformed into tea plantations. The close symbiotic relationship of the colonial state and plantation capitalism through the colonial period is most succinctly captured in the term Planter-Raj.
A good choice if you like to have milk in your tea.
As a tea connoisseur what you really want is Darjeeling. Preferably first flush, green Darjeeling which is best drunk black. It's the best tea available but comes at a high price.
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As if snakes aren't scary enough already...
https://www.livescience.com/65382-three ... tification
3-Eyed Snake Found in Australia Surprises Rangers
Rangers found this carpet python near the small Australian town of Humpty Doo.
Credit: Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission
Rangers in Australia could hardly believe their eyes when they came across a wild snake with three functioning peepers on its head.
The snake, a carpet python (Morelia spilota), had a third eye on its forehead. This condition is extremely rare, said David Penning, an assistant professor of biology at Missouri Southern State University, who was not involved with the snake's case.
"Until today, I had not ever seen a snake with three eyes," Penning told Live Science in an email. "I have seen snakes with two heads [and] some odd facial deformities but nothing quite like this."
Rangers with Australia's Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission (NTPWC) found the wild triclops, whom they dubbed Monty, on a highway near Humpty Doo, a small town about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Darwin, in late March.
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