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.

Run away...

GAK!!!

I keep seeing that each time the thread gets bumped and freaking out just a little. 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...

The horror, the horror...

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:

Nope.

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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."
link

Headline:

Spider's beach vacation ruined

Cute bunnies

I'm skeered.

Probably fuel for *someone's* nightmare, but for me an antidote to that scawy bunny wideo.

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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That made my day! :lol:

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.

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:



Sounds familiar

My first thought, "Glatt is just making up words now."

Well, ya learn something new every day

Maybe it's two critters fucking.

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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:stickpoke

:D:D:D:D

For the love of God, man!

"...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)



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.

:yesnod:

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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:violin:

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.

Again.

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