General Chat

No, Rollo, I don't vote in UK elections.

I don't consider myself a loser and I'm definitely not thin-skinned.

Years of dealing with people who have attitudes like yourself have enabled me to develop a skin as thick as an elephant's and unfortunately, as the years have advanced, a body to match, although I can still pick up grass with my trunk :-D

Presumably Allan does not vote in UK elections.
Why are losers so thin skinned?
gee up

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:-D :-D :-D Allan,

It seems to some (one) that there is only one point of view on anything and everything that is correct, and that is his :-|

I wish a bl**dy redback spider would crawl out of his toilet and bite him on his bum :-P

Very childish I know, but very satisfying :-D :-D

Seems so. :-S

Someone seems to think the rest of us are politically illiterate/vote for the 'wrong' side/never hear the news. :-D :-D

One track mind comes into my thoughts Allan :-D

What the hell!

Have I missed something? :-S

Must every thread be turned into a political soap-box?

The tarantulas are now in charge of the government.
Fallon fatally bitten Bojo cowering at Chequers Grauniad to be blacklisted as fake news. It could only happen to the narzi party.

A large ginger cat bob. She had it 16 years, straight off the tit.

'Fluency of interpretation is a strength'. (Copied from a magazine which will remain nameless because Rollo might get a tad upset with me reverting to old habits.) :-D

Oh yes, and talking of presumptions, I've never had, or looked after a golden retriever - overweight or otherwise, as has been presumed (not by you Bob) on my behalf!!

Sorry, Bob, presumed there, didn't I?
'One of mine cats' :-D :-D :-D
...don't know why it couldn't have been a spider though.....

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And David, your wife had a large ginger what? The mind boggles.

Maggie, are we really supposed to believe that you had a spider that brought rats in to the house?

Tiger snakes are very aggressive, Allan. The kids were warned about them at school too. When our son was doing the cross-country for school, there were one or two.

Red backs were common where we were. I had to stop my daughter lifting plant pots and stamping on them when she was about two or three. They could give you a nasty bite but, surprisingly, they could also kill anyone very young or elderly with health problems.

Blue-ringed octopus was my greatest dread - never saw one though. :-0 :-0 :-0

We have Tiger Snakes here as well, JoyLouise, but the main ones are Dugites.

Dugites are rather timid and will only (hopefully) attack when cornered, but Tiger snakes are more aggressive :-0

Years ago, we moved to an Australian country town which was gradually being urbanised - it's now almost subsumed as an outer-city suburb. At first we had one neighbour, after a while we got another as houses were erected. I used to hang out my washing in the garden at the side of the house before going to work.

One evening my two neighbours mentioned that there were an awful lot of snakes in their gardens that morning. (TIger snakes). In my blissful state, I forgot how short-sighted I was and thought that because we always kept the grass low, we had none in our garden.

It was the next morning, just as I was about to go into the garden, that it dawned on me that I ought to put on my glasses so I could see all of the garden 'cos it was a safe bet that they were sunning themselves in ours too. :-0

The largest one we saw in the open was a grey-coloured snake (a python, I think) about 15+ feet long in an old settlers' graveyard near Port McQ as it slid in front of us before disappearing down into the broken corner of someone's tombstone.

The way to catch smaller snakes is to put a tasty little something into a bottle. When the snake enters, it can't reverse - not that I've tried it, you understand. It's how the boys caught them years ago.

Rats in huge quantities were responsible for the rapid spread of bubonic plague.


It took the great fire of London to contain it.

Fawlty Towers had an amusing episode starring a 'dirty great rat'. :-D