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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14/08/2010 : 23:22:41
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Does it annoy anyone else when you're reading say, a news story, or something else factual and it starts going on about poisonous snakes? News sites are the worst, they're meant to be giving people facts but instead they're using incorrect terminology!  I find myself raging at them in my own head. I will not stand for this!  |
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luke1989
Hatchling
United Kingdom
173 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2010 : 23:24:55
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| yes very true, theres as a difference. |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2010 : 23:29:31
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I hate it too but I have a nasty suspicion the media doesn't give a damn as long as they can build a sensational story out of it ... |
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luke1989
Hatchling
United Kingdom
173 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2010 : 23:31:10
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| corns will be venomous and cobras poisonous. as long as theyre dangerous it dosent matter to some |
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 00:37:09
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| I swear, i would love to lock the people who write those articles in a room with a few vipers or something. then explain the difference between those and our harmless lil friends :) not that im sadistic or anything mwahahaha |
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mikerichards
don't say the 'M' word!
United Kingdom
2901 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 00:53:19
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| Is a puffer fish venemous or poisonous?? |
Location : Worthing, West Sussex
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Kehhlyr
ǝʞɐɔ sǝʌoן
United Kingdom
8173 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 00:55:06
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quote:
Originally posted by mikerichards
Is a puffer fish venemous or poisonous??
Depends on how the toxin is administered.
It is possible to be poisoned by a venomous snake.  |
-=Kehhlyr - The Resident Loon
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 01:06:20
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| snake venom isnt usually harmful at all if ingested, the enzymes in the saliva break it down :) |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 10:50:12
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quote:
Originally posted by josh9961
snake venom isnt usually harmful at all if ingested, the enzymes in the saliva break it down :)
Tell that to a journalist.
I just have this vision of a room full of media types (badly in need of a change of underwear) cringing away from a rub containing a corn hatchling, while our Josh gives them a much-needed lecture on the different kinds of snake...
I'm not sadistic either, but nice one! |
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 11:42:17
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| Imagine if I opened the RUB |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 12:01:29
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National emergency!
And especially in the media underwear ... |
Edited by - BurnedAtTheStake on 15/08/2010 12:02:25 |
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 12:09:58
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| Then bring in the super deadly fifty foot poisonous python from Peru! That would have them climbing up walls. |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 12:42:10
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LOL!
Yeah, but poor snakey, if it ate jerks like that, it'd have terrible indigestion. |
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 13:22:53
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| We could rub mice all over them to disguise the smell of lies |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 13:31:45
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| Yeah, but they're rats already ... got to be careful feeding too many rats to a snake... |
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Posted - 15/08/2010 : 15:29:51
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| Yeah, but they'd manange to escape, we all know they'd stoop lower than a snakes belly to get a story in print..... |
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West Mids
STU
Wishlist - Snow, Anery Lavender, Stripe of some sort, Diffused Caramel, Whiteout, Tessera.
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 15:40:14
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| It's the media that are venomouse! |
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eeji
The Morph Master
United Kingdom
4335 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 17:48:27
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what annoys me most is not using the wrong word at the wrong time, but wheever someone finds a snake they all make a big point about it 'not being poisonous'. Why instead can't they just say 'a harmless [species here] has [escaped/been found] blah de blahhhh'
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 17:50:53
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| All snakes are harmless unless given provocation to defend themselves. If I found say an escaped boa in my house, I'd lock it in the room, give it water and contact ameyzoo. It's stupid the way people react to snakes. I'm more scared of dogs than snakes. |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 17:52:11
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Because that's not sensational enough. It won't get the papers sold or the TVs turned on. Hype hype hype ... |
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 18:16:39
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| To avoid hype around the house, all my RUBs are labelled :D with emphasis on the word harmless |
2.3 Corn Snakes
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Venomous, not POISONOUS, VENOMOUS!
