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Fritz Coldcockin: Nov 7, 2005

Away all Goats posted:

"Please, take the picture, I'm about to fall on my face."

# ? Jul 8, 2016 19:57

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# ? May 14, 2024 02:21

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

RareAcumen posted:

I really love this because the fox is going "You better not keep that one, I look ridiculous."

# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:18

Overminty: Mar 16, 2010; You may wonder what I am doing while reading your posts..

Foxeses

# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:25

Nuebot: Feb 18, 2013; The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Overminty posted:

Foxeses

I want to pet every single one of those foxes.

# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:58

God Over Djinn: Jan 17, 2005; onwards and upwards

They look like candy corn :ohdear:

# ? Jul 8, 2016 22:12

Fritz Coldcockin: Nov 7, 2005

Overminty posted:

Foxeses

"You came to the wrong neighborhood, motherfucker."

# ? Jul 9, 2016 04:09

Bonapartisan: May 20, 2004; Emperor of France
Creator of the Code Napoleon
Conqueror of the Ziggy Piggy

Alter Ego posted:

"You came to the wrong neighborhood, motherfucker."

There's no Pokeball, if the last two days have taught me anything, it's that there should be a a Pokeball there.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 04:15

bobjr: Oct 16, 2012; Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

http://blog.cincinnatizoo.org/2016/07/08/slumber-party-at-the-zoo-with-a-cheetah-cub-a-puppy-and-a-trainer/

The URL says it all.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 04:33

Garrand: Dec 28, 2012; Rhino, you did this to me!

https://twitter.com/Animal_Vibes/status/751532061459091459

# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:13

cash crab: Apr 5, 2015; all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology

melon party

# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:33

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:47

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

That is the most precious little snake I've ever seen in my entire life

# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:50

Mekchu: Apr 10, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

I love how its cheeks puff up while drinking water.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 06:54

SpacePig: Apr 4, 2007; Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

This is like a weird ASMR video. The S in this case stands for snake.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 07:33

Safari Disco Lion: Jul 21, 2011; Boss, if they make us find seven lost crystals, I'm quitting.

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

oh my effing god do I want a teeny tiny snek now.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 07:35

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5q1Pzod1I&t=4s

:3:

# ? Jul 9, 2016 08:09

Khazar-khum: Oct 22, 2008; Cat Army
2nd Battalion

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

What kind of slinky is that? How old is it?

# ? Jul 9, 2016 09:17

neongrey: Feb 28, 2007; Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

Intellectually I am aware that there are people who don't like snakes, but I really can't understand how people don't think snakes are adorable. :kimchi:

# ? Jul 9, 2016 09:19

Khazar-khum: Oct 22, 2008; Cat Army
2nd Battalion

There used to be a woman at some of the smaller Renaissance fairs who had a huge boa named Mona. This lady always wore low-hanging clothes, she'd get a massive sunburn, and Mona would lie on her breasts, soaking up all that lovely UV. Even my mother, who was terrified of snakes, brought herself to pet Mona. She was so scared, yet Mona stayed perfectly still, never even flicking her tongue. After a second they parted. For that moment, it was stunning to see how such a reptile could read a human and respond properly.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 09:27

Foxhound: Sep 5, 2007

http://i.imgur.com/yfZ4vpl.gifv

Hell yeah screw your vegetables.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 10:30

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Foxhound posted:

http://i.imgur.com/yfZ4vpl.gifv

Hell yeah screw your vegetables.

Please don't post gore here, this is simply too brutal

# ? Jul 9, 2016 10:34

vaguely: Apr 29, 2013; hot_squirting_honey.gif

Khazar-khum posted:

What kind of slinky is that? How old is it?

looks like a lil hognose, they don't get very big :kimchi:

the chubby lil cheeks oh my gosh

# ? Jul 9, 2016 11:57

BattleMaster: Aug 14, 2000

# ? Jul 9, 2016 12:16

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Hognose snakes make good pets because they are comically harmless. They are venomous, a little bit, but their venom does absolutely nothing to humans. Even then, they're the kind of snake that has the fangs at the back of the mouth instead of in front, so any part of a human is probably too big for it to even get its mouth around.

Since they are so tiny, a hognose snake's main form of defense when it's frightened is not to bite you as per most snakes, but to flop over on its back and play dead until you go away. However, they are also not incredibly smart, so if a hognose snake is playing dead and you flip it back over, it'll go right back to being on its back and continue playing dead as if it thinks you didn't see it just blow its own cover. They're pretty great.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 12:53

Sininu: Jan 8, 2014

CJacobs posted:

Hognose snakes make good pets because they are comically harmless. They are venomous, a little bit, but their venom does absolutely nothing to humans. Even then, they're the kind of snake that has the fangs at the back of the mouth instead of in front, so any part of a human is probably too big for it to even get its mouth around.

Since they are so tiny, a hognose snake's main form of defense when it's frightened is not to bite you as per most snakes, but to flop over on its back and play dead until you go away. However, they are also not incredibly smart, so if a hognose snake is playing dead and you flip it back over, it'll go right back to being on its back and continue playing dead as if it thinks you didn't see it just blow its own cover. They're pretty great.

Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjW4VM1xdE

# ? Jul 9, 2016 13:03

JackMann: Aug 11, 2010; Secure. Contain. Protect.; Fallen Rib

Fun fact. They've learned that snakes are effectively a kind of lizard, phyletically speaking. Like, rather than the squamates branching off into a lizard path and a snake path, it branched into several lizard paths, one of which includes the snakes. To put it another way, iguanas and bearded dragons are more closely related to snakes than they are to geckos.

They first figured this out by looking at venom glands in lizards. Part of the reason they were so sure that they weren't that closely related is because all lizards that have poison glands have them in the lower jaws, while snakes have them in the upper jaws. Except when they looked at bearded dragons, they had glands in both jaws (though their venom is incredibly mild and has no effect on humans). Looking over the evolutionary record, it looks like an ancestor developed glands like the beardies, but then most descendants lost one set; the snakes in the lower jaw, the lizards in the upper. Genetic testing confirmed it. They've proposed a clade called toxicofera for them, though the name may change.

So next time you see a snek and an iguana, know that they're cousins.

Next time, we'll discuss how crocodilians are more closely related to birds than other reptiles.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 13:22

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

This made me realize I have never seen a snake drinking before

It's amazing

# ? Jul 9, 2016 13:25

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

SynthOrange posted:

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o9x2ylcbXH1v8g03p_720.mp4

I kind of expected it to inflate like one of those clown balloons.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 16:57

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Flipperwaldt posted:

You do definitely not need Flash. You need Firefox 45 and up (because something broke it in previous versions) and you need Firefox' Tracking Protection disabled for the forums (because that blocks the Twitter image host). If you're using something else that blocks cross site requests and scripts, like uMatrix, Policeman, Ghostery, Noscript or whatever, then those might also need to have permissions set up to allow the Twitter embeds to work properly.

I finally managed to track it down using your post as a starting point. Thanks.

For some reason I had set "media.mediasource.mp4.enabled" to false in about :config. Setting it back to default has fixed everything - well until I rediscover what was broken in the first place. But that's a problem for tomorrow.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:09

a kitten: Aug 5, 2006

Emergency phone posting because something on this page is consistently crashing chrome. That's not all that cute.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:11

Mekchu: Apr 10, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

a kitten posted:

Emergency phone posting because something on this page is consistently crashing chrome. That's not all that cute.

Maybe the webm of the snake drinking water?

# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:16

Sininu: Jan 8, 2014

a kitten posted:

Emergency phone posting because something on this page is consistently crashing chrome. That's not all that cute.

Crashes for me as well, but after two refreshes it's stable.

# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:17

BattleMaster: Aug 14, 2000

It's happening to me and I'm pretty sure it's the snake drinking (which is also hotlinked from Tumblr at that)

# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:17

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

No crashes on chrome here. :shrug:

# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:43

Tofu Terry: Oct 4, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

CJacobs posted:

Hognose snakes make good pets because they are comically harmless. They are venomous, a little bit, but their venom does absolutely nothing to humans. Even then, they're the kind of snake that has the fangs at the back of the mouth instead of in front, so any part of a human is probably too big for it to even get its mouth around.

Since they are so tiny, a hognose snake's main form of defense when it's frightened is not to bite you as per most snakes, but to flop over on its back and play dead until you go away. However, they are also not incredibly smart, so if a hognose snake is playing dead and you flip it back over, it'll go right back to being on its back and continue playing dead as if it thinks you didn't see it just blow its own cover. They're pretty great.

I've been chewed on by a hognose and my hand swelled up quiiittee a lot so that's not entirely accurate, otherwise yeah! Usually they just throw on giant dramatic tantrums (unless you're like me and smell like mice I guess, lol).

# ? Jul 9, 2016 18:23