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Beachcomber posted:There is apparently no standardization of snake names because we have unrelated copperhead snakes in America. The North American copperhead is in the Viperidae family; the (much less coppery, bah!) Australian copperhead is in the Elapidae family. Now let me tell you about possums...
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Veib posted:It's not unusual to be loved by a snake cannibal You've been hosed by You've been et by A snake cannibal
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AlbieQuirky posted:The North American copperhead is in the Viperidae family; the (much less coppery, bah!) Australian copperhead is in the Elapidae family. Yes, that's why I said unrelated. I'm just annoyed that the snake community hasn't standardized the names. An American copperhead is rarely fatal to adults, while the Australian one is Australian.
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Beachcomber posted:Yes, that's why I said unrelated. I'm just annoyed that the snake community hasn't standardized the names. An American copperhead is rarely fatal to adults, while the Australian one is Australian. It is that way with the common names for any organism.
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Feb 4, 2020 20:22
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Honestly just prepend "Killer" to the Australian name for anything and the problem's solved.
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Feb 4, 2020 20:24
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A North American copperhead bite is still a pretty serious thing to deal with too, despite generally not being lethal.
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Beachcomber posted:Yes, that's why I said unrelated. I'm just annoyed that the snake community hasn't standardized the names. An American copperhead is rarely fatal to adults, while the Australian one is Australian. The snake community calls everything by species name, for just that reason. There are so many cases of different things having the same names in different countries! Hence my mention of possums. Robins are another case: in England, the name is used for a red-breasted flycatcher, in North America, for a red-breasted thrush, and in Australia for a bunch of brightly colored passerine birds in the family Petroicidae. 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Honestly just prepend "Killer" to the Australian name for anything and the problem's solved. Yeah, but then you get redundant names, like Killer Australians.
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Elfface posted:Yeah, but then you get redundant names, like Killer Australians. It seems useful to have that there as sometimes people forget that Australians can spit venom up to 30 feet.
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Feb 4, 2020 23:19
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Feb 5, 2020 18:28
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I'm annoyed that this tweet refers to the person who plays gritty being exonerated, because all the articles about the initial investigation listed gritty himself as the accused.
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Feb 5, 2020 18:35
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm annoyed that this tweet refers to the person who plays gritty being exonerated, because all the articles about the initial investigation listed gritty himself as the accused. That's why the person was exonerated.
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Feb 6, 2020 00:20
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm annoyed that this tweet refers to the person who plays gritty being exonerated, because all the articles about the initial investigation listed gritty himself as the accused. It's LA. They don't get it.
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Feb 6, 2020 01:26
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Beachcomber posted:Yes, that's why I said unrelated. I'm just annoyed that the snake community hasn't standardized the names. An American copperhead is rarely fatal to adults, while the Australian one is Australian. Wikipedia landing the humor: wikipedia posted:their venom is, by Australian standards, only moderately toxic (equal on a per-mg basis to that of the Indian cobra)
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Feb 6, 2020 01:40
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https://twitter.com/JustinOArnold/status/1225145655225671680
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'Emoji jacket' can help cyclists communicate their never-ending rage to drivers
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Captain Hygiene posted:'Emoji jacket' can help cyclists communicate their never-ending rage to drivers Call me old fashioned but it's so much more satisfying to collect their side mirrors instead.
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The finisher of "taunts a nun" is making me crack up way too much. I think you could append that to just about anything, and it'd still be funny.
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Feb 7, 2020 02:53
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I want to thank Orlando Weekly for this flashback article: Orlando attorney John Morgan avoids jail time after head-butting a cop and calling him a 'fat fucker'
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Humerus posted:I want to thank Orlando Weekly for this flashback article: I got a kick out of explaining to people that the guy who head butted a cop, got his driver's license permanently revoked for too many DUIs, and is famous for getting trashed at dive bars in his suit and making out with dudes is a beloved local celebrity and very wealthy lawyer who created the Alcatraz East crime museum in Pigeon Forge.
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chitoryu12 posted:I got a kick out of explaining to people that the guy who head butted a cop, got his driver's license permanently revoked for too many DUIs, and is famous for getting trashed at dive bars in his suit and making out with dudes is a beloved local celebrity and very wealthy lawyer who created the Alcatraz East crime museum in Pigeon Forge. My wife and I were just trying to explain the Wally's saga to our friend that moved away from Orlando 10 years ago and I think this sums it up: John Morgan rips remodeled Wally’s as ‘hipster bar’ A man with a law degree posted:“I don’t need to walk in to Arthur Murray dance studio to know it’s not for me," he said. “This is a hipster bar. I am not a hipster, if you haven’t noticed."
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Feb 7, 2020 19:57
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Feb 7, 2020 20:08
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This came up in the goon milhist Discord and crossbows are no loving joke. People think that it's like video games or TV where the bolt just sticks halfway into whatever it hits, but at close range you're basically using a medieval rifle. That bolt went through the dog and the door to hit the guy on the other side with lethal energy. These guys got Daryl Dixon's crossbow to test on realistic head analogues, thinking the same thing. At that close range, even a bolt without a head will shoot straight through a skull and exit your backyard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22qp7-XoXY
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Feb 7, 2020 20:23
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Weren't crossbows built to pierce armour? That seems like a good indication that they're likely to go through a few bags of meat before stopping.
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Feb 7, 2020 22:46
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Holy poo poo that is an obnoxious video.
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Feb 7, 2020 22:52
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Holy poo poo that is an obnoxious video. It is, which is why I just skip to the gore. Their head analogues are actually some of the best on the market for realistic testing, so it's useful for getting a feel of what kind of damage different weapons and objects can do when you're writing something.
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Inceltown posted:Weren't crossbows built to pierce armour? That seems like a good indication that they're likely to go through a few bags of meat before stopping. Only crossbows with major mechanical advantages like a crannequin or windlass could pierce plate. The more common hand‐spanned crossbows were for the unarmoured masses. e: Here’s a man who makes reproduction arms shooting some ballistics gel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSNNSh4Fuh8&t=112s Platystemon has a new favorite as of 23:16 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Feb 7, 2020 23:11
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The church tried to ban their use on Christians. Possibly for humanitarian reasons, possibly because they didn't want to be on the receiving end of them. An early example of the fine tradition of "No, it's only a warcrime when you do it to us."
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Feb 7, 2020 23:59
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That reminds me of how the Puckle Gun, a early 18th century proto-machine gun that never saw any action but could theoretically fire as many as 9 rounds per minute, was designed to be able to fire square bullets as well as conventional round bullets. The normal bullets being meant for good Christian enemies and the square ones for Turks reportedly to "convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization".
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/us/texas-box-puppies-bear-cubs-trnd/index.html
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Anytime I see just a link in with no explanation I check the username and I’ve never seen it be anyone but Randaconda. I like some of the stuff you post, but years of internet usage has taught me never to click blind links. 
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quote:“It's not uncommon to find black bears in the county,” Camden County Sheriff Kevin Jones told CNN. “But to find bear cups in a cardboard box in your property, wrapped up in sweatshirts to keep them warm, yea, that's pretty strange.”
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Feb 9, 2020 05:08
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Well where else would you keep your bear cups 
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Feb 9, 2020 05:11
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The homeowner’s reaction is great and it’s worth putting up with the news site video shittiness to see it.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well where else would you keep your bear cups A cupbeard.
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Beachcomber posted:A cupbeard. 
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Platystemon posted:The homeowner’s reaction is great and it’s worth putting up with the news site video shittiness to see it. It's still funny they all do this after it was admitted that the 'pivot to video' was never a thing and nobody likes or wants it.
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Cartoon Man posted:
Historys greatest monster
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