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Bobby Deluxe posted:Unfortunately the self-referral service is the one that's now run by a private company. Might just be an oxfordshire thing More like a Hell thing, that's hosed up This bird is a snipe: 
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So what's the problem here, a book club? Wait, I see it. haha a seagull on some books. Silly seagull
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Someone put a cock on the poster. Then someone may have later done some graffiti, not sure.
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anyone know what kind spider this guy was? 
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i mean is i moved it to the flowerbed because it'd built a web between the ground and my car's wheel ALAB
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crispix posted:anyone know what kind spider this guy was? Terrible photo, but perhaps a zebra spider or a crab spider.
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it was just a phone picture, i'm not davy attemboros, am i
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crispix posted:it was just a phone picture, i'm not davy attemboros, am i Don't get scared of it and stand off while having tremors in your hands, take a confident picture. Let the camera focus. The spider is scared of you, no need for you to be scared of it.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Don't get scared of it and stand off while having tremors in your hands, take a confident picture. Let the camera focus. my phone camera refuses to focus on spiders and will instead focus on what's in the background
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Anything like that you can snap a picture and submit it to iNaturalist. TBH I'm not 100% sure how I'm supposed to use the app, I just submit a picture labelled as whatever it suggests it is and then come back an hour or two later to find several internet strangers have either corrected me or confirmed my guess.
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Julio Cruz posted:my phone camera refuses to focus on spiders and will instead focus on what's in the background True, maybe just needs a better camera
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Or bigger spiders.
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If spiders were bigger, we would find it much easier to milk them for their web silk.
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Stripy legged boi with a big ol web is probably an orb weaver, the garden is full of them at the moment
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Skarsnik posted:Stripy legged boi with a big ol web is probably an orb weaver, the garden is full of them at the moment Yeah the shape matches better.
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Yeah there are flippin tons of them around at the moment.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:If spiders were bigger, we would find it much easier to milk them for their web silk. Poster in Universe Silk for All: I'm just saying that if I want to take my eight legged buddy for his walk, I should be allowed. He'll only rear up at you, but he won't harm you. He's not one of those banned Tarantula breeds.
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There was some gigantic motherfucker with at least a 3 inch legspan on my kitchen wall the other day I made my wife catch and release it at the end of the street to try and make sure it couldn’t find its way back I don’t even know if spiders can do that but I wasn’t about to take any chances
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Spiders can definitely navigate the distance of a street. I reckon they can hold grudges too but I don't have any evidence. You'll just have to hope I'm wrong.
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This is true. They also teach their children where you live
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I've always kinda wanted a spider but it would never be a pet would it. I would just be the giant terrifying monster that inexplicably drops prey animals into the glass cage.
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Concrete chat: RAAC found in the Houses of Parliament, wonder if they'll prioritize getting that sorted over a few schools? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/raac-concrete-house-parliament-b2409441.html Brexit Bonuses chat: "They're queuing up to do business with us" as a brexit-voting friend said to me before the vote. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1700630187421921597?s=20 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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Dogchat: For me it's essentially the exact same as gunchat. "I'm a responsible gun owner, why can't I have an arsenal of AR-15s just because some people have misused theirs?" It's because we're living in a society, and the desire of an individual to have a massive bred-for-combat dog with no proper checks is outweighed by the negative impact (both physical and psychological) that it has on the general populace. These dogs have been bred to scare the poo poo out of people, and allowing any old 'ard man to buy one is insane. There are at least three houses in our neighbourhood where they have massive aggressive dogs, where I've seen the owner clearly unable to control them on walks, and one of them barking at you is so clearly different than a little yappy dog doing so. It's like saying that a kid shouting "I'm going to kill you!" is the same as some roidmonkey shouting it at you. Or like saying that someone concealed-carrying a pistol is the same as someone walking the streets with a visible assault rifle. There are certain breeds that have clearly been bred specifically to scare the gently caress out of people, and they shouldn't be available to purchase regardless of specific bite stats. It's not about big Vs small either, St Bernards are massive but have not been bred for intimidation. The whole "people should just love dogs coming up and jumping on them" brigade...I mean where do you even start with how self-centred and small-minded that belief is? You're basically saying "gently caress neuroatypical people, gently caress anyone from areas like India and the middle east where the only dogs you see are wild or attack dogs: everyone should just get over it because I'm too lazy to take the five seconds to leash my dog". I say all of the above as a nature lover and a dog lover. I love the fact that the UK has off-lead dog parks and for me, I love when a dog I don't know comes and jumps up on me. And it is because of that love that I want to see the ownership of certain breeds severely limited.
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Mourning Due posted:
No it isn't like that at all. Hth
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crispix posted:anyone know what kind spider this guy was? 100% some sort of orb weaver, also is a gal! (Big abdomen) if you submit a photo of a spider for ID, even if blurry try to get the top side, it looks like you photographed the underside of her but top for many spiders usually has distinctive markings! LeafyGreens fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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I don't mind spiders I just wish the wouldn't put their webs at face height. My bird feeder is also covered in spiders ATM, which seems very unwise on the spiders part.
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crispix posted:anyone know what kind spider this guy was? Probably the same as this one I snapped last night  Which I'm pretty sure is a cross orbweaver as others have said. Came down this morning to find it had made a web pretty much covering the kitchen door which is very cool but not very practical. Had to break it to let the dog out, sorry spider! sebzilla fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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The problem with dog chat is that cat owners feel the need to join the conversation due to their jealousy that they picked an animal inferior to a dog.
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Tesseraction posted:*jumping out of a SWAT vehicle and training my shotgun on a pomeranian* SIR YOU HAVE A DOG IN YOUR POSSESSION SIR PLEASE STAND ASIDE THE LITTLE poo poo MIGHT BITE SOMEONE *ignores man walking past with a staffordshire terrier covered in human blood* Moved on a bit but I went over the dangerous dogs act the other day for a vet thing and it's hilarious that Dog Phrenologist is a specialist position within the police. They are the only people authorised to say if a big mastiff is legally a big mastiff, based on how much it looks like another dog used to catch slaves in South America, that wasn't extant in the UK at the time of legislation.
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We have a lot of spiders similar to those on the outside of most of our windows at the moment. It started raining yesterday and we watched one start dismantling his own web which I didn’t really know they could do.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:No it isn't like that at all. Hth Yes it is
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sebzilla posted:Probably the same as this one I snapped last night One had cleverly done it over the kitchen door, but only higher up. So for days I was ducking down to go out. And another managed to have a Web across the path, from the bins to the hedge. A good 2 metre span, and perfectly positioned to capture lots of stuff, very smart. Except I needed to take the bin round to get emptied so 2 days later I had to destroy it and felt guilty
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I think we should start a list of things that will cause massive derails: 1) university 2) chrispchat 3) dog
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history's greatest monster stephen fry seems to have lost his derail potency over the last decade.
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He's not on TV anymore for people to care. Plus the thread has no heroes, all celebrities are sinful.
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Mourning Due posted:Yes it is
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Bobby Deluxe posted:No it loving isn't, and don't weaponise neurodiversity/typicality that that. If you're agreeing with NJAN99, maybe reflect on that
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Just one small neatly trimmed moustache away from his final form. 
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Also it doesn't have anything to do with ND people. I don't want a big dog jumping on me and sometimes I do, but the owners can't tell that at a distance so maybe don't have your dog lunge at people?? If your dog is well trained enough to not do that off lead, and not to disturb the rivers with chemicals or the local wildlife it's probably fine, but that's not the typical off lead dog experience.
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