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Alpo Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I presume that's supposed to be a depiction of Australia, but it looks more like two boobs in a crop top. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 7 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Every Aussie kid used to make these paddle pop stick boomerangs that held together at school - We would also make them but we would put a firecracker in the middle, light and throw! 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 8 minutes ago, Alpo said: I presume that's supposed to be a depiction of Australia, but it looks more like two boobs in a crop top. I think he did the map of Oz when the idjut put the blindfold on. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 5 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said: We would also make them but we would put a firecracker in the middle, light and throw! Now that's a fun upscale!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 10 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Make me a Bloody Magpie 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alpo Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 41 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: "Remind them who is running this joint". You mean the British? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 2 minutes ago, Alpo said: "Remind them who is running this joint". You mean the British? However you want to interpret. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 looks like a possible belly flop in the mud puddle CB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subdeacon Joe Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 On 2/17/2024 at 1:21 AM, sassnetguy50 said: Those are what the fashion kids wear around here. No thanks. https://shop.lululemon.com/p/men-shorts/License-to-Train-Linerless-Short-5/_/prod11130328?color=0001 Those look like the gym shorts from highschool. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 Most likely a small roo (or someone's dog) inside this one. 1 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 EGADS! I think I would take a 12 gauge to those snakes. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 From what Mr Bear has said a time or three, it appears to be illegal to kill indigenous wildlife in Australia. Even when your life is in danger from it. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 26 minutes ago, DeaconKC said: EGADS! I think I would take a 12 gauge to those snakes. ....... they'll eat those too .... 10 minutes ago, Alpo said: From what Mr Bear has said a time or three, it appears to be illegal to kill indigenous wildlife in Australia. Even when your life is in danger from it. ....... yep, ..... and although they are 'protected' ........... they ain't ARMOUR PLATED !! 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 3 minutes ago, Alpo said: ...... so, ... the cats' name is "Spot" ? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 1 hour ago, Alpo said: From what Mr Bear has said a time or three, it appears to be illegal to kill indigenous wildlife in Australia. Even when your life is in danger from it. Yep all snakes are protected.......but they don't have Secret Service bodyguards 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Amazing how they can dislocate their jaws to get prey that big in. These are non-poisonous constrictors, I don't think being slowly crushed to death would be that good a way of being taken out. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 I believe that's not the way it works. They don't crush you to death, so much as they squeeze you so tight that you can't breathe. Your lungs can't go in and out. So you suffocate. Whether that's better or worse, I really don't want to find out. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 How does a python kill its prey? In the animal world, it's easy to be a top predator. All you need is eyes on the front of your head, sharp eyes and ears to find your next dinner, lots of muscles on your trunk and limbs, and some weaponry such as big teeth, big claws or big talons. But what if you have no arms or legs, no ears, no eyelids, and no claws or talons? In that case, you might be a python. Surprisingly, it was only as recently as 2015 that we discovered how they kill their prey. First, a few python factoids. They can go for up to two years without a feed. To cut down on energy usage, they actually shrink their gut down to practically nothing. You see, it takes a lot of energy to run a gut — all those enzymes and liquids to manufacture and recycle. Pythons can eat an animal that actually weighs more than they do — up to one-and-a-half times their own weight. That means they have to suddenly regrow their gut back into existence. It takes a huge amount of work to do this. They have to crank up their energy output to up to 45 times normal — and keep it there for a few days. You'll appreciate how hard this is when you realise that to win a gold medal, an Olympic sprinter will crank up their energy output to 20 times normal — and only for 10 seconds (not 45 times, for three days). But how do pythons kill their meal? Well, until 2015, the accepted opinion among the snake scientists, or herpetologists to give them their proper name, was suffocation. Each time the rat (or whatever their intended meal is) breathes out, it makes its own ribcage a bit smaller. At that exact moment, so went the perceived wisdom, the python would tighten up its grip another notch. After several such tightenings, the rat couldn't get any air into its lungs and would shortly die of suffocation. There was no real squeezing as such. But there were a few inconsistencies with the suffocation theory. For example, there was the case of a Malaysian man who had been killed by a python doing its 'constrictor' thing, and was being swallowed, head first. Before the rest of his body had gone in, he had been pulled out of the python. When his corpse was examined at autopsy, he was found to have multiple fractures in his ribs, neck and the rest of his spinal cord. So maybe the python could squeeze with a lot of force… This was the background to the research by Dr Scott M Boback and colleagues. They wanted to put the crushers to the test. They anaesthetised a rat, and implanted inside it a whole bunch of measuring devices, using modern technology. They then offered "robo-rat" to their tame and hungry boa constrictor. As per normal, the snake struck the rat's head to render it unconscious, and immediately coiled its body around the rodent. As the rat's blood pressure and heart rate data flooded onto their computer screen, they were astonished to see that within six seconds, the blood pressure dropped down to half. If the rat had been conscious, it would have become unconscious from a lack of blood to the brain. Within 60 seconds, the heart rate dropped from over 400 beats per minute to about half. You need to realise that the heart is a pump. Like all pumps, it can deliver its liquid load only into a zone of lower pressure. In a regular rat, the background blood pressure in the veins is about 4 mm Hg, while the heart pushes blood out at a pressure of about 82 mm Hg. In this case, the blood can leave the heart and travel, via a slightly complicated pathway, towards the veins. But once the boa constrictor started to squeeze, the background pressure inside the rat increased to 160 mm Hg within six seconds. There's no way that a pump with an output pressure of 80 mm Hg can deliver any blood into a zone at a pressure twice as high. And the analysis of various blood parameters showed that the rat definitely did not die from suffocation. It's enough to raise anyone's blood pressure. Squeezing the truth out of a python's killer instinct turned out to be heart-stopping … Its interesting that they can swallow a Wallaby. 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 As Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta once said: Shoot, Shovel and Shut-up! 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 7 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Amazing how they can dislocate their jaws to get prey that big in. These are non-poisonous constrictors, I don't think being slowly crushed to death would be that good a way of being taken out. So the meat is edible. But are they venomous? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 On 2/17/2024 at 11:42 PM, Alpo said: I presume that's supposed to be a depiction of Australia, but it looks more like two boobs in a crop top. That and a silhouette of Tasmania would be very suggestive. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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