Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[vehve]

A drop bear (Thylarctos plummetus) is a carnivorous variant of the koala. It's a bout 50" tall and weighs about 260 lbs. It has powerful forearms, and large premolars that it uses to bite. It attacks it's prey by jumping down from eucalyptus trees. It's also slightly fictitious.

 

[tandykins]

Well, with all due respect, and no offense intended, I am beginning to think that anyone who chooses to remain on a continent with Tiger snakes and is happy about it *is* nuts. I mean, I think that scares me more than the night my father kicked a grizzly bear in the rump - but not as much as having to listen to him repeat the tale over and over through the years. In his version, the bear got *smaller.* with almost ever telling, and he began by announcing that he thought he was the only man to ever kick a grizzly in the butt and live.

I would much rather have venomous snakes and spiders than mountain lions and bears.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

A drop bear (Thylarctos plummetus) is a carnivorous variant of the koala. It's a bout 50" tall and weighs about 260 lbs. It has powerful forearms, and large premolars that it uses to bite. It attacks it's prey by jumping down from eucalyptus trees. It's also slightly fictitious.

I figured that. Koalas are nasty enough that you wouldn't need a meter and a fourth tall bear to terrorize anyone near the eucalyptus grove. Why people think koalas are somehow going to be cuddly confuses me - but then we have people who make the same mistake about cougars, coyotes, bears, foxes, and especially raccoons here.

On the other hand, I think I used to date a drop bear.

BTW - America and Australia both lay claim to the hoop snake:

The hoop snake is mentioned in a letter from 1784 (published in Tour in the U.S.A., Vol. I, p. 263-65. London):

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As other serpents crawl upon their bellies, so can this; but he has another method of moving peculiar to his own species, which he always adopts when he is in eager pursuit of his prey; he throws himself into a circle, running rapidly around, advancing like a hoop, with his tail arising and pointed forward in the circle, by which he is always in the ready position of striking.
It is observed that they only make use of this method in attacking; for when they flee from their enemy they go upon their bellies, like other serpents. From the above circumstance, peculiar to themselves, they have also derived the appellation of hoop snakes.

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Sightings are still occasionally reported, though the existence of the hoop snake has never been accepted by the scientific community. Naturalist Raymond Ditmars placed $10,000 in trust at a New York bank for the first person to provide evidence of a hoop snake.

We also have a creature in the south known as the joint snake. This snake can break itself, or be cut up, into pieces and put itself back together. If you take away a piece of the snake and put down the knife used to cut up the snake in place of that piece, the snake puts itself together and uses the knife instead of the missing bit. I suspect this was handy for the snake to sneak up on prey.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Yeah, I guess it's a matter of what one is familiar with. It's funny, I don't even worry about bears although they tried to enter two neighbors houses in Nevada over the years - we just grab our slug guns and shoot down in front of them, between them and the house, and they tend to go away. We had a cougar on the house across the road once, it was just a matter of waiting for the cougar to leave since it had already failed to obtain it's intended dinner - domestic dogs - and appeared to be a bit inexperienced since it went up on the roof and tried to hide up there.
One of the dogs bolted to inside the house, while the border collie cross started giving it the eye and trying to herd it and I guess the cougar thought there was a big pack just waiting to jump it. It finally went away after a couple of hours and the dogs called in. I didn't worry about the cougar because if one got on the house I'd hear it and know where it was and could haul out a saddle gun if needed to go outside. In any event, I suspect I could scare it off by discharging a round into the ground. Usually big noises scare them off in Nevada. Not so in California, where it has been illegal to hunt them for several kitty generations, and they confuse us with a convenient snack.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Just to show you how not scared of Australia you should be - I'ma go find a field full of tall grass, lie down in it and let bugs crawl all over me.

Also I might be nuts.

Also you should never visit me because I breed spiders, beetles, cockroaches and solpugids (like Vinegaroons).

My brother raised tarantulas. Those are neat. They live a very long time - 25 years for females, 10 - 15 years for males. Sometimes on remote highways you'll see them in pairs alongside the road and it is custom to try and NOT run over them. They are also good for guaranteeing us an entire campground near Santa Nella all to ourselves when their mating season pops up around September. Everyone else tends to leave when they realize what we are photographing.

What do you breed them for? Is it your work? Entomology?

My husband just informed me that what we over here call a vinegaroon is actually something that is in the Solifugae, order and is known as a "wind scorpion." Our scorpions, though, really are scorpions.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

A drop bear (Thylarctos plummetus) is a carnivorous variant of the koala. It's a bout 50" tall and weighs about 260 lbs. It has powerful forearms, and large premolars that it uses to bite. It attacks it's prey by jumping down from eucalyptus trees. It's also slightly fictitious.

It's probably just a regular koala with vertigo and it has a drop attack that causes it to fall and crush some careless tourist.

 

[tandykins]

I figured that. Koalas are nasty enough that you wouldn't need a meter and a fourth tall bear to terrorize anyone near the eucalyptus grove. Why people think koalas are somehow going to be cuddly confuses me - but then we have people who make the same mistake about cougars, coyotes, bears, foxes, and especially raccoons here.

On the other hand, I think I used to date a drop bear.

Dude no. Koalas aren't cute and cuddly. Okay the babies are...but the adults are stinky hump monsters that snort and tear holes in you with their teeth if you try to touch them. Nopenopenope.

 

[tridentk9]

maybe one of these is under your bed

 

[Papas Chickens]

The really old style Fred Mueller cowboy boots were guaranteed to stop rattlesnake bites. They came with a $50K policy against death and such from rattlesnake bites. I miss Fred Mueller saddles - the last saddle one could find with a real mountain and high plains upright cantle so you could sleep in the saddle.

I use Chippewa 23913 Men's Snake Boot when im hiking and hunting just to be on the safe side.

 

[Papas Chickens]

Dude no. Koalas aren't cute and cuddly. Okay the babies are...but the adults are stinky hump monsters that snort and tear holes in you with their teeth if you try to touch them. Nopenopenope.

I like Tazzy Devils.