What's on your mind today?

[Dave]

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But, Icarus, I would wager there are those macho types who would hunt the serpent for 50c!

I do remember, back in the 50s when bananas came as full stalks, packed in straw, in "rifle boxes" with hand holes in the sides. Helping my friend's greengrocer father unpacking those was a job for rubber gloves, elastic bands round jacket cuffs abd screw-top jars - that was our job, catch any beastie before it hid. And beasties there were! London Zoo had a van that came round to pick up these visitors when they were phoned up. Must have done a lot of mileage!

It was they who also took away the very poorly baby alligator found in a crate of Floridan oranges. But not poorly enough to miss biting the father's finger! Probably needed the protein. He was still in the reptile house about ten years later.

Who would have thought being a greengrocer and fruitier could be so adventurous a trade? All very sterile and safe these days...

[xSilverPhinx]

I believe that spiders are actually venomous.

Correct you are! 

[xSilverPhinx]

But, "giant"? 1cm? 10mm? 0.01m?

Strangely I understand what you say, though I must admit to disliking 99.9% of the arachnid species some, like the little hunting spiders (maybe 5mm or less, black and white speckles, though some tropical ones are like little peacocks) I find fascinating as they skitter about very fast.

Its the big momma "house spiders"  that used to bother me. Maybe up to 25mm legspan, they are also hunters and "hear" through their legs. So, when you move your foot to get up and find the glass and postcard they "hear" the vibration, work out the direction spin and sometimes run towards you! One night I had five trapped under glass waiting to be evicted, bloody swarm of them!

Many years ago I lived in a bedsit above a shop. On the floor below was a woman I really fancied. 1am one morning, gentle tap on the door awoke me. It was my gorgeous neighbour in a dressing gown... " 'Allo, me luck's in," thought I!

But no such luck, she had been staring, terrified, at a huge momma house spider, in her room,for three hours before getting the courage to seek help.  I astounded myself, I just grabbed the beastie in my hand, gently, took it down stairs and deposited it in a hedge.

Marvelous what the need of a little chivalry to a female will do to drive male courage to new heights! Thus is the legend of St Gloucester and the Spider, another damsel saved from distress...

I like spiders and other arachnids, though at a certain distance.

Tell me, how would St Gloucester fare against a horde of creepy crawlies? 

[Magdalena]

Recusant.
Is it me, or has he been quiet lately? 

[Dave]

But, "giant"? 1cm? 10mm? 0.01m?

Strangely I understand what you say, though I must admit to disliking 99.9% of the arachnid species . . .
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Marvelous what the need of a little chivalry to a female will do to drive male courage to new heights! Thus is the legend of St Gloucester and the Spider, another damsel saved from distress...

I like spiders and other arachnids, though at a certain distance.

Tell me, how would St Gloucester fare against a horde of creepy crawlies? 

Harvestmen are one of the ones that bothers St Gloucester not a lot, though he has not met then in that quantity. Not nesrly enough goblets in the castle for that problem!

[Arturo]

Kinda lonely, again. Makes me want to go back to an old love interest that never worked out. She made it clear she hates me. And she did get over it though but now she does drugs and doesn't keep up with me despite my attempts to. And drugs are a no go for me.

[Magdalena]

Kinda lonely, again. Makes me want to go back to an old love interest that never worked out. She made it clear she hates me. And she did get over it though but now she does drugs and doesn't keep up with me despite my attempts to. And drugs are a no go for me.

[Magdalena]

I was just thinking, Crow retired, 6/6/2016. Today is 6/7/2017. 
~That's all.

[Tank]

I was just thinking, Crow retired, 6/6/2016. Today is 6/7/2017. 
~That's all.

It's a shame he went. But he was a big boy and made a choice. It's the nature of forums that people come and go. There is nothing stopping him coming back except his choice to remain gone. You could always ask him back, just as I did you. I'd ask but he never gave me his contact details directly and although I can see his email address in his account profile it's not public so I can't abuse my access and contact him.

[Davin]

I was just thinking, Crow retired, 6/6/2016. Today is 6/7/2017. 
~That's all.

Hrm...
6/6/2016...

2016/6/6...

6/6/6...

666.

I bet that means that Crow misses us too. Well, everyone but me.

[Magdalena]

I was just thinking, Crow retired, 6/6/2016. Today is 6/7/2017. 
~That's all.

It's a shame he went. But he was a big boy and made a choice. It's the nature of forums that people come and go. There is nothing stopping him coming back except his choice to remain gone. You could always ask him back, just as I did you. I'd ask but he never gave me his contact details directly and although I can see his email address in his account profile it's not public so I can't abuse my access and contact him.

It's the nature of forums that people come and go.

Yes, I seem to be having a difficult time with this. 

[Magdalena]

I was just thinking, Crow retired, 6/6/2016. Today is 6/7/2017. 
~That's all.

Hrm...
6/6/2016...

2016/6/6...

6/6/6...

666.

King of the bottomless pit! Son of perdition! Wicked one! Lawless one!
...etc., etc., etc.
Maybe that's why I want him to come back. 

[OldGit]

UK General Election today.  Wish us luck!

[Dave]

UK General Election today.  Wish us luck!

Yeah, now, which bunch are going to do Britain the least damage? Still can't make up my mind.

[Biggus Dickus]

UK General Election today.  Wish us luck!

Yes good luck, hope it turns out better for you folks in the UK than it did for us chumps here in the US...have to admit I find your elections a bit hard to follow, been reading up on it this morning over coffee.

This general information is somewhat helpful.
General election 2017: Manifesto guide on where the parties stand