General Chat

hmm - so racist as well

hate snakes - can't even bear to look at a picture of one

Snakes :-|

I knew a chap once who crossed chickens with spiders, the idea being that everybody would get a leg to eat.

To this day, no one knows what they taste like, the flaming things ran too fast to be caught ;-) :-D :-D :-D

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we had a python for 20 years Henry
he was lovely :-D :-D

Never had a problem with snakes.
When I was about 2 or 3, I saw a huge snake slithering in a dry stone wall in Malta.
I went to tell my dad, who came out and said 'Oh - that's just a Whip Snake, it won't hurt you. Don't go too near it though, or you'll frighten it'
I'd frighten it!!!
I obviously knew to avoid snakes, but dad's ambivalent view of this horrendously huge (to me) beast was confusing, to say the least.

I've since come across an adder basking on a path, that I spent ages trying to encourage to move - it was at a horse event, and I know some people would believe one less adder would be a good thing - but they are a protected species.. I was jumping up and down, getting closer and closer. It really didn't want to move. I was about 6 inches from it before it decided to move off.

When I was staying in Portugal, I was sat on a chair under a huge bush, reading. I stood up to go in, turned to pick up the chair, only to find I'd been sharing my shelter with an enormous, fully grown (7ft) Montpellier snake. :-0

He didn't hurt me (and was unlikely to), so I wasn't bothered.

BUT when I came across a scorpion in the garage, I carefully killed it with my (shod) foot and brought it home :-D

A fine example of why I'm more frightened by cheats, liars and charlatans (and politicians) than I am of snakes:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/11411007/Jack-Straw-and-Sir-Malcolm-Rifkind-in-latest-cash-for-access-scandal.html

Snakes are snakes. So, it seems are some politicians. :-|

...but snakes don't lie, nether do they expect me to fund their lifestyle.

I have a problem with snakes - they are beautiful and fascinating but they touch that primeval core of fear in me. I don't mind the big pythons so much, it's the smaller, camouflaged ones that you 'can't see' that scare me most. I have a horror of finding a grass snake in the garden :-0 Luckily a snake phobia isn't a big deal in the UK!

a friend of ours is scared of birds and anything else that flies (except insects)....... a phobia really.

When she came to our house I had to remove a rubber BAT that I hung up outside! She wouldn't go out on our deck until I removed it. A flying bat, not a cricket bat.

I have two friends who freeze when they see a moth or a butterfly. I thought they were joking until I witnessed their terror.