She looks like she's done that before.
What the fuck are you people talking about?
There's a video. Maybe there are geographic barriers to your viewing of it?
Embedded video. Don't block me, bro.
She looks like she's done that before.
Exactly. So, is it staged? She does have the look of an old-timey circus performer, doesn't she? But then the reactions sound spontaneous. Again, WTF?
Totally staged. You can see the shadow of a guy with a fishing line.
Maybe he was fishing and happened to catch a rubber snake?
The language is Afrikaans. He's saying "Watch out for the snake." It's clearly a guy with a penchant for dumb jokes. Note total absence of fear from anyone, total lack of movement from the snake after she grabs it.
Is that like a common thing in South African YouTube?
I bet 11 is 100% sincere. I don't watch youtube anywhere, but there are certainly stupid assholes everywhere.
I mean, jeez, snakes don't even move like that. And is there any snake in the world that charges at all?
Hoop snakes roll right at people, I heard.
And is there any snake in the world that charges at all?
Most of them rely on advertising revenue.
Also, it speaks to the state of the leftynet that it took me until this very minute to realize the OP title isn't about outrage over the dumbass joker not being charged with mental assault or something.
There's a big debate over whether water moccasins charge! Lots of anecdotal stories, with other people saying that it only appears the moccasins are charging because they are so single-minded about heading to their destination that they don't change course if someone's boat is in the way.
Those poor dogs. A rubber snake is right there and they can't chase it.
Venomous snakes generally try to avoid confrontations with people, but if they are cornered (even inadvertently) taipan, green and black mambas, cobras and others will be extremely aggressive, including moving towards whoever has cornered them very rapidly and attacking.
So basically snakes charge because they have to, but really they want to be free.
Have any of you seen the Planet Earth II segment with the snakes that hunt/give chase in a pack? There is nothing I won't believe about snakes.
What if snakes tried to tell you it was about heritage, not hate?
25 is amazing. Note the sinuous, coiling mode of movement completely unlike that in the OP video.
Also, I'm never going to the Galapagos. Fuck that noise.
People only go there if they are sexually aroused by beaks.
But how did the Beaglers know about the beaks before they went?
All whalers are perverted. Melville has a whole chapter about bathing in sperm.
Also, Heebie is a sexist for just assuming the iguana was male. Shame on all of you.
Do I have to assume that isn't a wet dream joke?
Even pee jokes aren't the same anymore.
For fuck's sake, does Ohio give a gun and a badge to any shithead who asks for one? Why the fuck shouldn't he be fired?
On topic because unexpected attack.
I could use a good snake, I just rolled back the chair in my office and stepped on a dead mouse that had crawled under there to die.
Maybe this makes me a bitter, unforgiving person, but if someone shot me with a gun through their own carelessness and incompetence, I would want them to be fired, even if I knew them and liked them.
45: You don't know that. He may have crawled under there for a rest and died without expecting it.
46: Yes. In fact, even if I knew him and liked him and he shot somebody who wasn't me, I'd still want him fired. Who wants to live in a town where the police shoot at shadows and don't get fired?
Firing him is literally less than the bare minimum that should be done.
I think he must feel pressure to act like a model shooting victim because if white people complain about getting shoot by police with no justification at all, it means that black people might have a point.
And if black people have a point, the terrorists have won.
I spent a few hours in an amazing grotto earlier today. I did not have sex.
I note that the thread is converging with my lefty misinterpretation like a ravenous snake on an iguana.
Quiet. I'm buying orange clothes in case I need to leave the city ever. Too many dumbfucks with guns.
Sessions doesn't even know which is his right hand.
Back when I lived in Ohio a grad student told me about a guy who was shot in the parking lot of a local shopping mall. Upon investigation, the police found that he had been accidentally shot by a hunter in some woods over a mile away. I don't know if wearing orange would have helped him.
Snakes strike, don't charge, are close to the earth. Basically, good proletarians.
57: Ohio has just re-legalized rifles for deer hunting, so that kind of stuff will probably be in the new again.
In Pennsylvania, you're only allowed to possess 18 dead squirrels that you hunted. I don't know how they tell those squirrels from dead squirrels you got through other means.
Everybody went to count their squirrels.
Inspired by 46, I'm trying to look up the rule SMHMHB about reformulating sentences by switching the before-"but" clause with the after-"but" clause. Anyone remember that one?
It was attributed to Jim Henley, I'm pretty sure. Add the name to your search?
Most of them rely on advertising revenue.
And now they're pivoting to video.
As long as we're passing around faked snake videos, this one from Australia is pretty good.
In the land of the Phoenicians from the balcony of my hotel and I am very fucking on some amazing Lebanese hash and I have just heard one of the greatest travel stories I've had the pleasure of hearing and in the most appropriate city and local venue for it. Sorry but I'm probably going to pass out before relaying much and I probably shouldn't say much.
D'oh. Some FPP please change 67
66-67 will be much less funny once somebody acts on 68.
62: You are seeking Jim's Rule of Buts, which you may be familiar with because ogged was on the case.
Looks like Game of Thrones reformulated Jim's rule as "everything before the word 'but' is horseshit."
Cleanup requested, aisle 67. See 68.
(Maybe someone administrative will see this in the morning.)
I hate and fear snakes from the very depths of the very bottom of my soul.
Gruesome Death Showdown: I would rather be mauled to death by a grizzly than fatally poisoned by a snake bite. Those beady little eyes, and the forked tongue...the stuff of nightmares!
The bar is full of graduate students because fall. This is on topic so far as my nightmares.
Graduate school, not graduate students. Mostly.
Snakes are creepier than graduate students, Moby.
Ask the grad students if they'd like to come back with you to see your snake and you will become creepiest of them all.
Ask the grad students if they'd like to come back with you to see your etchings of snake and you will become creepiest of them all.
Ask the grad students if they'd like to come back with you to see your etchings of your snake and you will become creepiest of them all.
Disagree. It would be even creepier to ask grad students if they'd like to come back with you to see your etchings of someone else's snake, because that would include a sort of voyeuristic element.
Ask the grad students if they'd like to come back with you to see your etchings of other grad students' snakes and you will become creepiest of them all.
I want some of whatever it is that allows Barry to curse his double post before he even makes it
We Americans are subtle in ways your typical Brit can't comprehend.