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Zero Point (OP) User ID: 8760297 Australia 01/16/2012 06:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Normally at this time of year my yard is crawling with toads. Quoting: Zero Point It's even been raining. Last night I couldn't find one bloody toad. Weird? Isn't that a good thing? They always make a big deal about not letting them into WA because they are so bad (can't remember why though lol). I'd be happy they were gone.. They're ugly poisonous shit heads alright. One killed my cat last month. They just seemed unstoppable somehow, plague proportions. Another public service announcement from the Southern Hemisphere Information Leveraging Locus. |
Zero Point (OP) User ID: 8760297 Australia 01/16/2012 06:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Quanta 8795520 Not far from the SPIT in their eyes I shall give them as a parting gesture. Promise you won't dob.? LOL. I'm kinda new on the Coast mate, but I think I'm hearin ya. Balders? Never heard of balders..? I'm talking Main Beach. Balders? I don't care naming my local. I'm sure if they want my skin they will know where to pick me up. ... Next to the phone i suppose. LOL. We read ya Quanta. We go on "interesting" fishing trips Quanta. The kind where you kiss the sand upon return to dry land and give thanks to Poseidon. Another public service announcement from the Southern Hemisphere Information Leveraging Locus. |
Baldrick User ID: 8936725 Australia 01/16/2012 06:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Never heard of balders..? I'm talking Main Beach. Balders? I don't care naming my local. I'm sure if they want my skin they will know where to pick me up. ... Next to the phone i suppose. LOL. We read ya Quanta. We go on "interesting" fishing trips Quanta. The kind where you kiss the sand upon return to dry land and give thanks to Poseidon. And "No point me blowing in the bag officer plod, I ain't drivin" Blackadder: Baldrick, how did you manage to find a turnip that cost £400 000? Baldrick: Well, I had to haggle. |
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Zero Point (OP) User ID: 8760297 Australia 01/16/2012 06:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "We're going deep and we're going hard" Quoting: Baldrick "Surely you can't be serious" "I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley" "Weapons free - tango down in section one-alpha" On that note, I'm going to watch a chick flick with my wife and attempt re-entry to the good books. Foxtrot uniform charlie kilo yankee oscar uniform Balders... Another public service announcement from the Southern Hemisphere Information Leveraging Locus. |
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Baldrick User ID: 8936725 Australia 01/16/2012 06:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "We're going deep and we're going hard" Quoting: Baldrick "Surely you can't be serious" "I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley" "Weapons free - tango down in section one-alpha" On that note, I'm going to watch a chick flick with my wife and attempt re-entry to the good books. Foxtrot uniform charlie kilo yankee oscar uniform Balders... Strap a plank to your arse. Blackadder: Baldrick, how did you manage to find a turnip that cost £400 000? Baldrick: Well, I had to haggle. |
Zero Point (OP) User ID: 8760297 Australia 01/16/2012 06:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "We're going deep and we're going hard" Quoting: Baldrick "Surely you can't be serious" "I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley" "Weapons free - tango down in section one-alpha" On that note, I'm going to watch a chick flick with my wife and attempt re-entry to the good books. Foxtrot uniform charlie kilo yankee oscar uniform Balders... Strap a plank to your arse. Another public service announcement from the Southern Hemisphere Information Leveraging Locus. |
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ScrumpTheTexan Forum Administrator User ID: 2691183 United States 01/16/2012 06:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We've had a similar problem here over the last few years actually... but from Fire Ants, not Tarantulas. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Anything that nests on the ground has been targeted. We once had Quail... no longer. We seem to have more snakes and birds than usual. I can't really quantify that though. The toads however even have my wife looking at me like I know something after all since I pointed it out to her. I was kind of counting on them for shtf eatin'.... I know what you mean there... I've got 5 ponds on the land here that are *full* of Green Frogs... their legs are tasty for sure. Well, they were full... until our year+ drought. Squirrels are everywhere though... plenty of other game as well. :D I am a Christian. Christian does not equal doormat or pushover "I Have Sworn upon the Altar of God... Eternal Hostility against every form of Tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson, Sep. 23, 1800 The Election of Donald John Trump: [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] For previous Newsletters, click 'Scrump's News Letters' @ [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
Zero Point (OP) User ID: 8760297 Australia 01/16/2012 06:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We've had a similar problem here over the last few years actually... but from Fire Ants, not Tarantulas. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Anything that nests on the ground has been targeted. We once had Quail... no longer. We seem to have more snakes and birds than usual. I can't really quantify that though. The toads however even have my wife looking at me like I know something after all since I pointed it out to her. I was kind of counting on them for shtf eatin'.... I know what you mean there... I've got 5 ponds on the land here that are *full* of Green Frogs... their legs are tasty for sure. Well, they were full... until our year+ drought. Squirrels are everywhere though... plenty of other game as well. :D That's OK, I'll just turn cannibal. Plenty of two legged sheep about! Another public service announcement from the Southern Hemisphere Information Leveraging Locus. |
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Quanta User ID: 8939738 Australia 01/16/2012 06:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Never heard of balders..? I'm talking Main Beach. Balders? I don't care naming my local. I'm sure if they want my skin they will know where to pick me up. ... Next to the phone i suppose. LOL. We read ya Quanta. We go on "interesting" fishing trips Quanta. The kind where you kiss the sand upon return to dry land and give thanks to Poseidon. I enjoy going out the Seaway early morning and casting a line before dawn and watching the reflections at sunrise from the glass towers many miles at sea. The silence and the majesty of it ........... Ahhhh!! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 8812436 Australia 01/16/2012 06:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We've had a similar problem here over the last few years actually... but from Fire Ants, not Tarantulas. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan Anything that nests on the ground has been targeted. We once had Quail... no longer. We seem to have more snakes and birds than usual. I can't really quantify that though. The toads however even have my wife looking at me like I know something after all since I pointed it out to her. I was kind of counting on them for shtf eatin'.... I know what you mean there... I've got 5 ponds on the land here that are *full* of Green Frogs... their legs are tasty for sure. Well, they were full... until our year+ drought. Squirrels are everywhere though... plenty of other game as well. :D That's OK, I'll just turn cannibal. Plenty of two legged sheep about! I remember a young poster on GLP that promised to eat one and post the vid on GLP (now I wonder who that could have been?) |
ScrumpTheTexan Forum Administrator User ID: 2691183 United States 01/16/2012 06:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Night all, missus just started up chick flick and began banging shit around. Quoting: Zero Point Good book opportunity closing..... Later ZP. I am a Christian. Christian does not equal doormat or pushover "I Have Sworn upon the Altar of God... Eternal Hostility against every form of Tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson, Sep. 23, 1800 The Election of Donald John Trump: [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] For previous Newsletters, click 'Scrump's News Letters' @ [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
Zod User ID: 7223475 Australia 01/16/2012 06:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They have the means to eradicate all the cane toads, but since it involves GMO toads, bureaucracy keeps them from doing it. Genetically Modified Cane Toads to Save Australian Native Frogs [link to andrew-ward.suite101.com] |
Possum User ID: 8744213 Australia 01/16/2012 06:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Normally at this time of year my yard is crawling with toads. Quoting: Zero Point It's even been raining. Last night I couldn't find one bloody toad. Weird? Isn't that a good thing? They always make a big deal about not letting them into WA because they are so bad (can't remember why though lol). I'd be happy they were gone.. They're ugly poisonous shit heads alright. One killed my cat last month. They just seemed unstoppable somehow, plague proportions. Your cat licked the toad? I thought toads should only be rubbed on warts? There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein The kingdom of God is within you and all around you. It is not within buildings of wood or stone. Split a piece of wood and you will find me. Look beneath a stone and I am there. Stigmata |
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Pharista User ID: 7149722 01/16/2012 07:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I remember travelling around Oz back in the 80's, there used to be Cane Toad races in Airlee Beach - I used to go for a three legged one called Tripod, he usually won. Good memories Last Edited by Pharista on 01/16/2012 07:19 AM 100 personality disordered behaviours [link to www.outofthefog.net] Taking back self control from disordered energy thieves [link to www.outofthefog.net] How to spot a psychopath [link to aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org] A brief introduction to 'The Shadow' [link to home.earthlink.net] Hunting for Power, Toltec Wisdom for Spiritual Warriors [link to 209.85.122.83] Message from the Kogi [link to www.alunathemovie.com] Thread: Spiritual Preparedness - simple practices and meditations to increase self-awareness Thread: The Wetiko Disease - a psychological parasite Thread: Breaking the chains of the past - facing & healing toxic conditioning & false belief systems Support for parents of bullied children - [link to epicinschools.spam] ~ "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller |
Pharista User ID: 7149722 01/16/2012 07:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | double post. Last Edited by Pharista on 01/16/2012 07:19 AM 100 personality disordered behaviours [link to www.outofthefog.net] Taking back self control from disordered energy thieves [link to www.outofthefog.net] How to spot a psychopath [link to aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org] A brief introduction to 'The Shadow' [link to home.earthlink.net] Hunting for Power, Toltec Wisdom for Spiritual Warriors [link to 209.85.122.83] Message from the Kogi [link to www.alunathemovie.com] Thread: Spiritual Preparedness - simple practices and meditations to increase self-awareness Thread: The Wetiko Disease - a psychological parasite Thread: Breaking the chains of the past - facing & healing toxic conditioning & false belief systems Support for parents of bullied children - [link to epicinschools.spam] ~ "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller |
Debauchery User ID: 5892134 United States 01/16/2012 07:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "We're going deep and we're going hard" Quoting: Baldrick "Surely you can't be serious" "I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley" "Weapons free - tango down in section one-alpha" On that note, I'm going to watch a chick flick with my wife and attempt re-entry to the good books. Foxtrot uniform charlie kilo yankee oscar uniform Balders... I'm watching Thomas and friends. And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it. I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree than perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8812436 Australia 01/16/2012 07:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "We're going deep and we're going hard" Quoting: Baldrick "Surely you can't be serious" "I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley" "Weapons free - tango down in section one-alpha" On that note, I'm going to watch a chick flick with my wife and attempt re-entry to the good books. Foxtrot uniform charlie kilo yankee oscar uniform Balders... I'm watching Thomas and friends. [link to www.youtube.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1880562 Australia 01/16/2012 08:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | another predator: "In 2009 it was found that the native meat ant is immune to the toad's poison and can successfully prey upon young cane toads. Whereas native frogs and toads have natural reflexes to avoid the meat ants, the cane toads do not tend to try to escape the ants, rather standing still when attacked waiting for the toxin to kill the attacker." [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1880562 Australia 01/16/2012 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Normally at this time of year my yard is crawling with toads. Quoting: Zero Point It's even been raining. Last night I couldn't find one bloody toad. Weird? Isn't that a good thing? They always make a big deal about not letting them into WA because they are so bad (can't remember why though lol). I'd be happy they were gone.. They're ugly poisonous shit heads alright. One killed my cat last month. They just seemed unstoppable somehow, plague proportions. Your cat licked the toad? I thought toads should only be rubbed on warts? If the cat [or dog] hasn't been exposed to them before and thus incautious, or has a propensity for pouncing on anything, it only takes one attempt at 'mouthing' for the toad to release the toxins - even water containers can be contaminated. Cane toad poisoning can cause salivation, vomiting, shaking, hyperactivity, seizures and death. We had a close call with our young cat many moons ago - came upstairs with a mouth full of foam - scared the HELL out of me! Luckily the water rinse-out was effective. |
Zero Point (OP) User ID: 8760297 Australia 01/16/2012 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Zero Point We seem to have more snakes and birds than usual. I can't really quantify that though. The toads however even have my wife looking at me like I know something after all since I pointed it out to her. I was kind of counting on them for shtf eatin'.... I know what you mean there... I've got 5 ponds on the land here that are *full* of Green Frogs... their legs are tasty for sure. Well, they were full... until our year+ drought. Squirrels are everywhere though... plenty of other game as well. :D That's OK, I'll just turn cannibal. Plenty of two legged sheep about! I remember a young poster on GLP that promised to eat one and post the vid on GLP (now I wonder who that could have been?) That's just stupid. What kind of idiot would post that shit? Another public service announcement from the Southern Hemisphere Information Leveraging Locus. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1880562 Australia 01/16/2012 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | more on this: "...Toads are dangerous amphibians. They are a common cause of poisoning in dogs and, less commonly, they poison cats. Toads exude a milky white toxin mostly from poison glands behind their eyes, but elsewhere on their body as well. They squeeze this poison onto the surface of their skin when they are under threat. When treated roughly, they can even squirt the poison up to two metres. Dogs and cats are poisoned when they mouth the toad or sometimes when the toad's poison gets into their eyes. The toad's poison is also dangerous to humans and deaths have occurred. Some adults have even been affected when they absorbed the poison through cuts in their skin after handling a toad. Keelback Snakes are not susceptible to the venom and Crows and Water Rats have learnt to turn the toad over and eat only the non-poisonous internal organs...." "...Due to its corrosive and irritant nature, the toad's venom will cause profuse salivation soon after your pet bites it. Pets affected by the irritant venom will paw their mouth due to the pain. If you see your pet drooling and distressed but haven't seen it attack a toad, look at its gums. If they are red and inflamed, toad poisoning is likely. Vomiting often occurs, especially in cats. Cats also show hindquarter weakness and a fixed trance-like stare. If your dog is poisoned, it will usually suffer from seizures or convulsions. These convulsions are often fatal unless you seek urgent veterinary attention. The poison can also affect the heart of dogs and cats, causing immediate cardiac arrest..." [link to www.pethealth.com.au] |