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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vyper on April 26, 2005, 08:21:03 pm
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https://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3466
Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.
The toads' entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2 feet), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.
Scientists are baffled. Possible explanations include an unknown virus or a fungus in the pond.
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Um... Okay...
*must resist urge to make animation...*
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how intriguing...
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must smell funny around there.
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We had frogs around our pond in Florida.... When mating season ame along... the ground was covered in a strange purpley ooze..... The next months had the most croaking I've ever heard in my life.
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If they find out what's causing this, the potential benefits are enourmous. Australia currently has a huge problem with Cane Toads, but we have no native toads (ie proper Bufonidae). If this thing is selectively blowing up toads, spreading it across northern Australia could solve one of our biggest ecological problems...
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When i was a kid we used to "smoke" toads by leaning a lite cigarette to the toad´s mouth. The toad would inhale the smoke continuasly and swelled to the point of exploding...
We were very sick kids.
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Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
We were very sick kids.
I'll say... :wtf:
Well, atleast it wasn't firecrackers... although I suspect that'd been better, since it'd been quick.
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
If they find out what's causing this, the potential benefits are enourmous. Australia currently has a huge problem with Cane Toads, but we have no native toads (ie proper Bufonidae). If this thing is selectively blowing up toads, spreading it across northern Australia could solve one of our biggest ecological problems...
Why does that story always remind me of the Simpsons...
@Swamp_Thing: :wtf:
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Originally posted by Raa
I'll say... :wtf:
Well, atleast it wasn't firecrackers... although I suspect that'd been better, since it'd been quick.
As if you are innocent of such practices...
Kids will be kids, and every kid has a similar story to tell, even if some don´t want to publicaly admit it.
:p
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Actually, no. I may have done some really stupid and mean things, but I was never cruel to animals.
Only humans. :p
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Heheheheheheh...
I was quite the litte bastard to the local wildlife when I was younger. I once put some firecrackers into a snakes mouth and lit them. Blew the thing into a couple of pieces. I also would shoot geese with my pellet gun and BB gun. Annoying birds they are. Also did the same thing to squirrels.
But what really takes the cake was one time me and some friends caught a bullfrog, and doused it in lighter fluid, and lit it on fire. Well, the damned thing hopped around the yard for a minute, scorching the grass, and then it somehow managed to get into the bushes in front of my friends mom's house. The thing lit the bushes on fire, and the patio that is next to the bushes. Back then it scared the crap outta us, but these days it's a story that is still good for a laugh or two.
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are you haunted by it's ghost?
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lol...
Why am I laughing, that's evil!
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Anyone remembers those frogs in some place in the US, that started growing with 3 legs, and other weird deformities? People accused polution and radiation, but it turns out it was just a parasite that lodged itself right on the place where the legs would grow out, even before it turned into a frog (can´t remember the accurate english term).
These toads could be suffering from some similar natural event, although i wouldn´t rule out polution just yet.
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holy exploding toads, batman!
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How the hell can a frog just explode? :wtf: I think they should be employed by the military (frogs of mass destruction?).
What's so funny in hurting animals? Nothing wrong with killing and then eating them, but lighting a frog on fire just for fun? That's just sick. :no:
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Originally posted by Deepblue
Why does that story always remind me of the Simpsons...
Ke?
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I never heard anything like this... and I do watch german news...
Are you sure this source is reliable?
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Twas on the BBC too.
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Poor toads
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****ing batman?
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No... that'd be penguin.
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Speaking of exploding animals.
I once shot a dog in the behind with a bottle rocket. hehe
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*******.
Edit: ass hole is censored? Now come on lads.
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HEY!
What was I supposed to do it kept tearing up the garbage and crapping in the yard no matter how many times I shot it with the pellet gun. And I wasn't about to kill my neighbors dog.
P.S. It did work though:D
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I like most dogs.
Toads I don't give a damn about though.
When pissed me and some mates were chasing them around with a lighter and deoderant can. Holy flaming toads batman! :p
Mind, torturing animals is a sign of serial killers. :nervous:
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[q]HEY!
What was I supposed to do it kept tearing up the garbage and crapping in the yard no matter how many times I shot it with the pellet gun. And I wasn't about to kill my neighbors dog.
P.S. It did work though[/q]
****er.
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It was one of those little yipping dogs that won't shut up but i like dogs I have a golden retreiver myself. If you think what I did was bad you don't wanna know what my friend did. (what he did didn't injure the dog but if dogs had a sense of pride *ouch*
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I agree with Hippo. If you really feel the need to shoot something, shoot the owner or yourself. Don't torture a defenseless animal - which knows not of the human concepts of gardens or refuse - and don't excuse it by 'oh, someone I know did worse'.
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So people are going mad at Swantz because he blasted a Dog in its arse, and yet Dough with Fish has been torturing and incinerating snakes and toads, and attacking birds with pellet guns, and hardly anyone has said anything.
Personally I think you are both evil ****s.
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Stop attackig me:(
I'll think I'll just drop the subject before I get in any deeper.
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Originally posted by kietotheworld
So people are going mad at Swantz because he blasted a Dog in its arse, and yet Dough with Fish has been torturing and incinerating snakes and toads, and attacking birds with pellet guns, and hardly anyone has said anything.
Personally I think you are both evil cunts.
I'll have to admit I missed Dough with Fish' post. In summary, I have nothing for contempt for people who choose to torture or abuse animals; it's unecessary for culling purposes, and cruel (you wouldn't do it to an unruly child, who has more of a sense of right and wrong) for disciplinary purposes.
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I see nothing wrong with your actions, Swantz. If the owners are too stupid to properly restrain/train the dog, you really have no choice but to take matters into your own hands. It's not like the dog suffered any serious or lasting harm; it just got the **** scared out of it. Then again, I can't stand dogs. :p
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Well see the fact is I like dogs but sometimes owners don't take very good care of their dogs and they become very unruly. And as the old saying goes you can't teach an old dog new tricks. And what I did didnt even hurt the dog, I fired the bottle rocket from a peice of pvc piping to hopefully scare it off for good. I mean it bothers me to kill a fish when I go fishing.
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In Communist Russia, Dogs shoot you.
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That is funny:lol: . Family Guy reference right?
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hehehehe Yep :)
Anyway, lets please avoid flaming, it seems the word filter missed that one, and let's keep it nice. We've all done things in our past we aren't proud of but flaming will see the thread locked :(
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Do you mean by flaming getting really mad or saying naughty things or what?
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Yep, I mean swearing and insulting as opposed to debating, as was done earlier on in this thread by certain people ;)
I don't agree with violence to animals, but anyone from the UK knows that you don't use the C word on someone unless you at least have a pool-cue to hand ;)
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Other than mentioning the fact I shot the rocket at the dog I didn't do anything did I?
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Sheesh, people calm down. The frog thing was done, God, it has to be seven years ago now. I didnt light the thing on fire, all I did was catch it. We didnt know what we were gunna do with it, but Chase decided he wanted to see what would happen if we soaked it in lighter fluid and set it on fire. We were like 'alright, lets see'. Thats all. We didnt feel the need to stop him, because he is one of those people that once they get their mind set to it, there is nothing you can do to stop him. And, hell, the thing set the bushes AND THE HOUSE (well, the deck atleast) on fire... And the snake thing I did drunk on a bet... Can't get around that one.
And, does anyone here have to deal with Canadian geese? They are a nusiance, and we can only hunt them here in Minnesota for a week out of the year. Thats it. The area is so overpopulated with them. Hell, a week ago traffic was backed up on a highway because a group of easily 100-plus geese decided to chill on the highway and not move. All they do is eat, sh!t, and get into everything. Thats it. Squirrels are about as bad here. They get into the trash all the time, eat things in our garden, and get into the garrage. I cant begin to count how many times I have found a dead squirrel in my garage. It happens easily once a month. And I dont shoot them to kill them. I do it to get them off of my yard so they dont destory anything, or kill themselves.
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am i the only one who was chased down by a dozen turkey's and wants revenge?
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One way to keep dogs/cats out of your garden:
Go to the local zoo, ask for some tiger/lion/big cat manure. Spread it around the edges of your garden. It'll both feed the plants and keep animals out.
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Originally posted by neo_hermes
am i the only one who was chased down by a dozen turkey's and wants revenge?
:nervous: no... Chickens too :p
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There is a turning point in everyone's life when they follow one path or the other. I have not thought about this for many years, but when I was about 14, I was hanging out with a friend who had an air rifle, and of course I wanted to have a go, and he pointed to a sparrow, which, by some fluke I managed to kill...
Now came the turning point, I just looked at that tiny, pathetic body on the ground and decided that I would never do that again. I know it's not macho to be kind to animals, but that's just the way it turned out for me. Oh, and I'm not a veggie, so you can now call me a hypocrite as much as you like...;)
In short: being cruel to someone or something that is smaller and weaker than you just proves that you are a weak person...
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I'm a hypocrite too :D
Seriously though, I have killed animals, during a survival training course, and only for food. I never saw the point of killing for fun.
As for shooting animals that are causing a nuisance etc, I've always felt that was an extreme measure, but if a dog was attacking me or the like then I would defend myself just like anyone else :)
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Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the same people who become vegetarians are also the first to complain against things because they're not natural? :D
Guess what. Eating meat is natual :)
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Originally posted by Clave
There is a turning point in everyone's life when they follow one path or the other. I have not thought about this for many years, but when I was about 14, I was hanging out with a friend who had an air rifle, and of course I wanted to have a go, and he pointed to a sparrow, which, by some fluke I managed to kill...
Now came the turning point, I just looked at that tiny, pathetic body on the ground and decided that I would never do that again. I know it's not macho to be kind to animals, but that's just the way it turned out for me. Oh, and I'm not a veggie, so you can now call me a hypocrite as much as you like...;)
In short: being cruel to someone or something that is smaller and weaker than you just proves that you are a weak person...
Did about the same thing excepted it was my "friend" who shot. Thing was, the sparrow didn't die, it was on the ground, trying to gulp some air and, obviously, in great pain. Of course my friend, this time, didn't have the nerve to finish it. So I had to do it, even tho I was already bent on never hurting animals. And it took two more shots to kill it, even tho I shot the first one in the head. I felt like **** :doubt:
Only animals I really can't stand ( usual animals, I mean ) are small dogs, like yorkshire, those small, short, hairy things with a flat face, no matter what kind, those ones, that will yap for all day long and pretend being agressive whenever there's a fence between you and it. Little ****s, I hate football, but I sure wouldn't if it was played with them as the ball. Never even kicked one, tho, I'm too afraid of breaking it up.
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Originally posted by Flipside
In Communist Russia, Dogs shoot you.
ROFL! :lol:
I nearly wet myself reading that. :p
As for cruelty to animals, no. But one has to take into consideration different habitats.
Kangaroos in the farming region's of Australia are seen as pests, and killed when possible. As are wild pigs.
But that's just normal life out there.
For city people who live in comfort around their metal towers, it can be difficult to see the other side of the story.
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I say we eat PETA members, and thus solve the problem that way.
Mmm....tastes like.... chicken.
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:lol:
Indeed. :p
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If it was me or an animal, either because the stupid beast attacked me or I was hungry in a survival situation, I'd kill the animal. Otherwise, no.
I do eat meat, though, and wear leather shoes. Indeed, hypocritical as ****. But, I do try to stick to free range meat, if at all possible.
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It's not hypocritical to eat meat but not kill for simple pleasure. There might be other ways to get the vitamins in meat but regardless of that fact you're still doing something natural to keep yourself alive.
That can't be said about shooting cats or maiming dogs.
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:rolleyes: :nod:
It's not as if we have a go at lions or tigers for eating meat, is it? We
are, after all, omnivorous animals.