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How to repel snakes

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by ralphie250, May 15, 2012.

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  1. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

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    Too true, besides, it might be your favorive politician....
     
    SirLance, May 21, 2012
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  2. spindles

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    If nothing else, the absurdity of this thread is making me chuckle.
     
    spindles, May 21, 2012
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  3. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

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    Murder doesn't apply to animals or else every human is a murderer.

    Snakes do not have the right to live
     
    Strange Famous, May 22, 2012
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  4. CHINESE CRESTED

    chinese crested Slightly Tilted

    chinese crested, May 22, 2012
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  5. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    By the same token, they don't deserve to die just because you're afraid of them.

    How many people, animals, and things would disappear if we all destroyed the things we fear?

    I say strive to understand rather than give in to destructive emotions.
     
    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  6. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

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    Plan9, May 22, 2012
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  7. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    Thulsa Doom: You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born.

    Conan: You killed my mother! You killed my father! You killed my people! You took my father's sword!
     
    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  8. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

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    Generally speaking, I'm a live and live kinda guy. Except when I'm not.

    Saw lots of snakes in africa, both kinds. The reptiles weren't so bad....
     
    SirLance, May 22, 2012
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  9. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

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    This is typical of the arrogance of some animals. Chimps are another example. You will often hear about a chimp giving it the big "I am" swaggering around like he's the dog's bollocks, but actually and in reality they are beneath the intelligence of the most idiot human, they live in cages and drink cups of tea for the amusement of humans, or else live in wild nature in worst conditions than any tramp, and they think they are "dominant" over humans? If a chimp came down my street right now acting like he was better than me I'd tuck him in any number of ways. They get called "tool users" or whatever cos they can throw a rock or wave a stick? Im supposed to be impressed by this when I can drive a fucking car? fucking buffoons.

    Because I "hate" an animal doesn't mean I am "afraid" of it. I hate snakes because they are revolting and indiscriminate killers, who hide and then attack like cowards.s

    Snakes simply kill anything they find without any motivation. By removing this enemy species we would be doing the world a favour. Bio-diversity would grow MASSIVELY if the snake is eradicated. They should not be an existing species.
     
    Strange Famous, May 22, 2012
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  10. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    Hm. You don't seem to know much about chimps either. Do you hate them too?

    You'd better be a "tool user," otherwise an aggressive chimp (swaggering down the street? seriously?) would be a bit dangerous to "tussle" with or "tuck" or whatever you call it. Despite their size, chimps have a strength that is incomprehensible.

    But we're talking about snakes, after all.

    Hatred is usually caused by such things as fear and ignorance. In the case of this thread, I think it's a combination of the two. For example:
    Dude, your anthropocentrism is showing.
     
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    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  11. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

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    Lets not even start about chimps because I dont like them.

    Of course I see the world as human centred. I am a human, and we are the shapers of the whole world. When we are gone some other animal can have their say, but for now we are in charge.
     
    Strange Famous, May 22, 2012
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  12. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    "Shapers" of the world? "In charge"?

    Did you even study science?

    And you (erroneously) consider snakes and chimps arrogant. Holy shit.
     
    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  13. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

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    Of course we shape the world.

    Which other animal was able to end evolution? Which other animal has the power to make this earth uninhabitable for any living thing?
     
    Strange Famous, May 22, 2012
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  14. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    Oh, I thought you meant shape, as in "make" or "create." But what you really meant was destroy.

    Well, I'll give you that about humanity, but I don't consider that a particularly noble trait. Snakes and chimps have done far less to the world to make it a worse place to live.

    In the big picture, between humans and snakes: who's the pest?
     
    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  15. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

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    The problem is you are asking questions from some imaginery position of neutrality, and I am an answering them as a human being.
     
    Strange Famous, May 22, 2012
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  16. Baraka_Guru

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    But are you speaking for humanity? Hardly.

    Those of us who understand ecosystems, who don't anthropomorphize animals, who aren't as anthropocentric as you don't see things as you do. That isn't an imagined neutrality; it's a position of understanding.

    There is nothing evil about snakes. There is nothing alien about them. This isn't the Bible. This isn't science fiction.
     
    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  17. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

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    Snakes are evil because they kill human beings regularly simply out of an automatic compulsion to kill

    The snake may not be capable of morality itself (and thus it is not immoral to kill it)... but the effect it has on humanity is evil.
    --- merged: May 22, 2012 at 4:57 PM ---
    Fires are also "natural"... if your house was burning would you stand back and say "oh, what right have I to intervene in the natural way of the world?" or would you put it out?

    As a human you already impact the world around you by the products you consume and the way you live.

    Perhaps I simply have the clarity to make the hard decisions which are necessary with regards to these snakes.
     
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    Strange Famous, May 22, 2012
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  18. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    All that stuff you just typed, Strange.... It doesn't provide a very good case for the systematic extinction of an entire suborder of reptiles.

    Snakes aren't evil. Fire isn't evil.

    I wouldn't let a snake eat me, nor would I let a fire burn me.

    This doesn't mean I want to make snakes extinct or extinguish the sun.

    The natural world isn't something you game without dire consequences. We already have some hard lessons about that.

    Again, I wouldn't want the fear or ignorance about something in nature to lead to its destruction.

    Ecosystems: they work until humans break them.
     
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    Baraka_Guru, May 22, 2012
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  19. Plan9

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    This thread.

    I'm just going to go through and Like-ify all the posts.

    Hall of Fame.
     
    Plan9, May 22, 2012
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  20. MeltedMetalGlob

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    In that case...

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    MeltedMetalGlob, May 22, 2012
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