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Post by johnc on Dec 7, 2017 7:55:07 GMT
This was on the BBC website this morning:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40947807
When I read it I wondered what size these snakes were and according to Google, they are a medium sized snake of approximately 30 inches.
When I go to the supermarket I tend to see pineapples that I can pick up with one hand, so just how do you not see a 30" snake wrapped around it when you put it in your basket? |
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Post by michael on Dec 7, 2017 8:04:37 GMT
If you look at the pictures it’s a tiny thing, think it’s in a plastic beaker in one and you can see the weave of the back it has been placed in the other. I’d bet it coils up tight and very small so if the pineapple had its leaves and was wrapped around them I could imagine it being missed - but from here on I’m going to check!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 9:19:06 GMT
I wondered whether this was going to be a reference to the sort of Christmas shopping that my mother in law used to do - basically buying a load of seemingly random objects and then deciding who got what when she got them home. She has gradually been dissuaded from this course of action, I am glad to report!
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Post by johnc on Dec 7, 2017 9:33:12 GMT
I wondered whether this was going to be a reference to the sort of Christmas shopping that my mother in law used to do - basically buying a load of seemingly random objects and then deciding who got what when she got them home. She has gradually been dissuaded from this course of action, I am glad to report! My wife has an Aunt like that. Thankfully she always gets gift receipts so they all go back for a refund after Christmas! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 9:39:44 GMT
We always used to get a Wellington Methodist Church diary from one of her relatives, now deceased and otherwise unknown to me. Being neither a Methodist nor from Wellington, this struck me as odd. I'm not entirely proud of the fact that after a couple of years I just put them straight in the bin.
We now buy our presents from the in laws and they stump up the cash and wrap them. |
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 7, 2017 14:36:59 GMT
Many years ago my grandmother encountered a bird-eating spider in a supermarket in Ipswich. In time-honoured fashion, she had picked up a bunch of bananas and found the hand-sized hairy multi-legged beast lurking in the rack underneath. But granny was made of exceptionally sturdy stuff, so instead of screaming the place down and running, she simply replaced the bananas on top of the spider and asked another shopper to fetch the manager. Who did apparently scream the place down when granny picked up the bananas again and revealed the critter. History relates that they had to call in Colchester Zoo to capture it.
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Post by michael on Dec 7, 2017 14:40:52 GMT
The article refers to measures to prevent this and I wonder what they are? I’m surprised by the banana spider incident as bananas are often shipped in ethylene. I would have thought anything like this would be gassed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 16:56:05 GMT
Snakes with round eyes = non venomous.
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Post by johnc on Dec 7, 2017 18:25:59 GMT
Snakes with round eyes = non venomous. Is that a fact or a hope? |
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Post by michael on Dec 7, 2017 18:45:59 GMT
Boa constrictors appear to have round eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 19:37:07 GMT
It is a fact, boa type and other non venomous snakes have round eyes, those with cat type eyes are always venomous. Having said that, a fourty foot boa will sting like crazy if it bites you.  |
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 7, 2017 20:16:08 GMT
The article refers to measures to prevent this and I wonder what they are? I’m surprised by the banana spider incident as bananas are often shipped in ethylene. I would have thought anything like this would be gassed. It was at least 30 years ago, if not more. |
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Post by michael on Dec 7, 2017 20:34:50 GMT
A friend of mine owns a florist and she gets deliveries of flowers from the continent every week. The number of large unusual looking spiders in that place is enough to put me off buying flowers.
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