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Post by philipkduck on Apr 9, 2012 19:31:52 GMT -5
Oh yes you do cos that's your mum that is, You suckle at her hairy nipple No I don't think I do know her. She a pigment of your imagination. She's your sexual fantasy she ie. You made her up. Because you've got issues you have. I've read your psychiatric report. I wrote some of it. It's on the administrators' desk right now. You are going to lose some karma points over this.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 9, 2012 19:34:45 GMT -5
Now after that miscreants sterling attempt to derail a fine and informative thread I shall in my admintsrative - andminertetive. adminastet...oh fuck it that's too hard to type...official capacity, get it back on track:
Weird Fact: A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a ballpoint pen
During the summer months, mice will generally live outside and remain contended there. But as soon as the weather begins to cool, they seek the warmth of our homes. Because of their soft skulls and gnawing ability, a hole the size of a ballpoint pen (6mm – 1/4 inch) is large enough for them to enter en masse. Once inside, they will constantly gnaw at virtually anything – including concrete, lead, and plastic. This is to keep their ever-growing teeth at a convenient length. Contrary to popular belief, mice don’t generally like cheese – but will eat it on occasion. Mice can jump up to 46cm (18 inches), swim, and travel vertically or upside-down. To mouse proof your house, check all small openings with a ballpoint pen – if it fits the hole, it will let mice in.
So Penfold...cover your arse is my advice to you.
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Post by philipkduck on Apr 9, 2012 19:39:39 GMT -5
I swear by good old-fashioned mousetraps, especially if they trap my fingers. Peanut butter or chocolate is the best bait, though the mices don't turn their nose up at mature stilton or St. Agur
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 9, 2012 20:05:53 GMT -5
I swear by good old-fashioned mousetraps, especially if they trap my fingers. Peanut butter or chocolate is the best bait, though the mices don't turn their nose up at mature stilton or St. Agur I had humane mouse traps for ages. They climb in and can't get out. The theory is if you take them across water (say a creek like I have at the end of my street) and let them go they can't find their way back. But plague proportions of them forced me to get a tad more lethal -several neighbours have chooks so both mice and rats are v keen to move in. I make a bait out of dry concrete and gravox powder. Put it out in shall heavy based dishes. It sets hard in the bellies of the rodent and kills them fairly quickly. What it does not do is poison the raptors and snakes which also abound ion my yard and who see a groggy little rodent as fast food. I am way too wimpy to take a struggling mouse or rat out of a trap and break its neck.
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Post by Tofu DeBeast on Apr 9, 2012 20:54:34 GMT -5
I got a couple of those electric traps - zaps 'em dead with no poison and no mess (unless you forget to check them often enough and they putrefy). Also use those mouse squealers that emit an ultrasound that repels mice.
We set up one of those old school spring traps near a vent hole. Well when one mouse triggered it, the spring action must've thrown it up and down into the ventilation hole. I forgot where I put all the traps until we started noticing a dead mouse smell throughout the house, especially when the heater kicked on. I had to go under the crawl space--which is only about 2.5feet from floor to ceiling--crawl 15 feet on my belly, and then disassemble the proper heating duct. The poor bugger had swollen up 2x and was all ripe and liquidy.
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Post by bigwillybear on Apr 10, 2012 1:58:57 GMT -5
a ballpoint pen can fit through a hole the size of a pencil. (providing its not full of mouse)
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Post by bigwillybear on Apr 10, 2012 1:59:49 GMT -5
Igloos were originally made out sand before the discovery of ice
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Post by MOLEY on Apr 10, 2012 2:36:55 GMT -5
Penfold has ear hair that always needs trimming he's always been a hairy creature.
Penfold waxed my legs once and all my skin came off I screamed at him to stop but he just kept laughing and sticking more on. I've got very sensitive skin and it was a right mess so I just use a bic nowadays, bollocks to that, they don't grow so many now anyway. (The b@stard! I really should get him back one day)
So anyway will hot candle wax down the ear settle this?
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Post by MOLEY on Apr 10, 2012 2:38:10 GMT -5
I got a couple of those electric traps - zaps 'em dead with no poison and no mess (unless you forget to check them often enough and they putrefy). Also use those mouse squealers that emit an ultrasound that repels mice. We set up one of those old school spring traps near a vent hole. Well when one mouse triggered it, the spring action must've thrown it up and down into the ventilation hole. I forgot where I put all the traps until we started noticing a dead mouse smell throughout the house, especially when the heater kicked on. I had to go under the crawl space--which is only about 2.5feet from floor to ceiling--crawl 15 feet on my belly, and then disassemble the proper heating duct. The poor bugger had swollen up 2x and was all ripe and liquidy. *GAGS*
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 10, 2012 2:54:51 GMT -5
Bizarre facts about Australia:
The Inland Taipan, native to the Northern regions of Australia has the most toxic venom of any snake in the world. More toxic than the King Cobra. Maximum yield recorded (for one bite) is 110mg. That would probably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice.
The Wombat deposits square poos on logs, rocks and even upright sticks that it uses tomark its territory.
A 10kg Tasmanian Devil is able to exert the same biting pressure as a 40kg dog. It can also eat almost a third of its body weight in a single feeding.
Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world. It is the only country which is also a whole continent.
Over 90% of Australia is dry, flat and arid. Almost three-quarters of the land cannot support agriculture in any form.
NB: What is the difference between Australia and a pint of milk? If the English had left a pint of milk alone for 200 years it would have developed some sort of a culture.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 10, 2012 2:57:13 GMT -5
Penfold has ear hair that always needs trimming he's always been a hairy creature. Penfold waxed my legs once and all my skin came off I screamed at him to stop but he just kept laughing and sticking more on. I've got very sensitive skin and it was a right mess so I just use a bic nowadays, bollocks to that, they don't grow so many now anyway. (The b@stard! I really should get him back one day) So anyway will hot candle wax down the ear settle this? Hot candle wax up his jacksie might be more to his tastes don't you think?
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Post by philipkduck on Apr 10, 2012 3:03:24 GMT -5
I swear by good old-fashioned mousetraps, especially if they trap my fingers. Peanut butter or chocolate is the best bait, though the mices don't turn their nose up at mature stilton or St. Agur I had humane mouse traps for ages. They climb in and can't get out. The theory is if you take them across water (say a creek like I have at the end of my street) and let them go they can't find their way back. But plague proportions of them forced me to get a tad more lethal -several neighbours have chooks so both mice and rats are v keen to move in. I make a bait out of dry concrete and gravox powder. Put it out in shall heavy based dishes. It sets hard in the bellies of the rodent and kills them fairly quickly. What it does not do is poison the raptors and snakes which also abound ion my yard and who see a groggy little rodent as fast food. I am way too wimpy to take a struggling mouse or rat out of a trap and break its neck. I have a feeling I will be faced with the humane or not humane dilemma this year with the voles in my garden. A neighbour does the release them half a mile away thing, but I have no idea of the numbers yet, so I don't know if this will be practical. The little buggers seem to have made a vole metropolis in my rockery. If the voles, rabbits and sheep ever form an alliance, we the humans will be stuffed.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 10, 2012 3:08:02 GMT -5
I had humane mouse traps for ages. They climb in and can't get out. The theory is if you take them across water (say a creek like I have at the end of my street) and let them go they can't find their way back. But plague proportions of them forced me to get a tad more lethal -several neighbours have chooks so both mice and rats are v keen to move in. I make a bait out of dry concrete and gravox powder. Put it out in shall heavy based dishes. It sets hard in the bellies of the rodent and kills them fairly quickly. What it does not do is poison the raptors and snakes which also abound ion my yard and who see a groggy little rodent as fast food. I am way too wimpy to take a struggling mouse or rat out of a trap and break its neck. I have a feeling I will be faced with the humane or not humane dilemma this year with the voles in my garden. A neighbour does the release them half a mile away thing, but I have no idea of the numbers yet, so I don't know if this will be practical. The little buggers seem to have made a vole metropolis in my rockery. If the voles, rabbits and sheep ever form an alliance, we the humans will be stuffed. If Penfold ever pops up for a visit it's the voles, rabbits and sheep that'll need to watch what kind of stuffing's going on about the place.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 10, 2012 3:13:15 GMT -5
More weird facts about Australia:
The Australian Lyre Bird is the world's best imitator; able to mimic the calls of 15 different species of birds in their locality and string the calls into a melody. Also been known to mimic the sound mobile phones.
The echidna is such a unique animal that it is classified in a special class of mammals known as monotremes, which it shares only with the platypus. The echidna lays eggs like a duck but suckles its young in a pouch like a kangaroo. For no apparent reason, it may decide to conserve energy by dropping its body temperature to 4 degrees and remain at that temperature from 4 to 120 days. Lab experiments have shown that the echidna is more intelligent that a cat and it has been seen using its spikes, feet and beaks to climb up crevices like a mountaineer edging up a rock chimney.
We have a Purple wallaby - The Purple-neck Rock Wallaby [Petrogale Purpureicollis], inhabits the Mt Isa region in Northwest Queensland. The Wallaby secretes a dye that transforms its face and neck into colours ranging from light pink to bright purple.
High in the Eucalypts in cool temperate rainforest regions of eastern and southern Australia lives a rare and fiercesome creature called a drop bear. It is an omnivore and terribly territorial. Unsuspecting bush walkers are often attacked by the small marsupial which drops suddenly from its perch and viciously bites and scratches its hapless victim. The jugular vein is often opened and few have ever lived through such an attack due to the isolated nature of the regions drop bears inhabit being so far from medical aid that most succumb to blood loss or infection from the carrion borne bacteria of the drop bear's mouth before aid is forthcoming.
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Post by philipkduck on Apr 10, 2012 3:14:36 GMT -5
If Penfold ever pops up for a visit it's the voles, rabbits and sheep that'll need to watch what kind of stuffing's going on about the place. Did you know that a Penfold can squeeze through a hole the size of a slug. I am working on scaling up the humble mousetrap to make a sheeptrap, or do i mean Penfoldtrap ?
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