I've started using it. I don'teven know what it means in Britspeak/other than the fact that it's profanity. But in public/people don't even realize it's a curse word! You can say it in front of old people & not get a lecture. (And remember/Flordia is riddled w/old people.) We've got Sorabjites from Down Under -- what curse words do Australians use? And New Zealanders? Take "Merde!" for instance. It's such a friendly word. Sounds almost like "mer" (the sea). You can drop box of paper clips at the office & say "Merde!" & nobody gets offended. Merde Salope Conasse Bollocks Those are the only foreign curse words I know. I NEED MORE, PEOPLE! Help me out. |
yiddish for "go move your bowels in the ocean." a personal favorite of mine. i used to know "fuck your mother" in arabic, but i can't remember it anymore. |
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Sponker is british english for putz. blinder is british english for sodomy. scheiss is german for shit schwarzkopf is german for negro pieds noir is french for negro moissant is french for cum madredos is spanish for motherfucker padredos is spanish for priest fucker (they use this word to talk about women who spend all their time in church) |
We used to have this show here called Father Ted which was so bloody funny, and one of the characters on it used to say Feck alot, which is irish and not so harsh as fuck. So I say that. And arse, but you've got to sound the r. not the pathetic ass that you lot say ; ) I'll have to keep thinking about this one. |
Pieds noir are settlers who left France to live in Algeria. Never heard of moissant. Jouir means to cum. Don't know the slang for the noun though. "Putain" (whore) is used a lot. "Putain de merde". Or "pute" for short. And "salope" == bitch. "Espèce de salope!" "Enculer" means to bugger. |
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Bugger that - meaning No Way. and oh Bugger - meaning oh shit but not really swearing. Bugger was also used in a successful advertising campaign by Toyota. Should see if I can find a link to the ad. |
chinga tu (or su) madre - fuck your mother chingate - fuck you chingalo - fuck it puta - whore. when i worked with lots of migrants who were not formally invited, they guys would all call each other puta. "que paso, puta!" chupame la verga - suck my dick. there're a hundred words for "dick" in spanish just like in english, but verga is the one i've always heard. i've also heard mamame la verga, which means the same thing. culo - ass, the body part. the first mexican swear word i ever learned. "mira el culo!" coño - cunt conejo - pussy (literally rabbit). this is more from spain. hemingway, who spent time in spain and spoke the language, called one of his wives "rabbit" as a pet name. tetas - titties |
chupame ma binga "suck my dick" |
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bloody - useful for everything and can be used in any company. fuckin' oath - means "you bet ya" strewth - not really a swear word, more an exclamation. But is usually combined with a swear word for greater effectiveness eg: fuckin' strewth. mongrel - sim. bastard bastard - used in an almost friendly way umm..mostly we use phrases like "Macca's as fucked as a poof in Long Bay (prison)". Australian is a very beautiful and descriptive, language once you learn it properly. I'm a bit hyper today because I've only had four hours sleep and I wrestled an 8ft long carpet snake off my dog. |
i saw a deer run down my street last weekend. the craziest site. i was near my window and heard a noise outside, like a gun, i look out and see two beer-gut riddled Animal Control officers chasing this beautiful big doe down my street. It was like a cartoon. |
How'd it get on yr dog? Was it a constrictor? If the carpet snakes Down Undah are fucking 8 ft. long/how big must yr garden snakes be? No wonder Steve Irwin is always so hyper. |
No, they're not poisonous. My puppy decided to play with him and he took offence at the invitation. They kill by contricting (I think they're a type of python) and they're bloody good at it. This one had itself wrapped twice around my doglet within just moments. |
You'd better not let yr dog out unless you're standing next to him! Do you live out in the bush /or does the avg. suburban homeowner have to deal w/sankes that size roaming around their property? And I thought the gators here in FL were a pain in the ass. |
'bout had to change my shorts after that one. Occasionally deer are wounded or killed when they go up the ramp for the parking garage and leap over the little cement edge on the other side. They don't realize that it's a 2-story drop since the ramp only goes up like 3 feet. It's because the ramp side is sort-of dug into the mountain and the other side entirely above-ground. Bears and mountain lions are more of a rarety and tend to end up further south where there's better garbage and/or children to eat. |
i just had some aching muscles, cat. nothing a few scotches couldn't fix. when i was a kid living in rhode island, my dad had a boat and that's how we spent the weekends. one weekend we were moored off some beach in newport; i was swimming off the side and a friend of mine was fishing. my friend starts screaming "i've got something big!" and i swim over to be close enough to watch the fish rise out of the water. it was a small sand shark; and it wasn't hooked, it was just tangled up in the line. when it was all the way out of the water, it shook itself free and dropped back into the water a couple of feet from me. my first assumption was that it was going to go straight for me and bite my legs off, so i scrambled out of the water. |
Water Mocasins can get up 5-7 feet. Diamondback rattlers can get pretty damn big too. And those are both potentially deadly snakes. and of course gators are pretty damn nasty. Im betting the ecology of Florida is a lot like that of Australia....generally speaking. |
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Jackson ville? I ask because sometime in the near future we have surveys there, adn if you are, I'll try and get myself to come down for the lit review or something. My goal is to try to meet a sorabjite on every out of state project we have. |
But lemme know where & when & I'll try my darndest to meetchya! Florida is overrun w/critters. Fucking infested. Turtles & tortoises. Armadillos. Gekkos. Black widow spiders. Wild pigs. All kinds of sharks. (Someone gets bitten every year @ Siesta beach or Lido/but there haven't been any 'reported' fatalities from sharks around here. Becuz when someone goes off for a swim & never returns & they don't find a body/they *never* write it up as a shark attack. Can't hurt the Tourist Trade, now/can we?) A gazillion different kinds of frogs -- some loud enuf to wake you from a dead sleep at nite. Many exotic birds. (There's a huge/gorgeous owl that I see swoop past the streetlights in the parking lot once in a while/when I'm taking out the garbage.) Hellacious Fire ants. (Which I've thankfully managed to avoid. But I've seen the blisters they leave!) Brown recluse spiders. (Got bit by one of those once -- my hand swelled up, but good!) Damn gators. (Est. gator pop: 1.3 million. So why are they still on the Endangered Species list?! Every year they snatch somebody's dog. A couple of years ago/a gator got somebody's kid right on the edge of the creek in their backyard.) There are snakes galore/both poisonsous & non. It's amazing anyone leaves their house w/out a pistol. Thankfully/I've only had 1 snake encounter. I think it was a poisionous one. It was black w/red & yellow bands - next to each other. And I remembered that old rhyme: Red next to black/friend of Jack, Red next to yellow/kill a fellow. It was only abt 5 inches long & very thin. Six made short work of it out on the lanai before I'd even realized it was there. And I had the unique pleasure of catching a glimpse of a cougar once at my old job. The grounds surrounding the place are still undeveloped. And of course/the cheap bastards didn't bother to fence in the complex. They put up a sign: Do Not Feed The Animals. But what's to stop the animals from feeding on you when there's nothing btwn you & the woods?) I'd heard from other employees that they'd seen a mountain lion crossing the parking lot on occassion in the early evening. But I figured it was just folks talking shit. Cougars are more prevalent further south/& even then, they're rare. Well/one evening at dusk I was out back having a smoke. There is also a good-sized man-made pond on the side of the building/not far from where the picnic tables & benches are. I'd seen gators in the pond many times but never realized that spot was a perfect watering hole for a puma. So I'm sitting on a bench smoking/& I hear something move abt 100 ft. away in the brush. I looked up just in time to see tawny hindquarters & a very long matching tail slink off into the brush. Nothing but a cougar has a tail like that. Very cool. But I still say they shd fence in the property. I know that puma is used to seeing & smelling humans. What's to stop it from deciding a lone smoker wd make a good snack? There wdn't be anyplace to run to. And you had to swipe yr badge to get back into the bldg. Not a good thing when being chased by a carnivore. Just one more reason I'm glad I don't have to work there anymore! |
Ive seen foxes around here. cute lil buggers. the ears look so top heavy. |
sometime in January, but I mioght not be the one to go - it's just a really small survey. |
I know its kinda mean,but I can't help myself.It works every time,too. I have to "show" them the proper way to use it,kinda swinging it about 10 inches off the ground,and make lots of noise,"so the gator's 'll hear ya comin'." |
Altho I'll never forget seeing a gator on the news that had wandered several miles from the nearest watering hole/& ended up on the walkway in front of a bank. |
And,they can run REALLY fast, We have some albino alligators here,at the Aquarium of the Americas.They have blue eyes. |
The whole thing was so nonchalant. I had fired up the barbie to cook something or other. Six loves to lie under the grill once the flames go down - even in the middle of summer. It's a standard sized grill/abt 4 ft. off the ground. (I only barbeque after sundown during the hot season. Otherwise/it's like grilling in the middle of Hell!) It was just after nightfall & hot as hell outside. I was tending to my food when she darted from under the grill to under the table. I paid her no mind. A few minutes later I was ready to bring everything inside/but my Sixaboodle didn't follow me back into the hse. When I went back to get her/I looked under the table & saw her batting this little snake around. It was nearly dead --she'd bitten it almost in two. I noticed the colors & realized it might be poisonous/so I grabbed Six & threw her inside. Then I poked at the snake w/the spatula a few times to make sure it was dead. Then I picked it up & tossed it out onto the grass. You mean my kitty risked her lazy life killing that snake for me?? I'm not a hereptologist/but I see that nut Steve Irwin handling the most aggressive, venemous critters/in a very careless manner. It's not like he finesses them -- he grabs them near the tail of all places! Which leaves their heads free! But I remember him pointing out once that a snake's striking distance is only 2/3 of it's body length. So as long as that 2/3 won't let it grab hold of you/you've got a safety zone for handling the them. (But he handles poisonous snakes 7 & 8 ft. long too!) I have a garden -- I have to get in there to water my flora. I usually water at nite becuz I think most snakes here aren't active at nite/since they're cold-blooded. Sooner or later/I'm gonna come across a snake. Even if it's venemous/I figure it's better to pick the thing up & move it than freak out & try to kill it/or get bit trying to get away. After all/if it's outside/I'm on it's turf/not vice versa. But I'll not have them camping out in my garden! And it's not like you can call the Snake Catcher & they'll send over a guy in a truck to get the damn thing. Animal Control won't even come for venemous snakes if they're outside. They won't come for gators either/unless they get into yr house or garage or pool. One can be sprawled across yr back porch & all you can do is shoo it w/a broom/or wait for it to decide to leave. I tell ya/the damn gators run the state of Florida! |
Its better to whack their little heads off with a shovel.I don't like killing things,but I do kill poisonous snakes,so they don't breed and produce more around my home. I've heard that if you put moth balls in your garden,it will keep snakes away.I have no idea if there is any validity to this,but its worth a try. |
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You never see snakes where there is a wasps nest. Its a fact. |
otherwise, yes, consider your cat a hero. Good ole Six...Snake Warrior. Snakes, will generally do everything they can to avoid humans. |
See what is attracting them and remove it. Or, whatever is feeding the snakes food, mice, and remove it. I admit it, snakes freak me out if I stomble across them at night. Especially poisonous ones! |
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i have a snake story. when i worked the concession stands at the zoo, a friend of mine worked at the popcorn stand. it was just a wooden frame with screening on it, basically. there were always lots of indigenous snakes crawling around, especially in the summer - harmless garden snakes and all that. so one sunday at the peak of business he sees a snake slithering around the top corner of his booth, on the inside. i don't know what kind of snake, but it was a couple of feet long. there are two working the booth, so he lets the other guy take care of the customers and decides to put on a show by catching the thing. he distracts it with one hand and makes a grab. he doesn't get a good hold on it and it bites him in the hand. the first thing he does is fling the snake, which was stuck to his hand, out of the serving window and into the crowd of onlookers. mayhem ensues. |
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A friend of mines mother had one she raised from a baby,and kept it in her backyard.When the meter-reader saw it,he told her,"Lady,I don't know what kind of dog you've got,but you better take it to the vet,cause it don't look right,and if it bites me,I'm gonna sue you." |
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My garden's not a vegetable garden. I've got sisal plants & a big bird of paradise. And these other things w/purple leaves that everyone has here -- I don't remember what they're called/my Mom got them for me. And this big wide bush w/a lot of waxy green leaves/dunno what it's called either/it came w/the crib. I don't think any of those plants are particularly appetizing to snakes. Maybe the snakes come to try & catch gekkos -- there are plenty of them scurrying around the garden. I will try the mothballs trick/but won't they kill off friendly bugs that I want to keep in my garden? Or possibly get into the soil & posison my plants when they melt? And I remember reading somewhere in a short story that if you kill a rattlesnake/you must cut off the head & bury it becuz wasps & yellowjackets love snake venom. They will eat the head & become venemous themselves. But I don't know if this is true or just invented as part of the stotry. The wild pigs I've seen here don't have tusks. I thought they were boars/but even female boars have tusks, yes? Maybe they were just escapees from a local farm. I was the mama & good-sized piglets. They were crossing the road at my aforementioned place of employment. But one of the pgiblets ended up roadkill a few days later. The sad thing is that I see so many cats oustide w/collars. They're obviously not homeless. Yet with all these predators afoot/their owners still let their cats outside to fend fo rthemselves amongst the gators & wild boars (they have those here too) & snakes & lord knows what else. Oh -- I forgot to tell you what The Little Bastards did! Sebastian & Six managed to knock the screen out of one of the windows downstairs & breakout a couple of weeks ago! I come home & nobody runs to the door to greet me. So I'm calling for my kitties/& I look up & Sebastian (the Grand Instigator -- I KNOW it was all his idea) comes climbing in the the window from outside. His belly & legs were COVERED w/mud! He'd obviously been exploring the creek in the woods behind my house. Which used to have a gator in it/but thankfully/it's nearly dried up now since we've had practically no rain for 3 years now. Six was right behind him/in pristine condition. (Thank God becuz she's mostly white.) It took me 45 min. & quite a lot of shampoo to get the mud off 'Bastian -- & clogged up my bathroom sink but good! Thankfully/the Little Bastards must have been terrified once they realized they were OUTSIDE! so they kept close to the house. But talk abt freaking the fuck out -- I thought someone had popped the screen off from the outside & tried to rob me! (I do have a habit of leaving my windows open pretty wide. Iit's finally the cool season & I want to get as much of the breezes indoors as I can.) But once I realized all my stuff was still there/I figured out the cats must have pushed out the screen/prolly in pursuit of a squirrel or another cat. Now I only leave the downstairs screens open 3 inches when I'm going out. I was so grateful that my babies weren't hurt. I swear/I don't know how people manage to raise actual human children w/out having a coronary every time they leave the house... |
Snakes are not vegitarian. You just live in an environment that is condusive to wildlife. That's why you have the snakes. I really don't know what you could do to make the critters leave. You don't have any bird feeders in the yard. Do you? The gekkos must be attracted to the bugs. Have you thought of an exterminator? |
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I don't know about the moth balls melting,and poisioning the soil.Sounds like they might.I don't even know if the moth balls work,I've just heard that. I know that in areas where deer are a problem,[like getting into your garden,and eating your stuff],they recommend collecting human hair,and putting it in little cloth pouches,and tying it to your trees.I think the "human scent" is suspossed to keep them away. |
Outside bugs have every right to be there. If the gekkos eat them & the coral snakes eat the gekkos/well, that's just the food chain. Actually/I think gekkos are cute. My biggest concern is being outside watering or weeding/stepping on or accidentally grabbing a venemous snake/being rushed to the E.R. when I have no health insurance... You get the picture. But so far/I haven't encountered anything poisonous in my gaeden. So methinks I'll stick to watering at nite when the snakes are asleep. And let my Mom do the weeding if she insists. (She usually does it anyway. Since the weeds don't bother me/I refuse to bother them. Martha Stewart wd be shocked to find that yr plants & the weeds can coexist quite nicely.) I've lived in FL since '95 but this whole critters thing STILL weirds me out. I grew up on Long Island/which has plenty of wildlife. And bugs. But I never saw a snake in our yard there. Maybe I'll move to Antartica. No bugs or snakes there. |
please, live your life...its ok. |
Better to learn to live with the snakes. I'm sure you had snakes in Long Island. You just didn't see them. Try Hawai (That doesn't look right) I believe they have no indigenous snakes. And, the climates much better. |
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I really wouldn't know, I've never been there. I just remembered something from PBS or The Discovery channel. |
But I went out & watered my plants a little while ago. With a flashlight. Saw some some pretty interesting critters. An enormous cricket-looking thing. But it was soo big - like a fucking mutant! And a Big-ass Brown Recluse spider. I thought they preferred indoor digs. (Then again/it *was* crouched right in the corner of my window screen. Guess I caught it in the middle of Breaking & Entering.) But no snakes. 6 yrs. & only 1 Close Encounter w/a poisonous snake. I think Patrick's right. Ah be aww-ite. Altho' my Bird of Parasise is lookng pretty shitty right now. Not at all ike it's elegant cousins that you pay $5.00 a stem for in the flower shops. Those of us w/Black Thumbs shd prolly skip gardens altogether. But I really love my sisal plants. Some of their cousins were made into the rug on my living room floor. |
These varmints are illegal to have in Hawaii,now,because of that. Sarah should be able to fill us in on the particulars. Patricks right.Live your life.Yea,sure,there's poisionous stuff out there,but we all probably have more to worry about from the evil people who inhabit this world,than from toxic wildlife. |
They really inspect everything thoroughly. They are very fearful of something like the Brown Snake insident in Guam. I hear it did a real number on the indigenous species there. |
padredos (?????) is spanish for priest fucker (they use this word to talk about women who spend all their time in church) ## Stiga,where have you learnt Spanish? In Mars?? "Madredos" and "padredos" have no meaning, they simply don´t exist!! Motherfucker is the classical "hijo de puta". Priestfucker is not an insult you are likely to hear in Spanish, but if you want a translation, in Spain it would be "follacuras", in other places it could be translated as "pingacuras", "pinchacuras", "cogecuras", etc. Not a very usual thing, though. // chinga tu (or su) madre - fuck your mother chingate - fuck you chingalo - fuck it // Droopy, that is ONLY Mexican, you are not going to hear that anywhere in South America. "Chingar" in Argentina and Uruguay means "to fail", nothing to do with fuck. Fuck in those countries is "coger", "fifar", "trincar", "garchar", "pin- char", "culear", etc. Also, a peccary is "pecarí", and a "jabalina" is a weapon, not a pig, what you call in English with the French word "javeline". The pig is called "jabalí", which means "wild boar". You´d better take some Spanish lessons soon... Cheers, Carlos |