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Login/Join to ParticipateHoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
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most likely a load of rubbish but made me laugh my head off,
supposedly 80% of a rhino is bulletproof ha ha ha
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
awww poor lil rhino, well i will tell him ur coming and kit him out with his own lil laser sight n the likes
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
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Which 80%?
and how do they know which bits?
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Location: Lincoln UK
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
no idea, guess they only know when they r brought into action, prob the bush's next plan for iraq, wahay peace keeping rhino's, what a laugh!
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
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Location: manchester, uk
As is so often the case with these things, it was almost, but not completely, correct. The fact of the matter is that 80% of your average rhino is bull S H I T proof and not BULLET proof, an easy mistake to make. They have about 4 billion nerve endings in their snout and can spot BS at a hundred paces. Try it. Go along to a local zoo or safari park and stand in front of a rhino and lie to it, see if you can away with it! It's an amazing quirk of nature huh?
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man, was that heavy sarcasm laced in your voicw or just dripping acid?
Another interesting (crap) fact is that the daddylong legs has the mos venemous bite in the world. But has no teeth. See Ricky Gervais live for proof!
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Location: manchester, uk
tis true tis true, re daddylonglegs, and a fact that keeps popping into my life quite often just recently, and now i know i have RG to thank, cheers.
i really am genuinely sorry if my previous post appears in any way acidic or sarcastic or mean spirited, that was not the intention at all, my only aim was to add to the humour of the thing
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Location: staines
rhinos suck....elephants are much better!!!and...omg pandas.
i love pandas with an almost scary passion
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That's illegal in many countries you know...
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Sorry to be a spoiler, but daddy long legs isn't a spider. Spiders are classified as having two sections to their bodies. Daddy long legs only have one and are actually "harvesters". So whenever somebody freaks out about those creepy spiders, pick one up and show them that they aren't really spiders at all.
Here is a bit more info if you'd like it:
https://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
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Location: manchester, uk
hmm...supafly mate...are you being just a tad TOO fly? I've looked and looked and looked but cant see ANY mention of daddylonglegs being a spider before so so eruditely refuted the fact. Has your smart arsery got the better of you this time? hehehe..if there IS a mention and i missed it....please feel free to quote it and called me a blind bugger for missing it.
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Location: South East UK
daddy long legs or harvesters or whatever they are, are the most poisonous spider in the world but they have to fangs to put it to use! and also, cat urine glows in UV light, ooh and more people die each year from coconuts than sharks!
enjoy! ~* so, my love, your laughter is finally turning to tears, and you're begging for more, though the end is getting near *~
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Location: South East UK
oh fine the daddy long legs bit is already on the site ggrrr didnt see it til after
but oh well! ~* so, my love, your laughter is finally turning to tears, and you're begging for more, though the end is getting near *~
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and the whole thing about eating 8 spiders in your life is bollox. i mean, how can anyone know that for a fact? what, they measured someone sleeping, and extrapolated that to the entire rest of the world? or did they measure half of the world sleeping for their whole lives? or did they videotape every spider in the world, and see how many ended up in people's mouths, or what?
its a statistical impossibility.
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89% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I thought it was 96%!!
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Well.... I just made it up
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or did they videotape every spider in the world, and see how many ended up in people's mouths
you think about these things waaaaaay to much
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back to the rhino being bulletproof, I'm confused, because if that's a fact, how do people shoot them in order to cut off the horns and sell them illegally? or is it the animal protection people the ones that are lying to us?
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
whoa is that what u guys call daddy longlegs?? must be an american thing, just saw a picture of it, in england what we call daddy long legs are actually these winged things, oh i just checked it its real name is a crane fly, i was pretty confused what u were going on about, so if youe english then a daddy long legs is definetly not poisonous, just so i can show u guys in USA this is what we call a daddy long legs and the poor buggers have been many a victim of children pulling off their wings cos they stay still too long
https://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007551.html
oh and by the way the most poisonous spider is the Brazilian Wandering Spider, it has the most toxic venom :P
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
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What is the thing its wondering about? Maybe we could help it with the answer.
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
its probably looking for u sir, wants to have a lil nibble for taking the piss out of his name, i'll point him in the direction
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
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whoa is that what u guys call daddy longlegs?? must be an american thing, just saw a picture of it, in england what we call daddy long legs are actually these winged things, oh i just checked it its real name is a crane fly
woah, and to think that people get jumpy about our sweet little crane flies - if it was in fact one of THOSE then i can see why you'd want it out of the house.... Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
yeh its bloody ugly, isnt it a member of the scopion family? im thankful for our daddy longlegs and they look funny when they r doing the business he he
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
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Location: South Wales
Who you calling longlegs, and why are you thankfull of their daddy?
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Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
a couple more stupiod facts,
bushbabys pee glows in uv light.:)4 out of 5 guys dont wash thier hands after goin to the loo.:)70%of mc ds miklshakes used to be (and still may be i dunno) chkcken fat .:) mac ds burgers are made from cows that have been fed protine tablets .:) the average cow belches 10 timse a min. the quality of these r not all necessarayl 100% as i got some from a generaly unreliable sourse, jodie taylor!
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and the whole thing about eating 8 spiders in your life is bollox. i mean, how can anyone know that for a fact? what, they measured someone sleeping, and extrapolated that to the entire rest of the world? or did they measure half of the world sleeping for their whole lives? or did they videotape every spider in the world, and see how many ended up in people's mouths, or what?
its a statistical impossibility.
yeah, and what about countries where there's billions of spiders, that must up the average over 8. and what about people who deliberately eat spiders??
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I heard somewhere that more global warming is attributed to cow farts than to industry...?
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yeah i think i heard that too - maybe in 'fast food nation'?
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