there are venomous snakes in Britain/Ireland? I thought there were just...black snakes or garter snakes or something.
signed, grew up in rattler/copperhead/water moc Ville.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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Strix - Feb 16, 2006 7:33:31 pm PST #7983 of 9843
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
billytea - Feb 16, 2006 7:34:51 pm PST #7984 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
there are venomous snakes in Britain/Ireland?
Yup. In Britain, not Ireland. Not exactly of the same level of concern as Australia's finest, but they do exist.
Strix - Feb 16, 2006 7:40:57 pm PST #7985 of 9843
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Huh. Things I Never Knew.
Volans - Feb 16, 2006 10:35:45 pm PST #7986 of 9843
move out and draw fire
St. Patrick apparently never made it across to England.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 16, 2006 11:01:07 pm PST #7987 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
St. Patrick apparently never made it across to England.
Actually, the story (or at least the version of it with which I am familiar) has it that he was born in Wales, and taken to Ireland as a slave, so he was originally from this side of the Irish Sea. But it's true that we still have snakes in England (and Wales and Scotland): the grass snake (which is actually a legless lizard), the adder (the posionous but really rare one)... and possibly one other I've forgotten.
Cass - Feb 16, 2006 11:25:26 pm PST #7988 of 9843
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
the grass snake (which is actually a legless lizard)I don't care what they are technically, that's a snake. ::shudders:: The Tiajuana Estuary has some flavor of legless lizard and no one will ever convince me that they just aren't snakes that are lying to themselves.
I might have a slight touch of snake squick.
billytea - Feb 17, 2006 12:16:06 am PST #7989 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I don't care what they are technically, that's a snake. ::shudders:: The Tiajuana Estuary has some flavor of legless lizard and no one will ever convince me that they just aren't snakes that are lying to themselves.
But they have ears. They can hear you coming!
esse - Feb 17, 2006 3:11:10 am PST #7990 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
the grass snake (which is actually a legless lizard)
That's so cool! I totally didn't know that.
Theodosia - Feb 17, 2006 5:30:25 am PST #7991 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
But they have ears. They can hear you coming!
They have eyelids, too!
It's an interesting case of evolution repeating a winning design -- snakes split off the reptile tree a long long time ago.
Kate P. - Feb 17, 2006 7:00:03 am PST #7992 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, SA--the BUNAC thing works for New Zealand *anytime*, as long as you're under 30 (that's what my friend who's there is doing--though she's actually going to extend her visa for a second year!!!). The UK thing is only right after you graduate, so...do that now, while you can.
SA, are you going to the UK first to do BUNAC, and then to NZ? I only ask because I remember looking into doing BUNAC in Australia after my semester abroad in South Africa, but I couldn't get the right visa because I would have had to come back to the US to get it after South Africa, which I didn't want to do. So if you're doing BUNAC first, that shouldn't be a problem... just thought I'd mention it in case you're not.
Also, that's so cool!