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# RPS...Yikes!
At work at London Zoo. This slithered across the path:



I was a bit freaked out, because my very first encounter with a snake 'in the wild' was at the fucking zoo, so I obviously assumed it had escaped and might be able to kill with it's gaze at ten yards.

Eventually the head of the reptile house was summoned:

who picked it up faster than that mad South African bloke
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:37, archived)
# That's no snake
It is merely a flamboyant worm
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:38, archived)
# That was actually what I thought at first
but it got larger as I drew nearer...
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:41, archived)
# Ah perspective
Thou art truly a cruel mistress
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:44, archived)
# Pfft!
I'll have to remember that one :)
(I helped save b3ta! Albert the Mildly Deranged purveyors of nothing much since a year or two ago, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:20, archived)
# ...and ate it?
bonzer snake mate
(I helped save b3ta! Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:38, archived)
# Grass snake?
It's trying to constrict his finger!
(I helped save b3ta! Arathkone formerly naD. Been away awhile., Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:40, archived)
# Difficult to tell from that picture
But the markings round the back of the head seem to be like a grass snake.
(I helped save b3ta! Big Ian has stopped changing his sig, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:58, archived)
# Nothing to worry about
Nothing to worry about - that's a grass snake I'm sure. You can tell from the yellow behind its head. UK native but I've never seen one, annoyingly.
(I helped save b3ta! Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:41, archived)
# I remember...
being by a beach on a lake in Provence. A little French girl comes up to her mother with a snake in a bucket. Said mother screams like merry hell. I casually walked up (being about 12 at the time) and said "Non, non, c'est pas une viper. Ce n'est pas dangereuse." It was a viperine snake, a little baby one. Looks like an adder but isn't.
(I helped save b3ta! Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:45, archived)
# Should I be impressed
with your youthfull command of the language, or were you merely brought up there?
(I helped save b3ta! Albert the Mildly Deranged purveyors of nothing much since a year or two ago, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:23, archived)
# Nah, Croydon
I was just a smararse. Still am.
(I helped save b3ta! Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:40, archived)
# I'm with you on that one
My brother used to have a pet grass snake. Gawd the number of people who shat themselves because they thought it was an adder!

Tsk
(I helped save b3ta! Big Ian has stopped changing his sig, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:01, archived)
# Tsk indeed
(I helped save b3ta! Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:03, archived)
# yay nature
i took these last week:

EDIT: thumbnailified - click for full pic.

snowdrops!


monkey puzzle
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:42, archived)
# they're lovely
little over 50k but lovely
(I helped save b3ta! Arathkone formerly naD. Been away awhile., Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:46, archived)
# eeep
just a sec - will change now.
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:47, archived)
# In this instance I hope you dont
those are beautiful pictures
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:50, archived)
# gah
i am stupid. i can't figure it out. *kicks photoshop*

would you prefer me to link them?

and: thankyou! i'm usually all of the crappness with photography so these make me proudful.
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:55, archived)
# i think it's ok to leave them
best thing to do in the future is use the "save for web" feature as it allows you to see the optimized shot and it's filesize. With the photos above if you shrunk them by about 50 pixels you would probably be on the 50k limit.
(I helped save b3ta! Arathkone formerly naD. Been away awhile., Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:58, archived)
# ah, thankyou
i am very computer illiterate.

i thumbnailified. hope it works. *crosses fingers*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:03, archived)
# Snow drops (Galanthus nivalis) and a monkey puzzle tree (Arborius simianus*) I think
[*May have made that one up]

[*Edit - I think that would be Arbor aenigma simianus, literally. No honest idea about the real scientific name.]
(I helped save b3ta! Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:49, archived)
# ALAN TITBOG
aicmfp
(I helped save b3ta! Arathkone formerly naD. Been away awhile., Sun 12 Mar 2006, 11:53, archived)
# heh,
no idea about the true names, but yep for both.
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Sun 12 Mar 2006, 12:03, archived)