I have so much time on my hands right now that I made an audio adaptation of parenyzia’s post (for some reason this site is messing up and I can’t properly tag them!)
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I have so much time on my hands right now that I made an audio adaptation of parenyzia’s post (for some reason this site is messing up and I can’t properly tag them!)
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I don’t know if this story has made it from my reptile corners of the internet to the larger public but it’s kind of a classic “fuck around and find out” situation.
Jeffrey Leibowitz is this obnoxious dude who is known in exotic pet circles for free-handling his highly venomous pet snakes. He also has the unfortunate habit of mocking anyone who voices the reasonable perspective that doing this can be dangerous not only for the humans but also the snakes involved. There’s a reason reputable facilities don’t pet and cuddle venomous snakes.
Well old Jeff has left quite a trail of terrible hot takes and unhinged rants. He feels that only people who get bit by snakes are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing. He put out this eloquent stance on the subject…
Well guess who got bit by the most venomous* snake in the world, a fucking inland Taipan he was keeping as a pet.
After he is bit, Jeff’s opinion on anti venom is swiftly reconsidered…
This guy is currently hospitalized in organ failure as his doctors try to save his life with the needed anti venom that a reptile facility was kind enough to send for Jeff. Jeff’s entire collection of venomous snakes was euthanized due to his carelessness (I don’t know what’s happened to his pet serval).
Under normal circumstances I would not make fun of someone being so severely injured by an animal, but I am quite frankly furious with this man. His hubris got innocent animals killed. Absolutely nobody needs to have an inland taipan as a pet and the insistence on free-handling these dangerous animals as some kind of ego exercise is unbelievably reckless.
I hope Jeff Leibowitz survives. I hope he learns from this experience and uses his perspective to advocate for better welfare of venomous snakes going forward. At the very least, I hope he is too embarrassed to continue posting these bizarre stream of consciousness rants against anyone who criticizes him…
So I'm seeing tons of people wondering why all the snakes were euthanized.
These are animals with extremely specialized care needs that were receiving substandard care. Zoos and venom research facilities do not have open housing for highly venomous reptiles on the regular. There were 14 venomous snakes in his "care" and some were in plastic totes (can be appropriate for smaller non-venomous snakes like my own corns, for example, but NOT venomous) and none were in safe containment. So we have a lot of snakes in inappropriate housing and they all need to move now only everywhere is full. PLUS, any snake taken in would require extensive quarantine and health monitoring to make sure it didn't bring in a deadly pathogen like nidovirus or crypto.
It's the same pathogen reason for why the few native snakes couldn't be released.
It sucks the snakes were euthanized, but there was significant risk of escape or further bites due to the poor husbandry and nowhere with the right caging had room. You couldn't leave the baby inland taipan in a plastic bin for months and without training or anymore local antivenin it wouldn't be safe to even try to fill the water bowl.
His cocksure assholeness is the reason these snakes are dead.
Excellent addition. Venomous snakes do not belong in private homes and this is just one of many many reasons why. Nobody is to blame for their deaths but the careless piece of human garbage who brought them into an apartment to feed his ego.
PLASTIC??? BINS???
he was keeping an inland taipain in a plastic bin?
If you have hots, one of the most important elements is appropriate housing that will protect you and the general public, and this idiot was keeping an inland taipan in a plastic bin. He's lucky he's the only one who got bitten.
pros and cons of the elden ring dlc after playing it for a good while (spoiler free):
pros:
-Messmer the Impaler is hot (but we knew that from the trailer lol)
-the new environments are gorgeous (there's one in particular I won't spoil, but it made me actually emotional)
-a lot of the new boss themes slap, even moreso than the base game's
-cool new weapons that I'll actually upgrade and use instead of the Bloodhound Fang/Fallingstar Beast Jaw
-extremely memeable, the elden ring subreddit has been hilarious
cons:
-some bosses have so much particle effect bullshit attacks that it's nauseating to look at and actually causes a lot of slowdown problems
-speaking of bosses, some of them also have attacks that have insane tracking to the point you feel like you're being teleported into them despite dodging them
-a lot of areas are really empty and don't really feel that fun to explore
-the mechanics to defeat a certain armored enemy are actually impossible, I don't know how some people have managed to do it because it spams a homing attack that lasts forever and completely depletes your health in seconds so
gordon ramsay showing that NO ONE is safe from the Scarlet Rot even if you're famous!!!
Reblog the 500,000 dollar written check from Seto Kaiba and money will come your way.
Damn right we do cause we a got Seto Kaiba’s routing and account numbers
the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you're vertical. act like it.
MOST BASS ARE JUST FISH BUT LEROY BROWN WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
Leroy Brown has been haunting me, so I looked into his backstory and it's wilder than you could possibly imagine.
Leroy Brown was about one pound when he was caught in 1973 in Lake Eufala, Alabama, by Tom Mann, who is absolutely legendary in the world of bass fishing. Instead of releasing or taking him home to eat, Mann decided he recognized a spark of something special in the fish, so he took him home and popped him in his backyard pond. Later, he moved the fish to a giant aquarium in his workshop. He was an aggressive fish, so he got named after the song. And Mann loved this fish. He trained him to jump through a hoop, he hand-fed him, he would talk about him to anybody. The fish became internationally known, with publicity in Russia, South Africa, Australia, and other countries.
Then, in 1980, the fish dies- probably of old age. So what to do? Have a funeral. Various sources say between 500 and 1,200 people came (there was a very large bass fishing tournament that weekend), and the local marching band was there to play "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" as the fish's tiny casket was lowered into his grave.
But then things got really wild. On the day of the funeral, it was eventually decided that the ground was too wet and muddy, so Mann put the fish and his casket (actually a satin-lined tackle box full of one dead fish and the lure he was caught with) in the freezer.
That night, somebody stole the dead fish and his tiny casket.
Seriously. This was not a taxidermy fish, this was just. Y'know. A dead fish, with all of the smells that entails.
Three weeks later, the tackle box turns up at the Tulsa, Oklahoma airport. A baggage handler found it, and it was decided that the box full of three-week-old decaying Leroy was too nasty to ship back to Alabama. The statue remained at Fish World, which is where the public could visit Leroy during his life, until 2005, when Tom Mann died and the facility was closed. (Fish World was like... a weird museum/facility to learn about bass fishing. Mann wasn't just an expert angler, he also designed some of the most popular lures that are still used in bass fishing, as well as the Humminbird depth finder- still the most popular depth finder brand on the market. So he had this workshop/lure lab there and people could come see his stuff but also learn about how to go bass fishing and how to do bass fishing as a sport.) The statue went to another bass fisherman, until the city of Eufala asked for it back in 2016. Now it sits prominently on Main Street, reminding everyone that most bass are just fish, but Leroy Brown was something special.
LEROY BROWN UPDATE
I found a picture from his funeral!
From left to right: Tom Mann, Leroy Brown (deceased), Ray Scott
Ray Scott was the president of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, and was the person who had the Leroy statue from 2005-2016.
I am still trying to track down images of Leroy when he was alive. There should be some, as the fish had editorials in Southern Living and a couple of other magazines, but those may take longer to find. For now, enjoy this image of Leroy laid to rest, covered by the only artificial lure he ever struck: Mann's coveted strawberry worms.
Tom Mann's memoir, Think Like A Fish, is up on the Internet Archive. While it doesn't have any photos (or at least, the edition that's online doesn't), Chapter 11, which is about Leroy, implies that there may be video evidence of this fish!
I really hope I can find some old commercials. Leroy was the only small fish in the entire tank, so if these commercials still exist, and if there's a small largemouth bass in them, we'll have moving images of this fish!
FOUND HIM
I couldn't find any of the old TV spots, but I did find this ad for Mann's Jelly Worm, featuring the legend himself!
There he is! In the four pictures to the left, that's Leroy Brown! Look at him, being extremely suspicious of that bait! Mann notes in his memoir that while Leroy Brown would hit plastic bait, he'd never take it- in other words, he'd bite, but if it had a hook, he wouldn't swallow. Instead, he'd swim with it:
I am officially declaring this investigation into the life and times of Leroy Brown complete. We've seen his memorial, we've learned about his life, we've marveled at his post-mortem kidnapping, and now we've seen pictures of him both dead and alive. The only thing I have left to show is this: the merch.
Oh yeah, there was merch. Specifically, the Leroy Brown crankbait and the Leroy Brown belt buckle:
If you want to see more about the lure, including watching a guy fish with it, there's a youtube video from a fella who does a lot of fishing with vintage/retro lures.
I feel enriched for having learned so much about bad, bad Leroy Brown.
i watch baseball for the side quests
throwback to 2021 when the exact same player started doing this extended water bottle bincoculars sight gag in the dugout
this is the same guy who also made himself a fruit cocktail midgame. he is The manic pixie dream girl
baseball is actually not a sport it’s just a documentary of human nature and how we battle boredom. the stuff these teams get up to while they’re waiting their turn.
and it’s hilarious when they pull pranks on each other, like attaching things to other people’s caps:
or the beloved hot foot prank:
or when they decided to put a guy’s pants over his head and make it seem like he was walking on his hands:
or when they opposing pitchers took turns playing tic tac toe every time they got on the mound:
i take back everything bad i've ever said about baseball these boys can fucking Post
Sometimes you have to entertain yourself out in the field too, like the time Victor Robles made friends with a praying mantis.
and some college baseball shenanigans
“beige flags” “trauma dump” “the ick” let me ask you this have you ever gone outside and marvelled at the beauty of the spider’s web
Huh this one says "some pig"
Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear so immediately that the two of you, on some level, belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you’re in love or creating things together or foxhole buddies or partners in crime. It’s so clear, right off the bat, that this is what you’re supposed to be doing, that this is what you’re for. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest of circumstances, and they help you make a life. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but. It definitely makes me believe in something.
love him or hate him, he’s really the yugioh guy of all time
also you can buy a sticker sheet of this here💙
from that "whats the most expensive item of clothing you own" poll i reblogged.... u are not serious people dot gif
just realized how funny the name “slenderman” is... they really didn’t dedicate a lot of thought to him did they
Bruce Campbell behind the scenes in The Evil Dead & Evil Dead 2
im curious what's the first meme you remember seeing? mine was numa numa
wow some of yall are babies
Gym leaders and such often have names that match their type which raises the question: which type would you specialise in based only on your name?