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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #574 on: June 30, 2025, 08:13:26 AM »
Damn, i needed a zebra shirt last night then....cookout in rural GA, great steaks, but fucking hell - all the gnats and mosquitoes you can imagine.  Sheer misery.

After living in AZ for 15+ years and having basically zero flying insects, it made it clear it's worth moving out west if only for that reason.

Ugh.

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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #575 on: June 30, 2025, 08:27:47 AM »
Scorpions and rattlesnakes.
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« Reply #576 on: June 30, 2025, 09:28:22 AM »
Scorpions ain't no big thing.  And rattlesnakes are good eatin'.  
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« Reply #577 on: June 30, 2025, 09:52:02 AM »
Rattlesnakes aren't particularly aggressive. Scorpion stings just make you go numb.
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #578 on: June 30, 2025, 09:58:31 AM »
One usually can have a cookout without confronting snakes or other vermin, but you can't avoid flying bugs if they are prevalent in your area.  I can sit on our balcony usually without bugs because they are 20 meters or so above GL.

We get hummingbirds up here, my wife has a feeder.

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« Reply #579 on: June 30, 2025, 10:04:13 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 30, 2025, 09:58:31 AM
We get hummingbirds up here, my wife has a feeder.
We have three feeders... Because hummingbirds are apparently territorial assholes. 

When we only had one feeder, they'd hover there and basically try to scare each other off of it. With three, it's much less common to see that. 
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« Reply #580 on: June 30, 2025, 10:06:49 AM »
You didn't want to invite friends over to drink and place bets?  Hum-fighting ring?  No??
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #581 on: June 30, 2025, 10:08:28 AM »
Yeah, they are funny.  At our home in Cincy, the wife had one feeder just above where I liked to sit on the deck, and the hummers would hover around me wanting me to leave, I wouldn't, and they finally would feed.  I did see two of them apparently OK with each other, but there was a third they didn't like and would fight.

We only see one here, it may be the same one year after year for a bit, not sure.
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« Reply #582 on: June 30, 2025, 10:09:06 AM »
Scorpions...the bigger they are, the less dangerous.  
Rattlesnakes have the decency to warn you first.

I haven't had any issues with either.  

But you can't have a cookout in the spring here, as it's stupid-windy the moment it warms up.  And then once that's over, it's 115 and you can't have a cookout because YOU are the cookout.

All worth it not to deal with flying insects.  So worth it.
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #583 on: June 30, 2025, 12:45:57 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on June 30, 2025, 09:28:22 AM
Scorpions ain't no big thing.  And rattlesnakes are good eatin'. 


According to Bobby Boucher.  
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #584 on: June 30, 2025, 01:29:38 PM »
I've had rattlesnake - it was OK
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #585 on: June 30, 2025, 01:29:58 PM »
Tastes like chicken.
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #586 on: June 30, 2025, 01:30:29 PM »
I've had rattlesnake at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. 

It tasted like chicken... Plus garlic. 
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Re: Unpopular Opinions Thread
« Reply #587 on: June 30, 2025, 01:34:39 PM »
I'm just averse to the idea of knowing that I'm putting a snake in my mouth.  

utee94 fed me cow tongue one time.  It was weird, and not particularly good, but I'd eat it 100x before I'd eat a snake.  
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