I'd like to say that I very much prefer to talk about Alligators

[Aerows]

than politics. GD:_P steals souls.

Can we talk about ingrown toenails or discuss how best to pee in a bucket other than GD:_P?

I think I am so burned out from it, it's a damn relief that there is something OTHER to talk about.

[rug]

1. I'm sure there are more than a few missing children in GDP.

[Aerows]

2. Amen to that. n/t

[Sherman A1]

3. It's pretty easy to simply

trash the forum or group. I have done that along with the names of some candidates and things are much more pleasant.

[liberal N proud]

4. Destress - Trash GD:_P

[Aerows]

5. I just can't go in there anymore

There are so many other things to talk about that make you smile, frown or at least don't make you want to strangle somebody.

[demmiblue]

6. Year after year after year... the same nastiness and spite from some.

I trashed that forum (I do peek every once in a while, but quickly leave).

It stinks when they bring it into GD.

[Aerows]

12. Massive energy burn. n/t

[QC]

55. And it's always the same very few people who create 90% of the ugliness.

It's a pity that no one here has the power to, you know, kick them out or something.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

7. Fried gator is pretty good.

It's almost like a cross between pork and shrimp. When I pee in a bucket I like to aim for the side rather than the bottom.

[liberal N proud]

8. That last bit is TMI

[Aerows]

10. Yeah, I avoided

that particular part.

[Aerows]

9. Fried gator

tastes like a cross between fried frog legs and chicken to me.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

14. I've never had frog legs.

I do know a guy who has a phobia of frogs. A friend of his took him to a Vietnamese restaurant and ordered in Vietnamese what he told the guy was chicken wings. He said he thought the bones looked a little weird for chicken, but ate it anyway. He wasn't too happy when he was told what it was after the meal.

[Aerows]

15. I don't have food phobias, so unfortunately, I can't relate.

I despise cockroaches with every single fiber in my being, but if they were turned into a snack plate, I'd probably eat one just as a ... "look how awful you are, now you are fueling my rage" sort of thing.

I SERIOUSLY despise cockroaches and cannot be anywhere if I witness one.

I'd eat one of the fuckers, though.

[AngryAmish]

39. Doesn't gator have to be marinated in acid and have the tar pounded out of it?

I have had turtle...that is damn good eating. I have qualms about eating old turtles nowadays but damn snapping turtle is tasty.

[Aerows]

40. Turtle is very tasty

I have never cooked alligator, I've only eaten it so I don't know.

[GulfCoast66]

42. Not near as good as turtle

Like really tough frog legs. Unless you braise it in a sauce picante. Of course shoe leather would be good that way.

[Aerows]

43. Cher, we have absolutely the best chefs

here in our neck of the woods. You can't bottle ingenuity, but you sure can serve it on a plate

I'll have to try it your way sometime if somebody gets hold of alligator tail.

[GulfCoast66]

48. Mon Dieu, that's the truth

And when we move we take that food with us.

Luckily in Florida I can get all the good products I need. Apalachacola oysters are the best in the gulf.

Except for crawfish😭

Still miss Louisiana.

Bonne Niut

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

11. Me too

I trashed crap fest months ago. One of the best moves I've ever made here.

[GumboYaYa]

13. It is downright bizzare to me that Louisiana and Florida both have about

1.5 million gators, but there have been 337 recorded attacks by gators in Florida and 2 in Louisiana.

It has to be in some part a product of the number of residents who did not grow up in Florida and the larger number of tourists. I bet the is more swamp land filled in for development in Florida also, so we moved into the alligators habitat more frequently there. But the numbers are so far apart, it is hard to explain.

[Aerows]

16. I live and grew up in the Cajun belt.

*Was about to say something but realized it could be taken 2 ways and abstained*

*Went to say something else, and to my horror, it could be interpreted worse*

I understand. <---Seems like a safe reply

[hack89]

23. It's that Cajun spiciness - gators have sensitive palates. nt

[Aerows]

30. They wouldn't

be the first things that were scared of us, and rightfully so !

[SwankyXomb]

27. Even Florida gators

can't escape the curse of Florida Man.

[AngryAmish]

41. Isn't that a function to geography?

Florida is flat. To get the inhabited areas water table down the built canals everywhere. Canals everywhere means gators everywhere since they swim.

Louisiana (and I may be wrong about this) has the Delta but most of the land rises and falls, keeping people away from water and gators.

[GulfCoast66]

44. Not at all

Louisiana is populated by mostly natives, especially in the area with list of gators. Florida is populated by folks who are scared of our grass. St. Augustine grass which they always call crab grass. But they do not know to stay away from water at night.

And there a lot more people here in Florida.

One more thing. Those gators in Louisiana know they're on the menu. Even when they were endangered of the locals still ate them.

[jberryhill]

59. Check this out - Google child riding alligator

And you will find a bunch of these:



This apparently used to be a common amusement.

Damn lawyers ruin everything.




The LA Alligator Farm entertained thousands and thousands of children without incident. Therefore, it had to be safe.

[Rocknrule]

17. To borrow a quote from Archer

What's the difference between alligators and Republican politicians? They're both cold-blooded, prehistoric monsters!

[Aerows]

31. I love that show

for all of it's complete and total lack of niceties.

[Quantess]

18. Alligators are about as cute and endearing as humans are.

The earth would be better off without humans.

[Aerows]

19. I haven't gotten that cynical yet.

You can't make nice baggage and belts from humans.

[Quantess]

20. Oh, don't forget the lampshade serial killer!

Serious. I'll look the creep up.
Ed Gein: http://moviepilot.com/posts/2929878

It's Ed Gein

[Aerows]

21. That was real!?

Eww eww eww

[Quantess]

22. I get mixed up about Ed Gein and the clown serial killer,

who focused on boys and young men. Ed Gein was in Wisconsin and the pedophile-clown-killer of boys was from Chicago

[Eleanors38]

24. I hang out my underwear in the carport to dry. A big gecko got into them...

I guess using it as a hammock. He plopped out onto the livingroom floor, and I was considering letting him stay in the house ( after the Texas rains, some belly-dragging roaches have been invading), but let him out as lizards can sometimes dehydrate, despite fairly clean john water. I think we know each other as he didn't mind my opening a window screen so he could jump out. Great design for his skin, like digital camo.

[Aerows]

29. See, I'd rather read about this

at this point.

Gecko in somebody's drawers. Yep, still prefer it.

[Eleanors38]

60. Beats a skink. Those guys will put a bite on you.

[Aerows]

61. On no, they are extremely cute!

I like the racers with the stripes on the side of their little heads.

Don't be hating on skinks. They are extremely cool little reptiles, and I'm going to stop right here before I post a bunch of information that nobody but me would enjoy !

[Eleanors38]

62. I like them too. They are smart. Years ago, the family was clearing out trash and came across...

A rotting ply wood sheet with a big -ass rainbow skink beside it, looking at us warily. Now, normally these guys take off with humans around, so we were puzzled. No matter, we raised up the board. Suddenly, a fleet of cruiser-sized roaches boiled out into the sunshine. We jumped back, but the skink jumped in. Biting, biting biting ...every roach in sight. We thought it was gratuitous killer instinct at its worse. But no. The skink took a rest, and proceeded to eat at leisure. Half-hour later, he was still at it. Few of the roaches were killed, only wounded. But the skink knew it was easy-peasy to scarf 'em up. And he knew what we were up to. Wolf aids man, man aids skink. Now that is abstract thinking at its best.

[malaise]

25. This one stayed away

[spin]

28. I live in Florida and have been fairly close to a number of alligators ...

a good number of times. I don't view them as extremely dangerous but I was always careful when walking my dog on a leash anywhere near a body of water. I also was careful with my daughter in the same situation.

In general alligators are more afraid of you than you are of them. The problem is that many people feed gators and they lose their fear and view people as a source of food. If you see an alligator don't feed it. It's not harmless by any means. It may not attack you but some other person might become a victim.

At short distances an alligator can move amazingly fast. Never forget that. Keep a good distance away. In the water they are even faster in my opinion.

The closest I ever got to a big gator on the ground was probably ten feet. I ran across him on a walking trail in Sanibel Island's J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge at twilight. I wanted a good estimate of his size and I noticed he was missing a rear foot so I paced off his length which I estimated at 13 feet. He was a fairly big alligator.

The missing foot slowed him down on the ground but once he tired of my attention and entered the water he moved like greased lightning.

[Aerows]

32. In short spurts

they are terrifyingly fast. If you can spot one, you can avoid one, unless you are walking around water at night, which you shouldn't be doing.

[spin]

33. Exactly. During the day they seem passive and love sunning themselves. ...

I've ate picnics in parks where alligators were sunning themselves 50 feet away. I didn't bother them and they had no interest in me or my family. We just coexisted.

That could change at night.

[Aerows]

34. During the day

they sit there like logs.

Well, except for the time I went to work and one had decided to sit right at the front door. Just decided that was going to be his hangout for the day.

I wisely stayed the hell in the car.

[spin]

37. I feel messing with an alligator is a bad idea. (n/t)

[Aerows]

38. There isn't anything

I have to do that badly on any day.

[OneGrassRoot]

35. no shit

I just went there for the first time in ages and it is brutal, to say the least.



alligators, Olive Garden, CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!! - anything...oy

[Aerows]

36. LOL!

Please somebody start a thread about fried chicken. Okay, let's not discuss Yankee corn flake covered chicken, but hey, I'm up for an Olive Garden thread.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. PETA, olive garden, cornflake chicken, porn, children in restuarants, moon bombing

the possibilities are endless!

[Aerows]

46. Moon bombing?

[Warren DeMontague]

49. Oh my god, the moon bombing threads were EPIC.

I cant seem to find them now, but... Good times.

[Aerows]

51. Thank the Lord I missed that

I think.

Moon bombing?

I've heard weirder, but probably don't want to hear anything much worse.

[Warren DeMontague]

52. Here's the backstory: NASA crashed a probe into the moon in 2009 to get data, including

Chemical composition of what was kicked up from the impact- primarily, they were looking for water ice, which they found.

But some of the more hardcore woo-woo contingent went nuts, NASA is "assaulting our lunar sister with space phalluses", it would destroy the moon's ecosystem ("you keep using that word. I dont think you know what it means&quot ...it was going to fuck up menstrual cycles, that sort of thing.

Then there was the conspiracy theory that it was secretly an attack on the "star friends lunar colony" - you know, our benevolent space brothers - but it was apparently deflected at the last minute by a "targeted telekinetic group psychic action"

[Aerows]

53. Okay, I'll revise my statement

I *might* just prefer wandering into GD:_P than contend with that.

I'm up for sheer lunacy, but that isn't even sheer.

[A HERETIC I AM]

63. Ooohh...Grasshopper...you know not what you missed.

There was one sub-thread in one of the posts where a certain individual INSISTED that some nefarious corporation was going to exploit the water found on the moon by....ready?

BRINGING IT BACK HERE AND SELLING IT TO US!

I shit you not.

Like the poster above, I've searched for the thread on the old DU but it seems to have disappeared into the ether.

"Epic Thread" doesn't begin to describe some of those exchanges.

[Aerows]

64. Can we go back to discussing yankee fried chicken?

Holy moly, glad I missed that batch of batshittery.

[A HERETIC I AM]

65. DU topics run in cycles, I've found.

In no particular order, threads on the following subjects (and there are a few more I'll leave out, I'm sure) have appeared with regularity in GD over the years;

Pit Bulls
Hooters
Breast Feeding
Smoking
Driving (often with people defending their right to run in the leftmost lane and hold people up)
Loud children in public
Animal Rights
"The Rich"
Florida (anything)


Then there are the basically constantly running arguments that get more attention when a news event happens, like of course, Gun Control

[libodem]

47. The pee bucket talk

Is in gardening under composting tips.

[Aerows]

50. I stand corrected.

or sit corrected, whichever.

[QC]

54. I don't envy Skinner the job of trying to put this place

back together after the filth, poison, and corruption of that forum have wrecked it.

I don't even know if it's possible to recover from all that.

[Aerows]

56. QC - I wash my hands of it.

I don't know if it is possible, to be honest.

I'm just enjoying being among friends right now.

[ronnie624]

57. I've never been there except as a juror.

That sort of partisanship is repulsive to me.

[Aerows]

58. I'm big on getting a knife to the chest

instead of in the back, myself.

[Xyzse]

66. Sounds nice. I am more of a Crocodile kinda guy.

The ones that get massive and reach 30+ feet.

Can you imagine riding one of those? Maybe, I can get one of those old harnesses for one, and try to see if I can stand on top of one for a while, while floating down a river...