I don't know where to post this but it's definitely a safety issue.
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BTW what sort of a snake is it?
Picture taken in Pilbara.
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I don't know where to post this but it's definitely a safety issue.
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BTW what sort of a snake is it?
Picture taken in Pilbara.
Cheers
I can tell you it's almost certainly not a trouser snake:rolleyes:
Yeah I bite you too if you were going to put crap on me. :U
Oo
That reminds me I got to go.
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Crikey. Reminds me of that song about a Redback on the toilet seat except this would turn out a little more nasty. My man bits are retreating just thinking about this.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR0qyslUeD8]YouTube - Redback on the toilet seat[/ame]
I would say a fairly angry one - note the flared neck.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
If it had a creamy belly with pinkish splotches I would say Eastern Brown - however the pix was taken in the Pilbara so unless it is a tourist it can't be that.
On further looking - it appears from the pix to have the cobra type of neck flattening - I'm thinking perhaps it may be a con or does someone know it to be real?
A few Aussie snakes will flatten out when cranky , although this one seems flatter than most I've seen..Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob38S
I don't know what type it is ...I do know that I'd be taking a crap elsewhere..
(if I hadn't already)
I'd say it's a common king brown, or mulga snake, Pseudechis australis.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
Its a cobra, No cobra's in Australia you say, You're right. Its not taken in Australia.. Cobra Inside Toilet Bowl | Jorymon Techblog. These are more of the pictures. I remember seeing more a few years back and it was in India from memory..
Bloke down the road reckons he had redbacks on his toilet seat but he pi..ed them all off.:oo:
I think Fly is right but where ever it is , they don't build the dunnies very wide . 600mm??
Pilbara ....... in India ..... right
It only city people, don't know why they should put the toilet seat down.
Seriousy this is a safety issue.
WHY WOULD YOU PUT A LID ON A DUNNY IF IT WAS NOT SUPOSED TO BE CLOSED BETWEEN USES.
There are heaps of things that will happily jump in you dunny if you leave the lid up and they can get near it.
My mothers house had a dunny near the back door, if ya didn't put the lid down cane toads would take up residence..and they don't flush....and if you don't hook em out first go, they retreat into the ubend.
We ran a motor sport event up near esk on time.....I was on the advanced party.......none of the lids were down on the toilet seats and we spent a couple of hours removing the biggest green frogs I have ever seen from the toilets.
Serioulsy...if you are going to a camp site toilet, take a torch and a stick......and have a relay good look in and arround the dunny before you drop your trousers.
The "redback on the toilet seat" is no joke.
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Bacteriologically I think it's supposed to closed only when you flush to minimize the spray of stuff out of the pan and then it's better if it is opened so it dries out.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundman
Bacteriologicaly, who cares it is a #######, ya wash your hands after you use it.
Besides your computer keyboard and mouse almost certainly are more dirty.
Unless you get some sort of twisted thrill from sitting on a dunny with wild life in it......PUT THE @#$#@&% LID DOWN.
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Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
The fit of the seat and lid are rarely a perfect seal (that's not another creature that can get in) and closing the lid to exculde frogs, snakes and spiders would be fanicful.
In fact I have just checked three toilets and all have at least a considerable gap where the seat hinges and one, the most modern, has rubber pads under the seat which leaves a 12mm gap!
Regards
Paul
"Methinks the lady doth protest too much." A phobia perhaps?:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by soundman
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Paul
Having lived in bush regions for close on 25 years, frogs in the toilet don't seem to be an issue with one possible exception.
We had a "resident" frog. We would grab him and throw him outside, but he kept returning. Anyhow one day I heard a small stifled scream from SWMBO. She had been in the loo when she felt something on her foot. She looked down to see a red bellied black snake slithering across her instep. It took me half an hour to chase him out of the house because he kept hiding behind a pile of packing boxes.
Unfortunately, when I got him out he made the cardinal error of trying to return to the house via the laundry and at that point I lost my patience with him:((.
The red bellied black snake is very docile and is the natural enemy of the brown snake. I have walked over the top of the red bellied blacks in the bush. They pay no attention to us. Having said that, after 30 minutes of being prodded with a stick he did flatten his head at me, but not flared as in the original picture. My understanding is only the cobra can do that.
Oh yes, after the RBB was removed I noticed the frog was no longer there either:).
Redbacks: Very retiring with small mouths. Not aggressive and we are not particularly likely to be bitten by them without serious provocation despite all the hype, and then I suspect it has to be a big one.
Cane toads. I have never actually seen one in the flesh, but they seem to me to be a hideously unfavoured creature, the amphibian answer to the mammilian wilderbeast.
I would not want one of those in my loo. However, I think I might look to shutting the screen doors first. Besides, the size some of them get to, it wouldn't surprise to hear they can lift the seat by themselves:rolleyes:
Regards
Paul
Yep I agree a complete waste of time where we lived in the country. At the beginning of summer a half a dozen frogs from a large drying swamp across the road would invade our dunny every night even if the pan was closed. The smaller ones loved that little gap between the seat and the lid, We kept a hand broom in the laundry and dunny to sweep them off the seat - sometimes they dive bombed into the pan - we must have flushed hundreds of them away every years. When things got really dry they would also sit on the taps in the laundry and bathroom and lean down to suck the drips from the tap. We did have a dugite in the pan once , scared the daylights out of mum and she got the next door neighbor in to get it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushmiller
dugite?:think:Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugite:D
There was a band called the Dugites. Didn't seem that venomous to me! :doh:
Venomous snake. Don't feel bad. I had to look it up when BobL first posted, but I wasn't going to tell anyone:wink:.Quote:
Originally Posted by tea lady
The real sadness is that there are so many things that can bite you and that's not counting those on two legs:rolleyes:
Regards
Paul
That settles it ... after reading all of these posts
I am never going to the dunny ever again.
Not sure what the consequences will be.:D
Allan
You could wear continence pads? :UQuote:
Originally Posted by Allan at Wallan
BTW, drive through Wallan today on my way to Tallarook; lovely part of the world.
AllanQuote:
Originally Posted by Allan at Wallan
Critical mass will have nothing on you and the fallout will something to behold:wink:. The best place to be at that moment will be anywhere you can still say "S**t.":D
Regards
Paul