634-maru
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If I lived in Haddonfield, I'd get out of there over the Halloween period, that's for sure.
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How did it go then?
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Exactly!
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Nice big garden there.
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Beautiful shots as always. It was a cracker of a day today.
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A very fine morning after lots of rain and cold-ish-ness.
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When is the test?
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What were those 3 arrows anyway?
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The Apprentice UK has started up again.
Cringeworthy fun.
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I had a brief Roppongi half night out last year.
It kind of felt more intimidating than I remember it being.
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So wet yesterday.
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Go on, describe it!
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Yes it was a fine weekend.
Next weekend too please.
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Not sure that "and can lead to impotence" is particularly good thing!
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A family has been left “deeply traumatised” after one of the world’s most poisonous and aggressive spiders was set loose in their south London home following an online delivery from Waitrose. A lethal Brazilian wandering spider had been hiding in a bunch of bananas when it was delivered to the house, and was sitting on a sack of eggs containing thousands of babies.
The father of the family, Tim, who did not give his surname, spotted the spider while unpacking the shopping and dropped the bananas into the fruit bowl in shock – inadvertently trapping the spider’s leg. The spider tore off its leg in an attempt to escape and hid from sight, sparking a frantic hunt throughout the home as the couple and their two sons, aged seven and eight, fled the house.
“Although people might think these things are funny, I keep thinking that the spider could have killed me or my son if he had gone to get a banana,” Tim told the Mail on Sunday.
Tim took a photograph and discovered online that the spider – whose Greek scientific name translates as “murderess” – was, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s most venomous.
The RSPCA said it could not handle such a dangerous animal and advised the the couple to call the police. The police said they could not remove the spider, whose venom can kill in two hours.
Waitrose then sent a pest expert – but when he followed the couple into the kitchen, they found that the spider had ripped off its own leg and had moved out of sight. To make matters worse, when he lifted up the bananas, the family saw a sac containing hundreds of spider eggs.
“We had no idea where it had gone,” said Tim. “‘We were terrified. We got ourselves and our kids out of the house straight away.”
Pest expert Steve Trippett, who described the spider as “hardcore”, put the eggs in a freezer to kill them and, armed with a 3ft stick, found the spider hiding in the fruit bowl. The spider became aggressive standing on its back legs and showing its fangs. But using his stick, Trippett manoeuvred the creature into a heavy plastic box, which was placed inside two other boxes. It is understood the spider was taken to a scientific centre abroad.
The family were too traumatised by their experience to remain in the house, and spent the night with friends.
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Saw that.
Felt like slapping that dude. Japanese people don't appreciate their towns looking nicer?
I always cringe at some of the run-down awful buildings here. With such beautiful natural surroundings, it's such a shame.
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They are not nice.
Actually I don't think they are all "beer", but happo-crap.
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Is that monkey sitting in a bucket (or other container) snowdude?
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I'm not sure I understand the benefit really of a "same ticket" for Naeba/Kagura. You can easily spend at least a day at both, and getting between them only wastes time. Just my thought on that! Might be missing some benefit.
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Should be a nice day today
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The recent Robocop.
Prefer the original. Almost always ends up like that doesn't it.
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Not much going on here at all.. yet
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Kangaroos are very cool, has to be said.
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