If you had done this, like Chris Froome...

[Pro Tour Punditry]

So you're saying you have done something like that, but you would never tell your slavering CC public? Bang to rights.

<Scooby-doo> I'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for your meddling <Scooby-doo>

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I visited a reptile shop in Belfast when I was over for the Giro; my daughter and I had spotted the sign for the shop the evening before and we decided to pay it a visit. The owner was really chatty and informative, but didn't allow me to release the crickets from the tanks. It was creepy thinking that they were living in the same confined space as their intended diners. I'd never be able to keep lizards/snakes/etc.

 

[Crackle]

It sounds made up to me. Fresh from a snake forum, they all say, dead prey, wiggled a bit, will do. Froome should have nicked the puppet controls. A dead rabbit mationette.

 

[Ganymede]

I visited a reptile shop in Belfast when I was over for the Giro; my daughter and I had spotted the sign for the shop the evening before and we decided to pay it a visit. The owner was really chatty and informative, but didn't allow me to release the crickets from the tanks. It was creepy thinking that they were living in the same confined space as their intended diners. I'd never be able to keep lizards/snakes/etc.

Ok I give in: you're just a big softy and will never win the Tour de France.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Ok I give in: you're just a big softy and will never win the Tour de France.

Correct on both counts. I am a big softie and I'll never win any cycling race.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Sorry @Ganymede, it wasn't aimed at you. I'm just a bit fed up with people accusing ProRacing of being unfriendly just because they post nonsense and expect others to allow them to without making comment.

Carry on. Froome feeding snakes to rabbits sounds mental. Or whatever he did.

grow up.

you've mounted a mini campaign pushing people towards pro racing and have found out why people don't bother with it and now the toys are flying out of the pram & you hope to attract people in that way?

best of luck with that one and the forum police chief role you've appointed yourself to. Shame they don't still do badges in packets of breakfast cereal.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

grow up.

you've mounted a mini campaign pushing people towards pro racing and have found out why people don't bother with it and now the toys are flying out of the pram & you hope to attract people in that way?

best of luck with that one and the forum police chief role you've appointed yourself to. Shame they don't still do badges in packets of breakfast cereal.

Oh dear. Have you been allowed near the medicine cabinet again? I do not launch campaigns nor to I appoint myself to any role; like you, I am a member of the forum and am entitled to my views. Sometimes I have a rant, sometimes I get things wrong, and sometimes I just pass the time of day.

I have no idea who you are btw as I've no recollection of ever having engaged with you on the forum.

 

[Ganymede]

grow up.

you've mounted a mini campaign pushing people towards pro racing and have found out why people don't bother with it and now the toys are flying out of the pram & you hope to attract people in that way?

best of luck with that one and the forum police chief role you've appointed yourself to. Shame they don't still do badges in packets of breakfast cereal.

Please don't mess with my thread, shouldbeinbed. You've obviously got something to say but it's not the topic of my thread. Thanks.

 

[Andy_R]

Put yer handbags down girls, it'll only get messy.....

 

[Accy cyclist]

If he doesn't win the TdF i'll console myself with those facts! It seems that Alberto www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/28/tour-de-france-2014-alberto-contador-chris-froome-team-sky is going to give him a run for his money but i bet he's into bullfighting!

 

[MikeG]

I once came across a young python near Lake Naivasha in Kenya which had just eaten a greater flamingo (its feet were still sticking out of the python's mouth). The snake was stuck, ram-rod stiff, because of the size of the meal inside it, and we could happily walk all around the animal, within just a few feet. It could barely move at all. I guess for an hour or two it would be very vulnerable to any predator that came wandering along.

 

[Ganymede]

I once came across a young python near Lake Naivasha in Kenya which had just eaten a greater flamingo (its feet were still sticking out of the python's mouth). The snake was stuck, ram-rod stiff, because of the size of the meal inside it, and we could happily walk all around the animal, within just a few feet. It could barely move at all. I guess for an hour or two it would be very vulnerable to any predator that came wandering along.

Reminds me of my first encounter with a public schoolboy, at university. They have to eat fast, like 19th century peasant children, so as to get any seconds available. Then they lie around for hours, dozing and burping. This one was my sister's boyfriend and she said it was a marked trait. He never ate live prey though, as far as I'm aware, though alas he was a snake in other ways too.

 

[Cyclist33]

[QUOTE 3153543, member: 30090"]It just shows what a hard ******* Froome is.

<Chants> Froom-e, Froom-e, Froom-e[/QUOTE]

yeah stealing rabbits and feeding them to a snake is well ard innit.

 

[ufkacbln]

Get you. I thought about putting it in Pro Racing but felt it wasn't about racing...

... and then get "Why is it in Pro-Racing?" from the Omerta

Why not do it as you have been invited?

 

[ufkacbln]

We used to have a large range of animals at School, everything from frogs, toads, snakes, iguanas, tarantulas, and a range of mammals

We were taught that it was all a natural process and feeding the snakes with live rats was simply part of the process,as was feeding the Gecko with cockroaches.