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In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.fresh_42 said:![]()
Yes, if I should ever be bitten by a spider, I hope it happens north of the Alps!DrGreg said:In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.
When the series was exported to Australia, that episode was banned.
hahaha, I was unaware of that ... what most people ( and obviously those who produced that TV prog) don't realize, is that the smaller spiders tend to be more venomous than the larger onesDaveDrGreg said:In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.
When the series was exported to Australia, that episode was banned.
Ref: Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia – again
jim mcnamara said:
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DrClaude said:It's called a rake
The Pavlov's cat joke is hilarious!fresh_42 said:
And probably even more so to me as I am a cat owner*.I have a T-shirt with basically that on it.fresh_42 said:

Spooky!collinsmark said:I have a T-shirt with basically that on it.![]()
A fellow PhD student was losing his hair in his early 20s. He was fond of the saying that "grass doesn't grow on a busy road", but admitted that his supervisor had retorted that grass doesn't grow through solid rock, either...davenn said:
Nor in a vacuum.Ibix said:A fellow PhD student was losing his hair in his early 20s. He was fond of the saying that "grass doesn't grow on a busy road", but admitted that his supervisor had retorted that grass doesn't grow through solid rock, either...

That's a good one!