Blacknecks Are Different

[ConcinusMan]

Well then your wanderings must be as nice as a rusty VW beetle without wheels.

[Stefan-A]

Well then your wanderings must be as nice as a rusty VW beetle without wheels.

Sure, if Beetles left the VW factory rusty and without wheels.

That blackneck is the sort that would it by some miracle leave the factory, it would be recalled immediately and everyone who had ever seen it would be bribed to silence so that it wouldn't ruin the manufacturer's reputation.

[ConcinusMan]

LoL you crack me up. So I take it that the mere fact that it's not normal makes it ugly to you? Is that really all it takes?

[Stefan-A]

LoL you crack me up. So I take it that the mere fact that it's not normal makes it ugly to you? Is that really all it takes?

No, the mere opinion that the normal ones look better makes that one look ugly to me.

Put it next to a normal blackneck and then tell me it's not fugly as sin.

[ConcinusMan]

Put it next to a normal blackneck and then tell me it's not fugly as sin.

Ahh.. comparison. The grass is always greener...

I just look at that picture and strikes me as a beautiful snake. I couldn't care less what it looks like compared to something else. So no, it's not fugly.

No, the mere opinion that the normal ones look better..

There's that word again. I think the normals and this snake are equally beautiful. Just in different ways.

[Stefan-A]

Ahh.. comparison. The grass is always greener...

That's a misapplication. "The grass is always greener" would be applicable to someone drooling over something different, like that bleached blackneck, when he already has a normal.

I just look at that picture and strikes me as a beautiful snake. I couldn't care less what it looks like compared to something else. So no, it's not fugly.

It is fugly. It's fugly as freaking hell. It's a downgrade. A monkey model.

[Stefan-A]

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[ConcinusMan]

A monkey model.

[chris-uk]

Makes sense. Thanks Richard.

[ThamGirl]

That is a gorgeous snake! Does seem to have some odd genes going on, though.

Wow, reading that article, I didn't realize just how different the Easterns are from my Westerns. Similar temperaments, but food preference seems pretty different (ours are fish/tadpole eaters, avoiding frogs and toads and flat out refusing mice). Not to mention that you have to light the tank for Westerns- they stop eating if you don't and don't seem to like UTHs.
I do still want a pair of Easterns though. ^_^