If the snake was poisonous he shouldn’t have eaten it.
/overly pedantic differentiation of poisonous vs venomous
Not overly pedantic.
I will never not correct this mistake, same with calling a magazine a “clip”, or using the wrong version of there/their/they’re. If you want to use slang to refer to something, okay whatever. If you’re using the term for something similar but different, like how there IS a type of ammunition holder called a clip but it is different from a magazine, then I will correct you. It’s not hard just use the correct term
o7
Doing the work of the righteous.
Even more pedantic take: “Poisonous” is accurate, but imprecise.
A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by an organism in nature. A venom is a toxin delivered subcutaneously.
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The bin Laden’s were pretty well off from the construction business, even sponsored the Williams F1 team in the 80’s
Osama had been pretty much disowned from the family for decades at that point.
They wouldn’t have had a clue. (Unless of course you’re insinuating that all Arabs are a hive mind, in which case. Yikes)
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I don’t know that it was Osama who master minded and funded it, tbh.
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I thought this post was going to be about this instead.
3 planes were allowed or am I dumb
Civilian airspace
Yeah, I can’t read apparently
Nice. A lot better than the Saudi evac
We were all a little touchy, to be fair.
I still remember the international response. There were two kinds. The “we’re here for you big guy, whatever you need,” and the “I swear I had nothing to do with it.” Both of which had strong nervous laughter subtext. Everybody immediately remembered what happened the last time somebody sucker punched America and it didn’t go well for Japan.
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That’s such a hilariously bad take.
Iran sure as fuck isn’t nervous
Man, the US inevitably failing to secure their poorly defined objective is very different from Iran not getting hurt. Thousands are dead. An immense amount of infrastructure has been destroyed.
Iran has not meaningfully hurt the US.
It’s one thing to observe that the current US leadership huffed a bit too much of their own propaganda and forgot that allies have actually been a big reason previous stuff has gone well, and another to act like Iran is in a perfectly fine place with the current situation.
The inland taipan is the most venomous snake in the world, bites are extremely rare so few places stock anti-venom. Also given the snake is from Australia you wouldn’t expect many US hospitals to have it.
Trump would have grounded the plane and let them die.
Nah, one of his cronies would have grounded the jet, Trump wouldn’t even know or care about it.
Unless they said they were carrying little girls
Snake handler like herpetologist, or snake handler like stupid religious nut?
As someone who has no idea, I’m going with the latter
Snake masseuse. Snakes get stressed, too.
Clearly, or he wouldn’t have been bitten. Poor snake.
Thus inspiring the most excellent ‘Snakes on a plane’ movie
Was it a myth members of the Bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the country?
Apparently not, see this link provided by nightwatch_admin on another comment
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-11-oe-unger11-story.html
House of Saud family members flew back to KSA.
It is my understanding that they did not fly out on 9/11 itself, but the FBI gave them airport escorts to chartered flights out of the country in the days right after 9/11 when most flights were still grounded.
I don’t remember exact timelines. I do remember loved ones scheduled to fly home from abroad that had to wait. It wasn’t military or affiliated, just visiting other loved ones, but I was deeply worried and wanted them to come home.
Wouldn’t it have been faster to give the anti venom to the fighter pilot to deliver? Which would only need one plane instead of three.
I don’t know but perhaps it was already in the air and the F1s just swooped in to accompany it.
Apparently, lives still were worth something back then.
Interesting. I was there that day and the only thing I remember was how silent the airport was.
This still astounds me
Very, very few Aussies have seen this snake, let alone been bitten by the thing. I’m one of the lucky few. But on this particular day, when air travel was banned and the worst ever terrorist attack occurred, someone not in Australia gets tagged by one of our rarest and most isolated venomous snakes.
This day, the day a fierce snake actually gets to bite someone.
