Yep. Could have gotten trapped in the basement and lost too much heat to get out however it came in. Your mum might've saved the snek.
A good deed for the day, and not a bad idea. Sneks eat vermin, after all.
Squirrels, however. They will eat all sorts of things. They are quite vicious little bastards, all together. Fascinating creatures, but have no doubt that where you shrunk to some ten inches high, they would not hesitate to bite your head off. They, too, have to eat, but they are unusually ruthless.
Semi related, but here's a thing I only realized today. You know the whole wall street bull vs "fearless girl" thing? Turns out the bull was not only created by a sicillian immigrant (something I already knew), it was created out of his own money and took two years for him to make, and when it was installed, the guys who ran the NY stock exchange positively hated it and had it removed several times, until the city agreed to install it and loan it from the creator, because the common people actualy liked it very much.
In short, the charging bull is the result of a guy's artistic effort that was fought against by super rich investors, and came to represent the common's man will.
The fearless girl statue thing? It was actualy comissioned by an investment fund, the State Street Global Advisors, whose assets are measured in trillions. It was commissioned to be presented on the first anniversary of State Street Global’s Gender Diversity Index fund, which has the following NASDAQ ticker symbol: SHE.
The bronze plaque on the state even says "know the power of women in leadership. SHE makes a difference."
Note that its SHE and not she. Its technically not representing woman, just the NASDAQ symbol.
TL;DR feminists are worshipping something created for them by really rich guys in suits.
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I did not know that. Fascinating story, and it is a very nice statue, as well. Rather typical, I must say.
It is particularly odd and fascinating, for I have a very similar statue story.
There is a large equestrian statue here in Gothenburg, of king Charles IX on his warhorse. It was built in 1904, as a memorial to the king and his efforts to build a fortified trade city in the region, which eventually led to the current city. It is a rather pleasant statue, raised for a very significant ruler in the context of local history.
A few years ago, a small "counter-statue", as it were, was installed on the opposite side of the road. It, too, is rather pretty, it is a young girl riding a fantastic beast of some sort (Think of the
Neverending Story), and the whole thing is no taller than half a meter or so. It is a pleasant little contrast, I suppose. The power of future and imagination before the wordly power of history and an autocratic monarch.
However, it also irritates me, part of the attitude that the little counter-statue expresses. One hears it expressed now and then. "Oh, she is standing up to the mean old king, she represents freedom, imagination and hope, while he comes with war, dictatorship, cruelty and the death penality. Why, is it not good that we are more enlightened these days? People one century ago were dumber than us, erecting that hulking, nationalist old idol. Good that we have something to stand up to it, now!"
It is a very simple and naïve way of looking at the king. He was a violent, autocratic and cruel ruler, but more to the point, lived in a violent and cruel era. He had to be, if he was going to last, if his kingdom and people were going to last. Being good and soft and lovely, embracing freedom and peace and what-not, was not an option in the 1590's, and it is his heavy-handed rule that we have to thank for, now that we can be free and happy, and all the ideas that the little girl on her fantastic beast can grow in a tilled field, nutured by the spilled blood of the past.
Indeed, those silly old "nationalist romantics" who raised the statue where not blind nor dumb, despite their modern portrayal. They knew of their statue's implications very clearly indeed. The modern king of 1904 who inaugurated the thing said as much, that although the old king ruled with a hand too heavy for the standards of modern times, he warded the work of his fathers, and prepared the future work of his sons.
Same story, more or less. People with no knowledge, nor care therefor, builds new, hip statue to subvert and twist the nose of the old one. Assumes the previous builders were more stupid than them on account of being older (and more to the point, dead), and misses the point. Silly, silly, silly.
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