Capybara!
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:44 pm
Alec wrote:Dave the Bass wrote:Alec wrote:Dave the Bass wrote:
YES!
It's like a dream come true, there IS a god after all
Now where did I put that lipstick?
DTB
It'll still be a Capybara
Like I care
DTB
Like you have any other choice, you mean.
Bitch! (True though
)
DTB
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:23 pm
Dave the Bass wrote:southcoastshredder wrote:Capybaras are so 08 Chris....
We're still in '08' you tit
DTB
Hippies eh.... just cos you still live in 1908 doesn't mean some of us are not forward thinking. If you were hip and with it you;d know that its kool to put next years date on it....
If I don't like him I'm hardly likely to like you.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:55 pm
southcoastshredder wrote:Dave the Bass wrote:southcoastshredder wrote:Capybaras are so 08 Chris....
We're still in '08' you tit
DTB
I meant 2008 and you bloody well knew it
Oh yeah, and shurrup
DTB
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:01 pm
Dave the Bass wrote:southcoastshredder wrote:Dave the Bass wrote:southcoastshredder wrote:Capybaras are so 08 Chris....
We're still in '08' you tit
DTB
I meant 2008 and you bloody well knew it
Oh yeah, and shurrup
DTB
You not got some tress to save or tofu to smoke???
How do you manage to smoke tofu, isn;t it a little moist when crumbling into the papers??
If I don't like him I'm hardly likely to like you.
Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:03 pm
southcoastshredder wrote:Dave the Bass wrote:southcoastshredder wrote:Dave the Bass wrote:southcoastshredder wrote:Capybaras are so 08 Chris....
We're still in '08' you tit
DTB
I meant 2008 and you bloody well knew it
Oh yeah, and shurrup
DTB
You not got some tress to save or tofu to smoke???
How do you manage to smoke tofu, isn;t it a little moist when crumbling into the papers??
Tofu in Rizlas? What kinda foole you take me for?
Bongs m'boy. Thats how we schmokey dokey up our tofu.......<stares at wall for an hour>
DTB
Last edited by Dave the Bass on Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:24 am
Excellent work Mr G. 
Awww.... look at his likkle hat and his likkle horn (stoppit) and his likkle nose and his likkle ears and his likkle eyes, he's squinting, must've been one helluva paaaarrrrtay.
Do Capy's Party? Do they follow the Calender year? Questions Questions.
DTB
Awww.... look at his likkle hat and his likkle horn (stoppit) and his likkle nose and his likkle ears and his likkle eyes, he's squinting, must've been one helluva paaaarrrrtay.
Do Capy's Party? Do they follow the Calender year? Questions Questions.
DTB
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:23 pm
From http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/index.html , the capybara page. sorry, its going to upset you boys......
"Capybara meat is white and has qualities and properties (such as high emulsification) that might allow it to compete with pork and other meats in the food industry. Spanish-style sausages, Italian-style mortadellas, frankfurters, and German-style smoked chops have been produced experimentally. However, at present, the meat is mainly consumed only in the dried and salted form. It is particularly popular in Venezuela, where more than 400 tons are sold every year, especially during Easter festivities."
MANTECAL, Venezuela (AP) When Venezuelans' appetite for capybara clashed with the church's ban on eating meat during Lent, a local priest asked the Vatican to give the world's biggest rodent the status of fish. People rejoiced when the Vatican agreed, declaring that capybara isn't meat. More than two centuries later, they still consider the 130-pound capybara a delicacy and pay big bucks to put it on their dinner tables.
"It's the most scrumptious dish that exists," says Freddy Colina, 17, who lives on the southern Great Plains of Venezuela, where a Lent without capybara is like Thanksgiving without turkey in the United States.
Venezuelans think the rest of the world doesn't know what it's missing. Some even want to export capybara, which they call a red-meat lover's dream-come-true: Tender and tasty yet low in fat. They envision people in New York and London eating capybara steaks and capybara hotdogs.
"This is a great solution" for meat-eaters worried about their cholesterol levels, says biologist Saul Gutierrez, who helps raise the animals on Venezuela's most prolific capybara ranch, El Cedral.
Capybara, which looks something like a pig with reddish-brown fur, tastes like pork, too, although with a hint of fishiness. Usually it's heavily salted and served as a shredded meat alongside rice, plantains or spaghetti.
Among its fans is President Hugo Chavez, whose mother says the former paratrooper couldn't get enough of it when he was growing up.
Many Venezuelans are grateful the Roman Catholic Church gave the animal the status of fish allowing its consumption during Lent. But more than a few think the classification is laughable.
"It doesn't even look like a fish. A capybara has hair and four legs," says biologist Emilio Herrera, although he acknowledges the creature does swim.
Capybara meat costs up to $4.50 a pound, a hefty price for Venezuelan workers, many of whom make the minimum wage of $200 a month.
The animal is found from Panama to Argentina and is eaten in several countries. But no one craves it like Venezuelans, mainly those in the southern and central parts of the nation where the animal thrives in grasslands and swamps.
They contend that eating capybara, which is a cousin of the guinea pig, shouldn't make people squeamish.
Capybaras are surprisingly clean despite an unsavory habit or two.Wallowing in mud much of the day helps kill off ticks and fleas, and then the capybaras wash off in clean pond water. Yellow-headed caracara birds spend hours each day picking the bugs off the capybaras' fur and skin, too.
True, capybaras eat their own feces, but so do other animals such as wild rabbits, says Rexford Lord, a capybara expert at Pennsylvania's Indiana University.
Unlike rats, capybaras are picky about what they eat, mainly grass. They have just 1.5 percent fat content in their meat, compared with up to 20 percent for cows.
Capybaras used to be one of the most common animals in the Great Plains. But many were killed by the Spanish conquistadors, who introduced cows which compete with capybaras for land.
Then a government conservation program that started in the 1960s backfired when corrupt wildlife officials took bribes and allowed overhunting, says Gutierrez, the biologist at the El Cedral ranch. Today barely 100,000 capybaras are left in Venezuela, though the animal is not considered endangered.
Private ranches such as El Cedral in Apure state are trying to boost the population by keeping poachers off their lands. They're succeeding and are even thinking about exporting the animal, though few concrete steps have been taken. They say capybaras are much more profitable to raise than cattle since they produce more offspring, use less grazing pasture and don't
need expensive medicines like cows, which are not native to Latin America and often get sick.
Gutierrez acknowledges there will be huge image problem in trying to sell foreigners on the world's largest rodent as a meat source, but is confident it can be done.
"It's only a matter of marketing," he says.
If you want further information on farming capybaras, you can email Martin Alvarez, who is working on a dissertation on the subject in Argentina: malva2@sinectis.com.ar
.....so can anyone pass the ketchup
I'll get me coat
"Capybara meat is white and has qualities and properties (such as high emulsification) that might allow it to compete with pork and other meats in the food industry. Spanish-style sausages, Italian-style mortadellas, frankfurters, and German-style smoked chops have been produced experimentally. However, at present, the meat is mainly consumed only in the dried and salted form. It is particularly popular in Venezuela, where more than 400 tons are sold every year, especially during Easter festivities."
MANTECAL, Venezuela (AP) When Venezuelans' appetite for capybara clashed with the church's ban on eating meat during Lent, a local priest asked the Vatican to give the world's biggest rodent the status of fish. People rejoiced when the Vatican agreed, declaring that capybara isn't meat. More than two centuries later, they still consider the 130-pound capybara a delicacy and pay big bucks to put it on their dinner tables.
"It's the most scrumptious dish that exists," says Freddy Colina, 17, who lives on the southern Great Plains of Venezuela, where a Lent without capybara is like Thanksgiving without turkey in the United States.
Venezuelans think the rest of the world doesn't know what it's missing. Some even want to export capybara, which they call a red-meat lover's dream-come-true: Tender and tasty yet low in fat. They envision people in New York and London eating capybara steaks and capybara hotdogs.
"This is a great solution" for meat-eaters worried about their cholesterol levels, says biologist Saul Gutierrez, who helps raise the animals on Venezuela's most prolific capybara ranch, El Cedral.
Capybara, which looks something like a pig with reddish-brown fur, tastes like pork, too, although with a hint of fishiness. Usually it's heavily salted and served as a shredded meat alongside rice, plantains or spaghetti.
Among its fans is President Hugo Chavez, whose mother says the former paratrooper couldn't get enough of it when he was growing up.
Many Venezuelans are grateful the Roman Catholic Church gave the animal the status of fish allowing its consumption during Lent. But more than a few think the classification is laughable.
"It doesn't even look like a fish. A capybara has hair and four legs," says biologist Emilio Herrera, although he acknowledges the creature does swim.
Capybara meat costs up to $4.50 a pound, a hefty price for Venezuelan workers, many of whom make the minimum wage of $200 a month.
The animal is found from Panama to Argentina and is eaten in several countries. But no one craves it like Venezuelans, mainly those in the southern and central parts of the nation where the animal thrives in grasslands and swamps.
They contend that eating capybara, which is a cousin of the guinea pig, shouldn't make people squeamish.
Capybaras are surprisingly clean despite an unsavory habit or two.Wallowing in mud much of the day helps kill off ticks and fleas, and then the capybaras wash off in clean pond water. Yellow-headed caracara birds spend hours each day picking the bugs off the capybaras' fur and skin, too.
True, capybaras eat their own feces, but so do other animals such as wild rabbits, says Rexford Lord, a capybara expert at Pennsylvania's Indiana University.
Unlike rats, capybaras are picky about what they eat, mainly grass. They have just 1.5 percent fat content in their meat, compared with up to 20 percent for cows.
Capybaras used to be one of the most common animals in the Great Plains. But many were killed by the Spanish conquistadors, who introduced cows which compete with capybaras for land.
Then a government conservation program that started in the 1960s backfired when corrupt wildlife officials took bribes and allowed overhunting, says Gutierrez, the biologist at the El Cedral ranch. Today barely 100,000 capybaras are left in Venezuela, though the animal is not considered endangered.
Private ranches such as El Cedral in Apure state are trying to boost the population by keeping poachers off their lands. They're succeeding and are even thinking about exporting the animal, though few concrete steps have been taken. They say capybaras are much more profitable to raise than cattle since they produce more offspring, use less grazing pasture and don't
need expensive medicines like cows, which are not native to Latin America and often get sick.
Gutierrez acknowledges there will be huge image problem in trying to sell foreigners on the world's largest rodent as a meat source, but is confident it can be done.
"It's only a matter of marketing," he says.
If you want further information on farming capybaras, you can email Martin Alvarez, who is working on a dissertation on the subject in Argentina: malva2@sinectis.com.ar
.....so can anyone pass the ketchup
I'll get me coat
Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:25 am
ChrisK wrote:Capybara porn.
Chris .... ever thought what your search engine will think of you when you search out all this images ?
young ladies of board and large rats fucking ?
im sure they are building up such a vivid picture of what your into
snigger
if it is worth doing ... it is worth over doing
Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:02 pm
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Have a Capybara New Year everyone! 
Chris K - a man basking in his own awesomeness but considering basking in his own epicness and now literally a legend.
Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:20 pm
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
DTB
DTB
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:07 am
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I thought Gazza's thing for alpacas in Swindon was a little weird ... until now 
Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:26 pm
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ChrisK wrote:Have a Capybara New Year everyone!
how big a poo stain would that thing make on the sofa? Or on the lady's lap? Noticed the tea towel, seems small to me...
well.....
Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:21 pm
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^^^ Capybara's do the drying up too?
Wicked!
DTB
Wicked!
DTB
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:35 am
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Seems to be a distinct resemblance
Remember kids Jeffery Dahmer says "Tattoo's taste great"
Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:47 am
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Chris K - a man basking in his own awesomeness but considering basking in his own epicness and now literally a legend.
Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:18 pm
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ChrisK wrote:
A little known fact about the seldom-seen Iceberg Capybara is that only 1/3 of it's loveliness is above the water.
S'true.
DTB
... a soul untroubled by malice... and a head uncluttered by brain...
Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:13 pm
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Can't believe it's almost seven months to the day that I last posted up a pic of some capybaras.
I mean, what the f*ck have I been doing all this time?
I mean, what the f*ck have I been doing all this time?
Chris K - a man basking in his own awesomeness but considering basking in his own epicness and now literally a legend.
Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:57 pm
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Went to Chester zoo yesterday, and guess what?
Made my f*cking day!
Made my f*cking day!
Chris K - a man basking in his own awesomeness but considering basking in his own epicness and now literally a legend.
Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:27 pm
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buckle up for safety!
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Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:21 pm
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Marwell yresterday, thought it was time to freshen up the capybara thread.....
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