Poll: This is whats wrong with Australia
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It's because they couldn't afford to pay for all the workers who were eaten.Yurimistress said:
OT: I live in Australia and despite us having insanely deadly creatures and even Steve Irwin had fallen prey to one of the more supposedly docile ones (crocodile hunter killed by a sting ray... wtf?), people are rarely killed by the creatures down here. In fact even if you are attacked, unless you're kilometers away from help you're likely to survive as the training for animal bites and venom are really great. Despite us having many of the deadliest creatures, our fatality rate for animal related death is quite low.
Not to put fear in you though, but if you are attacked you're going to get a pretty nasty scar.
I'm convinced Australia was ripped from the sulfurous crust of some fiendish Hell-Planet ruled by fearsome bat-winged boar-headed demigods. Maybe there was a clash between the boar-gods and the blackest evil in the universe, Deep Brisbane, resulting in the fragment known as Australia crashing into the peaceful South Pacific and the creation of the planet "U'zotakrshug", home of the Disciples of Sucking Chaos, later to be called Mars.
The fauna in Australia makes great pets! Just remember the vegemite behind you years to make sure that you aren't eaten by a dropbear.
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He may have meant the Newcastle earthquake. That was random... There are still a few little bits of earthquake affected area around the place.imahobbit4062 said:
These guys are only in the middle of Australians and the people who live there are tough as hell and don't give a damn about some spider. About 90% of Australians live on the coast where its nice and safe.SantoUno said:
This is why I'm moving to Sweden. <_< The spiders here are so roided up they more closely resemble Alex Mercer than arachnids.
It's psychological warfare, I tell you.
It's psychological warfare, I tell you.
I've lived in reasonably rural areas (you know, with primary schools that have 30 students enrolled overall), as well as more populated places in Australia. Ultimately, my experience is that if you live in even somewhat populated areas, you will run into very little of this nature.
It does also depend on your house, if it is insulated/built properly, which keeps bugs from crawling in at every orifice. If you're living in a caravan... well, let's just say I once stayed in a caravan in the same fairly populated yet still rural area that I live, and we had THREE giant spiders in the room with us later at night. None of us slept until they were gone. (We had no idea what breed they were, but they could have easily been harmless huntsmans.)
Really, if you're an American or to a lesser extent British, you might freak out in rural areas here because in Australia "rural" can mean anything from "no one else lives close for 40 kilometres, and that's just a gas station" to a population of 20,000. The former, which Americans for the most part would not have experienced at all thanks to heavy urbanisation in their country, would be scary for other reasons (I've seen people scared about not having a supermarket nearby, and I tell you what, they get rare in some places. And video game stores? If you need them, stay away from central Australia... except Alice Springs.) That makes you twice as paranoid about bugs, but that's not often a justified approach.
Anyway, the risks in living here where any of the people are (mostly on the East Coast) are really low. Yes, a spider that eats birds. You know what? It'd have some difficulty with a human. That's not just a typically Australian blasé attitude speaking, but a serious fact. People freak out too much about spiders, and often they're not even a breed you SHOULD be careful with (by the way, freaking out is the worst way to BE careful). Poisonous ones like the funnel web (look it up, or read the thread), now they're a more pertinent issue. Unless you're a bird.
Even more pertinent than spiders or other fauna, though: the road. Seriously, some of our highways are atrocious. Not because they're half-repaired or anything, we're rich enough as a country to keep them fixed and everything. But the planning is terrible, people die over and over on the same well-known spots because there's blind angles and turnoffs all the time.
It does also depend on your house, if it is insulated/built properly, which keeps bugs from crawling in at every orifice. If you're living in a caravan... well, let's just say I once stayed in a caravan in the same fairly populated yet still rural area that I live, and we had THREE giant spiders in the room with us later at night. None of us slept until they were gone. (We had no idea what breed they were, but they could have easily been harmless huntsmans.)
Really, if you're an American or to a lesser extent British, you might freak out in rural areas here because in Australia "rural" can mean anything from "no one else lives close for 40 kilometres, and that's just a gas station" to a population of 20,000. The former, which Americans for the most part would not have experienced at all thanks to heavy urbanisation in their country, would be scary for other reasons (I've seen people scared about not having a supermarket nearby, and I tell you what, they get rare in some places. And video game stores? If you need them, stay away from central Australia... except Alice Springs.) That makes you twice as paranoid about bugs, but that's not often a justified approach.
Anyway, the risks in living here where any of the people are (mostly on the East Coast) are really low. Yes, a spider that eats birds. You know what? It'd have some difficulty with a human. That's not just a typically Australian blasé attitude speaking, but a serious fact. People freak out too much about spiders, and often they're not even a breed you SHOULD be careful with (by the way, freaking out is the worst way to BE careful). Poisonous ones like the funnel web (look it up, or read the thread), now they're a more pertinent issue. Unless you're a bird.
Even more pertinent than spiders or other fauna, though: the road. Seriously, some of our highways are atrocious. Not because they're half-repaired or anything, we're rich enough as a country to keep them fixed and everything. But the planning is terrible, people die over and over on the same well-known spots because there's blind angles and turnoffs all the time.
Or more harmfully, the rhinoceros. Which kills far more people than just about anything else in Africa, by memory.Rolling Thunder said:
And now for my shameless self-plug: The Sydney Funnelweb Spider.
And there's nothing you can do to stop me.
And there's nothing you can do to stop me.
Lol, 1 set of my cousins hunt em. my other set own em. thats why they never meet, they hate eachother. but me personally? ive only ever seen that once. and i hooked it upto a car battery.Baggie said:
But watching those spiders catch the birds and kill them is sorta like something youd see in Ninja Gaiden/Batman AA or Splinter Cell....it hides in the shadows or branch, bird flies into the web-liquid thats on the web gets into the birds eyes. Bird is temp. blind, Spider jumps out open armed? and onto the bird and then drinks its liquids dry. the equivalent of a clean neck break in the games mentioned above.
God bless Aus. the peaks of interest in an otherwise bland country. the fascination of everything being designed to kill you. eg. Irakanji, a jellyfish thats nigh almost invisible, argued to be one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet-aggressive, in beaches, metre long tenctacles with stingers, and did i mention aggressive? makes this spider look like it was hit with a pussification ray.
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"Mr Shakespeare said he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger. "
Northern Queensland is the Australian equivalent of America's South. With giant spiders and crocodiles instead of alligators.
"Mr Shakespeare said he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger. "
Northern Queensland is the Australian equivalent of America's South. With giant spiders and crocodiles instead of alligators.
They won't let us play L4D2 without it being censored to the max, so good luckJWAN said:
Jesus..that's a bug spider. I'll start believing the Starship Troopers similarities if they attack Buenos Aires with a meteor.
Some spiders can actually jump onto birds when they fly low, that is quite something.
Some spiders can actually jump onto birds when they fly low, that is quite something.
ok, to all of you guys not wanting to go to australia because of the insects and stuff, let me just say that i'm australian and one of the biggest wimps when it comes to insects that i've ever known, and seriously, i feel more plagued by insects here in england than i've ever felt in oz. we have fly screens and get terminators to spray our houses yearly and all sorts of stuff, and bird-eating spiders... scary incident, i guess, but it's not something i've heard of before. all i'm saying is it's the most amazing country in the world, i wish i was there right now, and you shouldn't let something like insect hysteria stop you from going there. before i came to england i didn't even realise my country had this sort of everything-there-wants-to-kill-you reputation.