Anything deadly for an Australian. It's a whide known fact that Superman isn't really from Krypton, he's actually Australian and was booted out because the rest of the country realized he was too much of a pussy to live there. So his parents shipped him to America and made up the whole "alien planet going boom" thing.Programmed_For_Damage said:
New Super Venomous Snake Species Obviously Discovered in Australia
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To be honest, when I hear about all the earthquakes, tornadoes, landslides, hurricanes and floods in other counties, I feel rather safe down here. Sure, everything that lives in the land, air and the sea is poisonous, but at least the ground, air and sea itself isn't trying to kill us. Except for when everything catches fire, of course.
Except we get tropical cyclones, five year droughts, huge floods - when the place isn't burning down - insane summer storms with hail that makes cars look like extras from a gangster film...oh yeah and just yesterday a sink hole formed in a camping ground and swallowed some cars and tents - no casualties though!FirstNameLastName said:
Meh. Lived here on and off about 50% of the time, and nothing much has ever tried to kill me.Caramel Frappe said:
I was in the Netherlands and england, and kept running into crazy violent people.
People are scary. Animals? Meh.
Besidesl doesn't the US have poisonous snakes, scorpions, wolves and bears?
Not to mention crazy people with guns!?
I know where I feel safer, that's for sure.
Agreed, animals demand respect, in australia, as long as you respect an animal you will (generally) be fine.CrystalShadow said:
Lets see how far respect goes for somebody so high a taser shot wont stop them and packing a school and a half worth of firepower...
No thanks, i'll take the death adder over [insert politically unstable and/or overly stareotyped gunloving place here] any time
You know this means you've probably been assimilated by the environment.Programmed_For_Damage said:
There's a very good chance you'd be deadly to anything that decided to take a chomp out of you.
On topic:
Nice to see Australia still able to up it's game in the nightmarishly deadly creature front even after all these years.
Honestly, having grown up in the US and then moved to Australia, I'd rather take my chances with the poisonous wildlife than the North American wildlife. At least in America you can easily get a gun to carry with you.
I was chased by a bear once, so... it left memories.
I was chased by a bear once, so... it left memories.
You are wrong, actually, there were no Japanese landings (at least of any note) in Australia. The odd bombing and so on, and lots of fighting on islands to the north, but the Japanese planned on isolated Australia, rather than invading.ecoho said:
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However, Australia does maintain the RFSUs, 3 dedicated regiments recruited from the locals and charged with guarding and monitoring the north of Australia, which are on a war footing during peacetime, though often they'll be working alongside customs and police and so on.
(I once heard that it's common for members of Norforce (one of the three regiments) to carry their boots on patrol, but only wear them in their bases, because it's part of the uniform, otherwise going barefoot.)
