Oh can we stop this? we have no large land predators. Indeed Australia is so peaceful as to give rise to the quokka that fearlessly approaches humans.
Sure if you piss off a kangaroo or deliberately antagonise a spider you might get hurt but you’d have to really really try and odds are you would just get fixed up in hospital.
This land is peaceful, it’s inhabitants kind (well, except the humans, the English really did a number).
NaevaTheRat? You’re not really a rat are you? You’re a Drop Bear. This is exactly the sort of thing a Drop Bear would post to entice more
victimspeople to come to Australia.Seriously though it’s a country I’d love to visit one day.
I’m 3 rats in a trenchcoat
Come visit, if you come to the blue mountains hit me up and I’ll take you on some more local knowledge bushwalks.
I hate our culture but I love the land and its slowtime history
That’s exactly what a drop bear would say.
Please, I am begging you. Say something that hasn’t been prepackaged for you?
I honestly get where you’re coming from. I’m from the US southeast, and the internet had a whole moment with the phrase “bless your heart,” and they are almost exclusively using it wrong, which is such a shame.
But getting mad about it just makes trolls appear and assholes will say the thing that annoys you just to annoy you. Best to just try to let it go.
I’m not mad, I just think it’s boring. LLMs already have regurgitated speech sounding garbage bereft of meaning covered. Humans can be so much more rich and interesting.
Yeah… I get it. They can. Shame so many retreat into regurgitating the common, banal tripe.
I’m from the US southeast
You’ve got your own stereotypes to deal with mate.
Why, yes. That would be the entire point.
But it’s so safe and familiar, why should I regard you as a real person with thoughts and dreams?
This.
3 rats disguised as a bigger rat in a trenchcoat
We’ve been made. Scatter!
Yeah I’m not visiting the Painted World of Australia sorry lmao
But all the best level design is here.
So you’re trying to tell me that spiders, amongst other things, aren’t going around Australia eating or fighting as many Aussies as they can?
That sounds like some wild conspiracy theory…
If you want an honest answer, it’s just fun for us. Take it as mild ribbing. There are worse things to be remembered for.
It’s just boring. There are so many genuinely funny things to say about Australia but this is played out. Like if everytime someone mentioned the usa people were like “Oh are you afraid of being shot? bet you have to constantly watch out for being shot huh? shot?” or if when the UK came up it was just “Queen and empire right haha bet you eat shit food huh?” (actually people do this and it’s also not funny especially when you can tease them for all the genuinely hilarious shit like the house of Lords and the London museum).
Like if everytime someone mentioned the usa people were like “Oh are you afraid of being shot? bet you have to constantly watch out for being shot huh? shot?”
As an American, I kinda am…
That sounds unpleasant, I’m sorry. Is it really that common outside of hotspots though?
Not really, in my experience, but also during new years my neighbor shot off like 15 shots into the air. I wasn’t worried at being shot at, I was worried some drunk idiots stray bullet might come through my window. Also your statements about that was sorta my point. Some of the mildest American jokes are us being fat, then racism/mistreatment of natives, then shootings, then all the shit America has pulled in other countries. UK is bad teeth, royalty, then all the shit they did to other countries. Germany is dry or non existent humor and then Nazi.
Ooh, our animals are scary is mild, sometimes they do island of criminals, but you could be known for mistreatment of Natives also. If you gotta take an L, I think scary animals is way down on the list.
It’s not an issue of national pride, Australia is a dog shit nation. It’s about being funny and interesting.
Funny joke: “I was arriving at the airport and they asked if I had a criminal background, I didn’t realise that was still a requirement”.
Boring, played out, uncreative nonsense: “haha spiders upside down haha”
Gotcha. You want a better class of mockery. I respect that.
Canada actually has drop bears. Wolverines literally hunt by dropping from above when it suits.
And everyone knows that only large predators can kill people! Also, Australians and tourists famously never go to the beach and swim in the ocean, so only LAND animals matter!
Anyways, I’d honestly love to come to Australia. I just hope I don’t accidentally get killed
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Says the guy with taipans and funnel-web spiders in his yard. You’re also being very cheeky with that “land” qualifier. Your ocean is full of utter murder demons like sea snakes and stonefish.
There have been funnelwebs in my yard at times. Know what I do? Don’t stick my fingers under logs/in suspicious funnel shaped webs in the yard and wear shoes. If I got bitten I’d just go to hospital and get the antivenom and have an unpleasant 2 days.
Taipans don’t live near me, brown snakes do. Almost stepped on one once, know what I did? not do that and walked backwards slowly. The horror!
I like hiking without dying.
I guess if you’re neurotic enough to think that’s a real risk you’re probs best to not come here.
It’s all in good fun, man. I am somewhat exaggerating my position. Cheers, comrade.
Don’t you guys have that plant that, if you touch, is so painful it makes you want to commit suicide?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
read that page. You’re unlikely to come across it without trying. No confirmed deaths in Australia. You can find videos of people stinging themselves, it looks unpleasant but not that bad. Not even exclusive to Australia.
“Bad things can happen to you if you deep into the forest/jungle and don’t know what you’re doing” is hardly uniquely Australian.
Well yes, but apart from the plants and animals and terrain there is nothing deadly about Australia.
Didn’t some Australian prime minister mysteriously disappear in the ocean?
Yes. But science knew about the Prime Minister.
Barely.
yeah and they named a swimming pool after him
Lucky we caught on before humans ate them to extinction. Scientists haven’t always been so lucky.
Yes - some say humans are over hunting scientists even to this day.
Why is australia like filled with the most random species ever made in evolution
It’s Geographical isolation and natural selection all the way down.
I thought usually fish ate Australians unknown to science
There are so many of those fish (one shown in the photo) that wash up on shore in the Seychelles.
