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>Go to Australia
>See a little bright and cute octopus
>Pick it up
>Get bit
>Die from respiratory failure

I'll never visit the hellhole, but if I were to find myself there I'd mind my own fucking business.
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just go live in tasmania. it actually has seasons, no poisonous things that i know of, low human population and has some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. i want to go there one day
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>>5125030
I dunno I think I remember a documentary about tasmanian devil's and they'll just rip through anything
Technically not venomous but will still fuck you up
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>>5125030
>Poisonous(venomous you mean).
Anon....
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>>5125066
bro these things weigh like 20 pounds, this isn't loony tunes
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>be 14yo me, grommet surfer
>skipping rocks at beach in rockpool with mates
>it’s dusk
>see perfect flattie rock, gonna get like 50 skips from
>pick up
>something small and squishy in my palm now
>flip rock
>getting dark, but kind of looks like an octopus
>it is, blue ring
>oh shit
>drop rock like it’s uranium
>looking all over hand too see if I’m bit
>remember reading once that sometimes you don’t feel the bite
>getting very dark now, hard to see
>parents are waiting in the car park above beach 50 metres away
>think I see two little red dots on the ball of my palm
>oh fuck me
>don’t say anything to friends, start running up to carpark
>mum chatting with other mum
>say blue ring bit me, we gotta go
>mum used to be a nurses aid
>she goes into operator mode
>not another word spoken, we start flooring it to hospital like 25 minutes away
>i tourniquet my shirt around my arm
>feeling my heart go into overdrive
>praying thinking it’s over
>almost at hospital
>thinking I should be unconscious by now
>run into emergency
>blood pressure taken, examination
>I was not bitten by a blue ring octopus
>relief and disbelief
>nurse says that if I had, I would have gone unconscious on beach and someone would have had to resuscitate me till ambo came
>meanwhile friends wondering what the fuck going on still at beach



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