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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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>>5125030
Tasmania has three snakes and all of them are venomous
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>>5125136
It also has three people and all of them are flannied and denimous.
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>>5125097
>loony tunes
Yeah, that's the one I watched
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>>5125097
So are dogs, but aggressive ones can still easily draw blood.
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>>5125153
lol
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>>5125030
>low human population
Yeah, after you exterminated 1,000,000% of the indígena on the island puta merda
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>>5125753
Why do abos all look the same regardless of gender? Are they living homonids?
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>>5125136
three snakes isn’t so many, it should be pretty easy to just avoid them
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>>5125753
There are some genuinely beautiful African women around. Not many, but some.
I do have a thing for native American women. Lots of beauty to be found there, even if they tend to be smol.
But goddamn, abbos are the ugliest motherfuckers homo sapiens has ever produced. There'a just no salvaging that. Uglier than South Indians, which is nuts.
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>>5125344
do they carry rabies?
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>>5125020
It would be extremely painful
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>>5125122
Glad I'm in Maine where there's only like a rare spider that's dangerous or rabies if a raccoon bites you.
Thanks for the green :)
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>>5125754
they quite literally are behind 50,000 years of human evolution prior to colonization, but certain people are too afraid to touch the topic. Their livers developed an entire sub-organ living in that desert shithole for thousands of years.
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>>5125949
That doesn't really make any sense given a decent part of Australia is not a desert
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>>5125953
m8 they drink the piss out of frogs that would kill normal people
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>>5125903
aren't there rattlesnakes up there? I thought they were everywhere
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>>5125754
>Are they living homonids?
Well they’re alive and humans are Hominids so yeah I’d say so
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>>5125789
One of them is like really big though
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>>5125903
>there's only like a rare spider that's dangerous
Doesn't australia have an Uber deadly spider that likes nesting in boots?
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>>5126354
You’re thinking of the funnel webs. They are one of the deadliest spiders but even they aren’t really that dangerous
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>>5125020
I didn't even know those things actually bit people for years i assumed that their skin was poisonous like those colorful frogs
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>>5125020
Australian animals aren't that dangerous and the few that are can be easily avoided if you're not a retard
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>>5126359
their butterflies have 6 foot wingspan and fly off with unsupervised children.
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>>5127258
physically impossible for any insect to grow that large
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>>5125829
No, just contagious face cancer
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>>5127308
giant butterfly tarsi typed this post
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>>5126025
>they're alive
oh shit really? i thought they died off or got absorbed
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>>5125020
Just be nice to her anon and she won't kill you
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>>5125020
Australia banned an episode of peppa pig because of spiders.
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>>5125903
Hah, same.
Fuck ticks though.
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>>5125754
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>>5128184
why?
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>>5125020
>Get bit by a blue ring
>Help comes in time
>but
>You're facing up towards the sun and the nurse doesn't cover your face
>Feel your eyes literally burn away
>Survive but end up blind
This happened.
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When I was a kid my dad would always take me to rock pools and I'd lift rocks up and look at what I could find. I found a few blue ringed octopuses but my dad had instilled a fear of them in me so I never touched them but it seemed like a lot of trust for a kid.
He used to tell me that if I got bit I'd be dead and there's nothing he could do about it.
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>>5125344
they look harmless
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>>5128964
lol based dad scaring his kid into common sense



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