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Andres110 said:
I don't really get it. I mean yeah we have these creatures but they tend to be out in the bush, not in places where people normally live. Aside from that the only real rule (that I made up) is "If it's not a daddy long legs, stay away from it or take it outside with a cup and paper."
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That rule in itself is fairly unusual from other people's perspective. I mean, you're right about most of them being out in the bush, but the spiders in particular just can't be avoided, and the biggest spider you will ever see in the USA out of captivity is a brown recluse, which can comfortably hide under a quarter and is almost never encountered. People here have the instinct that spiders are irritating and mostly harmless, which doesn't really apply to, say, Sydney, which unless it's undergone a grand campaign of extermination sometime in the last decade since my last visit is practically infested by our standards. (I'm aware that the antivenin exists and nobody's died in decades. That doesn't change how it looks to foreigners.)

Plus, tourists almost always go to the bush for a substantial slice of their visit, so their experience is slanted.
Execute/Dumbo said:
Oh man, which kind of jellyfish was that?
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Box jelly. Not sure of the exact type. But yeah, he died. Actually got entangled directly in the tentacles for a good minute before he got them all off and left the water, so he got a big dose. Dead before he reached the hospital.

And that is how Poptart learned to read the sign. :D I think I was like eight.
Gore17 said:
Ah, let me guess, Irukandji?

And honestly, even the bush isn't that bad. Just stay away from the explosive and/or branch-dropping trees, any plant with spikes or fuzz and check where you putting your body-parts, and you'll be fine. :/
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Probably.

Y'all aren't helping your case. :lol
 
Bel said:
...well at least he wasn't like that poor bastard who grabbed the plant covered with neuro-toxin filled agony thorns and used it to wipe is ass. (When the recommended treatment is Hydrochloric acid, you know your in trouble).

...maybe that wasn't a great selling point...hmmm..
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Once again Australia you horrify me with your death life
 
At least here up north it is obvious if something can/will kill you.
It is usually BIGGER than you, or has lots of fangs.

I mean, I can't imagine someone willingly poking a Moose or a Bear... or a wolfpack...
They seem to be pretty ingrained into the DO NOT DISTURB parts of the psyche.

It's Australia's poisonous tree bark, Jello-fish, and Suburb Spiders that freak me out.

They are just casually there, not minding humans at all which especially freaks me out
We are supposed to be the APEX species, no cutting the line!
 
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Gore17 said:
Considering it's been stated that you have to have it to be able to sense it, the "Guardians don't have God Ki" bit doesn't make sense.
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Guardians were introduced decades before the concept of god ki. They weren't designed with god ki in mind and thus they don't have god ki. If a Guardian or Kai does something that they shouldn't be able to do with ki, assume always that they do so with magic.

PoptartProdigy said:
People here have the instinct that spiders are irritating and mostly harmless, which doesn't really apply to, say, Sydney, which unless it's undergone a grand campaign of extermination sometime in the last decade since my last visit is practically infested by our standards.
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That's...actually where I live. I myself have rarely seen any non-daddy long legs spider that wasn't tiny (and those are rather uncommon as well). I guess you can say it's "practically infested" with daddy long legs but they're cool little guys. They live in the corners of rooms where people almost never go, they blend into the background and are small enough to not be an eyesore, they eat pests like flies and the actual dangerous spiders, they can't hurt humans (and to my knowledge don't even try), and if you touch one it freaks out, flailing violently but ineffectually, showing how scared of you it is and thus how harmless it is to you.

But on the topic of bugs, those bastard cockroaches that decide to fucking fly can all go straight to hell. Straight to god damn hell.
 
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PoptartProdigy said:
(I'm aware that the antivenin exists and nobody's died in decades. That doesn't change how it looks to foreigners.)
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Actually, first death in decades earlier this year. Poor block. :(
PoptartProdigy said:
Box jelly. Not sure of the exact type. But yeah, he died. Actually got entangled directly in the tentacles for a good minute before he got them all off and left the water, so he got a big dose. Dead before he reached the hospital.
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Probably not Irukandji, they're rather small and general not lethal if you get treatment. Excrutiating painful however: a contender for "worst pain in existence" actually.
 
Andres110 said:
That's...actually where I live. I myself have rarely seen any non-daddy long legs spider that wasn't tiny (and those are rather uncommon as well). I guess you can say it's "practically infested" with daddy long legs but they're cool little guys. They live in the corners of room where people almost never go, they blend into the background and are small enough to not be an eyesore, they eat pests like flies and the actual dangerous spiders, they can't hurt humans, and if you touch one it freaks out, flailing violently but ineffectually, showing how scared of you it is and thus how harmless it is to you.

But on the topic of bugs, those bastard cockroaches that decide to fucking fly can all go straight to hell. Straight to god damn hell.
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Andres110 said:
the actual dangerous spiders
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Now see, this is where you start losing the USA tourists. The actual dangerous spiders simply don't exist in any context near our homes, even as a managed population under the predation of the daddy long legs. The fact that you will ever see one in or around your home is this insane and unthinkable danger to people from my portion of the world.

Imagine if a rabid dog was the biggest natural danger you had ever had to account for. No rules about dangerous spiders, not even for rare encounters, because you can go your entire life assuming that there never shall be an encounter. No taipans, not even if you're miles away from civilization. Your beaches never have to close because they're infested with potentially lethal jellyfish. In fact, any time you venture into the wilderness, everything that lives there is so terrified of you that you can walk as you please nearly without fear of having a confrontation. Our iconic population of "surprisingly hardy urban animal" is the pigeon. The fact that venomous spiders, even ones that nobody dies t-

Gore17 said:
Actually, first death in decades earlier this year. Poor block. :(
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...well, huh.

That's the comparative experience that tourists are coming to Australia with, at least ones who live in a city like Chicago. You could make a very real argument that we're all soft. Australia looks like a vista from the face of Hell from that perspective.
 
Execute/Dumbo said:
Oh man, which kind of jellyfish was that?
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Irukandji, lovely stuff.

If Childbirth is a 10 on the pain meter, then the Irukandji is said to be a hundred or a thousand, only it lasts hours and won't kill you. It just leaves you with such a serious case of impending doom you beg your doctor to kill you before it arrives.

Once used something based off it in a story/roleplay style thing and people accused me of creating something too grimdark and edgy to be real!
 
Sucal said:
Irukandji, lovely stuff.

If Childbirth is a 10 on the pain meter, then the Irukandji is said to be a hundred or a thousand, only it lasts hours and won't kill you. It just leaves you with such a serious case of impending doom you beg your doctor to kill you before it arrives.

Once used something based off it in a story/roleplay style thing and people accused me of creating something too grimdark and edgy to be real!
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More importantly, they're tiny and come in swarms:


Oh, and they can fire their stingers like a jackhammer, and extend their tentacles up to a metre in length. Which can break off and cling to you, firing more venom into you and anyone who tries to get it off you.
 
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Look, unless we are going to the Garenhuld equivalent to train or you start to throw ideas for alien threats based on these animals, this discussion is off topic.
 
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