Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post - Aussies, how do you deal with the critters! Yikes!

Sir Kenyth · 07-09-2002, 01:48 PM

I swear! Australia seems to have the most deadly critters per square inch of anywhere in the world! I mean, in the US, we have like 2 poisonous spiders (black widow, brown recluse), both are relatively small, slow, and non-aggressive. Three basic varieties of poisonous snakes (water moccasin, copperhead, and rattlesnakes). Add to that a smattering of scorpions in the arid regions and that about covers it!

YOU GUYS!

Just the funnel web and mouse spider are nasty enough! Fangs like daggers! Then you have three vaieties of widows and a half dozen miscellaneous types that are considered dangerous to humans. The snakes are too numerous to even list. The Tai-pan and Death Adder already put ours to shame and that's just the top two on a long sheet! Three varieties of deadly sea snake. Two varieties of deadly jellyfish. Stone fish can kill too. You guys have sea snails that fire poisonous harpoons like little cannons for cripes sake! [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]

I can't remember if the Fat-Tailed scorpion is from Australia or not, but it wouldn't surprise me! I used to want to visit Australia, not after reading up on the fauna! Every time I felt a tickle I'd be [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] and jumping around like a monkey on LSD! I'd have to wear knee high boots and carry a six shooter slung low loaded with snakeshot and a can of RAID on the other side with the trigger spray attachment! Kind of a combination Orkin man/John Wayne thing you know!

07-09-2002, 01:48 PM	#1
Sir Kenyth Fzoul Chembryl Join Date: August 30, 2001 Location: somewhere Age: 55 Posts: 1,785	I swear! Australia seems to have the most deadly critters per square inch of anywhere in the world! I mean, in the US, we have like 2 poisonous spiders (black widow, brown recluse), both are relatively small, slow, and non-aggressive. Three basic varieties of poisonous snakes (water moccasin, copperhead, and rattlesnakes). Add to that a smattering of scorpions in the arid regions and that about covers it! YOU GUYS! Just the funnel web and mouse spider are nasty enough! Fangs like daggers! Then you have three vaieties of widows and a half dozen miscellaneous types that are considered dangerous to humans. The snakes are too numerous to even list. The Tai-pan and Death Adder already put ours to shame and that's just the top two on a long sheet! Three varieties of deadly sea snake. Two varieties of deadly jellyfish. Stone fish can kill too. You guys have sea snails that fire poisonous harpoons like little cannons for cripes sake! [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] I can't remember if the Fat-Tailed scorpion is from Australia or not, but it wouldn't surprise me! I used to want to visit Australia, not after reading up on the fauna! Every time I felt a tickle I'd be [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] and jumping around like a monkey on LSD! I'd have to wear knee high boots and carry a six shooter slung low loaded with snakeshot and a can of RAID on the other side with the trigger spray attachment! Kind of a combination Orkin man/John Wayne thing you know! __________________ Master Barbsman and wielder of the razor wit!<br /><br />There are dark angels among us. They present themselves in shining raiment but there is, in their hearts, the blackness of the abyss.