Hopped into our local dealer...

[kingofthering]

Australia's back on my list of places to visit before I die.

The Qantas ad at the top of my screen says it's only 380 USD from LA.

[pimento]

You guys must have kangaroos like jesus has followers, if they've started shopping for cars already. No wonder so many are run over/shot/speared/knifed/bow-and-arrowed/cross-sectioned & BBQ'd by clutch/killed in sword fights by cargirl/etc etc etc.

The movie 300 was actually based around a prophecy of Australia's future. 300 drunk bogans will be all that remains of the population of the country, to be overridden by a horde of 'roos. Drunk bogans however are nature's greatest warriors, so they take a while to go down. You just tell them that their eskys are empty and the 'roos have nicked the rest..

Poor 'roos don't stand a chance.

[clutch-monkey]

That article makes Australian birds look like pussies. Not so.

Damn, clutch beat me to it.

like goddamned velociraptors i tells ya!!
no. 3 on my "do not fu(k with" list (said list is on the kitchen fridge to remind me every day)

You guys must have kangaroos like jesus has followers, if they've started shopping for cars already. No wonder so many are run over/shot/speared/knifed/bow-and-arrowed/cross-sectioned & BBQ'd by clutch/shot by bonsai and fed to dogs/killed in sword fights by cargirl/etc etc etc.

fixed for accuracy
there's a few that hang around my neighbourhood, i've only run into one so far though.

[cargirl1990]

it's not a spider
doesn't have any venom so i'm okay with it

yah hate those claws

edit: trying to find pic of us playing with crocodiles at uni, can't remember if it was uploaded here or on old comp

You guys have birds that look like Taz in a party hat? I'm starting to second guess myself on moving out of BC.

And Nota, as for your Trojan warrior spider experience, I must say I'd rather roost in the chicken coop with the hens and let them keep me warm through the cold months, than put up with a house full of DVD sized arachnids.

You guys must have kangaroos like jesus has followers, if they've started shopping for cars already. No wonder so many are run over/shot/speared/knifed/bow-and-arrowed/cross-sectioned & BBQ'd by clutch/killed in sword fights by cargirl/etc etc etc.

clutch, if they have 8 legs, their a spider, same goes with crabs.
they will leave you with a nasty bite though. google it boi.
MUHAHAHAHA!

[ScionDriver]

I hate spiders. F*** spiders. Some friends of mine made me watch 8-Legged Freaks just to get me to freak out for the whole movie. Why do they have to have some many legs and eyes and be so hairy? The further they are from me the better. I don't think I could handle living any where where I had to encounter spiders larger than a quarter any more than once or twice a year.

[DesmoRob]

I hate spiders. F*** spiders. Some friends of mine made me watch 8-Legged Freaks just to get me to freak out for the whole movie. Why do they have to have some many legs and eyes and be so hairy? The further they are from me the better. I don't think I could handle living any where where I had to encounter spiders larger than a quarter any more than once or twice a year.

With the amount of things that spiders have in excess you'd think they should all be living in the USA .

[Cobrafan427]

I don't mind the crocs and the velociraptors and the snakes, i actually like them that's y i'm majoring in biology, but goddam i looked up those huntsmans and they look like wolf spiders on 'roids!!! I think i'd carry a 9mm on me at all times and blast the SOBs every chance i got. As for the roos, they sound like the same problem we have here w/ whitetail deer, they total cars and people have died from hittin them

[wwgkd]

I was out riding this oil leaking pos bike with my uncle (he wouldn't let me ride his harley, the selfish old man) up in the hills near sequoia park in california. We went around a corner and the entire road was covered in tarantulas. Makes the road incredibly slick, like riding on ice, plus you get covered in tarantula bits and goo. Didn't help that my bike had no fenders and open bodywork. Never wanted a shower so bad in my life.

Don't generally mind spiders, though, I think they're cool. The bigger the better usually, but I tried catching black widows while I lived down there for pets. Didn't work so well with my grandmother freaking out about the whole enterprise. Giant psychotic birds bother me, though.

[Kitdy]

no. 3 on my "do not fu(k with" list (said list is on the kitchen fridge to remind me every day)

What's #1 and #2? Mr. T and Drop Bears?

[whiteballz]

clutch, if they have 8 legs, their a spider, same goes with crabs.
they will leave you with a nasty bite though. google it boi.
MUHAHAHAHA!

IIRC its actually in the scorpion genus.

[Blue Supra]

What's #1 and #2? Mr. T and Drop Bears?

I got a LOL from that

DO NOT mess with drop bears... theyll mess your s**t up!

[cargirl1990]

IIRC its actually in the scorpion genus.

I hate spiders. F*** spiders. Some friends of mine made me watch 8-Legged Freaks just to get me to freak out for the whole movie. Why do they have to have some many legs and eyes and be so hairy? The further they are from me the better. I don't think I could handle living any where where I had to encounter spiders larger than a quarter any more than once or twice a year.

what the heck are you talking about whiteballz? i obviously can't comprehend that well.
one thing is for, i agree with everything you said ScionDriver.

[clutch-monkey]

clutch, if they have 8 legs, their a spider, same goes with crabs.
they will leave you with a nasty bite though. google it boi.
MUHAHAHAHA!

it's a scorpion minus a tail basically
these are the ones that cartwheel down sand dunes yeah? so awesome.

As for the roos, they sound like the same problem we have here w/ whitetail deer, they total cars and people have died from hittin them

pretty much. i've had the side of my car head butted twice by roo's, they weren't quite quick enough to get in front of the car, which i'm sure was their goal.

Giant psychotic birds bother me, though.

velociraptors. seriously.
edit: actually between them and kangaroo's, i'm pretty sure they have this whole disemboweling thing covered

What's #1 and #2? Mr. T and Drop Bears?

no. 2 just has "do not touch the cone shell" repeated about twenty times
no. 1 is drop bears.

[cargirl1990]

so Aussie members. i'd like to know on why kangaroo's just love to hate your cars so much as to hit them. im quite puzzled by the fact that 'roos love to use their legs for violence.

[clutch-monkey]

roo's use their legs because it's their biggest muscles. their forearms are kinda like a t-rex. well, not completely useless but proportionately you see what i mean.
so they use these big muscles to drive this claw with considerabe reach... a lot of dogs get disembpweled this way.
the tendons in a roo's legs can be used as a bow string.