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Why Australia, Just, Why?

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:02:07 GMT

Just read a woman in Australia saw her microwave move. There were 2...........not 1, but 2 carpet pythons behind it...........mating.

Australia, you are a beautiful place and you have given us Hugh Jackman, the Hemsworth brothers, Nicole Kidman and many more talented people.

Why must you have dinner plate size spiders, crocodiles, phythons that get inside houses, 6 ft. birds with talons that can gut a person, and some of the most poisonous snakes and spiders on earth?

Just why? If I were that woman I be gone.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

Love my grandkids — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:09:20 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 Maybe she doesn't have the means or the desire to just "be gone." The things you mention are native to Australia and people deal with it.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

SharkE — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:09:46 GMT

not too mention blistering heat worse then Tx.

Hugh Jackman had nose skin cancer.

I wouldn't want to live by water anyway. Dangerous, expensive and a people magnet.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

Kachina624 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:18:39 GMT

At least the pythons had the decency to do "their thing" in private behind the microwave.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:26:21 GMT

@Kachina624 This is true. Then again maybe the spot behind the fridge was occupied by a family of giant Handleman spiders.

I swear everything can kill you or induce nightmares.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

icezeus — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:31:06 GMT

I use to watch this show years ago, where it listed like the 10 deadliest things and their location. It never failed no matter the subject matter, spiders, snakes, etc... Australia, was always on the list.

Nope, Nope, and triple nope.

I was scheduled to go on vacation there before COVID hit. Shortly before, I was due to leave before everything was cancelled, there were stories of snakes coming up through the toilet pipes because of the severe drought for water.

I would never, ever recover from something like that.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

JoyFilled Warrior — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:31:09 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
Just read a woman in Australia saw her microwave move. There were 2...........not 1, but 2 carpet pythons behind it...........mating.

Australia, you are a beautiful place and you have given us Hugh Jackman, the Hemsworth brothers, Nicole Kidman and many more talented people.

Why must you have dinner plate size spiders, crocodiles, phythons that get inside houses, 6 ft. birds with talons that can gut a person, and some of the most poisonous snakes and spiders on earth?

Just why? If I were that woman I be gone.

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OH OH!!! @CrazyKittyLvr2

@MakeUpMaidn *scratches off Australia* as a possible place to relocate to, (despite cute Koala Bears).

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:44:40 GMT

@JoyFilled Warrior Also box jellyfish, centipedes, I think like 60 of the most venomous snakes and spiders on Earth. oh, and for good measure, sharks, great whites, no less.

Couldn't some of them be spread out over the rest of the planet.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

maximillian — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:52:53 GMT

Sigh. I'm on the side of the critters, insects, reptiles, etc. They were there before the humans arrived. We are taking their territory. It just saddens me, because of course, humans will find ways to kill and eliminate them all.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

JoyFilled Warrior — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:00:10 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
@JoyFilled Warrior Also box jellyfish, centipedes, I think like 60 of the most venomous snakes and spiders on Earth. oh, and for good measure, sharks, great whites, no less.

Couldn't some of them be spread out over the rest of the planet.

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@CrazyKittyLvr2

YIKES! and YIKES AGAIN!! *shiver*

HATE.... HATE... HATE bugs, & most outdoor critters!

I'm city, thru & thru. And...They all SCARE ME!

They live on the "outdoors," & should stay there.

I live "indoors" . . . and that's the way it is!

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

bikerbabe — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:11:39 GMT

I think I would like living in Australia but I prefer NZ.

I don't understand people freaking out over bugs or animals. I wouldn't want a bear in my living room but it's not like the US doesn't also have bugs and animals.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

JoyFilled Warrior — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:14:50 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 My beloved Dad grew up where there are numerous "bugs & critters" inside & outside. He taught me to check your socks & shoes/boots, for ""bugs & critters" before slipping your foot inside.

.. To this day, even today, when changing to my "socks & gardening clogs," I checked inside them first! ... and thank goodness, never have found anything.

But can you imagine slipping your lil 'ole, delicate, sensitive tootsies into a sock, or shoe that has a "bug or critter" in there already? *shivers*

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

JoyFilled Warrior — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:29:54 GMT

Having said that....

Does anyone here check inside their shoes, & socks, before putting their feet inside?

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chrystaltree — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:30:58 GMT

At least they went behind the microwave for privacy...lol. They didn't do the horizontal tango in her bed.

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JackieHN — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:36:35 GMT

I'm laughing my head off. I lived in Perth Australia for a year. Now keep in mind I come from Brooklyn. My husband said when you sit outside look out for red back spiders. As a nurse I told him you better get some anti venum stuff here. What the heck do I know about spiders. Had to examine all of the patio chairs before I sat down. Next I go to the Perth zoo and got bit by some flying insect. My whole hand blew up. I go to the chemist and showed him. I said I need benedryl like yesterday. He told me to go to the GP. I said just an antihistamine, please. It's been over an hour and I'm not dead yet. I go to the mailbox to get the mail and am greeted by a family of snails. I said I'm living in the twilight zone. You really get used to it all.

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JoyFilled Warrior — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:06:44 GMT

Wow @JackieHN i can't imagine the "culture or environmental shock"

... Are Koala Bears as cute, cuddly, friendly & sweet as they seem?

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

Malcontent — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:56:25 GMT

@JoyFilled Warrior

I actually check inside all shoes/boots/socks before I put them on.

You just never know what is living inside…no matter how clean you keep your home.

A friend was bitten by a bark scorpion when she put on her boot. She lived, but was really ill for a while.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

songbird — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:56:46 GMT

A lot of people toyed with the idea of emigrating to Australia. And a lot of Americans have found home there. But you are correct. An isolated continent has been home for some very dangerous animals. They are for the most not very big...just very poisonous. The worst are the snakes. A lot of them. And yes they do get inside homes. But there is a service that you call that will capture the snakes.

The other aspect that is unpleasant believe it or not is the internet. For some reason it is difficult for them to "hold" the internet. It is often down. And when it does, it only emphasises how isolated Australia. Very isolated. Even New Zealand is some distance. They have the same problem as Australia including the feeling of isolation. Still it's a big improvement over what it used to be. For many years, Australia had a very small population. It's more then tripled but that has bought more problems with land. Only a small part of Australia (the entire coast) is habitable. The further you move inland, the hotter it gets. Even the original aborigines could only live on the coast. So a good part of Australia is uninhabitable. As a result very few people can own a lot of land. Also it's the dryest continent on earth. Not a lot of water. I was shocked to read of a famous Australian actor that put his house up for sale. It was the size of an apartment in the U.S. looked like a row house and it sold for millions. Other then that, it's a good place to live. Starting in the 1960's quite a few American left the U.S. to start living in Australia. I think for the most part, they have not regretted it. It does get very hot and humid there. There is a so called paradise strip of land there where Adaliade is. The southern coast. It's dryer and very much like California. Only other place that offers "paradise" Like California, they have earthquakes and fires. Fires are a more dangerous threat and people have died trying to flee the fires.

There a lot of nice places to live around the world. But they sitll have problems just living there.

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proudlyfromNJ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:58:55 GMT

My sibling has lived in Australia for close to forty years. She has never had any of these animal, reptile problems. She's always been on the east coast there. I've been to visit and have never run into any of these things. Thank goodness.

Re: Why Australia, Just, Why?

RoughDraft — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:20:41 GMT

I've got to give you credit @CrazyKittyLvr2. You post some of the most amusing, well written posts I have seen in ages.

That being said, I now have an excuse for not cleaning behind my microwave, even if I don't live in Australia. We have a lot of people here illegally importing exotic animals.