Americans React to 10 Reasons Not To Visit Australia ( Aussie Reacts )
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The common name for the plant is the Gympie-Gympie, (aka, the suicide plant since it's so painful). If you brush up against it, there are tiny poison barbs on the leaves that get injected into your skin and trigger an intense allergic reaction in its victims, sometimes even causing anaphylactic shock. The sting can cause excruciating, debilitating pain for months or even flare up after YEARS; people have variously described it as feeling like they are being burned by acid, electrocuted, or squashed by giant hands.
We have a plant that is in the nettle family, called the gympie-gympie. I'll let you research it, but it's a painful, nasty plant you don't want to touch. Luckily, only found in remote locations up north.
Hasn’t it caused people to kill themselves because of the pain?
john the plant is found all down the queensland coast now, it actually originated from the Gympie area hence the name we have heaps of them down here in the south burnett
@@darkshine5 Hi Julius, have you ever had the misfortune of touching it?
@@JayWhy1964 nah mate was taught as a young lad to stay away. lots or stinging nettle stings but
Wobby Enna Heeeeey .. maybe we could send one to Trump.
Sorry Miles, we'd love to help you learn the lingo by spelling aussie with "zees" but we can't because the Australian alphabet doesn't contain any letter called "zee". We do have a "zed" but definitely no "zee".
I think the people that say there never seen the dangerous animals have never left the city I see snakes, goanas, spiders, kangaroos all of em every single day I've even been chased by brown snakes. People must be just walking through life blindly and not taking stuff in.
Finally a real Aussie
I live in Western Sydney, my mum found a red belly skin in the backyard a few days ago, not uncommon. My nephew saw a brown snake kill their dog. Could be mistaken but I've seen what looked like a komodo dragon at Lake Parramatta.
This!!! I live around disband and even I see stuff like that every day. My school is a home for kangaroos and SO MANY
(So so so many) funnel webs (everywhere) we had a huge python 3 times appear in the oval, and a few brown snakes.
I think they're talking about the gympie-gympie tree which you only find in tropical rainforests in the north of the country. Ironically this is also the only place you'll find cassowaries (and they're rare enough to be listed as an endangered species). Hardly a reason not to visit as your chances of ever encountering these two things are very remote!
you could also mention stinging nettles, which are found in pretty much every rainforest.... but like, you just make sure you know what they look like and they're easy to avoid.... or wear long sleeves.... and even when they do sting you, they hurt maybe a little more than a green ant bite?? you're not going to die and they don't have the effects of poison ivy
@@AnimalLover-yy1ml seriously? so unimportant in the scheme of things...
@@MsOzigal ye ik..... but like.... americans are scared coming here because they're scared of the spiders so they may as well be aware of stinging nettles lol
@@AnimalLover-yy1ml fair enough lol
90% agree. But Cassowaries where I live it's a pain cause there everywhere, they walk around streets and God fabid you hit one with a car everyone looses there minds even tho there's thousands and there to confident and don't care how close they get to you
American guns would frighten me more than anything we have here.
agreed
I've lived in Australia all my life and I've never been caught in a rip, never come across a snake, Cassowary or Dingo. The only legit one on this list is the spiders. We have thousands of beautiful beaches, just swim between the flags and you'll be right!
Lol you must be young, I have experienced all those things in Queensland ✌️
Cassowarys are only in a very small part of the country to be fair.
Have you ever left the suburbs?
Go into a rural area, none of that shit is rare
I nearly got bitten by a brown snake…not fun, life flashed before my eyes 😂
OK I have to admit I've been in a rip, have seen dingoes on Fraser Island, saw a cassowary in the bush up north Queensland, of course spiders which are no drama and yes a few snakes and been stung by a jellyfish believe it or not on the Gold Coast!!! but hey if you leave them all alone in general you are fine..... been to beautiful Fiji but hey our beaches blitz it , especially Whitehaven beach and the beaches in western Australia:-)
I've been watching isac Butterfield for a few years now he's my kind of funny do more on him
New Zealand don't have snakes, the stinging plant usually found in tropical areas. Brazil is 15,500 kms away from us, so yeah nah, not close at all 🤣. The Buttsman really is so funny and tells truth😃
NZ have the nastiest stinging plant of all Ongaonga that will paralyse, blind and kill you.
@The Commodity... unrelated to the video but I just wanted to send my heartfelt condolences to everyone affected by the recent tornadoes. I hope you guys were safe in Texas.
I've encountered many cassowarys in my time, they're scary but they're pretty quick to flee. I've only had to shoot one once. Most of the time they'll get out of your way without you even knowing they were there in the first place.
The stinging brush is real, it has a stupid name, "Gympie Gympie"... I went bushwalking near Milla Milla falls on the Atherton Tablelands and there were warning signs up not to touch the plant, or even brush up against or disturb the fallen leaves from it as that could send it's little spines floating through the air and the last thing you want is to breathe those in!
Went actively looking for cassowaries at Mission Beach (pretty much the only place in Australia they are now) and didn't see a single one - they're pretty rare sadly.
To avoid rips you swim between the flags, and/learn to recognise visual signs...most tourists drown in rips or rock fishing because they don't know about them..do you travel home work..talk to locals. Cassowaries are nasty but only in upper Queensland rainforests
Phezz has the Australian Southern twang going..lol
I'm Australian and I was caught in a rip years ago but I was swimming at a beach that was unpatrolled, but I'm a strong swimmer so I got myself out of it...I've seen a red-bellied Blake snake whilst out walking my dog in bushland and ive also come across an eastern brown snake whilst out horseriding with my son in the bush...as for cassowarys I'm pretty sure the wild ones are only found in the Queensland rainforests....as for spiders we used to have female funnel web holes all over our front yard, only seen one of them...only seen one redback spider...[the biggest insect I've ever come across was a spider wasp...it was massive, called spider wasps because they inject a living spider with their eggs which hatch inside the spider and the larvae feed on it until it dies, Google it and see how big these wasps are, anyway one made its way into my kitchen and got tangled up in the curtain, I sprayed it until it died but I have never been so scared in my life]
He's right most Australians don't have houses with basements...spiders are likely to be found in garden sheds and shit...dingos are not in all areas, Fraser island and the wilderness outback areas in Northern Territory, QLD, WA and SA...the Tasmanian Tiger is extinct and if it wasn't, they'd only be found in Tasmania...dunno why ants are on the list...every continent on earth has ants...it's called stinging nettle and again I'm sure that every continent with rainforests would have it...wild alligators are not found in Australia unless they are brought in specifically for zoos and wildlife parks...we have fresh and saltwater crocodiles...again, he is right that is a Komodo Dragon only found in Indonesian islands...again if there is Komodo dragons in Australia, they are in zoos not running around wild...closest lizard we have to that is the goanna...found in bushland and usually picnic areas where they will harrass people for food, and if they don't get it they will get inside picnic baskets and any where else they know food is kept and eat it, making a mess of all your stuff...they can be dangerous because they are forceful and have no fear of humans...children should be kept away from them
We have crocodiles about 10 minutes down the road in the creek🇦🇺
Cassowary is a tropical rainforest bird. We don*t have ostriches, we have emus.They are slightly smaller than ostriches.
You guys should try Isaac's 10 reasons not to visit Australia it was a response to this vid
In Oz, your names are Phezza & Milesy....Well we only have 10,700 beaches & Whitehaven Beach in Qld was voted best beach in the world 2021....so...
The stinging brush, stinging nettle, I had to google it. I never even heard of it before. Apparently, "A commonly recommended first-aid treatment is to use depilatory wax or sticky tape to remove the hairs." No way that's worse than Poison Ivy. I never had to learn any rhyme to know what leaves not to touch as a kid.
The Komodo Dragon, I wonder if the person had been thinking of Goannas? I don't think I've EVER heard of someone being attacked by a Goanna, but they are related to the Komodo Dragon. Update: He did say, "perentie", so he's just put the wrong monitor lizard in the visual. Perentie is indeed in Australia, native to the desert area (Where, if a tourist is lost there, they got worse problems than a goanna.) it is, "the largest monitor lizard native to Australia. It is the fourth-largest living lizard on earth, after the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor, and the crocodile monitor." The Perentie, "can grow up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long, although the typical length is around 1.7 to 2.0 m (5 ft 7 in to 6 ft 7 in) and weigh up to 15 kg (33 lb)-maximum weight can be over 20 kg (44 lb)." and all of this came from Wiki, because I've only seen one wild Goanna one one time only ever, it was a giant Lace Monitor, snoozing by a pool at a hotel, bothering no one. BUT, wikipedia's photo of a Perentie comes from a zoo in.. Dallas, Texas!
Cassowaries live in a tiny part of the tropical north east of Australia. They are critically endangered. I lived in that region for 10 years and saw one, once.
To kill a spider weapon of choice, use a Thong, the foot type not underwear.
Of the 25 deadly snakes in the world Australia has 20, the most of any country. Australia also has the deadliest spider in the world, the Sydney Funnel-web spider. We have Gympie Gympie tree, which has fine haired leaves, which is so painful when stung, that some people reported they actually felt like killing themselves. The fine hairs can also be ingested causing all sorts of problems for its victims. Only one person has been killed by the Gympie Gympie tree. Yes and Australia does not have basements, we have mainly houses on concrete slabs, or short or long stumps which we call high set homes or two storey homes which are self-explanatory. Love Isaac he is so irreverent and a ridiculous Australian, which is thankfully, quite common
I live in Queensland , and I come across snakes regularly where I live . Venomous snakes I leave alone , Pythons are fine and I can remove them by picking them up gently . They are generally docile and can make nice pets .
Oh, no, boys, that 'stinging brush' they're referring to is SO much worse than any poison ivy you've ever touched...
They're talking about the gympie-gympie tree, which is similar to poison ivy in that you rub against it and get the hairs embedded in your skin... HOWEVER, the gympie is not nicknamed the 'su*cide tree' without good reason. The pain is so intense people have begged for death. Horses who rub against it throw themselves off cliffs. And the pain lasts weeks to months, but can also flare up again randomly years later. I knew someone who experienced it and he described it like having acid poured on the area while electric ants crawled through his veins. He also had a reddish, keloid patch on his skin years after.
Large reptiles
Crocodiles are large reptiles found in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. They are members of the order Crocodilia, which also includes caimans, gharials and alligators. There are 13 species of crocodiles, so there are many different sizes of crocodile. The smallest crocodile is the dwarf crocodile.
I live in far north Queensland (Cairns) where there are heaps of dangerous snake have seen 2 in 25yrs I have lived here. They feel you coming and take off. Ohh we do have a large carpet snake in our shed, because they eat the mice. But are scared of us.
The "stinging brush" would be either Gympie-gympie or a giant stinging tree. Maybe shiny-leafed stinging tree. Gympie-gympie is tropical, but giant stinging trees you get as far south as Tathra, and shiny-leafed stinging trees down to the Wollemi National Park, which is just north of Sydney. And to be honest, it's pretty bad news to run into one. If you are on a bushwalk in Eastern Australia, don't touch the leaves that look like huge stinging nettles, because they are huge stinging nettles. There are stories of people killing themselves to stop the pain. And horses have been by shock from the pain. But it is usually not that bad.
One time about thirty-five years ago I was told a story by a marriage celebrant I knew. Two tourists had met and fallen in love on a guided tour, and they decided to come back to Australia to get married at a very pretty little spot called "Hole in the Wall" that is now in Carrai National Park (I think it was Carrai State Forest then). They flew their entire families out from some other country that shall remain nameless, and the bride's father and brother went to take a look at the selected site a couple of days in advance. And they decided that it was too gloomy under the rainforest canopy, so they hires a chainsaw and cut down six trees to let some light in. Which were stinging-trees. Everyone at the wedding copped a dose, and my friend the celebrant was not at all happy when he told me about it.
None of them died.
ok, I cant speack for the majority here, but I am born,bred, raised in australia. I grew up running barefoot around a small farm . My older brother carried a small hatchet he used to kill snakes near/ in the old watertank we played in and had a hip flask of vinegar and a cloth belt along with leather belt ( like a kids utility belt. This was in the 1960's and we were too young for school. When I grew up and moved into town /city (Brisbane was a big country town back then) I never saw anyone panic over spiders or other creepy crawlies until high school and there were more imigrant children. We just learned young not to panic and how to deal with it and it was just how we lived no big deal.
So in Australia we have 140 land snakes and around 34 sea snake species so around 174 types of snakes but around 100 of them are a venomous species of snakes but only 12 out of 100 are most likely to kill you. For spiders we have we have 10,000 species of those. In Australia only 2700, in 500 genera and 78 families so the estimated about of species is 10,00 but as for venomous we have around 5 that are venomous that’s right most of them are harmless and don’t really bite unless you provoke them as for deadly spiders there are only 2 that can kill you here in Australia. Yes we do have the most deadliest spider in the world the Sydney funnel web spider yeah we also may have the most deadliest snake in the world the island taipan as for venomous animals we are rank 3 with 66 venomous species second is Brazil with 79 the number one is Mexico with 80 venomous animals. Most of these animals tend to live in the middle of our beautiful country so in the desert part where most people tend to live near the beaches and main city’s.
Fun fact to end this there is around 12,000 beaches in Australia if you visit a new beach every day in Australia it would take you over 32 years to see them all.
BYEEEEEEEE ❤
We don’t have ostriches in Australia. But we do have Emu’s
The Gympie Gympie is also called the suicide tree. It has silica hairs all over them and even the slightest contact can embed the hairs into you and the pain is long lasting and excutiating. Breathing in the hairs is a whole nother sort of torture
I haven't laughed so much for ages....I'm 67 year old Aussie & have only seen a cassowary at the zoo...thank you for sharing.
Cassowaries are only found up near Port Douglas so if you haven’t been there you wouldn’t have seen them !!
I've also seen a cassowary in the zoo on the Gold Coast. Flaeys Wildlife and Fauna centre.
@@jeffwagner8576 oh yes sorry about that- I meant in the Wild. They have them at several zoos even in NSW.
I ran over a brown snake with my lawn mower the other week... 🤣🤣🤣
I have the perfect cure for spiders, I step on them or spray them with insect spray . Problem solved. You gotta love Isaac he is so Aussie lol.
Lol those Unpatrolled beaches are the most beautiful
Yes we do have dangerous creatures here, but it’s not a problem if you educate yourself and leave the creatures alone. I had an experience when driving a car, I lowered the sun visor down, and a big Huntsman spider dropped on my lap… 😬. I know they are harmless, but it did freak me out. At least in Australia we don’t have anything that is trying to eat you, like; bears, wolfs, or mountain lions.
I live near an area called the Bunya Mountains we have introduced European stinging nettle and native gympie gympie plants otherwise known as suicide trees ya want to avoid them at all costs the pain said to be like acid burning your skin and the initial pain can last up to 3 weeks or more and you will have pain in the effected area for many years afterwards. Plenty of snakes and wild dogs where I am like he says leave the snake alone and dingoes are pretty much extinct in most area du to the bounty on them................ I wont hesitate to put a lead injection into wild dog but especially if they are lost pig dogs
Love Issac Butterfield - great comedian and the best Aussie to tell it like it is!! lmao 🙂
Okay 😂 the beaches thing. I literally live in a bay and the beach is amazing and can be swam in all year round 😂
I don’t know anyone who has found a snake in their house. We don’t have rips where I live. I’m much more frightened of mice than spiders. Never seen a dingo, croc, or cassowary except in zoos. Just wear sun block when out in the sun. And if you like a sausage and onion in bread just go to one of our many Bunnings Hardware stores. They are delicious. This Aussie has nothing to complain about ❤️🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺
G’day Guys. You’re getting better with the Ocker accent, but still a little way to go. Just think of the supper shortened nickname for Australia, and that’s Oz, start with that when you say Aussie, and don’t drag it out so much, just a tad shorter will help.
Now in regards to suggestions, you’ve seen a lot of the typical Australian deadly creatures videos, that are usually made by Yanks and other foreigners, and are just as trustworthy as your typical Politician, especially when it comes to getting all the facts right, as they usually blow certain facts all out of proportion. This video is a perfect example (and done by a Pom for a change).
So here is an example of a series of funny Australian Science videos, that are short, entertaining, factual and funny. Produced and presented by Aussies.
It’s called “How Deadly”, and it investigates just how dangerous some of our stuff really is.
And I will start you off with one particular spider that gets a very bad rap, but is actually harmless (mostly), as it’s non aggressive to humans (you REALLY have to try hard, to get bitten by one of these).
In fact they are actually good to have around the house, even if it gets a little freaky.
And the spider in question is the fabled massive “Huntsman Spider”, but having said that, they aren’t all big, as this vid will show you, but they can be (a lot bigger). Even so, just look at the size of the spider that deals with the dead mouse.
The Presenter really has a laugh at the antics of some the videos, so it’s hoping you will too.
But In regards to the Cassowary, yes they are actually VERY. dangerous as they can easily disembowel you, and they are very aggressive.
BUT. They are are in far North Queensland, out in the bush. So only a VERY small percentage of people will ever see one. And you actually have to get close to them first, they don’t hunt you down. So if you get hurt, it’s your own fault.
I know you guys are learning, and are making an effort, so to help with that, we have Emu’s Not Ostriches.
Therefore the “How Deadly” series of videos will really help you guys get some decent facts for once, as well as the correct pronunciation on certain words, as most of these foreign based Vids are usually quite hopeless (just check out the various comments in such vids regarding how they f*ck up trying to say Emu).
I promise you, This science channel is funny, and informative, it will most definitely give you “the good oil” ( fair dinkum/truthful info). It will give you a good source of content, and I seriously doubt it will get blocked, especially if you give the appropriate credits etc. as the whole purpose of that channel (Australian public broadcaster, i.e. the ABC) is for education.
The Gimpie Gimpie bush is also called the suicide tree. It’s extremely painful, and the pain can last for months even years. But it’s also in the far North Queensland and far from the general population.
Fire Ants are a new invasive species. But our Bull Ants are worse. And the “Jack Jumper” Ant In Tasmania is even worse than them, they can kill due to severe allergic reaction.
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It’s Australian tradition to take the piss out of the Poms (i.e. exclusively the English, not the British as a whole), and it’s traditional for the Poms to do the same, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t initially meant as such, but it’s info is dangerously inaccurate. So that’s a fail, but they are Poms after all.
I hate to break it to you but we do not have ostrich’s in Australia we have emus and kangaroos don’t roam around in our neighbourhood plus quick sand is very rare where ever you are in the world
The stinging brush is the Gympie Gympie plant. Also known as the suicide plant as at least one person has committed suicide do to the pain. The pain is described as being electrocuted and burnt at the same time. Can take years for the pain to stop.
cassowary are dangerous birds, but they dont attack on site and are found in only a few places in the far northern parts of australia. they take tourists to see the things. they are a pretty much prehistoric throwback. they can be aggressive and have a 5-8 inch toe on the inside of there foot that is like a long stabbing implement. they leap up thrust into you and let gravity do the rest. but nothing to be scared is coming to get you
Brazil
According to 2 sources
Known as Snake Island, the viper-infested Ilha da Queimada Grande sits in the Atlantic Ocean about 90 miles off the coast of southeastern Brazil. Flickr CommonsAn aerial view of Brazil’s Ilha da Queimada Grande, better known as Snake Island.
I actually suggested this video to you last night. You guys would have no doubt already done and edited the video, so great minds think alike hahah.
Also, stretch out your hand so you can see the entire span of it.
That’s the size of Australian Huntsman spider. They’re completely harmless but scare the absolute shit out of you when they suddenly appear on your bathroom wall, or in your shoes.
Slang for snakes is ‘nope rope’, coz nope, not going near it.
Snakes and spiders aren't "everywhere" here. I've live in a nature reserve in Australia for 11 years.....never seen a snake.
SNAKE ISLAND IS NEAR PERTH AND ROTTNEST. ITS ACTUALLY CALLED CARNAC ISLAND. I have been near there on my boat. It has many snakes. But its also home to sea lions and dolphins overall its beautiful you are only allowed to go there during the day. There are about 400 snakes there and not many of them are fatal. The question is how did they get there but the theory around my area is..a man named Rocky Vane dumped his snakes on the island after his wife was bitten and died
Errr.. Miles, so we found your doppelgänger 😂, try imagining that guy in the video with glasses 😂
stinging brush would be Gympie-Gympie and it can be real nasty
Hi boys- Cassowaries are found in the tropical north of Australia and in New Guinea- and no you don't see kangaroos in urban areas - on the rural outskirts- YES- love your work
The only thing on the list I hate is spiders. Especially the Huntsman. I have way too many horror stories about them growing up. I’d consider burning the house down just so I didn’t have to go near them….. yep I hate them that much lol
I'd say there would be 100s spiders every 20 feet neatly everywhere in aus many very small but interesting 🤔. I mean I live on a creek there would have to be 1000>10000 sometimes and the big netting ones in Tasmania that covers the whole farms like our cattle spiders
Ok, I've lived in the suburbs of Sydney all my life (38yrs) & never had an issue with snakes. Only time I've seen one is camping(but they run away), or in a zoo.
Plenty of huntsman which are harmless, except when it surprises you while your driving down the highway.
Lots of redback spiders but only outside hidden under objects left alone for too long.
I did have to rescue a bluetongue lizard which tried to find water in our laundry room.
Had a picnic with a large goanna, pictures with a dingo and given emus, kangaroos a feed.
Hell no to cassowaries! Their feet are like a dinosaurs.
Always wear sunscreen, our sunlight has a little extra bite and swim between the flags, you'll be right.
Are we all going to ignore that old mate said Brazil is fairly close to Australia?
Yep, check the Atlas fellas🤭
Scientific Name Varanus giganteus
Size up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long
Weight 20 kg (44 lb)
Diet Birds, small mammals, and other reptiles
Location Great Dividing Range
The Perentie is the largest monitor lizard in Australia. It can be found in the arid region of Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. However, Perenties are very difficult to discove
Spiders are savage little beasts. Snakes can appear anywhere here, but are less likely in urban spaces. We get them occasionally where I am (outer-suburbia/semi-rural Melbourne) but I’m more likely to encounter them when bushwalking or visiting my relatives farms, or in the north of the country. On the east coast at least, Queensland is the place to be for things like snakes 😅 most snakes here are pretty shy though, so if you keep your distance, you’ll be fine. I’ve never seen a wild Cassowary before, or a wild croc for that matter, even with my travels north. But you’re more likely to encounter a croc than a cassowary, and more likely to be made a meal by a croc too. Cassowaries are savage though. So are emus though. I got chased down by one as a child and that was scary and required intervention 😩
Perentie live in the desert and eat smaller lizards. They're basically an overgrown goanna, and nowhere near as large as a komodo dragon.
Look Up Inland Taipan Or Coastal Taipan, Brown Snake, Tiger Snake, Bull Ants Or The Tasmanian Jack Jumper Ant. As for Fire ants, never see them in over 50 years living in Australia
The cassowary are the heavies in the Emu army.
Fiji isn't in Australia..it's an island 4 hours away from Australia and it's an independent country lads
Wow the censored comments, very telling 🤔
Oz doesn't have anything as bad as poison oak. it has some stinging nettles but only around the NSW/QLD border for a few 100kms and they no worse than a wasp sting.
“Brazil and Australia are so close to each other” ahahahaha
Mate, we don't have Ostriches in Straya, we have Emu's. Ostriches are from Africa, Emu's are from Straya & the way u yanks pronounce Emu's is totally wrong but u yanks can't pronounce Australia, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra 😳.... Even the Land in Queensland is pronounced wrong 😜. Also keeping on comparing Straya to America is extremely frustrating but it's typically American, always trying to outdo every other country, i know u blokes are brought up to be proud of ur country, but so does everybody else but the diff is the rest of the world doesn't brag or try & outdo each other, our countries are nothing alike, thank f**k but this is a very big reason why American's aren't well liked around the world, esp down here in Straya. Do u blokes realise this is why in Straya & England we call America & American's Seppo's?!?. Just coz we are allies don't mean we are mates.
NZ has no snakes, Brazil is nowhere near Straya but the, "we have this many spiders, we have this many snakes, good onya's, congrats, give yaselves a pat on the back".
I'm also from the generation that grew up worried about quicksand.
Alligators? No alligators in Australia, except for the odd couple in the zoos. We have crocs up the top end, but we know better than to camp near a river up north!
On the subject of spiders, there is an episode of Peppa Pig that is banned in Australia because the message of the episode is not to be scared of spiders because they won't hurt you. A fair and valid thing to teach your kids in the UK, maybe. Not in Australia, where, similar to our snake situation, we have some of the most dangerous and venomous spiders in the world.
No Ostrich's here, but we do have Emu's.
Is no one gonna point out that Phezz said that "Brazil and Australia are so close to each other"!? What!? Brazil is in South America and Australia is directly below the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.... On the other side of the world.... 🤯
Don't kill spiders just put them outside! Who gives you the right to take a life for just existing or accidentally finding itself STUCK inside your house?? 😖
Cassowaries? Last year I spent about 10 days in what might be called cassowary country in far north Queensland. I really, really wanted to see some cassowaries. Finally on my second-last day, I saw ONE cassowary. Most Aussies would not have seen even one.
In a cup of my mates were at school actually a long time ago and with and blue bottle and we dropped a brick on it write it it did not die it was still alive
Lived in Melbourne Australia for 34 yeras only seen 1 snake
The only legitimate reason on this list is spiders. Yeah, we got lotta spiders here. The most venomous spider in the world lives here, and it’s not even uncommon. They live in fucking houses, schools. It’s called a funnel web spider. They get pretty big too. Saw one under my COUCH more than once. Everywhere is schools, any school with trees, has funnel webs.
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Ive never seen a basement in aus either
Dude that made list is right that we have perentie lizards. We call them goanas. They aren't komodo dragons just biggish lizards that run moderately fast and are fourth biggest lizards in the world. They are non poisonous and non venomous. On the top 5 indigenous peoples food lists for most of the country. Their most dangerous trick is that when they are frightened they run up trees, or you if you stand too close. They might bite if you pick it up by the tail and they will eat rotting carcasses so their claws can leave infected scratches. Also..they live in the bush(forests) not in towns and are scared of cats and dogs that DO kill the poor lizards. Only thing hater had right is that they do grow big.
We don't have ostriches we have emus
That whole list is such a piss-take ... the footage for the snakes entry were an from a Bond movie set in the Carribean (i think), and an Anaconda in the Amazon...
...or saying you're not very likely to find a decent beach here ... I'm not much of a beach person myself, but I'm maybe a 10min drive away from several lovely ones in southern Sydney .. I read a stat that if you visited one different Australian beach every day, it'd take you about 27 years
I guess thats the token dry Britsih humour for you, but then i'd be salty too, if I sent all my petty criminals to a tropical/subtropical island paradise and i was still living in a dreary set of islands that are unroincally nicknamed "Old Blighty"
The main snake to be worried about is all but the worlds dangerous unless you go in a desert in the middle of noware the Taipan is no problem even if it’s the most deadliest
Just stay away from the desert
We grow up calling snakes, “nope rope’s” for a reason, you leave them alone. I have been bitten by a Redback spider, got fairly sick but didn’t need anti venom 👍 grew up surfing in and around rips, just need to respect the ocean. We just grow up learning to respect nature and act accordingly 🤷♀️
No snakes in NZ ,That’s why they are shit scared of them so funny 😂
Haha love Buttsmarn! He’s rude but funny.
Growing up in Australia I’ve had run ins with spiders (Wolfs, Red Backs, Funnel Webs), snakes (Browns, Red Bellies), lizards (monitors, goannas, blue tongues), dingoes (Fraser Island) & look I’m still here 😅
It helps that spiders & snakes don’t bother me though. And Miles I get it: I’m the “man” around here too when it comes to those creatures. My husband’s “spidey dance” cracks me up every time. So precious 😆
hahaha stinging bush you don't want to know where my mind went to when that part of the video came up... but yes Australia has things like cactus, thistles and a few other sharp spiny plants but the bush they are referring to is called the Gympie-Gympie plant and here is a funny real short vid of an aussie pronounced (ozze) dude who purposely touched the plant so you can see the effects. ua-cam.com/video/-NpU9rEwxVo/v-deo.html
No matter where u are a spider is never more than 6 ft from u.
Boys! Ostriches???? We dont have ostriches. We have emus pronounced eeeemyous. Pretty sure this vid is just a compilation of Australian scary things by someone who's never been here and only seen stuff on TV. Go Isaac. Theres a stinging tree in Queensland. The leaves are seriously hazardous. We dont use the word brush .... its the bush. That is definitely a komodo dragon. We have goannas distantly related. Never seen in built up populated areas
Actually, the sun, or more specifically, our horrifically high UV ratings are one of the biggest dangers in the country. Which is why we have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world.
What about Drop bears?!
On the spider subject check this link out this is fairly common but the spider involved isnt dangerous except for the fright and potential of an accident . ua-cam.com/video/QmhVPimfC9A/v-deo.html
You guys are sounding more Aussie everyday cheers
Same with spiders
We have a bush called the gympie-gympie. which is found in Queensland. It hurts so bad that people have kill themselves. But definitely not a reason not to visit this great nation
The biggest one in Aussie is this one
Hanging brush you mean stinging nettle
If you visited a different beach every day in Australia it would take you 30 years.
There is 20000 beaches in Australia
It came here from othere Countries like this says