faulcon1 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Had some friends of mine who had relations out from the UK staying with them. Once they saw several skink lizards that was enough they decided that Australians had too much wildlife in their gardens. What a bunch of softies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted July 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2014 And they don't have wildlife in their own UK gardens? They've never looked! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_S_Wood Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 And they don't have wildlife in their own UK gardens? They've never looked!Gardens over here are a bit bigger I suppose. More room for wildlife. Certainly didn't get parrots in my back garden at home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted July 29, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2014 They wouldn't like my garden in the UK then, Lizards, Frogs, deer (several varieties), Stoats, feral cats, foxes, Rabbits, hares, rats, Mice, squirrels, sparrow hawks, marsh harriers, pigeons and numerous other birds. at least nothing lethal like is Austrailia. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted July 29, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2014 No killer bunnies then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 29, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2014 No killer bunnies then? Or giant hedgehogs? Dinsdale... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevingsydney Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Not sure where this was filmed , but it looks like some will try . Awesome, if this is the Kiwi ram it made the news headlines today, taking down a drone, don't mess with the wildlife! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 He even has facebook.... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angry-Ram/1436897249899558?ref=hl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 (edited) 'Bathers' on and towel under my arm I stood on a beach at Trinity Beach nr Cairns looking at a huge sign proclaiming "the following can be found in these waters" showing silhouettes of (i) a shark (ii) a jellyfish, and (iii) a crocodile/alligator. . The thought of being sharkbait bothered me a little, so I wandered up to the lifeguard sat atop his observation seat. . "Excuse me, where off the coast of Australia can I swim, without fear of being attacked by a shark ?" "Follow the coast of Queensland south from Cape Tribulation, along the Gold Coast into New South Wales then around through Victoria all the way to the northern most part of Western Australia...... and you'll find sharks" replied my new found antipodean friend. "So, to avoid sharks attacks, I need to swim of the Northern Territories, is that correct ?" "Yes" - he replied with confidence. "So, why don't the sharks frequent the waters off the Northern Territories" asked the thick pom. "Because the crocodiles eat them !" was the typically sarcastic response I've come to love from Aussies. I went for a beer in the "beer with no pub" atop a nearby hill - and a few hours passed, and then the local news channel broadcast a breaking story - a showed footage of a 12'0" monster that had got under the nets on the beach at Trinity Beach ............... but a local woman who swam into it was unperturbed because it had worn itself out burrowing in and trying to burrow out again. . The moral of the story ..... "if it walks, runs, jumps, leaps, flies, hovers, swims, paddles or just breaths, and it bites, sucks, stings poisons or kills - it lives in Australia" Edited September 9, 2014 by br2975 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faulcon1 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 (edited) This crawled into my garden today and isn't he/she a beauty. Not sure how my pink tongue will react to his/her intrusion. He/she is in the flattened or "I can't move very fast in this condition state" Edited October 9, 2014 by faulcon1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Faulcon, I think you might have another family soon.... Did you ask its intentions? Nice to be back from the UK... Not seen any local bityes yet and it has been a week! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faulcon1 Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 (edited) I did ask it's intentions but it doesn't seem to speak English/Australian and I don't speak Blue Tongue or the lizard language, so the conversation is a bit one sided. I should add that once "heated" up he/she is a whopper. Edited October 11, 2014 by faulcon1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted November 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2014 Guard Penrose, rostered the Wenford Goods this morning, was alarmed to find he had competition for the job! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Gardens over here are a bit bigger I suppose. More room for wildlife. Certainly didn't get parrots in my back garden at home. I know of at least one British model railway kit manufacturer who does! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giles Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I am never. Never going to Australia. Ever. Seriously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted November 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 20, 2014 Guard Penrose, rostered the Wenford Goods this morning, was alarmed to find he had competition for the job! Did it just kill the Guard's van or actually eat it? P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Graff Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 (edited) then take a look at this ....... Yes, that is a OO-scale van and no, that isn't a fully-grown spider. Edited November 20, 2014 by M Graff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted November 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 20, 2014 Obviously a good reader though as it is after the fruit flies on/in the van. P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted November 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 20, 2014 None of my small plastic figures is missing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaxjones Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Come on, red bellied black snakes, great white sharks, red back spiders, funnel webs, copper head snakes.... And watch out for the drop bears. The cuddly koalas (full of cylmidia) the killer kangaroos... Let alone the cassowaries.. No nothing other than the weather will kill any one in Australia! I once went out with a woman from Melbourne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted November 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2014 Come on, red bellied black snakes, great white sharks, red back spiders, funnel webs, copper head snakes.... And watch out for the drop bears. The cuddly koalas (full of cylmidia) the killer kangaroos... Let alone the cassowaries.. No nothing other than the weather will kill any one in Australia! Interesting article on drop bears here http://web.archive.org/web/20130511181210/http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/drop-bears-prefer-travellers-says-study.htm They sound nasty, almost as vicious as the Lowland wild Haggis. Neil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Then, of course, we have the cheese sausage. Ostensibly a foodstuff but more accurately described as a cross between a sea-slug and by-products of the rubber industry. Consisting of an envelope of hydraulically recovered carcass material enclosing a pressurised chamber of glutinous synthetic cheese, it's normal body temperature lies somewhere beyond the melting point of lead. When bitten by a predator its natural defence mechanism is to spray its attacker in the face with a generous and seemingly inexhaustible stream of scalding fluid, which then sticks. The resultant pain has the dual benefits of causing the predator to drop the sausage, allowing it to roll into cover underneath, for example, the front seat of the car or the heaviest piece of furniture in the room, and blinding them, rendering them unable to look for it. Barring the availability of a suitable hiding place, the sausage will simply find the nearest patch of fluff or grit and then roll in it, thus rendering itself even more inedible than it was previously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 (edited) I once went out with a woman from Melbourne Now that sounds extremely dangerous! I played safe and married one from Brisbane! Edited November 21, 2014 by SRman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted November 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2014 (edited) Then, of course, we have the cheese sausage. Ostensibly a foodstuff but more accurately described as a cross between a sea-slug and by-products of the rubber industry. Consisting of an envelope of hydraulically recovered carcass material enclosing a pressurised chamber of glutinous synthetic cheese, it's normal body temperature lies somewhere beyond the melting point of lead. When bitten by a predator its natural defence mechanism is to spray its attacker in the face with a generous and seemingly inexhaustible stream of scalding fluid, which then sticks. The resultant pain has the dual benefits of causing the predator to drop the sausage, allowing it to roll into cover underneath, for example, the front seat of the car or the heaviest piece of furniture in the room, and blinding them, rendering them unable to look for it. Barring the availability of a suitable hiding place, the sausage will simply find the nearest patch of fluff or grit and then roll in it, thus rendering itself even more inedible than it was previously. Hmm - and I thought a Dagwood Dog was bad enough... Edited November 21, 2014 by St Enodoc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted November 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2014 Then, of course, we have the cheese sausage. Ostensibly a foodstuff but more accurately described as a cross between a sea-slug and by-products of the rubber industry. Consisting of an envelope of hydraulically recovered carcass material enclosing a pressurised chamber of glutinous synthetic cheese, it's normal body temperature lies somewhere beyond the melting point of lead. When bitten by a predator its natural defence mechanism is to spray its attacker in the face with a generous and seemingly inexhaustible stream of scalding fluid, which then sticks. The resultant pain has the dual benefits of causing the predator to drop the sausage, allowing it to roll into cover underneath, for example, the front seat of the car or the heaviest piece of furniture in the room, and blinding them, rendering them unable to look for it. Barring the availability of a suitable hiding place, the sausage will simply find the nearest patch of fluff or grit and then roll in it, thus rendering itself even more inedible than it was previously. You've been to Maccas again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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