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Haha, this has been a well-trod rant of mine for years. Don't forget scorpions, vampire bats, great white sharks, and the world's top 4 deadliest jellyfish!

jacques_chester 9y ago
I grew up in Darwin and lived to tell the tale. It's really very simple. Here is a diagram: [place where bad things are] [me] So long as I am not doing something dumb like going near an estuarine river filled with invisible deathbeasts, or getting into an ocean filled with transparently-tentacled murder-squigglies, or stomping through grass near logs with dozing fangjectors, I will be fine. It's just not difficult.
- rplnt 9y ago
  Your diagram got me a bit confused as the empty space was right over the fold and I was wondering why the comments wouldn't load and what a weird error [place where bad things are] is.
- a3n 9y ago
  It's seems likely that people growing up in a place called Darwin would, in time, evolve a particular fitness to thrive.
  - jacques_chester 9y ago
    I love it. Its only rival in my heart is New York.
- phillc73 9y ago
  One doesn't have to be "dumb" to be in some danger from the fangjectors. A friend of mine was driving around his property and found the track blocked by a fallen tree. He started pulling branches off the road and trod on a tiger snake in the grass. He was bitten and survived after administration of anti-venom. He wasn't doing anything particularly dumb and probably 99.9% of the time wouldn't have trodden on a snake. I used to work on a farm. One day after moving the irrigation sprays I went to the well to turn the pump on. Around the well was about a 3 foot high concrete wall, maybe 3 inches wide. I sat on the edge of the wall to wait until the pressure came up and sprays started working. As I turned to leave I happened to notice on the wall, about 30cm from my hand, was a red-bellied black snake sunning itself. Close call. I remember as a child, my mother chasing brown snakes out of our front garden so they wouldn't be a danger to us children. If you're outside of a major urban environment in Australia, snakes are around. One just needs to be a bit careful.
mmjaa 9y ago
On the flip side of this incessantly boring argument, once you've actually dealt with a swarm of all of these things successfully, i.e. lived to make lunch out of it, then .. pretty much .. everyone elses' zeitgeist seems pretty fucking boring. The dangers in life are what make it interesting to think about, right at the end of it all...

jacques_chester 9y ago

I grew up in Darwin and lived to tell the tale. It's really very simple. Here is a diagram: [place where bad things are] [me] So long as I am not doing something dumb like going near an estuarine river filled with invisible deathbeasts, or getting into an ocean filled with transparently-tentacled murder-squigglies, or stomping through grass near logs with dozing fangjectors, I will be fine. It's just not difficult.

rplnt 9y ago
Your diagram got me a bit confused as the empty space was right over the fold and I was wondering why the comments wouldn't load and what a weird error [place where bad things are] is.
a3n 9y ago
It's seems likely that people growing up in a place called Darwin would, in time, evolve a particular fitness to thrive.
- jacques_chester 9y ago
  I love it. Its only rival in my heart is New York.
phillc73 9y ago
One doesn't have to be "dumb" to be in some danger from the fangjectors. A friend of mine was driving around his property and found the track blocked by a fallen tree. He started pulling branches off the road and trod on a tiger snake in the grass. He was bitten and survived after administration of anti-venom. He wasn't doing anything particularly dumb and probably 99.9% of the time wouldn't have trodden on a snake. I used to work on a farm. One day after moving the irrigation sprays I went to the well to turn the pump on. Around the well was about a 3 foot high concrete wall, maybe 3 inches wide. I sat on the edge of the wall to wait until the pressure came up and sprays started working. As I turned to leave I happened to notice on the wall, about 30cm from my hand, was a red-bellied black snake sunning itself. Close call. I remember as a child, my mother chasing brown snakes out of our front garden so they wouldn't be a danger to us children. If you're outside of a major urban environment in Australia, snakes are around. One just needs to be a bit careful.

mmjaa 9y ago

On the flip side of this incessantly boring argument, once you've actually dealt with a swarm of all of these things successfully, i.e. lived to make lunch out of it, then .. pretty much .. everyone elses' zeitgeist seems pretty fucking boring. The dangers in life are what make it interesting to think about, right at the end of it all...