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'Straya!

One thing I learned from traveling, people always believe it's unsafe 'over there'. That includes how some foreigners see the dangerous US. The vast majority of the time, over there is safe.
 
arthwollipot said:
I've heard that they will chase you out of your own house.
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Oh crap. You had me at the OP and link. Yes, I have been terrified of spiders my entire life. And now, this image.

It was my fault for clicking on the link, I know. But I need to blame someone for giving me new nightmares. So . . .

It's YOUR fault Arth.
 
wasapi said:
Oh crap. You had me at the OP and link. Yes, I have been terrified of spiders my entire life. And now, this image.

It was my fault for clicking on the link, I know. But I need to blame someone for giving me new nightmares. So . . .

It's YOUR fault Arth.
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If it helps, I have absolutely no source for that.
 
cullennz said:
Spiders aren't an issue.

It is snakes.

When I was young my old man organised me 2 months work rousieing at a shearing station as he lived in Aus(at the time he was a wool classer)

About 10 hours north of Deniliquin in the middle of ****sville nowhere.

As I was saving for my oe

Scary **** going to bed.

Saw lots of snakes (luckily not in sleeping bag)

There were heaps of holes in the walls.

You haven't lived till you have gotten woken up by a rat landing on your face and getting angry at 2 am in the morning.

Good money. Free meals and housing though.

Just paid for beer.
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Well, out around Denny way, there's more room for snakes. Did you go to the Denny Ute Muster?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Excuse me! Way to cherry pick. Did you miss the part where there were 13 deaths before 1981 that I could not find the specifics on? Did you miss the article that discussed male SFWs are out looking for mates including in houses? Other than you don't like the news source, did you make any effort to discredit the story?

Where's your evidence SFWs never find their way into a bed?

You're the one that hasn't supported your assertion here.
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It's about as likely as rattlesnake bites in the USA. If you go out of your way to find them in the places they live in, and then do something very likely to annoy them into biting you, then...yeah, I expect it will happen.
 
Norman Alexander said:
It's about as likely as rattlesnake bites in the USA. If you go out of your way to find them in the places they live in, and then do something very likely to annoy them into biting you, then...yeah, I expect it will happen.
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The spider bite within the sheets was confirmed by another news source and you are still doubling down? :confused:

I never said anything about rarity. I said a fact: When we arrived in Sydney (1978) there was a headline about a woman in Sydney who was just killed by a Sydney Funnel Web spider that was in her bed. I believe she had pulled the sheet back when it bit her but that detail might be an altered memory. Or not. We were in Australia from 1978 over into 1979.

I had never heard of Sydney Funnel Web spiders before then, we had just arrived in Sydney and there is no doubt it happened. Those are the kind of memories that stick with you.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
Not even Google seems to remember. But maybe my Google-fu is not very strong.
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Is that your way of denying it happened? You couldn't find it on Google?

Did you find the account of each of the 13 deaths before 1981? Because Google has that information in numerous places. I just couldn't find the specifics of the 13.
 
Norman Alexander said:
I have!

Twice!

:D
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I do know a dead guy that was bitten by rattlers. Two different times. And another time by a copperhead. Plus two other dead guys bitten by rattlers once each. They all died of chronic alcoholism. Amateur herpetology + alcohol. Coincidence?
 
My BIL got bit by a terrestrial leech on a trip down under. Fortunately for him there was an exotic disease expert in his home town when he got back to New Hampshire. The doc saw something moving in the boil'. It was river blindness worms. A shot of something besides Jack Daniels killed the parasites.
 
casebro said:
My BIL got bit by a terrestrial leech on a trip down under. Fortunately for him there was an exotic disease expert in his home town when he got back to New Hampshire. The doc saw something moving in the boil'. It was river blindness worms. A shot of something besides Jack Daniels killed the parasites.
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The internet says that this is transmitted by blackflies.
 
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