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I’ve had a good look at everywhere else I could go and my options aren’t that great.
Seriously. Every other country either:
has its own cans of arseholes
is fuck-off cold
doesn’t speak English
And when you get down to it, despite the toxic flora, fauna and mycotta, and the deadly landscape and the occasional cyclone season - this country would be perfect if we could just get rid of the scumfucks like Tony Abbott.
You have ten of the top 15 deadly snakes on the planet, you have trees whose sap causes chemical burns and whose wood/leaves induces asphixiation if burned, the jellyfish and other sea-life surrounding you is so toxic that it can kill in minutes… and the major-stand-out horrible issue in the view of a citizen… is an asshole politician.
Australia, ladies and gentlemen - they’ve got priorities.
Thing is - we can take precautions against all the other toxic shit that lives here.
But we can’t seem to un-elect the toxic shit that runs the country.
do you see this. do you fucking see this. i’m just minding my own fucking business tryna get a new roll of toilet paper and this fuckin privileged piece of turd thinks it’s ok to hide inside of the roll. it’s not ok. it’s very not ok. do you fucking see this. i fucking touched this motherfucker
Are you from Australia
That’s a Hunstman spider (and a baby one at that. Adults can sit comfortably on a dinner plate).
They’re not venomous.
But I am never going to tick one off. Those suckers are *scary*.
[Trufax: I once slept on the couch rather than sleep in the same room as one of these under my bed. That little shit was stalking me, I swear]
However, they only exist in a relatively small patch of scrub (roughly the size of Virginia) just south of Tullagawupwup.
The Nunga tribe worship them as sacred spirit animals and, weirdly, are the only people who can approach them without fear of injury or death. Naturally, most Nunga tribespeople find themselves recruited into the field of Drop Bear Research by the CSIRO.
