10 of Australia's most deadly animals

Australia is a nice place to live but there are just some things you do go out of your way to take home as a pet or even go near. That is because as most people already know Australia has some of the deadliest animals than any other place on the world. Sure Africa has its Lions and tigers but we have so many other things that live down holes and can pop up and bite you without you noticing.

So any way let’s get started, oh by the way if you’re scared of things like spiders and snacks please leave this entry now as they are mentioned bellow and they are not in any order.

10. The Box Jellyfish

This little guy is known for killing 80 aussies and tourists alike since the 1980’s, not only does it have tentacles that can well grab you and then wrap around you they have little harpoons like things that get into your skin and well inject a crap load of poison in to your body in one go and what follows is death in around a few minutes. 

It is beast to avoid this little guy when swimming around The Great Barrier Reef, so if you see one coming for you get out of the water and on a boat and that just may save your life, but if you do happen to get stung pour a lot of vinegar on the sting, remove the tentacles from you with a towel, this will reduce the damage but then high tail it to the nearest hospital to get medical attention.

 9. Irukandji Jellyfish

Yes that’s right another jellyfish from Australian waters this little guys lives in the northern oceans just off NT, WA and QLD and is very deadly and is only around 2.5cm, wow that is a small jellyfish so you won’t even notice that it’s with you when swimming. 

This little guy uses its tentacles to get the powerful venom into you and if you are stung you could day within days, that is what happen to one swimmer of the coast of Hamilton Island in 2002. 

Oh and by the way this little guy is related to the bigger Box Jellyfish.

8. The Sydney funnel web spider

This guy is not only the deadliest spider in Australia but it has been said that it may just be the world’s deadliest, yes that is right Australia has the number one spider in the world that could kill you. Not only does this spider have huge fangs that can inject its venom through your thickest leather boot, yes that is right it has bigger fangs that the brown snake, but there is a bucket load of venom with in this spider. 

If bitten the best thing to do is put a Band-Aid over it and wrap the limb tight with cotton bandages and get someone to help you get to the nearest hospital so that they can inject you with some anti-venom, oh by the way this spiders anti-venom is made from yes that is right the venom itself. But that is the case for a lot of venomous spiders. Just a warning the funnel web can be found in New South Wales from forests to people’s backyards and swimming pools, yes this spider likes to swim. So if you see one leave it alone or call an exterminator.

7. Blue ringed Octopus

You may think this little guy is cute, measuring around the same size as a golf ball these guys have the same venom found in the fugu fish’s flesh, there have only been three reported deaths by this creature but it is one of the world’s most deadly sea creatures and Australian’s know to leave them alone and not touch them.

They have three hearts and around enough venom to kill 26 adults, if bitten the best chance of survival for the victim is CPR that can last for a several hours as it causes motor paralysis, eventually leading to cardiac arrest.

6. Stone fish

Yes this is another one of Australia’s deadly sea creatures and an ugly one at that, this fish has also got the name of the most venoms fish in the world. It looks like a rock and lives at the bottom of reefs like The Great Barrier Reef and around the Tropic of Capricorn, awaiting pray to swim by or some unknowing persons to step on it. The way it gets its venom into other creatures is by the 13 yes that is right 13 spines that lines its dorsal fin. It causes shock, paralysis and tissue death depending on the severity of the sting. 

 

The pain is said to be so excruciating that it lead to amputating the affected limb, now that is not fun in any ones book and why would you want to lose a limb over a stupid fish.

5. King Brown snake

Ok for one thing if you live in Victoria, Tasmania and western Western Australia you won’t run into this deadly snake at all they are mostly found in the central and northern parts of the country and is known to be the widest distribution of any Australian snake but at the same time this snake also is the heaviest venomous snake in Australia and has the largest-recorded venom output of any in the world delivering 150mg in one bite and depending on where you find this snake is dependent on its behavior.

The ones in the north are very active and agitated if disturbed but the ones in the south tend to stay away and have a much calmer demeanor, but that still should say do not go anywhere near them as they will still attack if threatened and you know they are pissed if they throw their heads from side to side and hiss very loudly. 

If these things come after you and actual get there fangs in they will continue to chew and hang on while getting there highly toxic venom in.  This venom destroys blood cells and affects the muscles and nerves. So that is one sign right there that you should not even have these snakes as pets.

4. Southern Death Adder

If the name alone has not made you run away yet then the way these guys attack sure will, they are known to ambush there pray by sitting completely still, concealed in leaf litter, sand or gravel, twitching the worm-like lure on the end of its tail.

 This thing tricks you how smart is that and what is worse unlike snakes that leave when a person is walking through the bush this thing will just sit tight and let you step on it then well you know what happens next if you step on a snake it will turn round and bite you.

About half of death adder bites proved fatal before the introduction of anti-venom. The venom contains a type of neurotoxin which causes loss of motor and sensory function, including respiration, resulting in paralysis and death.

3. Red Back Spider

This guys like to hide in dry areas like sheds, mail boxes and under toilet seats, so make sure you check before you go and sit down on your toilet because your mates will most likely make fun of you if you turn round and say “I was bitten on the bum by a red back”.

The female is the bigger of the two and is the one that has the distinguishing red mark on its back side and can measure around 1cm long, and there venom effects the nervous systems but due to their small fang size a lot of bits form this girl does not affect us. 

Oh and if you find Daddy-Long legs around your hose you will not find red backs as well they eat the god dam things talk about irony.

2. Coastal Tiapan

Now for a fact that will make you almost run away from these guys if you ever see them they have been recorded to have the longest fangs of any Australian snake measuring in at 13 cm long and have the third most venomous venom of any land snake, that’s enough to make a grown man cringe.

These snakes are very nervous and alert buggers that don’t even trust the same type of snake, they put up a ferocious defense when surprised or cornered, staying completely still before hurling their lightweight body forward to inflict several lightning-fast snapping bites but they would much rather scurry away from a predator then stay and fight, so that’s the good news. 

Before the anti-venom was introduced in 1956 a bite from one of these snakes was nearly always fatal, the venom of these snakes affects the nervous system and the blood, with nausea, convulsions, internal bleeding, destruction of the muscles and kidney damage. In severe cases death can occur in just 30 minutes. Now that is fast acting and if you’re on the coast and nowhere near a hospitals, give these guys a wide berth.

1. Cone Snail

Now this snail is one thing you never want to pick up off the beach by accident and think it’s just a pretty shell, if you ever do see this guy or its shell on a beach leave it there as they can kill.

This snail is a predator and likes to eat fish but it is not scared to send its harpoon like proboscis straight in to whatever is close by and injecting venom that is 1000 times more powerful then morphine that will cause paralyses allowing it to eat its pray or in the case of humans just knocking you down so it can get on its way.

This thing carries enough venom to kill 15 healthy adults in one day. There has only been one death by Cone Snail and that was back in 1935 so I can say one thing about the Australian people we learn quick.

- Fusion

Five of Australia's Stupidest Laws

 

So I thought I would write an entry about some of the stupidest laws ever to make it into Australian law. Some of these laws are well just mind-blowingly dumb but they have been made law and some of them have been removed at later dates.

So let’s get started.

5.  Children may not purchase cigarettes, but they may use them.

Now this is just a stupid law on its own as in all states and territories of Australia you must be over the age of 18 to buy cigarettes and if you look under 25 you’re going to be asked to show your ID, now ladies don’t take that the wrong way take it as a complement.

What is worse is that if you supply a minor with these products you don’t just risk jail time but a huge fine and could lose the ability to sell those products both for the individual supplying it to the minor and the business that sells it to the person even if they are over 18.

4. It is illegal to force a kangaroo to drink more than 6 bottles of beer.

Ok so if you’re anything like me you would have read that and started laughing and thinking but “I can give a Kangaroo up to 5 bottles of beer”. But I must say I have never even seen a drunk Kangaroo and now I really want to.

How this law got through is well a mystery to myself and I have done a lot of google-fu to try and find the answer but can’t.

3. Only licensed electricians may change a light bulb.

Yes, this law is an old one but it still exists within the state of Victoria but it’s not really policed and if it was you would be charged a fine of 10 pounds which today would be, well I have no idea we use dollars today.

What is funny about this law is that local hsupermarkets like Coles and Woolworths sell them on their shelves ready to be put in by the everyday person, I mean why would you get a licensed electrician out to install a new light globe, they will just charge you an arm and a leg for that service.

So next time you want to change that blown light globe on the front porch make sure there are no police around and you will be fine.

2 People may not come within 100 meters of a dead whale carcass.

This is a new law that has just become law in some Australian states, you may ask why and that is an easy one to answer. Stupid tourists have come to our country and seen dead whales and thought it would be fun to go out there and pat the sharks that are eating it and what do you know the shark turns on them.

So this law is not so dumb after all, but, you would think, “why would anyone go anywhere near something that is getting eaten by sharks?” And the answer is tourists are not always the smartest of people when they come to an unfamiliar country.

1. It is illegal to dress up as Batman or Robin.

Now this has got you thinking why and the reason is in some states there are laws where you are not allowed to cover your face for the fear you’re a cat burglar.  

 

Think about the irony of that for a minute.

Fusion

The American Horror Story Actors are Also Characters in a Bigger Story

Ok, so I’ve never seen the first season of American Horror story, which is why the series hasn’t really got me thinking

too much about it until I watched the first episode of season three last week. That’s when I really started thinking about it.

Kind of.

I did spend the first half of the episode trying to figure out where I recognised some of the actors from before I thought of looking them up on IMDB.

Turns out that American Horror Story uses the same main actors in each season. Like I said, I didn’t see season one. This is news to me. I just assumed that American Horror story was a bit like Underbelly, in that each new season had a whole new cast.

I was surprisingly unnerved by this revelation, too. It took me awhile to realise why I was so unnerved by this.

And then it hit me;

American Horror story isn’t just a disturbing insight into the darker (if slightly unrealistic at times) side of American history, it’s also the story of nine people (yeah, I checked this number on IMDB) forced to live through the very worst of American history. Except that once they have struggled through each horrific part of history they are thrown into a new world of fresh horror. Death may or may not provide an escape from this existence (I haven’t seen/can’t remember enough to say for certain). Their torment made worse because they’re the ones inflicting the pain and horror upon each other. Some of whom appear to really enjoy doing so. The actors are in fact characters themselves, completely unaware of their reality. Each time everything resets to something new, their memories are wiped.

That’s right, American Horror Story is actually a window into some kind of hell dimension where the torment is never ending (which I think is actually the very definition of hell, duh!). Their misery is our entertainment.

Peace out!

Fox

My Theory About Scooby Doo

So I’ve recently started watching Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated in the afternoons. To be honest, I was a little bit unsure about it at first. I thought it might just be another of many Scooby-Doo remakes, something I’ve been wary of ever since those horrible live action movies. That, and without that cheesy 80’s charm and bad animation that I’m so accustomed to, Scooby-Doo really isn’t the same.

But that’s not what this post is about.

This post is actually about a theory I’m developing about Mystery Incorporated (and I guess the rest of the Scooby-Doo cartoons);

The whole about Scooby-Doo; Mystery Incorporated (and not just this latest Scooby-Doo series), is that the gang go around solving supernatural mysteries, and that one of their members is a talking dog. Sorry, I’m not telling you anything new here. Everyone knows this about Scooby-Doo. It’s what the cartoons are all about. But my theory kind of centres around the point that Scooby-Doo talks.

Now, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen any of the older cartoons, so my memory of them is a little vague and I can’t say anything about them for certain (feel free to leave any comments about them below if you can remember much about them). So for the most part, this theory is based on Mystery Incorporated. Simply because I can’t remember how much Scooby-Doo talks in the older cartoons. In Mystery Incorporated, Scooby-Doo talks just like a normal person (if a little bit more growly), and everyone talks to him just like he’s a normal person.

So far I haven’t seen another animal character in the series that does that.

Since it’s a well-known fact that Shaggy is a stoner, I simply just figured that Scooby-Doo talking was just Shaggy hallucinating. Except, like I said, everybody talks to Scooby-Doo, and he to them. Not just Shaggy. But it did get me thinking; the talking dog, the supernatural mysteries that the gang are always solving, that fact that his dad appears to be ashamed of Shaggy?

What if none of it is real? What if it’s all a figment of Shaggy’s drug addled mind? What if Shaggy has had a mental break down, and everything that happens in Mystery Incorporated are just Shaggy’s hallucinations?

That would explain why Scooby-Doo can talk to people and no one thinks it’s odd.

It would also explain why the gang always seems to find themselves in the middle of supernatural mysteries all the time even though they don’t seem to go out of their way to find them. That would also be why Shaggy is always so scared of everything all the time; somewhere in his subconscious he knows that what’s happening is wrong and unnatural. But he is unable to do anything about it. That’s why he’s always running and hiding; he wants to escape the madness. Daphne, Fred and Velma are just manifestations of his subconscious created to protect him from the worst of his hallucinations. That would also probably explain why those monsters always turn out to be people in costumes. It’s his subconscious protecting him from the worst of his hallucinations.

Scooby Doo, and the rest of the Mystery Incorporated gang are just figments of Shaggy's imagination for the purpose of protecting himself from his own mind.

Either that, or Scooby-Doo is a reality altering, shape shifting trickster, and only we can see his real form!

Peace out!

Fox

Update: As I was posting this I was watching Where Walks Aphrodite with Professor Pericles, who is in fact an owl. An evil owl nonetheless! This doesn't change my theory at all, but I thought I should let you know that I have seen another animal who is just like Scooby Doo.

Why I Almost Refused Point Blank to See Batman vs Superman

So you all probably heard the rumours last week. You know the rumour; about Justin Bieber being cast as Robin in the upcoming Batman vs Superman movie. It did send the internet into meltdown, after all. Even more so than when the internet found out that Ben Affleck would be playing Batman in the movie.

And yet, I somehow completely missed this rumour until someone asked me if there was any truth to the rumour.

I was devastated to hear that Bieber might be playing Robin in Batman vs Superman. I’m really looking forward to seeing it when it comes out in 2015. Bieber being in it would ruin it completely. I’m sorry to any Bieber fans reading this (yeah, I’m not really), but that kid is a tool, and doesn’t deserve any more work. Hell, he doesn’t even deserve to be famous, and I can’t wait for the next Boy Wonder (haha, get it?) to come along and replace him as the next hottest singing sensation for tweeny boppers across the world.

But enough of the Bieber bashing. I’m not really saying anything new other than he does not deserve more work that’ll increase his popularity (actually, would Bieber fans even be interested in the Batman vs Superman movie?).

The point is I was devastated to hear that Bieber could be playing Robin in the movie, and decided right then and there that there was absolutely no way in hell I would be seeing the movie. Ever. Krampus will start handing out treats to wicked children instead of tying them up in his sack and beating them before that ever happens. I’m also unsure how I completely missed that rumour. It is (or was) big news. I guess it’s become so natural for me to cover my ears shouting “Lalalalalalala!” whenever something Bieber related comes up that I don’t even notice I’m doing it anymore.

So yeah, for anyone else who somehow completely missed last week’s hottest rumour that sent the internet into meltdown, Bieber was said to be playing Robin in Batman vs Superman. Now you’re probably enraged and freaking out that the movie has been completely ruined before it even had a chance.

But a quick google search later, and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief; turns out the rumour was nothing more than a hoax. I can see Batman vs Superman once again.

Phew!

I don’t know how everyone else reacted to this rumour. Like I said, I completely missed it until it had been confirmed to be a hoax. And, frankly, I didn’t care enough to find out whether people were for or against Bieber as Robin. Although I think it would be pretty obvious based on whether or not they like Bieber or not. But the important thing is that Batman vs Superman has dodged a serious bullet, and once again I’m so looking forward to seeing it in 2015.

Peace out!

Fox