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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
Y'all know the sad thing? I've been to QLD (home of the cane toad) a
gazillion times, and never once laid eyes on a living breathing cane toad. Squished yes, but alive no. Never seen any of these horrific poisonous snakes, spiders, etc. Instead just gorgeous scenery, adorable fluffy animals, and wonderful wonderful people and LQS!! -- Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load) http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but quicker) "NightMist" wrote in message ... You missed the batrachophobe part. I am crazy in my unrelenting terror of froggish things. One time I actually fell through a closed window in my haste to flee from a tree one that a boy brought indoors. The wee tiny local garden variety toad can send me screaming up a wall. The idea of poisonous monster ones infesting a whole country/continent is the very stuff of my worst nightmares. NightMist shuddering just from useing the F and the T words in a post On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:39:56 +1100, "Sharon Harper" wrote: Why? I think it is a truly NT way of getting rid of a pest - and the cane toads are a true pest. What is better giving them a humane ending at the RSPCA, or turning them into wallets, keychains and the like (and yes I have seen this)? Or having crazy QLD drivers squish them and turn them into roadkill? Quite a rash statement based on one article, I feel but still that is your opinion and you are entitled to it -- Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) (happy to live in the land down under - cane toads and all) http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load) http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but quicker) "NightMist" wrote in message ... I don't much care for beer any way, and this just about put me off for life: http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common...468%5e13569,00. html The resulting extremely cautious search has resulted in my resolution to never ever visit Austrailia ever. NightMist The Batrachophobe My sinuis infection has me all weak, fevered, and bored out of my skull. Just sitting up is exhausting for any length of time. So I have been spending way to much time online, and looking for any book in the house that I haven't already read a thousand times. -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat. -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat. |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
Yay! sort of..... Somebody else! Though I am more of a scream and flee in a blind panic sort than a shudder and run type. The farther north you move the fewer of the evil creatures there are. As of yet I have been unable to convince my family that life north of the arctic circle is an ongoing party. I can't even get DH and DGF to consider Chicoutimi. NightMist On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:44:21 +0000, Sally Swindells wrote: Googled and found http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/canetoad.htm and can see why they have to control them. Why do people introduce species that just destroy their new environment. I am afraid that frogs and toads are to me what spiders are to lots of people - ugggg. Sorry - I meet them , shudder and run. Quite illogical I know. That is why we don't have a garden pond, though they still come to see me. And they have big hops! -- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk) http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:52:02 GMT, (NightMist) wrote: I don't much care for beer any way, and this just about put me off for life: http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common...e13569,00.html The resulting extremely cautious search has resulted in my resolution to never ever visit Austrailia ever. NightMist The Batrachophobe My sinuis infection has me all weak, fevered, and bored out of my skull. Just sitting up is exhausting for any length of time. So I have been spending way to much time online, and looking for any book in the house that I haven't already read a thousand times. -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat. |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
Eggstactly our point --- you can be in the outback for four
months and never sight any of these dangerous creatures! Just because the ol' US of A has tournadoes, hurricanes, rattlesnakes and 'gators and seriously weird gun-toting maniacs who shoot up schools and shopping malls doesn't mean I won't travel there. I don't know how you all sleep at night. LOL Please come and visit - Sharon, Cats, me and all your aussie friends want to show you our LQS's and everything else. -- Bronnie |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
The only time I have screamed in my whole life was when a small one
jumped out and landed on my sandelled foot. -- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk) http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:29:16 GMT, (NightMist) wrote: Yay! sort of..... Somebody else! Though I am more of a scream and flee in a blind panic sort than a shudder and run type. The farther north you move the fewer of the evil creatures there are. As of yet I have been unable to convince my family that life north of the arctic circle is an ongoing party. I can't even get DH and DGF to consider Chicoutimi. NightMist On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:44:21 +0000, Sally Swindells wrote: Googled and found http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/canetoad.htm and can see why they have to control them. Why do people introduce species that just destroy their new environment. I am afraid that frogs and toads are to me what spiders are to lots of people - ugggg. Sorry - I meet them , shudder and run. Quite illogical I know. That is why we don't have a garden pond, though they still come to see me. And they have big hops! -- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk) http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:52:02 GMT, (NightMist) wrote: I don't much care for beer any way, and this just about put me off for life: http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common...e13569,00.html The resulting extremely cautious search has resulted in my resolution to never ever visit Austrailia ever. NightMist The Batrachophobe My sinuis infection has me all weak, fevered, and bored out of my skull. Just sitting up is exhausting for any length of time. So I have been spending way to much time online, and looking for any book in the house that I haven't already read a thousand times. |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
we aint got snakes here in nz.
j. -- san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar http://community.webshots.com/user/VirtualQuilting "WOK- the ancient art" http://www.frappr.com/rctq Put yourself on the RCTQ map!!! "NightMist" wrote in message ... Yay! sort of..... Somebody else! Though I am more of a scream and flee in a blind panic sort than a shudder and run type. The farther north you move the fewer of the evil creatures there are. As of yet I have been unable to convince my family that life north of the arctic circle is an ongoing party. I can't even get DH and DGF to consider Chicoutimi. NightMist On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:44:21 +0000, Sally Swindells wrote: Googled and found http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/canetoad.htm and can see why they have to control them. Why do people introduce species that just destroy their new environment. I am afraid that frogs and toads are to me what spiders are to lots of people - ugggg. Sorry - I meet them , shudder and run. Quite illogical I know. That is why we don't have a garden pond, though they still come to see me. And they have big hops! -- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk) http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:52:02 GMT, (NightMist) wrote: I don't much care for beer any way, and this just about put me off for life: http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common...e13569,00.html The resulting extremely cautious search has resulted in my resolution to never ever visit Austrailia ever. NightMist The Batrachophobe My sinuis infection has me all weak, fevered, and bored out of my skull. Just sitting up is exhausting for any length of time. So I have been spending way to much time online, and looking for any book in the house that I haven't already read a thousand times. -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat. |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
Hey - come on down! You'd fit right in at my place!
-- Cats ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ ( U ) ( U ) ( U ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "QuiltsWithCatFur" wrote in message . .. : That's why I want to go there! I love crazy people in action. Cyndi : : the crocodiles, snakes, cane toads, venomous spiders, flies that really : bite, very occasional tropical cyclones and the odd brand of football many : of us play, it is still a really great place to visit. LOL : : |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
Aahhh!! But we do have gun control! ROFL
-- Cats ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ ( U ) ( U ) ( U ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "teleflora" wrote in message news:xqeUf.265$t22.187@dukeread08... : : I'm ascared to go to Oz. There are more things waiting to kill you than any : place on earth. : : Cindy : : |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz even for free beer
Saw a flock of those noisy lil' birds EAT the siding of a
house! The couple replaced the timber with aluminium - and they tore that off too. Seems they didn't like the sun reflecting off the wall. That end of the house sat abandoned near where I used to live in NSW 15 years ago. Oh dear! Does this mean I have added to the list of scary things? Are you all going to think we have the birds from the Hitchcock movie? ROFLMAO -- Cats ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ ( U ) ( U ) ( U ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "Tia Mary" wrote in message ... : teleflora wrote: : : I'm ascared to go to Oz. There are more things waiting to kill you than any : place on earth. : : Cindy : : Years ago, DH was sent to work in OZ for a month. He spent four : full weeks at a natural gas pumping station in Moomba which is way to : the north of Adelaide in the middle of the Outback! Anywhoooo, the one : thing he was specifically told to bring was a pair of STEEL TOED : MID-CALF leather work boots. Seems there are something like 29 : different snakes in that area and about 40 of them are poisonous! : Poisonous to the point of "if you're bit, you DIE"!!! He still has the : work boots and fortunately never laid eyes on a snake -- thank heavens. : Of course, he got up close and personal with hundreds of sulphur : crested cockatoos and has THE funniest stories to tell about them : playing with the high power lines, etc. -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow ^;;^ |
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OT Why I am never visiting Oz
But frogs have no shark teeth, no scorpion or bee stingers, no venomous
fangs, no ability to wrap around you and crush you, they don't chase you, no painful bite, they can't kill you, hurt you, or leave a scar. they just **** on your hands when you pick them up. Do they scare you because they are ugly? Cyndi You missed the batrachophobe part. |
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