I love all you Aussie bros, but ...

[TheTransient]

their opossums are cuter than our's?

http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/4013/possum ... explained/

[Mudfuzz]

their opossums are cuter than our's?

http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/4013/possum ... explained/

exactly

[casecandy]

I think Australia's coming out ahead here.

[HorseyBoy]

^ Not when there's 400 of the fucking things tearing fruit trees up in your backyard and shitting all over your kids' trampoline…
Also, they've totally fucked New Zealand: http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and ... z/possums/
And: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... ms/273606/

[futuresailors]

[goosekevin]

Oh shit realy? They divorced yeah?

yep and yep
kids would make awful jokes and comments behind his back i just wanted to give the guy a hug
awful situation all round

[daseb]

oh man that's fucking horrible, yeah.

[t-rey]

their opossums are cuter than our's?

Touche. For reference for you Aussies, this is the shit we get here.

It was a required text in one of the class-wide freshman courses when I was in school. It's a pretty interesting book, but required anything typically turns into burdensome target of undergraduate angst.

That's fair. The concept of the book seems really interesting to me, but I could see hating the fuck out of being made to read it when I was 18.

Most of our native animals arent really that deadly. They are complete arseholes though. My dad has been having this war with one huge old kangaroo that hangs around his property for like 18 months. He builds bigger and more complicated fences, the roo shows up, laughs and kicks them down.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Honest to god it's shown up outside their kitchen window twice now the morning after he put up new fences, and basically just started at him being like 'what's up? Think you're smart?'

That's fucking insane. I kinda want to move there now just to start up a rivalry with a kangaroo.

[Mudfuzz]

their opossums are cuter than our's?

Touche. For reference for you Aussies, this is the shit we get here.

and yeah I have at least one that lives in my yard… thing seems pretty chill though.. no poo.. no noise..

[t-rey]

The ones here tend to keep to themselves as well. They will sometimes get into outdoor pet's food bowls or garbage though. They hiss like shitheads here. Mostly they just shamble around like giant asshole rats.

[Mudfuzz]

The ones here tend to keep to themselves as well. They will sometimes get into outdoor pet's food bowls or garbage though. They hiss like shitheads here. Mostly they just shamble around like giant asshole rats.

still they are not as asshole-ish as raccoons on those points... and THEY poo everywhere..

[Andrew]

You're all forgetting that we've also got Pavlova

[CyaNitrate]

their opossums are cuter than our's?

Touche. For reference for you Aussies, this is the shit we get here.

In college, I worked in the autoshop, doing maintenance on the universitt's fleet of vehicles and lawn equipment. One time, one of those sumbitches was under the hood...I may have screamed. But you would, too, popping the hood to a hissing mouth full of teeth.

[KaosCill8r]

^ Not when there's 400 of the fucking things tearing fruit trees up in your backyard and shitting all over your kids' trampoline…
Also, they've totally fucked New Zealand: http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and ... z/possums/
And: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... ms/273606/

We have several families of the fuckers living in our ceilings and in our walls. The racket they make coming and going. And the fucking and the fighting. OMG! We thought of setting traps and relocate them out in the mountains but decided against it. It's boring here sometimes so we keep them around for the entertainment factor.

So do dingos really eat babies? Like what if you had sex with a dingo and had a baby with it. Would it eat that baby too?

After that lady spent years in prison and was eventually released, it was found that a dingo did indeed eat her baby. A dude was illegally keeping one as a pet. It had pups under his house and the mother dingo took the baby to feed them. He found part of the baby's clothing and took it out to the desert and dumped it where dingoes hang out. Then just went about his life like nothing had happened. Sad really, that lady lost everything.

the father taught me english in high school
you could see how fragile he was but he was a real kind dude, such a sad situation

Yeah the whole situation for every one in that family is pretty grim. They are virtually now a family apart because of all that. One of our biggest shames is what this country did to them.

[Jwar]

That's fucked up man. I thought it was a joke of some sort, but never understood it.


It seems like there would be lots of fun stuff to hunt in Aussie land. I'm not sure if anyone here is a hunter or not, or if that makes me a dick for saying...lol.

I'd love to visit some day regardless. Just visit. Always wanted to go.