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[Jaxryley]

For those of you who watch what you eat,
here's the final word on nutrition and health.
It's a relief to know the truth
after all those conflicting
nutritional studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat
and suffer fewer heart attacks than
Australians.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat
and suffer fewer heart attacks than Australians.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wine
and suffer fewer heart attacks than Australians.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine
and suffer fewer heart attacks than Australians.

5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats
and suffer fewer heart attacks than Australians.

CONCLUSION:
Eat and drink what you like.
Speaking English is apparently what kills you!

[exile360]

It could also be related to the fact that one of the deadliest spiders in the world lives in Australia and anyone might have a heart attack when faced with this.

[yardbird]

Well I 'll pass on a visit down under after seeing that exile360! But then Arizona, has pleanty of surprises also, and can give you more than a heart attack.... BTW what kind of spider is that?

[exile360]

It's a funnel web spider. Nasty little buggers and according to a program I saw on the Discovery channel, their fangs are sharp enough and they spring out hard enough to go through leather work boots! Of course, Australia is also home to many other deadly nasties, like Great White Sharks, Box Jellyfish, the poisonous claw-having Platypus and a bunch of others. For me spiders are the worst though, I hates me some spiders .

[yardbird]

Just saw one on youtube... Now I know why your up, must be appx: 6pm down there. I"m a Amateur Radio operator. Its 1am here, so nows about the time I talk to Australia on the radio... thx for the reply.. have a good day. YB

[exile360]

Oh, I'm up because I stay up all night (I work graveyard shift at a hotel). I don't live in Australia, I'm in the U.S. .

[CharlesT]

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I hates me some spiders

I hate spiders too they try to be to sneaky ! ,I recently found out that they are scopions in my state speaking of crawling things , one was on my sister in law the other day , its not way poisonus kinda like a spider bite or bee sting , unless allergic to that kinda stuff then it might kill ya .but just as sneaky as a spider .

[yardbird]

I'm sorry exile360, thought you post above said you lived down under, I'm tired because the best time to fix communications equipment for the USFS & other agencies is at night when they don't use them. I work scatted 3rd shift also.
And good morning CharlesT well I remember those little creatures when I was in NC in the Army...circa 1969 Only time we saw spiders n things was at base housing. We made to much noise in in AIT. Good to meet you! another day of fighting malware begins.... later YB

[Jaxryley]

Bit of trivia:

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People and other primates are exquisitely sensitive to funnel web venom but, intriguingly, other mammals such as mice, rabbits, guineapigs, dogs and cats are relatively immune and often survive 100 times the human lethal dosage.

Great Aussie Bites

[yardbird]

Interesting site, I suspected the smaller mammals would be immune! Jaxryley glad to meet you regards, YB

[Jaxryley]

And pleased to meet you yardbird.

[exile360]

Thanks for the link Jax. I forgot to mention the immensely poisonous seasnakes, but you took care of that . Perhaps I'll visit Australia once I've combined my DNA with that of a hamster . I lived in NM for a while and they had scorpions and spiders, but also the nasty wind scorpion, also known as the camel spider, although nothing nearly as large as what's pictured with those soldiers. The ones we had, at least that I saw, got as big as your hand and were very aggressive (and very hard to squish). My first encounter with one was in my home. I chased it to the front door then it suddenly turned on me and reared up and ran at me, I squeeked (as I often do when encountering creepy arachnids ) and then remembered "I'm bigger than you are and I will squish you!". I proceeded to step on it with my military boots, but it didn't die, IT KEPT COMING!. I then stomped on it with both feed, jumping up and down, and finally it was dead after about 8 stomps, still twitching though.

[yardbird]

exile360, on May 7 2009, 05:02 PM, said:

Thanks for the link Jax. I forgot to mention the immensely poisonous seasnakes, but you took care of that . Perhaps I'll visit Australia once I've combined my DNA with that of a hamster . I lived in NM for a while and they had scorpions and spiders, but also the nasty wind scorpion, also known as the camel spider, although nothing nearly as large as what's pictured with those soldiers. The ones we had, at least that I saw, got as big as your hand and were very aggressive (and very hard to squish). My first encounter with one was in my home. I chased it to the front door then it suddenly turned on me and reared up and ran at me, I squeeked (as I often do when encountering creepy arachnids ) and then remembered "I'm bigger than you are and I will squish you!". I proceeded to step on it with my military boots, but it didn't die, IT KEPT COMING!. I then stomped on it with both feed, jumping up and down, and finally it was dead after about 8 stomps, still twitching though.

"combined my DNA with that of a hamster" "8 stomps"? words fail me....YB

[exile360]

Jax said that mice and a long list of other mammals were immune to the venom and since I saw a lot of rodents on that list I'd bet hamsters are immune too . Anyways, back to the genetics lab .

[yardbird]

For some reason I had a flashback of the movie "The Fly" try to step on that LOL attached a nice .wav file of what you can yell next time you step on a spider 8 times...

[exile360]

Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinkin' when I originally said it (The Fly). I love the sound too, that's Gene Wylder in Young Frankenstein I believe. One of the best movies of all time.

[yardbird]

Gene Wylder correct.... how would you like to step on a Fly that big! at least Frankenstein you could reason with

[YoKenny1]

Speaking of spiders brought back this memory:


Dolly Parton don't like dem nethr.

[swagger]

I saw 1 camel spider when I was deployed back in '06. It wasn't as big as some of those pictures that exile linked to, but it was a good sized baby. And it was fast. I avoid spiders like the plague. Here in SC, I have to deal with black widows, wolf spiders, and these huge yellow garden spiders that only come out at the end of the summer.

[mountaintree16]

@ Exile

gak! That's probably the spider that I heard about from Australia. eaaak.