tartankoala

Steady now, next we'll be seeing threads started on ned/chav snakes bringing down the tone of certain areas, with their loud music, love of Burberry and general mischief.

GillyG

That's funny!!!!!

AndyR1976

You English people worry too much!!!!

Snakes ....phhht!

>Trigger<

Research...what research?...pfaff snakes...drop bears..nobody seems to mention them..be afraid,be very afraid

http://www.cfr.com.au/dropbears/

bcworld

Do you write for the Daily Mail??

Timber Floor Au

Be careful, at the following places:

Carpet Choice - in the rolled up carpet, is found the carpet snake. It has an axminster pattern on its body, and is stain proof via a Dupont redemption cert for 20 years !

Green Trees - is where you will find the green tree snake, so only look at properties where there are brown trees. Suffice to say, if you are colour blind.. you may just die.

Red Belly Black snakes - more often ppl die from being bit by a what they think is a harmless black snake, until they try to inspect the snakes belly, to see if it is red, and get bitten !! Strange but true

Brown Snakes - these are very dangerous, and play on the colour blind ppl who bought a block of land with plenty of Brown Trees. Sometimes they hide behind green tree snakes, as you hug brown trees, and then attack ! Deadly.

Target - be careful when venturing into a Target store, in the mens section of workwear apparell, may be found the Trouser Snake.

Deadliest of them all, is the Sydney Funnel Black Spotted Viper. Its only small, but hides in the pouches of Drop Bears. As the drop bears fall on your head, rendering you unconcious, the snake, slips out of the pouch, and slithers down ya earole. Very Deadly.

Youve been warned !

tictac

We saw our first real live snake the other day in Eatons Hill

It was a dead, squashed green tree snake

There's irony for you

ameya

Well, I just thought about snakes

AndyR1976

I have a terrific photo of a snake that strangled a cat and climbed up into the rafters with it - really quite amazing but won't post it here in case it offends people.

Snakes aren't too much to worry about - just need to be aware of them when you are in places that you may come accorss them.

I used to come accross them a lot when I lived in a rural area - killed prob one per month.

Eventually a brown snake got my Jack Russell! Poor little tiger!

Not really anything to worry about though!

Dreamy

Never mind the made up statistics about boomerangs killing the entire population of Australia, its obvious that drop bears were actually responsible.

As they've evolved, and realised that people are wary of standing under trees, they instead use their giant, voluminous arses to deflect errant boomerangs, thus killing their prey but managing to avoid making it into 'WorryWart's Encyclopedia of Made Up Statistics 2008'

Further, be warned that if you receive an email entitled 'Drop Bears of Queenslands', with an attachment, DO NOT OPEN IT.

The Drop bear has found a way to worm through the webspace, and eat your hard drive. Environmentalists are resisting attempts to devise virus protection, so this could be a very real problem for years to come.

You have been warned.

ameya

Well,

I went through the dropbears research and the only fact i came across was that there is an extreme possibility of it being a myth...

I found a nice piece from wiki to corroborate what i researched... Moreover, i didnt find any picture of the 'dropbear' on the internet, except one, which was morphed

There are several possible origins of the drop bear myth.

Some suggest that it is designed to discourage children from straying needlessly below eucalyptus trees, protecting them from the very real danger of getting hit by a falling branch. Arbitrary detachment of old branches is common with certain species of the eucalyptus, which are known as 'widow-makers' for this very reason. Similar theories are attached to the cone from the bunya tree.

Another possibility is that the myth is based on a real animal. It appears to have first appeared during the latter half of the 20th century, and may have its origins with Phascolarctos stirtoni or perhaps Thylacoleo carnifex, which belong to a group of extinct animals known as Australian megafauna. The prehistoric creatures were approximately twice the size of modern koalas. T. carnifex is thought to have been an arboreal (tree-dwelling) predator that may well have ambushed prey by dropping on it from overhead branches, similar to how cougars often hunt.

However, despite the merit or otherwise of these putative explanations it seems far more likely that drop bears started out as a joke.

I guess, we need to 'drop' the 'dropbear' now

Dreamy

::devastated::

Next you'll be telling me that even if I sleep with my head under the pillow, the toothfairy won't be coming with her ladder and pliers, and verrily $28 in shiny $1 coins.

ameya

thats not what i am saying' it is the ever diplomatic wiki'

ameya

I just punched in 'toothfairy' on google

burtreynoldsisonit