Australian beer is shit and Fosters is shit but I'm pretty sure they don't actually drink Fosters in Australia. According to Wiki it's largest market is the U.K., which surprises the fuck out of me because everyone I've ever met here avoids the stuff as it tastes like toilet water. It is sold for like 50p a pint at students unions though which may help explain things.
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Why Aussies are braver than Brits
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Pls. We call them cunts, they call us cunts, we play a few games of cricket or rugby, have beer and a barbie with the sheilas and then sit back and laugh at our cousins living under Trumplepigskin.
The Giant
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Your right. It's one of our biggest jokes, we play on the world.
Jezbollah
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Indeed. Cunt is a term of endearment. If an Aussie calls you "the craziest cunt they've ever met" then that's incredibly high praise.
Also, there's nothing more that unites Poms and Aussies than Yanks
Aarglefarg
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Red back spiders are more serious.
SCULLIBUNDO
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That's because - unlike a huntsman, a redback spider can put you in hospital in no time and result in death.
Chuck Norris
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Because it can kill you
Charles Brandon
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I'm not sure how old you are but Fosters used to be huge here.
Every pub had Fosters, Carling, Guinness, Smiths and maybe Stella. There are still thousands of pubs that sell it today. They are all shit though so you may not have noticed.
Oblong Schlong
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Oh sure, Australians are sooo brave, look at them HIDING FROM EVERYONE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PLANET.
Australia is the small dog that barks for attention.
But because it's Australia the dog is also poisonous and causes melanoma. The dog also likes Vegemite. And is a bit racist. The Australia dog wrote this post.
Australia is the small dog that barks for attention.
But because it's Australia the dog is also poisonous and causes melanoma. The dog also likes Vegemite. And is a bit racist. The Australia dog wrote this post.
Aarglefarg
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1 person in Australia has been killed by a spider since 1979.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...after-spider-bite-during-australian-bushwalk/
Spiders kill 7 people in the US a year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...-likely-to-kill-you-this-summer-10325075.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...after-spider-bite-during-australian-bushwalk/
Spiders kill 7 people in the US a year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...-likely-to-kill-you-this-summer-10325075.html
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Of course Australians are going to be a bit tougher, they're descended from the genetic stock of our most disagreeable criminals which we stuck in floating hulks and shipped off to literally the farthest and most inhospitable spot we could find.
Seriously, thinking about it now makes me laugh. We sent them to the opposite side of the planet! I can only imagine where we might have sent them if we'd had access to space travel. Pluto? The Sun?
Seriously, thinking about it now makes me laugh. We sent them to the opposite side of the planet! I can only imagine where we might have sent them if we'd had access to space travel. Pluto? The Sun?
Theonik
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Just a few years ago, it and Carling were basically the biggest beers in the UK. It took some serious effort to take the pub scene out of the gutter. And yeah most Carling/Fosters drinkers I know do it because it's cheap basically a way to get drunk fast.
Nowadays kinda. They are an Australian export!
Buttons? What kind?
Every country foists its shittest beer on the world. Pray you never get London Pride or McEwans or Harp or Heineken or Tecate or Sapporo etc.
Exemptions:
Tennents Super
Asahi beer for the strong men of the north
Dos Equis
Yeungling
NoblesseOblige
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Neither you Aussies or Brits got to deal with the threat of guns.
Rktk
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That's called living in fear.
Hlebalicious
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While that may be true, 95% of aussies will never see any of those things in the wild.
It always boggles my mind how this stereotype of come to Australia and get attacked by venomous/poisonous animals is constantly repeated.
95% wont see them because we already know not to fuck around in areas we know they will be. Just because we dont see them does not mean we dont know they are there.
Nearly every aussie will see a redback spider in or around their homes. And nearly all aussies will see quite a few snakes in their time but mainly pythons. Browns snakes a bloody everywhere around where I live though, those fuckers will kill you quick as well. Jellyfish are everywhere espeically in northern parts of Australia as well as crocs, you bascially cant swim in the northern territory.
All the local rivers in south east queensland is also infested with bull sharks, when the area around me flooded not long ago some bull sharks got stuck in the waters at a local golf course, they are probably still there too lol.
I mean. It's a big fucking spider. Aussies are used to such things.
People in the southern US barely blink an eye at a lounging alligator. An armored, emotionless predator that will totally fucking eat you and you children given the chance. Hell they might even play with it and pose their child riding it like a horse for Twitter.
Is it smart to treat giant spiders and giant reptile beasts with indifference? No. Obviously. But some people do it.
People in the southern US barely blink an eye at a lounging alligator. An armored, emotionless predator that will totally fucking eat you and you children given the chance. Hell they might even play with it and pose their child riding it like a horse for Twitter.
Is it smart to treat giant spiders and giant reptile beasts with indifference? No. Obviously. But some people do it.
Red backs are actually dangerous. Funnel webs too.
Where I live there has been a major roadwork project which has displaced a lot of animals. Snake catchers have relocated more than a hundred brown snakes this past summer. I kill several redback spiders per year. Crocodiles, sharks and jellyfish are a real threat on Queensland beaches. The trick is be smart about these things, heed the warning signs.
Jezbollah
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Thats because we had the spine to do something after our Sandy Hook incidents.
Aarglefarg
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If only there was a suitable gif to express displeasure with Florida.
Import and domestic Fosters are different. Domestic isn't bad but I don't go out of my way to drink it, it's basically Crown Lager which is a higher end beer here.
Also Australia has a ton of good beers, they just don't all get exported out.
Also fuck spiders, I've had one of those cunts crawl over my face while I was lying in bed watching a movie. I hate them.
It would probably be an amalgamation of people voting for Trump and cops shrugging towards one another as they arrested someone for doing something stupid.
That's the worst case symptoms if it actually bites you, which it likely won't because it's gigantic.
Most spider bites happen when people accidentally press against them putting on clothing or reaching into cramped spaces; you're not missing that fucking thing.