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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........

Walrus
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Hello my brethren down under. Wtf up with this plant? Is it common like you could be cleaning your back yard touch it and have a miserable 9 months of pain? This ain’t cool. I worry about poison oak and Ivy.
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ghce
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Walrus Walrus
Hello my brethren down under. Wtf up with this plant? Is it common like you could be cleaning your back yard touch it and have a miserable 9 months of pain? This ain’t cool. I worry about poison oak and Ivy.
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BlackTalon BlackTalon
Even worse, it looks like mint.

Hmmm could you make Beef Stroganoff and mushrooms with that?
 
JimInOz
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BlackTalon BlackTalon
Even worse, it looks like mint.

Well, when the Plant Spirit saw what the Snake Spirit and the Insect Spirit and the Fish Spirit had created for this rugged landscape, they had a re-think.

"Shit, I don't think stinging nettle will be enough, the others will think I didn't try. I know! How about..............".

<Please ignore inappropriate appropriation of our Indigenous culture>.
 
rob#1
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Imagine being caught short in the bush and reaching over to grab some of those leaves to clean up your rear end 😲
 
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rob#1 rob#1
Imagine being caught short in the bush and reaching over to grab some of those leaves to clean up your rear end 😲

Even when you’re not in the bush….we have these waiting on a toilet roll
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JimInOz
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rob#1 rob#1
Imagine being caught short in the bush and reaching over to grab some of those leaves to clean up your rear end 😲

Australian ex-serviceman Cyril Bromley described falling into a stinging tree during military training on the tableland in World War II. Strapped to a hospital bed for three weeks and administered all manner of unsuccessful treatments, he was sent “as mad as a cut snake” by the pain. Cyril also told of an officer shooting himself after using a stinging-tree leaf for “toilet purposes”.

https://www.australiangeographic.co.../06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/
 
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Australian ex-serviceman Cyril Bromley described falling into a stinging tree during military training on the tableland in World War II. Strapped to a hospital bed for three weeks and administered all manner of unsuccessful treatments, he was sent “as mad as a cut snake” by the pain. Cyril also told of an officer shooting himself after using a stinging-tree leaf for “toilet purposes”.

https://www.australiangeographic.co.../06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/

“as mad as a cut snake”😁
What a great Aussie expression

It's amazing how toxic most household and garden plants are, if not topically then via ingestion, in some cases one small Leaf can, and does kill, Christmas time favourite Poinsettia for example is literally deadly..

A neighbour of mine was trimming his Laurel hedge, and whilst taking trimmings to the dump (about three miles away) felt himself losing consciousness at the wheel. Fortunately, he got out of the car in time and avoided the potentially fatal consequences of the cyanide/cyanide gases that are released from Laurel trimmings
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"Cooktown resident Bart Harrison said the steep bank had collapsed underneath the victim's feet, sending him more than 20 feet into the river which is renowned as a crocodile habitat."

Sounds like it was a nasty accident, but still not exactly the crocs fault.

People were also apparently feeding the croc from the bank.

"He said the penalty for deliberately feeding a crocodile was $6,452."

That's an oddly specific amount. $6000 court fine, $400 to pay for jail overnight, and $52 for the sheriff and deputy for coffee and lunch just for the nuisance of being called out to the river?
 
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pdxleaf pdxleaf
"Cooktown resident Bart Harrison said the steep bank had collapsed underneath the victim's feet, sending him more than 20 feet into the river which is renowned as a crocodile habitat."

Sounds like it was a nasty accident, but still not exactly the crocs fault.

People were also apparently feeding the croc from the bank.

"He said the penalty for deliberately feeding a crocodile was $6,452."

That's an oddly specific amount. $6000 court fine, $400 to pay for jail overnight, and $52 for the sheriff and deputy for coffee and lunch just for the nuisance of being called out to the river?

Usually it’s something like 1 penalty unit is $313 and 6 penalty units is $1878 etc

I’m not sure what a QLD state penalty unit is worth. But looks like it’s 20 penalty units or something

So you speed and under 15km is 1 penalty unit over 15km is 2 penalty units and so forth….
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