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I am tempted to vote Australia just because of kangaroos. Could a kangaroo f*ck up a bear, or at least intimidate it? Is the reputation of the kangaroo outsized to non-Australians? 🤔

I think Australia gets its reputation here due to the fact Australians are natural shit talkers and known for blatantly exaggerating and embellishing the truth.

In saying that, I'd take a paddock full of kangaroos over a single Lion, Tiger or Bear. I've lived in a regional area, and grew up in the country, it took a recent trip to Brisbane of all places to see my first snake in the wild. The frequency of encountering any of these Aussie animals or snakes in the wild is very low, unless you're looking for them.

The only real monster we have is the crocodile. The rest of our native animals are bitches, except the dingo. That thing will eat your baby if you're not looking. Oh, and there's a couple of flightless birds that will fuck you up. But finding one isn't easy.

But sting there isn't a chance in hell a Kangaroo or any of our freak animals lays a glove on a Bear, a Wolf or any of the big cats. Or pretty much anything native to Africa.

I’m voting Australia because SPIDERS. Hate the pricks, and we have a lot of lovely deadly ones. Plus also snakes.

Kangaroos aren’t necessarily dangerous, they will just fuck your shit up. Magpies will also fuck you up unless they like you and you baby talk them like I do hahahaha

Mosquitos by far put the most numbers on the board, especially as far as Africa is concerned.

Mosquito-associated viruses (MAVs) include mosquito-specific viruses (MSVs) and mosquito-borne (arbo)viruses (MBVs). MBVs and their vectors (e.g., Aedes, Culex etc.) are an increasing public, veterinary, and global health concern [1,2,3,4]. Africa is known as the reservoir and origin of most pathogenic and nonpathogenic MAVs spreading around the globe. MAVs have a vast impact on livestock [5,6,7] and public and global health [1,2,3]. MBVs, including dengue virus (DENV), yellow fever virus (YFV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Zika virus (ZIKV), Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), and West Nile virus (WNV), are increasingly threatening over 831 million (70%) people on the African continent [2,8], with a high risk of international spread due to globalisation [1,3]. Indeed, with high species diversity estimated at 3500 species, a number of mosquitoes (family Culicidae) are known to be efficient hosts, carriers, or vectors of various pathogens, including viruses that can infect animals and humans [1,2,3].

Then you have Hippos, Lions, Black Mambas, Puff Adders, Tsetse Flies and Crocodiles.

I think it’s more of a debate which continent comes in at #2


I was more thinking in terms of human deaths rather than animal vs animal but Africa is still putting up a great fight in that category too.

I think if your continent has a Lion or Tiger on it, that's probably the most dangerous one.

Nov 21, 2024 11:25:31 GMT sandylea said:

I’m voting Australia because SPIDERS. Hate the pricks, and we have a lot of lovely deadly ones. Plus also snakes.

Kangaroos aren’t necessarily dangerous, they will just fuck your shit up. Magpies will also fuck you up unless they like you and you baby talk them like I do hahahaha

I love that by Australian standards. The animal won’t kill you, just mess you up badly isn’t considered dangerous :lol:

Indeed according to the rest of the world, Australia is full of dangerous animals, memes showing a spider the size of a car resting casually on the wall of a house, and so on. I imagine these are incredibly rare and not representative of daily life in Australia.

That said I'm curious what sandylea means when she says kangaroos and dangerous but they'll fuck your shit up. Fucking my shit up sounds pretty damn dangerous to me :lol:

Nov 21, 2024 12:05:24 GMT NATH45 said:

I think if your continent has a Lion or Tiger on it, that's probably the most dangerous one.

I'd say it's a similar argument to the one you laid out for Australia's dangerous animals. You're not likely going to encounter big cats, hippos, crocodiles and so on in your daily life.

What about sea creatures? I'm not talking about sharks eating swimmers Jaws style because that don't happen, but those nasty buggers you can't easily see like jellyfish.

Off the cuff I'd have said Australia as they are home to the most deadly snakes and spiders amongst other things, but then I remembered my mom lived in Africa and she told me mosquitos were actually responsible for killing the most people in a year via malaria and most of those deaths occur in Africa, so my answer is Africa, Alex.

Nov 21, 2024 15:22:51 GMT iron maiden said:

Off the cuff I'd have said Australia as they are home to the most deadly snakes and spiders amongst other things, but then I remembered my mom lived in Africa and she told me mosquitos were actually responsible for killing the most people in a year via malaria and most of those deaths occur in Africa, so my answer is Africa, Alex.

Sorry, we were looking for “what is Africa”.

Also when RT said "we claim Alex", did he mean just Canadians? 

Nov 21, 2024 11:25:31 GMT sandylea said:

Magpies will also fuck you up unless they like you and you baby talk them like I do hahahaha

Magpies are officially the worst bird on Earth. I vote for adding these shit cunts to the endangered species list the hard way.

Also, Mosquitos... does anyone want to hear a Jimmy Carr joke?

One of the raffle ladies at work was telling me she was somewhere were they had a school excursion and the teacher spotted an Eastern brown snake. So said teacher gathered the kids around to have a look at it.

Said lady told them to get away and teacher responded the government wouldn’t let the snakes be there if they were dangerous:

“The Australian eastern brown snake is the only snake in the world that regularly kills people in under 15 minutes. They have tiny fangs, and in some cases victims do not know they have been bitten before collapsing and dying. The antivenin does not work on bites from very young baby snakes.“

- ABC News

Nov 21, 2024 11:25:31 GMT sandylea said:

Magpies will also fuck you up unless they like you and you baby talk them like I do hahahaha

The Magpie should be our provincial bird. That or mosquitos or wasps. All annoying pests.

Emperor my mum and step Dad used to do wildlife animal rescue and we looked after a joey for awhile. She was the absolute sweetest, just wanted to be constantly cuddled and liked drool on my pillow. She became a wrestling fan and would copy the kicks against me while watching it - it didn’t hurt, they know how to do kicks and hold back if they don’t want to hurt you.
At the other wildlife reserve where rescued kangaroos would go, they know who to trust and are the sweetest loving creatures in the world.

On the other hand, if a kangaroo doesn’t know you/doesn’t feel safe in your presence and genuinely wants to hurt you. You’re fucked.

So I find it hard to say they are dangerous animals completely when Missy (the Joey we had) was the sweetest in the world (though she was a slack mother 😂 once she had babies and they reached a certain age she just dropped them off at the rescue and went off hahahahaha)

Just back to Aussie Spiders. I'm convinced that's bullshit as well, having these monster Spiders everywhere that is.

Sure, 30 years ago we'd be burning down houses to kill Huntsmen Spiders every other month, but I haven't seen a real beast in decades.

Feels like it's just the Australians telling us to stay out.

Which continent has the most humans? That's the right answer. We are the deadliest animal on planet Earth.

Nov 22, 2024 23:19:45 GMT NATH45 said:

Yes. My soap box is gleaming. 

The correct answer is Africa. Hippos alone give it to them in terms of casualties. Then add in elephants, rhinos, lions, hyenas, crocodiles, more venmous snakes than anywhere except Australia. Oh and flies that will kill you with the most virulent of diseases.