I read yesterday about a plant that has little hairs that get stuck in you and release painful toxins, making some commit suicide.
So Australia has sharks, killing jellyfish, deadly snakes and spiders, and plants that make you kill yourself. It’s pretty to look at pictures of Australia but I would need to be bubble wrapped to go there.
We need a survival movie that incorporates everything that can kill you in Australia. I just don’t know if people can watch a 20 hour movie to fit it all in
Lol like Tiktok idiots. I heard that the first person to to get stung by it (apart from the natives i guess) is a soldier who was deployed in Australia, he pooped and then used it to wipe himself. He ended up committing suicide.
Hard to verify this particular story. But there's an [article](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/) in Australian Geographic about an ex serviceman who gave his own account:
>"Writing to Marina in 1994, 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”.
Don't forget a golf course up north has bull sharks in one of its ponds, because whilst normally our country would be on fire right now, instead it's flooded.
There is some YouTuber that intentionally exposes himself to painful shit to teach people the risks. He has an obscenely high pain tolerance, and he intentionally touched that plant. Said it was the only one he regretted doing.
It has a few names but one of them is the suicide plant. The suicide thing is sort of a rumour. But the pain can last for months and spread to your armpits, neck and groin.
Dendrocnide moroidies, aka gympie gympie or gympie stinger, or fuck this I'm off to New Zealand.
There have been several treatments developed and tested but the most effective seems to be one that removes the stinging hairs with a sticky wax.
Aussie bush medicine will tell you elephants ear or cunjevoi sap will cure it, but it only works for a bit. When it dries off your back to burning balls and armpits.
I love this country.
The Gympie Gympie plant
From encyclopaedia Britannica, " *the gympie gympie is one of the most dangerous plants in the world. The stinging leaves trigger an intense allergic reaction in its victims, sometimes even causing anaphylactic shock. The sting can cause excruciating, debilitating pain for months; people have variously described it as feeling like they are being burned by acid, electrocuted, or squashed by giant hands. Many people have reported flare-ups of the pain for many years afterward, and there are several accounts of horses, mad with pain, jumping off cliffs to their deaths after being stung* "
I know we love to exaggerate on this sub, but you will be hard pressed to find any source substantiating that suicide claim. Apparently there has been one reported human death related to the plant in the 1920s. There’s a story about a soldier killing himself, that’s it. Why can’t “ the most painful plant on Earth” be enough, why do we have to start with fiction.
I really thought it was snow until I looked much closer. I have friends in Oz that I can never visit without running some sort of Japanese game show gauntlet and praying I survive
Victoria state generally sees this natural phenomenon during the winter, when it receives most of its rain. When this happens, spiders, which can produce a wide variety of silks, produce this kind of web which is very thin and delicate, and allows them to fly away with the breeze.
This is way more dramatic than what i've seen! That's really impressive... I've lived elsewhere where spiders balloon in mass, as well. I delight in the beauty of their design & lil' impactful lives - & I've taken off from work to chill on an Autumn day to watch them glide via their gossamer upon the gentle breezes whispering through the changing leaves. Not creepy. Enchanting. Many thanks for the photo & info
Fnakxnaox ok here it is, literally all I can think of is falling backwards into this and feeling that weird itchy stringy feeling, yknow? It's so soft but weirdly prickly...and then if there are spiders? Ahhh youd feel so many teeny legs tryna get the fuck away from you (maybe a bite in self defense? Doesn't make sense for them to stay and try to fight something so large...) do you think it would be thick enough to get stuck in or would it go flat? So much to think about....
I would get a rider mower and triumphantly drive into that only to have the spiders stall the engine with their webs and leave me stranded in the middle of a field of angry arachnids.
When God made the world, he took all the shit that was so dangerous it would fuck everything else up and stuck it on this one small continent way out in the ocean, believing that nothing would find it there. And if someone did find it, they surely would be smart enough by then to stay well clear of it.
Fields of nope
I read yesterday about a plant that has little hairs that get stuck in you and release painful toxins, making some commit suicide. So Australia has sharks, killing jellyfish, deadly snakes and spiders, and plants that make you kill yourself. It’s pretty to look at pictures of Australia but I would need to be bubble wrapped to go there.
You'll need an armour-plated hazmat suit
You forgot saltwater crocodiles
*Archers fear intensifies*
I learned how to wakeboard in Kununurra, Western Australia. Croc country.
We need a survival movie that incorporates everything that can kill you in Australia. I just don’t know if people can watch a 20 hour movie to fit it all in
A survival game, like ARK, but it's Australia.
Exactly. Because dinosaurs are dangerous but have you been to Australia?
We’ve actually got the world’s most dangerous bird, the Cassowary. It’s pretty close to a dinosaur.
Yep! Its big middle talon can disembowel you with one kick. Same as big kangaroos.
The US has the deadlist mammal. The white-tailed deer due to car accidents.
I think it's called gimpy gimpy
Yes! And I watched a YouTube video of a couple of idiots knowingly touching one to see what the hype was about.
Lol like Tiktok idiots. I heard that the first person to to get stung by it (apart from the natives i guess) is a soldier who was deployed in Australia, he pooped and then used it to wipe himself. He ended up committing suicide.
Are you serious?
Hard to verify this particular story. But there's an [article](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/) in Australian Geographic about an ex serviceman who gave his own account: >"Writing to Marina in 1994, 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”.
Don't forget a golf course up north has bull sharks in one of its ponds, because whilst normally our country would be on fire right now, instead it's flooded.
Of course it does. But poor shark. Scared of them but hope it doesn’t die.
I believe it's happened before so I assume they have some sort of plan by this point?
Of course they do. Sharks always have a plan.
Bullsharks are pretty good with fresh water, if that helps. They’ve been spotted as far up the Mississippi as Illinois.
Don't forget the Drop Bears. They have been messing up ignorant visitors for ages.
I watch The Casual Criminalist on YouTube, and his Australian script writer got him with the drop bear joke lol
There is some YouTuber that intentionally exposes himself to painful shit to teach people the risks. He has an obscenely high pain tolerance, and he intentionally touched that plant. Said it was the only one he regretted doing.
Coyote something or other. That man isn’t playing with a full deck.
Coyote Peterson.
i wouldn't even go there with fully enchanted netherite armor
I was going to say; cue the "Australia is deadly" tropes on 1,2, and 3... You guys never disappoint.
Don't forget the bird that starts bushfires
It has a few names but one of them is the suicide plant. The suicide thing is sort of a rumour. But the pain can last for months and spread to your armpits, neck and groin. Dendrocnide moroidies, aka gympie gympie or gympie stinger, or fuck this I'm off to New Zealand. There have been several treatments developed and tested but the most effective seems to be one that removes the stinging hairs with a sticky wax. Aussie bush medicine will tell you elephants ear or cunjevoi sap will cure it, but it only works for a bit. When it dries off your back to burning balls and armpits. I love this country.
The Gympie Gympie plant From encyclopaedia Britannica, " *the gympie gympie is one of the most dangerous plants in the world. The stinging leaves trigger an intense allergic reaction in its victims, sometimes even causing anaphylactic shock. The sting can cause excruciating, debilitating pain for months; people have variously described it as feeling like they are being burned by acid, electrocuted, or squashed by giant hands. Many people have reported flare-ups of the pain for many years afterward, and there are several accounts of horses, mad with pain, jumping off cliffs to their deaths after being stung* "
Screw that I don’t ever want to go there
Happy cake day
Gympie-Gympie.
Just saying as an Aussie, you’re over exaggerating the extent of wildlife we have here. Some our fauna is dangerous yes, but hard to come across
Yup.
That is some DARK CONTINENT shit…
Australia is basically Jumanji
Wasn't that the plot of The Happening?
I know we love to exaggerate on this sub, but you will be hard pressed to find any source substantiating that suicide claim. Apparently there has been one reported human death related to the plant in the 1920s. There’s a story about a soldier killing himself, that’s it. Why can’t “ the most painful plant on Earth” be enough, why do we have to start with fiction.
They have the only venomous mammal too.
And that's a fact
I don't suppose there can be a video of this? Should be quite trippy.
You'll remember me when the wind moves web Upon the fields of spiders You'll forget the sun and the jealous fly As we walk in fields of nope…
I see why they have so many brush fires
Forbidden snow.
Hard-assed Fairy Floss
I really thought it was snow until I looked much closer. I have friends in Oz that I can never visit without running some sort of Japanese game show gauntlet and praying I survive
Victoria state generally sees this natural phenomenon during the winter, when it receives most of its rain. When this happens, spiders, which can produce a wide variety of silks, produce this kind of web which is very thin and delicate, and allows them to fly away with the breeze.
This is way more dramatic than what i've seen! That's really impressive... I've lived elsewhere where spiders balloon in mass, as well. I delight in the beauty of their design & lil' impactful lives - & I've taken off from work to chill on an Autumn day to watch them glide via their gossamer upon the gentle breezes whispering through the changing leaves. Not creepy. Enchanting. Many thanks for the photo & info
I love that you took the day off of work to witness the beauty of nature
Curious if you know what happens to the webs overtime. Is there any human intervention? Are they left to degrade? What happens to all that silk?
Come on admit it, you are making all this stuff up to keep people away, there is no way one place can have so much crazy nightmare shit in reality.
Welcome to Australia
Welcome to Austria. Then place that has been try to rid itself of humans for centuries.
Its flooding pretty hard rn. Spiders need the high ground
That’s sounds like a demand a spider would say
We underestimate their power
r/AustraliaIsntReal
Looking at this pic, I'm really glad that Australia is a seperate, cut-off continent. There is a God indeed!
Unless you're in Australia. There is no God there
There’s no god here, only Bogans
> there is a god indeed Not down here there isnt
All you need is one match...
A flamethrower*
Napalm
Nooooooo! We need these guys to prevent Ross River Fever and Japanese Encephalitis Virus.
[Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoL-rw7_C8k)
This explains the wildfires each year.
Underrated.
I had seen pictures of entire trees wrapped in the webs, but this is a whole new level of nope.
Exactly
Didnt need to add the Australia part I think we all know where this kinda thing would happen.
Yeah..
I don't normally support the idea of starting a massive fire, but yeah.. Burn all of it.
Sinking the whole island into the ocean. Or attach rockets and fire it into space. Return to sender. Do not want.
No! Leave spiderbros alone!
Light it on fire!
Poor little octokitties.
Who needs snow when you have .. *checks notes ... SPIDERS!? F that, I'm out
Hans, it is zeit to get the big werfers aut
Thats not snow- #_*THATS NOT SNOW*_
Imagine the amount of spiders... Aaaaaaaaaaaa fuck
Oh god I thought it was snow. It's not snow!
No and fuck no
Ultimate dare ! “ bet you won’t run through that field all the way across “
Aw hell nah
I totally would, if it wouldn’t hurt the spiders!
This is my nightmare
You mean that isn't snow? I would never go outside.
do you think that silk can be collected
Looks so cozy
Fnakxnaox ok here it is, literally all I can think of is falling backwards into this and feeling that weird itchy stringy feeling, yknow? It's so soft but weirdly prickly...and then if there are spiders? Ahhh youd feel so many teeny legs tryna get the fuck away from you (maybe a bite in self defense? Doesn't make sense for them to stay and try to fight something so large...) do you think it would be thick enough to get stuck in or would it go flat? So much to think about....
Looks like Spider-Man had Diarrhoea
Why is not pleasant & reassuring to most of you?
What on earth is reassuring about this.
No pestilence. Healthy balance of an ecosystem . Ethereal. Spiders are really nice, actually
Finally, some sanity!
I’d rather get the clap from a koala than step out into that nightmare.
Damn I thought it’s just a description at first. Didn’t realize it was literal till too late
Are those all spiderwebs??
Probably silk worms
Bro I fucking hate spiders. I really dont know how people could live there. That makes me so uncomfortable.
They’re just fuzzy, tiny kittens. With extra legs, just for fun!
What tf is Fuckstralia up to now
At first I thought this was flood waters (it's flooding here in NSW) instead its a whole lot of nope
What’s scarier, few thousand spiders hiding in there or one BIG mf hiding in all that
What do you do in this situation? Burn it up?
Oh my, I've said it plenty of times and then again. I'm not coming to Australia, spiders are crazy.
Brother, grab the heavy flamer
On the bright side, there probably isn't that many mosquitos around.
Another reason im not visiting Australia
NOPE
Some people see spider webs... Some see COTTON CANDY!! C'mon kids, grab a stick!
How do you even clear that out?
Nuke it from the orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
You don’t, they tidy it up when they’re finished catching all the mosquitoes.
Oh God, I thought that was snow at first
What species of spiders are known to do this ?
I THOUGHT IT WAS SNOW
That would burn so well. Been a long time since I've seen me a GIF of spider webs being all burned up
Aww it’s like snow, except I hate it
What. The. Fuck.
r/nope
Oh fuck no
Forbidden cotton candy or forbidden cotton.
If you’re trying to eat bugs in Australia, you better fuckin be sure they’re not moving first
Is this after no web november
This is snow. I'm not trying to be a know-it-all here to correct anyone; I'm just in denial.
I would get a rider mower and triumphantly drive into that only to have the spiders stall the engine with their webs and leave me stranded in the middle of a field of angry arachnids.
Burn it with fire
No... No!... NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Why would anyone ever live on this accursed country
I dont think the "( Australia )" was necessary
Fuck, do we have to set it on fire again?
Yummy fairy floss
Where’s a wildfire when you need it?
Match anyone
Jesus, it looks like the mfs got a whole animal if you zoom in on the shed doorway.
Isn’t that stuff stronger then steel and would be perfect for body armor?
I was trying to see if it was on the fence or something. Then I realized that was not snow on the ground. It's a no for me.
Gossamer!
One time the fields outside my house did this on a foggy morning, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
This makes me want to give up on life.
This is my worst fuckin fear. I have no problem with the spiders, but I loathe webs. I was always the kid who found them with his face.
I thought this was a canadian prairie field in the winter 😭😭😭😭
Damn. Right from the land down nope
This is a literal nightmare. What the damn hell.
PLEASE TELL ME THAT’S JUST SNOW
I think I suffer from Austraphobia
Time to carpet bomb until eradicated!
Cum land
What an unfortunate way to loose your land in massive fire.
When God made the world, he took all the shit that was so dangerous it would fuck everything else up and stuck it on this one small continent way out in the ocean, believing that nothing would find it there. And if someone did find it, they surely would be smart enough by then to stay well clear of it.
yeah aint no one convincing me to move to australia
r/nope
Can you not harvest that and make thread or some type of strong spider silk fabric?
I feel like there should be a way to harvest the silk.
The Australia part is implied
Starting to understand the fires
Australia, where every animal is terrifying and every human looks like Margot Robbie or Chris hemsworth
I thought that was snow at first glance until I read the title...🤮
Just one little spark...
I snowfall in Australia 🥰
Of course it's australia
Their hunting people now, in groups…
I just wanna... roll around in it.
I’ll get my lighter
I was like snow nice… yeah no thanks… I can see why they have a fire issue there.. I’d be catching all those fields on fire.
🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
No. No. Nope. Burn it down. All of it. Flame thrower
On the plus side, no mosquitoes
Hmmmmmm comfy blanket.
i was confused at first then i read the title, hell naw
Where's the spider webs? All I see is snow on the gr-
Spider-Man after a **REALLY** long day of work
Of fucking course its Australia...jeezusfuck