Monday, January 11, 2010

"Come to Australia - You Might Accidentally Get Killed"

Bingbing has a hilarious "tourist-promotion" video that makes me want to jump on the next plane to Australia.

While we're on the subject of Australia, I'd also like to thank friend and commenter Robert Blair for the three Nevil Shute books that he was kind enough to send to me. Reading is one of the few genuine pleasures in my life, and there is no gift I appreciate more than books. Thanks again, Robert!

12 comments:

Old Tanker said...

Can't wait to go, sounds like fun!

Yojimbo said...

Come to Australia, enjoy our outdoor wonders so we can put another seppo on the barbie."

Old Tanker said...

Yojimbo,
You don't need to go there.....ALL seppos are well done ;-)

bingbing said...

Have you ever been there, BTW?

Paco said...

Not me, unfortunately. I almost had a shot a couple of years ago to fly to Australia on legitimate business, of all things, but my boss hogged the trip for himself.

Yojimbo said...

I have. Great time in a great country. Probably the best trip of my life.

Mehaul said...

Legitimate business Paco?? Sounds like some understudy running an antipodean subsidiary wasn't achieving sales targets. Just a guess that.

bruce said...

It's true too. I find India with its cobras and kraits quite tame compared with the constant critter attack and potential nature fatality one learns to live with in Aust, where you have to keep your mouth closed cos flies dive bomb right into it. But the US has preserved a lot of its wildlife too and must be similar.

A friend who lives up in the Swiss alps, a shepherd mind you, tells me the wolves and bears are slowly returning to Europe - he has 5 big working dogs to protect his flocks.

RebeccaH said...

Oh, we have our share of poisonous snakes and spiders, and the odd man-eating cougar or bear. Oh, yes, and the deer (lawn rats, Mr. H calls them) can be quite belligerent in mating season, as well as a traffic hazard. But I don't think our killer species have quite the same panache as Australia's.

Anonymous said...

I was so looking forward to the day when I could make my way to Australia. But now I don't know. Is there enough Benedryl, or sufficent supply of antidote should whatever nasty encounter take place? Even the possibility of scorpions causes the loss of sleep when I visit my sister in El Paso, TX. Never seen one, but the power of possibility...(cold shivers ensue).

Deborah Leigh

Irobot said...

My neighbour's Jack Russell was bitten by Brown Snake that it was trying to kill in their backyard. Red Belly Black snakes occur locally as well. One slithered across the road one evening while I was taking our youngest on a driving lesson. We also have tree dwelling Funnel Web spiders and I found some sort of scorpion whilst gardening. We don't live in the bush, but in suburbia. Oh, and you don't have to worry about sharks at the beaches up north, the crocodiles keep them away. Australia, beautiful one day, deadly the next.

Michael Lonie said...

My favorite scene in that video is when a kangaroo kicks a guy into a billibong. I also noticed that they showed Marmite as one of the perils of Australia.