Comments on: How about some truth in advertising, Australian Tourist Bureau?

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:43:14 +0000

Oh gosh, the cockroaches. I still have nightmares about the cockroaches in Australia. *sobs*

Australia … the deadliest place on earth!

By: QoT

QoT — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:36:26 +0000

And this is why I never never never never never want to go to Australia again (been twice, both to relatively safe central Sydney).

By: rpg

rpg — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:57:43 +0000

Australia—because we didn't just export our convicts. rpgs last blog post..The drugs don't work

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:45:10 +0000

Aieeee, horrible!!?????

By: Joan Kelly

Joan Kelly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:37:57 +0000

Armagny – all I can say is…

fffffffffffuuuuucccckkkkk

well, and, glad you didn’t get eaten by the spider.

By: Armagny

Armagny — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:34:12 +0000

I make sudden claim for a modicum of macho status in amongst my sensitive bloggering…

By: Armagny

Armagny — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:33:29 +0000

As a child, growing up in the NT, I once walked into a ‘golden orb’ and literally got a face full of one of those spiders. I leapt backwards, tumbled and landed between a couple of rocks- brusied, but thinking about nothing other than the spider.

…Which thankfully stayed on its web!

By: Joan Kelly

Joan Kelly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:29:15 +0000

My suggestion is that Australian bloggers rig the internet somehow so that my computer will automatically shut itself off rather than display pictures of spiders that big.

Talk about a mother-effing need for a trigger warning…

—–>is now twitching just at the thought of spiders like the one above existing.

By: Nightmares « the-paris-site

Nightmares « the-paris-site — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:14:36 +0000

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By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:08:40 +0000

You’ll never, never know … just how many cockroaches live under your sink.

I love living in the UK. Nothing bites and the flies are so pathetic that if you do the great australian salute, nine times out of ten you actually hit the little beggars!!!