Admiral Valdemar wrote:
No sense of adventure. Where's the Steve Irwin in you?
You mentioned Steve Irwin, so I'm taking this as an oppurtunity to rant a little about him in a rathe oncoherent and fairly off the cuff manner.
Steve "Khaki Shorts" Irwin may be one of the biggest things to come out of Australia but, like the hideous "Put another shrimp on the barby" Hogan adds, it isn't what I'd call "a good thing". Irwin typifies all that is bad about Australia; as though all the idiots and idocy in Australia formed their own personal avatar - the Bogan Fleetmind if you like, or the Chaos God of Stupidity. Listening and watching Steve Irwin makes me inconsolably angry; but listening and watching people from other countries actually talk about him as though they know him - that makes me weep blood and rend my hair in frustration. When people actually talk about him in a positive manner, I'm forced to go cause hurt to small animals.
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
No sense of adventure. Where's the Steve Irwin in you?
You mentioned Steve Irwin, so I'm taking this as an oppurtunity to rant a little about him in a rathe oncoherent and fairly off the cuff manner.
Steve "Khaki Shorts" Irwin may be one of the biggest things to come out of Australia but, like the hideous "Put another shrimp on the barby" Hogan adds, it isn't what I'd call "a good thing". Irwin typifies all that is bad about Australia; as though all the idiots and idocy in Australia formed their own personal avatar - the Bogan Fleetmind if you like, or the Chaos God of Stupidity. Listening and watching Steve Irwin makes me inconsolably angry; but listening and watching people from other countries actually talk about him as though they know him - that makes me weep blood and rend my hair in frustration. When people actually talk about him in a positive manner, I'm forced to go cause hurt to small animals.
Sorry, that stereotype will always exist in popular culture. Even Neighbours isn't going to remove the Hogan and Irwin image from our minds. We enjoy seeing Aussies that way, just as Australians seem to enjoy exporting soaps to us and making the very finest post-apocalyptic shows and movies.
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Battletoads was awesome! Ninja Turtles was and is near and dear to my heart, but those toads have a place in my gaming affections too.
Dude, that toad is wearing a fucking thong! That has to violate some sort of ethical code.
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No thong? No under-roos? Naked toad-belly? Now that will definitely violate someone's idea of acceptable!
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:Sorry, that stereotype will always exist in popular culture. Even Neighbours isn't going to remove the Hogan and Irwin image from our minds. We enjoy seeing Aussies that way, just as Australians seem to enjoy exporting soaps to us and making the very finest post-apocalyptic shows and movies.
It was inevitable I suppose that it would become ingrained upon the world. This is Australia. Pass the shrimp.
Well, you said that he typifies all that you hate about Australian stereotypes. Am I to assume from that that you consider every facet of his being to be distasteful?
The guy seems pleasant enough personally, well-educated as far as animals go, well-suited to running a zoo, great in front of a camera, self-confident and with a fairly strong resistance to pain (I've seen a snake latch onto his arm with nary a break in his sentence).
'Great in front of a camera'? Simply seeing him makes me want to stab him to death and piss on his corpse. He's as universally reviled as the 'all americans are arrogant, uneducated, myopic bigots' sterotype.
Molyneux wrote:
Well, you said that he typifies all that you hate about Australian stereotypes. Am I to assume from that that you consider every facet of his being to be distasteful?
Yes. I want to set the probability of his existence to 0. He's just so stupid. The Bush Tucker Man was so much better. Why can't other countries know about him?
i think these toads may eventually evolve to the point where they learn kung-fu and team up with martial arts brothers and save the world from an alien invasion
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Stark wrote:'Great in front of a camera'? Simply seeing him makes me want to stab him to death and piss on his corpse. He's as universally reviled as the 'all americans are arrogant, uneducated, myopic bigots' sterotype.
Wait, we're not?
God damn it! And I just bought the T-Shirt, too.
That being said, figuring out a way to cook these so they're actually edible without killing you then exporting it would do well to generate funds for a program to contain them.
Plus, it'd be fun to see the look on someone's face when they ask you what you're eating and you say "Poison Toad from Australia".
Well, it shouldn't be too hard. According to Wiki, the toads toxins are secreted from a pair of glands, so in principle it should be similar to the preparation of puffer fish in Japan.
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Darth Yoshi wrote:Well, it shouldn't be too hard. According to Wiki, the toads toxins are secreted from a pair of glands, so in principle it should be similar to the preparation of puffer fish in Japan.
Everystage of the cane toad's lifecycle is poisonous
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Darth Yoshi wrote:Well, it shouldn't be too hard. According to Wiki, the toads toxins are secreted from a pair of glands, so in principle it should be similar to the preparation of puffer fish in Japan.
Um, fugu kills a certain number of people every year, you do know that? Puffer fish can not be made 100% safe. Nor does the poison come from glands in the fish - it's intrinsic to al its tissues with higher concentrations in some organs such as the liver and reproductive tissues. So I fail to see how it's "similar" to a toad that secretes poison from glands.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Cane toads are excellent. I live in Queensland, and they're absolutely EVERYWHERE here. We have good fun with them. Cane toad golf, cricket, football, croquet, softball. A little Dettol in a water pistol or (the government approved Humane™ method) putting them into a plastic bag and freezing them to death.
They're an introduced pest. Not only are they harmful to the ecosystem (which, despite everything being frightfully lethal, appears to be ridiculously fragile), they're really bad for domestic animals, as well. I've seen and heard of plenty of dogs and cats dying from eating the little bastards. I don't have any objection to the killing bit.
Oh, and I've met Steve Irwin on a number of occasions, and he's actually a really intelligent (when it comes to animals) person, who just so happens to be a conceited prick who is the worst thing for the international perception of Australians since the whole we're-all-convicts thing. I doubt there'd be many Aussies who'd disagree with me on that point.
