(05-16-2010, 12:11 AM)PyroZombie link Wrote: The brown recluse has nothing against the Sydney funnel-web. If I can quote a friend of mine, the sole reason I will never visit Australia;

[quote author=UltraJoe]
This is #1 on 'shit you don't want to bite you'. Period. If you get bitten by a snake, you have over 4 hours until the damage becomes chronic and sometimes up to 12 before you keel over dead (it's the heat and long distances to hospitals that make Australia so nasty with snakes, that and the fact that our snakes have venom you could clean grease stains with). Not so with the SFW, the record  for surviving this Eight-Legged-Armageddon is an Hour and sixteen minutes. The record. That was a healthy, very healthy man, fully hydrated and who knew how to treat the wound and stem the flow of poison and had god on his side (fickle ass). You, unprepared and unaware, will last 40 minutes, maximum. Think about how long that is, that's not a long time. That's not counting the fact that your fate is sealed after about 25 minutes, mind you, and you'd better hope the ambulance reaches you in time.

It's venom has Hemotoxic, Neurotoxic and Necrotic effects

Let me give you a rundown of what a whack from this thing will do to you:

1) Agonizing Pain. Not 'ow, put an ice-block on that' agony, but roll on the floor and beg for death agony. Neurotoxin is an utter bitch and will rape your nerve endings and make you see Satan.
2) Drooling. Not spit, not the pre-vomit wet-mouthness. After only 5 minutes you will drool so much and so uncontrollably you can barely breath or speak, making calling for help really hard. Did we mention agony more extreme than anything you have ever felt?
3) After this point, the fun stuff starts. You will cry, pee and crap blood, you will drool and vomit blood and the agony that once made you want to cut off your bitten limb has now spread to your entire body and is making every nerve scream for death.

And this little prick of an animal will bite you multiple times, if he can get you, because he feeds on your tears.

You die at this point. Ambulance drivers don't rush for snake bites, save to spare you prolonged pain before you get the cure. They will run red lights, scrape up against other cars and mount the sidewalk to get a funnelweb victim to the hospital, because after they've got there the guy is usually crying blood already.

If it bites your hand and you survive (making you honorarily Ultra), you will lose fingers, if it bites your foot be prepared to lose it, if it bites your face you're about to become one ugly fucker. Most of Australia's wildlife gets exaggerated in its lethality (at least I thought it did), even though everything here bar the sheep spit poison (the trees, dammit! Poison Trees!), but not the funnelweb.

(05-16-2010, 11:16 PM)Squishy link Wrote: Ronnie James Dio died. I brought it up in an IRC room. Most of the replies were "Who's Ronnie James Dio?"


:'(

(05-16-2010, 07:48 PM)Turtle link Wrote: [quote author=PyroZombie link=topic=3709.msg152542#msg152542 date=1273986678]
The brown recluse has nothing against the Sydney funnel-web. If I can quote a friend of mine, the sole reason I will never visit Australia;

[quote author=UltraJoe]
This is #1 on 'shit you don't want to bite you'. Period. If you get bitten by a snake, you have over 4 hours until the damage becomes chronic and sometimes up to 12 before you keel over dead (it's the heat and long distances to hospitals that make Australia so nasty with snakes, that and the fact that our snakes have venom you could clean grease stains with). Not so with the SFW, the record  for surviving this Eight-Legged-Armageddon is an Hour and sixteen minutes. The record. That was a healthy, very healthy man, fully hydrated and who knew how to treat the wound and stem the flow of poison and had god on his side (fickle ass). You, unprepared and unaware, will last 40 minutes, maximum. Think about how long that is, that's not a long time. That's not counting the fact that your fate is sealed after about 25 minutes, mind you, and you'd better hope the ambulance reaches you in time.

It's venom has Hemotoxic, Neurotoxic and Necrotic effects

Let me give you a rundown of what a whack from this thing will do to you:

1) Agonizing Pain. Not 'ow, put an ice-block on that' agony, but roll on the floor and beg for death agony. Neurotoxin is an utter bitch and will rape your nerve endings and make you see Satan.
2) Drooling. Not spit, not the pre-vomit wet-mouthness. After only 5 minutes you will drool so much and so uncontrollably you can barely breath or speak, making calling for help really hard. Did we mention agony more extreme than anything you have ever felt?
3) After this point, the fun stuff starts. You will cry, pee and crap blood, you will drool and vomit blood and the agony that once made you want to cut off your bitten limb has now spread to your entire body and is making every nerve scream for death.

And this little prick of an animal will bite you multiple times, if he can get you, because he feeds on your tears.

You die at this point. Ambulance drivers don't rush for snake bites, save to spare you prolonged pain before you get the cure. They will run red lights, scrape up against other cars and mount the sidewalk to get a funnelweb victim to the hospital, because after they've got there the guy is usually crying blood already.

If it bites your hand and you survive (making you honorarily Ultra), you will lose fingers, if it bites your foot be prepared to lose it, if it bites your face you're about to become one ugly fucker. Most of Australia's wildlife gets exaggerated in its lethality (at least I thought it did), even though everything here bar the sheep spit poison (the trees, dammit! Poison Trees!), but not the funnelweb.

(05-16-2010, 02:31 PM)lil d link Wrote: dio died this morning

(05-16-2010, 11:16 PM)Squishy link Wrote: Ronnie James Dio died. I brought it up in an IRC room. Most of the replies were "Who's Ronnie James Dio?"


:'(

(05-17-2010, 12:01 AM)PyroZombie link Wrote: [quote author=Turtle link=topic=3709.msg152650#msg152650 date=1274057301]
[quote author=PyroZombie link=topic=3709.msg152542#msg152542 date=1273986678]
The brown recluse has nothing against the Sydney funnel-web. If I can quote a friend of mine, the sole reason I will never visit Australia;

[quote author=UltraJoe]
This is #1 on 'shit you don't want to bite you'. Period. If you get bitten by a snake, you have over 4 hours until the damage becomes chronic and sometimes up to 12 before you keel over dead (it's the heat and long distances to hospitals that make Australia so nasty with snakes, that and the fact that our snakes have venom you could clean grease stains with). Not so with the SFW, the record  for surviving this Eight-Legged-Armageddon is an Hour and sixteen minutes. The record. That was a healthy, very healthy man, fully hydrated and who knew how to treat the wound and stem the flow of poison and had god on his side (fickle ass). You, unprepared and unaware, will last 40 minutes, maximum. Think about how long that is, that's not a long time. That's not counting the fact that your fate is sealed after about 25 minutes, mind you, and you'd better hope the ambulance reaches you in time.

It's venom has Hemotoxic, Neurotoxic and Necrotic effects

Let me give you a rundown of what a whack from this thing will do to you:

1) Agonizing Pain. Not 'ow, put an ice-block on that' agony, but roll on the floor and beg for death agony. Neurotoxin is an utter bitch and will rape your nerve endings and make you see Satan.
2) Drooling. Not spit, not the pre-vomit wet-mouthness. After only 5 minutes you will drool so much and so uncontrollably you can barely breath or speak, making calling for help really hard. Did we mention agony more extreme than anything you have ever felt?
3) After this point, the fun stuff starts. You will cry, pee and crap blood, you will drool and vomit blood and the agony that once made you want to cut off your bitten limb has now spread to your entire body and is making every nerve scream for death.

And this little prick of an animal will bite you multiple times, if he can get you, because he feeds on your tears.

You die at this point. Ambulance drivers don't rush for snake bites, save to spare you prolonged pain before you get the cure. They will run red lights, scrape up against other cars and mount the sidewalk to get a funnelweb victim to the hospital, because after they've got there the guy is usually crying blood already.

If it bites your hand and you survive (making you honorarily Ultra), you will lose fingers, if it bites your foot be prepared to lose it, if it bites your face you're about to become one ugly fucker. Most of Australia's wildlife gets exaggerated in its lethality (at least I thought it did), even though everything here bar the sheep spit poison (the trees, dammit! Poison Trees!), but not the funnelweb.

(05-17-2010, 11:55 AM)Dtrain323i link Wrote: fuck spiders, and fuck anything that flies and stings too.

(05-17-2010, 12:02 PM)Versus-pwny- link Wrote: [quote author=Dtrain323i link=topic=3709.msg152730#msg152730 date=1274115349]
fuck spiders, and fuck anything that flies and stings too.

(05-17-2010, 11:55 AM)Dtrain323i link Wrote: [quote author=PyroZombie link=topic=3709.msg152691#msg152691 date=1274072500]
[quote author=Turtle link=topic=3709.msg152650#msg152650 date=1274057301]
[quote author=PyroZombie link=topic=3709.msg152542#msg152542 date=1273986678]
The brown recluse has nothing against the Sydney funnel-web. If I can quote a friend of mine, the sole reason I will never visit Australia;

[quote author=UltraJoe]
This is #1 on 'shit you don't want to bite you'. Period. If you get bitten by a snake, you have over 4 hours until the damage becomes chronic and sometimes up to 12 before you keel over dead (it's the heat and long distances to hospitals that make Australia so nasty with snakes, that and the fact that our snakes have venom you could clean grease stains with). Not so with the SFW, the record  for surviving this Eight-Legged-Armageddon is an Hour and sixteen minutes. The record. That was a healthy, very healthy man, fully hydrated and who knew how to treat the wound and stem the flow of poison and had god on his side (fickle ass). You, unprepared and unaware, will last 40 minutes, maximum. Think about how long that is, that's not a long time. That's not counting the fact that your fate is sealed after about 25 minutes, mind you, and you'd better hope the ambulance reaches you in time.

It's venom has Hemotoxic, Neurotoxic and Necrotic effects

Let me give you a rundown of what a whack from this thing will do to you:

1) Agonizing Pain. Not 'ow, put an ice-block on that' agony, but roll on the floor and beg for death agony. Neurotoxin is an utter bitch and will rape your nerve endings and make you see Satan.
2) Drooling. Not spit, not the pre-vomit wet-mouthness. After only 5 minutes you will drool so much and so uncontrollably you can barely breath or speak, making calling for help really hard. Did we mention agony more extreme than anything you have ever felt?
3) After this point, the fun stuff starts. You will cry, pee and crap blood, you will drool and vomit blood and the agony that once made you want to cut off your bitten limb has now spread to your entire body and is making every nerve scream for death.

And this little prick of an animal will bite you multiple times, if he can get you, because he feeds on your tears.

You die at this point. Ambulance drivers don't rush for snake bites, save to spare you prolonged pain before you get the cure. They will run red lights, scrape up against other cars and mount the sidewalk to get a funnelweb victim to the hospital, because after they've got there the guy is usually crying blood already.

If it bites your hand and you survive (making you honorarily Ultra), you will lose fingers, if it bites your foot be prepared to lose it, if it bites your face you're about to become one ugly fucker. Most of Australia's wildlife gets exaggerated in its lethality (at least I thought it did), even though everything here bar the sheep spit poison (the trees, dammit! Poison Trees!), but not the funnelweb.

(05-17-2010, 08:42 PM)Turtle link Wrote: ok fuck you guys now i think funnel webs are going to come to america and kill me also thanks whoever posted the picture because now i won't be able to fall asleep (that or i had like 3 nitro monster thingys just now)

(05-17-2010, 08:14 PM)Caffeine link Wrote: The funnel web is also more dangerous because it is aggressive and will not run and hide, it will rear up and fucking come after you

(05-17-2010, 09:35 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: [quote author=Turtle link=topic=3709.msg152823#msg152823 date=1274146969]
ok fuck you guys now i think funnel webs are going to come to america and kill me also thanks whoever posted the picture because now i won't be able to fall asleep (that or i had like 3 nitro monster thingys just now)

(05-17-2010, 10:48 PM)Luinbariel link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=3709.msg152831#msg152831 date=1274150133]
[quote author=Turtle link=topic=3709.msg152823#msg152823 date=1274146969]
ok fuck you guys now i think funnel webs are going to come to america and kill me also thanks whoever posted the picture because now i won't be able to fall asleep (that or i had like 3 nitro monster thingys just now)

(05-17-2010, 10:53 PM)LT Crow link Wrote: [quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=3709.msg152845#msg152845 date=1274154520]
[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=3709.msg152831#msg152831 date=1274150133]
[quote author=Turtle link=topic=3709.msg152823#msg152823 date=1274146969]
ok fuck you guys now i think funnel webs are going to come to america and kill me also thanks whoever posted the picture because now i won't be able to fall asleep (that or i had like 3 nitro monster thingys just now)