Among the many deadly creatures in North Queensland is the Taipan which is the deadliest snake in the world, and aggressive with it.

But maybe there is something deadlier…

I toad you to be careful.

Honey Badger

To quote a Howies teeshirt, we are all downstream…

Malarial carrying mosquitoes. And hippos.

2 of the deadliest snakes in the world?

Death is the the easy way out.

I suggest you look up the gympie gympie tree, also native to Australia.

Not lethal but months if not decades of insane pain that might drive you to suicide.

But maybe there is something deadlier…

Louise?

nickdavies for the win!😁

mattyfez
I suggest you look up the gympie gympie tree, also native to Australia.

Common enough up north. Another reason not to go shirtless in the forest.

But at least they’re stationary. For a similar invigorating experience have a hairy caterpillar drop on you and get down your shirt… 🙂

Black mamba snake maybe?
Not the most deadly but pretty deadly if you don’t get treated quick.
The thing with them is they will chase you and repeatedly attack and they are fast.

Most other snakes will leave you alone if you move away they feel they are not being actively threatened.

What is deadlier than the deadliest snake in the world?

Commuting into Bradford.

Truth.

Donald trump. Close the thread 😉

But maybe there is something deadlier…

Humans. Not only are we great at killing one another, we also do well in the fields of species extinction, habitat and environmental destruction and finally we’re even giving planetarycide a damn fine crack of the whip.

mattyfez
Black mamba snake maybe?
Not the most deadly but pretty deadly if you don’t get treated quick.
The thing with them is they will chase you and repeatedly attack and they are fast.

Don’t think so. Taipan is the same, fast, will chase, and multiple strikes faster than you can see, and its poison is more deadly.

Having ‘met’ a deceased Russell Viper, less than a minute after it was discovered under the school cooker, I’d confirm that I was sh****g bricks at a dead one…

A couple of pints of London Pride and a boiled egg sarnie …. Pharf pharf !!

Walking on old slimy decking, absolutely lethal I tell ya!

After catching a clip of the super-bowl half-time show, mentioning to the wife that J-lo is 50 !!

Mrs M, after I’d let slip that the wicked stepmothers roast potatoes were better than hers.

I died multiple times that day.

Walking on old slimy decking, absolutely lethal I tell ya!

That’s amateur stuff. The pros need something a bit more challenging.

Not quite as deadly, but another Queensland favorite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish

They also have dinosaurs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary

and additional aquatic killers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_shark

But, still a nice place to visit

That Gympie Gympie tree sounds delightful, especially for the poor soul mentioned in the last line of this paragraph!

“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”.”

But maybe there is something deadlier…

Dessert course was lamingtons

Walking on old slimy decking, absolutely lethal I tell ya

In crocs for added excitement.

Drop bears kill the most people in Australia.

The second law of thermodynamics.

It’ll get everything in the end

That Gympie Gympie tree sounds delightful

I love the fact that it’s name (for me at least) conjures an image of something you’d like to cuddle. All deadly things should be given cute names, the comedy value would be immense

That Gympie Gympie tree sounds delightful

I grew up in Autralia but had never heard of it. It sounds like an utter bastard, makes giant hogweed look pretty tame.

But maybe there is something deadlier…

The correct answer is …

That look … from your wife

Standing on Lego in your bare feet whilst carrying a sleeping toddler.

A pain so intense that it sends an agonised echo reverberating backwards and forwards through time itself – I believe that this is, in fact, the true explanation for ghost sightings.

Question: is lego worse than a plug for standing on?!

Just read about the Irukandji jellyfish and what stood out in particular was not the pain or vomiting that the poison brings on, but the “psychological phenomena such as a feeling of impending doom”.

I remember being told when diving that conefish are very unpleasant: you pick up a pretty looking coneshaped shell on the reef, it fires a little spike into your hand, and you’re dead before the boat can get you back to land…

A plug made out of lego?

Question: is lego worse than a plug for standing on?!

Finally something that I can answer on STW. Having trodden on both of the above I would say Lego. However, I have found something worse than either of these!

Some bastard bought my son a tub of miniature dinosaurs for his birthday a couple of years ago. The Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and Triceratops from the barrel of doom are, by far, the most painful things I’ve ever stepped on. One would assume it would be the carnivores that would inflict pain. Nope, defence is truly the best offence in this case.

I remember being told when diving that conefish are very unpleasant: you pick up a pretty looking coneshaped shell on the reef, it fires a little spike into your hand, and you’re dead before the boat can get you back to land…

Why would you be touching the reef, or anything else, on a dive?

I’m a big fan of the Schmitt Insect Bite Pain Index

“Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.”

The fabled DH section behind Nationwide in Swindon.