Is Steve Irwin, Croc. Hunter, a good example of most Austrailians, or is it all show?  Is he really like that?
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He is an absolute goon. \n\nyes, he is really like that, and no most people in australia are not like him.\n\nI am Australian\n\n95% of Australians live in a city near the coast. \n\nnot our hunting crocs.\n\nbut we don't just party and laze around on the beach (if only!) \n\nI woke up this morning at 7:30 and put on my security pass and tie, walked out into the frost and drove to my office, here i sit in air conditioned comfort, eyeing off the vending machines and pretending to work. \n\nthis is pretty much the same as most people in Australia, and indeed the world\n\nI am a very adventurous person, but i have only ever "wrestled" one croc, and it was a baby in a zoo.\n\ni very rarely say "crickey", i do not flail my arms about. i would never be seen dead in such tiny shorts, let alone khaki.\n\nI have been out bush many many times, but most people don't. \n\ni have met an australian who had never seen a kangaroo.\n\ni grew up in Canberra, our capital city, kangaroo's would come off the mountains and down into the city streets, possums live in peoples rooves and you'll occasionally see a kookaburra on a telephone pole. but you hardly ever see platypi, wombats or echidna's.\n\nYes we have spiders and snakes, but snakes avoid cities, and when i found a red back in my shower this morning i hit it with a magazine. my house is very normal, my friendsa are very normal, yes we all have accents, but then, we think you have accents.\n\nmy Life looks just like an american sitcom, my office and home are no different. \n\nthere are factories and offices and building sites, just like anywhere.\n\nSteve Irwin is a c0ck
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The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its hind legs...not fangs. And apparently they're only used to fight off rival males during mating season. \n\nI'm Australian. So I'd know, right? ;-)
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I think they were killed in the flood, but have you ever read (I think) in Job about the leviathan?  Sounds so much like a brontesaurus or dipladucas doesn't it?  People try to say it's a croc, but it's  nothing like a crocodile.  Also Psalms 74 says He lopped off the heads (plural) of leviathan, and made mincemeat of the dragon.  I'm not trying to make people believe anything, it's just one of the things I wonder.
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Yes. The only way any ones favorite animal could be a croc., is if that person is a crocoholic!
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An Aussie one like Steve Irwin because they're fearless, smart and tuned into nature and surviving off the elements but if an aussie wasnt available i'd take one of the wild boyz (Steve O or Pontius) because if we died at least i'd die laughing
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Yes.\nI initially was going to talk about the Komodos from Indonesia, and also about crocodiles and alligators, but the best most interesting answer is here:\n\nhttp://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/redmond/23/dragon.html\n\nI do not copy the material as to not plagerize their material, but well worth checking out on this concept.
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"Largest" is usually based on the overall mass of the animal, not just the length. While anacondas can get considerably longer than crocodiles, they aren't nearly as massive.
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I enjoy reptile shows on animal planet.Steve Irwin taught me,you don't muck around with the critters.Respect them and enjoy.
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Tasmania is an island so they cant get around to the rest of Australia..\n\nand they just breed and breed and breed..\n\nits a bit like that with every animal in Tasmania.. i have never seen so much roadkill in my life until my trip to Tassie this year. The place has too many native animals.
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Guys like The Chief, gotta love him. Legends like Johnsy. It's Australian mate.
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I would say the aqua skirt with black stockings and a black corset because Khaki sounds like you're trying to seduce the ghost of Steve Irwin!\n\n...on second thought, you could do that up as your theme for the evening.  Dress in tan fishnets, khaki miniskirt, beige top, leather gloves, then tell him (in an aussie accent) that he is going to be your crocodile tonight.
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Australia actually has more dangerous critters than the US:\nBox Jellyfish are responsible for more deaths in Australia than snakes, sharks, and salt water crocodiles put together. They can be found near the coast along all the Great Barrier Reef which extends as far as 2000 Km. Another poisonous jellyfish is the Irukandji, the smallest animal on earth capable of killing humans (only 1 centimetre or half an inch in length).\nThen there are lovely small but beautiful blue-ringed octopuses close to the beach, never attacking but only defending themselves against curious hands with a deadly poison man cannot counteract yet. \nOr the poisonous fish - the Scorpion Fish and the Stone Fish, living everywhere around Australia but loving coral. So wear shoes when you go into water. \nThere are about 30 species of poisonous sea-snakes - they won't hunt you but if you come too close and scare them, they'll bite and likely kill you anyway. \nAustralia has more than 100 kinds of poisonous snakes -- about a dozen of which rank among the most poisonous on earth (the top 8 most deadly snakes are all Australian). One of them is the coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus)which sports the biggest fangs, one of the most lethal venoms and a rather aggressive nature\nAs for spiders - there are more than 40 species of funnel web spiders, a group of arachnids known for their toxic venom. Strangely enough, humans and other primates are maximally sensitive to funnel web venom but other mammals such as mice, rabbits, guineapigs, dogs and cats are relatively immune and often survive 100 times the human lethal dosage.\nThey even have a poisonous egg-laying mammal - platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). On the back legs of mature males are a pair of short spurs each hooked-up to a venom gland that makes a viciously painful toxin. It causes pain strong enough to induce vomiting which can persist for days, weeks or even months. The pain is resistant to morphine and other pain-killing drugs and anaesthesia of the main nerve from the spur site is often the only way to relieve the patient's suffering.
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I lived there for four years (was engaged to an aussie for most of that) and found the culture pretty hedonistic.  There's also a real male chauvinist element to the "blokey" behaviour of the lads.  So, the men are MEN and quite appealing (and often pretty sexy!), but they are also more about sex as a *fun* activity rather than a meaningful act.  \n\nAnd not all of them are dogs, I have a few excellent mates from living there.  But if you meet an Aussie man on holiday?  Well... that's a whole different story!!  Buyer beware...
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take a look Austrailian news:
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I dislike putting people in categories or boxes, but I'll give you my "general idea" of what I think the Average Aussie (henceforth called AA) is like.  I'd guess the AA is hearty in their humor and their out look on life.  My idea would be that the AA is on the adventurous side.  For some reason, I think the AA loves green bell peppers and really spicy food (where on earth did I get that?)  It would seem obvious, given your famous opera house that the AA loves the performing arts.  We briefly covered Australia in school, I was told it started out as prison island of sorts.\n\nThat's about all I can come up with at this point mate, was I even close?
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Why is it that Austrailia wants to blame all of the crime on Americans? How is the irony there? Any one remember Botany Bay? If you are looking for logic, it's not down under.
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some wildlife "experts" consider themselves to be very knowledgeable of the creatures they are around. they do have mishaps, but generally if you're calm and careful nothing will happen. if anything he gets hyped up on adrenaline doing what he does.