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[glasshouse]

Haha, I’d say you are at greater risk driving old Chamberlains at full throttle towing anhydrous tanks, than you are from a random spider bite

One day the tractor drawbar broke and the tank took off on its own,
There was nearly an rta with another tractor and ute

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I was carting anhydrous ammonia out to a cotton rig in 87
The previous day we had bern talking about dangerous redback spiders.
Just when i was at full throttle in the 50k chamberlain, a red spider dropped From the canopy right in my face.
I hit the brakes and just jumped off about 30k
The tractor came to a stop and i dusted myself down
Turned out it wasnt a redback after all, it was too big, but i wasnt hanging about to check

I was working for a landscape gardener in North Shore Sydney. He was cutting down old trees in a garden, and I was loading the logs in the truck. A spider dropped out. He showed me, if you poke it with a stick and it rears up ready to strike it's a funnel web.

 

[CPF]

Got bit on the 2nd February for a few days thought it was a mosquito bite ,but it was a spider bite, two visits to the hospital, 4 weeks on strong antibiotics and it’s just started to clear up. It has been very painful and very itchy.

 

[crashbox]

So glad you asked...

'White British' in UK prisons = 72k out of their UK population of 50m = 1 in 707 doing time.

Romanians in UK prisons = 781 out of their UK population of 342k = 1 in 437 doing time.

Therefore statistically Romanians in the UK commit >61% more serious crime than natives.

Of course this almost entirely excludes Romanian recidivists; the numbers deported who are not allowed back into the UK can't be factored in. Whereas British recidivists obviously go back to prison; self-evidently this affects the numbers.

Romanian nationals population UK 2021 | Statista

As of June 2021 there around 342 thousand Romanians living in the United Kingdom.

www.statista.com

United Kingdom prison population - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

QED and citations given.

Credit for answering.

To be critical of the statistics provided:

I assume most Romanians in the UK are of working age, and male. Many from less affluent backgrounds, too.

Probably skews the figures, and if you compare similar demographics the offending rate may not be so different.

None the less, those who work here legally are hopefully bettering themselves, their employers, and the UK tax payer.

 

[Danllan]

Credit for answering.

To be critical of the statistics provided:

I assume most Romanians in the UK are of working age, and male. Many from less affluent backgrounds, too.

Probably skews the figures, and if you compare similar demographics the offending rate may not be so different.

None the less, those who work here legally are hopefully bettering themselves, their employers, and the UK tax payer.

Can't argue with your last sentence; the rest needs to be established one way or the other.

 

[glasshouse]

Haha, I’d say you are at greater risk driving old Chamberlains at full throttle towing anhydrous tanks, than you are from a random spider bite

It was probably only ten yr old
I loved it
I was on night duty one night after a few beers down the boomi pub.
The dust off the cultivators was hanging in the air like mist and i miscounted corners and crashed the landcruiser into a dry channel. Burst lip but no real damage.

 

[Farmer Roy]

It was probably only ten yr old
I loved it
I was on night duty one night after a few beers down the boomi pub.
The dust off the cultivators was hanging in the air like mist and i miscounted corners and crashed the landcruiser into a dry channel. Burst lip but no real damage.

sounds like a typical backpacker working on a cotton farm here

out of interest, who were you working for at Boomi ?

 

[glasshouse]

sounds like a typical backpacker working on a cotton farm here

out of interest, who were you working for at Boomi ?

Koramba

 

[d williams]

1 or 2 might die a year from Funnel Webs ( very poisonous spider - pretty much limited to the east coast, which is a long way from here but also where about 90% of the population live ), compared to 2 people who died on Sunday arvo not far from here in a RTA, just a small % of the hundreds who die in car accidents every year ?
The risk / danger from spiders or snakes or whatever just doesn’t compare or is not even relevant, compared to the human created risks in our modern lives . . .

Are the flys worse over Perth side of Australia then Gold Coast side ??
watching a documentary at the moment and the presenter doesn’t seem as bothered Gold Coast side

 

[TelesnaAg]

Oz, east coast, southern Victoria.

Done.

Ant...

 

[TelesnaAg]

Are the flys worse over Perth side of Australia then Gold Coast side ??
watching a documentary at the moment and the presenter doesn’t seem as bothered Gold Coast side

Outback qld, nsw, as bad as WA, been in both lots unfortunately.

Southern vic, stuff all flies and mozzies, love it.

Ant...

 

[Ben B]

Are the flys worse over Perth side of Australia then Gold Coast side ??
watching a documentary at the moment and the presenter doesn’t seem as bothered Gold Coast side

You get used to them anyway. It's only if you get the right weather conditions and they are really sticky that i'd really notic them.

To add I've just finnished off working with a dozen backpackers and they were all scared of the snakes and spiders. Not one them sore snake the whole time (4 months in summer) and they sore a couple of hunts man spiders which are about as harmful as a ladybugs.

 

[Danllan]

The flies I saw in Oz - and my cousin said they were worse than usual then, just my luck - were no more than I've experienced in Southern and Eastern Africa. In all honesty, I found Scottish and Canadian midges and Southern African tsetse far worse than Ozzy flies. Accents are another matter...

 

[Farmer Roy]

Are the flys worse over Perth side of Australia then Gold Coast side ??
watching a documentary at the moment and the presenter doesn’t seem as bothered Gold Coast side

I doubt if there are any flies on the Gold Coast, it’s all concrete & bitumen . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

It’s the grasshoppers you have to worry about

 

[bobk]

It’s the grasshoppers you have to worry about
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wtf .

 

[crashbox]

It’s the grasshoppers you have to worry about
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Our Roy was a strapping lad when he was young!

 

[d williams]

The flies I saw in Oz - and my cousin said they were worse than usual then, just my luck - were no more than I've experienced in Southern and Eastern Africa. In all honesty, I found Scottish and Canadian midges and Southern African tsetse far worse than Ozzy flies. Accents are another matter...

South Island nz sand flies those barstewards didn’t like me
That’s about the only thing where ever I’ve traveled

 

[Danllan]

South Island nz sand flies those barstewards didn’t like me
That’s about the only thing where ever I’ve traveled

If you get the chance... try sand fleas...

They take itching to another level.

 

[kiwi pom]

South Island nz sand flies those barstewards didn’t like me
That’s about the only thing where ever I’ve traveled

West coast thing I think, isn't it?
Not much happening over there anyway