Every country leads the world in something...

[cybele]

Not entirely sure how accurate this is, but some of these are funny, some not so funny and some just interesting.

http://thedoghousediaries.com/large/5414.png

I put the link instead of the actual image because, well, it's huge.

 

[Xero]

Haha!!! I really laughed. Thanks for posting xD

 

[IADad]

Hahaha that's good, some I don't get, but at least I know most of the countries. I bet if you put that map in front of most American adults, they couldn't name more than 4 countries on that map.

 

[singledad]

Mmmmm. Ostrich steak with black pepper sauce... Yum.

LOL.

 

[cybele]

I was about to say 'eww' but then I remembered that we eat emu here and I don't find that weird and I guess they're pretty similar.

 

[IADad]

See, I thought Ostriches were in Australia....not the thing I would have associated with SA at all....

 

[cybele]

Nup, no ostriches here.

 

[Xero]

I remember another Australian member telling that there were just Kangaroos like everywhere lol. Like too many of them. xD Which to me was fascinating and hilarious, because here we would only EVER see a kangaroo inside of a zoo. Yet you guys don't have deer, and here they are everywhere and so overpopulated that people hunt them for fun. 0_o

 

[cybele]

We have deer. They were an introduced species back when Australian was colonised by the British for the purpose of hunting, and they just bred in the wild. Same reason as to why we have wild rabbits and foxes. You don't see them too often, but there is a road that leads up to where we live where you need to watch out for them.

Depends on where you live with the kangaroos, were semi-rural but in a rainforest area, so we have wallabies and grey kangaroos. No red ones, which are the really big ones because they like the flatter terrain. They're not in the cities though, haha.

 

[pwsowner]

Haha, yup, maple syrup is quite common here, and expensive too. Costs more per litre than gas. lol

 

[singledad]

Yup, lot's of ostriches here. I just had to laugh at the idea that, out of all the things that they could have picked for SA, they go and pick ostriches.

I remember another Australian member telling that there were just Kangaroos like everywhere lol. Like too many of them. xD Which to me was fascinating and hilarious, because here we would only EVER see a kangaroo inside of a zoo. Yet you guys don't have deer, and here they are everywhere and so overpopulated that people hunt them for fun. 0_o

I think we still win. We had a leopard as well. (See! s'true! We do have wild animals in the streets! :yes:<SIZE size="75">Like, at least two in the last decade</SIZE>)

What I want to know, though, is how does one get killed by a lawnmower?

 

[cybele]

I'm imagining a mutant lawnmower going on a rampage and mowing down everyone in it's path.

 

[singledad]

I'm imagining a mutant lawnmower going on a rampage and mowing down everyone in it's path.

:laugh::laugh:

 

[IADad]

We have deer. They were an introduced species back when Australian was colonised by the British for the purpose of hunting, and they just bred in the wild. Same reason as to why we have wild rabbits and foxes. You don't see them too often, but there is a road that leads up to where we live where you need to watch out for them.

Depends on where you live with the kangaroos, were semi-rural but in a rainforest area, so we have wallabies and grey kangaroos. No red ones, which are the really big ones because they like the flatter terrain. They're not in the cities though, haha.

oh, and bullfrogs, if the Simpsons are to be believed (I know that's my "go to" source for most information.

Seriously though Xero, don't you bet that kangaroos would do just fine in the southern US? All we need is a pair of them...and some eucalyptus trees...(Cybele heads to the FedEx store with a conspicuously large shipment of "Books" for the US...)

 

[IADad]

Yup, lot's of ostriches here. I just had to laugh at the idea that, out of all the things that they could have picked for SA, they go and pick ostriches.


I think we still win. We had a leopard as well. (See! s'true! We do have wild animals in the streets! :yes:<SIZE size="75">Like, at least two in the last decade</SIZE>)

What I want to know, though, is how does one get killed by a lawnmower?

I would have said "Diamonds" isn't that the thing we think most of SA?

 

[TabascoNatalie]

Fascist movements in UK... would have never thought.
Too bad the print is invisible about Baltic states

 

[cybele]

oh, and bullfrogs, if the Simpsons are to be believed (I know that's my "go to" source for most information.

Seriously though Xero, don't you bet that kangaroos would do just fine in the southern US? All we need is a pair of them...and some eucalyptus trees...(Cybele heads to the FedEx store with a conspicuously large shipment of "Books" for the US...)

I think we call them chazwazzas (seriously though we call them banjo frogs).

OOH, and I know what Fedex is because of Castaway. TV is magical.

 

[akmom]

So... can you get ostrich/emu eggs at the store? That would be pretty sweet!

 

[IADad]

I think we call them chazwazzas (seriously though we call them banjo frogs).

OOH, and I know what Fedex is because of Castaway. TV is magical.

Hmmm, I guess I thought FedEx was more global than that - so who would you use to ship to the US - DHL? UPS?

 

[IADad]

So... can you get ostrich/emu eggs at the store? That would be pretty sweet!

and if so, do the come in dozens? In huge fiber containers? or smaller quantities? If they are used in baking, is there a chicken to Ostrich egg conversion chart?