Tag: straya

… Isn’t a bird that eats poison things a good thing in a place full of poison things? You go, kookaburra, you go.

jezi-belle:

determamfidd:

you know, i’ve read that all the cutiepie marsupials here are 100% poison-free, but I’m not sure I believe it, because naaaah surely not

😉

kookies are soft and cute and kickass and incorrigible thieves who laugh at you at sparrowfart in the morning, 100/10 perfect Australian birb

THE MARSUPIALS DON’T NEED POISON, DETS, HALF OF THEM HAVE POINTY ENDS AND THE OTHER HALF ARE FUCKING JACKED

WAIT OKAY WAIT i must have a marsupial moment

okay fine yeah OKAY, so the big ones are totally jacked and can Fuck You Up, koala claws have a terrifyingly strong grip even though it sleeps 18 hours a day, and running into a wombat can flip your car over bc they are a keg on legs..

…but the smol ones!!! The smol ones are competing for “Most Insanely and Impossibly Cute and Adorable-Looking Animal EVER’ – and all of them are winning

Marsupial mice! Wambengers! Aussie possums!

Quokkas! Bandicoots!

Numbats! Bilbys! Bettongs! QUOLLS! 

looking at those lil fluffs of perfection, you could begin to think their evolutionary strategy was to weaponise cuteness 

culturalrebel:

eunnui:

Kookaburras are so soft and good like mashpotato

@determamfidd this bird is native to your land so I’m 93% positive that they’re assholes

no no, they are actually soft and good like mashpotato

true, they are the sort of mashpotato that wakes you up by laughing madly at you at dawn

and fine, okay, they are also the sort of mashpotato that kills and eats venomous snakes 

and ALL RIGHT, they’ve been known to snag food from people’s hands, or even pinch sausages from a barbecue…

but dammit they’re so cute, look at that lil birb nugget

Star signs v Australian sayings

busty-gumshoe:

sapphosgirl:

Cancer – maccas run

Pisces – howscarn mate?

Virgo – you right?

Capricorn – mad as a cut snake

Scorpio – fuckin oath

Taurus – chuck a yuey

Aquarius – all on ya pat malone

Leo – ploise ixplayn 

Gemini – look at muy kimmy 

Libra – stunned mullet

Aries – off like a prawn in the sun

Sagittarius – flat out like a lizard drinkin

@yodel-at-yolorosa what dis mean

oK But thisss

melredcap:

pumpadjur:

European raven

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Turkish raven

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North African raven

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Himalayan raven

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Western (American) raven

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AUSTRALIAN RAVEN

look at it look at that weird birb it doesn’t know how to raven

Well that would be because here you have your Eurasian or Common Magpie:

and then you have your black-billed or American Magpie (photo via onthewingphotography.com  and damn isn’t that pretty):

You’ve got your Korean Magpie (image via kurtzesinkorea.wordpress.com)… you should be seeing a theme here by now:

Then you have the various oriental (blue or green) magpies, and there’s a couple of azure-winged magpies as well. Smallish, pretty birds; all corvids, which means they’re probably fairly intelligent and like shiny things.

And then there’s the Australian magpie, which is a violent red-eyed insane butcherbird, which means it’s extremely intelligent and likes murder.

WE HAVE DERPY CROWS BECAUSE THE MAGPIES ALREADY TOOK THE ‘OMINOUS BIRD OF DOOM’ SLOT, OKAY?!

fakewoke:

gunzonyatmblr:

colachampagnedad:

localstarboy:

THIS DUDE REALLY SQUARED UP WITH A KANGAROO TO HELP HIS DOG LMAOOOOO

im actually crying at how the kangaroo reacted at getting jabbed in the face he looked in disbelief like “how his arms extend that far i can’t even scratch my face with my shit”

yeah he love that dog cause I don’t fuck with kangaroos lmaoooooooo

im shooting the fade with anyone or anything over my dog tbh i dont play about mines

I’m American but my spouse and in-laws are Australian and South African. And the seasons thing is just. ridiculous. I’m always sending them sweaters and wraps I make in December (because it’s cold, so I feel like knitting with bulky warm things) and a woven picnic blanket or a pair of moccasins (because loom and leather and beads are more comfortable summer crafting) in July. They’re good about it.

I feel this deep in every fibre of my soul, omg. I get woolly socks and scarves and stuff from our cousins overseas every Christmas – when it’s generally 35C in the shade

(nice ones tho! Useful for a Sydney or Melbourne winter trip, that’s for sure! tho the Dwarfling has generally grown out of them by the time she can use em, sigh)

*snrk* you’ve reminded me too, of a time aaaaages ago when I complained about it online: ‘god I’m boiling here, please freeze me like a WWII supersoldier PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD’ 

and someone was all: ‘hahaha there’s always one in shorts and a t-shirt in wintertime!!!’

and I was like… no, you misunderstand, I live upside down in Satan’s Armpit.