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If you think about it Australiargh does sound a bit like something a vengeful god of war would cry after stubbing his toe on New Zealand.
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Zipperelli. posted:Rest assured, those stories are bullshit. I read about it in an interview with a marine toxicologist who was studying blue-ringed octopus venom and was talking about her own experience after being envenomated and I definitely remember that the people who were rescuing her were trying to figure out what was happening to her and in her head she was screaming at them to perform CPR but thinking about it now it was probably members of the general public and not paramedics.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:the people who were rescuing her were trying to figure out what was happening to her and in her head she was screaming at them to perform CPR jfc. I want to shake this woman. How can you be a PhD and still not realize you don't need loving CPR if your heart is still beating? This is on a level as bad as the night we were working a cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital. I call the hospital and tell them cardiac arrest, cpr in progress, 5 minutes out, and the loving doc got on the radio and asked: Doc: "Do you have a pulse?" Me: "Negative" *to my partner in the back with me: the gently caress is this idiot asking us this for? I JUST told him we were doing compressions..." Doc: "Ok, do we have a blood pressure?" Me: "..........We'll see you upon arrival" I proceeded to yell at him for a solid 2 minutes in the ambulance bay, after we transferred care to the ED team, about why the gently caress he's asking me dumb questions over the radio when we're trying our damndest to get a pulse back on our patient. For those who don't understand: On our cardiac monitor machines, we can monitor everything. Pulse, oxygen saturation, co2 output, etc. The blood pressure cuff works by feeling for 3 pulses in succession, to calculate the blood pressure. You can't have a blood pressure if you don't have a pulse. Once more: you can't have a loving blood pressure if you don't have a pulse. Last I heard that doc got fired for medical malfeasance. Dipshit.
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Yeah she probably said mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and not CPR, I read the article years and years ago
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This wasn't supposed to be funny, but... Uhh yeah if they'd have waited they would lose the sale 
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Zipperelli. posted:Rest assured, those stories are bullshit. Well, you mean unless they've marked that they're an organ donor 
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Karate Bastard posted:If you think about it Australiargh does sound a bit like something a vengeful god of war would cry after stubbing his toe on New Zealand. That's only if you focus on the cane toads and drop bears. And crocs, and well a bunch of things but they don't have the police shootings and otherwise shooting shootings like the good ol' USA
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DandyLion posted:Well, you mean unless they've marked that they're an organ donor Well duh. If that's the case we just pull out the tools right there wherever we are and get cuttin'
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Zipperelli. posted:Well duh. If that's the case we just pull out the tools right there wherever we are and get cuttin' I imagine this is a lot like the scene in 'Meaning of Life' re: Live Organ Donation.
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DandyLion posted:I imagine this is a lot like the scene in 'Meaning of Life' re: Live Organ Donation. I should be going to bed but now you've got me Googling things. And uh. Yeah. 
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syscall girl posted:That's only if you focus on the cane toads and drop bears. And crocs, and well a bunch of things but they don't have the police shootings and otherwise shooting shootings like the good ol' USA Favorite stat: more Americans die from being shot by other Americans in an average weekend than all the people who have ever died from nasty Australian animals in recorded history.
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I bring that stat up all the time both because it is interesting and because it makes a certain type of person very angry.
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syscall girl posted:That's only if you focus on the cane toads and drop bears. And crocs, and well a bunch of things but they don't have the police shootings and otherwise shooting shootings like the good ol' USA Don't forget emus having sex with cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfq0rJaNswA&t=302s
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Trig Discipline posted:I bring that stat up all the time both because it is interesting and because it makes a certain type of person very angry. I'm actually really curious about this. So is Australian wildlife overblown in the same way shark attacks are? This puts the number around 100 total from what I can tell.
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Das Boo posted:I'm actually really curious about this. So is Australian wildlife overblown in the same way shark attacks are? This puts the number around 100 total from what I can tell. Absolutely, and fitting given sharks are also Australian wildlife. Albiet a lot of that is because people tend to be well-informed on dangerous wildlife, though also because most of it is found in rural areas and Australia's population is both incredibly sparse and super centralised, so most of the places you find the deadly wildlife have very few people. I actually did some research, and according to the Australian coroner's office, the animal involved in the most fatalities in Australia, by far, is horses. Like, almost half, I vaguely recall. I think dogs are one of the next most significant causes, and sharks are on par with bees. Kangaroos also cause a significant amount, mostly from car accidents.
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Trig Discipline posted:Favorite stat: more Americans die from being shot by other Americans in an average weekend than all the people who have ever died from nasty Australian animals in recorded history. Do you have a source for that?
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Das Boo posted:I'm actually really curious about this. So is Australian wildlife overblown in the same way shark attacks are? This puts the number around 100 total from what I can tell. Yep, pretty much exactly that! https://www.bobinoz.com/migration-advice/australias-killer-creatures-the-truth-about-deaths/ These are actually higher numbers than I'd seen before - there's another article that goes deeper into the past but probably missed a few because they came up with a lower annual rate (maybe left out sharks?) Anyway, the long and short of it is that most of that really deadly stuff minds its own business. e: oh here's another one https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/09/what-are-the-odds-of-being-killed-by-an-animal-in-australia-infographic/
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Inescapable Duck posted:I actually did some research, and according to the Australian coroner's office, the animal involved in the most fatalities in Australia, by far, is horses. Like, almost half, I vaguely recall. I think dogs are one of the next most significant causes, and sharks are on par with bees. Kangaroos also cause a significant amount, mostly from car accidents.  that Kangaroo fill a niche similar to deer in the US.
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Also lemme just say, having done marine fieldwork in both Australia and Okinawa I'm far more skeeved out by Okinawa. It's mostly the same nasty fauna, but in Okinawa the nasty stuff is super thick on the ground (or in the water), while in Australia it's at least occasionally interspersed with something non-horrible.
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mind the walrus posted:That makes sense. Horses are deceptively dangerous animals. Meanwhile if it even looks like that bush-of-pure-pain or the insta-death jellyfish are in the area everyone knows to stay away, as well as obvious Croc habitats. And Pretty much exactly that, though kangaroos are said to be more likely to total a small car and hop away. An old friend of mine actually got knocked out briefly and escaped his car just as it freaking caught fire after hitting a kangaroo, and I never found out what happened to the roo.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Pretty much exactly that, though kangaroos are said to be more likely to total a small car and hop away. An old friend of mine actually got knocked out briefly and escaped his car just as it freaking caught fire after hitting a kangaroo, and I never found out what happened to the roo. Fun story: I was driving a rental car in Oklahoma almost exactly a year ago and hit a deer going about 45 mph. It did about $10k in damage to the car, and even though my insurance covered most of it the initial charges went onto the credit card I rented the car on. To this day I can look at the plot of my credit score over time and say "yep, that's where my credit rating hit a deer".
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Inescapable Duck posted:Absolutely, and fitting given sharks are also Australian wildlife. Albiet a lot of that is because people tend to be well-informed on dangerous wildlife, though also because most of it is found in rural areas and Australia's population is both incredibly sparse and super centralised, so most of the places you find the deadly wildlife have very few people. Trig Discipline posted:Yep, pretty much exactly that! Neat! I've learned something today and it's not even 9 AM!
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Only the dead have seen the end of hog war. God bless the canadians and mexicans for their valiant efforts.
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Inescapable Duck posted:I never found out what happened to the roo.
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Trig Discipline posted:Also lemme just say, having done marine fieldwork in both Australia and Okinawa I'm far more skeeved out by Okinawa. It's mostly the same nasty fauna, but in Okinawa the nasty stuff is super thick on the ground (or in the water), while in Australia it's at least occasionally interspersed with something non-horrible. What's with Okinawa then? Pufferfish?
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Karate Bastard posted:What's with Okinawa then? Pufferfish? American soldiers
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Baronjutter posted:American soldiers A famously invasive species.
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Das Boo posted:I'm actually really curious about this. So is Australian wildlife overblown in the same way shark attacks are? This puts the number around 100 total from what I can tell. There's a lot of stuff that can kill you here, but Australians learn at an early age to leave that stuff the gently caress alone and that's all it really takes to make them not kill you.
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poo poo being dead owns i guess, where do i sign up
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The Lone Badger posted:There's a lot of stuff that can kill you here, but Australians learn at an early age to leave that stuff the gently caress alone and that's all it really takes to make them not kill you. Yeah we take education about wildlife pretty seriously. There's an episode of Peppa Pig where she makes friends with a spider that was withdrawn from broadcast here, because making friends with a spider in the UK is a very different proposition to making friends with a spider in Australia.
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Zipperelli. posted:jfc. Hold up I don't know anything about medicine or first aid but do you not do cpr if the person's stopped breathing, even if there's a pulse?
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