[gumby]

Take a look at the venomous snakes page on wikipedia and North America barely shows up while Australia is at the top of the leaderboard. And that's not even getting into spiders, platypus, jellies, -- even venomous seashells! And of course drop bears, scourge of unwitting tourists.

Now it's true that I'm in the US at the moment and I did vaccinate my dog against rattlesnake. But the US has about 15X the population of AUS -- we like to have something to crow about. So please don't rain on our parade, even on legitimate grounds.

[yesenadam]

Well.. 1/2 the famous actors in Hollywood since the 90s seem to be Australian. (I could name dozens.) Which is something.. My gripe is that not only Aussies have to put up with hearing them do fake US accents in movies close to 100% of the time, but whenever there's an Australian in a US movie, they get someone from the US to play them. Arghh. As if there's no Aussie actors there! ha. Maybe they're all too famous. I guess it sounds convincing to a US audience. It must do. But OMG it sounds so fake to Australians. It just sounds like someone from the US trying and failing to do an Aussie accent. e.g. there was one in Fargo series, and it was about the only bad thing about Tropic Thunder. Please don't do this. At this rate, soon there'll be a movie with Australians doing US accents in the starring roles, with supporting cast of US actors trying to sound Australian.. Mark my words.

p.s. Is that the first mention of drop bears on HN? Well done :-)

https://australianmuseum.net.au/drop-bear

[mmjaa]

Australians are just wanna-be Americans with a serious case of British-cringe mixed in. Don't take it too seriously mate, we're all part of the same 5-eyes New World Order now, anyway.

[mnw21cam]

And all the bad guys are Brits.

[AstralStorm]

Still waiting for the venomous cows to evolve in AUS...