Dear England, why is your country so pretty?

[Suu]

I think they're adorable.

As you know, they're just sea kitties, really. They like to brush against you and be touched...just, ya know, don't step on them.

Or get stabbed in the heart by them?

You have to do something remarkably stupid for that to happen. I can't even IMAGINE.

[AFK]

Stabbed in the heart, and you're to blame
You just stepped on a sting ray!

[Phox]

I think they're adorable.

As you know, they're just sea kitties, really. They like to brush against you and be touched...just, ya know, don't step on them.

Or get stabbed in the heart by them?

You have to do something remarkably stupid for that to happen. I can't even IMAGINE.

Swimming directly above one worked for Steve Irwin. The details elude me, he might have been was probably agitating it.

[BadBeast]

"Look at this little beeauty! if I try and poke him, like this, he might show us his. . . . Aaaargh!"
Shame really, I was looking forward to him getting eaten by a huge Salty.

[Phox]

"Look at this little beeauty! if I try and poke him, like this, he might show us his. . . . Aaaargh!"
Shame really, I was looking forward to him getting eaten by a huge Salty.

I was sure it was going to be a snake bite that got him. I remember hearing something about the first aid kit for the production crew being 98% anti-venom.

[BadBeast]

"Look at this little beeauty! if I try and poke him, like this, he might show us his. . . . Aaaargh!"
Shame really, I was looking forward to him getting eaten by a huge Salty.

I was sure it was going to be a snake bite that got him. I remember hearing something about the first aid kit for the production crew being 98% anti-venom.

Get bitten by a snake in Oz, and they'll have anti-venom into you really quickly, and you'll probably be fine. I don't think anyone's actually died from a snake or spider bite there in decades. But get bit by a Salty, and that's pretty much it. There's no anti-venom for those things. People have a better than 50% chance of surviving a bite from a Great White, but not a big Salty.
ETA. And seeing as the Bloke pretty much made it his career to chase the buggers around the swamps of Northern Oz, so he could take them home, and keep them as his pets, I felt pretty sure he would meet his end in the jaws of a dinosaur sized Croc, that he was trying to hypnotize, or some stupid shit like that.

[Suu]

The North Coast of Australia apparently is a very pretty...but very brutal place.

[BadBeast]

The North Coast of Australia apparently is a very pretty...but very brutal place.

And vast too, and it seems everything that lives there, has the capability of killing any interloper, with teeth, or poison, or stings. I can see why 90% of Australians live within 20 miles of the coast. What with spiders, snakes, and dropbears (see below) on the land, and Sharks, Box Jellyfish, and Crocodiles the size of  sauropods in the water, it must be enough to drive strong men to drink!

[East Coast Hustle]

In all fairness, you KNOW he stuck his finger up a ray's ass before that happened. Dude had it coming.

ETA: and didn't it happen while he was on the boat? I thought the ray jumped out of the water and spiked him, which would really be a sign from god.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think they're adorable.

As you know, they're just sea kitties, really. They like to brush against you and be touched...just, ya know, don't step on them.

Or get stabbed in the heart by them?

You have to do something remarkably stupid for that to happen. I can't even IMAGINE.

Swimming directly above one worked for Steve Irwin. The details elude me, he might have been was probably agitating it.

Like so? (NSFW)

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/a/ac/B00SteveIrwin.jpg/553px-B00SteveIrwin.jpg

[BadBeast]

In all fairness, you KNOW he stuck his finger up a ray's ass before that happened. Dude had it coming.

ETA: and didn't it happen while he was on the boat? I thought the ray jumped out of the water and spiked him, which would really be a sign from god.

Nah, not so dramatic. He swam over the top of it, a bit too close, and from behind, and the Ray thought he was a fat, loudmouthed, greasy pisstaking Shark or something, and Irwined him, right in the heart.

[the last yatto]

If they dig under stonehenge will they open the Pandorica?

[Phox]

I think they're adorable.

As you know, they're just sea kitties, really. They like to brush against you and be touched...just, ya know, don't step on them.

Or get stabbed in the heart by them?

You have to do something remarkably stupid for that to happen. I can't even IMAGINE.

Swimming directly above one worked for Steve Irwin. The details elude me, he might have been was probably agitating it.

Like so? (NSFW)

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/a/ac/B00SteveIrwin.jpg/553px-B00SteveIrwin.jpg

"Look at this little beeauty! if I try and poke him, like this, he might show us his. . . . Aaaargh!"
Shame really, I was looking forward to him getting eaten by a huge Salty.

I was sure it was going to be a snake bite that got him. I remember hearing something about the first aid kit for the production crew being 98% anti-venom.

Get bitten by a snake in Oz, and they'll have anti-venom into you really quickly, and you'll probably be fine. I don't think anyone's actually died from a snake or spider bite there in decades. But get bit by a Salty, and that's pretty much it. There's no anti-venom for those things. People have a better than 50% chance of surviving a bite from a Great White, but not a big Salty.
ETA. And seeing as the Bloke pretty much made it his career to chase the buggers around the swamps of Northern Oz, so he could take them home, and keep them as his pets, I felt pretty sure he would meet his end in the jaws of a dinosaur sized Croc, that he was trying to hypnotize, or some stupid shit like that.

Good point, but I figured he would avoid being done in by his namesake, because it would be too cliché.