#aussie stuff

[prettylittlelifeforms]

You need a pen license in Australia?

You don’t need one necessarily but it is a thing usually done in primary schools when we learn handwriting/cursive!

It’s not a legal document or anything, just a laminated piece of paper your teacher gives you when you meet a certain point of approval – and is the marker that shows you are allowed to graduate from using pencils only in your notebooks to being allowed to use pens

it’s pretty standard to my knowledge that you’ll get them throughout and around grade 4 (9-10 yrs old) so for kids who got them earlier in the year it was like a status symbol but was also incentive to get your handwriting perfect (match the shape and guide exactly with no personality)

I am still very salty that I never got mine, especially when I think I was the only person in my whole year level who didn’t, and by grade 5 they just expected us to write with pen because the license didn’t actually matter then – including a specific incident where my friend got hers despite her f’s being wrong and me not getting mine that same day for the reason being that my f’s were wrong (in the exact same way)

[doashoeyrabbit]

Latrell Mitchell | South Sydney Rabbitohs | NRL

[sillyrabbit81]

You're a legend. Just sayin.

Awww, Love ya mate!

Here, I made you something 🤣

❤️ Rabbit

[nodaudaboutitt]

Ngl black friday sales seem weird af in aus, partly because they just suddenly started doing them 2 or 3 years ago

But also just the name because here "black" followed by a day usually is for a bushfire like Black Saturday or 2019/2020's Black Summer

[justwritingscibbles]

Hey you're Australian right? What's the biggest spider you've seen?

I am indeed Aussie. And I have a lot of stories about big fucking spiders. But the biggest spider I’ve ever had to personally deal with, would be a Huntsman Spider the size of a damn dinner plate. 

Its really common to hear that sentence. But seriously... this spider was HUGE!! And it made me nervous being around it, and that is saying something. I’ve lived with these things. I’ve rehomed them from dark corners and shower curtains and bathroom towels to the outside multiple times. But this thing was.... unnervingly big. 

The rest of the story is below if you’re interested. But trust me... when an Aussie gets nervous about a Huntsman spider...the fucker is big.

I usually just use a large plastic container with newpaper to safely move the spiders. I use to hand-hold them but its better for both me and the spiders that I use something inclosed to make sure they don’t get hurt or crawl to a position I cannot reach them. But this particular spider had to be transported in a massive aquarium net. Usually the ones you use when you have to catch big fish like Oscars or Disc Fish. 

I had to place the net over it and kinda hope the spider would crawl into the mesh and I could move it while it sorta just hung out in the net. But instead of crawling onto the mesh, it started TO PUSH AGAINST THE NETTING AND MADE ME WALK ALONG SIDE THE WAY BECAUSE IT WAS PHYSICALLY MOVING THE NET ALONG WITH IT. I literally could not lift the net because then it would crawl higher up the wall, but it refused to let me slide newspaper under it. You could feel it pushing down so the paper didn’t go under its little feet. 

Anyway, eventually it decided to crawl into the net and as I was walking through the house to get rid of it, the spider was bending the handle of the net it was that heavy!! And then it started to crawl over the lip of the net and I literally yeeted that net out of the window because I did not want that thing getting onto the ground and start jumping around or rush to climb something to get higher. 

I love spiders. They’re super neat little critters. But this one particular spider just... needed to stay outside and fuck off.

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

It's a shame there's no more jokes but Cheezles is an amazing name

although they don’t have the jokes on the single packets anymore, I think the whole spiel they have on boxes of cheezles about the cheezles mascot (the big cheeze) is a great joke in itself lmao.

[rag1000]

Australians, I need an explanation.

[it-is-bugs]

Surgical plate found inside stomach of 4.7m long crocodile in Australia

An Australian crocodile farmer who found an orthopaedic plate inside a crocodile's stomach said on Thursday he had been told the surgical device was from a person's body and had been contacted by relatives of missing people anxious for clues. Koorana Crocodile Farm owner John Lever found the

Meanwhile in Australia....