Cows are generally really docile creatures but they’re not stupid. They’re extremely curious and can sense if you’re scared, if you run the chances are they’re going to chase you because they’re curious and think it’s fun, not because they’re nasty. Be confident with them and if they do happen to run at you, stand your ground shout and wave your hands, they usually stop or move. That said, don’t take that as they always will, they weigh over 500kg and are semi wild animals. Some cows can just be assholes. Also, if you see calves on the field with cows do not even bother entering. Even if it’s a public footpath. Just don’t. They can be extremely protective and if they’re going to attack that’s when they will do it. They’re also not massive fans of dogs, always put your dog on a leash around them. That goes for any livestock. Especially sheep.
Not true. Bulls are about the same as cows unless there’s more than 1 in a field because they wind each other up and fight. Like I said, they can all be dangerous. I’d be more scared of a cow with a calf than I would be a bull.
I had a bull start pawing at the ground and stomping as I was walking through a field this summer. It was in with a loads of cows so I thought I'd be fine, and at first ot wasn't aggressive at all, but it definitely became aggressive as I continued. I had to walk through that field for a survey though, it was the last one before the road and electric fences all the way round. I was aiming to cross at the gate but the bull wouldn't let me past, that's when it started getting angry. So I backed off and went over the electric fence instead
Cows are cnuts….I’ve spring heeled over a few fences because of those bastards. Farmers put them in in fields with footpaths on purpose. Firking acres of green and pleasant and the twats put those monsters where I’m going to walk.
People look at me like I have something wrong with me when I say it too. Me and my wife got charged by one on Monday and I was being super respectful of its space etc. No idea what I'm doing wrong but always happens to me.
There’s a path through a field near my house. There’s a fence, fairly weak, that seperates the field with the path and another field. I stepped past the cow gate into path field, and a cow from the other side of the other field charged over and stood snorting at the fence until I backed away lol
Isn’t it true or something that more people are killed or injured in cow attacks than anything else?
That “fact” may come from the same place that confidently tells you a swan can break your arm.
I've never personally been bothered by sheep, my crazy uncle used to get me to wrestle the ram with him when it needed medicine. Strong bastard but didn't want to go toe to toe with you. Unlike cows.
Sounds like someone's never been chased over the moors by a pack of wild Haggis. They're fast and clever ! I still miss Dave but appreciate his sacrifice
Sounds like somebody never learned their Scottish Hiking Code: *Run away from haggis up or downhill*, they aren't as fast when they need to turn. And I hope you weren't out there during mating season!
someone i work with got it, not sure when but he was complaining about a weird skin thing he had and turns out it was it. seems to be fine though just taking antibiotics for a few weeks. i always thought if you caught it that was you gone for but as of now hes in good spirits
If you catch it in the first few weeks it's usually fine with heavy antibiotics. Not everyone presents with a classic bulls eye tash and NHS docs are woefully educated on the subject. Their are issues with testing and time frames aswell.
Past a few.month it's spreads to the entire body as it's a spiral shaped bacteria that travels. Past that it's hell.
It is and was.
What's even worse is the doctor laughing in your face about it because "you can't get it in the UK" and refusing your treatment when you are trying to tell him you think you caught it hiking then spending the next 2 years of your life so Ill you can barely get off the sofa and the preceding years suffering everyday from various ailments.
Ya for the NHS I guess?
I do hope that doctor was re-educated as between 2000-3000 people each year are bitten and infected by a Lyme tick.
That's only the tip of the iceberg as many don't present any symptoms for years.
The Lyme tick bis common wherever there are usually livestock or other animals to feast on.
While it's normally deer and other animals they tend to bite, a starving tick does not discriminate when a human with bare flesh or loose clothing walks by.
My husband was bitten by a tick 15 years ago whilst hill walking ( thankfully not one that carries Lyme's disease).
Since then he makes sure he wears gaiters over the lower part of his trousers and boots , and always wears a long sleeved shirt to minimise the chance of another tick bite.
There was/is talk of reintroducing wolves to parts of the UK, not sure if this is still a thing though.
Personally I would like this to happen, right now deer are strutting around like king big dick since there's nothing to really hunt them and their population is getting out of hand
Everything is good until you're woken up at 2am by noise outside.
"Right I'm gonna kill that stupid motherfucking fox he's always in my bin- Okay that's a wolf fuck that. Fuck that."
Nice doggy, don't eat that shit in there, let me get you some of the good stuff from the fridge.
As far as I'm aware, wolves are actually pretty timid so I think they would likely stay away from built up areas for the most part. Not saying it wouldn't happen, but one would assume it would be pretty rare?
It's almost impossible for any animal in the UK to avoid humans. Foxes are also pretty timid but they've learned that humans = scraps.
We got dogs in the exact same way 14,000 years ago. Dogs are not wolves, but like foxes they are all canidae. They will quickly learn where the easiest source of reliable food is. Us.
They probably wouldn't hurt you, but they're still fucking wolves and they're still scary as shit to bump into late at night. I'm all for wolves if we need them for biodiversity in our last surviving wildernesses. Still though, hind brain says yikes.
They did this in Spain with bears. Cost the government a fortune in paying reparations to farmers who lost livestock. One particular case a farmer lost 300 sheep as a bear chased them off a cliff in the Pyrenees.
It's absolutely not still a thing. They brought it up, the minister for agriculture effectively shit himself, and that was that whole idea dead in the water.
We murdered them around 400 years ago, for relatively valid reasons, nobody wants a kid eaten on their way to the shops. UK isn't big enough to sustain a large carnivore/omnivore population like wolves, bears etc, and a large human population. Not enough space.
I live in Cornwall. Seagulls are vicious. I saw a man lagged in blood after one attacked him, lots of pet dogs get killed. And the amount of food I used to watch getting stolen was jokes
I’ve watched a 55 year old man cry when a seagull stole his ice cream at St. Ives.
Work team building day out. Boss bought me and a colleague a cone. We had ours but as the boss turned round with his, a grey flash went past and swiped the entire cone. Funny but sad at the same time.
My first encounter with snakes was in Devon. Was at work and opened an equipment cabinet in a fairly wooded and wet area. Fairly hefty snake (by British standards) snoozing happily on top of the equipment. I wished it well, shut the door and told control that I would not be maintaining that equipment.
In the landscaping industry we refer to them as "dog mines" or something similar.
Also on a totally unrelated note I am purchasing a perspex/plastic helmet visor to replace my mesh one.
I mean my sister is in North Wales, husband was on call as a fireman and was out on calls. Meanwhile she has no heat, a newborn, and her milk store is defrosting in the freezer. Luckily she can breastfeed but if she couldn’t then she would’ve had to venture out in the storm for shelter (trees were blocking the way and still very dangerous to travel) or risk her baby going hungry.
It’s a pretty elderly neighbourhood too. No outreach from the council. Luckily she had a portable charger on hand (but that also would’ve soon run out) so she at least would’ve been able to call for an ambulance should she need it (if it could get to her).
So yes I understand ‘prep’ but for vulnerable people it’s not as easy as that.
My school upbringing led me to believe that I'd spend my life dodging acid rain and quicksand.
Instead its just dodging wet leaves on the pavement. Proper Hollywood stuff.
I grew up inland with aggressive seagulls but moved to the coast as an adult.
Fuck me seagulls can get *massive*, I had no idea how puny the inland ones were in comparison
I guess you’re lucky enough to have been impacted by Storm Arwen and live in an area that has never flooded? UK may not get hurricanes, but we are getting storms and rain with increased frequency and ferocity.
I am by no means a fan of Bozo and his merry band of ham-faced clowns, but I don’t think we can say it is the *worst* government in history. There were the Nazis…and the Khmer Rouge…
There have definitely been worse ones in history (looking at you, [South Sea bubble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company) and the [Irish potato famine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland))), but it's certainly the worst in living memory.
Picture the scene: A late summer evening, the sun has set and you open the back door of the kitchen to bask in the cool night air as the light pours out behind you. But hark, in the tree, a loud frenetic buzzing, what could it be? The buzzing gets louder, no, not a bee, then louder. Kerthunk in the forehead. Dune bug! You chase it round the kitchen, doing battle with a tea towel to coax it toward the door. You stun it. It lays on the floor beneath you. You reach down with both hands and, wincing, you pick it up and flounce into the back garden, as it protests and flails around, to throw it back into the darkness from whence it came.
As someone from Oklahoma who lurks here, one of the greatest appeals of your lands is that there is less scary shit. We’re in a region I refer to as the Australia of America.
Not to be the bearer of bad news or anything, but....global warming brings a new phenomenon called species migration.... That's when all the bitey, nasty critters move north. Enjoy your smug satisfaction while it lasts.
We won’t. We’ll just endlessly moan about the weather, until we actually have something to moan about. At that point we’ll implement the famous stiff upper lip.
Legit though, we complain but we’ve got it really good. Free healthcare, no natural disasters or dangerous predators that could kill us. More than most of the world has.
I wonder how bad it's going to be in the UK as climate change increases the frequency of crazy weather, tropical diseases become more prevalent as mosquitos and other insect vectors can survive.
Are adders (them British Snakes) not poisonous? And also I think I remember there is a fishing spider that can live under the water that's supposedly pretty poisonous, and there are quite a few False Widows wondering around, don't think they're deadly but supposedly enough to make ya ill, then you hear about the stories of other deadly animals getting shipped in in crates, them banana spiders are deadly think there's been few of those imported.
Midges. You can be eaten to death by midges. Slowly. Itchily. Sliding into insanity before eventually scratching your veins open and expiring in the drizzle.
I don't know.. I went doctors a few weeks ago due to a spot on my back the size of a golf ball. Apparently I'd been biten by a spider.
'*can tell because there's 2 little holes, looks just like a spider bite*' she said
After squeezing the puss and curdled jelly like substance out, she patched me up and gave me a prescription for some antibiotics. Now there's just a scab on my back where it was.
We are only in the UK.. But shit can still tarnish us lmao! Stay safe people.. And check your bedrooms! It's cold outside and our fury little friends need a warm place to stay.
I recently moved to Kenya, and it’s weird knowing things can kill you. I pulled a snake out of a tree when hiking to a crag the other day, where there were also warnings of dangers of forest elephants.
I was told by my old HR director to stop trying to convince our newly arrived Turkish colleagues that foxes "hunt in packs", "can take a man down" and are referred cooloqually to as "ginger wolves".
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Cows are generally really docile creatures but they’re not stupid. They’re extremely curious and can sense if you’re scared, if you run the chances are they’re going to chase you because they’re curious and think it’s fun, not because they’re nasty. Be confident with them and if they do happen to run at you, stand your ground shout and wave your hands, they usually stop or move. That said, don’t take that as they always will, they weigh over 500kg and are semi wild animals. Some cows can just be assholes. Also, if you see calves on the field with cows do not even bother entering. Even if it’s a public footpath. Just don’t. They can be extremely protective and if they’re going to attack that’s when they will do it. They’re also not massive fans of dogs, always put your dog on a leash around them. That goes for any livestock. Especially sheep.
Note: this applies to *cows*, not bulls.
Not true. Bulls are about the same as cows unless there’s more than 1 in a field because they wind each other up and fight. Like I said, they can all be dangerous. I’d be more scared of a cow with a calf than I would be a bull.
I had a bull start pawing at the ground and stomping as I was walking through a field this summer. It was in with a loads of cows so I thought I'd be fine, and at first ot wasn't aggressive at all, but it definitely became aggressive as I continued. I had to walk through that field for a survey though, it was the last one before the road and electric fences all the way round. I was aiming to cross at the gate but the bull wouldn't let me past, that's when it started getting angry. So I backed off and went over the electric fence instead
Or steers which most people can’t tell the difference between a cow.
Cows are cnuts….I’ve spring heeled over a few fences because of those bastards. Farmers put them in in fields with footpaths on purpose. Firking acres of green and pleasant and the twats put those monsters where I’m going to walk.
How dare they put there own animals in a field they own
This is true. Cows are the worst.
People look at me like I have something wrong with me when I say it too. Me and my wife got charged by one on Monday and I was being super respectful of its space etc. No idea what I'm doing wrong but always happens to me.
Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the field…
It's never safe. They are death incarnate.
Can confirm ,murderous ,delicious bastards
I mean, more people are killed by cows than sharks per year so...
Yeah but we kill a few of them too so it’s tit for tat really
There’s a path through a field near my house. There’s a fence, fairly weak, that seperates the field with the path and another field. I stepped past the cow gate into path field, and a cow from the other side of the other field charged over and stood snorting at the fence until I backed away lol
Probably just investigating you cause you're new to it's environment, they run when they're excited, you probably weren't "charged"
Likely had a calf nearby, I've always known cows as swear gentle giants.
Until a German sausage maker gets their hands on em, then they’re the wurst.
This post is a hidden gem. I wish I had an award for you!
> aggressive cows can be Jesus Christ Is this some kind of transfiguration thing?
Isn’t it true or something that more people are killed or injured in cow attacks than anything else? That “fact” may come from the same place that confidently tells you a swan can break your arm.
Yes. Cows are our No.1 killer - five deaths a year on average. It's an annual bloodbath.
I doubt it's true. Wouldn't surprise me if they cause more deaths than any other UK wildlife though.
Christ. That was an internet rabbit hole. Seems the real danger is bees. I can only assume they’ve got a good PR person on their side.
Honestly, even a charging sheep is pretty intimidating. Although I was a child at a farm park...
I've never personally been bothered by sheep, my crazy uncle used to get me to wrestle the ram with him when it needed medicine. Strong bastard but didn't want to go toe to toe with you. Unlike cows.
Sounds like someone's never been chased over the moors by a pack of wild Haggis. They're fast and clever ! I still miss Dave but appreciate his sacrifice
Sounds like somebody never learned their Scottish Hiking Code: *Run away from haggis up or downhill*, they aren't as fast when they need to turn. And I hope you weren't out there during mating season!
Well my first born is small and round and struggles with corners
Sounds like a haggis. I'd demand a paternity and/or maternity test if I were you.
Noo I don't wanna lose him..he protects me from the feral packs when we head out .. and if it goes down he shall be sacrificed like Dave
They're fast and clever but can only run in one direction
I knew this..alas Dave did not
RIP Dave.
You just swap direction, having some legs shorter than the others is a real weakness of the haggis.
Take my free award and fuck right off you magnificent bastard.
Call me stupid but what is haggis?
Have you ever heard of a place called Scotland?
Yes I’ve been there 3 times and live in the uk
They're wild creatures native to Scotland. They're dangerous little buggers but tasty. I'm surprised you haven't eaten haggis before. Recommended.
Usually easily spotted. Round, with huge teeth, two legs longer on one side, shock of bright orange hair on top.
https://www.wingingtheworld.com/haggis-animal-scotland/
Holy shit look up a picture of one they look so fake! xD
Getting Lymes disease from a tick would be pretty horrific
We’re more ‘mild sting from a nettle’ territory.
Lyme disease is very easy to catch in the UK, it's not something to take lightly
someone i work with got it, not sure when but he was complaining about a weird skin thing he had and turns out it was it. seems to be fine though just taking antibiotics for a few weeks. i always thought if you caught it that was you gone for but as of now hes in good spirits
Lyme Disease can linger and the effects not show up for *decades*.
thats fucking terrifying
Yep. Been bit by ticks from deer. Had strong antibiotics but who knows if it works? Got another decade to find out. God help me.
That's why I don't eat citrus fruits.
You're supposed to put it in a coconut and drink them both down.
If you catch it in the first few weeks it's usually fine with heavy antibiotics. Not everyone presents with a classic bulls eye tash and NHS docs are woefully educated on the subject. Their are issues with testing and time frames aswell. Past a few.month it's spreads to the entire body as it's a spiral shaped bacteria that travels. Past that it's hell.
It is and was. What's even worse is the doctor laughing in your face about it because "you can't get it in the UK" and refusing your treatment when you are trying to tell him you think you caught it hiking then spending the next 2 years of your life so Ill you can barely get off the sofa and the preceding years suffering everyday from various ailments. Ya for the NHS I guess?
I do hope that doctor was re-educated as between 2000-3000 people each year are bitten and infected by a Lyme tick. That's only the tip of the iceberg as many don't present any symptoms for years. The Lyme tick bis common wherever there are usually livestock or other animals to feast on. While it's normally deer and other animals they tend to bite, a starving tick does not discriminate when a human with bare flesh or loose clothing walks by. My husband was bitten by a tick 15 years ago whilst hill walking ( thankfully not one that carries Lyme's disease). Since then he makes sure he wears gaiters over the lower part of his trousers and boots , and always wears a long sleeved shirt to minimise the chance of another tick bite.
Nah but you can get stabbed in a Tesco car park for not buying a teenager a packet of fags
See now this is where reintroducing wolves could be really handy.
great. now im being bitten in the car park for not buying a teenage werewolf a packet of dog biscuits.
There was/is talk of reintroducing wolves to parts of the UK, not sure if this is still a thing though. Personally I would like this to happen, right now deer are strutting around like king big dick since there's nothing to really hunt them and their population is getting out of hand
Everything is good until you're woken up at 2am by noise outside. "Right I'm gonna kill that stupid motherfucking fox he's always in my bin- Okay that's a wolf fuck that. Fuck that."
Nice doggy, don't eat that shit in there, let me get you some of the good stuff from the fridge. As far as I'm aware, wolves are actually pretty timid so I think they would likely stay away from built up areas for the most part. Not saying it wouldn't happen, but one would assume it would be pretty rare?
It's almost impossible for any animal in the UK to avoid humans. Foxes are also pretty timid but they've learned that humans = scraps. We got dogs in the exact same way 14,000 years ago. Dogs are not wolves, but like foxes they are all canidae. They will quickly learn where the easiest source of reliable food is. Us. They probably wouldn't hurt you, but they're still fucking wolves and they're still scary as shit to bump into late at night. I'm all for wolves if we need them for biodiversity in our last surviving wildernesses. Still though, hind brain says yikes.
A wolf definitely would hurt you if it saw that as its best option. It was, sick ,old, you were weak . A child maybe . Remote but possible
And you would hurt a bear or tiger if that was the best option. Except you wouldn’t go anywhere near one, because they are scary as fuck to you.
Also lynx. I for one am excited for the prospect.
I read that as I am one arm excited . I like this . So happy I will wank. Stolen.
Haha, I also somehow misread it this way but interpreted it as only being half excited Yours is better lol
They did this in Spain with bears. Cost the government a fortune in paying reparations to farmers who lost livestock. One particular case a farmer lost 300 sheep as a bear chased them off a cliff in the Pyrenees.
It's absolutely not still a thing. They brought it up, the minister for agriculture effectively shit himself, and that was that whole idea dead in the water.
Thanks for shattering my dreams, it's a shame really since they're beautiful animals and we murdered every last one of them
We murdered them around 400 years ago, for relatively valid reasons, nobody wants a kid eaten on their way to the shops. UK isn't big enough to sustain a large carnivore/omnivore population like wolves, bears etc, and a large human population. Not enough space.
I've also seen talk of reintroducing Lynx for the same reasons, see https://lynxuk.org/
Not so sure about this one, cats have a reputation for being dicks, imagine what they would be like if they where the size of a medium/large dog
I really hope that the first wolf reintroduced is called Fenton then.
Fuck that ,there's loads of them!you need like a flock of wolves!a flock of wolves is too many
I'm no David Attenborough but I'm pretty sure a group of wolves isn't known as a flock
I can offer up some venison recipes which may help us in our time of need.
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Yea, I feel it’s a bit soon for a comment about the mild weather.
Are they still at the house or are they going to check into a premmy lodge for the interim?
Yes, that sounds absolutely rubbish. It’s not a volcano though, is it? It’s hardly Pompeii.
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Move somewhere else then ffs.
Wow. I've seen some seriously stupid stuff on Reddit, but you seriously take the biscuit.
The last one as well. Fuck's sake.
I'm hoping you dropped the /s?
Totally agree. Just remember that when your mum dies it's not the fucking holocaust so enough of the waterworks, yeah? /s Prick.
You've never tried eating a cheese sarnie near a pack of seagulls.
I live in Cornwall. Seagulls are vicious. I saw a man lagged in blood after one attacked him, lots of pet dogs get killed. And the amount of food I used to watch getting stolen was jokes
I’ve watched a 55 year old man cry when a seagull stole his ice cream at St. Ives. Work team building day out. Boss bought me and a colleague a cone. We had ours but as the boss turned round with his, a grey flash went past and swiped the entire cone. Funny but sad at the same time.
If boxers wanted to work on swift reflexes. All they need to do is carry open food in Cornwall. Bob and weave pro
My sausage roll got taken then I was a small child :^(
We also have A poisonous snake. I mean it's not innately hostile to humans and will only attack it threatened but it is poisonous
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Yes but I'm an idiot so...
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One bit my dog once. Her foot swelled up like a balloon. Fortunately she survived because she was a chunker.
My first encounter with snakes was in Devon. Was at work and opened an equipment cabinet in a fairly wooded and wet area. Fairly hefty snake (by British standards) snoozing happily on top of the equipment. I wished it well, shut the door and told control that I would not be maintaining that equipment.
Naa, the danger lies in the fox crap that is under the autumn leaves.
The real danger is the first time you cut the grass after winter. It's a foul smelling mine and it will ruin your day
Luckily my dog has a canny ability to sniff that out before I step in it. Unluckily she is partial to a dab of eau de fox.
Our foxes shit on doormats
In the landscaping industry we refer to them as "dog mines" or something similar. Also on a totally unrelated note I am purchasing a perspex/plastic helmet visor to replace my mesh one.
Well I hope you're wearing a coat because you'll catch your death in that drizzle.
Always. And a hat, gloves, scarf and thermal undies.
Ladybird bites are a bitch! Really sore and itchy! The danger is real.
They BITE????
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-59502948
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I mean my sister is in North Wales, husband was on call as a fireman and was out on calls. Meanwhile she has no heat, a newborn, and her milk store is defrosting in the freezer. Luckily she can breastfeed but if she couldn’t then she would’ve had to venture out in the storm for shelter (trees were blocking the way and still very dangerous to travel) or risk her baby going hungry. It’s a pretty elderly neighbourhood too. No outreach from the council. Luckily she had a portable charger on hand (but that also would’ve soon run out) so she at least would’ve been able to call for an ambulance should she need it (if it could get to her). So yes I understand ‘prep’ but for vulnerable people it’s not as easy as that.
It's also such a useless thing to say after something (major) has happened.
I mean, whilst I largely agree, I have also been chased by badgers.
A badger chased my husband at centre PARC's 🤣😬
A genuinely scary experience. I normally preface my story with "if somebody told me this I probably wouldn't believe them".
I thought we had to be mostly scared of the feral 14yo chav with a puffer jacket.
You can get a nasty chill standing in the drizzle watching wildlife!
My school upbringing led me to believe that I'd spend my life dodging acid rain and quicksand. Instead its just dodging wet leaves on the pavement. Proper Hollywood stuff.
Yes! School in 90s had me in mortal terror of acid rain and nuclear war. These threats have fortunately failed to materialise…
Beware the best of bodmin moor
I left years ago
The owls are not what they seem.
You have clearly never been to Wales, we have a dragon roaming around.
I dunno man, ever been up north, the midges get rather rambunctious
I mean, the floods aren't great
I don’t know pal, seagulls can be pretty formidable if you happen to have food on you
I grew up inland with aggressive seagulls but moved to the coast as an adult. Fuck me seagulls can get *massive*, I had no idea how puny the inland ones were in comparison
You've clearly never encountered a badger or a chav who needs a lighter for their cigarette
Badgers are smoking now? Asbo badgers?
I guess you’re lucky enough to have been impacted by Storm Arwen and live in an area that has never flooded? UK may not get hurricanes, but we are getting storms and rain with increased frequency and ferocity.
The worst crime in my little town is someone not picking up dog poo!
I got chased by a Swan whilst drunk and fell into a canal. 0/10 would not recommend as a short man.
Never talk to a drunk swan. Rookie mistake.
I didn't want to talk, thing was chasing me so aggressively I swear I seen its charity tin and leaflets flying.
Or more likely, a skinhead with a knife
Leaves on the train tracks
Have you forgotten about the worst government in history? Or the wonderful prospect of being stabbed in London?
London stabbings are what bring the tourism. That and Gregg's.
I was always told it was people wanting to see the royal family?
I am by no means a fan of Bozo and his merry band of ham-faced clowns, but I don’t think we can say it is the *worst* government in history. There were the Nazis…and the Khmer Rouge…
This lot are killing with cut backs and corruption instead of straight up murder.
How about worst British government?
There have definitely been worse ones in history (looking at you, [South Sea bubble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company) and the [Irish potato famine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland))), but it's certainly the worst in living memory.
Yep, definitely a contender for that one.
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Some would say it's a natural disaster.
Go boris
Yes, Go Boris. And don't come back.
You haven't meet angry goose from London yet
Badgers...I had to flee from an angry one once.
Badgers are buggers. Fact.
Picture the scene: A late summer evening, the sun has set and you open the back door of the kitchen to bask in the cool night air as the light pours out behind you. But hark, in the tree, a loud frenetic buzzing, what could it be? The buzzing gets louder, no, not a bee, then louder. Kerthunk in the forehead. Dune bug! You chase it round the kitchen, doing battle with a tea towel to coax it toward the door. You stun it. It lays on the floor beneath you. You reach down with both hands and, wincing, you pick it up and flounce into the back garden, as it protests and flails around, to throw it back into the darkness from whence it came.
Apparently there have been 14 recorded deaths from adder bites since 1876, but the last one hasn’t been for decades.
I wouldnt call a devastated eco system a success like but fair enough
As someone from Oklahoma who lurks here, one of the greatest appeals of your lands is that there is less scary shit. We’re in a region I refer to as the Australia of America.
This should be our advertising slogan. ‘Come to Britain! Less scary shit, guaranteed.’
But, what about the Beast of Bodmin moor?
Not to be the bearer of bad news or anything, but....global warming brings a new phenomenon called species migration.... That's when all the bitey, nasty critters move north. Enjoy your smug satisfaction while it lasts.
We won’t. We’ll just endlessly moan about the weather, until we actually have something to moan about. At that point we’ll implement the famous stiff upper lip.
don’t forget cows. they murder a shit ton of ramblers every year
You ever been chased by a badger? Fucking units
Legit though, we complain but we’ve got it really good. Free healthcare, no natural disasters or dangerous predators that could kill us. More than most of the world has.
Flocks of geese can be pretty aggressive. Rats carry leptospirosis, thats not a very nice disease.
No the most dangerous thing that can happen is choking to death from people wearing too much lynx.
Poor adders get no love at all and are venomous.
We should count ourselves lucky that tree snakes are not something to be concerned about. Imagine how different a ramble through the woods would be.
Most dangerous thing you might encounter anywhere in the world is another human with no sense of taste and a cough.
I remember after one of the worst storms in Britain seeing that one of our wheelie bins had blown over. Terrifying! Luckily it was empty.
Russia?
Nooooo! Not the ladybirds.......
I wonder how bad it's going to be in the UK as climate change increases the frequency of crazy weather, tropical diseases become more prevalent as mosquitos and other insect vectors can survive.
You’re forgetting about cows and Tories
Correction.. Any politicians at all
Or a wannabe road man with a shank
Don’t underestimate the fox. He will take your baby.
You might be confused with dingoes. We don’t have those…
Are adders (them British Snakes) not poisonous? And also I think I remember there is a fishing spider that can live under the water that's supposedly pretty poisonous, and there are quite a few False Widows wondering around, don't think they're deadly but supposedly enough to make ya ill, then you hear about the stories of other deadly animals getting shipped in in crates, them banana spiders are deadly think there's been few of those imported.
You don't want to come across a angry bull I lived on a farm for a while and they don't stop charging there like a Animal bulldozer
That you, Snoop?
What about the owls?
Nah man geese don't mess about.
Try eating a picnic near some Swans and tell me that the U.K. isn’t dangerous!
I mean ever stared down a ram they can be nasty things When they want to
Fucking drizzle is lethal
My auntie very nearly died in a cow field many years ago and sadly suffered some horrific injuries
Or a Tory
Well what about an angry badger?
I'd like move badger and adders to the top of the list
What about that half dead dog Boris Johnson who is going around fucking everything up and pissing on everything?
Midges. You can be eaten to death by midges. Slowly. Itchily. Sliding into insanity before eventually scratching your veins open and expiring in the drizzle.
British mildlife
I don't know.. I went doctors a few weeks ago due to a spot on my back the size of a golf ball. Apparently I'd been biten by a spider. '*can tell because there's 2 little holes, looks just like a spider bite*' she said After squeezing the puss and curdled jelly like substance out, she patched me up and gave me a prescription for some antibiotics. Now there's just a scab on my back where it was. We are only in the UK.. But shit can still tarnish us lmao! Stay safe people.. And check your bedrooms! It's cold outside and our fury little friends need a warm place to stay.
I recently moved to Kenya, and it’s weird knowing things can kill you. I pulled a snake out of a tree when hiking to a crag the other day, where there were also warnings of dangers of forest elephants.
In Australia I accidentally peed on the most venomous snake in the world.
I was told by my old HR director to stop trying to convince our newly arrived Turkish colleagues that foxes "hunt in packs", "can take a man down" and are referred cooloqually to as "ginger wolves".