Red back spider bite

dov · 5th February 2010, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jmcg.insight.gardens

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Haven't had any thing to do with European Wasps as yet, are they aggressive?
Julie

Yes. Very. Not quite as agro as I've heard Hornets can be in Nth America, but they are pretty nasty and they'll chase you a fair distance before they give up. As for anti-histamines in the first-aid kit, well the strongest medication I ever hand out is antacid or a clove for someone's tooth. Never know what allergies or drug hypersensitivities etc someone may have. Or what other medication someone may be on for that matter. I'd rather just ring 000 in an emergency and stop bloodflow/maintain an airway/CPR until until the ambos arrive. Too bloody dangerous handing out drugs. Even something seemingly as harmless as an antihistamine. I've spent a lot of time around the down-and-out and I've seen some pretty severe drama from people mixing over the counter drugs etc. There is a reason that doctors always (if they want to stay practicing!) ask you what medications you are on and about allergies and hypersensitivities before prescribing anything.

windthrown · 5th February 2010, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JayD

lol..

..I come from a land down under..where beer does flow and men chunder.oi..oi..oi

What's that Men At Work song?

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men chunder?

Jeff Darby · 5th February 2010, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by windthrown

What's that Men At Work song?

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men chunder?

my quote is from the fourth verse, your is from the first...

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Glad to hear your didnt get sick from the bite ,Husky man, I was cleaning a cocos palm when I cut away a frond and exposed a big green spider with a reasonable size grasshopper nailed clean throught, jeez they have big fangs.

windthrown · 5th February 2010, 11:25 AM

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

Chunder!

Chunder!

Chunder!

I see why I was reminded of that song then, eh?

What the heck is a vegemite sandwich?

Jeff Darby · 5th February 2010, 04:06 PM

Heck you know that stuff you lube your bearings with, right?...well we refine it a bit more and chuck it on our toast at breaky....yummo !

+ toast + eggs = yummo!

dov · 5th February 2010, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JayD

Heck you know that stuff you lube your bearings with, right?...well we refine it a bit more and chuck it on our toast at breaky....yummo !

+ toast + eggs = yummo!

Forget breaky! I think I'll have some now!

windthrown · 5th February 2010, 05:20 PM

According to Wiki it is more like solidified beer waste (which makes sence for its being popular in Oz I guess):

From Wikipedia:

Vegemite (pronounced /ˈvɛdʒəˌmaɪt/)[1][2] or /ˈvɛdʒiˌmaɪt/ is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract. It is a spread for sandwiches, toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits, and filling for pastries such as Cheesymite scroll. It is similar to British, New Zealand, and South African Marmite and to Swiss Cenovis.

Vegemite is made from used brewers' yeast extract, a by-product of beer manufacturing, and various vegetable and spice additives. It is salty, slightly bitter, and malty — similar to beef bouillon. The texture is smooth and sticky. It is not as intensely flavoured as British Marmite and it is less sweet than the New Zealand version of Marmite.

Vegemite has not been successfully marketed in other countries, apart from New Zealand and to a lesser extent in the United Kingdom, despite being owned by US food company Kraft Foods. When seen in the United States, the Vegemite label often does not contain the Kraft logo.

Vegemite... mites... more bugs. Do vege mites sting too? There probably is a deadly variant form down under.

Jeff Darby · 5th February 2010, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by windthrown

According to Wiki it is more like solidified beer waste (which makes sence for its being popular in Oz I guess):

From Wikipedia:

Vegemite (pronounced /ˈvɛdʒəˌmaɪt/)[1][2] or /ˈvɛdʒiˌmaɪt/ is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract. It is a spread for sandwiches, toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits, and filling for pastries such as Cheesymite scroll. It is similar to British, New Zealand, and South African Marmite and to Swiss Cenovis.

Vegemite is made from used brewers' yeast extract, a by-product of beer manufacturing, and various vegetable and spice additives. It is salty, slightly bitter, and malty — similar to beef bouillon. The texture is smooth and sticky. It is not as intensely flavoured as British Marmite and it is less sweet than the New Zealand version of Marmite.

Vegemite has not been successfully marketed in other countries, apart from New Zealand and to a lesser extent in the United Kingdom, despite being owned by US food company Kraft Foods. When seen in the United States, the Vegemite label often does not contain the Kraft logo.

Vegemite... mites... more bugs. Do vege mites sting too? There probably is a deadly variant form down under.

I dont know, maybe the mar...mites do...lol.. Marmite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marmite...it just gets better..

windthrown · 6th February 2010, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by JayD

I dont know, maybe the mar...mites do...lol.. Marmite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marmite...it just gets better..

From the looks of it that stuff will probably kill you.

Seems that stuff is better suited to greasing bars with?

BarMite! Down Under, its deadly....

Jeff Darby · 13th February 2010, 08:07 PM

Well here I am again posting in this spider thread, the other day while processingg a iron bark we dropped in a park in Sydney as it was deseased and full of ant, a bloody great huntsman appeared on the rim of my helmet.

Before I knew it, it ran onto my right checkbone covering my eye.....ewwwwww.

Mate in a blink of an eye I ripped off my helmet and thrown it to the ground, no spider to be seen, so I grabbed a stick and turned my helmet over and here it was about the size of the bottom of a tea cup...big bugger.....did scare the be jinggles out of me!

jmcg.insight.gardens · 13th February 2010, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Well here I am again posting in this spider thread, the other day while processingg a iron bark we dropped in a park in Sydney as it was deseased and full of ant, a bloody great huntsman appeared on the rim of my helmet.

Before I knew it, it ran onto my right checkbone covering my eye.....ewwwwww.

Mate in a blink of an eye I ripped off my helmet and thrown it to the ground, no spider to be seen, so I grabbed a stick and turned my helmet over and here it was about the size of the bottom of a tea cup...big bugger.....did scare the be jinggles out of me!

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..............dat's funny........

I remember seeing a documentary once of this guy traveling through New Guinea, anyway he's driving along in this Land Rover along a track in the rain-forest, real footage. Next minute he drives through a Bird spiders web and the sucker wraps around his entire face. Then you see this footage of him driving off the road.........

Funniest thing I,ve seen in a long time.

dov · 14th February 2010, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by jmcg.insight.gardens

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I remember seeing a documentary once of this guy traveling through New Guinea, anyway he's driving along in this Land Rover along a track in the rain-forest, real footage. Next minute he drives through a Bird spiders web and the sucker wraps around his entire face. Then you see this footage of him driving off the road.........

Funniest thing I,ve seen in a long time.

I wiped a tear away while laughing just at the thought of it!

Bruce Hopf · 14th February 2010, 09:17 AM

One time I was driving a transport truck, down a highway, in Tennessee. I had a van ahead of me, and I was passed by this women in a convertible. She had a low cut blouse on, and she pulled in behind this van.
When the coast was clear, she had attempted to pass this van. Well anyway, this van had been sitting for a while, and this mouse had climbed up from underneath the hood some how, and was hanging onto a windshield wiper.
So the guy turned the windshield wipers on, and the mouse went air born, right down inside front of this woman's blouse. The guy was watching the mouse, as it went air borne, and good job that he was paying attention, because she swerved over into his lane, well both vehicles were in the ditch, didn't hit anything, or one another, I had to swerve the truck, to miss them both.
By the time I got the truck stopped, pulled over, and walked back to where. Not knowing what to expect when I got there, I found both of them, rolling on the ground, and were laughing so hard, and they told me the comical story, about the intruding mouse, going down her top.
That is something that you don't see everyday. Was a heck of a good laugh though. Bruce.

jmcg.insight.gardens · 14th February 2010, 10:03 AM

Quote:

One time I was driving a transport truck, down a highway, in Tennessee. I had a van ahead of me, and I was passed by this women in a convertible. She had a low cut blouse on, and she pulled in behind this van.
When the coast was clear, she had attempted to pass this van. Well anyway, this van had been sitting for a while, and this mouse had climbed up from underneath the hood some how, and was hanging onto a windshield wiper.
So the guy turned the windshield wipers on, and the mouse went air born, right down inside front of this woman's blouse. The guy was watching the mouse, as it went air borne, and good job that he was paying attention, because she swerved over into his lane, well both vehicles were in the ditch, didn't hit anything, or one another, I had to swerve the truck, to miss them both.
By the time I got the truck stopped, pulled over, and walked back to where. Not knowing what to expect when I got there, I found both of them, rolling on the ground, and were laughing so hard, and they told me the comical story, about the intruding mouse, going down her top.
That is something that you don't see everyday. Was a heck of a good laugh though. Bruce.

LOL..........

I wished I'd seen that............what a funny thing to happen..

Julie

Jeff Darby · 20th February 2010, 05:15 PM

just when you think this spider thread has gone away another arachnaphobe appears in it's place...this is what my son-inlaw Phill nearly walked into out bush....

olyman · 5th April 2010, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Hopf

One time I was driving a transport truck, down a highway, in Tennessee. I had a van ahead of me, and I was passed by this women in a convertible. She had a low cut blouse on, and she pulled in behind this van.
When the coast was clear, she had attempted to pass this van. Well anyway, this van had been sitting for a while, and this mouse had climbed up from underneath the hood some how, and was hanging onto a windshield wiper.
So the guy turned the windshield wipers on, and the mouse went air born, right down inside front of this woman's blouse. The guy was watching the mouse, as it went air borne, and good job that he was paying attention, because she swerved over into his lane, well both vehicles were in the ditch, didn't hit anything, or one another, I had to swerve the truck, to miss them both.
By the time I got the truck stopped, pulled over, and walked back to where. Not knowing what to expect when I got there, I found both of them, rolling on the ground, and were laughing so hard, and they told me the comical story, about the intruding mouse, going down her top.
That is something that you don't see everyday. Was a heck of a good laugh though. Bruce.

too bad your video cam wasnt running--funniest home videos!!!!!!

Bruce Hopf · 5th April 2010, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by olyman

too bad your video cam wasnt running--funniest home videos!!!!!!

Well just lets say, it was pretty harry for me for a few miniutes, and not too funny. Good job that the driver of the van, was paying attention to the on goings, and swerved into the ditch, the same time as she did.
I was loaded, and grossed just under 80,000 Lbs, and by the time I got stopped, I was well over a foot ball field away from where they had driven into the ditch.
If they would have had a collision in front of me, there would have been no way I would have been able to avoid them, and I probably would have go over the top of them, if not through them There probably would have been serious injuries to them, or fatalities.
As for me, I would probably have been able to walk away from the accident, unhurt. Bruce

Eric Frei · 9th October 2011, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Eric Frei

Did you hear about the court case?

Well, I did and most people are stunned.

Fancy a judge saying Men At Work stole some nursery rhyme thingo.

Video - Men At Work 'rip off' Kookaburra - The Sydney Morning Herald

Kookaburra rip-off a 'musical accident' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

And they lost their right to appeal.

Men at Work lose bid to appeal 'Down Under' ruling - Taiwan News Online

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Men at Work lose bid to appeal 'Down Under' ruling
2011-10-07
Australian rockers Men at Work lost their final court bid on Friday to prove they did not steal the distinctive flute riff of their 1980s hit "Down Under" from a children's campfire song.

The High Court of Australia denied the band's bid to appeal a federal court judge's earlier ruling that the group had copied the signature flute melody of "Down Under" from the song "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree."

"Kookaburra," a song about Australia's famous bird of the same name, was written more than 70 years ago by Australian teacher Marion Sinclair for a Girl Guides competition. The song went on to become a favorite around campfires from New Zealand to Canada. The wildly popular "Down Under" remains an unofficial anthem for Australia.

Sinclair died in 1988, but publishing company Larrikin Music _ which now holds the copyright for "Kookaburra" _ filed a lawsuit in 2009.

Last year, Federal Court Justice Peter Jacobson ruled that the "Down Under" flute riff replicated a substantial part of Sinclair's song. The judge later ordered Men at Work's recording company, EMI Songs Australia, and "Down Under" songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert to pay 5 percent of royalties earned from the song since 2002 and from its future earnings.

The court didn't specify what the 5 percent penalty translates to in dollars. Larrikin wasn't able to seek royalties earned before 2002 because of a statute of limitations.

Lawyers for Men at Work's recording companies maintained the band hadn't copied anything, and vowed to fight the ruling. But Friday's decision from the High Court ends the band's chance to appeal.

"Larrikin welcomes the decision and looks forward to resolving the remaining issues between the parties," Adam Simpson, a lawyer for Larrikin, said in an email.

Mark Bamford, a lawyer for EMI, called the High Court's decision disappointing.

"Down Under" and the album it was on, "Business As Usual," reached No. 1 on the Australian, American and British charts in early 1983. That year, Men at Work won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

dingo · 16th December 2011, 09:49 PM

Was on the job a few weeks ago where I realised two of the logs I carried on my shoulder had mouse spiders on them after putting them down. nasty looking beast I can tell you that much-looks identical to a funnel web but with a larger rounder abdomen. I hate spiders!

5th February 2010, 11:25 AM	#64
windthrown Former Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In the Great Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,211	Re: Red back spider bite Aussie Aussie Aussie! Chunder! Chunder! Chunder! I see why I was reminded of that song then, eh? What the heck is a vegemite sandwich?

5th February 2010, 04:06 PM	#65
Jeff Darby Moderator - Previously known as JayD Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 2,029	Re: Red back spider bite Heck you know that stuff you lube your bearings with, right?...well we refine it a bit more and chuck it on our toast at breaky....yummo ! + toast + eggs = yummo! Attached Images __________________ Member: Australian Tree Association Join the Australian Tree Association...Have your voice heard ! Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others © Jeffrey J Darby 2011

5th February 2010, 05:20 PM	#67
windthrown Former Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In the Great Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,211	Re: Red back spider bite According to Wiki it is more like solidified beer waste (which makes sence for its being popular in Oz I guess): From Wikipedia: Vegemite (pronounced /ˈvɛdʒəˌmaɪt/)[1][2] or /ˈvɛdʒiˌmaɪt/ is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract. It is a spread for sandwiches, toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits, and filling for pastries such as Cheesymite scroll. It is similar to British, New Zealand, and South African Marmite and to Swiss Cenovis. Vegemite is made from used brewers' yeast extract, a by-product of beer manufacturing, and various vegetable and spice additives. It is salty, slightly bitter, and malty — similar to beef bouillon. The texture is smooth and sticky. It is not as intensely flavoured as British Marmite and it is less sweet than the New Zealand version of Marmite. Vegemite has not been successfully marketed in other countries, apart from New Zealand and to a lesser extent in the United Kingdom, despite being owned by US food company Kraft Foods. When seen in the United States, the Vegemite label often does not contain the Kraft logo. Vegemite... mites... more bugs. Do vege mites sting too? There probably is a deadly variant form down under.

13th February 2010, 08:07 PM	#70
Jeff Darby Moderator - Previously known as JayD Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 2,029	Re: Red back spider bite Well here I am again posting in this spider thread, the other day while processingg a iron bark we dropped in a park in Sydney as it was deseased and full of ant, a bloody great huntsman appeared on the rim of my helmet. Before I knew it, it ran onto my right checkbone covering my eye.....ewwwwww. Mate in a blink of an eye I ripped off my helmet and thrown it to the ground, no spider to be seen, so I grabbed a stick and turned my helmet over and here it was about the size of the bottom of a tea cup...big bugger.....did scare the be jinggles out of me! __________________ Member: Australian Tree Association Join the Australian Tree Association...Have your voice heard ! Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others © Jeffrey J Darby 2011

14th February 2010, 09:17 AM	#73
Bruce Hopf Veteran Heritage Status Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: North of Sebringville, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,176	Re: Red back spider bite One time I was driving a transport truck, down a highway, in Tennessee. I had a van ahead of me, and I was passed by this women in a convertible. She had a low cut blouse on, and she pulled in behind this van. When the coast was clear, she had attempted to pass this van. Well anyway, this van had been sitting for a while, and this mouse had climbed up from underneath the hood some how, and was hanging onto a windshield wiper. So the guy turned the windshield wipers on, and the mouse went air born, right down inside front of this woman's blouse. The guy was watching the mouse, as it went air borne, and good job that he was paying attention, because she swerved over into his lane, well both vehicles were in the ditch, didn't hit anything, or one another, I had to swerve the truck, to miss them both. By the time I got the truck stopped, pulled over, and walked back to where. Not knowing what to expect when I got there, I found both of them, rolling on the ground, and were laughing so hard, and they told me the comical story, about the intruding mouse, going down her top. That is something that you don't see everyday. Was a heck of a good laugh though. Bruce. __________________ McCulloch chain saws 1- Pro Mac 60, 1- Pro Mac 700, 2- Mac 10-10 Automatic's, 2- Mini Mac 30's, 2- Mac 110's, 2- Mini Mac 35's, 1- Mac 140 with Automatic Chain Sharpener, 1- Pro Mac 10-10, 1- Mac Cat, 2- Eager Beaver 2.0's, 1- Mac 1-10 Stihl chain saws 2- 044's, 2- 034's, 2- 024's, 1- 064, 1- 084, Strunk chain saws 1- Busy Beaver, 1- SpeeDemon Special Stand Back, I Have A Very Extreme Case of CAD (Chain Saw Addiction Disorder).

20th February 2010, 05:15 PM	#75
Jeff Darby Moderator - Previously known as JayD Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 2,029	Re: Red back spider bite just when you think this spider thread has gone away another arachnaphobe appears in it's place...this is what my son-inlaw Phill nearly walked into out bush.... Attached Thumbnails __________________ Member: Australian Tree Association Join the Australian Tree Association...Have your voice heard ! Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others © Jeffrey J Darby 2011

16th December 2011, 09:49 PM	#79
dingo Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: sydney Posts: 65	Re: Red back spider bite Was on the job a few weeks ago where I realised two of the logs I carried on my shoulder had mouse spiders on them after putting them down. nasty looking beast I can tell you that much-looks identical to a funnel web but with a larger rounder abdomen. I hate spiders!

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