That's actually true in general! Our body and facial language is an outlier in the animal world. In almost every species direct eye contact means either "I am watching you closely because I am worried you are about to eat me" or "I am watching you closely because I am planning to eat you", and showing teeth is a threat display. Dogs are the basically the only other creatures that are ok with that (wolves aren't) and it's because we domesticated them. So we are walking around as horrific 1/
lanky slendermen towering over everything, staring at them aggressively and showing our teeth, pointing at them. This is one of the reasons that people struggle with cats a lot of the time, some well-socialized cats are comfortable with this behavior, others are not. Change your body language to one that matches them (don't stare at them, do long slow blinks for a smile) and they are way more comfortable with you.
Broken nose? They don't actually box, mate. Have you seen their claws and kicks? We're talking two fists full of knives, and gut-ripping spring-loaded kicks from legs powerful enough to propel a 70kg red kangaroo over a 3 metre high fence https://youtu.be/WCcLMNcWZOc
There's this thing about Australians and their wildlife. Half the time they're actually telling you how dangerous something is, the other half of the time they're taking the piss and trying to convince you a bunyip is real.
Being able to tell when an Aussie is serious is an art form.
True, but in this case, watch a video of kangaroos fighting, look at the statistics of how high and far they can jump, and recontextualise those jumps as ground kicks, and learn to respect those majestic beaats
Oh no worries, I don't need to, I've seen the fuckers in action. But I also heard the drop bear speech being told in earnest and with a straight face more than once.
Okay, but that sort of gaslighting is a load bearing aspect of Aussie culture. Remove that, and our own national sense of self crumbles. I don't even want to think about meeting a Seppo tourist IRL and not trying to pull something like that
tinytyrant
Harry Butler.
ParmiNotParma
Ladies and gentlemen, Malcolm Douglass!
2fligh2high
boomdiddley
What is the context lol
dixxienormus
One of these makes a very nice sandwich and a purse for tourist shops.
HarryHighpantss
Is that Malcolm Douglas?
huey9k
Crocodile Hunter's dad was in the business!!!
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Thought he was gonna bite him in the face.
frenofafren
Kangaroo Aberdeen.
pooFIinger
Roo: "yeah that's what I thought mate"
Paullovespizza
Wow, the muscles in shoulders. Then he has all that power from his tail and legs as well.
Onlyhereforthelaughs
It's from all the dogs it's drowned/strangled.
hodaddelvecchio
Aussie sex is weird
Centroid
This is the first comment to make me actually laugh out loud in a minute. May the Force be with you.
aardvarckj
something something down under. I dunno know I got nothing.
JAPONfan
What did you expected? You need to be prepared for your mate to be one thousand hunter spiders in a trench coat.
DrKonrad
Cactus21
An Aussie kiss is like a French kiss, but down under….
weave
Sometimes in the outback as well
Piscivore
Since he lowered his posture first, does that make him the 'roo's bitch?
BeerFueledAdventurer
Better his bitch than his victim, I reckon...
PennsylvaniaPalindrome
Yeah, they like to drag their opponents into water and hold them under.
Shift137
truly?
markm0101
thedarkcanuck
Legit curious to know how much that thing could bench
markm0101
Somebody here in Oz just had their large dog drowned by a roo holding it under.
BellsTheorem
TIL that to a kangaroo we all look like hyper aggressive assholes.
GWJYonder
That's actually true in general! Our body and facial language is an outlier in the animal world. In almost every species direct eye contact means either "I am watching you closely because I am worried you are about to eat me" or "I am watching you closely because I am planning to eat you", and showing teeth is a threat display. Dogs are the basically the only other creatures that are ok with that (wolves aren't) and it's because we domesticated them. So we are walking around as horrific 1/
BellsTheorem
Yes. Although there is a high likelihood that dogs domesticated themselves rather than the other way around.
GWJYonder
lanky slendermen towering over everything, staring at them aggressively and showing our teeth, pointing at them. This is one of the reasons that people struggle with cats a lot of the time, some well-socialized cats are comfortable with this behavior, others are not. Change your body language to one that matches them (don't stare at them, do long slow blinks for a smile) and they are way more comfortable with you.
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
Then there are cats that deman you look at them
trinxter
How many people got broken noses before they learned to defuse a kangaroo conflict?
themobileappisbroken
Being disemboweled is a bigger risk.
Boatsntoes
I’d be more worried about the torn genitals.
sniggly5212
I heard this in an Australian accent.
Boatsntoes
Hah yeah it does sound better that way
PwnageHobo
Broken nose? They don't actually box, mate. Have you seen their claws and kicks? We're talking two fists full of knives, and gut-ripping spring-loaded kicks from legs powerful enough to propel a 70kg red kangaroo over a 3 metre high fence https://youtu.be/WCcLMNcWZOc
RuthlessRuben
There's this thing about Australians and their wildlife. Half the time they're actually telling you how dangerous something is, the other half of the time they're taking the piss and trying to convince you a bunyip is real.
Being able to tell when an Aussie is serious is an art form.
PwnageHobo
True, but in this case, watch a video of kangaroos fighting, look at the statistics of how high and far they can jump, and recontextualise those jumps as ground kicks, and learn to respect those majestic beaats
iMcFly
Respecting those majestic beats
RuthlessRuben
Oh no worries, I don't need to, I've seen the fuckers in action. But I also heard the drop bear speech being told in earnest and with a straight face more than once.
ThePixelPirate
That's because drop bears are real.
PwnageHobo
Okay, but that sort of gaslighting is a load bearing aspect of Aussie culture. Remove that, and our own national sense of self crumbles. I don't even want to think about meeting a Seppo tourist IRL and not trying to pull something like that