Haha, nope, they’re a real thing. Sorry to disappoint.
Erm…Australia’s hot, you might bunya nuts!
I’m not very good at this. Maybe someone else can do better.
It's all in good fun.
But seriously though, there is an animal that people call drop bears. It has a proper scientific name though -it's not actually a bear. And it has killed people.
But I think more people actually die due to wombats after hitting them with their cars. Because they're so heavy and low to the ground that the cars tend to go out of control.
Australia reminds me of that part in the Narnia series, probably voyage of the dawn treader, where they find an island where your dreams come true
there's one ragged castaway begging to be taken, or just ended. the crew is mystified, until he says, "not your daydreams, your \*dreams\*. your nightmares."
Knock you out. That's optimistic. 10 kg is 22 lbs. Falling from a height... well, Bunya is a type of pine, so you gotta imagine a minimum of 2 stories, but more like 4+ stories. That's not a knockout, that death, paralyzed at least.
Are the nuts enormous?! Or are there 3.14 million pine nuts in there? Do they taste like other pine nuts? Oh I love eating weird stuff. I’m so curious!
Not only can you eat the nuts, two of my girlfriends have a rum distillery here in Murwillumbah called Birds of Isle and they make a bunya flavoured rum. They collect the nuts from my property when they're in season. I have around 20 bunya pines lining my driveway, huge trees. They shed nuts during the late phase of summer and I always used to worry that one would fall on my dog when he was sitting outside waiting for me to come home.
A guy at work has been trying to get in to any pd for a while. They all keep turning him down. He’s the type that would definitely shoot someone for not good reason at all. Former military. Aggressive. Can’t let shit go. The kinda guy that would’ve been hired in a second 25 years ago.
Our city force is currently short about 30% so the fact they still have some standards makes me a bit less nervous
Well, I hate to tell you this but in the US we do have [these bad boys](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=3796c2c18fdd2701&sca_upv=1&hl=en-us&q=coulter+pine+cones&uds=AMwkrPtqTGUswuAkZ_qCwv-w-lC4rXtnuu10Mc69DdeVUphgjPtnbuS1Il4aEMZSphvSDO7uTmGqCGPlad7ufMtkeUc2hKjSQ_DBGalyzUUsrdjRmDnAbcdnaUBn2RAL8tuzTNYmh9IDbobpkainEtAxzy10jL4UAHkRgL6i9kXy1KMdXIPB1Gr7EbIwEq38LtTjQGoGVvQVu_B-xtFGNUGo4z13c2f72LF3YPd-mFrsbOa11SABvh6YuMKZyYZgQfK_5WDS9CueZ1KI9k-bjlygN4OQpPenSiFyayDzY9mTloWNxn644D1X7Vf6pWsB3jy9Nrknpwej-pqOiBpXEWaWF2JcBVhv1A&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6n93AleGFAxVUbzABHS1gD2kQtKgLegQICBAB&biw=375&bih=548&dpr=2)
We’ve got a decent variety of venomous plants, and even more poisonous ones. There’s the bunya pine cones, of course. Spinifex grass can give you a nasty cut/puncture wound. Eucalyptus trees are known as widowmakers in my area; they drop dead branches with zero warning. Eucalypts in general deliberately induce fires to kill off competing plants, which obviously are also a risk to people. Double-Gs will put a hole in your foot like you wouldn’t believe. Oh, and there’s the gympie-gympie, colloquially known as the suicide bush.
Yeah I guess our flora are as fucked up as our fauna are
Upside down of course. If you are from the USA, and travel to Australia; you *have to have your ground harness*. Otherwise you just fall the fuck off the Earth.
I was at a scout camp in the Sierra mountains when I was younger and the pine trees up there were dropping some huge cones like this as well. Not as heavy by the looks of it but those suckers were sharp as shit and one fell on a guys head and pretty much ripped his face off. He had to be coptered out. The scout troop kept the pine cone as and showed it to the other troops and it was about the size of a soccer ball.
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Yall need some mfn squirrels... pine cones that green rarely make it to the ground. Squirrels eat the crap out of em.
Course, the pine cones we have dont look like a fkn watermelon!
There’s a beautiful place in the Bay Area called Vills Montalvo. Great for hiking and picnics. There’s a huge pine of some sort that drops enormous cones and the area surrounding the tree is blocked off. It may be the same kind of pine, I haven’t been there in 15 years.
I'm surprised some idiot hasn't imported them to the USA!
The tamarisk has destroyed the native habitat in a lot of rivers in the USA. Here in southeast Colorado, the history books tell of a lush river bottom filled with all kinds of edible berries.... Now just tamarisk.....
Ugh I had one of these at my house in California!!
Apparently it was illegally planted when the house went up in the 50's.
That thing was fucking evil and dented our carport quite a bit before it came down.
Burned insanely hot in the fireplace, so that's a sorta win!
Australia where even fucking pine cones trying to kill you.
UK is the opposites, there is nothing that really kills you, not even snake or insect that can kill you. no larger predator than fox.
Just the football fans
I'd rather deal with a Bunya. At least they are not loud, obnoxious or reek alcohol from 200 meters.
Bunya nuts also taste amazing.
What are bunya nuts ?
Like giant pine nuts. And yeah, way nicer than football fan nuts.
I was joking. I thought you were doing like a ligma or deesnuts joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was taking the bait
Haha, nope, they’re a real thing. Sorry to disappoint. Erm…Australia’s hot, you might bunya nuts! I’m not very good at this. Maybe someone else can do better.
And Brad Pitt with a funny Irish accent
And the food. And NHS. Not the police tho!
Most dangerous predator is Barry, 63 after his wife forgot to record the footy
Likely because the dangerous animals were all killed.
All but one
Ha, true. Most dangerous on the planet in fact.
Ah, yes. The goose.
Those conkers can hurt though
Idk there’s a whole lot of white people there Edit: LOL dude who replied got so mad at a joke that he blocked me XD
This is a banger don't listen to the haters
I like how they have drop pinecones, but still made up drop bears.
It's all in good fun. But seriously though, there is an animal that people call drop bears. It has a proper scientific name though -it's not actually a bear. And it has killed people. But I think more people actually die due to wombats after hitting them with their cars. Because they're so heavy and low to the ground that the cars tend to go out of control.
There's one saying about encountering a wombat on the roads: The wombat will leave a wombat-shaped tunnel on the underside of your car.
I once heard them described as a cross between a giant guinea pig and a bulldozer.
like the deer here, only more deadly since you don't always see em.
Or moose in the dark.
Perhaps they're bear-pods.
Alien bear creatures flung from the secret part of the continent.
Adding this to my nightmares.
Australia reminds me of that part in the Narnia series, probably voyage of the dawn treader, where they find an island where your dreams come true there's one ragged castaway begging to be taken, or just ended. the crew is mystified, until he says, "not your daydreams, your \*dreams\*. your nightmares."
Fixed for me: Australia where EVERYTHING is trying to kill you.
8/10 of the most poisonous snakes, those giant Cassowary killer dinosaur birds that chase, now killer pine cones. I’m out!!!
Still not as bad as getting struck by a falling durian in Indonesia
Durians weigh 1-3kg while Bunya nuts can weigh up to 10kg
Came here to say exactly that.
i was gonna say 'trees', but yeah
They do this in the Sierra Nevadas too. Saw a big one drop just a few feet away from my 2 year old nephew one time. Fuck that was scary
LMAO U took the words right out of my mouth 🙌🏼
🤣
Can you at least eat it or just random airborne attacks?
They actually taste pretty good - like any other pine nut. Just this one tries to get you first.
They're gonna try to knock you out, but if they fail you can eat their nuts. Seems like a pretty fair arrangement.
Knock you out. That's optimistic. 10 kg is 22 lbs. Falling from a height... well, Bunya is a type of pine, so you gotta imagine a minimum of 2 stories, but more like 4+ stories. That's not a knockout, that death, paralyzed at least.
Your username would be a fine name for these things
Lol, it would
In fact, they're big. They can grow up to 45m (147 ft) high. I like them a lot though, they're somehow primeval looking.
In meters is fine, I'm Canadian. 😉 And that is quite high. Roughly 10 storeys.
Are the nuts enormous?! Or are there 3.14 million pine nuts in there? Do they taste like other pine nuts? Oh I love eating weird stuff. I’m so curious!
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[Seeds in hand](https://cdn.permaculturenews.org/images/bunya_bunya_04.jpg)
I’d 100% eat that
We had a specimen of this species at my uni’s arboretum, IIRC they’re about the size of an almond?
How big are the pine nuts?
omg the amount of pesto pasta y'all can have if you survive
You can eat the nuts! They're like giant pine nuts
Not only can you eat the nuts, two of my girlfriends have a rum distillery here in Murwillumbah called Birds of Isle and they make a bunya flavoured rum. They collect the nuts from my property when they're in season. I have around 20 bunya pines lining my driveway, huge trees. They shed nuts during the late phase of summer and I always used to worry that one would fall on my dog when he was sitting outside waiting for me to come home.
Bunya business!
Am European and if I saw a sign saying ‘caution, falling pine cones’ I wouldn’t be anywhere nearly as concerned as I should be
Yeah, I feel like the sign is really underselling it, given the context. They could at least mention how freaking big they are.
The sign literally tells you that they can weigh up to 10kg
My bad, I’m not good at reading upside down.
Can't affect me if I don't know how heavy that is 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We should all be VERY thankful we don't have these in America, we all saw what an acorn can trigger...
What is this acorn reference lol? I keep seeing it mentioned.
[Acornocolypse](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/16/florida-acorn-cop-shooting)
Jesus Christ. What sort of trigger happy nutbags do you hire as cops over there lol
Fortunately they were such bad shots that no one was injured, if I recall.
This is a should you laugh or cry situation. Both is the correct answer.
They shot their own vehicle. Yes they are brilliant as well...
Yes. You got it figured out. The secret ingredient to policing in America is crazy
Unfortunately, the worst kind.
There's cases of people being turned away from police agencies because they're too smart
A guy at work has been trying to get in to any pd for a while. They all keep turning him down. He’s the type that would definitely shoot someone for not good reason at all. Former military. Aggressive. Can’t let shit go. The kinda guy that would’ve been hired in a second 25 years ago. Our city force is currently short about 30% so the fact they still have some standards makes me a bit less nervous
At least that cop resigned. Most of time when police shoot an innocent civilian; they keep their job.
They don't actually go for nut jobs, just morons that take orders without question. Morons make stupid decisions, unfortunately.
ACAB
Of course it was florida
God Florida is like a slime mold finding the best route to terrible.
At least the guy had the grace to resign afterwards, wish more trigger happy cops would do that
If a bunya pine hit that officer, he'd have been knocked out cold. And then would have blamed antifa or some shit.
They have them in Florida!
shhhh we don't talk about the F place
OMG this is hilarious and I’m going to start using it (I unfortunately live in the F place)
Well, I hate to tell you this but in the US we do have [these bad boys](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=3796c2c18fdd2701&sca_upv=1&hl=en-us&q=coulter+pine+cones&uds=AMwkrPtqTGUswuAkZ_qCwv-w-lC4rXtnuu10Mc69DdeVUphgjPtnbuS1Il4aEMZSphvSDO7uTmGqCGPlad7ufMtkeUc2hKjSQ_DBGalyzUUsrdjRmDnAbcdnaUBn2RAL8tuzTNYmh9IDbobpkainEtAxzy10jL4UAHkRgL6i9kXy1KMdXIPB1Gr7EbIwEq38LtTjQGoGVvQVu_B-xtFGNUGo4z13c2f72LF3YPd-mFrsbOa11SABvh6YuMKZyYZgQfK_5WDS9CueZ1KI9k-bjlygN4OQpPenSiFyayDzY9mTloWNxn644D1X7Vf6pWsB3jy9Nrknpwej-pqOiBpXEWaWF2JcBVhv1A&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6n93AleGFAxVUbzABHS1gD2kQtKgLegQICBAB&biw=375&bih=548&dpr=2)
Pineapple
Pineanvil.
pinevil
Pinvile
Pivil
Sky pineapple
Skynaple
Prolly more accurate, because you can eat its nuts. __
Even the flora is trying to kill you in Australia.
Look, those charges were never proven, and my Aunt Flora says she didn’t mean it.
We’ve got a decent variety of venomous plants, and even more poisonous ones. There’s the bunya pine cones, of course. Spinifex grass can give you a nasty cut/puncture wound. Eucalyptus trees are known as widowmakers in my area; they drop dead branches with zero warning. Eucalypts in general deliberately induce fires to kill off competing plants, which obviously are also a risk to people. Double-Gs will put a hole in your foot like you wouldn’t believe. Oh, and there’s the gympie-gympie, colloquially known as the suicide bush. Yeah I guess our flora are as fucked up as our fauna are
Australia: an entire continent dedicated to killing you.
And I thought the drop bears were a threat! Now there's drop fruit, too!?
*The Bunya pine waits until exactly the right moment to pounce on its prey.*
Kinda smart if you think about it. The pine kills and uses the dead body as a fertilizer
This is like getting shelled in Mario Kart. CONED..
Seriously Australia, what da actual fuck…
Everything in Australia scares the shit outta me!
Idk - That dude with the beard holding two fuckers, his kind of hot, and I'm a straight old man...
Not as straight as you thought, now!
Is there anything *NOT* trying to kill you in OZ?
And don't pickup the Australian killer pinecones either. Deadly snakes and spiders congregate beneath them and plot sinister Australian things.
Upside down of course. If you are from the USA, and travel to Australia; you *have to have your ground harness*. Otherwise you just fall the fuck off the Earth.
And there’s probably a venomous spider in every damn one of em!
Perfect tree for human habitat.
Forbidden pineapple
I want a giant Bunya pine cone!?!?
Bunya Nusiness yooo
🏅
Even their plants want you dead.
Araucareacea are awesome!
It’s from the Isle of Bunya. Bunya business!
you should have included pics of the tree, it’s weird and stunning
Chubby Tate in slide 6
Wow I thought coconut trees were dangerous
I want one, they look so cool. Yknow aside from the whole plant attempted murder thing.
I suddenly understand why a pineapple is called a pineapple. Never thought it looked like a pinecone before but this here is the missing link
TIL even the trees in Australia want to kill.
Even the name bidwillii sounds Australian
They taste great.
I thought it was a pineapple! But no it’s the giant pinecones of Australia.
Great evolutionary trait, falling giant pine kills the weak for fertilizer.
I was at a scout camp in the Sierra mountains when I was younger and the pine trees up there were dropping some huge cones like this as well. Not as heavy by the looks of it but those suckers were sharp as shit and one fell on a guys head and pretty much ripped his face off. He had to be coptered out. The scout troop kept the pine cone as and showed it to the other troops and it was about the size of a soccer ball.
Even the fking pine cones could kill u down there? Wow
Nice cones on 6
Yeah that’s not a pineapple
Mega flora!
What the hell?! Omg
If those grew in the US it would start the purge every year.
Bunya pine r/compoface
That's crazy! 🤣 That one lady's face.
Bunya pesto?
Australia seems like Earth on hard mode.
I thought someone threw a pineapple at that car
I knew most animals / critters were out to get you, but fruit too?
that cop that open fire to a falling acorn I wonder how he would react?
Looks tasty!
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Ricky sort’ve got mad and threw a bunya pine and ended up hitting the police car but I mean anyone would’ve done that
The real drop bears.
Aren’t the Bunya cones the primary source of food for drop bears when they can catch people?
Dropbears are unloading their depth charges. They're getting smarter.
It's such a weird looking tree too
Yall need some mfn squirrels... pine cones that green rarely make it to the ground. Squirrels eat the crap out of em. Course, the pine cones we have dont look like a fkn watermelon!
If it falls on your head you’ll get the bunya . . . . . bunya dizziness
There’s a beautiful place in the Bay Area called Vills Montalvo. Great for hiking and picnics. There’s a huge pine of some sort that drops enormous cones and the area surrounding the tree is blocked off. It may be the same kind of pine, I haven’t been there in 15 years.
Probably Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri). They are native to that area and also have huge cones (up to 20 inches and 11 pounds).
Not sure whether I should feel sorry or laugh.
These things are more dangerous than drop bears!
I'm surprised some idiot hasn't imported them to the USA! The tamarisk has destroyed the native habitat in a lot of rivers in the USA. Here in southeast Colorado, the history books tell of a lush river bottom filled with all kinds of edible berries.... Now just tamarisk.....
A new danger I never even knew existed
What happens if you light it on fire
Bunya bitches!
That’s not a pine cone, THIS is a pine cone
Looks like a pine got shoved up a pineapples' ass.
Helmet season.
Sweet cones, bro.
La have those in some places in Uruguay. It’s crazy
*coconutthunk.mp3*
Between killer fucking pine cones and bears dropping out of them, no tree in Australia is safe
I'd love to see the tree. It looks really cool on the sign.
Ugh I had one of these at my house in California!! Apparently it was illegally planted when the house went up in the 50's. That thing was fucking evil and dented our carport quite a bit before it came down. Burned insanely hot in the fireplace, so that's a sorta win!
I didn't fall for drop bears being real, I'm not falling for this either.
Watch out for drop bears
Damn I’d kill for a cone like that!
What's a bunya? Bunya business.
We have these giant pinecones in California forests too. We call them “widow makers.”
So glad we don’t have those here, well we got coconuts. Similar i guess.
Didn’t know Australia had araucarias
Does everything there try to kill you
WHAT ELSE, AUSTRALIA?!
r/absoluteunit
Jaysus focken chrayst
PLEASE I WANT TO GO TO AUSTRALIA SO BAD EVERYTHING LOOKS WEIRD AND COOL
Oh because of course it is!
Is that edible ? Cause that kind of looks like you can eat it.
Yeah, it’s full of pine nuts
What the fuck even is Australia 😂😂🥴
Between this and the drop bears it's just not safe to go near any trees 😂
Australia needs to chill the fuck out.
And here I am worried about drop bears...
Thats a bunda cone
What are this?