^ he should definitely take his revolting budgie smugglers and do a harold holt
(does anyone not know what "budgie smugglers" are?)
It the joke "what eats, roots and leaves?" (Wombat) a joke from Oz or New Zealand?
Wombats are from Australia
i went on quite a few trips to
Wombat State Forest a couple of months ago to forage for mushrooms and hike through the forest and around the creeks. it's really beautiful, and there are heaps of wombats there.
i didn't see any, but they live in these distinctive burrows that are sometimes fucking massive, so their presence is pretty conspicuous when you're out picking.
i once found a whole bunch of mushrooms sticking out of the entrance to a burrow (kinda like a rabbit hole, but big enough for a fat arsed wombat to fit down) and i had to kinda reach into the hole to grab them.
i freaked me out a little bit because there have been instances of them attacking people, and i've never seen a wombat in the wild - they don't have them around where i grew up.
no koalas where i grew up either, but i think they live in wombat forest as well. it's a pretty magic place. it's been snowing up there recently which is another thing that doesn't happen where i grew up. it's the first winter i've spent on the south east coast of australia, and it's nice.
i mean - i like the cold. my hometown gets a month or two of winter, then just starts getting hot again, and it's kinda like summer for about 5 months of the year, if not more. i used to have to go a pretty long way to pick mushies back there (like a 2.5 hour drive i think) but they grow all over the place here.
little potent wood-loving mushrooms, psilocybe subaeruginosa. psilocybe cubensis grow in the north of australia where it's subtropical
some people love the heat, but i'm enjoying the cold.
but yeah, we were picking until the sun went down each time we went picking, and not being familiar with wombats, i wasn't sure if it was safe to be scrounging around in the undergrowth looking for mushrooms around dusk.
they're nocturnal, so they wake up around then, and i didn't know if the stories about how fast they are were true - or if they really are aggressive.
i suspect, like most australlian animals, they're scared of people, and timid - but if you corner them or piss them off, they'll rip your eyes out.
or disembowel you, like kangaroos can with their hind feet (i'm not exaggerating - when male kangaroos fight, they lean back on their tails and kick. if they do it to a person, the claws on their hind feet can really fuck you up.
koalas look cuddly, but they're not. they're kinda bitey and spitty.
but, anyway - i think wombats eat magic mushrooms (as well as roots and leaves). many a time i found big wombat turds in the middle of patches of "blue meanies". they have really distinctive droppings - they're kinda square, or cube - shaped.
very weird but beautiful animals.