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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by vorg on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:57AM (#8703834)
> Australia being a great place to live - they don't have a slider for "Deadly animals"

Australia has poisonous snakes and America has grizzly bears -- only New Zealand can claim no deadly animals.

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by Tyrannosaurs on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:04AM (#8704493)
Australia also has crocodiles, box jelly fish, sharks, lethal spiders...

I don't think that I'm imagining that Australia has more species of lethal animals than any other country.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not saying Australia isn't a great place to live. I've only been to Melbourne and then only for three weeks but it seemed great. There are just lots of things which can kill you there (though the Australian's have naturally got very good at stopping that happening).

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by danieltillett on Friday December 05, 2014 @06:14AM (#8703897)
Obviously you have never met a drunk kiwi.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by seanmcdirmid on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:00AM (#8704259)
Kiwi fruit are actually from northern China and weren't introduced to New Zealand until the 20th century.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by tokenizerrr on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:22AM (#8704341)
Kiwi is slang for New Zealanders[1]. It is also a bird native to New Zealand[2].

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kiwi&defid=20...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by lostcolony on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:27AM (#8704359)
Not sure if that's just compounding the joke, but if not - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by seanmcdirmid on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:33PM (#8707998)
The submission was about China, not New Zealand, so forgive me for being a bit bemused.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by will_work4tears on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:59AM (#8704475)
Grizzly bears don't hide in relatively short grass and are very rare and limited to certain areas, and nor does America have spiders that bite your ass when you are trying to poo. Well, we might, but they aren't deadly.
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