Drop Bears an Australian Myth, Toilet Snakes All Too Real – IOTW Report

Drop Bears an Australian Myth, Toilet Snakes All Too Real

Drop Bears aren’t real.

Hot toilet snakes are all too common down under. And of course, it being Australia, there a more than even chance the snake you encounter is going to be deadly poisonous.

Experts advise closing the lid after use.

15 Comments on Drop Bears an Australian Myth, Toilet Snakes All Too Real

  1. One of the fake sponsors on A Prairie Home Companion years ago was The Fearmongers Shoppe in the Dales (Roy and Dale, Teasdale, Mondale, Chip and Dale etc.) that sold an elevated toilet seat that sat 4 to 5 ft. above the toilet so that you wouldn’t get bit in the ass by a snake poisonous or otherwise while taking a dump.

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  2. …but no one can decide if the habits of the Candiru Catfish are myth or not…

    “The Candiru and Its Popular “Scientification”
    The candiru (carnero in some Spanish‐based accounts) is known as a little fish keen on entering the nether regions of people urinating in the Amazon River. Spikes prevent it from retracting or being removed and so an electrifying buzz is born. Although there are alleged accounts of entries into people’s rectum and some unfortunate women’s vagina,3,4 it is the stories of the fish’s focus on the penis and its activities while in there, that create maximum excitement and exquisite anguish.”

    https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/20/2/119/1881714?login=false

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  3. “On their official website, the Australian Museum, which even bestows the dastardly denizen of our forests a scientific moniker (Thylarctos plummetus) provides further practical advice to visitors. “There are some suggested folk remedies that are said to act as a repellent to Drop Bears, these include having forks in the hair or toothpaste spread behind the ears,” it states.”

    …the guy who wrote this went on to write for SpongeBob…

    https://youtu.be/68h8-ESTY6o?si=K_HkvEJbliiiy_hL

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  4. I just dropped a “bear” and didn’t see any snakes in the toilet.
    Tree snakes and tree frogs are commonly found in toilets in Florida. They come down the vent stacks from the roof. Years ago I put screen caps on the vent stacks at my parents’ home in Florida…problem solved.

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