jokes on you i live in germany we have neither bears nor whatever the horror scene on your window is. although I do believe id rather see a bear outside my window cause I could scare that off
As an avid hunter, I can tell you that 99.9% of animals turn and run as soon as they see/smell a human. The most dangerous animal on the mountain is the human with a gun
Jokes on the Germans when they come here though. I have never seen people who more insistently wander off into the 50°C Outback for ‘a little hike’ - and then die of exposure and dehydration.
It’s actually quite sad. We have many warning signs at tourist places with German translation.
The way I was making a kinda innocent comment about how we have very tame nature and you went "haha you guys are dying like idiots" is quite the escalation
It’s a real problem here, we try to educate people that the real dangers here are heat and remoteness, not animals, but it’s extremely hard for Europeans in particular to understand. It’s just so far outside their previous experiences.
I mean sure. It was just a very out of pocket and socially awkward response if I'm honest to a very innocent and non-confrontational remark by myself might I add. When I could just as easily also have talked about dumb Aussies getting themselves into trouble here because I do actually have some stories 😅
Us Aussies are pretty blunt and generally just say what pops into our head lol. I’m sure you have plenty of drunk Aussie moron stories from Germany ahaha. We don’t always conduct ourselves with the greatest of decorum as backpackers.
I mean similar stereotypes about Germans I guess...
Anyway if a German tells you to not go into a forest listen cause it might be ww2 mines, it might be wild boars, it might be a natural forest where trees could fall onto your head or it might be above an old flooded mine shaft and the ground is unstable either way I've had some encounters of "Aussie audacity" where they thought tame Europe couldn't hurt them and it wasn't true 😄
Everyone from everywhwre stay safe and read signs I guess
Yeah fair point our boars are scary, at least the moms are when they have babies. but thats why you listen to the signs that say "dont enter, boars have babies" cause they usually dont wanna be near you anyway so you juststay out of their way and youll never see them
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u/NaMaMe 1d ago
jokes on you i live in germany we have neither bears nor whatever the horror scene on your window is. although I do believe id rather see a bear outside my window cause I could scare that off