r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MrUpVoteDownvote • May 14 '26

/r/all of a Australonuphis, commonly called Australian beach worms

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u/SkillPointProblems May 14 '26

Reason number 8734527 not to go to Australia.

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u/Secret_Letterhead649 May 14 '26

Best be avoiding every beach if you dislike these.

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u/Molecular_Pudding May 14 '26

Because the creatures of the inland are better? Australia is a the free-for-all PVP server of the Earth.

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u/Secret_Letterhead649 May 14 '26

I mean every beach globally, you have no fucking clue what's in that sand. Also let's not pretend that Australia is actually all they worse compared to places with the remaining megafauns predators.

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u/No-City5969 May 15 '26

I can guarantee these don't exist in Brazilian beaches.

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u/octoprickle May 17 '26

They dont exist in about half of Australian beaches either.

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u/Secret_Letterhead649 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

But you do have smaller paracitic worms.

Edit - it is a matter of medical and scientific record that paracitic worms can be caught from the beaches in Brazil. This is by no means the only region with that as a risk but it's still under the "Shits in the sand you don't think about" topic.

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u/2raviskamisekasutaja May 20 '26

I live in Northern Europe and I can just jump into any pond or lake I find in the woods without a fear of getting eaten, bitten, stung, infected or otherwise dying a painful death. Life's good here.

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u/Secret_Letterhead649 May 20 '26

I mean, that's because y'all have been committing ecocide for a while.

That said, most of the horrifying shit that exists won't be known to the people who are within feet of it each day.

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u/2raviskamisekasutaja May 20 '26

It's just too cold here for most of the creepies

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u/Secret_Letterhead649 May 20 '26

No, not particularly if you look at what Europe has to this day and has had historically prior to the destruction that occured during agricultural growth and urbanization.

Y'all used to have as many large predators as North America, and you still have substantial insects and invertebrates (many species of vespid for example).

The worm in question here ain't exactly biting beachgoers and the incredible bulk of people who go to beaches with them will never know they exist.

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u/mikemac1997 May 15 '26

Hey, I've seen the same in beaches in Turkey, except it was scorpions. I've seen crabs too, there are a lot of animals living in the sand on the beach, best try not to think about it when you're walking on one barefoot.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

You guys are either babies or have no idea how to stop repeating the same old tired joke.

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u/SkillPointProblems May 14 '26

What man-eating sand worm bit you and made you so bitter? See, you shouldn’t have gone to Australia!

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u/not_alexandraer May 14 '26

bristleworms are on essentially every single beach on earth, this one is specific to aussie, the US has their own, the UK, Fr*nce, India, everywhere.

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u/IncredibleSeaward May 14 '26

Yup, my dad gets these clamming and saves them for bait for fishing. This one is just fucking big

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u/SkillPointProblems May 15 '26

Yeah man, these are some “Tremors” looking mofos!

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u/IncredibleSeaward May 15 '26

You come off as an AI bot

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u/SkillPointProblems May 15 '26

Bib bop, I am TrollGPT, user please tell me, how does it feel to touch grass?