Australian beaches overrun by snake-infested foam

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/22/australian-beaches-overrun-by-snake-infested-foam.html

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That is so 2020. Absolutely par for the course, with a cool (from a distance) Aussie twist.

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Snake-Foam was not on any of my bingo cards this year.

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I think that, if you had “Samuel L Jackson”, you are allowed half a point for “Snake-Foam”.

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Trust the Liberal Party to be hosting large events during the pandemic.

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Snake infested foam.

Like that disappointing rave you went to in 2010.

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So, you can surf on it?

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Doing some back-of-envelope math, an Australian “risk of death is low” translates roughly to a US “run faster than the people around you and you might make it.”

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Or an unsuccessful Iron Chef dish.

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So who had “Snake infested sea foam” for December…?

We have to hurry to get these in as 2020 comes to a close

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Hazel the dog is very much “What?”

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the marine creatures that might get in it, like sea snakes.

So more like Australian beaches overrun by potentially, hypothetically, possibly-occupied-by-the-odd-snake foam.

More truthful, but not as clicky.

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Well, given that’s like 20 years too late for going to cool raves…

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Exactly what I was thinking. So, there’s no snakes, but there could be.

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Nice one

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While they are venomous, the risk of death is low.

Er, are you sure about that?

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“More deadly than a cobra” is sufficient reason, in my mind, to give awesome mountains of brown foam a wide berth on the beach. I can think of other reasons, too, but they involve messy possibilities like raw sewage leaks and other common coastal mishaps.

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It’s all relative, I guess. Also:

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Lots of band name ideas here.

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