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ellisonz

(27,736 posts) Fri Mar 2, 2012, 04:15 AM Mar 2012

Serious Question for Australians Only

Many Pacquiao vs. Large Male Eastern Gray Kangaroo in a no-blows barred boxing match.

WHO DO YOU TAKE???

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Serious Question for Australians Only (Original Post) ellisonz Mar 2012 OP

I'm going with the Swans. Nambe Mar 2012 #1

What's that crap on his eyebrow? Violet_Crumble Mar 2012 #2

He was at the tail end of a match with Antonia Margarito... ellisonz Mar 2012 #3

Urgh. It's not a good look... Violet_Crumble Mar 2012 #4

My moneys on the Roo peakhillfm Mar 2012 #5

Problem would be getting the roo to fight SwissTony Mar 2012 #6

Nambe

(8,522 posts)

1. I'm going with the Swans.

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 04:19 AM

Mar 2012

Grin and Bear it.

Violet_Crumble

(36,111 posts)

2. What's that crap on his eyebrow?

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 05:14 AM

Mar 2012

And for the record, I'm scared of kangaroos much smaller than that after a bunch I named the Roadkill Gang took up residence a few years ago in the park across the road from my house and got pretty cranky at people who wandered onto their new turf...

ellisonz

(27,736 posts)

3. He was at the tail end of a match with Antonia Margarito...

Reply to Violet_Crumble (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 05:20 AM

Mar 2012

...it's likely petroleum jelly put on by his cutman to protect a wound.

Petroleum jelly is put on the cuts and most likely areas of impact to make the skin more elastic and slippery, and hence less likely to tear. Some cutmen cover cuts with homemade salve containing a mix of petroleum jelly and adrenaline chloride, so that adrenaline keeps getting applied to the wound during the bout. Also, perspiration from above the eyes, will be prevented from reaching the eyes, by applying petroleum jelly to the eyebrows.

Are kangaroos really that aggressive? I was going to take Pacquiao, but if they're really that nasty I'm not so sure about that bet.

Violet_Crumble

(36,111 posts)

4. Urgh. It's not a good look...

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 05:34 AM

Mar 2012

Some kangaroos are pretty aggressive. I always thought the big red ones were the ones to avoid, but there's been a few cases of kangaroos attacking people and dogs....

Sorry about the tabloidy approach of the first link, but it was the only one I could find to an attack that happened a few years ago in a suburb not a stone's throw from where I live...

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/15237629

http://www.news.com.au/national/roo-knocks-out-david-striegl-in-canberra/story-e6frfkvr-1225842934534

peakhillfm

(79 posts)

5. My moneys on the Roo

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:53 AM

Mar 2012

Did this really happen??????
I can tell you something and that is that if the ROO hit him with his tail and of his hind legs he would know about it

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)

6. Problem would be getting the roo to fight

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:59 PM

Mar 2012

They can be nasty and do pack a kick, but mainly they just get out of the way. With Manny, you know you're going to get a fight.

Here are a few more contenders for Manny...

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