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The sharks one looks almost like helicopter.

*Movie announce voice*: "The creators of Sharknado present: Sharkicopter"

In an ocean with nO hope. One shark can save us all. *explosion.

“I gotta figure out how to make money off this”

I mean... *Puts CGI boobs on Shark* perfection


Bro, the audience needs some way to know the shark is a girl. Obviously the only true answer is giant CG tiddies.

*From the creators of "Snakes on the Plane" now comes the long awaited sequel "The Plane is Literally Now a Shark and there are still Snakes Inside!" Coming soon to Australian beaches near you!*

"Get these MotherFucking Snakes, Off my MotherFucking Shark"

"Write that down, write that down!"

*Apache development Documentary* So tell me, where did you get the idea for the design of the Apache? Well I was on holiday in Australia and we went to the beach… there was this sign…

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/shark-attacks

Came here just to mention this, glad I'm not the only one.

It's Mindarie too. It's a suburban beach. Not like it's out in the sticks. Pretty common for Aussie beaches though.

I would presume someone was fucking me if they told me they were from Wanneroo with an Aussie accent.

As someone with an Australian accent, I don’t get it.

It’s because there’s a stereotype that all Australian names / words rhyme and end in sounds like poopooroo, bingadebong, willydeegonggang etc. - - - Edit/addition: I’ve been informed now that (obviously) Australian place names have indigenous roots, and they actually mean something. Rather than delete my comment, I think it’s better to leave it up so people know about it. To even the scores, I invite people to poke the finger at [some place names in the UK](https://www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/britains-rudest-place-names). Given it’s our own language, we only have ourselves to blame. Feel free to tell me I should get lost in Mudchute or Shitterton as I try and look for Wetwang.

They do though

It sounds almost too good to be true. Like if you met someone from the UK who said their name was Hugo Grosvenor-Cutsem and they were the Master of the Bedpan and Nightsoil for King Charles III.

Comments like these ^ are the entire reason I’m on Reddit. Well played.

[Prisencolinensinainciusol](https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8?si=HDUbRmyFt-paPhnH)

I have 0 idea what I just watched but honestly I don’t regret watching it Edit: it is legit gibberish and I love it

I love this video. Nothing like English sounding gibberish. It was an Italian singer that said something like any song with English words is a hit in Italy, made this song and it was a hit. It's like trying to speak German or French when you dont know how ICH BIN FLAFFEN GERGATOMMONEN

Yeah but it's just... life for us. I've got a mate that lives near Wagga Wagga. Though in true Aussie fashion it's a waste of time to be repeating ourselves so we all just call it Wagga.

yeah but... it means stuff, and theres only so many different words you can use before repeating yourself: **The name 'Wanneroo' comes from the word 'Wanna', meaning digging stick used by Aboriginal women and 'Roo' meaning 'the place of '**

Thanks for the explanation. I’ve edited my original comment with a note and an apology.

They're largely Indigenous Australian place names, so it's kinda like saying all Chinese cities sound like Ching Chong Ping Pong to you.

Sorry, I didn’t realise which was really ignorant of me. I think it might be better to leave my comment up rather than delete it to inform other people from outside Australia.

This is a really well-handled learning. Fact is we don’t always know when we’re being disrespectful or offensive, whether by language or action - and leaving it up is important to sharing knowledge, like you say. Kudos.

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>You wouldn’t do it for other countries. America: 👀

Sorry, didn’t even think of that when I wrote that. Which is stupid and ignorant of me.

I honestly had no idea that there was a 'stereotype' and such ignorance around the names. Respect that you kept this up though so thank you, was amusing to read through the comments :)

You wanna roo or nah? Got too many out the back and need to offload some.

Is this a common phrase, or are you a [comment copying bot](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/17ftuse/comment/k6cee75/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)?

Come up with this comment yourself did ya?

But no stingers

Or crocs

As with most things in Australia.

This is actually the kiddy beach in Australia. It gives the kids a chance to develop their immunity to various venoms and learn animal combat while they're young.

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Why so many Australian surfers know shark boxing.

They where send in as kids and came back with mullets

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Love that for her.

Yeah you just can't be messing around in the Australia, everything is really dangerous.

Australians: the danger level is just perfect, time for a dip

Welcome to Australia.

I like the "dumping waves", presumably they shit on you if you swim near them...

Helicopter Sharks at that!!!!

Just like what happened to one of our prime Ministers

And you better not take this warning lightly as well dude.

Gotta watch out for those helicopter sharks.

We found out it was easier to install helicopter blades onto shark fins than lasers onto shark heads.

At least now we’ll hear them coming

Wop wop wop wop wop

You are incorrect on your onomatopoeia.It would be: #Dunnun....dunnun...dunnun, dunnun...dundundundundundundun

#Tweedleee!

*fortunate son playing in the background*

by the time you hear them it's already too late for you to escape

What's interesting to me as an Aussie, is that helicopter patrols = sharks. The sound of countless summer days at the beach. So it's not as weird an association as you'd think. These days people volunteer to pilot shark-spotting drones instead.

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Then stop doing it

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Our wildlife is just too sexy.

Wow, it’s been years seen I’ve seen one in the wild! It’s the old Reddit [Fuckaroo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/yZm1wVAL6A)

Hello, I'm from the SciFi network, and I would like to option this post.

Hello, thank you for calling Netflix, you're greenlit, may I ask who's calling?

Great, I already have Mario Lopez interested and he does a killer Aussie accent.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that saw those.

Sharkicopters are capable of picking apart an adult Chinook in a matter of minutes.

Yep, that's honestly what they're all about. They don't play around.

Airwolfshark

Is it going to nag me every night to do my homework so that I can get A’s and become an engineer or doctor one day?

Yeah you don't worry about that, if you try I'm sure you could become that.

Crickey! Check out the propellers on that little beauty! -Steve Irwin

They're just so good, I just love to see them if I'm being honest.

Don’t you just hate it when your shark turns into a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter

I mean they're helicopters, maybe they're just in the air dude?

These are pretty standard warnings to be fair. On the other side of the country there will be additional warnings for crocodiles and stingers (box jellyfish, irukandji, blue bottles etc).

You guys have helicopter sharks at ALL beaches???

Do you not?

Not all beaches. Only those with designated landing pads.

We do actually have shark helicopters. In peak season they patrol the coast on watch for sharks and alert lifeguards and authorities where necessary. I live down the road this is my regular beach.

Where I'm from you really gotta watch out for heroin needles.

Ahh yes. How could I forget the other "stingers"

The average number of deadly things in European waters is 0. Edit: Yes, yes, there are sharks somewhere in Europe. But if you take the average number of sharks in every European swimming place at ponds, lakes and seas, the number is still pretty close to 0.

Do you not have rocks?

Soft rocks

Like the band Europe.

Helicopter shark….. that’s just B level awesomeness

\*Fortunate Son plays with Aussie accent\*

"Some cunts are bawwwn, maaaaaade to wave the flag..."

"ooo that blue grein and gowld"

"ooo that blue grein and gowld"

Khe Sanh by cold chisel

If someone told me in an aussie accent they were from Wanneroo, I'd assume they were fuckin with me

My favourite is "Humpty Doo" in the Northern Territory

My favourite is Yass, New South Wales.

They should start holding an annual drag-queen drag-race starting in Broken Hill. The winner will be crowned the Yass Queen.

The drag queen event is held in [Broken Hill](https://www.bhfestival.com/), it was just on in September.

And they had one in Hay a few years back

I'd love to watch that competition take the place, could be really good.

There's also Tittybong, Victoria.

Iron Knob, South Australia

Amazing. I’d be so proud of that address, no email, postal only thanks.

Condon and Mooball aren't far behind.

Sounds like someone caught in a lie who gave up halfway through. "Where ya from?" "The.. uh, uhm, Northern... Territory..." "oh yeah? I got friends there, where specifically?" "... fuck, Humpty Doo?"

Not to be confused with Humpybong of course

The tourism slogan for the NT was the best. C U inthe N T

That is very much not an official slogan and is just someone making stickers with a clever slogan on it. As much as we love the word cunt, no state or territory government is going to use it in their tourism campaigns.

It took too long to realise Sippy Downs was a real place and not a joke check-in for Aussies having a few beers.

Humpty DONT, let me tell you

Many of the Australian place names Americans find 'silly' are derived from indigenous languages. This is the meaning of Wanneroo: >The name 'Wanneroo' comes from the word 'Wanna', meaning digging stick used by Aboriginal women and 'Roo' meaning 'the place of '. Here is the definition for Yass: >The name Yass is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal word 'Yharr', meaning 'running water'. Not all of them, though. But for many it's the same as taking the piss out of Native American place names.

Just south of Wanneroo is Innaloo, I kid you not. And Dog Swamp.

I believe you, I don't think I'll ever be surprised at anything?

You forgot about Upper Swan?

What about Cockburn, a lovely suburb in Perth 🥲

Do we dare show the Americans "the faces of Cockburn Central", or let them continue to sleep in peace?

I literally grew up in Wanneroo lol

How about Woolloomooloo?

What about "Yackandandah"?

Best Aussie town - about 2000 people, two distilleries and a brewery.

Straya!

Probably because it stems from an indigenous name.

I live just down the road from Burnewang, and short drive from Tittybong

Say it with a T on the end and you got a fair dinkum convo there mate

20 minutes from Innaloo in one direction and Upper Swan in the other.

20mi? Which freeway are you on mate? Cause it ain't the bloody Mitchell.

Bog standard warnings

100%. I was looking for the joke entry and figured I was missing something.

These warnings are not normal for the rest of the world's beaches.

Apart from snakes which ones do you think the rest of the world doesn't have? Rocks, waves, currents, and sharks are not exactly limited to extremely specific regions...

But they don't have Australian rocks! Fear them!

Wait until we add crocs, box jellyfish and irukandji warnings. A few more notches on the old warning belt.

As an Australian that frequents Mindarie Beach. These signs are to scare tourists that can't swim. Make sure you have your floaties. 😂

The scariest thing about Mindarie is when the sand washes out in winter and you step on a coral and it is a bit ouchy ;-;

Nah the scariest part about Mindarie is how it is located right next to Clarkson.

Yeah, most Aussies learn through swimming lessons etc to be careful. Ever watched Bondi Rescue? Those poor guys, the majority of the people they rescue don't listen to the FUCKING SIGNS POSTED EVERYWHERE.

It’s the same here in the states. I grew up in Florida near the coast. I learned to swim very young, and swim in the ocean. I remember that most of the people who died drowning at the beach were from the middle of the country who never swam in the ocean and maybe swam in a calm lake once. It was always tourists. They taught us about how different swimming in the ocean is compared to fresh water. More importantly is how they don’t know what the flags mean or take the time to stop and read the warnings. When the current is strong you aren’t supposed to get in. People are always surprised by the strength of the ocean currents. It will pull you out to sea and push you down a few feet underneath.

Even the waves are out to get you

Probably the most dangerous thing of all really.

Dumping waves.....I'd hate for a wave to take a dump on me

Pick almost any beach in Australia, and the waves and currents are likely more dangerous than anything with fur, fins, feathers or scales.

I’m pretty sure we have way more deaths caused by say rips than we ever had by jellyfish, sharks etc.

I love that this is a pretty standard warning sign too, there's nothing there that's surprising.

maybe the helicopter sharks

They’re just missing box jellyfish and blue ringed octopus warnings

Not at this location, otherwise they'd also being missing the crocdile warnings too. The worse thing you'd get here along the line of the animals you mentioned is a blue bottle sting. You'd find the box jellyfish and blue ringed octopus warning on the otherside of the country.

We get blue rings in WA fyi

How do I live in Perth and have no idea we have them here

They frequent Rottnest Island, saw a few when i was free diving there a few years back

I am horrified to be learning this. I knew the jellyfish and octopus species around the NT and north of WA were bad but not Perth

The diversity of water based wildlife in Perth is astounding. Also saw a brown shark off the coast of Perth

I thought blue rings were more south, bad jellies more north. I know we have blue rings around Adelaide, but our worst jellies just sting like a bitch.

Reminds me of one of my high school camps. Dumbarse kid decided to stomp on a dead bluebottle washed up on the beach. When it popped, the tentacle hit him on the leg and he was in agony for the next couple of hours.

Saltwater crocs too!

Being a person with anxiety, it sure feels odd that normal signage like this is horrific to most others from different countries. I enjoy swimming there. This is fine.

I noticed "Submerged rocks" and "shallow water" have the same drawing of a guy face diving right into the bottom.

They could've used helicopter shark's image as "no lifesaving service" too. "Help! I've been swept out to sea! Oh thank goodness, I hear a helicopter coming.. Wait, is that a... OH. MY. GOD."

And yet the amount of people who go into the ocean who can't swim is mind boggling.

Subtext is “Don’t come whining to Wanneroo Council when your head is bitten off by a shark!”

As an australian. we never look at these signs. we kind of just know what to expect. and its never as bad as the signs make it seem.

TIL: Australian sharks are helicopters

"Warning: this beach has Australian landscape and wildlife " in a nutshell

The most dangerous thing isn't listed here, but we have signs for that as well: the UV index.

Oh, a safe beach, no jellyfish or crocodiles!

For how terrifying everything else is there Australia sure makes up for it with adorable town names.

It sounds like an Aboriginal name. For all we know, it translates to “Beach that kills”.

In Noongar Mindarie means 'green water', it was named after a lake in Carabooda. Wanneroo comes from the words for digging stick and 'the place of', so basically means 'a place for digging' most likely roots or something similar. Little bit less exciting haha

“Hello 000 what’s your emergency?” “Ahh gday mate, so I was minding me own business in the shallow water when a dumping wave knocked me onto some submerged rocks and because of the dangerous current I couldn’t hold on so I reached for anything I could but all I could find was this snake like object which bit my face so I dove under water to escape but this shark was there and it bit my face too. don’t need an ambo or anything just wondering when the lifesaving service will show up”

All it's missing is a message saying "relax and have fun"

No Crocs or Jellyfish, dive right in.

Til that these are not normal warnings in most parts of the world, according to the comments here. Though I’m used to seeing warnings for at least blue bottles too, if not much worse jellyfish

Wait, what is interesting about this sign? It just looks normal to me but I'm Australian

Same, If I had to guess the rest of the world isn't up to australian standards (our safety standards are pretty high & our warning signage is everywhere).

Yeah, we're not going for the American standard of "fuck around and find out" eh? Full disclosure of what's going on and if you want to be a fucking idiot and surf around a dead whale carcass then that's on you, we told you you'd probably get eaten my a shark if you did.

Have they tried banning sharks and snakes, instead of dogs and horses?

The dog and horse beach is down the road a short distance. You want to swim at a beach covered in animal poo?

That's fairly tame. Head up to the northern parts of Queensland and you can add jellyfish and crocodiles to the list.

That's a very protective mom who happens to own a business that offers loans at easy terms. I.e. a helicopter loan shark.

I thought the shark symbol was a helicopter.

Sharkcopter is real and a danger in nearby beaches.

You know I think I’ll go stick to the lakes in Canada

still safer than living in america.

Fun fact: this is the safest beach on that continent. /j

Not exactly untrue! At least this beach has no crocodiles, box jellyfish, blue ringed octopus, bluebottles etc…

Knew it was west because there was no stonefish or jellyfish warnings 😂

must be a southern beach no crocs ,no jellyfish or stonefish not to mention wild pigs and dogs

Why is everyone making fun of our helicopter sharks?

my gawd. They even have helicopter sharks

At least I know not to bring my horse

If you go to the North it will say all this plus have warnings for crocodiles and irukandji box jelly fish.

Warning: nature is wild

The shark looks like a helicopter 😄

“If our Prime Minister can vanish into the sea, so can you.”

You're lucky it doesn't contain warnings for box jellyfish or irukandji, which probably is worse than anything on there currently. A lot of Australian beaches on the east coast will have warnings for those stingers

Always swim between the flags!

The coast of Western Australia is 12000 km long (10000 miles or idiot units). Can't swim safe everywhere