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Sorry that you are a shut in nerd who has power fantasies, but stop being ridiculous. It’s so awkward to have some dude, who has never interacted with geese or big birds, brag how he’d totally take one down and how hard can it be? Most geese attacks have light injuries. But they have caused pretty severe head injuries by flying at the head, wrapping their wings around the head, and causing him to fall down. They’ve also poked eyes out, they have torn lacerations into people’s faces, and broken bones from people. You think a normal size adult male human voluntarily goes to the hospital for couple days after getting his head hosed up, just because he didn’t wanna hurt the goose? No, he defended himself and it wasn’t enough. Geese have knocked people off of bicycles, too. Animals have no codes of ethics, and some of them are extremely strong in proportion to their size. They can fight dirty, and most importantly, they are unpredictable since most humans don’t regularly fight against particular animals. Swan have drowned people. Deer have attacked hunters and bystanders and injured them severely. A 60 pound dog can decimate humans. I can handle my own dog, and maybe your dog in such an attack because of a lifetime of dogs and experience in handling them. Or maybe not, and my days are done. A strange dog that snarls at me and is decent size is enough for me to retreat and think about options, because I can’t predict what it will do, and I most certainly am not going to end up well if it charges me. You have no experience with geese, or swan, for example. Easy to be confident. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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I would simply best the goose at chess, the game of kings.
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Mar 11, 2020 12:02
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My purchased off of Amazon for 47$ plus shipping and handling katana will defend me from all water fowl. Because I am defended and have a rational knowledge about threats. The irony of posting this in the Freep thread of all places is totally lost on me. But I am protected from those long-necked feathery ferals. This is why I know to not visit lakes.
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Mar 11, 2020 12:13
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:As a veterinary employee can I please confirm that this is literally how we deal with a grumpy to-be-neutered patient that keeps yowling and it's for their own good My little (4kg) cat, who's normally extremely good-natured even when it's vet time, took three syringes of ketamine to calm down enough that the vet was happy to examine him when he had a bladder blockage. Pain and fear is not a good addition to an apex predator even if they're tiny. Vahakyla posted:Sorry that you are a shut in nerd who has power fantasies, but stop being ridiculous. This is loving ridiculous though. Waterfowl have no claws, no teeth, not even a sharp beak, and no predatory instincts. Even you have to admit the best they can do is disorient you enough that you fall over, which makes them a danger to life and limb on the same level as a wind-blown plastic bag.
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Mar 11, 2020 12:23
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Guavanaut posted:I would simply best the goose at chess, the game of kings. I would simply best the swan at Ballet, Swan Lake. Their is no way it could say no, and their is no way it could win. Then every one would see how "graceful" swans really are. The Goose I would just best at opening, going through, and closing a door. gently caress that. Ditto goats. To bring this post back on topic, pretty sure goats hold a fascists ideology and should never be given power.
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Mar 11, 2020 12:36
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
Geese have been used for guard duties throughout history, and have territorial and inquisitive traits that make them pretty good at it. They also hurt people in national parks and wildlife refuges.
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Mar 11, 2020 12:46
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Guavanaut posted:I would simply best the goose at chess, the game of kings. Geese do not follow traditional opening strategies, and their unpredictable play makes them a challenging opponent even for experienced chessmasters
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Mar 11, 2020 15:32
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Vahakyla posted:Geese have been used for guard duties throughout history, and have territorial and inquisitive traits that make them pretty good at it. They also hurt people in national parks and wildlife refuges. Look you can just admit you got your arse kicked by an overgrown duck without trying to pretend they're nature's most perfect killing machines.
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Mar 11, 2020 15:39
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45 posts since last visit. I thought someone on freep got coronavirus, but no, it's goons fighting geese
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Mar 11, 2020 16:08
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I want to fight a goose, I want to prove my dominance over nature by fighting all large birds. Except emus and ostriches ebcause i'd lose. Maybe a cassowary if I had a bat.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:11
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a team of goons and a team of freepers each elect a squad of fighters, then they each go up against a team of geese. who does better?
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Mar 11, 2020 16:12
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Would you rather fight 100 baby sized geese, or 1 horse sized goose?
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Mar 11, 2020 16:13
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The horse goose, I would roll around in the tiny geese because geese are cute.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:14
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OwlFancier posted:Maybe a cassowary if I had a bat. Hah, dude, that's definitely not a sure thing. Cassowary's are essentially dinosaurs who are pissed off at the fact that the rest of their mates died off and they've been left stuck on a planet where the small, hairy, weak little primates somehow managed to evolve past them and take over. They are super pissed, all the time.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:43
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A worthy foe! Like one of those weird old british colonial hunters except it's fist fighting poultry.
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The Dark Project posted:Hah, dude, that's definitely not a sure thing. Cassowary's are essentially dinosaurs who are pissed off at the fact that the rest of their mates died off and they've been left stuck on a planet where the small, hairy, weak little primates somehow managed to evolve past them and take over. They are super pissed, all the time. The only confirmed birds to have killed people are cassowaries and ostriches, along with a chicken with a knife attached to its leg (at a cockfight, but still). Bits of kids have been found in African crowned eagle’s nests, but that could have been scavenged. Getting that, plus more info on cassowaries’s assholeness, including that we may have caused some of it, here: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-dangerous-are-cassowaries-really/
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Pontius Pilate posted:along with a chicken with a knife attached to its leg (at a cockfight, but still) Wait wait what?
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Mar 11, 2020 20:00
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They’re referred to as spurs, but they’re basically little knives. 
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I'm aware of the "spurs" thing, but as phrased it sounded like someone had duct-taped a kitchen knife to the bird, which is an image so bizarre I want it to be true.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I'm aware of the "spurs" thing, but as phrased it sounded like someone had duct-taped a kitchen knife to the bird, which is an image so bizarre I want it to be true. Same, but different: 
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Mar 11, 2020 20:18
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Pontius Pilate posted:The only confirmed birds to have killed people are cassowaries and ostriches, along with a chicken with a knife attached to its leg (at a cockfight, but still). I'm aware of cockfighting and the metal spurs they use, but getting killed by one definitely feels like a case of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
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Pontius Pilate posted:The only confirmed birds to have killed people are cassowaries and ostriches, along with a chicken with a knife attached to its leg (at a cockfight, but still). Bits of kids have been found in African crowned eagle’s nests, but that could have been scavenged. Getting that, plus more info on cassowaries’s assholeness, including that we may have caused some of it, here: Emus defeated Australia in a war.
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But did not kill anyone in it, as far as I'm aware.
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Mar 12, 2020 05:48
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The only moral victors of history.
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Pontius Pilate posted:The only confirmed birds to have killed people are cassowaries and ostriches, along with a chicken with a knife attached to its leg (at a cockfight, but still). Bits of kids have been found in African crowned eagle’s nests, but that could have been scavenged. Getting that, plus more info on cassowaries’s assholeness, including that we may have caused some of it, here: Tetzoo is pretty solid.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I'm aware of the "spurs" thing, but as phrased it sounded like someone had duct-taped a kitchen knife to the bird, which is an image so bizarre I want it to be true. It’s essentially how that article phrased it so I ran with it for comedic effect but it was undoubtedly (unfortunately) a spur. OwlFancier posted:But did not kill anyone in it, as far as I'm aware. I thought there were at least a couple friendly fire incidents but fortunately (unfortunately?) I was misremembering. But definitely no emu on man kills.
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ringu0 posted:45 posts since last visit. I thought someone on freep got coronavirus, but no, it's goons fighting geese 88 for me  (And now 89  )
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If you keep gluing knives to chicken feet you are eventually going to produce chicken bayonetta or chicken raiden and that's not going to be fun for you.
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Pontius Pilate posted:...But definitely no emu on man kills. Non-reported. 
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Beef Hardcheese posted:88 for me To keep it on topic, how’s freep responding to corona being real? Or new and improved avian flu to keep it more on topic. Assume a healthy dose of common flu comparisons and griping about the media overreacting; with a handful of freepers rightfully worried because of them being ancient, and then some of those descending into prepper madness; plus a whole shitton shrieking over how all borders should’ve been closed forever and this is all a conspiracy to bring trump down? It’s probably way more homogenized and boring but please some brave goon save us from further discussing body slamming gooses
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Body-slamming GEESE. Also, Freep refused to load for me last time I checked, but that was via a phone browser.
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Pontius Pilate posted:To keep it on topic, how’s freep responding to corona being real? Or new and improved avian flu to keep it more on topic. Assume a healthy dose of common flu comparisons and griping about the media overreacting; with a handful of freepers rightfully worried because of them being ancient, and then some of those descending into prepper madness; plus a whole shitton shrieking over how all borders should’ve been closed forever and this is all a conspiracy to bring trump down? From a short thread on Trump's response to the virus: quote:My President did a great job last night. He is always up front,out front and right! quote:The President has handled this thing brilliantly on every level. The longest thread on this I saw linked on the front page: Trump Says He’s Suspending All Travel From Europe for 30 Days quote:Monroe Doctrine Time quote:Correct,shut off Mexico. I just like Linda's strong middle-aged Midwestern mom energy quote:My husband is the president of the Midwest hockey affiliation (volunteer). They canceled the district....national championship tournaments. Hockey never cancels...I’ve been to games in northern Minnesota during a blizzard. Hockey never cancels...except now. My husband hasn’t been off the phone to ask why.....wow. Just wow. Though a great way to self-select I guess quote:Cruises are cheep! I looked tonight. 330 dollars for 8 day Caribbean cruise on carnival. I’m tempted to have me and my wife go. Leaves March 21st. Still thinking. No they do not, Brexit travel rules don't take effect until the end of the transition period. Quite a few Freepers made this same claim. quote:Italy is a major hot spot for Coronavirus, but banning travel from Italy would be ineffective. The EU nations have open borders, so there’s no way to tell if someone trying to fly from another EU nation was recently in Italy and might have a higher risk of carrying the virus. Since Brexit, the UK no longer shares open borders with the rest of Europe. Presumably to travel from Italy to the UK you would need passports and visas, which would document a higher risk of exposure. Hence a general travel ban from the UK is not necessary. Hey Max Iron Man quote:Ummm how about suspending travel from and to CHINA. Those assholrd invented it at wuhan. Tuberculosis from Mexico, what? Everything is just a reason to deploy troops across the southern border to this guy. quote:My thought on this is, how many Europeans are we keeping out in comparison to how many Central Americans are coming over the southern border? I feel like this is a dogwhistle quote:So if I go over I guess I can’t come back huh? That’d be fine as long as I go to Poland! quote:Ironic that there’s a travel ban between the Europe and US. All sorts of nasty, once-controlled diseases have been coming into the US through our porous southern border for decades.  Everyone knows that diseases are spread by nationality and have nothing to do with where you were. quote:Why ot just ban ALL travel from ALL non-Americans for 30 days, and also seal the borders? Please don't do this guys quote:“330 dollars for 8 day Caribbean cruise on carnival” Surprised that there isn't more like what you expected. It seems to be mostly "it's an overblown dem plot against Trump and he's handling it great, combined with a little 'CLOSE ALL THE BORDERS AND SHOOT MEXICANS'"
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jojoinnit posted:No they do not, Brexit travel rules don't take effect until the end of the transition period. Quite a few Freepers made this same claim.
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Guavanaut posted:Also confusing the EU with the Schengen Area, which the UK has never been part of. I meant to add in my post that excluding the UK from the ban is 1000% a favour to Boris Johnson and has zero do to with health concerns. Or as the news alert I got whilst compiling that post said: 
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jojoinnit posted:No they do not, Brexit travel rules don't take effect until the end of the transition period. Quite a few Freepers made this same claim. You always needed a passport to travel outside the UK/RoI, even to other EU nations before Brexit. There has never been an open border between the UK/RoI and the EU. The UK and Republic of Ireland have a common immigration area, and travelling into it requires that you go through immigration controls and show a passport, even if you come from another EU country. Most of the rest of the EU is part of the Schengen treaty, and entering that zone also requires that you show a passport at an immigration checkpoint. So, travelling between RoI and the UK doesn't require a passport (but you might still need to show one to board a plane or boat across the Irish Sea). Travelling between Schengen zone and UK/RoI does require a passport. Travelling between Schengen nations does not require a passport.
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Huh. Somehow I got it into my head that Ireland was part of the Schengen group. What a bizarre and specific mistake to make. Thanks.
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The worst freeper take on coronavirus, just let the poors die!quote:To: Flash Bazbeaux It really is Schrodinger's virus. Simultaneously not a big deal at all and also a Chinese bioweapon.
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loving hell the idea of unnuetze Essern being brought up with a straight face. That's just straight up Nazi rhetoric verbatim.
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Alex Jones uses the term I think.
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He does, but Jones thinks it's the NWO lizard elites that call us 'useless eaters' which is why they want the global population down to 500m people. I'm never quite sure why the elites would want to do that, because surely the more of us there are, the more competition there is for limited resources, and more money they can get from rent and control of the economy. This would also fit better with the observation that if the elites genuinely did control the world and wanted massive population reduction, they're doing a poo poo job of it over the past few decades.
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