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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Look at all this shocking overconfidence.

Meanwhile, over in reality, Billy Big Balls is getting the tendon in his ankle severed in 0.3 seconds while screaming like a banshee and falling down. The only reason people look at even the high-percentage animals this way is that, 100% of the time in daily life, they have no interest in fucking you up for real.

Edit: Actually, there is one exception: I firmly believe the average person could fuck up a goose if they committed to it. Geese are pushy assholes with surprisingly sharp beaks and humans don't really like getting in life or death struggle with any organism, by and large, but I've seen a person seize a goose by the neck and the goose in question wasn't so intimidating after that happened.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say that people seem extremely under confident about geese.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. They are scary, sure, but I think a lot of it is that they are clearly very fragile also, and so people are faced with either just letting themselves get bullied or else becoming a monster who's stomping on this tiny carcass and most people opt for option A.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A couple (as in male and female) lived next to a bus stop I had to use for a while, I had to fight the male off a few times, my goal was never to hurt it, a few swings with a heavy bag filled with books and it wouldn't insist. I don't know if it's bullying but I didn't see it as gratuitous violence, I also wouldn't welcome large animals in my home…

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah. I feel like city-type humans have gotten too amenable to getting bullied by animals in their environment, and it's teaching bad lessons. You notice that the geese don't do the whole "fuck you I chase you hissing" thing if there is a dog anywhere even vaguely in the vicinity of the human, because it knows exactly what the score will wind up at with the dog involved.

I do get it, nobody wants to be the guy that messed up the happy family because they got a little territorial. It sounds like you struck the right balance.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure that 'heavy bags filled with books' is a backpack for school, but I think it's funny to imagine you also carrying a burlap sack with anti-goose novels specifically to ward off this creature.

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