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Are the Brits OK? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Godric to c/[email protected]

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[–] RubberElectrons 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apparently I'm in the minority, but this was cruel and unnecessary. We're in what was their home, after all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not disagreeing about the cruel part but some of these birds live and breed because of humans. They survive in place where they couldn't without humans.

[+] Godric -17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I cannot be convinced killing a wingrat is ever wrong, but I respect your viewpoint.

[–] RubberElectrons 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For a bird to get caught usually implies they aren't feeling so good.. imagining killing a sick seagull makes me sad.

They're aggressive and rude about trying to survive, yes, but we're top of the food chain, and have kinda nicked a tremendous amount of their fish out of the water.

(Shrug) what's done is done, but I'd lose a lot of respect for this man if I knew him.

[–] Godric 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've caught one before as an early teen for a bet. It wasn't sick to my knowledge, just utterly unafraid of people and no harder to wrangle than a chicken once you get in range.

My memery aside, I agree bare handed killing a seagull to take revenge is sorta barbaric, which is why this isn't actually a pro-brit meme

[–] RubberElectrons 2 points 10 months ago

That's true, I'm eating the onion, sort of. Good luck to you and yours, especially with your superhuman capture ability haha

[–] Zealousideal_Fox900 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well tbh my lil brother as a kid caught a pige (lots of exp at home with us) and it was completely fine. Wild.

[–] RubberElectrons 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can only hope so, birds around my parts are long gone before you're within hand distance haha.

[–] Zealousideal_Fox900 0 points 10 months ago

Dang, yeah a lot of them are scared shitless by humans.

[–] Hiro8811 3 points 10 months ago

Seagul are not wingrats those would be pigeons