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just wasn' 'avin it, simple as (feddit.uk)
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Daily Mail headline: "Holidaymaker 'grabbed seagull out of the air and punched it to death after it snatches his pasty'"
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[โ€“] 13 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I am for smacking the seagulls. One smack is enough. Beating it to death or slamming into a wall is overkill.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    It's still senseless, while being willfully cruel and violent; it's just a smaller magnitude in the same wrong direction.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think so. It's my food and if a seagull comes in to steal it it's getting smacked away. It is the way of life. You think a different animal would let a seagull steal its food? I doubt it. And my benevolence only stretches so far.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    There's 'smacked away' and then there is 'repeatedly punched so hard that it's chest cavity caves in' though.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Did you not read my original comment? I am against reducing the seagull to a pulp.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Yes, I was just pointing out that the dude in the article didn't just 'smack away' the seagul, so we agree.

    I'm thinking I worded my reply badly, making it sound like a counterpoint when it wasn't.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago

    Oh, absolutely.

    Beating it to death is 'overkill' though if your intention was simply to 'make it sorry'.

    Tbh, reading this thread it seems like a lot of people don't feel able to pull their punch accurately enough to both make a seagull regret taking your food and not injure it in the process.

    I mean, if you're really angry, and you've physically caught it, what's wrong with screaming in it's face then throwing it into the air. It'll be off like a bat out of hell after that.

    But at the end of the day, it's a bit of food, not even worth doing the above either but I guess it depends on your anger management skills.

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