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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That cartoon version of the old man kills me every time.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Seagulls: 2,047,7998, Humans: 1

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    Once saw a seagull casually walk up to a pigeon like it was going to walk past it and just snap it's fucking neck.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Not only is he cruel, he is actually participating in making more powerful Seagulls, the surviving seagulls will be the ones that can steal chips and survive being thrown at a wall. Beware the terminator seagull soon attacking your chips, the walls will not survive!

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Labour's weak attitude to immigration is to blame here just letting these thieves just fly into the country!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What is the average air speed velocity of a swallow?

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Humans:

    • Takes all the fish for themselves
    • has bussiness dump to birds perfectly edible but to humans not commercially pretty enough fish bits in the trash.
    • builds apartments on the gulls original habitat

    “wHy Do ThESe SEaguLl KeEP STEalinG FrOm Us”

    I also grew up at the coast and yes they are a menace. But as the saying goes fuck around, find out.

    Imagine if we restored and maintained the habitat and did a daily collection of fish waste to dump near that habitat.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    as someone who's had their food stolen by a seagull a few times i once found myself in a fit of petty rage googling "can i kill a seagull" and the answer is no, like legally you cannot, they're protected birds

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    I would suppose that depends on the jurisdiction.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    it does not. Seagulls are protected in: UK, Ireland, all of Europe, all of North America, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Russia, and probably more but i can't be bothered to go past the first few Google searches to find out

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    all of North America, Mexico

    Hmmm. I mean I guess I get mentioning UK separate from the EU, but idk about Ireland, isn't it part of the EU?

    To be very clear, I'm not trying to contradict that it's illegal to kill seagulls in a lot of places.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why are they protected? They're rats with wings.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    they're covered by migratory bird protection legislations from what i read. and some of the seagull spiecies are pretty endangered. can't tell you more than that, i just accepted that the sky thieves dickheads cannot be touched

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel like the default is that you aren't allowed to kill animals. Not as in most laws outlaw killing any animal, just that there are probably a lot of laws about randomly killing animals that aren't like tiny bugs and stuff. Like you can't just kill a deer unless you have a hunting permit. You can't catch fish without a fishing license. Sure, you're probably allowed to kill animals on your property that are a nuisance or anywhere in defense, but I wouldn't just assume I can kill a random animal.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think there's a clear difference between an animal that's a known nuisance and any other. If a rat and an emu both wander into my yard, the rat's life is forfeit, but I'm not gonna fuck with the emu for multiple reasons.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I like how you said all of North America, and then also Mexico as if it wasn't part of NA.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    And that UK and Ireland aren't a part of Europe?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've heard Brits piss and moan that the UK isn't part of Europe before. Whether or not that has any merit I can't say, I'm not European.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've never heard any Brit say UK isn't Europe. Are you confusing Europe, a continent one cannot secede from without moving tectonic plates or waiting billions of years, with EU, the European union, a political union?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I've never heard any Brit say UK isn't Europe.

    And I've never actually seen a Hippopotamus, what's your point?

    Are you confusing Europe, a continent one cannot secede from without moving tectonic plates or waiting billions of years, with EU, the European union, a political union?

    At what point did I mention plate tectonics or the European Union?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    uhoh, my 2 from geography is showing (scale from 1-6, with 1 being fail)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well thanks for your exhaustive legal research.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    they're also protected in China and India, which together with the other ones accounts for like 70% of the world. are they protected everywhere? probably not, there are definitely some countries that have little to no wildlife protection legislations, but i'm not exactly a seagull murder law expert, nor do i want to become one, so i'll stop at that

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    https://birdfact.com/articles/are-seagulls-protected-in-the-uk

    Protected status in the UK. "[T]hey are protected by law. This means it is illegal to kill, injure, or capture a gull."

    HTH.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I love these guys. Just look at them

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Modern birds are more closely related to tyrannosaurus rex than tyrannosaurus rex was to stegosaurus. Modern birds are, by any reasonable definition, dinosaurs and sometimes they act like it.

    Clever girl.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I grew up by the sea and seagulls can fuck right off. Ones where I was learned to shit on you and your food from above so you would put it in the bin, then they'd raid the bin and eat the shit covered food.

    A near-lifetime around these fuckers gives me some sympathy for this guy. Not a lot, but some.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I grew up with seagulls (well, lake gulls) and they weren't a bother. Then I visited the actual seaside... I wondered why there weren't more chip stands serving seagull meat.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Small flighted bird - Low meat ratio

    Human food scavenger - Dirty malnourished

    Of course, if you give McDonalds any hints, they might throw em in a grider whole and start a new line of nuggets.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Grew up by the sea too. Humans destroyed the vast majority seagulls' habitat, overfished a ton, so if now they steal from us, it's only fair. They are wild animals and need food. People should learn to protect their food instead of being a horrible piece of shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Most are the hunted, some are the hunter.

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    [–] 57 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    They may be aggressive flying pests but this guy is a fucking psycho.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's crazy behavior honestly. Don't let that guy have access to kids, they wouldn't make it long.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you hurt animals, you suck.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    You mean the sky rats???? Fuck em. Get em Brit bong

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Bahaha I fully support his actions. Fucking prick seagull fucked around and found out.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The next person who disagrees with you should do the same thing. Fucking psychos

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    To each their own. But I have had rat friends who were more trustworthy than many humans.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seriously rats can be really great. The worst part is their shorter lifespan.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yup. We have had two sets of ratties live with us. After the second set died a few days apart I swore off any more. When their needs are met they are loving, and care for each other, and us, without reward.

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  • If you schedule allows and you aren't entirely rational, chinchillas are stupid, nocturnal, fluffy rats. The advantage is they live longer if treated well. The disadvantage is that nocturnal bit as their warning scream is loud. A girl I dated had a pair for 15 years before they passed.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As an aussie who has had many foods taken by birds including a fucking eagle that stole my burger out of my hands, this is some sociopath shit

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Just wait until it's the Ibis.

    Those fuckers can steal a chip with range.

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