• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    Well, I can’t believe fighting a bird has come up twice in a two day span.

    But, how are you going to grab its neck?

    You’re in the water, with a big-ass set of wings pounding at you, a beak that is pounding at you, with their raucous calls disorienting you.

    You aren’t going to be seeing clearly. You’ll be blinking, flinching, and maybe even keeping your eyes closed so they don’t get injured.

    And now you want to reach out and grab that moving neck.

    I’m not saying it’s impossible. But it isn’t exactly as easy as people seem to think.

    I’ve been attacked by geese while fishing. And it was on land, where I should have an advantage what with being able to stand firmly. I’ve fought humans and dogs before and come away with only minor injuries. Big birds are harder to manage.

    But, nah, you aren’t just precisely grabbing the neck of a big-ish bird when it comes at you. You think you’re fast, and you may be. But you aren’t enraged bird fast.

    Those necks are also wiggly and feathered. So getting a grip if you manage to make the initial grab isn’t a guarantee.

    Then what are you going to do with it? Even on land, you aren’t going to be able to 100% kill the bird just because you have its neck. You aren’t going to be able to just throw it either.

    In the water? Your footing is less stable to begin with, so all of the above is harder.

    Also, killing or injuring the bird isn’t necessarily desirable. You can get into trouble doing that, depending on where it happens. Even if you won’t, swans and geese don’t attack humans just because. There’s always a reason because fighting is dangerous. Aggression definitely has a survival benefit, but not when it’s random.

    So now you’re the asshole that went somewhere there were birds nesting, or eating, or resting and instead of backing off when they warned you (and they usually do), and you’re trying to injure or kill it when all it wants is you to go away. That’s a seriously douchey thing to do.

    Think about it.

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      1 day ago

      Yea no you didn’t fight people, nor dogs nor did you ever fought that bird! You know that lying about this is super super sad?

      Grabbing the also wouldn’t be hard if you actually thought about it! Its fucken largest part of that bird! I distinctly remember a viral video of an old man doing it with ease! And what on earth are you on about how fast it would be? You think its gonna dodge? Its wants to bite you!

      Also if an animal were to attack a person unprovoked, it relinquishes any and all right to its wellbeing or even its life!

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          24 hours ago

          You know, its really really really obvious when you are making things in a subject you have no idea about! You wrote and entire chapter to a discussion about you doing the thing we are talking about and you wrote one sentence about not even bothering to make up any circumstances? Oh but you mentioned how strong you are? Fighting people and and and dogs too!

          Its fine to imagine that you big big tough boy, its even fine that you jerk off to it! I don’t care, not even that you are apparently into getting your arse kicked by a 10kg bird which has hollowed bones… But its fucking pathetic that you post about it like you are some sort of expert!

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            21 hours ago

            Have you fought a goose before? Clearly not considering how you’re mouthing off.

            People know to steer clear of Canadian geese for good reason. They’re known to break people’s bones with their wings when they decide you need to be punished. The weight/strength ratio is vastly different for birds than it is for mammals. Birds have to fly, so they’re built ridiculously light for how strong they are - and they have to be strong to be able to fly.

            A swan is much bigger and - critically - much meaner than a goose.

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              11 hours ago

              You think that cuck fought people and dogs? Really?

              According to wiki an adult male canadian goose weights between 3.2-6.5kgs and as all flying birds, it has hollowed bones! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose) And you are telling me that broke an arm? A leg? Lets just pretend to be serious here!

              And yes, birds have so powerful pectoral muscles that they even have a specific bone to anchor them (sternum?), alas your arm weights more than the the entire bird! Your leg distinctly weighs more than it!