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Are the Brits OK? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by Godric@lemmy.world to c/yurop@lemm.ee
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[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

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

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 3 points 7 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@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Seagul are not wingrats those would be pigeons

[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 3 points 7 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.

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