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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago (27 children)

Sure, us Americans are obviously delusional, but can we talk about the fact that almost half of all brits think they would lose to a goose? They're 20 pounds, have no teeth or claws, and their bones are hollow. Have a little confidence, guys, I'm sure you can take poultry in a fight.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

You clearly don’t understand that British geese run in gangs and are shanked to their teeth.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Actually, this does explain why all those brits in Untitled Goose Game let the goose walk all over them.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Less than 80% of people think they could take on a rat in a life or death battle. You could literally pass out and fall on it and probably crit it.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not everyone is a 15-55 year old able bodied person.

A good chunk of the population is disabled and mobility impaired. Large swaths of the population are elderly.

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[–] tatann@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've played enough RPGs to know you can lose to a rat, even with a sword and armor equipped

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Still remember my nuclear submarine being sunk by a bunch of biremes in Rise ~~is~~ of Nations

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

chimpanzee would rip you the fuck apart, more than a gorilla

Yeah, a chimpanzee will straight up rip your arms off and beat you to death with them. They have zero chill, and a massive proportion of fast-twitch muscle (which means they can create huge bursts of strength, but struggle with fine motor control.)

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

How do people think they can defeat a goose? They're one of the meanest animals on the planet. They're up there with wolverines and opossums.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Common and Virginia possums are timid and will hiss or faint if they're confronted and can't run away.

What kind of possum is mean?

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

Look at all this shocking overconfidence.

Meanwhile, over in reality, Billy Big Balls is getting the tendon in his ankle severed in 0.3 seconds while screaming like a banshee and falling down. The only reason people look at even the high-percentage animals this way is that, 100% of the time in daily life, they have no interest in fucking you up for real.

Edit: Actually, there is one exception: I firmly believe the average person could fuck up a goose if they committed to it. Geese are pushy assholes with surprisingly sharp beaks and humans don't really like getting in life or death struggle with any organism, by and large, but I've seen a person seize a goose by the neck and the goose in question wasn't so intimidating after that happened.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 28 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Confirmed: Brits are shit fighters

[–] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

U fackin wot m8 ?!?

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

14 May 1805: Narrow Escape

One of their most harrowing experiences with a grizzly occurred on 14 May 1805, on the bank of the Missouri River between the Milk and Musselshell rivers. Clark wrote:

Six good hunters of the party fired at a Brown or Yellow Bear Several times before they killed him, & indeed he had like to have defeated the whole party, he pursued them Seperately as they fired on him, and was near Catching Several of them one he pursued into the river, this bear was large & fat would way about 500 wt

Lewis described the climax of the incident:

he pursued two of them seperately so close that they were obliged to throw aside their guns and poucnes and throw themselves into the river altho’ the bank was nearly twenty feet perpendicular; so enraged was this animal that he plunged into the river only a few feet behind the second man he had compelled to take refuge in the water, when one of those who still remained on shore shot him through the head and finally killed him.

When they butchered the animal, they found that a total of eight rifle balls had entered its body in different directions.

https://lewis-clark.org/sciences/mammals/bears/grizzly-bear-encounters/


You will not beat a grizzly bear unarmed. You might not beat a grizzly bear armed.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

When I visited Yellowstone, I found a clearing that recently had a bear in it. Grizzly or not, there was a claw mark about 7ft up on a pine tree, and there were peels of bark hanging down the tree. That bear casually peeled the bark off the tree with the same effort you could peel a cucumber with a peeler.

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