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'Ate Seagulls (lemmy.world)
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[-] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago

I do not understand why people are so upset about this. People kill vermin all the time in far more brutal ways.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago
[-] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 35 points 4 months ago

The only correct answer. Idgaf about some sky rat, but I'd be a little shocked if someone snatched a seagull out of the sky near me and slammed it into a wall until it died.

I'd also not give a shit five minutes later and would probably regale my friends with the story of the seagull slammer.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Right, this is animal cruelty. There are people who find humane ways to deal with “pests” or “vermin”, so the fact that we have extermination practices for some population of animals doesn’t make this okay.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

And those people aren't any more right... Seagulls are actually pretty interesting, long-living, and intelligent creatures. They simply can't compete with humans, that's all.

Humans should be above this sort of thing.

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 51 points 4 months ago
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

There we go.

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago
[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 months ago

Justified. I was in Edinburgh with my family and we had a lovely outdoor table.

I went to the bathroom and our dinner came out while I was in the bathroom and a seagull STOLE MY GODDAMN £30 STEAK. Just hopped up on the table next to my brother-in-law and yoinked my medium-rare ribeye.

Fuck those sky-rats.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Your fault for sitting outside in Edinburgh tbf.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 31 points 4 months ago

Aye who the fuck leaves a steak unattended in Edinburgh? I'm amazed the seagull got it before a junkie scarfed it

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

As a seagull, I'd have done the same

[-] kattenluik@feddit.nl 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As if you wouldn't steal a £30 pound steak if it had zero consequences and no morals attached, besides that I don't think anything deserves to be abused before getting killed and especially not in public with children watching.

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 16 points 4 months ago

So you're saying he should had been more effective in killing the seagull in front of the kids

[-] kattenluik@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

He just shouldn't have done it, but obviously yes that too.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

if it had zero consequences

And yet, here there were consequences.

It's just a specific breeding programme and he was culling the failures. #evolution \s

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

I must say, it's brave of you to admit a bird outsmarted you. You must be fun at parties, though.

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[-] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago

I'd say the comments section is gross and cynical, but then I remembered this is a British community.

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[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Shouldn't of?

Literacy that matches the opinion

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[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

This thread makes me wish i was an alien, not part the same species as this lot.

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I'd rather be Fr*nch than a seagull too! Wait, nah, other way around

[-] absentbird@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Gulls before Gauls.

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[-] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago
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[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Do British people go on vacation and just eat the same bullshit as at home

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago

Don't want to accidentally eat any of that foreign muck or speak the lingo.

Stick to nice British food, like curry, burgers, Chinese, or pizza.

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[-] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 15 points 4 months ago

Seagulls are filth. The more domesticated ones will basically attack you at the beach if there's any food.

Hopefully we get seagull slaying more mainstream.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

It's gonna end up like pigeons where they used to blot out the sky

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Then we will fight in the shade.

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[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

This man did nothing wrong

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Even if we ignore the animal cruelty, he was bri'ish to begin with. There's no absolving that.

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[-] FatTony@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago
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[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Damn didn't know Jeremy Clarkson hated Brighton so much

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

and what? the kids are traumatized for life or some shit?

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Yep, forevermore they will wake screaming at the thought of some geriatric gammon about to grab them by the legs

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

this one is a classic at this point

[-] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I will not... No, I will not, I will not I'm stronger than that. Oh whatever, I'm weak: shouldn't have.

Sorry

[-] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

If you of ever been to the beach you would understand. There's plenty to hate but the seagulls are the worst have all have them.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

Da kids was crying cos dat bird pinched is chip.

Shud of giv im a medal. Proper geezer.

[-] finnie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

So many in these comments deserve to go the way of that chip.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 26 points 4 months ago

Never realised "don't kill animals in front of children" was a hot take, but here we are.

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Even hotter take

"Dont kill random animals"

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[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Is this Ephraim Winslow?

The Lighthouse spoileraka Thomas Howard

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