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Tho I must admit that I would never get that close to the surface with my bare hands while doing this.

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[-] zante@lemmy.wtf 169 points 3 months ago

Ok Now you have a bucket of piranhas. ?

[-] ipha@lemm.ee 142 points 3 months ago
[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Classic Wednesday move.

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 91 points 3 months ago

Piranhas have dozens of uses. Food, bait, aesthetics/decor, pranks, weapons of surprise, scissors, evil lairs…

[-] zante@lemmy.wtf 32 points 3 months ago
[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

HI, I'M KENNY ROGERS, AND THIS IZ THE PIRANHA BUCKET ON THE DOOR TRICK!

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 21 points 3 months ago

Surprise scissors are my favorite kind of scissors

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago
[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 months ago
  • Bucket of piranhas perched above a door.

  • Put a piranha in the apple bobbing barrel for a "hardcore" mode.

  • April fools (self explanatory).

This is just scratching the surface

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[-] shasta@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

Put piranha in toilet, profit

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[-] owsei@programming.dev 40 points 3 months ago

It's a great threat

also it's food

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Step 1: Collect a bucket of piranhas

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Profit

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

I'll just pop a quick "P" on that so everyone knows...

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 93 points 3 months ago

Piranhas are one of those things I thought I'd need to worry about when I was young.ike quick sand and properly identifying if something is good or fool's gold.

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago

Don't forget how to put yourself out if you spontaneously combust, and acid rain.

[-] demonhockey@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

acid rain was legit, then the world's governments actually did something about it and it became not a thing. Much like the hole in the o-zone (at least until Elon's vanity satellites start failing at a high enough rate to decimate the o-zone) and how we could mitigate climate change if there was political will

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

Acid rain is real. So is quicksand. Either of them being common and severe hazards experienced across the entire US (and maybe elsewhere, I don't know what the rest of you were taught in gradeschool), not really.

Real acid rain causes mass ecological damage through relatively subtle increases in acidity over several exposures. The way we learned about it in school, whether they meant to or not, came across like concentrated hydrochloric acid was going to rain from the skies and melt human flesh on contact.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

Ok, so why would anyone want to catch a piranha? Are they tasty or something?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 101 points 3 months ago

Fish are food, not friends

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

No Bruce, for the last time

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago

They look like they are 90% gristle and hatred.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago

The Ann Coulter of fishes.

[-] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago

Wikipedia claims they're quite popular.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 69 points 3 months ago

Reading more, everything I see describes them as bony, salty and very fishy tasting, best served smoked or grilled to mask the flavor.

Sounds like we’re not missing much.

[-] EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works 66 points 3 months ago

Protein is protein and if this is where someone needs to get it, then this is what it will be

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 months ago

They taste like fish. I'm not joking.

[-] EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago
[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

At least one source who couldn't comment publicly stated they weren't joking

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 35 points 3 months ago

So much so that they're illegal to fish in parts of the Amazon because they've been nearly fished out of existence

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 18 points 3 months ago

The one that I tasted was the red piranha, the same as in the video. The taste is... okay, not delectable but not awful; it's simply a bit too strong. It goes great on soups/stews though.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

They're almost certainly starved. Piranha's don't normally swarm like this

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

But that’s what the cartoons showed.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

Shit I forgot about the cartoon.. how do I delete my erroneous comment

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[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 35 points 3 months ago

I can't tell from the video if the water is just muddy or if it's actually, y'know, gross. Is it safe to eat the fish from that river?

Also, I'd always heard they didn't do that unless they were starving. Which makes me think not much is surviving in that water, making me think it might not be safe to eat the fish :/

Though, I imagine if you're desperate for protein, such things are secondary concerns at best

[-] tinsuke@lemmy.world 111 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).

Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil

There's great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images "meeting of the waters Manaus":

confluence between the Black river of black water and the Solimões river of muddy water, where the waters of the two rivers run side by side without mixing

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[-] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 48 points 3 months ago

Water can be like this when it rains a day or a couple hours before. Every river become like this when it rains. It is perfectly fine to eat fish from this river.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago

Wait until you find out how they catch catfish

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago

Don't they usually set up a sting and invite them out on a "date" where they're then confronted about their lies and posted to Youtube?

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[-] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago

What about barefoot! Those Brazilians are crazy lol

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 28 points 3 months ago

As long as you're not bleeding or anything, you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!

But I can't swim

[-] don@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

you could safely jump in the water ~~and swim~~ with them!

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Idk man

I don't think I'd want to risk being shredded alive the moment I scrape my toe on a rock

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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

how they don't bite each other in the middle of that caos

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 months ago

They probably do

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