• @RubberElectrons
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    2611 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      111 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.

    • @GodricOP
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      -1711 months ago

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

      • @RubberElectrons
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        1411 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.

        • @GodricOP
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          11 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
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            211 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
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          011 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
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            211 months ago

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

      • @Hiro8811
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        311 months ago

        Seagul are not wingrats those would be pigeons