• FuglyDuck
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        318 days ago

        but hey, we can always strap some fusion-powered mobility thrusters and it’ll soar with the best of them, right?

        (also, while we’re at it, lets give them control of their shits and train them to shit on trump.)

    • @Cocodapuf
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      1317 days ago

      I would welcome this reply in any thread. And from now on I expect to see it in every thread.

      • @Regrettable_incident
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        517 days ago

        I hope to see it in the thread after the presidential debate.

        TL;DR he ate a racoon

        • @Cocodapuf
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          217 days ago

          You’re right. This is my calling…

      • fmstrat
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        117 days ago

        While it is nice, I hesitated. This seems to be an independent site, and if their revenue model is visits/ads, I dont really want to take away from them.

        That being said, for this one I felt like the headline was too clickbaity.

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    In the early 2000s I worked at a company that had a small central courtyard in the middle of the building. All four sides of the courtyard were three or more stories high.

    Pigeons used to congregate in the courtyard and pick for crumbs.

    One day, a huge hawk came down and snatched himself a big fat pigeon.

    He sat there for most of an hour picking at this bird. When he finally went to leave he couldn’t clear the lowest wall.

    We called animal control, they said if he’s still there in 2 days let us know.

    He crapped all over the place and by the end of day to was able to just fly out.

    I’m not exactly certain that he wasn’t hurt and just got better enough to fly out but it really looked like he just ate himself into a condition where he couldn’t get back out of there.

      • @linearchaos
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        116 days ago

        It was also the only approved smoking location anywhere near the building. So all the smokers crowded into the far corner of the courtyard while the hawk held down the other half.

        He was big, probably just shy of two feet tall. Any squawked it anyone that was anywhere near him while he was eating his pigeon.

  • @gedaliyah
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    2117 days ago

    Other than the word “eagle,” this headline could be about me.

    • @ripcord
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      1017 days ago

      If it makes you feel any better, I think pretty much every single other person is too fat/heavy to fly with our wings

  • @[email protected]
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    2118 days ago

    The bird was unable to fly after eating what is suspected to be raccoon roadkill.

    “My ancestors hunted, but I mostly just sit by the side of a highway and wait for cars to do my hunting for me. They can even bring down deer.”

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      917 days ago

      Bald eagles are in fact scavengers. They’re shit birds, are not majestic, fuck with the real birds of prey, and steal their kills. Also they eat road kill, and their cry is disconcertingly discordantly cringe.

    • @[email protected]
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      617 days ago

      I awhile back I saw an eagle eating roadkill and as my car approached, it grabbed the carcass it was eating and flew off into a field with it a few feet, dropped it, and sat down to start eating it again.

      Had no idea eagles ate carrion. I figured that one was just young or something and having a hard time hunting, but I guess not?

      • @[email protected]
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        216 days ago

        Basically, AFAIK, eagles can hunt fish from the sea. They eat other birds & various creatures. They look majestic AF & their eyes are amazing. But they’re not the most intelligent birds around.

        They also eat a lot of roadkill, carrion, trash. So looks aside, bald eagles are kind of disgusting. But hey. Something has to clean up trash…and if the bald eagles will eat rotting carcasses… technically that is being useful.

  • @RunawayFixer
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    1217 days ago

    Convergent evolution. Some eagles are evolving into chickens. A new species of murder chickens.

    • @RedAggroBest
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      216 days ago

      They’re just re-evolving lost traits.

      RETURN TO DINO

  • @reddig33
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    418 days ago

    I wonder if his insurance covers Semaglutide?

  • @[email protected]
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    I feel like Roger Alan Wade weren’t singing about a God damn bald eagle, but never the less:

    The ain’t no wings on a pachyderm, it’s too fat too fly
    Ain’t ko wings on a barn yard pig, it’s too fat to fly
    There ain’t no wings on your fat ass and there ain’t no wonder why