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Wolf Link 🐺 to Mildly Interesting · 7 months ago

I don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.

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I don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.

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  • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    I like how it leaves in a swiggity swooty fashion.

    • papalonian
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      How have I never noticed that these goobers don’t have arms or nothin. I can’t imagine this thing walking in any way other than a swiggity swooty approach.

      This is God’s creature right here.

    • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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      I had to rewatch the video to make sure I got an exact image of what swiggity swooty means

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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      Truly a doofus of a bird.

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I thought kiwis spoke English.

    • magikmw@lemm.ee
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      They do have a funny way of speaking it.

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        deleted by creator

        • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g

          • WhatYouNeed
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            All my friends have been on my deck.

    • Cagi@lemmy.ca
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      They say “LILILILILILI!” Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.

    • Haus@kbin.earth
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      They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        And their short i’s to a short e

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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          All our vowels are just “u” (or schwa as I was once told).

          • Nuw Zulund
          • Fush und chups
          • Uh nu, u’m buchd, u’m buchd us.

          Source: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc?si=H3OnlZLbnRJCZqzS

    • captainlezbian
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      My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video

    • moistclump
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      https://youtu.be/ZdVHZwI8pcA

  • ChicoSuave
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    Ah, so the kiwi has a bird body but still uses its dinosaur voice.

    • Klear
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      All birds use their dinosaur voices.

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    >barges into view
    >releases 20,000 demons
    >refuses to elaborate
    >and he waddled away (waddle waddle)

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    Nightmare Potato.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    There is currently chaos in my house. I played this on my phone without headphones and my dogs have absolutely lost their shit. The Miniature Pinscher, being a Miniature Pinscher, was barking and spinning and occasionally attacking his spaniel brother who just has this “WTF BRO” face of horror on. Mayhem.

    PS: He’s calmed down…after a close to ten minute freak out.

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      Play it again!

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        As it goes with Min-Pins, he couldn’t give less of a shit the second time around. He’s over it.

    • kaffiene
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      My cat just had a very similar response =)

    • thegreatgarbo
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      Yep, our Iggy ran all the way out to the back yard prancing around tail up, barking at the intruder back inside the house. The other two are sitting in bed with me with a ‘wtf was that!’ expression.

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    This is a dinosaur

    • captainlezbian
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      Yes.

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    Sounds just like the fruit.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    When it ran away was pretty great.

    • capital
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      “Until next time”

    • The Yungest Onion@sh.itjust.worksBannedBanned from community
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      My job here is done! Away!

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    I can hear the dinosaur in it…

    • thegreatgarbo
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      Husband: I want one of those! /s

      Wife: who needs a rooster when you can hear that all night long??

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      Like it ate a little dinosaur? But how??

  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    This is the sound of an animal with no natural predators.

    • LennethAegis@fedia.io
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      Nonsense, I remember watching a documentary as a kid that the tasmanian devil would spin around into a little tornado and eat kiwis.

  • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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    Worst alarm clock ever.

    • Miss Millie@lemmy.ml
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      And that’s what you really need to wake up

  • expatriado
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    slowed down would sound like the stereotypical t-rex

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    I eat kiwi all the time and I ain’t never heard them make a sound.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      They’re obviously dead before they put the them out at the grocery store. I bet you don’t see yours running around outside either.

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    Also a very interesting run style.

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