r/interestingasfuck • u/Odd-Difference-1483 • 18d ago

/r/all Kangaroos are freaking scary.

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u/FrequentProblems 18d ago

Fun fact: if a kangaroo is sitting in a body of water staring at you it wants you to come in and play with it

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u/plug-and-pause 17d ago

Somebody said in a different comment this means they want to drown you. For gullible people who can't recognize sarcasm, the above comment seems dangerous.

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u/FrequentProblems 17d ago edited 17d ago

It does mean that they do want to drown you, but I find it implausible that a person who was naive and/or gullible enough to fall for that would find themselves in Australia facing down a roo in the water. Aussies know not to fuck with them. And if some dumb tourist with more money than sense gets in a pond with a jacked up murder monster? Oh well

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u/plug-and-pause 17d ago

And if some dumb tourist with more money than sense gets in a pond with a jacked up murder monster? Oh well

Clearly we place a different value on human life. I sympathize even with the unbelievably stupid (and Reddit has a ton of these, which includes tourists). I'd say the same thing if you were encouraging US tourists to play with bison in Yellowstone (this happens enough organically, no need to encourage it as a joke).

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u/FrequentProblems 17d ago

I am nonplussed about why you’re being so obtuse. It’s not gonna happen. No one will read my comment and decide to get into a pond with a roo thinking it wants to do recreation. How would a person be in that position anyway? Alone in the Australian bush with no knowledge of Australia (generally known as having hostile fauna) and thinking “I should climb in to that water hole with my bouncy friend.” Just doesn’t happen in our world. Just think

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u/plug-and-pause 17d ago

How would a person be in that position anyway? Alone in the Australian bush with no knowledge of Australia (generally known as having hostile fauna) and thinking “I should climb in to that water hole with my bouncy friend.”

The same exact way tourists get killed by bison in Yellowstone and alligators in Florida. Stupid people are going to stupid, and the real obtuseness here is the inability to recognize that reverse warning labels, while funny, do have a nonzero potential to cause real harm to a stupid person.

Have you met humans? They eat tide pods because other humans told them to. Not all humans have fully formed brains. Not all humans know how to recognize sarcasm. These very same humans travel, even (gasp) to places with wild animals.

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u/FrequentProblems 17d ago

To paraphrase Michael Jordan (and this may be apocryphal but who cares): fuck them kids

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u/plug-and-pause 17d ago

It's strange to me that your argument is repeatedly flip-flopping between "nobody that stupid exists" and "I don't care if people that stupid die". The latter argument seems to concede the first (and yet you still return to it at times). Difficult to argue with such a shifting position.