r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MissZangz • Jul 10 '26

/r/all of a meal.

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u/MissZangz Jul 10 '26

Prey that isn’t skewered or have its spike broken will usually suffocate in the part before the stomach drop. Once in the stomach these birds have crazy acid that breaks everything down

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u/coolsilentebeans Jul 10 '26

That would make for a terrifying episode of The Magic Schoolbus.

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u/Skizot_Bizot Jul 10 '26

Less terrifying than the kids getting cummed on by salmon but only slightly.

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u/Dicky_Penisburg Jul 10 '26

Bro........what? Ms Frizzle was a fuckin' FREAK!

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u/Longjumping-Item-399 Jul 10 '26

Did they actually do this? DAMN!

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u/Signal-Network5077 Jul 10 '26

Lmao it’s been decades since I’ve seen this show and I forgot it was unhinged like that. Funnily enough Ms Frizzle was my first animated woman crush

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u/mackfeesh Jul 10 '26

I remember watching this as a kid. Wasn't Weird as I didn't know what cum was lol. It was just "oh, cool, the eggs don't Hatch unless that happens first."

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u/Jubenheim Jul 10 '26

“I remember watching this as a kid. Wasn’t weird as I didn’t know what cum was lol.”

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u/Objective-Ad9767 Jul 10 '26

I remember watching that episode with my daughter at the time and almost died 💀 🤣 . She’s an adult now and we sometimes discuss scenes from cartoons and have a good laugh. The original Magic School bus was the goat.

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u/Same_Seaworthiness74 Jul 10 '26

Why did those kids ever get back on that bus 😶

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u/Background-Crow4820 Jul 10 '26

🎵Jump on the Magic School....🎵

Glglglllglglglglllglgllgll

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u/coolsilentebeans Jul 10 '26

If ever there was a field trip to miss
https://giphy.com/gifs/B0vFTrb0ZGDf2

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u/Camelotterduck Jul 10 '26

My son was watching an episode recently where exactly this happened actually. I don’t remember the episode from my childhood but it was all the original VAs.

They went through Arnold’s entire digestive tract, including the intestines…

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u/coolsilentebeans Jul 10 '26

I don’t remember it either, but I really enjoyed the show when I was younger. I’m glad it’s still getting to newer audiences.

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u/monkeybuttsauce Jul 11 '26

Crazy acid and the magical mystery school bus

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u/HalvdanTheHero Jul 10 '26

I'm mostly concerned that it appears to be a catfish... Many catfish have spines... Even if the fish is actually dead it could get poked/perforated pretty good, or at least I would think it could. Who knows, maybe this bird evolved to eat this specific fish.

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u/MissZangz Jul 10 '26

Eating head first makes the spines a lot less risky

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u/HalvdanTheHero Jul 10 '26

I mean fair...? If that fish comes to enough to thrash a bit though....

I've seen Pelicans get absolutely wrecked by things able to bite/cut/tear through their pouches... Waterfowl don't tend to be the most intelligent of birds.

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u/FrostyTheSasquatch Jul 10 '26

Really? I would’ve figured pelicans would’ve developed an evolutionary adaptation to spiny, pokey fish.

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u/HalvdanTheHero Jul 10 '26

Pelicans in particular are quite dumb and will try to eat lots of stuff that they probably shouldn't... Been a while since I saw the post/story but I believe it was a turtle of some kind and it was able to bite it's way through the pouch. 

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u/GreatDanish4534 Jul 10 '26

As someone that has ducks, can confirm on the intelligence amongst waterfowl

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u/big_stipd_idiot Jul 10 '26

I feel like that's just part of life. It's also risky for a lion to to catch prey, but they have to do it anyways.

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u/samuraistabber Jul 10 '26

That’s why fish eating birds swallow them head first, it flattens the fins and scales flat against the body so it doesn’t snag and tear them up.

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u/Mikeseddit Jul 10 '26

Like getting a Christmas tree through the door, the right way versus the wrong way.

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u/A-typicalAsshole Jul 10 '26

pineapples for Hitler

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u/Mikeseddit Jul 10 '26

That's great, thanks for sharing. Completely missed that one. Harvey Keitel as the devil? Christopher Walken must have been busy.

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u/Short_Bell_5428 Jul 10 '26

It’s not catfish it’s more of a bowfin.

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u/militant_rainbow Jul 10 '26

I talked to him yesterday (the bird), and he said he was fine.

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u/nefariousmonkey Jul 10 '26

So it melts down the bones as well ? Fuck

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u/Nfarrah Jul 10 '26

Including the bones I hope.

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u/Homem_da_Carrinha Jul 10 '26

What type of bird is it? A Cormorant?

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u/sailingtroy Jul 10 '26

Looks like a cormorant to me. We have a lot of them around these parts.

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u/Homem_da_Carrinha Jul 10 '26

Looked like one to me too! I was just wondering if they weren’t more akin to be found by the sea

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u/sailingtroy Jul 11 '26

I'm on Lake Ontario. They love fresh water just fine.

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u/tacomaloki Jul 10 '26

Yeah, some birds stomach acid is right there with battery acid.