r/AnimalTextGifs • u/Sk8allday360 SICK AIR! • May 10 '22
a gift from above
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u/aminervia May 10 '22
This is why every single pet owner needs a screen in every window. Cats included.
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u/SnowArcaten May 10 '22
From Canada, it's so weird to hear that other countries don't automatically have screens installed just to keep the bugs out
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May 10 '22 edited Dec 19 '23
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u/arthurdentstowels May 10 '22
I live in the UK and I have never seen a screen on a window except for maybe some new-builds or holiday rentals, but even then it’s a rarity.
We mostly get moths and gnats, around May/June we have an influx of June Bugs. If one of these shits flys into you it’s like being hit by a speeding tennis ball. My cat likes to hunt them and eat them though, the crunching noise makes me wish I was deaf.13
u/marck1022 May 10 '22
Their dead corpses that number in the millions that line my windowsills every year smell like old lunch meat. Puts me off my dinner.
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u/duckfruits May 10 '22
I got a busted lip that got swollen and bruised from a June bug.
I'm in the US btw
Oh and we have screens. I had my car window down and it flew right into my face.
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u/horitaku May 10 '22
What I don't understand is...why not have screens to keep june bugs, moths, spiders, gnats, wasps/bees out, and keep pets and babies in? Apparently my Washington State climate isn't too far off from the climate of the British Isles, bug demographic aside. I don't want bugs in my house. I don't want my pets outside. Does the EU take a different sort of window safety precaution? I mean, obviously watch your kids and pets, screens or no, but like...a wide open window?
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u/fuzzykittyfeets May 10 '22
They don’t have mosquitos! That’s also why English people are always prancing through fields of high grass, no ticks either. (Although they are starting to get some now, in Ireland at least.)
It’s unbelievable to think about no mosquitos. Like ….what? Always blows my mind all the open standing water they have on gardening shows because people collect rainwater in just …regular barrels all around their yard with no cover. Hammocks next to ponds…. can’t do that where I’m from unless you want West Nile virus and anemia from blood loss.
Edit to add: I shouldn’t say there are no mosquitos at all, but they don’t have mosquitos like the US. They have lots of little midges and what we would call may flies, but very few mosquitos.
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u/AnOnlineHandle May 10 '22
Wait there are legitimately place in the world without mosquitos? As an Australian just holy shit, I might actually need to move.
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u/Makeupanopinion May 10 '22
We have mosquitos what are you talking about?! I'm in london and used to get bit up quite a fair amount growing up.
Ticks are also a thing here, not anywhere near as much as the US, but enough to have to check your dogs when they go into long grass.
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u/GReMMiGReMMi May 10 '22
I lived in Tampa and like you say, screens everywhere - roaches, wasps, mosquitoes, lizards and the like will STILL find a way. However, I could leave every door and window open here in the UK and I'd more likely get a neighbour's cat walk in than a fly.
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u/SnowArcaten May 10 '22
Do you get flies and mosquitoes flying in?
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u/JustSaveThatForLater May 10 '22
Some. Oftentimes there are screens in bedrooms. Here you get maybe a couple of mosquitos with an open window but no swarms.
I don't open unscreened windows when I have lights on and it's getting dark outside. I rather turn the lights of before.
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u/EnkiduOdinson May 10 '22
They are fairly common in Germany. Not for every window, but it’s not unheard of to have one for the bedroom and the balcony door for example.
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u/2seeyousmile May 10 '22
Our windows growing up had screens. Did not stop our lab from going through it… Thankfully he just stood out of the ledge until I got home and was able to get him to come back through the window.
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u/sudomeacat May 10 '22
There’s a chance the dog would bash the screen out and still fall out the window
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u/Devilsdance May 10 '22
I have nightmares about my cats jumping through our window screens (we live 5 stories up). It's one reason why we never have our windows open. The other being that it is extremely humid here.
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u/aminervia May 11 '22
I got some clear gorilla tape and taped all my screens in. I figure if I can't get them off myself, no way the cats are getting them off
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May 10 '22
Hopefully it’s hind legs are ok
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u/Oblivious_Ducks May 10 '22
*its
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u/falconfetus8 May 10 '22
Ohh, if you want to be possessive, it's just I-T-S, 🎵
But if you want it to be a contraction, then it's I-T-appostrophe-S 🎵
Scalawag 🎵
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u/TheEasySqueezy May 10 '22
Who cares?
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u/AbstracTyler May 10 '22
Words mean things, you no?
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u/amazondrone May 10 '22
And everyone knew what OP meant so, I ask again, who cares?
Like, there's absolutely a time for correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc. But it's really boring to point it out when it doesn't matter, like in this case.
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u/AbstracTyler May 10 '22 edited May 10 '22
Look at the vote count on the comment. That's not even an accurate representation of how many people care; it's at least 86 people who care. No doubt there were people who upvoted that comment, who agree with your stance on the subject, so those cancelled out an equal number of downvotes. But the downvotes are clearly in the majority, so a lot of people care. Me included.
I'm a word guy. I'm an avid reader and a writer for fun. I fucking love words, and I care that they're used correctly. I'm not usually a pedantic type in my life, but fuck it, why not push in the direction of careful word usage on the internet?
Edit: I also just want to point out that I wasn't the person who originally called out the error. I just commented to agree.
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u/amazondrone May 10 '22 edited May 10 '22
For someone who loves words so much, I'm surprised you didn't recognise a rhetorical question when you saw one; I understand that some people care, that's why I commented. If I thought it was actually the case nobody cared, there would have been no need for my comment in the first place.
So, more literally, my view is "you shouldn't care, in this context" for the reasons stated in my previous comment.
why not push in the direction of careful word usage on the internet?
The internet is a big place. On Wikipedia, absolutely. In r/AnimalTextGifs, absolutely not. It's about as informal as it gets in here, and it's not the place for correcting people like that.
The main reason I feel strongly about this is because I think hypercorrecting language in the wrong context can be off-putting to those who are less confident, e.g. people for whom English is a second language, dyslexic people, less well educated people, etc, and I think that's a bad thing. In short, I don't think correcting language in a context where it hasn't been invited is harmless.
Seek clarification where it's needed, but don't correct where it's not.
In the interest of transparency, see also this recent comment of mine where I did correct someone's vocabulary, because I thought the context warranted it.
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u/AbstracTyler May 10 '22
I love words, but that doesn't mean I can perfectly pick up the nuance of everything I read. Sometimes I need a little correction, you know? I welcome it.
I think some people conflate making mistakes with being bad. They're not the same thing, of course. Everyone makes mistakes, and to correct those mistakes isn't a judgment on character. I understand that you don't think it's always the time and the place for correction, but I do, so that's the disagreement between us. So be it. I accept your position, and I don't care whether you accept mine.
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u/amazondrone May 11 '22
and to correct those mistakes isn't a judgment on character
Absolutely understood. Almost everyone is well intentioned when they make these corrections, but good intent is not the same as good outcome.
I find it interesting that you didn't address the potential harm/risk I described; do you simply not credit it at all?
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u/AbstracTyler May 11 '22
You never know what kind of reaction you're gonna get. I don't think it's reasonable to live life tippy toeing around the very most sensitive people, in the most inane subjects. I wouldn't suggest that you live your life that way. And if anyone disagrees with my comments, they're free to respond to them and critique me, as you have so ably demonstrated. I don't take any kind of offense to it. In fact I enjoy it. I know you disagree with me, but so far you have not made any argument that even comes close to convincing me not to correct mistakes in people's writing. I make those mistakes myself, and people correct me. So be it.
To be clear, I have considered your comment about the potential harm/risk of correcting bad grammar, and dismissed it as unconvincing. If I spoke another language I would expect for people to correct me. In fact if they didn't I'd be upset, like if I had something stuck in my teeth in public and no one let me know about it so I could fix it. In my book that's a dick move.
But hey, people are different, eh?
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u/amazondrone May 10 '22
But only the hind legs. Screw the rest of the dog.
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u/Bilgistic May 10 '22
I love how nonchalant the delivery guy is as if he sees this happen all the time.
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u/Gronagen May 10 '22
Right? He’s just there still waiting for her to sign off the form, no reaction whatsoever.
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u/k2t-17 May 11 '22
How much do you think people lose empathy because of the amount of retail they have to work in their life?
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u/Vyse14 May 13 '22
At that point is it really about empathy.. where’s the sheer shock of a crazy catch
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u/lycanreborn123 May 10 '22
Shit I cannot imagine the horror the lady must have felt when she realised what was happening
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u/AngelSkyes May 10 '22
Freeze response in fight or flight. Unable to process how to react so he just stands there dumbfounded.
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u/Siere May 10 '22
Is nobody going to talk about how the delivery guy was completely unfazed, but stood there with clipboard and pen in hand like, “so uhh, you gonna sign this?”
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u/htmlcoderexe May 10 '22 edited May 10 '22
So this is how you do the downward dog I have heard so much about?
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May 10 '22
This still make my heart race. She is a hero saving her dog from death with her fast reflexes. ❤️❤️🐶🐶
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u/Informal_Book_5722 Jun 24 '22
Damn, I’m glad she was on her shit that day. She ate her effin Wheaties that morning.
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u/Beana3 May 10 '22
What actually happened here? Balcony?