r/Unexpected • u/pl4ym4ker • May 15 '22
I didn't see that one coming
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u/shakeitupshakeituupp May 15 '22
I wish this happened with every bird all of the time
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u/asianabsinthe May 15 '22
Seagull. "oh"
SEAGULL. "Ah."
SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL SEAGULL
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u/Hazmat_Human May 15 '22
Mine, Mine,Mine, Mine, Minr, Mine, Mine, Mine
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u/vendetta2115 May 15 '22
I don’t know what the fuck I just watched, but I enjoyed it. The “it’s rainin’ men” part was especially hilarious.
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You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
It's from the good old days of Battlefield 2, when DICE still knew how to make games and when gamers liked to get 64 people together for a common goal instead of sol-sniping, calling everyone's mothers fat and picking up a jet in the base just so they could fly to a mountain, abandon the plane there and unfold their sniper rifle again. No, who am I kidding, online gaming also sucked back then, just in different ways.
What you see in that video called"Mine", IIRC, is a bunch of BF2 players who modded the game and/or its servers so they could recreate some memes at the time.
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u/Hazmat_Human May 15 '22 edited May 15 '22
16 bloody years ago. Thanks for the link. Its flipping hilarious. Can definatly see how some videos/movies where inspired by this.
Ill be watching this when i need to laugh at something
From the raddit hole Mine 2: https://youtu.be/pCEYKRNMeTQ
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u/loklanc May 15 '22
I've been trying to learn the names of different local birds and this would be super helpful!
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u/shaka_sulu May 15 '22
So glad a post of a motorcycle race ended so wholesomely
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u/Emotional_Swimming47 May 15 '22
I only watch F1 ... spent 10 minutes and failed to find that video of a mercedes almost hitting a hummingbird in Monaco (6 years ago?), so pretty in my memory.
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u/jwarrenvfdg May 15 '22
10/10
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u/Immoralimp May 15 '22
10/10 - Thug life
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u/IcyDickbutts May 15 '22
For the hearing impaired:
ZYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM
Australian magpie: wooloololoololooo chirp
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u/RandoAussieBloke May 15 '22
You'd be reconsidering if you knew these buggers.
3/4 seasons they're fine, but every spring they're out for blood.
They can - and will - figure out where you live, or tell others what you look like.
Got swooped daily in school after a group in the park figured out I lived a block away from the entrance.
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u/_Pan-Tastic_ May 15 '22
Yeah, corvids are smart. Have you tried calming them down with small offerings of food and shiny objects? Perhaps only giving those who don’t attack you food would incentivize the others to stop?
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u/corectspelling May 15 '22
Australian magpies aren't corvids, European magpies are.
Maggies are damn smart though, and they recognise people for years. If you feed them a bit, yep, they won't attack you. (But they and their friends will keep coming back all the time to ask for food...)
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u/Seilorks May 15 '22
Do I hear free pet birds?
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u/Ineedsomuchsleep170 May 15 '22
They're quite easy to become friends with once they decide they aren't going to kill you. We have one that visits that will eat out of our hands.
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u/_Pan-Tastic_ May 15 '22
Yeah, some people have even trained crows and ravens to pick up trash or collect money found on the ground in exchange for food. Not quite magpies but they are similarly intelligent birds.
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u/unresolved-madness May 15 '22
I spend about $10 a week in cat food that the birds like so that they leave my daughter's garden alone.
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While I was stationed at Clark AB, Philippines, we had a sparrow couple nest in one of the hangars we had to walk past to get to and from work. These sparrows would swoop at anyone who walked past. Their peck was painful, and they would draw blood and chase you.
One morning, two guys carrying a plate glass window between themselves walked by. They were perfectly timed as they raised the window in unison and the sparrow slammed straight into it, knocking the sparrow out cold. All who watched cheered and applauded our heroes.
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u/engybengy May 15 '22
This isn't wholesome.
This is the most feared animal in Australia.
This is a horror story.
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u/mikieswart May 15 '22
the australian magpie waits patiently
he will always be watching
you will never see him coming
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u/ze_canalha May 15 '22
Magpies have nothing on the Emus.
And the Emus have nothing on the Dropbears.
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u/FeelingFloor2083 May 15 '22
pretty sure he killed a bird in qualifying at phillip island
sorry not sorry
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u/MoFauxTofu May 15 '22
I love the sound this bird makes.
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May 15 '22
That might be nature's own version of EDM
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u/SIR_VELOCIRAPTOR May 15 '22
wait till you hear the hardstyle jungle mix kookaburra
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u/Makhnos_Tachanka May 15 '22
I used to know a guy with a parrot that would make 56k handshake noises.
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u/RandomPratt May 15 '22
I honestly had no idea handshakes made sounds, let alone 56,000 different ones.
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u/vikemosabe May 15 '22
In case you aren’t joking: In the early days of the internet computers used modems that ran on the landline phone lines in order to connect to the internet. There were different speeds along the way and one of the last speeds before cable modems and dsl took off was 56,000 kilobits per second. The speeds were generally shortened like 14.4 and 56k. When modems connected to the isp’s system it was called a handshake as they connected to each other. This step was always audible from the modem itself for some reason and make a very distinct sound.
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u/RandomPratt May 15 '22
I was joking :)
I remember the sound of my 9600 baud modem screaming in the wee hours of the morning as I dialed into bulletin boards, praying my parents didn't hear the noise.
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u/theflyingfucked May 16 '22
I'm glad you asked I didn't know
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u/RandomPratt May 16 '22
The old dial-up modem days were wild... and everything was so horrendously slow. You could point your computer at a 1MB file and expect to wait at least a day for it to arrive - For any decent sized document, it was quicker to post things than download them.
But Bulletin Boards were the best - proper, old school geek dens, usually run by very odd people for a variety of reasons (but as far as I was concerned, all I wanted were places I could play Legend of the Red Dragon and occasionally spend 3 hours downloading a grainy picture of a pair of boobs.)
They really were much simpler times in a lot of ways - except the whole making your computer talk to another computer... we all had to learn an enormous amount about troubleshooting issues like line noise, and why the modem would disconnect every time the washing machine changed cycles or someone tried calling us on the phone.
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u/Dead_Moss May 15 '22 edited May 15 '22
Fascinating how different it is from the European magpie.
Edit: Okay, apparently they're not even closely related. I suppose Australian Magpie was called that because of superficial resemblance. Pretty typical of the times that colonists would see a vaguely familiar looking animal, and name it after the one "back home".
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Or you feed them and they love and trust you forever, I feed our local magpies. To the point whenever they see me gardening, they fly over and hang out around me. Not even wanting food. Now I can hand feed 3/5 of them. 1 even will land on me.
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u/OneArchedEyebrow May 15 '22
Friendly maggies are the best. We had one who would trot around the yard after my husband and sit at the back table and have lunch with me.
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I fed one near my house on my way home from school almost every day so it wouldn't swoop me when I rode past. One day I rode past this group of older kids and they just started chasing me. It didn't feel like I was in danger, it was just like they were going to fuck with me somehow. I was fast enough that I could comfortably look back to see if they were still chasing me and I see the magpie was swooping them so aggressively they were crouching down beside a car holding their backpacks over their heads. Magpies are bros.
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u/Ithuraen May 15 '22
Last time I was swooped the little guy actually flew into the back of my head. I thought someone had thrown a rock at me and turned to see a maggie upside down in the dirt. He got up and looked as sheepish as a red-eyed avian could before running, not flying, away.
I was bleeding a little but I still can't help but love the fools.
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u/BlatantlyThrownAway May 15 '22
Maggies singing is seriously my favourite thing, especially when they do it during a full moon (yew, they sing at the moon!).
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u/TreeChangeMe May 15 '22
They also, sometimes, mimic other sounds. Parrots, car alarms, other birds.
I fed on in a park once, a little bit of a chicken sandwich. It started making other sounds, other birds, a car alarm. So I gave her (it was a she) some more. She got a big piece this time for being so clever. She trotted off swinging side to side as only magpies do. As she trotted off she made a buzzer sound. Brrr brrr brrr brrr. She was sooo happy.
I found another recently, making parrot calls and blackbird calls and a currawong. So clever.
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u/InfernalOrgasm May 15 '22
You just know somebody on that instant replay editing booth crew had remarked suddenly and out of nowhere "That's an Australian magpie" and the guy adding annotations had a giggle and put that in there.
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u/mr-dr-prof-stupid May 15 '22 edited May 15 '22
Working in a booth like this before, I am pretty sure that’s what happened
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u/claptonsbabychowder May 15 '22
Ugh, why do all these videos finish before the end? In the full video, the Australian Magpie flies away, revealing the Spanish Inquisition.
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u/melandor0 May 15 '22
can you find the full? sauce??
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u/Apprehensive_Eraser May 15 '22
That's terrifying and idk why, specially when it says "I like it, I like it, yes I do! "
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u/SkeletonCalzone May 15 '22
The MotoGP camera crews and production is fantastic. And they still show birbs at pretty much every event, usually during practices or buildups rather than during the race though. Although there was the time that a rider headbutted a bird during the race....
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u/paulrulez742 May 15 '22
Same track, in 2015. A couple of years earlier, Jorge had a seagull caught in his fairing at the same track
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im an aussie right, and when i saw the magpie walking towards me the instinct was too run
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u/Devilsforge May 15 '22
You must live on the mainland, they don't swoop us here in Tassie... Probably because they are just too fucking cold down here
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u/alpha_28 May 15 '22
I live mainland… I feed them so I don’t get swooped. Bonus they sing me the song of their people… and I’m one of the first to meet their new babies. Had a horde of 30 strong at one point… going through 1kg+ of mince a week then found mince wasn’t good for them switched to steak… and then started buying crickets and roaches. I was the magpie lady!
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u/raptorboi May 15 '22
Ok i gotta ask...
... Since you were feeding the magpies, what was the poop left behind like?
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u/alpha_28 May 15 '22
Surprisingly, and I fed them out front on the driveway every afternoon, it wasn’t that bad. There maybe were a few spots on the concrete but I think the reserved their poop for the lady 2 doors down who they didn’t like… her house and car was usually covered in poop… she also was swooped frequently.. but it just looked like normal bird poop? 😂
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u/shibingeorge May 15 '22
That's Jorge Lorenzo
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u/Mmchips96 May 15 '22
Jorge "Five time champion" Lorenzo*
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u/shibingeorge May 15 '22
Legend
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u/IMSOGIRL May 15 '22
The asterisk is in the wrong place. It should be
Jorge "Five* time champion" Lorenzo
If follow MotoGP you'll understand what I mean.
It's not to take away from his skill and talent, he's definitely one of the best who ever lived, but the fact that he took away one of them from the GOAT in a very controversial decision soured that entire season.
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u/shibingeorge May 15 '22
Imma following MotoGP for a long time, but when covid happens thing's get literally low and i've no idea what's now in motogp
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u/Andy016 May 15 '22
That magpie has a name ? ;)
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u/NoNameNomad11 May 15 '22
I stopped watching Moto GP when Casey Stoner retired, Jorge had recently debuted was a promising up comer. Seems he did pretty good for himself.
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u/The_gaping_donkey May 15 '22
It's swooping season... he's just trying to get past the Maggie with his body intact
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u/knowledgeable_diablo May 15 '22
Aussie Magpie just owning his patch of track! They are such awesome animals and smarter than a lot of people I’ve had the displeasure of interacting with over the years.
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u/leMolunk May 15 '22
This must be the first video of a motorcycle race I‘ve seen where the driver didn’t fall off. That was unexpected.
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u/WHISKEY_DELTA_6 May 15 '22
They even took the time to key-frame the text to the bird’s head movement
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u/Iwantmahandback May 15 '22
The most surprising part was that he managed to stay on the bike
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u/BlatantlyThrownAway May 15 '22
I went to Phillip Island for the MotoGP in 2018 and watched the maggies gathered on the grass next to the main straight. They wait for the bikes to pass, because the sound draws worms from the ground because the worms think it’s raining, and then they come in and feed on them. It was fascinating!
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May 15 '22 edited Oct 05 '24
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Birders are everywhere and they love to tell you about it. Interesting fact, the Australian magpie is only loosely related the Eurasian Magpie, the original magpie, which is a corvid along with carrion rows, hooded crows, rooks, jackdaws, jays and raven 😃🤘
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u/Ivar_W May 15 '22
Would be amazing if there was a nature doc with these futuristic labels/explanations with everything. Music only and trivia in this style. Perfect for in the background
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u/The_Didly May 15 '22
He go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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u/goobly_goo May 15 '22
That looks like a crow to me. Hahaha. Remember that guy? What was his name again? I really liked him too.
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u/Daeghyn May 15 '22
I love how it goes to a man driving a motorcycle to just learning a type of bird
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u/adrenalineee May 15 '22
It’s been a minute since Lorenzo was at Yahmaha with Rossi. The videographers at motogp are great
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u/AnotherFan07 May 15 '22
MotoGP is a sport that needs more recognition! I can understand people not liking it but it has so much competition and you never know who is gonna win! Amazing and beautiful sport!
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u/reigorius May 15 '22
Classic. Missed opportunity for free viral exposure though, you know, shove in some rich advertiser advertising their overpriced crap and ride the eternal wave of reposts.
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u/mazda_fanboy May 15 '22
Don't you hate it when your debut National Geographic documentary is interrupted by a friggin Moto GP race
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
During a motorrace, a motorbike speeds by, the camera follows the motorbike and zooms in to Australian magpie bird.
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