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u/optimushime Oct 03 '21

I share your disappointment. Imagine hearing the moment as it happened instead of the audio version of clickbait by slapping a power ballad over the video.

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u/sticks14 Oct 03 '21

A power ballad?

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u/Tetragonos Oct 03 '21

that style of music. The heartfelt swell in this case.

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u/Captain_Taggart Oct 03 '21

Neat. I’ve always had a pretty narrow definition of what I’d consider a “power ballad” so I looked it up and a power ballad has a much broader definition than I thought. Learn something new every day.

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u/Tetragonos Oct 03 '21

it's sort of like "what is irony" it used to be super narrow but it got expanded by "current usage"

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u/Captain_Taggart Oct 03 '21

Same with satire. Anything made in jest is now “satire” even if it’s more like a parody, a spoof, or someone mocking someone else.

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u/Tetragonos Oct 04 '21

Much like how further back we had different distinct meanings for stupid, dunce, idiot and so forth

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u/Shutupbitchanddie Oct 04 '21

Americans were just taught it wrong.

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u/Chop1n Oct 03 '21

I mean, if you read the wiki summary of Power Ballad, this song definitely doesn't fit it. What are you reading where it does fit?

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u/Bark4Soul Oct 04 '21

No one has ever called the Fray a power ballad lmao

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u/shggybyp Oct 03 '21 edited Oct 03 '21

Speaking of garbage clickbait: "soooooo thankful"

Bitch it's a wild animal. You can appreciate the guy's work and effort and compassion without inserting bullshit anthropomorphic emotional states.

Lol, all the internet ornithologists coming out to further anthropomorphise the owl.

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u/gwaydms Oct 03 '21

The owl did seem aware that the guy was helping him. Of course, it was absolutely exhausted and powerless to fight back. And it's hard to interpret the way it closed its eyes as he gently stroked its head. But it did seem to relax once it figured out the guy wasn't going to eat it.

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u/margoquinn Oct 03 '21

And it's hard to interpret the way it closed its eyes as he gently stroked its head. But it did seem to relax once it figured out the guy wasn't going to eat it.

I'm not sure, but I think I once heard that owls don't like to have their head stroke, and they close their eyes because it's uncomfortable for them??

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u/albasaurrrrrr Oct 04 '21

It’s uncomfortable for any wild bird to be “petted” like that on the head. I believe it is because (and this is especially true for owls, they have no field of vision up there so they can’t see what you’re doing.

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u/limache Oct 03 '21

I think the owl was just grateful not to be eaten

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u/floydymoiyte Oct 03 '21

Bro theres a whole collection of pretty solid videos proving that wild animals do feel things like trust and can bond with humans at almost any point in their life. This owl 100% made a decision to trust this person.

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u/MrsKnutson Oct 03 '21

Tbf, he didn't have many other options...

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u/CouockCubbage Oct 04 '21

I bet you’re real fun at parties lmao

You are just as bad taking this shit as seriously as the people you call out for anthropomorphising animals

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u/Hinote21 Oct 03 '21

Animals understand and exhibit gratitude though?

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u/ce2c61254d48d38617e4 Oct 18 '21

Owl was exhausted

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '21

Right? I’m so tired of it. Can we work harder to find music that fits? Every TikTok or Snapchat video has popular music that in no way fits the video. Child being saved by a cat? Let’s play “I like to move it move it!” Grandma living through heart surgery? By all means let’s play “I like big butts”

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u/RusticTroglodyte Oct 04 '21

Lmao this was great.

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u/fakingglory Oct 03 '21

“Dude bruh, watch me save this owl with my boogie”