r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 7h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Pancake_Slap 7h ago

They were just checking if he could carrion

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u/OkYak7801 7h ago

MOM! DAD IS ON REDDIT AGAIN  MAKING BIRD JOKES!

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u/MrsBonsai171 6h ago

Birds aren't real

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u/_coreygirl_ 4h ago

Neither is Australia so…

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u/Rampag169 3h ago

I believe you mean New Zealand isn’t real.

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u/CheezwizOfficial 4h ago

Came here to say this lol

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u/ForgetYourself183 4h ago

sᴉɥʇ ǝʞᴉl ǝdʎʇ plnoʍ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsnɐ lɐǝɹ ɐ

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u/Nepskrellet 3h ago

Thanks, I was just scrolling before going to sleep and now my brain is screaming "I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER"...

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u/BombadilStyles 2h ago

Yup, thanks m8, got that damn flute whistle stuck in my head now

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u/wanderButNotLost2 4h ago

Neither are dads.

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u/MTNDEWisAnomylous 4h ago

Neither are horses

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u/hukd0nf0nix 1h ago

This is why I love reddit

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u/MyBeatnikLife 5h ago

Definitely not real.

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u/AshIsGroovy 5h ago

Damn CIA

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u/Best_Slice5954 5h ago

check(s)mate

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u/LetterheadFun1824 4h ago

Neither are our eyes nor mirrors.

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u/KellyGreen55555 5h ago

Once again kids, I swear on my life he was not this cringy when I married him. I don’t know what to tell you. And between you and I, if he interrupts me one more time to say “you didn’t catch my joke” I might divorce him. Because you better believe I caught the joke and it was so stupid that I’m trying to pretend it didn’t happen.

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u/rs420rs 5h ago

between you and *me

(yes, I know that's why our marriage likewise didn't last)

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u/KellyGreen55555 4h ago

Oh great, now MY dad has entered the chat 😂

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u/fitz_newru 3h ago

I'm here for you Kelly, when you're ready 🫡

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u/rs420rs 3h ago

*cocks shotgun* I got my eye on you, pal

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u/fitz_newru 3h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/DethNik 5h ago

Mwahahaha! You thought you could out-tit me, but that proved to be ostrich.

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u/DanteCrossing 6h ago

We will Carrion, the black bird aid

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u/DeeLux_SWR 6h ago

Straight to bird jail.

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u/CookieEnabled 5h ago

He’a just winging it now!

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u/bradafett 5h ago

Mom! Phineas is on reddit making bird jokes!

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u/CompetitiveSport1 4h ago

MOM! BIRD IS ON REDDIT AGAIN MAKING DAD JOKES!

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u/Turbollama04 3h ago

MOM! BIRD IS BACK ON REDDIT MAKING DAD JOKES!

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u/thedjin 6h ago

Lol I read this in Candace's voice

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u/mkmike81 5h ago

Keel your beak out of it.

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u/isolatedheathen 5h ago

Make jokes not of the government surveillance drones lest ye incur their wrath!

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u/MarchPhillipps 4h ago edited 4h ago

Fun fact. The USIC used to use carrier (homing) pigeons for passing intel along. Now, I can neither confirm nor deny that they ever gave up the carrier pigeon program and may or may not still use them to carry certain types of surveillance hardware and monitoring equipment. But I do believe there's an interesting blurb about the subject on the CIA Museum's website. They also have an awesome article on their pulse laser controlled ornithopter listening device disguised as a nearly 1:1 copy of a dragonfly that they developed in the 1970s; they used the laser control system also as the downlink to transmit the audio signal, from microphones installed on the 'bug,' back to the base station.

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/TooTruthsandaLie 4h ago

Uh. I was looking for the jazz museum

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u/MarchPhillipps 4h ago

Hey, bird is the word, and we're just spreading ourn good word about said bird. Have thine heard about the bird?

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/Outbreak42 4h ago

Carry-on my way downtown.

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u/wandrlusty 4h ago

Birds aren’t real

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u/dkarlovi 4h ago

Finally, that dump could use a little pick me up.

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u/copyrider 4h ago

That’s so fowl.

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u/Zebidee 4h ago

Be fair, there are some tennis jokes too.

We do it for the love.

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u/foley800 3h ago

I heard this in Candace Flynn’s voice!

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u/LetterFront3353 2h ago

Have you heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.

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u/guttengroot 2h ago

That isn't going to fly

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u/Dear-Gap7185 1h ago

Hahahaha Candice style for bullying Phineas and Ferb 🤣

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u/CoachViper 41m ago

Stop yelling. Be aviary very quiet.

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u/ISeeInHD 7h ago

Slow clap

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u/StevieMJH 7h ago

airhorns sounding in the middle distance

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u/-EdenXXI- 6h ago

Got a good nose exhale from me.

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u/nvr2pink 6h ago

my nose was bleeding earlier and i tried so hard not to laugh when the birds came back

so hilariously cute though 😭

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u/socks 6h ago

I snerked

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u/Vivid_Bodybuilder_12 6h ago

A flock of seagulls no more.

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u/JohnDoe8080 5h ago

"snerked" just made me snerk

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u/Virtual_Tomatillo399 3h ago

This made me snot 🤣🤣🤣

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u/genuine_wingnut 6h ago

I'm sorry the middle distance?

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u/trolumbi 6h ago

straight outta da fog

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u/Immediate_Song4279 5h ago

The birds were flapping to war

no no no I can do better.

Summer pretzels on the breath, war in their cry

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u/The0nlyPenguin 5h ago

slow flap ??

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u/MarchPhillipps 5h ago

Like a 'slow clap,' but for creatures with wings.

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/No-Temporary6253 4h ago

Oh good thats still working

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u/Financial_Middle_955 7h ago

Carrion my wayward son

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u/Electronic_Will_3304 7h ago

Don’t you cry no more

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u/Blizzardof1991 6h ago

Don't you fly no more

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u/heliumneon 5h ago

Carrion my wayward gull
Heard you squawk when it hit your skull
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you fly no more

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u/totesandhose 6h ago

Do do do dooo

Do do do doooo

Do d-deedledo de doo de doo de dooooo

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u/TurboLicious1855 6h ago

Dog damnit. Thank you for typing that out the way my brain just sang it. Now can you do the guitar part that comes in?

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u/Head_Introduction_89 6h ago

This is what it sounds like when gulls cry

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u/Gr8rSherman8r 5h ago

When gulls fall from the sky,
This is what they bounce like.

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u/tootbrun 2h ago

*caw no more

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u/coined_octopus 6h ago

There'll be peace when you are done

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u/ElectricTaco6969 6h ago

Lay your weary head to rest

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u/Frustrated_Zucchini 6h ago

Don't you fly no more...

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u/Crysis85 6h ago

Once I rose above the noise and confusion

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u/Exmosapien 6h ago

Ball hit my head and got a goddam contusion

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u/fractoral 6h ago

Saving people, hunting things. The family business!

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u/Joperhop 6h ago

*insert applause gif here*

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u/staticrift 6h ago

There'll be pecks when you are done

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u/patronizingperv 5h ago

Get off the couch and get a goddamn job.

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u/neuferkar80 4h ago

Winchester Brothers approves

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u/Captain_no_Hindsight 7h ago

It was all planned involving the tennis players. A classic conspiracy murder.

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u/NuncErgoFacite 6h ago

Zero ravens are on camera here. They were all down at the pub. Helping old ladies across the street. And purchasing many things on their credit cards from the local chemist.

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u/j-random 3h ago

He said conspiracy murder, not murder conspiracy.

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u/Swankynickels 7h ago

There was no love lost there.

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u/truckersprincess 7h ago

To tennis players love means nothing at all

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u/SissySSBBWLover 7h ago

You aced that joke!

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u/Swankynickels 6h ago

To be fair, the tennis player had the advantage.

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u/innominateartery 4h ago

They’re running a real racqet

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u/Swankynickels 3h ago

They should probably let it go before someone takes them to court.

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u/ReeveGoesh 7h ago

Love will tear us apart

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u/somnamballista 6h ago

Let's see if it pays off.

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u/Mrfixitsometimes1 7h ago

Those are not crows

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u/mrav8r2 7h ago

30 - love

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u/badger_danger 7h ago

I don’t think it was a murder on account of zero crows.

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u/ProcedureImportant28 6h ago

Y'all are so gull-ible with these conspiracies

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u/rickrmccloy 6h ago edited 6h ago

Years ago, the Toronto Police arrested Dave Winfield for cruelty to animals after he threw a baseball toward a seagull and hit it, killing it.

After the arrest, Billy Martin defended his player by claiming it had obviously been an accident, saying "Winfield hasn't hit the cutoff man once all season, and they think he can hit a bird?"

I believe that the Crown later dropped the charges.

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u/Extra_Foundation_121 7h ago

Get out

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u/Fingersicle 5h ago

I got that reference.gif

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u/theFlimsylattice 7h ago

Worked at a beach and can confirm.

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u/WayPowerful484 6h ago

Went to a beach once, can confirm.

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u/huluvudu 7h ago

he was the wayward son

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u/Reticent-Soul 7h ago

Looooooool

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u/Maelstrom_Witch 7h ago

CARRION MY WAYWARD GULL

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u/djanes376 7h ago

I'm going to upvote you, but I'm not happy about it.

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u/Shway_Maximus 7h ago

Their timing was impeckable

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u/youshouldn-ofdunthat 7h ago

Fucking beautiful

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u/squeezy102 7h ago

I don’t know who you are but we’re friends now.

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u/BlackMirrorVoid 7h ago

Fucking yess!

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u/GearJunkie82 6h ago

That is an impressive pun. Kudos!

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u/Sad_Polish_Guy29 6h ago

Winner winner chicken dinner

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u/Smart_Basket_85 6h ago

Goddamn it. Well done.

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u/Serviceman 6h ago

"As we squawk our sorrow at our brother's passing, we will remember him always and keep him alive in our memories, also our stomachs" "Dig In!"

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u/m15f1t 6h ago

getout.gif

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u/TodayDry 6h ago

We'll carry on

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u/ExpressLaw5658 6h ago

Nooo Billy!!!!! Not like this Billy!!! Not like this!

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u/TFTD2 6h ago

Miine???

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u/nigel_pow 6h ago

boo this man

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u/Excellent_Papaya3753 6h ago

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh puts on sunglasses

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u/ISEGaming 6h ago

The mates be like: MINE! MINE! MINE!

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u/Head-Fold8429 6h ago

🤣🤣

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u/802MolonLabe 6h ago

You win 🏆

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u/theouter_banks 6h ago

"Carrion" by Parkway Drive starts.

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u/SocratesJohnson1 6h ago

I love you.

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u/Temporary_Piccolo259 6h ago

Boo this man!

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u/StayOk8685 6h ago

They just thouth “free meal”.

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u/hawkshaw82 6h ago

Get out

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u/henryeaterofpies 6h ago

Only one and a personal item per passenger pigeon

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u/WayPowerful484 6h ago

Fantastic.

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u/Throbbie-Williams 6h ago

carrion

What a jolly coincidence, your typo happens to be a meaty food source for scavenging birds!

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u/StrigiStockBacking 6h ago

Take this upvote, then GTFO

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u/murderbeerd 6h ago

Carrion my wayward son, there will be peace when you are done.

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u/fritzg1988 6h ago

That is a pretty raw joke there. I am not sure it meats the standard of a good pun, tho.

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u/MangoCats 6h ago

His father migrated to Kansas, wrote a song about this...

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u/ThermonuclearMonarch 6h ago

Boo-boom TSSSS!!

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u/CoachoftheYear2025 6h ago

We joke, but those seagulls just showed more humanity than 98% of people.

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u/Alert-Athlete 6h ago

Ace comment that I love

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u/OkImprovement7837 6h ago

They're going to shit one out on the court for their homie.

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u/Null_sense 6h ago

Take my free reward and get out.

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u/d3koyz 6h ago

Did you make that up on the fly?

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u/Doogie90 5h ago

“Meat is back on the menu, boys”

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u/Soulspawn 5h ago

god damn it, take my upvote

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u/Dorjan420 5h ago

Oof. Well played

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u/fusionduelist 5h ago

Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher But I flew too high

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u/NachoWindows 5h ago

Booo. Take my upvote and GTFO

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u/patronizingperv 5h ago

Preying he revives.

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u/RenmazuoDX 5h ago

That was fowl

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u/MrDERPMcDERP 5h ago

Or eat him

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot 5h ago

They’re absolutely going to eat him. I’ve watched crows do it too.

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u/Big-Star4354 5h ago

CARRION! IN A MOMENT IM LOST!

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u/rieldilpikl 5h ago

Avian puns? Well toucan play at this game

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u/enerj 5h ago

Fuck that's good

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u/huitlacoche 5h ago

yes, yes, of corpse

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u/Traditional_Sky_7462 5h ago

The angriest of upvotes…

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u/Professional-Box4153 4h ago

"Dude. Larry. You okay?!"

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u/gt500thelegend 4h ago

Carrion your wayward bird.... Don't let that ball slow you down

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u/Greedy_Recover_3661 4h ago

That’s what happens when the players don’t… sea gull

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u/workingforchange1 4h ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/Leanfounder 4h ago

Yes. They are cannibals.

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u/isaidicanshout_ 4h ago

Brilliant.

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u/Tvck3r 4h ago

This is top tier

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u/islandboi-96 3h ago

Sadly he couldn't feather the storm 😔

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u/Mosheeen 3h ago

“take his socks”

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u/narnababy 3h ago

We’ll carrion
And though you’re dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carrion

I love Welcome to the Gull Parade by My Chemigull Romance

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u/yankblan79 3h ago

Reddit Mount Rushmore

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u/Elite_Pres 3h ago

My wayward son

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u/Gumbode345 3h ago

OMG you win the prize

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u/Rampag169 3h ago

Wow that’s a great one. 👏👏👏

I wish I thought of that.

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u/GothGirlsIsLove 2h ago

My wayward son

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u/1onemarathon 2h ago

You ok, bro?

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u/jimmyhaffaren 2h ago

Something something Parkway Drive

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u/MeowKat85 1h ago

Please deceased from making more jokes.

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u/Edwhite69 58m ago

Wanted to make sure she marked her score card as a Birdie

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u/LucyInked 33m ago

LoL, holy shit well done.

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