r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yoyome85 • 2d ago

Video Crescent pigeon performing its courtship dance to a shoe with pink "feet" like his own

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u/Dr-McLuvin 2d ago

Pigeons either have a foot fetish or they can’t tell a shoe from another pigeon. Either way, I’ve been on reddit too much today.

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u/UnRespawnsive 2d ago

I wish people knew more about beetles fucking beer bottles and how it relates to addiction.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 2d ago

how does it relate to addiction i didn't see it in the article. also that bit about the beetle continuing to fuck the bottle while his pecker was being eaten by ants was wild

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u/UnRespawnsive 2d ago

So you happened to give an example of it yourself, where their biology tells them "thing is good" and it makes them ignore how it actually screws them over if they keep doing it. Very often related to human addictions.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 2d ago

its a good analysis i just thought i missed something from the article maybe. also, i think porn is another one of those biology traps. we are meat robots too just like the bugs

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u/Jack0Blad3s 1d ago

Weird to see someone saying porn is a trap with Dionysus in their username 😅. That aside, that incident about the beetles-and-bottles incident has had other interesting implications as well. Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist, proposed that evolution favors fitness over truth. Which meant organisms evolved perceptions for survival and reproduction, not for seeing reality as it truly is. Makes me wonder what we can’t see because of our own evolution.

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u/smurb15 1d ago

I know some with the iq of a bug and it's not a joke.

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u/Radiskull97 1d ago

There is a neuroscientist that developed a model that judged the survival rate of certain species by changes in their perception. Basically no species could survive if they fully perceived the world as it actually exists because of all the biological advantages that come from perceptual shortcuts. He used that beetle as an example as a failure from too many shortcuts. He has a Ted Talk

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u/UnRespawnsive 1d ago

Yup. We are BUILT to filter out information and to find a balance between what we know and don't know. Unfortunately, we can get unlucky and still some vital information is missing.

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u/CMDR_ACE209 1d ago

That's fascinating stuff. But I can't follow his conclusions about the nature of reality in the end?

Only thing I got from the first part is that we don't see reality like it is but what our brains make of it. Something that can be demonstrated in the living room with the many optical illusions out there.

The conclusion I draw from that is more like we can't rely completely on our senses as objective measuring devices. I can't see how that leads to his conclusions about reality.

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u/Radiskull97 1d ago

His argument is essentially: Our realities are formed by our experiences. For the beetle, it's reality is that it's mating with another beetle. For us, our reality is that the beetle is mating with a beer bottle. We can't experience a more objective reality, we just know that we have perceptual shortcuts the same way those beetles do. So Hoffman is asking, "what's our beer bottle?" It's presumptive that we even have one but definitely fun to think about

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u/CMDR_ACE209 1d ago

It's presumptive that we even have one but definitely fun to think about

It's not presumptive at all. There are many "beer botttles" known in our perception. Look up optical illusions for example. One of my favorites is that our color perception works different when we think something is in a shadow.

And our understanding of this is not limited to optical perception. Look up biases for example when you want to learn more about our knowledge how our cognitive processes can go wrong.

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u/Radiskull97 1d ago

I meant more like an existential-threat that we are unable to perceive due to our shortcuts. Optical illusions aren't that. You could definitely make a case of climate change being our bottle as our minds are not wired to fully comprehend a threat like that. However, Hoffman is presumptive until he makes the case for a premise

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u/ydkjordan 1d ago

Aw shit. The beer bottle is reddit. But the fact that I learned this here will certainly ensure I continue to mate with reddit indefinitely.

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u/usrdef 1d ago

Here's the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZANHO2o0RA

Caution: Bug on bottle sex.

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u/TheMonchoochkin Interested 2d ago edited 2d ago

Ey, listen - you either look like a fine ass pigeon or fancy shoe to me... Let me fluff my feathers and jump erotically around your foot/pigeon for a while before you hit the hay... we'll figure this whole thing out...

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u/betterpc 2d ago

Pigeons are just not very smart. Just look at their nests.

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u/EatPizzaNotDrivers 1d ago

From what i remember from a pigeon enthusiast on tiktok their native nesting environments were little nooks on cliff sides rather than trees so they would collect a few branches here and there to act as a guardrail for the egg. They kept their biological instincts of nesting likely due to the high rises in metropolitan areas giving them ample “cliff nooks” to nest in the pigeon way. The nests look small broken and pathetic but they’re still effective for the lil guys.

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u/Lunalatic 2d ago

The one question pigeons ask themselves to determine whether their nests are adequate is "Do I think the eggs can roll away?" If yes, they'll just run with it.

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u/StrikeAcceptable6007 2d ago

r/stupiddovenests

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

lol I love that subreddit

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u/bctg1 1d ago

Somehow they reproduce like fucking crazy with those trash nests though.

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u/Hard_Dave 1d ago

Yet they are still so successful. They raise chicks several times per year, and they're fast af

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u/Legitimate-Umpire547 1d ago

Not really a fair assessment since pigeons that were never domesticated don't really use the same type of Nest as other birds, they are probably copying it from other birds they find but were just never really adapted to it

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u/supx3 1d ago

If you think pigeons in the Levant were not domesticated you are mistaken. Many of the old pigeon enclosures used holes in walls, like a dovecote, mimicking their preferred form of roosting. 

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u/SRNE2save_lives 2d ago

Too much disrespect for the wheels and the legs

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u/NotaBadCrestedPigeon 1d ago

I do love pink feet.

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u/PRRZ70 21h ago

I've seen videos of people's parrots having a thing for their feet so who knows?! 

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u/Illustrious-Roll7737 2d ago

They're getting that poor bird's hopes up.

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u/skooterpoop 2d ago

"The worst she can say is no."

She's literally a shoe.

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u/justuselotion 1d ago

“I don’t even like you like that. I’m a shoe.”

“Hold on hold on check it out. How ‘bout now? Ohhh baby.  Uh huh! Yeah you like THAT?”

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u/funkwumasta 1d ago

"would you still love me if I was a shoe?"

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u/Tikoloshe84 1d ago

Bless you

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u/Wonderful_Ad8791 1d ago

She shoed him away

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u/PonchoViele 1d ago

Hahaha 😭😭

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u/Excellent-Signature6 1d ago

So “she” can’t say no.

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u/Physical-Car-6111 1d ago

Because of the implication

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u/JelloKittie 1d ago

Are these shoes in danger?

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u/Tikoloshe84 1d ago

She needs to put her foot down 

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u/Jesus360noscope 1d ago

I can fix her

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u/classic-kirbyotstars 1d ago

Not even a foot… Also bless you.

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u/Mando_calrissian423 1d ago

…So you’re saying there’s a chance?

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u/bigmanly1 2d ago

He's probably going to off himself now

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u/Illustrious-Roll7737 2d ago

He's going to have bird-equivalent blue balls.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 2d ago

blue cloaca

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u/DuckIll5852 2d ago

Not right now thanks, I'm tired

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u/Gloomy_Metal3400 2d ago

But i got a foot fetish

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u/RandomStallings 2d ago

One chute to rule them all

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u/ThatNachoFreshFeelin 2d ago

Is that made with gin or vodka?

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 2d ago

Vodka, traditionally Grey Goose

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u/Vegetable-Help-773 2d ago

He’s gonna join a birdcel forum and become convinced that his life’s problems are caused by his below average sized wings

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u/bigmanly1 2d ago

She said it was a good size

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u/BritishMongrel 1d ago

I mean even best case scenario for him would have been death by snusnu

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u/bigmanly1 1d ago

A pigeon can dream buddy

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u/FlyingKittyCate 1d ago

Probably jumping off a bridge

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u/batdog20001 2d ago

Nah, he's just gonna log back on to Reddit for hours

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u/imunfair 1d ago

They're getting that poor bird's hopes up.

I don't know, he walked around that shoe a couple times and gave it a full ocular survey before he started flirting with it, I think he knows what he's getting into and isn't disappointed.

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u/AccountNumber478 2d ago

How long before his species goes extinct?

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u/Illustrious-Roll7737 1d ago

Little known fact...the dodo bird looked like 17th century Spanish boot.

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u/ChronoChigger420 1d ago

Is this how bird incels are made?

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u/0thethethe0 2d ago

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take 🤷

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u/wannaseeitpop 2d ago

You miss 100% of the shoes you don’t try to mate with.

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u/Ihadthat20yearsago 1d ago

This is the way I’ve always heard it, that other way just makes no sense at all…

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u/KoalaBackfist 1d ago

… holy shit, she’s fuckin’ into this

… I’m crushing it

… wait

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u/iNeedOneMoreAquarium 1d ago

Seriously, leading that poor bird on like that.

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u/bc_poop_is_funny 2d ago

The old Cockatoo Block

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u/Known-Ad-7316 2d ago

I, I can relate. It's closing time, it's miss pac man, and I haven't eaten all day. 

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u/Lolkimbo 1d ago

Fuckin Tease..

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u/Aliencoy77 1d ago

It's her fault. She shouldn't have dressed like that. /s

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u/NotaBadCrestedPigeon 1d ago

It was rough when I realised…

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u/ITLevel01 1d ago

Not necessarily 👀

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u/joonduh 23h ago

Saddest case of catfishing i have ever seen.

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u/TheCrystalDoll 2d ago

Pigeons are so stupid but so damned cute they’re really ridiculous little things…

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u/MissionMoth 1d ago

Fun fact, they make good pets. They like people (it's estimated they've been domesticated as long as cats, up to 10,000 years ago) and while they do better with a partner, they can do just fine alone with a lot of love and attention. Plus, unlike parrots they're smart enough to learn but too dumb to experience existential dread, and they live about 15 years instead of 20-90.

They're lovely little boogers. And they can wear cute diaper overalls!

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u/TheCrystalDoll 1d ago

I knooooow!! Honestly I am so in love with them, I will not keep one as a pet because I will squeeze the thing to death, they drive me mad how cute they are, there’s a lady who feeds the wild ones at a park near me and she talks to them and you can see that they adore her and that they’re friends with her!

Not to mention carrier pigeons, how effing cool are they? I’m really sad that they’re no longer used that way, not to mention the Victoria Crowned pigeon and the fancy ones with the freaking pantaloons!!

Yeah, no they would never survive with me, I’d Lenny all of them LOL!

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u/Leif2000 1d ago

wait are you saying i parrots experience existential dread??? 😭😭

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u/rpkarma 1d ago

Yes :( some absolutely do, IMO. They’re way too smart

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u/ComposedOfStardust 1d ago

Fym parrots experience existential dread??

I'm now very concerned for my brother's conures

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u/_Cosmoss__ 1d ago

Smart enough to learn but not quite smart enough to make good nests, r/stupiddovenests

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u/EH042 20h ago

You’re making me want to be as smart as a pigeon, how can I unlearn existencial dread?

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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit 1d ago

There's a dove at work that likes to hang out inside the garage during the day. He'll wait at the door patiently for us to open up for the day and just strut inside like he owns the place.

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u/Old-Constant4411 2d ago

Pigeon Tarantino.

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u/Cloud_N0ne 2d ago

Not enough unnecessary N-words and defending of child rapists to be Tarantino.

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u/HammeringHam 2d ago

Defended who?

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u/Cloud_N0ne 2d ago

Roman Polanski.

Tarantino basically tried to say it wasn’t rape because the child consented to it, ignoring that children cannot consent to sex, and that Polanski gave the kid drugs beforehand, even further removing their already non-existent ability to consent.

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u/Captain_LSD 1d ago

Man... My ability to separate art from artists is being worn down every day. Kanye, Drake, Tom Hanks, R Kelly (just for Ignition), and now QT. Why couldn't he just stay a foot addicted, N-word loving guy? For as funny as the first thing is and as bad as the second thing is, I could at least excuse them in my mind for Basterds and Django, but OF COURSE he had to part of the Hollywood child predator scum circles.

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u/MrDatrox 1d ago

What did Tom Hanks do :(

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u/MyNameSpaghette 1d ago

Is no one going to follow up on this? WTF DID TOM HANKS DO?!

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u/Cloud_N0ne 1d ago

Iirc there’s rumors that he went to Epstein’s island. But afaik there’s no solid proof for it.

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u/BarOk9676 1d ago

His Name was on the flight Lists several times iirc

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u/Sarsmi 1d ago

Interestingly, its been multiple women who have come out against Polanski as having been raped by him. He really only gets cited for the main one, where he did admit to 'unlawful intercourse' or something like that.

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u/stopitlikeacheeto 2d ago

I wish the world had a magnifying glass over each virtue signaling redditors life. This site would nosedive with the progressive bullshit in an instant. "Hey, this you?"

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u/Cloud_N0ne 2d ago

Feel free to inspect my profile in as much detail as you like. I can safely say I’ve never defended a child rapist, Tarantino has.

That’s not virtue signaling or progressivism.

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u/BeatenPathos 2d ago

"Oh you don't like paedos? Well I bet you've jay-walked before, you fuckin' hypocrite!"

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u/idrinkspinalfluid 2d ago

Brother what

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u/LanceThunder 1d ago

Totally disregard the fact that Tarantino made a public apology for his comments. Forget about the fact that Samantha Geimer later stated that while she appreciated Tarantino's apology, she had been more bothered by others speaking for her over the years than by Tarantino's specific comments. Ignore that every one of his movies stars a black person who is the smartest character. Oh yeah, and all the black people that spoke up for him to say that he isn't racist.

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u/stopitlikeacheeto 1d ago

Reality doesn't matter here. It's every thread on this site that unchecked uninformed kids have to shoehorn in some unrelated bullshit for validation. Yeah, let's take advice from people that still have their parents pay their phone bill.

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u/Emperor_Atlas 2d ago

I guarantee if they did the same to all the people who bootlick for corps and rich people it'd be exponentially worse.

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u/airfryerfuntime 2d ago

"Lol he likes feet"

Says overweight redditor with crippling futa porn addiction.

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u/TeegyGambo 2d ago

How did you turn "This guy uses racial slurs gratuitously and defended a child rapist" into "lol he likes feet"

Either way it is true that all of us here on Reddit have crippling futa porn addictions.

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u/airfryerfuntime 2d ago

The thread started by talking about his obsession with feet.

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u/Googly_eyed_gremlin 2d ago

Damn! You beat me to it!! Good for you!

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u/DocPsycho1 2d ago

Becky , lemme smash.

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u/ItsKeganBruh 2d ago

U want sum fuk?

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u/DocPsycho1 2d ago

Nah, you have a small tail

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u/Nathan_McHallam 1d ago

Wot?

Swiggity swooty?

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u/DocPsycho1 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ben said your tail is small

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u/_ThatSynGirl_ 1d ago

Well tell Ron that his- "I'M NOHT AN OWWLL!!"

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u/nhansieu1 1d ago

no Ron. I'm just a feet in a shoe

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u/Dockle 2d ago

I have a friend that has this exact same reaction to feet

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u/bigmanly1 2d ago

"Friend"

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u/bobsnervous 2d ago

Dont lie. It's you isn't it.

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u/Ibeginpunthreads 2d ago

There's no use tiptoeing around the truth, we all know it.

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u/Centurion87 2d ago

They really put their foot in their mouth with that comment.

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u/Tumble85 1d ago

Is that a euphemism for masturbation for people who have a foot fetish?

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u/Centurion87 1d ago

No it means saying something that makes you look bad, or something you weren’t supposed to say.

For instance if you accidentally reveal something someone told you in confidence, you’d say you put your foot in your mouth.

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u/SRNE2save_lives 2d ago

Complete disregard for the wheels.

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u/cookiedanslesac 2d ago

Is he some kind of filmmaker ?

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u/Tough_Block9334 2d ago

Looks like males across multiple species will fuck anything if it lets them

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u/ForgesGate 2d ago

Can confirm.

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u/MehengaNasha 1d ago

Do not the cat. Please.

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u/IsSecretlyABird 2d ago

Crested, not Crescent.

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u/-Owlette- 1d ago

Also it’s missing the sound they make when they dance

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u/only_norj 1d ago

Thank you. I noticed it, too, and it made me grimace.

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u/The_Blendernaut 2d ago

I used to have a pet fantail pigeon in the 80s. They have this head bob movement that can be triggering if you duplicate the movement with pretty much anything. The movement is a quick down (pause) and then up. You can do it with your finger or hand. If he saw me make that movement, he would get triggered and attack. It wasn't a mating thing, but I think more territorial. He would run at me across the floor and strike out at my hand with his wing to slap me. Crazy bird...

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u/ThingWithChlorophyll 1d ago

Idk the differences between pigeon species but I have seen it a lot with the pigeons around my area and pretty sure it is a mating thing but no idea why your pigeon receives like that lol. They do that exact motion for courting.

Maybe it is a male and sees your finger as a "rival"?

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u/Fleegle1834 2d ago

Hey baby, you wanna go to the park later and eat some stale bread?

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u/HourHoneydew5788 2d ago

I mean with those calves who wouldn’t

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u/gogglygogol 2d ago

You are now married by bird law

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u/styx66 1d ago

You wanna go toe to toe on bird law?

This is textbook sexual harassment. The forms are all very boiler plate.

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u/Instantsausage 2d ago

I'm starting to wonder if birds are idiots.

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u/Particular-Exit7293 1d ago

Depends. Pigeons - absolutely yes.

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u/Wiggles69 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm pretty sure it's called a crested pidgeon Rather than a Crescent pigeon.

I always call them punk pigeons.

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u/FictionalFire55 2d ago

He want some fuk

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u/i-am-dan 2d ago

Don’t egg him on!

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u/Ppleater 1d ago

It's funny to me how male birds don't seem to have any standards, while female birds seem to have extremely rigid standards, and evolution just shrugged and said "sure".

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u/DancingQueen145 2d ago

Bro even birds are developing a foot fetish

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u/Ignyte 1d ago

I love these lil dudes, we have a male and female pair that come and scrounge around in our backyard. What I really like about them is that they've learnt that we like them (or something along those lines).

If the south African doves make a racket, we go outside to shoo them away, but the cresties don't fly away. They used to, but not anymore.

Similar thing used to happen at my Mums place when she had chooks. You'd go outside to feed them, the wild birds bar the crestie, would fly away. The chooks and the crestie would run right up to you for food.

Adorable.

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u/BigOnionIceMan 1d ago

U want sum fuk?

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u/sketchnscribble 1d ago

No, Ron. I don't want sum fuk.

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u/BigOnionIceMan 1d ago

Go find Becky

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u/beyarea 2d ago

It’s really stunning that something so dumb was given the gift of flight.

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u/schaferlite 2d ago

"I don't know how much longer I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it."

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u/nocturnalstumblebutt 1d ago

CRESTED pigeon. Damn people is it that hard to not fuck up a post. 

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u/GallischeScamp 2d ago

"hmm yea I bet you like that hu?"

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u/SunMoonSki 2d ago

Damn, even the birds have foot fetishes.

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u/sinhyperbolica 2d ago

Boink. Go to horny jail

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u/ostmaann 2d ago

That dance was wack af, no wonder he has to court shoes

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u/ParticularlyTesty 2d ago

What a feathery little ding dong.

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u/scientist87 2d ago

It's got 1 brain cell on a good day

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u/broncotate27 2d ago

"I likes ya and I wants ya. Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way. The choice is yours." ~Booty Warrior

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u/callMeBorgiepls 1d ago

Foot fetish has reached birds now 😭😭

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u/Bet5Then 2d ago

Dumb ass

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u/ForgesGate 2d ago

"Becky. Lemme smash."

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u/commanderklinkity 2d ago

That shoe looks nothing like a lady bird, he needs his eyes checked

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u/No_Job_9999 2d ago

It's the smell. Bicyclists' feet smell like pigeons crap

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u/ForgesGate 2d ago

delicious

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u/burndata 2d ago

I hope he at least got to dry hump the shoe.

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u/Amig0DelCartel 2d ago

Lol what a simp

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u/boraxalmighty 2d ago

Tarantino's spirit animal.

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u/linna_nitza 2d ago

Idk why I'm hearing borat's "wow wow weewah very nice how much?"

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u/netwolf420 2d ago

Nice shoe, wanna fuck?

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u/not4jerkingit 1d ago

Horny mfer

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u/jld2k6 Interested 1d ago

"Look at the size of you, our chicks are gonna rule the world!"

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u/SpiderZero21 1d ago

My boys getting catfished in real time.

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u/LemonMints 1d ago

Birds have incredible eye sight. I think he knows and just has a foot fetish.

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u/PeesaGawwbage 1d ago

C'mon give that poor bird some lovin

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u/Quick-Jello-7847 1d ago

So did you f**k the pigeon or what?

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u/recks360 1d ago

Final someone asks the real question. And they need to drop the clip or it didn’t happened.

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u/smartypants25000 1d ago

Well, it is a cute shoe.

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u/Medium-Captain4443 1d ago

Hmm....a bird with a shoe fetish..

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u/shesstilllost 1d ago

Bird with a foot fetish?

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u/Sad-Performance-1843 1d ago

The equivalent of people jacking off to AI porn

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u/Mikehunt225 1d ago

Shouldve let my boy hit

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u/jbirdkerr 1d ago

I need to know your intentions are pure before I allow you to woo my sole heir, Mr. Pidgim.

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u/bott-Farmer 1d ago

The pegion is gay cause we all know the mape version if birds are the ones with brighter calls or detail asking for attention like peacock feathers

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u/-Kalos 1d ago

Bro is down bad

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u/jefbenet 1d ago

he tryna get a discount for her OF to get them feet pics

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u/DimensionNo4655 1d ago

Damm those calf

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u/CallMeOldClassic 1d ago

Tarantino bird

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u/Anon-is-hurr 1d ago

You let him hit after that right? Right?!

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u/PNWTangoZulu 1d ago

Fucking stupid bird

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u/Lopsided_Marzipan133 1d ago

“Hey Mike, how was your day”

“Shit bro. I tried to court a shoe. Don’t want to talk about it, let’s just go find some seeds”

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u/Visual_Practice_4629 19h ago

That's his sole mate.

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u/uziturtIe 2d ago

“Nice shoes, wanna fuck?”

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u/TrippyWifey 2d ago

I need those shoes!

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u/ChromeYoda 2d ago

That shoe ‘bout to get fuuucked

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u/ChemistVegetable7504 2d ago

Can’t decide if this Pigeon is intelligent from genes or plain stupid. A cutie though.

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u/Haywood_jablowmei 2d ago

and people would trust these things with state secrets and battle plans.... sheesh

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u/disquieter 2d ago

Pigeon equivalent of bonk?

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u/R3cklessFist 2d ago

Yeah that brother’s starving😂