Someone commented on this elsewhere. My mind surprisingly didn't go there, I just like pol/humor threads to take a break from serious shit. I thought he was just being an autistic shit poster
Yeah... it was a fun read. I could see something much less epic taking place.
When I was a kid I climbed a lot of trees in rural central IL. There was a white oak at the house my parents rented and it had a great napping branch that I liked to lay in and rest. I felt like Tarzan or Mowgli in there. I'd feed the squirrels sometimes with peanut butter on crackers. Once I was laying in this tree and a squirrel climbed up and sat near the center of the tree, I was maybe three or four feet away, my shoes closest to the squirrel. After a few minutes of chattering softly back and forth the squirrel slowly began to walk toward me, my heart was racing. I thought I'd finally managed to get a legit squirrel friend. It felt like I was Beast Master, the sword & sorcery hero from the movies.
Just as the squirrel was reaching my feet, a crow flew in, screeching just as he got on top the squirrel. I sat up and watched as they both tumbled through the air. Landing safely, the squirrel ran off to the nearby large pine. The crow flew away.
From time to time I'll think back and wonder... what would've happened had that crow not done this. Was he looking out for my best interest? The squirrel's? Was he just an ass?
I killed many of those things back then. Dad gave me free reign to shoot them because they raided the garden regularly. Squirrels I would kill too, but not often. Only if they were in the garden, but they prefer bird food. That was fine.
My sister and I were bailed up by crows after our mother dumped us near a school sports field when we were young, the ground was watered every day from an underground bore thus it was the only green spot in the South Australian desert town, there must have been about eighty of them.
They were at the far end of the ground about two hundred meters away before they began moving as a group in our direction, facing away yet stepping sideways they came closer and closer until with the nearest ones to our front about twenty meters away, they began to form the classic "Bull Horns" configuration Cape Buffalo use when they attack attack lions.
Thus the ones at the wings would get around behind us while the main body advanced to our front encircling us, Julius Caesar used a variation of the same tactic in his victory over the Republican forces of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus at the 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus .. she and I had to decamp into the school lunch shed.
That's crows for you I reckon they would have killed us .. mother was gone about four hours she returned without a word and told us to "get in the car," it wasn't the first time she dumped us nor the last, the next time some old man approached and started talking dirty he was arrested for a similar offense days later.
You Aussies with your scary ass nature. That could make a good green text.
At least it wasn't that serial killer I watched a sting movie about that was pretty good... Now I'm trying to think which one. I watched two Australian thrillers recently.
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When I was a kid I climbed a lot of trees in rural central IL. There was a white oak at the house my parents rented and it had a great napping branch that I liked to lay in and rest. I felt like Tarzan or Mowgli in there. I'd feed the squirrels sometimes with peanut butter on crackers. Once I was laying in this tree and a squirrel climbed up and sat near the center of the tree, I was maybe three or four feet away, my shoes closest to the squirrel. After a few minutes of chattering softly back and forth the squirrel slowly began to walk toward me, my heart was racing. I thought I'd finally managed to get a legit squirrel friend. It felt like I was Beast Master, the sword & sorcery hero from the movies.
Just as the squirrel was reaching my feet, a crow flew in, screeching just as he got on top the squirrel. I sat up and watched as they both tumbled through the air. Landing safely, the squirrel ran off to the nearby large pine. The crow flew away.
From time to time I'll think back and wonder... what would've happened had that crow not done this. Was he looking out for my best interest? The squirrel's? Was he just an ass?
I killed many of those things back then. Dad gave me free reign to shoot them because they raided the garden regularly. Squirrels I would kill too, but not often. Only if they were in the garden, but they prefer bird food. That was fine.
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They were at the far end of the ground about two hundred meters away before they began moving as a group in our direction, facing away yet stepping sideways they came closer and closer until with the nearest ones to our front about twenty meters away, they began to form the classic "Bull Horns" configuration Cape Buffalo use when they attack attack lions.
https://i.postimg.cc/SxHSvd9h/Buffalo-Attack-Lions.jpg
Thus the ones at the wings would get around behind us while the main body advanced to our front encircling us, Julius Caesar used a variation of the same tactic in his victory over the Republican forces of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus at the 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus .. she and I had to decamp into the school lunch shed.
That's crows for you I reckon they would have killed us .. mother was gone about four hours she returned without a word and told us to "get in the car," it wasn't the first time she dumped us nor the last, the next time some old man approached and started talking dirty he was arrested for a similar offense days later.
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At least it wasn't that serial killer I watched a sting movie about that was pretty good... Now I'm trying to think which one. I watched two Australian thrillers recently.
I dig Caesar, but I'm more into Marcus Aurelius.
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