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Been a while

@ask-moon-light-shines3797

As I grow older I realize shit was so cringy when I was younger.
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Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

Reblog to actually save a life

To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it

as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion

Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.

“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”

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the funniest character in media remains Burgerpants from Undertale

comedic characters who are lazy husbands with no moral compass? Tired. Boring. Been done.

comedic characters who are minimum wage catboys on the cusp of mental breakdowns? fuckin hilarious, timeless, visionary

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i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE

“THAT’S RIGHT TWAS I that set the house ablaze!!!”

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i remember being like 11 and asking my dad why he hunts and kills deer and he said “because i think theyre beautiful” and that’s just. that’s just what men are like

Yeah… &?

Is it any different that women seeing cute things & wanting to squish their face?

Is killing different than endearing physical contact? Local man unsure

I really like … many aspects of hunting. And I think animals are beautiful. may I present

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What is the point of mounting something like this sad, gross, proof that you will end a beautiful life for no good reason…. 

when you could frame you up a trophy like the photo below !? 

This takes at least as much skill, and involves all the same wilderness stalking. It proves that you are both brave AND compassionate. There’s no downside to doing this instead. Imagine you go to somebody’s home, and they have a trophy room filled with beautifully composed close up photos of wolves and deer and boar and eagles and things all over the walls, with a couple camera guns mounted up there too - on one wall is a photo of a standing bear who obviously sees the person taking the photo and it’s been blown up so the bear is life size (that’s why you need that gun-barrel lens, so the quality holds up when you enlarge the pic) The person you are visiting is like, “yeah, I took all these.” THAT’s impressive. A room full of dead things just means they are weird and gross and pointlessly cruel and proud of it.

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My dad goes out into the woods and takes pictures all the time. He still calls it “hunting” and when he comes home, he literally says “Hey, look at what i shot!” So doing this allows not only for great photos and time with nature, but also an A+ Dad Joke.

I swear to god if I keep seeing this stupid “Durr hurr hunting bad” post on my dashboard I’m going to go nuclear.

your father answered a question when you were 11 in a way which could be as quick and easy to understand as possible. “because they are beautiful”. many hunters do have extreme respect for their quarry - it’s expensive to get the bust of a deer you hunted taxidermied by a professional, and that professional will take hours making sure it’s as life like as possible.

it’s true it’s scummy if that’s the ONLY reason he hunted, but it almost certainly wasn’t. very few people hunt for trophies alone, and even when they do it is normally deer, which NEED to be hunted in the United States and the UK to control populations as we no longer have any predators for them. the meat from deer is usually the main drive - I can’t speak on predator hunting like bear, but I do know the taking of bears and lynxses are highly regulated and expensive. hunting is not a bad thing. not to mention the main reason is for food.

and that stupid gun-camera thing? no doubt more expensive than a license, and a gun, and paying for a bag of pheasants after a shoot. and you can’t eat photographs. wildlife photography is a lot of fun, but it isn’t for everyone, and the insinuation that “you could just have photographs instead of gross taxidermy!” is insulting to the Taxidermists and artists who spent years of their life learning how to best preserve an animal which will have died anyway. actually fuck that entire narrative - a room full of natural history doesn’t make you gross. I own a cabinet full of skulls from naturally found animals as well as byproducts of hunting and cleaning them myself is a time consuming, delicate task, and I do it because I have a profound love for animals and nature. I find it fascinating seeing how they’re built and how they work, and the vast majority of people who have a collection are nature lovers who know more about the natural world than most people and certainly aren’t spitting “hunting bad!” rhetoric.

TL;DR this post is full of clowns, hunting is necessary and tightly regulated, hunters are not cruel heartless monsters and neither are people who own taxidermy, they are by and large people putting food on plates or learning about the world. sincerely, someone who is “"pointlessly cruel and proud of it”“

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bearygentle

Quick add on - YES bears specifically are edible, a good handful of people where I live (most of which are ojibwe natives, if you need another reason to see this post is dumb) have hunted bear, and guess what!! While the pelt is beautiful, black bears are BIG and have a lot of meat on them!! Of course people are going to want a mount/tanned hide of their bear, cuz you can only hunt 1 at a time and its a special occasion!!

So maybe next time before someone decides that anti-hunting is the hill they gotta die on, perhaps consider a um,,, *certain group* of people who’ve been doing this for thousands of years, with deep respect for the animal, and have their way of life constantly threatened :)
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