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[–]meyelof 41 points42 points ago

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Does the bird just magically hop to the right or is there some editing here?

[–]Risifrutti 78 points79 points ago

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The shadow is playing a trick on your eyes. The bus is turning.

[–]overstockretro 6 points7 points ago

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I finally see what is happening after you pointed it out. Yay!

[–]Regeneracy 2 points3 points ago

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I think the GIF compression is also a major culprit, here. The banding doesn't track the actual movement of the ground within the frame, making the whole thing very hard to take in with a single viewing.

[–]Slime0 4 points5 points ago

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We went through this last time this was posted. The camera is jostled slightly during the moment that the bird is in shadow. Here's the video.

[–]AlchemyAlice 0 points1 point ago

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Chuck Norris Bird is no optical illusion.

He even has a fanclub. They made shirts.

http://chucknorrisbird.spreadshirt.de/original-A16471453/customize/color/2

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Fuck Norris. Hate that fool.

[–]XSy0 9 points10 points ago

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A pigeon's eye updates about 130 times / second. A human eye about 25 times / second. This means we perceive they have super human reactions, when in actual fact they have a much clearer view of whats going on and so can react later than we could. This is apparent if you ever chase them, they appear to leave it too late to fly away but get away every time.

[–]trackguy94 17 points18 points ago

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If their eyes update more than a person's would, then they actually would have super human reaction. With superhuman meaning faster or better than a human...

[–]XSy0 6 points7 points ago

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Yeah of course, i used the word using super human in the sense people take it as being supernatural. Super hero's described as having super human strength etc.

[–]trackguy94 7 points8 points ago

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I know what you meant, I was just giving you shit. All in good fun!

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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Don't back down, you're right. Who is going to fight for semantic accuracy if not people in internet comment threads? Words are weakening semantically at an alarming rate already. 'Awesome' used to mean "inspiring dread, veneration and wonder". Now it means 'cool'.

'Epic' used to mean "events that happen over a long period and involve a lot of action and difficulty". Now it means 'cool'.

[–]Rahms 7 points8 points ago

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And let's not forget 'cool,' formerly meaning mild or chilly, and now it just means 'epic' or 'awesome.'

[–]SaltyBabe 0 points1 point ago

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I was probably in 4th or 5th grade when all the kids started saying everything was "da bomb" even at that age I felt embarrassed to talk like that and stuck to "cool" but really, isn't cool just a different time periods "da bomb"?

Also in 3rd grade I had an insane teacher who would scream and punish you if you said "that's cold" instead of saying "that's cool".

[–]rustythread 0 points1 point ago

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Throughout my high school life, the majority of people I had on msn or emailed didn't even spell cool right. They had to make it so much cooler.

They would spelt it kool or kewl.

[–]trackguy94 0 points1 point ago

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I know exactly what you mean, and it scares me too. However, I'd rather just make a friendly correction and move on than turn into a grammar nazi on someone. But I definitely agree with you, it's shocking the amount of vocabulary that people don't know.

[–]CC440 0 points1 point ago

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Superhuman, Normalpigeon, half a dozen of one, 6 of the other.

[–]Huggle_Shark 2 points3 points ago

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If the human eye only updates about 25 times per second how are we able to see the difference between 30fps and 60fps in various forms of media?

[–]aidanpryde18 1 point2 points ago

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Total guess but maybe it's because our eyes don't actually refresh like a screen does so even though we can't separate the individual frames, we can perceive the lag between frames being twice as long from one to the other.

[–]RookLive 9 points10 points ago

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A human eye does not 'update' or 'refresh', that's just not how vision works.

[–]Bare_Ass_Godzilla 1 point2 points ago

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Would it be fair to say the images seen through your eye are registered by your brain X number of times per second?

[–]RookLive 4 points5 points ago*

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Not really. You can flash something up at 1/200th and people will see something. (Apparently fighter pilots can recognize what plane is being shown to them at up to 1/220th of a second). But on the other hand film is shown at 72 fps so you won't notice the flickering between each frame.

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

And this is without getting into the oddities of how your vision actually works (the actual bit you see, is very small, the rest of it is filled in by the brain). (See http://jvsc.jst.go.jp/find/mindlab/english/index.html )

[–]BiggityBates 9 points10 points ago*

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I just found out about the trick where you can see the veins in your eye that are always there but your brain blocks them out because they provide no useful feedback.... Neat stuff!

Edit: Here is a video of what I am talking about.... The rest of the video is worth watching too if you are into this kind of thing...

[–]Rahms 2 points3 points ago

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I can confirm that this is actually awesome

edit: and as I hit submit the guy in the video says "this is pretty freakin' awesome"

[–]SaltyBabe 1 point2 points ago

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When I get tired I can actually see my heart beat in my eyes... With out trying, it's a good signal I need to get my ass in bed.

[–]logicom 1 point2 points ago

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No it wouldn't. It's much more complex then that. Video cameras have an amount of frames per second because the light detecting device (in digital cameras it's a CCD) exposes itself for a finite amount of time to collect the light and then stops collecting light and combines it to form one image. You probably know all that already but I felt the need to explain it to more easily contrast it to how your eyes work. Your eyes don't have an exposure time like a camera. Your eyes are constantly collecting data. They're not capturing discreet images and sending them one by one to your brain. Each rod or cone on your retina is collecting light information as fast as it can and sending it own data to your brain. Your retina are not in sync with each other like a CCD in a digital camera so instead of getting one discreet image formed by one exposure's worth of data your brain receives a constant stream of data from the millions of cones and rods in your eyes and uses this to construct your perception of what your eyes see.

[–]Bare_Ass_Godzilla 0 points1 point ago

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Oh, I see! Thanks for explaining.

[–]Huggle_Shark -1 points0 points ago

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Oh.

[–]it_was_on_QI 1 point2 points ago

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[–]AnonUhNon 0 points1 point ago

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I don't know. I think they are just lazy as shit. I see plenty of dead pigeons. Don't get me wrong, I am surprised quite often at "How did I not run that pigeon over?" but it still happens.

[–]SaltyBabe 0 points1 point ago

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They're still stupid, a lot of them choke to death or eat things that kill them because of sanitation reasons.

[–]754155412555 1 point2 points ago

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I was confused as well. Though it seems that it may be the shadow playing a trick, or that the bus turned a bit. I got bored after watching several times

[–]colossus16 1 point2 points ago

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The bus turns slightly, just enough to move over the bird, but not enough to run it over.

[–]SirDouglasFRESH 1 point2 points ago

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No the front of the bus is a good foot in front of the wheel so the bus goes over the bird but the wheel does not.

[–]fronnzz 1 point2 points ago

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Glitch in the matrix.

[–]darkr3actor 0 points1 point ago

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I saw that two, it may just hop to the right, it seems to move right before the tire hits, or would hit it.

[–]Ennacolovesyou 0 points1 point ago

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you can see the wheel is in a turning position as the bus passes, so birdy got lucky with the overhang

[–]Fishfisherton 0 points1 point ago

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I think a better question is why are they videotaping a pigeon?

[–]fairyxxx 73 points74 points ago

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[/notbad](notbad)

[–]kancas 57 points58 points ago

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Only works in rage comics subreddits.

[–]fairyxxx 24 points25 points ago

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Oh... Thanks x

[–]OmegaArcadia 50 points51 points ago

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[/ok](ok)

[–]Renmauzuo 36 points37 points ago

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On the other hand, thanks for showing me how to do faces in the rage comic subreddits. =p

[–]Apostolate 10 points11 points ago

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Thiiiiiiiiis. I never knew. brb gonna waste the next 7 hours till black out!

[–]RedDaggerx 2 points3 points ago

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Meanwhile, in the /r/f7u12 sidebar...

why does nobody like me? :(

[–]fairyxxx 0 points1 point ago

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Ahaa :) no problem

[–]zaptal_47 1 point2 points ago

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False. There's a Chrome extension that allows you to view rage faces in any sub.

[–]gjs278 24 points25 points ago

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the only thing notbad here are your gonewild posts

[–]Zorca99 38 points39 points ago

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Do you hear that? The sound of hundreds of redditors quickly clicking fairyxxx's username

[–]heavensclowd 2 points3 points ago

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I clicked her username so fast I didn't even see this post until I hit back.

[–]fairyxxx 1 point2 points ago

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... You aww those huh? XD

[–]fairyxxx 1 point2 points ago

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*saw

[–]gjs278 0 points1 point ago

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even your typos get upvoted at this point.

[–]fairyxxx 0 points1 point ago

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Ahaa, thanks x.

[–]Reginault 5 points6 points ago

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Could be better.

[–]CrazyDragon777 3 points4 points ago

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could be worse..... much, much worse...... *cue murphy's law*

[–]ssbmfgcia 2 points3 points ago

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[–]CrazyDragon777 2 points3 points ago

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I KNOW NOTHING I SWEAR

[–]ssbmfgcia 2 points3 points ago

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THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED.

[–]CrazyDragon777 3 points4 points ago

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[–]ssbmfgcia 2 points3 points ago

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[–]fairyxxx 1 point2 points ago

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But its not shockingly terrible.

[–]fairyxxx -1 points0 points ago

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How do you do the faces?

[–]_KAS_ 8 points9 points ago

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I too miss the bus while waiting.

[–]Pooters 2 points3 points ago

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I've declared Sunday my nerd day. All I do is play video games and watch sports.

[–]Solomaxwell6 3 points4 points ago

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I don't know if sport is a "nerd day" activity, unless you're on a fantasy league or something. :)

[–]Pooters 0 points1 point ago

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Haha yea I do fantasy for all my sports.

[–]DDweller 1 point2 points ago

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Hitting me is like boxing with shadows

[–]Sudz705 1 point2 points ago

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OBEY THE TRUCE!

[–]atred 1 point2 points ago

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On a Sunday morning sidewalk,

I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.

'Cause there's something in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone.

And there's nothing short a' dying

That's half as lonesome as the sound

Of the sleeping city sidewalk

And Sunday morning coming down.

[–]sharkmeet 1 point2 points ago

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All the upvotes I can give, have been given.

[–]Smy90 1 point2 points ago

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Every time I see something like this I wonder why someone just happened to be filming.

[–]thehammerofdemacia 1 point2 points ago

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Posted on a wednesday!

[–]Natemick 1 point2 points ago

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More like how I feel every time I see this reposted.

[–]This_is_Sofa_Kin_Old 4 points5 points ago

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To je tak stará kurva!

[–]db0255 0 points1 point ago

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Lolwat?

[–]3DPipes 0 points1 point ago

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I only know "kurva" from what my Polish friend taught me. I can guess it says "Like I give a fuck".

[–]iNOTgoodATcomp 4 points5 points ago

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It's funny because this is reposted every Sunday morning.

[–]BlueBusDriver 1 point2 points ago

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For every repost there's a million of you guys acknowledging it as a repost. A downvote for you just won't do for me this time. Man, just downvote things if your eyeballs REALLY can't stand the sight of the post again.

Just think of shit like this as a rerun. Change the fucking channel if you've already seen it.

[–]iNOTgoodATcomp 0 points1 point ago*

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So, you do realize the complete and utter hypocrisy of your tirade, right? You're bitching at me because you see me 'reposting' by bitching about other people reposts. Here, you should probably have the remote back?

[–]spornofthedevil 1 point2 points ago

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I saw something a bit like this just last Saturday, sadly it didn't end so well for the pigeon.

The front wheel missed the bird as the car passed over it, but the bird then decided that now would be a good time to walk out from under the car just as the back wheel was moving over it.

The wheel passed directly over the birds body, it was almost like slow motion as the bird went from being upright then lower and lower until its beak was touching the road. As this was happening, various organs (I think I may have seen its heart) came out of the birds chest, it was fairly gross and the colour of the blood I will never forget. It actually looked more like thick gloopy bright red paint, a bit like some really shit horror films where you think "that blood doesn't even look like blood".

The female friend I was with was horrified (as was I to be honest!) and made me pick it up and take it to the side of the road. When I picked it up it was still alive, but I'm fairly certain that it died in my hands. For a horrible moment I thought I was going to have to put it out of its misery.

There were a shit load of people watching at this point, so I just took it over to the pavement and placed it down out of the way. I'm fairly confident it was dead, but I still wonder if it was alive and if so, how long it may have suffered.

My friend and I couldn't stop thinking about it and it put us off our dinner somewhat. She kept commenting that it didn't look well anyway as it was fairly slow moving. I just went along with that if it were to help her deal with the horror she had just seen (It looked fine to me).

TLDR: Saw something similar, bird wasn't so lucky

[–]BlueBusDriver 0 points1 point ago

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Really hoped you washed your hands. Pigeons are filthy, filthy, filthy.

I saved a mouse a couple weeks ago from a glue mouse trap because I couldn't stand to see/hear it die a slow death. Think it came back even though I walked like 100 yards away from the house. Dog ended up getting it.

[–]mynameismyown 0 points1 point ago

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For some reason the website didn't handle it correctly, but you can see that the shadow is just mindfucking us, and the bus is merely turning past the pigeon. like so

[–]Ennacolovesyou 0 points1 point ago

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was texting someone and saw this in the background saying to myself, "NBD" but taking a second look finding that the bird actually goes under and comes out clean, I laughed my ass off several times :D

[–]golioth0 0 points1 point ago

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So which church were you attending?

[–]ADHD_Supernova 0 points1 point ago

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Is it bad that I feel like this in my car on the way to work on Mondays?

[–]shitterplug 0 points1 point ago

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That bird is clearly sick.

[–]willymo 0 points1 point ago

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Bitch I'm a bus.

Mother fucker, please. I'm a goddamn pigeon.

[–]lolerblades 0 points1 point ago

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There is something seriously wrong with that bird.

[–]zeppelinfromled 0 points1 point ago

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Why was someone videotaping that bird?

[–]seriouslydamaged 0 points1 point ago

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That's a german pigeon.

[–]Bluelabel 0 points1 point ago

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That's a Dutch bus.

[–]seriouslydamaged 0 points1 point ago

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The advertisement is definitely German.

[–]Zeppelanoid 0 points1 point ago

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...it's Tuesday.

[–]thehammerofdemacia 0 points1 point ago

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Lololol!!! I'm so out of it man, to much league of legends man.

[–]n0ne0ther 0 points1 point ago

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I see the pixels.

[–]chewtaggeer 0 points1 point ago

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No fucks were given

[–]Madas 0 points1 point ago

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Suicide fail.

[–]srikanthb23 0 points1 point ago

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this shit gets me everytime hahahaha

[–]thruchrist 0 points1 point ago

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how do i save this video on my comp?

[–]betterthings2do 0 points1 point ago

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Then Sunday night comes...

[–]OLDRVOLDERMORT 0 points1 point ago

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HELLO ELEANOR!!!

(HOLLEO W GOODS NBYE)

[–]UnknownArchive 0 points1 point ago

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Anyone seeking more info might also check here:

title comnts points age /r/
How I feel about almost EVERYTHING on sunday mornings. 0coms 0pts 13hrs gifs
Every time some tells me about their day 1com 13pts 6dys funny
Like I give A Fuck 3coms 5pts 22dys funny
Like I Give A Fuck 2coms 5pts 26dys gifs
And not a single fuck was given 2coms 15pts 2mos funny
Badass bird 13coms 47pts 3mos funny
Like I give a fuck! 0coms -4pts 3mos pics
Not a single fuck 3coms 12pts 4mos pics
Cats aren't the only ones that don't give a fuck 9coms 76pts 4mos funny
Like I Give a Fuck 13coms 97pts 4mos gifs
Pijeon 5coms 17pts 4mos gifs

source: karmadecay

[–]jamesbiff 0 points1 point ago

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Its pining for the Fjords.

[–]NicoleDiver 0 points1 point ago

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Everything except brunch. Get me a egg-based dish and bloody mary.

[–]no_puppets_here 0 points1 point ago

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Bloody mary and a chunk of sourdough. Best Sunday breakfast.

[–]phuxen 0 points1 point ago

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Take all my upvotes good sir for actually making me perform audible laughter.

[–]whatamidoinghere78 -2 points-1 points ago

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The pigeon is in fact moving to the left. From its point of view

[–]OLDRVOLDERMORT -2 points-1 points ago

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lol

ROLF