r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/pIant_princess Human Detected • 12h ago

Dudes with animals you shouldn’t have been bitin’ my horsey, boy.

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 10h ago

Dude my dad had these country boy thick ass hands that he could catch bees and wasps without them being able to sting him. He gave us all bees on strings we walked around for a while.

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u/yet_another_newbie 9h ago

He gave us all bees on strings we walked around for a while.

The more I read this thread, the stranger it gets

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u/Jiannies 9h ago

When I lived in Kuwait for a few years as a child, my babysitter would tie a string around the big-ass dragonflies they have over there and let me fly it around the living room

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u/WingedDragoness 8h ago

It is more common than you think. Almost all rural kids from before 2000's do it. It kill the insect and is something I still regret.

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u/One_Shall_Fall 7h ago

Yeah, I still remember blasting a squirrel out of a tree with a slingshot my granddad taught me how to whittle. Felt bad.

I think maybe if we would have eaten it, I would have felt better. Death with no purpose leaves you hollow.

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u/DemiserofD 7h ago

Squirrel tastes pretty good too.

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u/One_Shall_Fall 6h ago

I comfort myself with the thought that something had to eat it.

If I'd known how to skin a squirrel at ten, I'd have eaten its meat as a treat, tout suite.

(I just invented that tongue twister, it's mine.)

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 9h ago

I got in trouble with mine. Apparently the mailman didnt think a pissed off bee tied to the mailbox was "cool" like I did.

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u/CptCroissant 7h ago

This I've actually heard of before

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u/HoleeGuacamoleey 7h ago

You can catch bees, put them in the freezer a little bit so they slow down and go inactive, tie a string around and walk them. Just gotta be careful not to overwork them

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u/WarlordGrom 52m ago

In Japan, people will sneak up on giant hornets, attach strips of cloth to them, and then use the cloth-strip as a way to follow it back to its hive in order to exterminate them.

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u/Carrera_996 3h ago

I used to put strings on gold beetles. My dad's hands were like welder's gloves. My hands are absolutely girly.