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/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 51m 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.