The XL Bully was responsible for 10 of the 19 deaths caused by dogs in the UK in the period between 2021 and 2023, and in December 2023, the UK Government added the breed to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, making it illegal to sell, breed, abandon or have a Bully XL in public without a lead and muzzle in England and Wales.[5]
I get the mindset for these people. Their dog is probably never going to go nuts and maul someone, the vast majority will never go nuts and maul someone, it’s your big good boi! Its not the animals fault it literally has been bred to be a killer, you didnt train it like that, thats not the environment it lives in… and yeah thats all true but when it goes wrong it goes spectacularly wrong and people die.
Its like people who have pet bears or big cats, like… yeah all the positives and all but its absolutely equipped to kill the fuck out of you should the mood strike it.
Yep, that’s lame but at the same time - If you’re going to start a project like this… Maybe you should be aware of the rules first? It’s hard to feel bad when the guy didn’t bother doing the most basic research before starting or even at some point near the beginning of the build.
It doesn’t matter if the rules are stupid or difficult. You do what they want and you get what you want. It’s the same conversation I have with a 12 year old regarding his chores and play time.
Honestly, Guinness is a shitty outfit when it comes to the records, and they shouldn’t be considered the final word on things, but they have the name recognition.
You can also just buy world records from them. You don’t necessarily have to do anything. I could get the record for being the world’s most special boy right now so long as I whip out the checkbook
I was part of a world record charity event that technically succeeded (not doxxing myself, heh), but simply because we wouldn’t pay them “$15k +$2k per sponsor/corp donation” (well over $70k from a tiny 501c3‽), they ignored the achievement. It was covered by a number of media sources and was a resounding success for the communities it benefited, so we’re suitably proud of our accomplishment.
I said “woof” and my dog looked at me and started wagging his tail and replied “woof” back. I don’t know what we said, but I think we may have made contact.
My dog and I have some 'conversations' of sorts:
Me: starts getting ready to go out
Dog: up nods [Oi!]
Me: up nods back [What?]
Dog: up nods again [Are we going for a walk?]
Me: down nods [Yes!]
Dog: starts sneezing and getting exited [Fuck yeah!]
Or:
Me: nopes with the head No darling, I'm going to work :'(
Dog: gets closer and lays against me [oh no! Pleassseee! Look how cute I am..]
Maybe we’re looking at this wrong. An AI priest probably knows the Bible better than any real clergyman, and can’t molest children either. I think we should defrock all the real priests, and keep him instead
Can’t molest children yet. I’m sure some AI clergy can at least psychologically scar folks, especially if they know the full Bible, including the old testament.
Purely anecdotal, but a time ago we got some chantrelles through foraging. We’ve foraged for chantrelles for years, no issues. This year had been a big year, came home with maybe 25-30 lbs of chantrelles. Very good meaty chantrelles. Pickled, fried and frozen in butter, you name it. Chantrelles for weeks.
However, after our first meal, the entire house began having a phenomena where all of our poops smelled acutely like burning rubber/ burnt hair. This did not end when we stopped eating the chantrelles, and in fact has lasted for years, almost decades afterwords. Immediately afterwords it was every movement that smelled of burnt rubber/ burnt hair. Now they are relatively occasional, unless its a meal of chantrelles, in which case, its as if the event happened for the first time. I’m convinced we all experienced a shift in our gut microbiome.
I can imagine precisely what the smell they are describing smells like, and there is so much complexity we don’t understand around ECM/ fungi/ plant relationships. Things like lobster mushrooms or bacterial/ fungal pathogens. Decaying permafrost and or the microbial processes that come with it.
While that’s strange in your case (aren’t chanterelles one of the guys you have to cook very thoroughly or they’re neuro/cardiotoxic?) they’ve been monitoring the air for particulate and haven’t found anything dangerous, but it wouldn’t hurt to shoot an email off to a funguy-ologist in the region to see if they think it has merit, and can contact the relevant authorities if that’s the case. Then you win the ego game if it turns out that’s what it was.
Funny that you’re getting downvoted for not liking mushrooms.
I personally love 'em but they can definitely look pretty freaky and they can be pretty slimy too after rain or in moist environments. Acquired taste for sure.
As to who the fuck in their right mind eats poisonous brain shaped mushrooms, it’s mostly us weirdos in the northeastern parts of Europe, especially Finland and Russia. The English Wikipedia’s a bit wrong about poisonings caused by G. esculenta being common in Scandinavia though; pretty much the only ones eating them around these parts are us Finns and we’re not even Scandinavian (which only encompasses Sweden, Norway and Denmark), and the last known fatal poisonings caused by it are from 1953 and 1949 – both caused by a child accidentally eating unprepared mushrooms – and there’s only been a few mild cases in the past 20 years, at least a couple of them involving tourists who tried to prepare them themselves. I don’t think Swedes or Norwegians really eat them very often, but I dunno about Danes.
The ones I’m thinking of grow on the rot inside birch trees and are hard, not slimy, and very slow growing so You’re only supposed to sustainably take every 3rd one you come across. And if they’re on a different tree, not birch, that’s when the issues arise with toxicity. I am picturing it right now I just can’t think of the name.
True.
But Im fairly sure I haven’t recently been drunk enough not to remember having chopstick forcefully inserted up my nose and into my brain.
Then again, I guess nothing is ever 100% certain.
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