Man vs goose

photonic69

Bunch of cyclists fighting anything bigger than a cat is laughable! At least we can cycle away from these beasts quite swiftly.

pblakeney

For perspective, consider the reactions to spiders, wasps, bats, etc.
Modern man is a wimp.

Pross

photonic69 said:

Bunch of cyclists fighting anything bigger than a cat is laughable! At least we can cycle away from these beasts quite swiftly.

To be honest these days I'd back my chances of fighting something than relying on my cycling speed to escape.

DeVlaeminck

MattFalle said:

my money is on the dog, but if DeV wants to have a pop at it I'll bring my school bag along for him

I'm past my prime with a bad back otherwise....more of a Labrador man now.

kingstongraham

Who here thinks they could take down a cassowary?

MattFalle

I'd pay good money to watch some people on here fight a honey badger.

Pross

wilberforce said:

seanoconn said:

MattFalle said:

my money is on the dog, but if DeV wants to have a pop at it I'll bring my school bag along for him

It’s just yawning. Bet it’s a big softie really.

I remember years ago when I was in the RAF opening the inner door to our building entrance to find a growling RAF police Alsatian staring back at me from within the security entrance. I shut the door rather quickly!. The handler thought it was a good place to leave the dog whilst he went to the toilet .......but didn’t warn anyone.

A couple of people I know who were RAF (one serving the other out) were discussing their respective experiences in the Falklands and talking about some notorious bar where the MPs had gone in to sort out an issue with some squaddies (9 Para I think). They got beaten up so sent in the dogs but one of the dogs got killed.

Don't know if it was an urban myth but the two talking were there different times and had only just met yet knew the same story.

seanoconn

MattFalle said:

I'd pay good money to watch some people on here fight a honey badger.

Honey badger’s are bad @ss. Stoffel the honey badger escaping his pen to fight the lions! Brilliant crazy b@stard.

https://youtu.be/c36UNSoJenI

shirley_basso

Isn't there a video where one gets bitten by a black mamba, just has a nap for a couple of days, then bounces back.

veronese68

pblakeney said:

For perspective, consider the reactions to spiders, wasps, bats, etc.
Modern man is a wimp.

I worked with a guy that tried to swat a wasp with a car dash panel. The guy sitting at a desk behind him leant forward and tickled his neck with a piece of paper. I was amazed at the speed a grown man could go under a desk and run out of a room. Yet he was a loudmouth that would try and throw his weight around. He really was a complete aris'.

Pross

seanoconn said:

MattFalle said:

I'd pay good money to watch some people on here fight a honey badger.

Honey badger’s are bad @ss. Stoffel the honey badger escaping his pen to fight the lions! Brilliant crazy b@stard.

https://youtu.be/c36UNSoJenI

Ha, genius. To think someone was suggesting upthread that our weapon to beat these creatures is our intelligence.

MattFalle

intelligence? seriously?

ffs, johnson got voted in as PM, you've had a Tory government for how many years, Brexit got voted through and you tell me people have intelligence?

Bring on the bear.

photonic69

Pross said:

seanoconn said:

MattFalle said:

I'd pay good money to watch some people on here fight a honey badger.

Honey badger’s are bad @ss. Stoffel the honey badger escaping his pen to fight the lions! Brilliant crazy b@stard.

https://youtu.be/c36UNSoJenI

Ha, genius. To think someone was suggesting upthread that our weapon to beat these creatures is our intelligence.

Love Stoffel!!! Go Badger, go!!!

Those hills behind are fabulous. Would love to go exploring around there. Reminds me of where we used to live when I was a kid - hence snakes reference.

john80

Are police dogs not trained to just attack the arm and not the throat. It would seem to me that you are going nowhere when a German shepherd gets hold of you but the idea is that the copper then takes over to protect the dog from getting too much damage off the criminal.

rjsterry

MattFalle said:

rjsterry said:

MattFalle said:

Terrier are good at that sort of thing however I'm not really into rolling around on the floor biting rats.

Put a terrier into a scrap with a rat the size of a cat or a farm rat/ooloo (sic) rat then its a different story I would say.

A spade is an alternative. Messes up your lino, though.

therefore the 50 cal.

less effort as well.

winner winner (very very very small remains of) rat for dinner

Well that's definitely not going to buff out.

Pross

john80 said:

Are police dogs not trained to just attack the arm and not the throat. It would seem to me that you are going nowhere when a German shepherd gets hold of you but the idea is that the copper then takes over to protect the dog from getting too much damage off the criminal.

I think the operative words there are 'trained to'. The handler is there to control the dog as well as complete the arrest. Without that training the instinct would be to take the person down and then go for the throat.

john80

Pross said:

john80 said:

Are police dogs not trained to just attack the arm and not the throat. It would seem to me that you are going nowhere when a German shepherd gets hold of you but the idea is that the copper then takes over to protect the dog from getting too much damage off the criminal.

I think the operative words there are 'trained to'. The handler is there to control the dog as well as complete the arrest. Without that training the instinct would be to take the person down and then go for the throat.

This was more my point in that the only time a human is going to win is when the dog sticks by its training and does not go for the throat. How long the dog will let you punch it in the face before it decides on a different tactic is anyone's guess.

laurentian

kingstongraham said:

Who here thinks they could take down a cassowary?

Southern, Northern or Dwarf?

I reckon I could have a dwarf one but wouldn't even entertain trash talking with a hard northern ba5tard

kingstongraham

laurentian said:

kingstongraham said:

Who here thinks they could take down a cassowary?

Southern, Northern or Dwarf?

I reckon I could have a dwarf one but wouldn't even entertain trash talking with a hard northern ba5tard

The one I saw near Daintree so probablya southern. About as tall as me and armed with built in razor blades.

I reckon with any of them you'd need to hope you strike first.

kingstongraham

British version now released.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2021/05/21/which-animals-could-britons-beat-fight

More realistic on the lion/bear, but only 45% fancied their chances against a goose. What a bunch of losers.

Pross

kingstongraham said:

British version now released.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2021/05/21/which-animals-could-britons-beat-fight

More realistic on the lion/bear, but only 45% fancied their chances against a goose. What a bunch of losers.

4% of the more optimistic Remoaners obviously felt hard.

ddraver

woman vs bear went a little differently than many people may have expected...

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1399773486365634560?s=20

(those dogs are so stupid they deserve to die frankly...)

pblakeney

The bear was protecting her cubs from the dogs, not the other way round.

cruff

Not posted here for yonks. Someone linked me to this thread. THIS is the type of content that was missing here...

Apropo of nothing, out riding near Tatton Park last year I got attacked by three very, very angry geese. I wouldn't have fancied my chances against them...

elbowloh

This popped up on my FB fees today

kingstongraham

The only computer game I have played in the last decade is the Untitled Goose Game. I have embraced the soul of the goose.

Ben6899

elbowloh said:

This popped up on my FB fees today

You pay for Facebook? Mate...