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Seriously, WTF?

Yeah, seriously, WTF?

Most Japanese can't figure this out.

CO777ER wrote:Most Japanese can't figure this out.

I know a lot of "Americans" who couldn't figure that out. Or others who would try to give it some kind of implied meaning such as being unfair to a certain race, ethnic group, religion, or sexual orientation.

Queso wrote:

CO777ER wrote:Most Japanese can't figure this out.

I know a lot of "Americans" who couldn't figure that out. Or others who would try to give it some kind of implied meaning such as being unfair to a certain race, ethnic group, religion, or sexual orientation.

They're probably thinking that "GORED" means to be bamboozled into believing that the earth is melting...

There is a sign in Yellowstone that is in all Japanese and has a picture of what happens when you put your 2 year old daughter on the back of a buffalo.

Last time we drove through the park, a tour bus loaded with Japanese visitors pulled over and all the tourists ran over to "pet" the buffalo and take a quick picture. Some people just don't get it.

CO777ER wrote:There is a sign in Yellowstone that is in all Japanese and has a picture of what happens when you put your 2 year old daughter on the back of a buffalo.

Last time we drove through the park, a tour bus loaded with Japanese visitors pulled over and all the tourists ran over to "pet" the buffalo and take a quick picture. Some people just don't get it.

I've seen tourists here in Florida tell their kid to go pose next to an 8-foot alligator. They think they're tame...

I was in Yellowstone in May a few years ago. There were very few people there because they'd just opened the roads that day after winter. A herd of about 6 or 8 bison was crossing the road so a few cars including us stopped and were taking pics from a safe distance by the cars. Along come some Japanese and did just what you said. Two guys ran right up to get their picture taken with the animals. They lucked out because the buffalo took off. Those guys had no clue how dangerous it was...

The moose seems to have figured it out.

Airfoilsguy wrote:The moose seems to have figured it out.

That's totally going to be the funniest thing I see all day!!

Airfoilsguy wrote:

OMG, the one-liner's that come to mind after seeing this one...

Every has a certain level of 'geographical ignorance' that sometimes brings laughter.

For example, the Pacific Ocean is far more dangerous than the Atlantic or the Caribbean, at least most of the time as the waves and currents are much higher.

When growing up, we were taught a healthy respect for water, and how to properly deal with the conditions.

But other visitors weren't...

And this is when you get the person who is unwilling to go much deeper into the sea, while standing right at the point where the waves break...

Or the adults, feeling assured when they see children playing in the sea and large waves...not noticing that the procedure for avoiding a large wave is to go UNDER it, not to lean down and twist your body sideways to give the wave a bigger target to mow down...

AndesSMF wrote:
Or the adults, feeling assured when they see children playing in the sea and large waves...not noticing that the procedure for avoiding a large wave is to go UNDER it, not to lean down and twist your body sideways to give the wave a bigger target to mow down...

That was branded into my head as kid, that and never turn your back on the ocean. I've done that a few times and felt like I was hit by a car.

lobster68w wrote:



Seriously, WTF?

There are some sick shits out there. We had trouble with some EMO/Wiccans/Idiots chasing animals on my partners land during the Summer Solstice, but until we checked on the chickens later that evening we thought they were just immature kids mucking about. Turned out they had been in the enclosure and caught and plucked all the feathers from one hen's head before trying to kill it on what we found to be a makeshift alter. We're almost two weeks without a single egg from any of the 9 layers now, and these girls were previously giving us up to 13 in a single day Sadly we personally didn't see them doing it, perhaps a good job really because I dislike EMOs anyway, so that coupled with cruelty and trespass could have lead to a few black eyes... At the same time there was a whole bunch of ritual killings of cows, sheep and goats, a couple of beastiality cases reported with sheep and cows and a whole bunch of other weird shit. It seems some people just like interfering with animals under the guise of being 'Pagan' - which couldn't be further from the real meaning if they tried.