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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Meanwhile in Overgrowth:

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

Jackalopes'll fuck you up, I tell you hwhat.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As someone who's been sent on a few "Snipe hunts": Fuck all that. But also...

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 1 points 19 hours ago

Huh. Until right now, I thought rabbit and hare were synonyms.

When I saw my first European Hare, I noted how not-cute and cuddly it looked... and thought to call them "hares" to denote to myself that they were not the cute rabbits I was familiar with. But now I feel dumb because that's literally what it is.

[-] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago

My dog once caught what I thought was a diseased rabbit (because how else could my fluffball catch a rabbit?), but now I'm thinking it was just a hare

Looked like it had just come back from the ethereal plane, its eyes were so wide

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Looked like it had just come back from the ethereal plane, its eyes were so wide

Well, yeah. If I got chased down and caught by a predator 4 times my size, I'd be a little wide-eyed, too.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago
[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 38 points 1 day ago

Thumper (Bambi) is a rabbit.

Hazel (Watership down) is a hare.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago

Hares look pretty similar to cats anatomy wise - minus the ears and tail of course. I wonder what cats think of them. Imagine a human with ridiculously long ears who hops to get around. I'd be scared shitless.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

you mean jar jar binks?

[-] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

I think someone mentioned once that there are places where rabbits are legally required to be sold with their head still attached, because otherwise it was possible to pass off a decapitated cat as a rabbit.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

"why would you buy a headless rabbit as a pet?"

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

It's less work than a headless chicken.

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

In Austria cats are sometimes jokingly called "Dachhase", which means roof hare.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Hares are like what rabbits become after they go through what Aimo Koivunen did.

A scout on the Finno-Russian border, their group got attacked by the Soviets, they fled and because skiing is hard fucking work, he got fatigued but couldn't stop, so he decided to take some of the Pervitin (meth) he had been issued. He couldn't get a single tablet out with his frozen hand and accidentally took his squads entirely dose.

Was gone for a week. Skiid for 400km. Ate pinecombs and one siberian jay, raw. Pulse 200 and weighed 43kg (95lbs) when admitted to a hospital.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 15 points 1 day ago

This is the first time I'm seeing the word Pervitin in English, while that's pretty much the only word my language uses. Most people wouldn't know what methamphetamine is, but everyone has heard of Pervitin. I thought it was some local-only name, guess it's time to learn the etymology.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It's literally a brand, like heroin was.

Local to Finland.. ?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago
[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thought so. I'm just not well traveled within Finland and thought it might be some little town word, but I am "well travelled" digitally in the drug circles and communities and have never seen anyone Finnish refer to it as such.

Well, maybe once or twice, jokingly.

But I wasn't sure if Pervitin was a reich-wide product or a specific Finnish name for it. Apparently the former.

(Although Finland wasn't a part of the reich)

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In their cosmic insanity hares will fuck up your garden if you don't set up defenses.

[-] Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

These fuckers can do a flip jump into wide, not tall enough fencing. I thought my mulberry was safe with 1m of compost fence around it. I was mistaken. Thankfully they left the main trunk alone so it has a good chance still.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's tithing. Coso-ordano must keep the watch.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

who is old enough to have a wife but has never heard about hares??

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I've never seen hares in the UK but wild rabbits are all over the place.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I've not seen them but I have heard of them. There are so many children's stories and movies that feature hares

[-] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 1 points 16 hours ago

I mean, I’ve heard of them, but I think the first time I saw an actual picture of a hare, that didn’t just look like a cute bunny, was after I turned 18

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

yeah fair for a long time i had never seen what they really look like either

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Watership down! I shout as a naval vessel lists amidst the smoke, wholly misunderstanding the title of the book

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

This is likely what Tim the Enchanter actually saw, which he misidentified as "just a bunny". We can infer this from the aftermath that followed.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago
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