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Caption this. (thelemmy.club)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31711446

a weasel riding on the back of a green woodpecker

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 month ago

Ride Shadowfax! Show us the meaning of haste!

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago

I can show you the world.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago
[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago
[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Lmao where did you even find this

[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Got it from a friend who themselves probably got it from /r/196

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

"LOL" said the weasel, "LMAO".

[-] bomberesque@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Bloody squirrels, comin' over ere, takin our jobs, you stoats are all right but bloody squirrels, let me tell you

Anyway here you are, elephant and castle, that'll be 30 quid mate

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
[-] notso@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The ride began comfortably enough, but when the bird started asking him whether he enjoyed the green and purple sky too and if his feathers were melting too much, Bob began to realize that he had made a terrible choice by not walking today.

[-] xylol@leminal.space 11 points 1 month ago

And he didn't even notice the sticker on the birds bumper that read gas grass or ass, no free rides

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago

"And to your right you will see the birch tree where my ex-wife, Tammy, lives, a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood that is short lived, but still lasts longer than our marriage."

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 15 points 1 month ago

"Hold on Atreyu!"

[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

“Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when ‘Sports’ came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.”

[-] foiledAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Don’t just stare at it Weasel….

[-] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 13 points 1 month ago

record scratch anyway, this is me, you might wonder how I got into this situation...

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Nvidia AI has gone too far

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

"The eagles are coming!"

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

'Have you ever heard the story of the scorpion and the frog?'

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Is this rea life? Is this just Fantasy AI?

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Its real, i think the weasel attacked the bird

[-] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Indeed, kinda became a super meme for a bit https://youtu.be/_5YzexpX7es

I believe the bird didn't get very far.

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Caught in a landslide?

[-] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Just look at those eyes. I think the correct caption is "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK"

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

A modern scorpion and frog tale.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Voiceover: “Their love was forbidden…”

[-] Lemmyglad@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Pixar's Hoppers and Avatar movie franchise crossover nobody asked for.

[-] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

What is the Airspeed Velocity of a laden Swallow?

[-] _NetNomad@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

WOAH YEAH KICKSTART MY HEART, HOPE IT NEVER STOPS WOAH YEAH BAAAAAABYYYYYY

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Uber trying new systems to pay drivers even less

[-] Red_October@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago

Flying Mounts changed the game.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"Follow that cab!"

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Just here will be perfect, mate.

[-] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

And so the king of wood bore me away from Isengard faster than the wolves and orcs released from the gates could match. Though he more me, his take was only to bear information; so I bade him take me rohan where a small toad and I would race to the shire in a sucession of expensive cars, likely to wreck a great number of them.

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Which Redwall book is this?

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Titanic: the woodland creatures version

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"Straighten up and fly right!"

[-] xzinik@feddit.cl 3 points 1 month ago

i am the captain now

[-] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Whow - I'm going to Ibiza Whow - back to the island ...

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"Aha! Gotcha you biiiig AAAaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiigh!"

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Toruk Makto?

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Can fly

Still loses to a land based predator

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It's the dead of an Woodpecker attacked by an Weasel, A Weasel is a predator and even when the Woodpecker try to escape, the weasel don't let him go and at the end he will kill the bird in the first occasion. It's like a Lion riding a Cebra.

[-] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Struggling to find employment, more and more birds are turning to ride-share apps to make ends meet.

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