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[Frumple]

Yeaaah, there was a fairly domesticated deer in my area at one point. Someone had got it young and basically raised it. Very friendly, totes let you pet it.

It eventually got turned into venison. Turns out getting deer used to humans gets deer eaten.

[Hanslanda]

Deer of the number one most deadly animal in North America. They're responsible for more human deaths than anything else as far as the animal kingdom is concerned. It's a truly bad idea to try and feed a deer especially a buck. That being said any beer can kill you. People seem to forget that they're wild animals with violent and dangerous instincts.

[Rolan7]

Okay this story I know I've told before, but not in this context.

Eventually the kind old lady moved away, and my mom and brother lived there.  They stopped feeding the deer (my mom is ecologically conscious) but the deer kept coming, because it's a large grassy yard and presumably they'd learned it was a safe place.

At one point it got too grassy, and our cat Luki (with them at the time) stalked through the brush...  And scared the hell out of a freakin buck, leaping at him while he was grazing.  My brother says the buck ran straight to the woodline, and she seemed very satisfied afterward.

Also, geese.  SO MANY geese.  Mom eventually let my brother shoot at them with a BB gun just to drive them off, because the volume of "goose-grease" was becoming troublesome.
Unlike the squirrels raiding my dad's pecans, which I engaged under similar terms, I don't think any geese were felled.
Also, squirrel tastes like gamey chicken.  Not bad.

...I'm apparently very nostalgic today.

[IcyTea31]

That being said any beer can kill you.

Hanslanda confirmed prohibitionist.

[Frumple]

Deer of the number one most deadly animal in North America. They're responsible for more human deaths than anything else as far as the animal kingdom is concerned. It's a truly bad idea to try and feed a deer especially a buck. That being said any beer can kill you. People seem to forget that they're wild animals with violent and dangerous instincts.

Very few of the deaths by deer are from deer attacks, though

That said, most deer you can approach are ones that are effectively domesticated, critters very acclimated to being around humans and not really considering them a threat. Chances of them doing something violent is quite low, and they're very primed for retreat over conflict regardless... could probably peg them as barely as or no more dangerous than your average horse, really (which is a word of caution as much as anything, to be fair, since a horse very much will kill your ass if you don't approach it correctly). Still probably don't want to mess with one, and indeed particularly not an adult buck, but that's largely more for the deer's benefit than anything. As mentioned, the deer that doesn't fear man is the deer than gets eaten by man, especially ones that aren't kept in an enclosure.

That's less true for wholly wild ones, but again, you're probably not going to get close to those. Not unless it's badly injured or somethin'.

[Sirus]

We just got hit by a friggin hailstorm, of all things. WTF weather?

[Hanslanda]

My wtf for the day, the voice recognition technology on my phone is actually making me speak more clearly and with less of an accent. Because apparently when I say deer it sounds like beer and when I say accent it sounds like accident.

Also I'm about as far from prohibitionist as you can possibly get. I have a half gallon of vodka a fifth of rum and a case of beer at home for my own personal use and I have to refresh those pretty regularly. :p

[Sergarr]

Spoiler: so much for all the "stealth doesn't work" conspiracy theories (click to show/hide)

[heydude6]

I don't get it. It's a white stealth bomber. What's so special about that?

[Rolan7]

Russian 'да' means "I agree with what you say, you are right", Russian 'нет' means "I disagree with what you say, you are wrong", while English 'yes' means "What you say reflects the actual state of things" and English 'no' means "What you say does not reflect the actual state of things." On the surface, there may seem to be no difference between the approaches of the two languages, but, actually, that is not so. In Russian, if I ask you, "Ты его не знаешь?" and you answer "Да." it means you do not know the person. But in English, if I ask you, "Don't you know him?" your "Yes" answer would mean you do know the person. Am I right? In Russian one can say "Да, я его не знаю," but in English one cannot say, "Yes, I don't know him," one has to say, "No, I don't know him." This means sometimes Russian 'да' is translated to English as 'yes', but sometimes, when it is the confirmation of a negation, as 'no.'

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[itisnotlogical]

I don't get it. It's a white stealth bomber. What's so special about that?

I think what Sergarr meant was "stealth technology (as in radar-absorbing materials and angled surfaces)". An idiot would claim that a black stealth bomber is stealthy because it's harder to see in the night sky, but a white stealth bomber that's still sneaky would disprove that hypothesis.

[Aseaheru]

but in English one cannot say, "Yes, I don't know him," one has to say, "No, I don't know him."

I know people who say it both ways. Because !!English!!

[Sergarr]

I don't get it. It's a white stealth bomber. What's so special about that?

I think what Sergarr meant was "stealth technology (as in radar-absorbing materials and angled surfaces)". An idiot would claim that a black stealth bomber is stealthy because it's harder to see in the night sky, but a white stealth bomber that's still sneaky would disprove that hypothesis.

While this is a good version, what I've actually meant, if you look at the picture's file name, you can see that it's a mock-up of PAK-DA, i.e. Russian super-bomber in development. And it is made for stealth. There has been this persistent conspiracy theory in Russia that stealth doesn't work against long wavelength radars or some shit and is thus completely useless, but, well, if Russia itself is building stealth bombers, this disproves said conspiracy theory.

Russian 'да' means "I agree with what you say, you are right", Russian 'нет' means "I disagree with what you say, you are wrong", while English 'yes' means "What you say reflects the actual state of things" and English 'no' means "What you say does not reflect the actual state of things." On the surface, there may seem to be no difference between the approaches of the two languages, but, actually, that is not so. In Russian, if I ask you, "Ты его не знаешь?" and you answer "Да." it means you do not know the person. But in English, if I ask you, "Don't you know him?" your "Yes" answer would mean you do know the person. Am I right? In Russian one can say "Да, я его не знаю," but in English one cannot say, "Yes, I don't know him," one has to say, "No, I don't know him." This means sometimes Russian 'да' is translated to English as 'yes', but sometimes, when it is the confirmation of a negation, as 'no.'

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Huh, never noticed that difference before. Interesting.

[redwallzyl]

I don't get it. It's a white stealth bomber. What's so special about that?

I think what Sergarr meant was "stealth technology (as in radar-absorbing materials and angled surfaces)". An idiot would claim that a black stealth bomber is stealthy because it's harder to see in the night sky, but a white stealth bomber that's still sneaky would disprove that hypothesis.

While this is a good version, what I've actually meant, if you look at the picture's file name, you can see that it's a mock-up of PAK-DA, i.e. Russian super-bomber in development. And it is made for stealth. There has been this persistent conspiracy theory in Russia that stealth doesn't work against long wavelength radars or some shit and is thus completely useless, but, well, if Russia itself is building stealth bombers, this disproves said conspiracy theory.

that's exactly what they want you to think!

[Frumple]

Mind you, it doesn't actually disprove said theories, exactly. There's plenty of reasons _{(*coughcorruptioncough*)} something that doesn't really work could be being developed.