• @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    433 months ago

    We jumped off buoys and navigation markers as a kid.

    Sure it was water below but under the water … the supports and ladders of the buoys, mangled barnacle mess.

    And the ospreys.

    Goddamn did an angry osprey make jumping off the buoy that much more exciting, a little bit of “and maybe we’ll get attacked by a raptor” excitement….

      • @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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        183 months ago

        Veeeeery few sharks in the bay I was jumping into.

        Osprey on the other hand will actively rip your face off for getting too close to their nest.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          83 months ago

          Very few sharks implies some sharks which are way too many for this guy.

          I don’t fuck with apex predators.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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          13 months ago

          Comrade here forgetting that not only do sharks predate dinosaurs, but - unlike birds - have hardly changed.

          Orcas are still kings of the oceans, and it seems they’ve finally decided they’ve had enough of our shenanigans, so maybe we should be more worried about them that either of the others.

    • @conc@lemmy.ml
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      93 months ago

      I too was a bay child. We’d use the barnacle covered chains holding the buoys in their place to pull ourselves down to the bottom for whatever reason

      • @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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        113 months ago

        I have a scar on my left leg from where I slipped on the ladder abd sliced my calf open on barnacles.

        It bled till it didn’t. And I survived.

        I’m pretty sure I’d die of some terrible infection if it had happened today.

    • @chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      Completely off-topic, but apparently in UK English they pronounce buoy like “boy”, which, like, phonetically is fine but it’s definitely wrong. Or feels wrong. "We jumped off boys. " Utter madness