Piranhas are one of those things I thought I'd need to worry about when I was young.ike quick sand and properly identifying if something is good or fool's gold.
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Mine was wilderness survival, which I think would still be a thing if cell phones weren't as advanced as they are with GPS navigation, emergency dialing and location.
I know it still happens and is still a very needed skill specially for those who live out in low populated areas, but I genuinely thought that being lost or stranded in the woods was a super common thing. Like needing to start a fire, finding water and hunting to catch food was definitely an experience I would one day have to go through even though I grew up in a large city and didn't have a reason to go off the grid often aside from occasional shore fishing.
Don't forget how to put yourself out if you spontaneously combust, and acid rain.
acid rain was legit, then the world's governments actually did something about it and it became not a thing. Much like the hole in the o-zone (at least until Elon's vanity satellites start failing at a high enough rate to decimate the o-zone) and how we could mitigate climate change if there was political will
Acid rain is real. So is quicksand. Either of them being common and severe hazards experienced across the entire US (and maybe elsewhere, I don't know what the rest of you were taught in gradeschool), not really.
Real acid rain causes mass ecological damage through relatively subtle increases in acidity over several exposures. The way we learned about it in school, whether they meant to or not, came across like concentrated hydrochloric acid was going to rain from the skies and melt human flesh on contact.
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Ok Now you have a bucket of piranhas. ?
Piranhas have dozens of uses. Food, bait, aesthetics/decor, pranks, weapons of surprise, scissors, evil lairs…
Pranks !? 💀☠️
HI, I'M KENNY ROGERS, AND THIS IZ THE PIRANHA BUCKET ON THE DOOR TRICK!
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lets expand pranks a bit
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Bucket of piranhas perched above a door.
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Put a piranha in the apple bobbing barrel for a "hardcore" mode.
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April fools (self explanatory).
This is just scratching the surface
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It's a great threat
also it's food
Step 1: Collect a bucket of piranhas
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit
Not just a bucket of piranha but a bucket full of piranha and margarita mix. You just add water and ice.
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Ok, so why would anyone want to catch a piranha? Are they tasty or something?
Fish are food, not friends
No Bruce, for the last time
They look like they are 90% gristle and hatred.
The Ann Coulter of fishes.
Wikipedia claims they're quite popular.
Reading more, everything I see describes them as bony, salty and very fishy tasting, best served smoked or grilled to mask the flavor.
Sounds like we’re not missing much.
Protein is protein and if this is where someone needs to get it, then this is what it will be
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They taste like fish. I'm not joking.
You must be joking.
At least one source who couldn't comment publicly stated they weren't joking
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So much so that they're illegal to fish in parts of the Amazon because they've been nearly fished out of existence
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They're almost certainly starved. Piranha's don't normally swarm like this
But that’s what the cartoons showed.
Shit I forgot about the cartoon.. how do I delete my erroneous comment
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Wait until you find out how they catch catfish
Don't they usually set up a sting and invite them out on a "date" where they're then confronted about their lies and posted to Youtube?
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how they don't bite each other in the middle of that caos
They probably do
I can't tell from the video if the water is just muddy or if it's actually, y'know, gross. Is it safe to eat the fish from that river?
Also, I'd always heard they didn't do that unless they were starving. Which makes me think not much is surviving in that water, making me think it might not be safe to eat the fish :/
Though, I imagine if you're desperate for protein, such things are secondary concerns at best
Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).
Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil
There's great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images "meeting of the waters Manaus":
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Water can be like this when it rains a day or a couple hours before. Every river become like this when it rains. It is perfectly fine to eat fish from this river.
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What about barefoot! Those Brazilians are crazy lol
As long as you're not bleeding or anything, you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!
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