r/MadeMeSmile • u/Lifegoesonforever • Sep 18 '26
ANIMALS "Dinner is served!!"
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u/glubtier Sep 18 '26
Imagine you're at a restaurant and a giant just casually picks you up and puts you in front of a different plate and you're just like, "okay" and keep eating.
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u/macfairfieldmill Sep 19 '26
It’s like the little people picker upper from Roller Coaster Tycoon that I’d use to ‘relocate’ the whining guests to a large pond
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u/nekomamii Sep 19 '26
core childhood memory along with purposefully building unfinished and crash-prone coasters 🤣
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u/rukk1339 Sep 19 '26
The one level you’re next door to a competing park. You can build a coaster that launches guests across and they die in the other park, tanking their rating.
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u/GuiltIsLikeSalt Sep 19 '26
The one level you’re next door to a competing park. You can build a coaster that launches guests across and they die in the other park, tanking their rating.
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u/Intrepid-Tank-3414 Sep 19 '26
To this day, some people still swears up and down that they found a loophole to revive Aerith in Final Fantasy VII on the original Playstation.
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u/Present_Adeptness312 Sep 19 '26
I’m so glad I’m not the only one
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u/Islands-of-Time Sep 19 '26
The real crazies would put a No-Entry sign so that it was a one way for everyone getting on the coaster. All aboard, none may leave. All complaints will be answered with an impromptu swimming lesson.
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u/GeneralBS Sep 19 '26
Now i wanna find this game and play it again.
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u/HalKitzmiller Sep 19 '26
RCT Classic is available in the Play Store for Android. Great port of RCT2 or 3
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u/alex61821 Sep 19 '26
Man when I found out you could give them certain names and they would do different things it was game over.
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u/ExcessiveWisdom Sep 19 '26
Well it's more like you're reaching over 4 other people in front of you to get the food off their table
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u/Gordon_Betto Sep 18 '26
I love how he rearranges the dinner seating at the end
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u/Own_Round_7600 Sep 19 '26
Step 1: spread out food
Step 2: organize turts
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u/Lo-QGaming Sep 18 '26
I'm imagining them going, "Come on, make some room, I can't get in!... Whoa I'm up high!... Hey food!"
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u/pengnyas_1996 Sep 19 '26
The little “Hey food!” at the end is perfect, like it just realized why everyone made room.
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u/asuddenpie Sep 19 '26
A few more little guys could have fit at the table on second row, left.
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u/Zona_real1 Sep 19 '26
My brain was so drawn to that. That i got slightly mad that he didnt notice it lol
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u/sallguud Sep 19 '26
Damn it. Now I have to rewatch the video cause I didn’t notice the emptyish table.
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u/alexgalt Sep 19 '26
Turtles will stop eating once they are not hungry (unlike some animals that stuff themselves until they can’t physically move). So the full ones will walk off and the hungry ones will find a plate with food left over and continue to eat. So don’t worry be happy.
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u/Additional_Meeting_2 Sep 19 '26
The first video I saw of him he put the food in rows and had to adjust them a lot. This plate system works better
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u/Research-always Sep 18 '26
Fair deal for everyone. He gets all the ones left out and finds them a place.
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u/zenseazon Sep 19 '26
My first thought, aww so cute, isn't he nice, but then cold reality set in and thoght oh no, they will prolly all be turtle soup in a matter of months 😭😭
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u/judo_fish Sep 19 '26
probably not these guys! theyre usually bred to be pets cause they don’t have a whole lot of meat on them
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u/mientosiempre Sep 19 '26
Yeah, these are Sulcata/African Spurred Tortoises. They grow slow, don't have a lot of meat on them, and are much more valuable sold as exotic pets.
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u/aw_coffee_no Sep 19 '26
These are tortoises though. Sea turtles are used for those soup. And yeah that's as bad as it sounds.
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u/EmergencyCareless76 Sep 19 '26
Excuse me what? Care to elaborate? What turtle soup
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u/kkkr94 Sep 18 '26
All the tiny Bowsers then the big Bowser 🥹😍 soooo fucking cute
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u/oozinator1 Sep 19 '26
I love that Big Bowser himself is still wittle. Shows how small the others really are.
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u/Vast_Raspberry4192 Sep 18 '26
Man if I didn’t have to worry about my financial situation this would be my dream job.
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u/HyperionSwordfish Sep 19 '26
I saw this guy on HGTV. He makes 1.2 million a year feeding turtles.
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u/Vast_Raspberry4192 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
Damn. And here I am making ends meet by working nights with radioactive material 🫠
Edit: missed an s
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u/garlic_bread_thief Sep 19 '26
You what?
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u/Vast_Raspberry4192 Sep 19 '26
I make radioactive pharmaceuticals, due to its nature the job is exclusively night shift
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u/DogmaticConfabulate Sep 19 '26
Who is he?
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u/Sunshine030209 Sep 19 '26
They were making a joke about the show House Hunters. There is a running joke where it's like "Steve, a part time turtle rearranger and his fiancé, a volunteer butterfly masseuse have a budget of 2.7 million.."
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u/Aegis-Heptapod-9732 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
That’s hilarious. Is the second punchline “. . . and their 2.7 million can only get them one of these three doghouse-sized shacks on the outskirts of town”, because that’s been every episode of “House Hunters International” I’ve ever seen.
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u/_MMAgod Sep 19 '26
reminds me of way back when i lived in an area that had a stray pet problem. i found a cute stray boxer that you could see her rib outline and everything.. fed her and filmed her, put the footage on youtube and asked if anyone wanted her.
video got a lot of attention and someone was willing to drive from a not so near city to come pick her up. it dawned on me that having an online pet sanctuary with different pets and their online profiles people could donate to or adopt could be a thing..
this was like 2007-ish and i was more worried about paying bills and not losing my job, but booyyy if i had the capital :( ...
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u/ringnis Sep 19 '26
Yeah! For that one moment you WERE the sanctuary and it served it's purpose. Its still a great deed and you should be proud of your idea.
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u/wyslan Sep 18 '26
Like a herd of turtles
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u/akawendals Sep 18 '26
I love how weird collective nouns for animals are! I just looked it up and a group of turtles is called a bale 😆
As in "damn that's a big bale of turtles" 🤣
And a group of turtles swimming is a flotilla which makes complete sense 💟
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u/ArjJp Sep 19 '26
A group of Chinchillas is called a Chimmichanga
(not really but I wish it was)
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u/akawendals Sep 19 '26
We have tons of great books of them in the library I work at 🤗 So many good blurbs too!
"A litter of kittens, a colony of ants, a pride of lions: everyone has heard of these plural nouns. But what about a parcel of hogs, a kaleidoscope of butterflies, or a business of ferrets? What could be more apt than calling a group of cockroaches an intrusion? Perhaps a loveliness of ladybirds! These fanciful groups and many more are illustrated with cutting-edge design--dazzling as a dazzle of zebras!"
- from A Drove of Bullocks by Patrick George 🐞🪳🦋🦓🦁
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u/akawendals Sep 19 '26
OMG that sounds amazing 🤩 I would read that book!!!
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u/akawendals Sep 19 '26
I love illustrations 💟 I do Storytime sessions at schools and preschools in my city and some of the art in picture books is just wonderful 🤗 I can't draw to save my life so I am very appreciative of the fabulous talent that some people have and the way they use it to amplify the story they're telling, it's incredible!
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u/radishburps Sep 19 '26
Also also, a group of owls is called a "parliament", while a group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance", and parrots a "pandemonium". 🥰
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u/PhosphoFred8202 Sep 19 '26
Me and my pals went thru a phase in HS where chimichanga was substituted for anything.
It basically meant anything depending on context and we all knew what it meant and it just sounded right.
“She wants my chimichanga”
“I need gas money. I’m glad tomorrow is chimichanga day”
“She’s got a sweet chimichanga”
“OOOF right in the chimichanga!”
“I’ll slap that look right off your chimichanga”.
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u/ryanvango Sep 19 '26
It makes sense because collective names for animals are just kind of agreed upon, from no single source. A lot of them are hunting based and go back centuries, but new ones get invented all the time and its kind of just "this is the name that stuck."
So a flotilla of turtles, a flamboyance of flamingos, a crash if rhinos, etc. are just "somebody said it once, other people liked it, and it stuck around long enough to be officially recognized."
So if you find one that doesn't have a name, you could totally come up with some cute and funny name for it and just keep saying it different places and hope it sticks. Then BAM you've got yourself "A popcorn of binturongs" (binturong doesn't have a collective noun, and they smell like popcorn. so that's my pitch)
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u/MisforMisanthrope Sep 19 '26
Flotilla is awesome, but I think bale can be improved on
A tattle of turtles sounds much better
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u/CitizenPremier Sep 19 '26
Cranky old guy here, just throwing out that biologists don't use these terms, they're mostly new inventions
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u/Additional_Meeting_2 Sep 19 '26
Victorians often made these up or searched some very old medieval terms to re popularise
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u/prehensilemullet Sep 19 '26
I wish there weren't music so I could hear the raw sounds of all those turtles chomping
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u/MilkiestMaestro Sep 19 '26
These tortoises are bred in Thailand for the exotic pet trade. Just thought everyone should know the context given what sub we are in
In particular, this is the Pasang Sulcata Turtle breeding Farm
Just a reminder that these tortoises will live to be 100 years old, in almost every case outliving their owner. They are often abandoned in the wild and become invasive species or die
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u/BreastRodent Sep 19 '26
Serious question, are there places where sulcatas have established themselves as invasives and if so where? I've just never heard that before so I'm super curious. I'm well aware of red eared sliders becoming invasive for all the reasons you mentioned. I was under the impression the main issues with sulcatas is that basically every sulcata rescue anywhere ever is basically at max capacity or worse.
I live on a bunch of land in East Tennessee and I would LOVE to take in a few real big big big boi rescue sulcatas since we got the space because I do a lot of monitoring our land for outbreaks of ranavirus in our box turtles and taking sick ones with a bad prognosis to a wildlife rehabber, putting ones with a good prognosis in "turtle jail" by quarantining them in hard plastic kiddie pools with a whole-ass biosecurity protocol in place to help them keep their germs to themselves until they recover just to help reduce the strain on my rehabber. All this is to say that I really give a shit about turtles lol. But unfortunately, my big big big boi rescue sulcata dreams are kinda smashed by this being too humid a climate for them, plus the cost of having to make heated dog houses for them in the winter. :\ I just know there's so many out there that have been given up by people who didn't realize what they were getting into and I'd love so much to use some of this land to take some in and give them a home.
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u/Ok-Count-8233 Sep 18 '26
Turtle farming for why?
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u/nekoreality Sep 19 '26
this species of turtle is almost exclusively bred to be pets. they grow really slowly and have thick shells with little meat so theres way better turtles to be eating
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u/mac_is_crack Sep 19 '26
Yep, baby sulcatas. They’ll get to over 100lbs and live up to 100 years old. So cute as babies, though.
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u/Silly_Silicon Sep 19 '26
Unfortunately they are probably bred to be sold as pets. It’s a shame because they can live to be 140 and they get to be enormous in size. Literally nobody can possibly commit to properly taking care of this animal, yet they are super cute as babies and people buy them with little plan for the future.
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u/Arya_Ren Sep 19 '26
That reminded me of a time I was at the vet and a young couple came in with a wee baby tortoise they found. It turned out it had no chip so it was up to the couple if they wanted to keep it. They immediately accepted, I could see hearts and sparkles in their eyes as they were looking at the smol creature, they were so happy! I hope against all that all tortoises end up with people like them.
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u/graphitehead Sep 18 '26
What is the word for multiple tortoises? A pod? A herd? A tour of tortoises?
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u/akawendals Sep 18 '26
A group of turtles is commonly called a bale
A group of turtles swimming in the sea is called a flotilla 😄
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u/Raerth Sep 19 '26
He didn't ask about turtles; creep.
No seriously, a group of tortoises is a creep.
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u/aphorprism Sep 19 '26
Not sure, but Queer Eye for the Tortii could be a spin off tour of tortoiseshell-themed makeovers.
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u/Responsible-Poem9375 Sep 19 '26
Is he feeding them to sell it or making food ?
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u/kontemplatedfury Sep 18 '26
He’s back again with cheap filler food… where’s his laptop 🙄
Btw, most of these turtles are not in healthy condition…
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u/brooksram Sep 19 '26
I was sure wondering. It seems like there is a whole lot of pyramiding going on, but I'm definitely no expert.
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u/----Maverick---- Sep 19 '26
My dream job is to reorganize tortoises into hierarchical eating orders
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u/Available_Pirate2298 Sep 19 '26
Big Chungus came out of nowhere. Takin big chomps
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u/aegloswinterborn Sep 19 '26
Imagine eating then suddenly getting lifted out of your place at the table and set down at another table with a whole new group of diners?
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u/GryffSr Sep 19 '26
I was waiting for the turtles to knock him down and then the horror music kicks in as they start to swarm him.
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u/Dizzy_Bit6125 Sep 19 '26
I love that he rearranged them so the small ones can all fit and eat together and get enough to eat
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u/MysteriousSlice007 Sep 19 '26
The cynical me is asking "why is he raising them, for pet sale or for soup?"
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u/Allofthiswilhapenagn Sep 18 '26
Cute until you realise they'll be turtle soup soon
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u/kcsween74 Sep 18 '26
How hard would it be to lay the trays in a circular pattern and place the food from inside the pattern?
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u/chalkles0329 Sep 19 '26
Also, lay out the food, then let the turtles in. Poor little things were running after every plate that was laid down, just to find it empty.
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u/Glossed-Lam Sep 19 '26
Bad idea. Much better to create a system of elaborate chutes and pulleys that deposit all the food equally at exactly the same time.
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u/Apprehensive-Mood853 Sep 19 '26
Not to be grim, but these turtles are probably being raised for their meat.
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u/CitizenPremier Sep 19 '26
The turtles understand the plates indicate food but all immediately begin moving towards the food when it is placed on one of the plates. These turtles would no doubt fail the marshmallow test, indicating they are likely not going to be good at life planning. In defence of turtles in general, these turtles were raised in captivity which grately reduces how much stimulation they have (they're dumb turtles).
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u/Timmy__Cool Sep 19 '26
I love how he kept moving them to make sure they all got to eat. Beautiful soul.
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u/dvpbe Sep 19 '26
Imagine standing there, a huge bowl of food appears. You start munching and then suddenly a giant picks you up and sets you way further at another bowl of food.
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u/EsrailCazar Sep 19 '26
Sometimes life makes you stop and think how strange things are, these are living animals just doing only what they know to do without a second thought. They look so weird when you actually stare. 😅
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