Paganism is coming back to save us. Brb I'm going to chuck some knives in the river.
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I think I understand how people believe omens now
sung to the theme of power rangers Go go cobra chicken!!! 🎶 🎵
Bald eagle = overrated and cowardly
Canada goose = looks goofy but is a bloodthirsty killer when provoked
Yup, this tracks.
Edit to add more, because I feel like it: Bald eagles are basically vultures who occasionally fish. They are opportunistic scavengers. Canada Geese on the other hand are very chill, standing around in groups foraging in the grass, but are not afraid of anything. If you get too close they will not escape or even flinch — instead they will either hiss at you, threateningly walk towards you, or lunge at your face and fuck your shit up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_qrUKKdmvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMdhAFPWzFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kT3yEhyPeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgwmPUak70
Bald eagles are sometimes considered kleptoparasites, and I've always found that fitting for the USA.
The sound usually used with a bald eagle in patriotic scenes isn't even its cry.
It's a red-tailed hawk IIRC
What about swans :)
My money would always be on the Canada Goose. Those things really know how to fuck.
Cobra chickens R O C K!
Cobra chickens F U C K!
For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice.
Unlikely? Author has never met a goose it would seem.
If you've got a problem with Canada goose then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that Marinate.
I think we should all take a good look in the mirror and ask ourselves, where we would be, without the Canada gooses.
If you've got a problem with Canada gooses, then you've got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!
Augury was a Greco-Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as "taking the auspices". "Auspices" (Latin: auspicium) means "looking at birds". Auspex, another word for augur, can be translated to "one who looks at birds". Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes politically motivated augurs would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes.
Well that's perfectly themed with today's events if true
In England we have a rhyme about magpies, reading meaning into how many are together. 1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl and 4 for a boy. 5 for silver, 6 for gold. 7 for a secret never to be told. My friend would say good morning Mr magpie and salute them, I think that's an old superstition too.
It also boosts your magic by 8 levels in Runescape.
swans are just upgraded geese, and geese are just ducks on steroids.
Goose: *does goose stuff* (srs, don't mess with geese)
Eagle: This bitch crazy!
Canada will be waiting if you try and fuck with us!
Just post a bunch of geese as your border guards (and maybe international trade negotiators too?) and you’ll be fine. I feel they’re an underutilized Canadian resource!
😭 I wish my ex was more like you.
Canada Geese are very feisty creatures when provoked.
... and also very feisty creatures when unprovoked.
(Unless it chooses you for their human.)
Can confirm. Have provoked a Canada goose once, got the feisty handed to me.
A friend of my old boss had his arm broken by a Canada goose.
They pack a wallop with their wings.
Better let that one marinade
Avian Celebrity Death Match!