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one of my favourite graphs ever dunno if it's real but eh it's funny
love the difference on geese
personally I'd say rat house cat and medium dog are my definite I'd win not even that difficult maybe maybe the big dog but I dunno the dog could win any of the others are a hard no I'd die
1/3 of British people:
Only a holy hand grenade could defeat a creature so vile
Americans are also some of the loudest, over-confident, self-absorbed, entitled people on the planet. Of course they believe they can take on any animal.
My apologies go out to the dozen other Americans who are cool.
American male: I'm confident up to, but excluding the large dog. Now I'm sure there's a good chance I could win against a large dog, but it's not a big enough chance to call it "confident" and that's the first animal on the list where I can see things going very poorly for me if I don't handle the situation just right.
With the eagle, I'd probably get hurt (badly) and regret it, but what's the chance I'd lose the fight? I mean, their bones are fragile and once a wing is broken, it's game over for them.
Geese? We have Canada geese, amongst other species. They have a well-deserved reputation for their disagreeable personalities (especially when protecting their offspring). They can make you hurt if they wanted to, but an otherwise healthy adult human male can easily win in a fight with them as long as the human doesn't lose his nerve.
we also have canada geese in the UK they're very common here terrifying beasts can break an arm
Anyone could easily beat a king cobra in a fight if they're able bodied, the venom doesn't effect you instantly
More of a stalemate, then
i don't even think it's a stalemate most of the time, it's very easy to avoid getting bitten honestly, i think an able bodied human could win outright like 6/10 times if they're extremely careful and have a stick.
And the other 4/10 times are stalemates so...
This is great. I would never fuck with a goose! Although I think if you know how to grab it by the neck you'll be OK.
Do you have the source of the graph by the way? I would love to share it.
sorry no source I just googled brits vs americans fight animals or something and a couple of graphs like that came up just this one had numbers so I picked this image as I said I'm not even certain it's real but it's low stakes and funny
edit: I had a look apparently yougov is the source
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/35979-which-animals-could-britons-beat-fight
Here are the numbers themselves: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/YouGov_-_Humans_vs_animals_UK.pdf
Thank you!!
I'd rather take on a goose than a cat/rat. Geese at least you can get a hold of easily.
bahahahahaha no
Any dude who thinks he can beat a horse is just so wrong. I don't think anything bigger than a bug is possible. I would feel too bad lol
Depends what counts as winning. If leaving the arena counts as forfeit then I reckon I could beat a horse cus I don't think a horse has any desire to be there
If you get prep time surely its easy? What is the horse going to do, I can just make a few spears and set a stick on fire to wave in its face to scare it.
Imagine doing it. Stabbing a weapon into the panicking animal while trying to not get kicked. The blood from the wound makes the weapon slippery and hard to hold...
Could you really? You make it sound so easy, like the people who have not taken a life tend to.
I mean a horse is certainly bigger than anything I have had to kill, I will give you that.
But I went with spear because it's typically the weapon of choice against cavalry, it gives you distance reducing the chance you get kicked. You can also place multiple spears around you to protect your location, or make traps and scare it into running into them.
I don't think a horse would choose melee if it can run, and if you prepare for range (multiple javelins), you have an advantage. A gokd hit on the more sensitive parts of the legs can knock it down, and while it keeps running you could collect your projectiles and keep trying. Persistence hunting can wear it out, even if it's faster. Once it's on the ground, finishing it wouldn't be as dangerous any more if you stick it from outside kicking range.
If it does fight up close, yeah, that'd be terrifying, but the range advantage of the spear would give you an edge still. Physically, I think I could pull it off.
Emotionally, I'm pretty sure I couldn't handle it. I'd go down, paralysed at the thought of hurting it.
The thing is, horses have a pretty fatal design flaw. If you can manage to take out one of its leg, the bout is won.
Of course, that misses the fact that those legs will be actively focused on kicking you, but with prep time you could probably find a way to get the horse to trip and break a leg.
There was a 32 minute period from initial text to the first response, and then the whole thing was over by minute 3.
That certainly didn't kill an hour. That's like 35 minutes. Something's not right.
I'd go so far as to say OP is a liar. I bald faced full lipped green eyed strong jawed curly haired liar who broke my heart and will do so again.
I noticed that too but I think the meme is constructed by juxtaposing a twitter post making the claim about how much time it would kill onto a text of someone testing the claim on their friend, so the twitter person turns out to be wrong but no fault should be applied to the text convo.
Screenshot of a text convo in the screenshot of a Twitter post in a post on Lemmy- I'm holding you to account reallykindasorta. This rests solely on your broad, muscular shoulders. Quite frankly there's no way to wash your rugged yet tender hands of this mess, and I for one won't stand for it.
They told me the devil would be beautiful.
I certainly perpetuated the myth by sharing it. In that case I’m going to defend it and say that this single text anecdote is an outlier and that, on average, this question would take an hour to resolve (including clarifications about weapons and such).
lemmy needs this energy
The idea that a horse could prepare is kinda whack. What is it gonna do? Get to an open field?
I think the more important question is, can a horse prep? Like does it even understand the concept of prepping? I think if you could somehow tell a horse that a week from now it would have to fight a human it probably wouldn't do anything to prepare.
Don't think horses can carry HIV. PreP is not necessary
Ok Mr. Hands...
I could definitely beat the piss out of a salmon, especially if we were brawling out-of-water. A sheep too. I might get a little hurt, but I think I'd be evenly matched with an angry sheep.
Nah, a sheep would kick my ass. A salmon too probably.
I think for me the line is somewhere between big dog and wolf lmao
With or without tools? Tools change the equation big time. The ability of humans (and other monkeys) to throw stuff is probably the closest thing to fucking bullshit sorcery the animal kingdom has ever seen. Even just being able to throw a kinda heavy rock competently can massively level the playing field between a person and a mid-size predator (obviously bears won't give two shits).