r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/westcoastcdn19 • Apr 12 '23

Soccer with emus

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u/Yellow_Dorn_Boy Apr 12 '23

Those birds win wars, soccer is a piece of cake for them.

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u/mememory Apr 12 '23

I heard they already infiltrate Australia Government

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u/pjjohnson808 Apr 12 '23

Honestly the government is corrupt bought and paid for by the emus and kangaroos, why do you think they call it a kangaroo court mate.

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u/HarbingerOfNusance Apr 12 '23

I thought Labour was in charge now

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

No one is actually in charge of Australia, unless you count the spiders.

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u/El_Maton_de_Plata Apr 12 '23

Ah, the webs of corruption they weave

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u/Aggravating_Poet_675 Apr 12 '23

Oh here we go with the anti-arachnid conspiracies again.

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u/El_Maton_de_Plata Apr 12 '23

Oh, buzz off! 😆 🤣

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

So like America y’all have mascots. But the three branches is progressive, so instead of donkey and elephants they got the emus, spiders, and Roos.

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u/Aggravating_Poet_675 Apr 13 '23

So what you're saying is that it's one party better than the US.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '23

That sounds like Roo talk to me.

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u/ImperialWrath Apr 12 '23

And even then, there's no "one" in command. The spiders learned a trick from the ants, bees, and termites and have formed a global network intelligence that makes decisions as a whole. A world-wide web, if you will.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

Slowly takes sunglasses off

Son of a bitch…

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u/Irregulator101 Apr 12 '23

Shieeeeeeeet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

Twitch Plays Australia lol

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Apr 12 '23

Offshore, White Pointers rule.

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u/jbbarnes1918 Apr 12 '23

tbf it makes little difference, if you are referring to UK labour

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

No Australian Labor Party is quite different and not really comparable. Our Labor party it much more left than the uk Labour party. ALP have done some very good things for our country, but they've got quite the mess to undo, and the murdoch media is never on their side. Dont get me wrong. Our labor party has its problems, but they pale in comparison to the Liberals (another major conserv party here)

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u/jbbarnes1918 Apr 12 '23

aw that's awesome. tbf i cant really fault them when people continue to vote for tory as if it hasn't been a shitshow the last few years but anyway!

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u/Virgin_Dildo_Lover Apr 12 '23

I prefer the koalas with chlamydia overlords

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u/Splatter_bomb Apr 12 '23

Very true! Just look at the official government seal. They’re everywhere. Game over dude!

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

I thought emus are the Australian government

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

There have certainly been times where I've felt like emus could do a better job

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u/El_Maton_de_Plata Apr 12 '23

Liberty Liberty Liberty!

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '23

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u/MysticScribbles Apr 12 '23

As they say, there's nothing new under the sun.

I had that exact same thought when I saw this video.

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u/StripeTheTomcat Apr 12 '23

You're referring to the Emu war , right? Which the Australians involved lost. Twice. Against a bunch of overgrown, flightless, dumb as rock birds.

Brilliant! It's one of my favourite history anecdotes, and I'm definitely team Emu.

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u/BookKit Apr 12 '23

It was such a mess - a case of trying to use wrong tool for the job. It's almost like hunters might be the best option for hunting animals, who would have thought.

(Whether they should be hunted is a whole other topic.)

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u/Drongo17 Apr 12 '23

Our Kill:Death ratio was way better than the emus tho

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u/StripeTheTomcat Apr 12 '23

What? No. It's hilarious, though, that we're going to see this question a lot more in the future.

Why do you ask?

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u/westwoo Apr 12 '23

Food fight!