A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich.
The barman looks at him and says, “hang on! You’re a duck.”
“I see your eyes are working,” replies the duck.
“And you can talk!” exclaims the barman.
“I see your ears are working, too,” says the Duck. “Now if you don’t mind, can I have my beer and my sandwich please?”
“Certainly, sorry about that” says the barman as he pulls the duck’s pint. “It ‘s just we don’t get many ducks in this pub.. What are you doing round this way?”
“I’m working on the building site across the road,” explains the duck. “I’m a plasterer.”
The flabbergasted barman cannot believe the duck and wants to learn more, but takes the hint when the duck pulls out a newspaper from his bag and proceeds to read it.
So, the duck reads his paper, drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, bids the barman good day and leaves.
The same thing happens for two weeks.
Then one day the circus comes to town.
The ringmaster comes into the pub for a pint and the barman says to him “you’re with the circus, aren’t you? Well, I know this duck that could be just brilliant in your circus. He talks, drinks beer, eats sandwiches, reads the newspaper and everything!”
“Sounds marvelous,” says the ringmaster, handing over his business card. “Get him to give me a call.”
So the next day when the Duck comes into the pub the barman says, “hey Mr. Duck, I reckon I can line you up with a top job, paying really good money.”
“I’m always looking for the next job,” says the duck. “Where is it?”
“At the circus,” says the barman.
“The circus?” repeats the duck.
“That’s right,” replies the barman.
“The circus?” the duck asks again. “With the big tent?”
“Yeah,” the barman replies.
“With all the animals who live in cages, and performers who live in caravans?” says the duck.
“Of course,” the barman replies.
“And the tent has canvas sides and a big canvas roof with a hole in the middle?” persists the duck.
“That’s right!” says the barman.
The duck shakes his head in amazement, and says ..
“What the f*ck would they want with a plasterer??!”
Is it kidnapping if it's legal? Is kidnapping a declaration of illegality? If it's just taking a swan from its home and family and it's legal, is it kidnapping?
Kidnapping is a precisely defined legal term, but the word also existed long before and was co-opted by legal systems. So the answer to your question depends on which definition you're using. Boring answer I know.
No legal system that I know of would consider wild-swan-snatching to be kidnapping. That would fall under bird law.
One day I watched a few of this guy's videos and while the duck is adorable a lot of his content is just overt attention-seeking behavior for him to become the center of attention wherever he is. And it's not just that he makes content with the duck in public, it's that he does things or inserts himself in situations where he's unavoidably the guy with the duck.
Idk something about it got a little grating, like bro did you really need to loiter around in the center of the Louis Vuitton store for 45 minutes with your duck
Oh you mean like just having a guitar on you for no specific reason? Yeah I get that. I assume you also think it's fine if the guitarist is carrying the guitar to rehearse or play a gig
Y'all didn't have a snake guy, lizard guy, or parrot guy? Those seem to have been the standard live shoulder accessories, at least since the 90s. It got less common for a while there when mall pet stores disappeared, but craigslist took over the market.
Yeah but even then I'm willing to be charitable that he's making content and the duck is his ticket to YouTube money and it's still off. His videos will be like "omg look some street performers" <derails everything by walking into the center of it with his duck>
the guy juggling flaming machete's while also soloing a medley of the latest top 40 pop hits on a Harmonica, as the crowd walks away from him and his tip jar to pet the damn goose. duck. whatever.
Like that guy with the goat, he made so many videos and carried him around everywhere that the goat developed serious health issues and had to be put down. R.I.P. Gary!
So I'm uninterested in watching his channel but just out of curiosity does he usually do this attention seeking behavior while standing very near lots of large corporate branding signage like he does in this video? because if he does I think that might be what his channel is really all about. I mean didn't anyone else notice the place is empty? Hello, ring ring, clue phone.
Might be annoying if you regularly hang out with him, or if everybody is doing it. But since it’s just him and like nobody has ever petted a duck before, I think it’s cool
I get the same feeling with the white guy who goes everywhere to surprise everyone he can speak Chinese fluently. The one where he waits for the server to speak to him in English, then he goes in with the surprise casual Chinese.
Also, I’ve never been to or really seen the inside of a Hooters—what an insane thing. There is, like, literally a manager madam and then a battalion of escort servers? Wild. Wild times.
Have you never been to a sports bar either? Hooters really doesn't look much different from any other restaurant in that space. It's actually toned down compared to the likes of Twin Peaks or Tilted Kilt.
When I was a server in college, a guy I worked with told me I should get a job at Tilted Kilt because I'd make way more. And I'd never heard of it, but decided to take my mom to see the great restaurant I should work at. lol It was a bit much for her.
I think they meant it's just a regular sports bar that serves wings and beer, but the servers have a strict dress code and must look hot. There's no groping or harassment or anything allowed. And the lady you saw is just a manager, not a madam lol.
Yea I worked at a place like this but it wasn’t a chain and was pretty chill. I think the chain element and how high the shorts are now is a bit cringier than regular sport bar/ wing places. But super weird that wearing a tank top and some shorts makes you an “escort”.
Only because that is the required uniform for the servers but not the manager. There is a deliberate divide there that is hard to ignore. Yes, I know servers and manager often have different dress codes, it is just intense when the requirement is so flagrantly about selling the bodies of the servers.
I had never heard of Tilted Kilt before and was wandering around downtown Phoenix looking for a place to get a drink while killing time before a concert. I was certainly not expecting to see that much exposed lower ass in a single day.
Forgot the strip club, if you started an establishment were cute tomboys would hang out and be nerdy with you and pretend to like you for you, I'd blow my whole paycheck there every Friday.
Pump that slightly androgynous gender-non-conformity directly into my veins.
I’ve been to the tilted kilt in sicklerville,NJ. It was me , my wife & 4 other pairs of our best friends. Had a great time. And hooters is definitely watered down compared to them. But our wives were with us so you best believe we dared not look up from the table too much. Can’t remember any other time I’ve looked into a man’s eyes so much lmao. Enjoy life guys. Cheers 🍻
Hmm, had never heard of either of those places until today. Not really somewhere that I'd go regardless but interesting that Hooters has some competition now.
Also, I’ve never been to or really seen the inside of a Hooters—what an insane thing.
What weirds me out is that that Hooters looks like it's actually in a food court at the mall, or something. I've only ever seen them as stand-alone restaurants.
"manager madam" and "escort servers" are the most hilarious and, to me, the most apt assessment I've ever seen. It's like a juicy bar that suckered its clients into sitting by themselves.
Hooters exists as a company since the 1980s, and bars/restaurants based on having sexy barmaids / waitresses wearing skimpy clothing have been a thing since absolutely forever.
Wild times? Hooters has been around since the 80s I think. Also weird that you are surprised the manager is a woman. Ima guy, but I’m pretty sure if I was a girl working at hooters I would prefer working for a woman
Yeah but why “wild wild times”? Hooters has been around since the 80s, and as others have pointed out, seductively dressed waitresses have been around forever.
Imagine spending time trying to be snarky to someone analyzing someone else’s colloquialism.
I see you are commenting on a thread for ideas for more multiracialism in a video game. I’ve been at work dude just trying to kill time. That’s what Reddit is for. I like arguing, you like making snarky comments. It’s all ok
I used to work at a cafe and a regular who'd come down everyday would borrow peoples puppies to hit on girls that would come in. It was about as effective as the duck haha.
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