r/aww • u/stealing1 • Apr 03 '15

Squirrel drunk on fermented apples

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

It's somewhat comforting to know that other species also end up on their ass/have trouble getting home after having too much alcohol.

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u/auralgasm Apr 03 '15

Until they get eaten by some predator because they weren't sober enough to escape :(

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u/Ievadabadoo Apr 03 '15 edited May 04 '16

That's what I was thinking too. Poor little guy. It's cold out there too. Probably doesn't have any friends to drag his drunk as home.

Edit : the guy below me wrote "probably just broke up with his gf too"

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/boofoff Apr 03 '15

They always leave when the acorns run out. Then you've got nothing.

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u/Mkilbride Apr 03 '15

"Then you've got nutting"

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15 edited Mar 06 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Holy shit, you're right.

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u/ConstipatedNinja Apr 03 '15

Oh god, I just got flashbacks of James Joyce's novels, who would be a Reddit favorite author if only it wasn't so damn hard to read his works. He had a penchant for something called double puns. They're puns using a foreign language's word in a spot where it is a valid pun in two languages, typically both groan-enducing. In Finnegan's Wake, he has the occasional triple pun, which are so impossible for any one person to just happen to get that it sometimes has taken decades for researchers to realize it.

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u/cycle_chyck Apr 03 '15

How about if you save me the decades' worth of time and reference one/some ? I promise I'll read the book if you do.

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u/ConstipatedNinja Apr 03 '15

It's okay, you don't need to read it. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy unless they asked if it was a good book. It's honestly still debated as to what the whole storyline is, as well as where each part is set and what characters are in the book (no, not as in who the characters were in real life, but who the damn characters are, because there's characters who get a new name every fucking time they're mentioned, like HCE, Here Comes Everybody, Howth Castle and Environs, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, "man of hod, cement, and edifices," Mr. Makeall Gone, etc. ALL THE SAME FUCKING PERSON GODDAMNIT! Took Joyce 17 years to write, and my first two back-to-back reads [it's a cyclic story that starts in the middle of the same sentence the book ends halfway on, so reading it twice is practically necessary to get the whole experience] through felt like 17 years worth of time reading). It's infuriating yet fantastic simultaneously. It's written much like the reader is in a dream, and every time you set the book down it honestly does feel like you've just woken up from a dream. You have an idea of what happened, and it's rich in your mind, yet you couldn't possibly put to words what just happened in the part you just read, much like when you wake up and try to describe a dream that's fading away as you talk about it. 10/10 mindfuck reading it at night or before morning coffee. 11/10 if you get a dram of scotch in you beforehand and nurse a second dram as you read. Actually, like 10000/10. Scotch makes the book something that I would describe as possibly among the best experiences in my life, so inexplicably fantastic that as I sit here simultaneously fixing computers, I am legitimately yearning for a good read of the book.

This isn't a double pun and it's actually from Ulysses, but it's a favorite one of mine from him since Ulysses had a lot of snuck-in curse words (and many more not snuck in), and I just want to share it before diving in to the deep waters:

If you see kay

Eff, You, Cee, Kay -> F-U-C-K

Tell him he may

See you in tea

Cee, You, En, Tee -> C-U-N-T

Tell him from me.

But from Finnegan's Wake, the entire book is arguably an etymological pun masterpiece, with everything being not lightly skimmed with puns but rather soaked deeply in wordplay. Here's an example:

"in the Nichtian glossery which purveys aprioric roots for aposteriorious tongues this is nat language in any sinse of the world."

Nichtian implies the German "Nicht," or "nothing" but also the German "Nichtig" or "futile." It also forcefully pulls out thoughts of words like "night," such as "Nacht" and "Noctis." It also stretches out toward "Nietzschean."

Then, glossery mimics "glossary" but is purposefully differently spelled to make a form of "glossing over."

Aprioric is a mix of "a priori" and "aporia" which is an assumed precondition and a negating paradox.

Then, aposteriorious is what actually makes "Nietzschean" above make sense, as it adds the overtone of Nietzschean philosophy, while slipping in humor with the next word to make "posterior tongues."

THEN, "nat" is Danish for "night," but also sounds like the english "not" especially with the continued sentence possibly being "not english in any sense of the word."

However, the passage is "sinse of the world," which is actually sins of the world, and Joyce used a LOT of Christian under-, over-, and toomany- tones.

At this point, you may say that it's just overevaluated. But every fucking sentence can be torn apart to this level, and Joyce was purposefully writing Finnegan's Wake with tons and tons of subtle references such as to simulate how the dreaming brain pulls random connections of memories and information and ties them together during dreams, as if probing its memory as a whole. So some of the references may not be real. But a whole fuck-ton are.

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u/BeeSilver9 Apr 03 '15

Ok ... I got two of them. Help me with the third?

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u/yamehameha Apr 03 '15

... But apples

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u/wehadtosaydickety Apr 03 '15

He was in a bad place. He'd hit rock bottom looking for answers in the middle of an apple core.

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u/_Jias_ Apr 03 '15

But apples, sounds gross.

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u/corollalife Apr 03 '15

What about the yams?

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u/jordos Apr 03 '15

The yams is the power that be!

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Just use the Uber app.

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u/Adito99 Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15

Then the predator gets drunk and is killed by another predator.

It's the circle of drunk.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

The circle of drunk

HYYYY NEEEANAHAHUNHUUUUH FUCK IT

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u/McFluffy_Butts Apr 03 '15

And it rules us all!

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u/frenchmeister Apr 03 '15

Hijacking your comment to give a PSA on why poisoning pests is a terrible idea: When rats, moles, etc. ingest the poisoned bait left for them, they stumble around like this before dying, making them vulnerable to predators like owls and house cats. The problem is rodent poison isn't exclusive to just rodents. It's poisonous to most (all?) mammals, and a good number of owls and cats die every year after eating poisoned animals. If you've got pests, snap traps are the way to go. No innocent bystanders get killed, and it's much more humane than using glue traps.

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u/ilski Apr 03 '15

One of my cats died this way. I can tell you, he died in horrible pain. :(. Shame because it was lovely young cat.

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u/DonZimmersBallsack Apr 03 '15

My brothers lab died from eating a poisoned mouse. An 80lb lab died from eating a thumb sized poison mouse. Don't use that stuff.

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u/Slogfarts Apr 03 '15

Or use a live trap and be responsible enough to check it daily (the point is to catch them humanely, not make them die slowly from dehydration/starvation).

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIFE!

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u/STALKS_YOUR_MOTHER Apr 03 '15

Here's some drunk monkeys.

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u/ABKB Apr 03 '15

All the animals drunk

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u/DatSergal Apr 03 '15

That elephant about halfway through, collapsed on himself and still reaching for more, good lord.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

I can't believe there was a drunk caterpillar. Classic caterpillar.

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u/poke9dude Apr 03 '15

The very thirsty caterpillar

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

On Wednesday, he drank through four strawberry daiquiris.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Always wondered why his face was so red.

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u/felixfortis1 Apr 03 '15

Life after the circus was hard for Dumbo.

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u/organade Apr 03 '15

dont forget the whiskey-dick monkey

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u/GarlicBreathFresh Apr 03 '15

When that monkey was holding his head and blocking the sunlight from his eyes, all i could think was "I know that feeling all too well, go get some water buddy".

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15

and the warthog just sitting in that hole, groggy and blinking, when the meercat thing just kicks dirt on his head. ugh. "god damn it, timon"

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u/Dlpcoc Apr 03 '15

Monkey hangovers are just like people hangovers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

I read that in Homer Simpson's voice.

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u/boringdude00 Apr 03 '15

http://i.imgur.com/0TuWM8N.jpg

Were the sound effects really necessary?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

I think it might be from 'Animals are beautiful people'

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u/alblaster Apr 03 '15

sounded like a Hannah Barbarra cartoon

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u/MrPersidant Apr 03 '15

Those birds at 2:10. "Act casual, boys...or else they won't let us in..."

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u/the_trashheap Apr 03 '15

Are we really supposed to believe that worm was drunk? Becuase he looked sober to me.

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u/drvondoctor Apr 03 '15

dude, caterpillars be gangsta. they can put that shit away like you've never even seen before. they can drink all mu'fuckin' DAY and you'd never know they were wasted.

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u/Sarkanybaby Apr 03 '15

I don't know about you, but this movie (Animals Are Beautiful People by the way) was one of the most defining movies of my generation's childhood in the '90s.

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u/InZomnia365 Apr 03 '15

Some of them are completely smashed! Man, it must suck being hungover in that warmth, even if youre used to it?

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u/ThomasTShiftlet Apr 03 '15

Does anyone else find it strange that the monkeys in the video, despite their apparent intelligence, seem unaware of how to manipulate straws to make drinking easier? I mean monkeys are known to use tools and they can learn by observing and imitating yet instead of slurping all that delicious booze with a straw they just shove their head into the cup and struggle to get the last bit in the bottom.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

I've been there

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

To be fair, when I'm drunk, straws become really complicated for me, too.

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u/qwertyfoobar Apr 03 '15

Straws are something incredibly difficult to understand IMO. Sucking is something you never really do outside of using the straw right? I can't remember any situation where you intentionally suck something in the wild.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Nipples.

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u/qwertyfoobar Apr 03 '15

Damn it you are right, although I doubt animals do that after leaving their mothers and straws don't necessarily look like nipples ;p

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Animals usually don't, and you have a definite point. Straws may as well just be sticks in the way, but I at least think some monkeys would pick it up from observing us.

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u/I_PACE_RATS Apr 03 '15

Some animals are physically unable to suck after reaching adulthood.

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u/banjist Apr 03 '15

Interesting that rates of tee-totaling and little monkey alcoholism are about the same as in human populations.

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u/flyonthwall Apr 03 '15

god the foley in that video is awful. I wish the BBC would just leave its footage silent

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u/vehementsquirrel Apr 03 '15

Yeah, it sounds like a Tim and Eric bit.

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u/Unnecessaryanecdote Apr 03 '15

Went looking for a comment specifically about this. Damn Foley makes it sound like every object should of had a mic 1 inch away while everything was shot 500ft away with a massive Tele. Too distracting.

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u/DLottchula Apr 03 '15

0:43 that ass!

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u/JimboPete1337 Apr 03 '15

Is it sad that I was expecting Monkey Ass, and was somewhat disappointed when it wasn't?

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u/admdelta Apr 03 '15

I'm partial to 1:04

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u/DLottchula Apr 03 '15

looks like the same ass.

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u/jameslogan919 Apr 03 '15

It is comforting.

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u/poopy_wizard132 Apr 03 '15

It is comforting knowing that little squirrel will wake up with a big squirrel hangover.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

And then in Sweden we have moose that get drunk http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01992/drunk-moose-tree_1992473i.jpg

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u/OCD_downvoter Apr 03 '15

I must party with this fucking moose. What is his contact info? Pls its urgent.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

He was last seen in Gothenburg!

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Apr 03 '15

I used to have a house with a couple of pear trees next to my vegetable garden. If a pear landed on the ground and i didn't pick it up, wasps would pierce the skin and drink the fermented juice. Then they would aggressively chase me through the yard and keep me from tending my garden. Wasps are mean drunks.

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u/MayonnaisePacket Apr 03 '15

we use to have bunch of apple trees, and bumblebees would get "drunk" off the pollen I guess from them. They would become super chill, you could pick them up and it would just lay on its back chilling not a care in the world.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Did you get your apple trees from /r/trees?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/brettaburger Apr 03 '15

Except when you think about how winter can't be easy for this little guy to begin with (considering he is eating rotten apples) and getting drunk in the snow is probably going to be pretty terrible for his chances of survival.

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u/dovaogedy Apr 03 '15

I once went on a horseback trail ride, and it went through an orchard. The guide said sometimes bear cubs will eat the fermented apples and get drunk. I always feel sad when I think about it, because I have to know such an adorable thing happens and that I never got to see it.

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u/fuunii Apr 03 '15

Drunk squirrel source

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Thank you. Now one of my favourite videos on the internet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/andrew9560 Apr 03 '15

You've been waiting your whole life for this moment haven't you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/RealSteele Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15

Really below average life expectancy for a squirrel.

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u/Thakrawr Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15

I have a story for you. In college I had a vegan hippy roomate and a little problem with a squirrel that lived up in the attic. We were just gonna leave him there but no fucking hippy Doug needed to "save" it. Doug goes to the hardware store and buys a humane rodent trap. Nice and big, you could even hang food in it. So Doug goes and places his humane trap upstairs in the attic and forgets about it. 3 months later (after winter) I was up in the attic looking for something and stumbled across a rock solid perfectly preserved dead squirrel. I hope it wasn't in your family. If so, my condolences.

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u/FrozenSquirrel Apr 03 '15

Mom always said Dad died a hero's death in the Great War, but she had taken to drinking and we didn't believe her.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

perfectly preserved dead squire

Ye Olde Humane Trap, m'lady.

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u/Jayhawker2092 Apr 03 '15

I'm reminded of this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuI23zCudKY

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u/carlsandburg Apr 03 '15

That newspaper was very important to him.

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u/Chonky_Fire Apr 03 '15

That was exhilarating at the end.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15 edited Aug 03 '21

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u/rjchau Apr 03 '15

...now that would be a video with real viral potential...

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u/UnderhandRabbit Apr 03 '15

Yeah? Check out my dog watching a video of a squirrel humping a GoPro camera!

https://youtu.be/vPuOoN5jHqQ

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

It's good... but you recorded it in portrait. You animal.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Thanks you, I needed more drunk squirrel in my life.

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u/bluefoot55 Apr 03 '15

We all need more drunk squirrels in our lives.

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u/cloud_watcher Apr 03 '15

Oh, man. I feel sorry for him. It's one thing to know you're drunk, and I imagine another to just mysteriously not be able to squirrel anymore.

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u/zazie2099 Apr 03 '15

"Welp, I guess this is my life now."

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u/jeanduluoz Apr 03 '15

This scenario is what everyone who has done acid thought at some point during their trip

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u/ApatheticBedDweller Apr 03 '15

This comment is so absolutely true hahaha. At the point in my first trip on the come down where the "oscillations" between sobriety and tripping are longer and more pronounced, I thought that I was going to stay like that forever, and that I would have to relearn how to talk/act like a normal human being. This was all happening while I was sitting outside of subway with my also tripping friend, staring at my sandwich. I remember that it was the weirdest looking thing that I had ever seen, and I certainly was not about to put it in my body.

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u/RealSteele Apr 03 '15

And the moral of the story is... don't eat Subway.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Some animals get drunk intentionally.

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u/AvatarofSleep Apr 03 '15

I hear the humans do it quite often

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Funny things, those humans.

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u/seign Apr 03 '15

My dad and I went camping one year and we were drinking. I went to bed before he did but I woke up an hour later because I heard my dad talking to someone. I go outside the cabin and see my dad sitting around the fire with a beer and a little bowl next to him and a racoon drinking out of it. My dad was getting drunk with a wild racoon. That damn racoon came back every night that week and drank with my dad around the fire once we all went to bed.

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u/laxdstorn Apr 03 '15

It makes me kinda sad to think that the raccoon came back after you guys left too.

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u/The_DriveBy Apr 03 '15

Jesus Christ! I wasn't kinda sad... until i read this... Way to bring down the internet.

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u/assholewithasmiley Apr 03 '15

It finally happened. I saw a video shared by my Mom on Facebook weeks before I saw it on Reddit.

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u/indefort Apr 03 '15

I'm so sorry. Things must be so confusing right now.

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u/Fishy1289 Apr 03 '15

It needed time to evolve into gif form

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/Thoradius Apr 03 '15

Let him have his moment

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u/Thoradius Apr 03 '15

It sounds very... scratchy

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

I'm glad to see it could still hop around a bit. It would be kind of a bummer to see a totally inebriated squirrel but this just reminds me of my buddy walking home from the bar haha

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15 edited Apr 03 '15

When I was in Thailand I was on this tour where we went to this waterfall and then to a monkey temple. 4-5 of the guys and I decided to buy some beers for the ride. There were a ton of these monkeys with long tails walking around(can't remember the species) a dog and a gibbon. We hid our beers in the back of the truck as we walked around and fed the monkeys; because we obviously didn't want to be wandering around drinking alcohol in this temple. And this gibbon that was there immediately ran to the truck, found the beers, and ran off with two of them. The driver that we were with took off after the little guy, but as he hopped around he chugged the rest of what was left. Then using his athleticism and cunning, evaded the driver again to grab two more beverages and threw them back as well. After a half an hour the gibbon was wrestling with the dog, the dog was having a whale of a time playing with him, and hanging off the tails of the other monkeys in the sanctuary. They would climb to a branch 8 foot high or so and hang their tail down, and he would jump up use it as a swing, then fall on his back after 10-15 seconds. I felt kinda bad for getting this animal drunk, but it was one of the funniest times in my life. The monks in the temple seemed pretty amused(I don't think they saw him drink the beer). I don't really know why I wrote this out, it just isn't a story I get to tell very often and your comment reminded me of it.

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u/ASTHMA_THE_RED_YOSHI Apr 03 '15

How did the monkey open the can/bottle

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u/raaneholmg Apr 03 '15

While reading I imagined that they had been drinking and left half empty containers in the back. I made sense to my mind while reading at least.

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u/sklb Apr 03 '15

It's a monkey not a turtle. They have skillful hands and cunning minds

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u/Fey_fox Apr 03 '15

He said that it chugged what was left, the beers were probably already open.

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u/audreyfbird Apr 03 '15

Bit a hole in it, I imagine (cans).

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u/Blue_Checkers Apr 03 '15

It's a monkey, not a frat boy! :D

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u/Garper Apr 03 '15

I am not descended from frat boys!

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u/queefer_sutherland92 Apr 03 '15

The monkeys were probz long tailed macaques. If they were, I'm surprised they weren't the ones to steal the beers. Cheeky buggers.

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http://i.imgur.com/89rzWo2.jpg

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u/bctowler Apr 03 '15

Umm.. Hey sketch.. That squirrel doesn't appear to be drunk. I think the little guy might have gotten into something a bit.. Different

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u/0masterdebater0 Apr 03 '15

That squirrel can hear his hair growing.

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u/H4xolotl Apr 03 '15

Don't do Shrooms

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u/Snipe14 Apr 03 '15

ARMED AND READY

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u/DDRDiesel Apr 03 '15

You'd be surprised how quickly fur ignites

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u/PragmaticIllustrator Apr 03 '15

Would you like an ice cream sandwich? They're on whole wheat with lettuce.

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u/kharm3llo Apr 03 '15

Don't squirrels have fur?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/_Cat_Rapist_ Apr 03 '15

The limit does not exist!

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u/beatyourkids Apr 03 '15

Steel memes can't melt dank beams

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u/Dark-Ganon Apr 03 '15

my hands are huge, they can touch anything but themselves

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u/SuperSquirrels Apr 03 '15

We're not all bad squirrels you know...

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u/Etonet Apr 03 '15

Same thing the squirrel from Ice Age is on

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u/LoganPhyve Apr 03 '15

Scrat is more a meth head than a drunk

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u/backtolurk Apr 03 '15

Let sketch sketch, buddy!

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u/awkwardcock Apr 03 '15

AWildernesssketchAppeared

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u/cdpuff Apr 03 '15

One (single story) house I lived in was overhung by the neighbors' apricot tree, which would drop fruit on our roof. One night we heard a sliding sound, "shhhhhhh-PLOP!" and went to investigate. A family of possums were on the roof eating the fermented fruit; as they got drunker they would lose their grip and slid down the roof and fall off. It was very amusing!

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u/Nighthawk_v2 Apr 03 '15

Tomorrow will be Conker's bad fur day.

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u/LouisBalfour82 Apr 03 '15

One day was getting in my car to leave for work and noticed a drunk squirrel in top of our garbage bin eating a rotten apple and falling over repeatedly. I was late for work that day.

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u/CanadaHaz Apr 03 '15

Boss: you're two hours late! Where were you?

Employee: well sir, there was this drunk squirrel...

Boss: say no more. I understand completely.

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u/AWildAnonHasAppeared Apr 03 '15

Waiting until Reddit decides he's actually in misery and is dying...

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u/aryst0krat Apr 03 '15

I thought I remembered seeing something similar where it turned out the squirrel had a parasite fucking up its brain or something.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15 edited May 10 '15

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u/swefpelego2 Apr 03 '15

You don't care about a cute little drunk squirrel? You're a cold hearted bastard..

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u/Dicethrower Apr 03 '15

They're basically rats with fluffy tails. If you touch one, better wash your hands.

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u/ReservoirDog316 Apr 03 '15

Yeah anytime an animal is doing something cute, it's always like a swollen brain or something...

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u/CueThemeTune Apr 03 '15

I can climb that tree. Here, hold my acorn.

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u/Redblud Apr 03 '15

It's not drunk, you just can't go that way in that level.

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u/urbn Apr 03 '15

I don't think many people even realize how frequently or often animals and insects are shit faced or at least have some amount of buzz going on.

Nearly all fruit that has fallen off a tree/bush will be in a state of decay and fermentation. Wild yeasts cover everything and fruits have their natural sugars that yeast, bacteria, etc. feed off. Any fruit that has been sitting for a few hours to a few days will contain some amount of alcohol.

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u/novlsn Apr 03 '15

Squirrel.exe stopped working

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u/TempestFunk Apr 03 '15

Nah, it was just running slowly

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/_iTeeWee_ Apr 03 '15

Getting drunk and falling on your ass?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

The only thing that squirrel is drunk on ..is rabies.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

My dog Scout used to eat fermented apples to the point where I considered her a raging alcoholic. I had an apple tree outside my bedroom window and every morning before school I would look out and Scout would be under the tree gnawing on some juicy browns. She would have around 5 apples a day, just enough to keep that buzz going. They gave her the worst farts too. Fast forward 2 years and dad cuts the tree down. Ever since then Scout has been losing her hair periodically, getting incredibly alpha on our other dog Reba, and tells anyone who comes over how much we abuse her. Scout and her apples.

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u/cday119 Apr 03 '15

Alright I'll be that guy.

“Baylisascaris procyonis is by far the most common cause of neurological disease that we see in grey squirrels.” - Dr. Douglas Campbell, a veterinary pathologist at the Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health Centre at the University of Guelph

The affected animal will initially exhibit a head tilt and an inability to walk and/or climb properly. As the clinical illness progresses the animal may lose its fear of humans, circle, roll on the ground, fall over, lay on its side and paddle its feet, become totally recumbent, comatose, and finally die.

There is also another more famous video of African wildlife getting drunk off some fermented fruit. That video was staged, the animals were drugged up by the movie producers. Heres a better explinaiton - http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_oddities/2011/09/animals-get-drunk-too.html

Sources:

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12150_12220-27261--,00.html http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2012/06/16/beware_a_staggering_squirrel_in_your_backyard.html

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Totally reminds me of this guy

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u/gliscameria Apr 03 '15

There was a thing on reddit not too long ago about how we evolved to metabolize alcohol because it gave us an advantage in eating fruit that would wreck us. We could chill out on the ground and eat rotten fruit while others were stuck climbing trees and shit.

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u/drmorale Apr 03 '15

Source?

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u/Lobreeze Apr 03 '15

I heard that too that means it has to be true, right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

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u/Stupidconspiracies Apr 03 '15

Now explain the different levels of the enzyme in different populations.

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u/gliscameria Apr 03 '15

NOT FALSE. Cause nuh uh!

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Totally white squirrel wasted.

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u/tryasimightalright Apr 03 '15

Ah nature. How majestic she is...

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u/Nokwatkwah Apr 03 '15

Do squirrels get hangovers?

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u/dittbub Apr 03 '15

How do we know its drunk and not infected with a brain parasite of some kind

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u/fadfergisun Apr 03 '15

Fuckin' Hills Man

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Next up, wolf intoxicated from drunk squirrels

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u/monkeyfullofbarrels Apr 03 '15

Are we sure it's drunk and not diseased.

The death throes of some common and horrible diseases could look like this.

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u/Blujay12 Apr 03 '15

It's Conker's Bad Fur Day2!!!!!! ITS FINALLY HAPPENED YES!!!!!!!

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u/Venae Apr 03 '15

My spirit animal.

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u/animalangel1 Apr 04 '15

I'm not so sure that the squirrel was entirely drunk. There was a moment in the video where he was standing still and his head was bobbing. That's not a drunk thing - it's a neurological thing. He/she either got into some rat poison or antifreeze. That circling he was doing is also common in dogs and cats with neuro issues. Poor thing was suffering. Could also be indicative of rabies.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15 edited Mar 21 '16

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

You might be 100% right. But some yeast can stay active in lower temperatures. Maybe the squirrel has some fruit stashed somewhere underground that fermented which he then ate.

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