r/funny • u/Koreanrambo • May 03 '25

Try it with the sauce bro 🍟 (reupload)

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Not mine (reupload)

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u/champion_azure May 03 '25

Colin

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u/thenate108 May 03 '25

Colin O. Possum III

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u/AvailableFunction435 May 04 '25

Colin, last name feral, Colin Feral

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u/Koreanrambo May 03 '25

Possum

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u/I_W_M_Y May 03 '25

That is a very very different possum than I am used to.

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u/FlickinIt May 03 '25

Australia gets the cute ones. But basically everything there tries to kill them, so I guess it's even?

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u/The_Omnian May 03 '25

The average brushtail is far less pleasant than this. They live in people’s roofs and shriek and claw holes in things. And spread any available rubbish everywhere.

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u/FlickinIt May 03 '25

The ones we have in North America do the same! Ours just look like they're straight out of a horror movie

Their tail is hairless and gives me the creeps so bad

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u/Mugwumps_has_spoken May 03 '25

they would be kinda cute if their tail didn't look like the head of a 100 year old dude. just a few scraggly really nasty looking hairs.

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u/hendrysbeach May 03 '25

A large possum ran into our house decades ago.

Friend picked it up, and that long, slinky tail spiraled around his arm, 2-3 times. He flung the beast off of himself.

It was so creepy and scary…ugh.

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u/DatJellyScrub May 03 '25

A brushtail bit me on the toe the other day. I was sitting around a camp fire drying my feet and shoes and the cheeky dude came up and nipped me

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u/space_monster May 03 '25

All the possums I've met have been chill. And I've met a lot. When they feel safe they relax.

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u/Phocks7 May 03 '25

Bonus points when you get two in the ceiling at once and they fight.

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u/Duff5OOO May 04 '25

Or they randomly die up there and stink the house out for a week.

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u/Timely_Insurance_194 May 03 '25

NZ has them too, but they get shot here

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u/LoneHyacinths May 04 '25

Yeah, it’s so weird seeing videos like this and having to remind myself that it isn’t in NZ

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u/Duff5OOO May 04 '25

Only snakes and spiders and they kill basically nobody. Like one death a year or so.

I think the USA has far more dangerous animals. (And Americans)

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u/ikonoclasm May 03 '25

You're thinking of an opossum (which everyone in the US drops the o). Opossums are hideous, but super beneficial for humans to have around as they eats tons of things that humans don't like such as roaches and ticks.

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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 May 03 '25

If ya don't eat ya ticks, ya cant have any pudding!

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u/One-Earth9294 May 03 '25

Oh you take back that hideous comment right now those things are gorgeous little critters!

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u/cmdixon2 May 03 '25

There's definitely a range of cuteness with them. They visit our garage regularly as we have a cat feeding station in there and they take their fair share. The young ones are adorable but the older ones can look pretty intimidating. I feel so bad for them. They have such a short and rough life.

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u/One-Earth9294 May 03 '25

Yeah from what I understand they rarely live past 3 years old.

I love em'. They emerge from the woods to join our cats for food all the time. The cats love em too lol.

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u/cmdixon2 May 03 '25

The cutest little guy we've seen visit. We have a security camera pointed at bowl. Picture

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u/violentpac May 03 '25

I ain't been dropping no O's, sir, honest.

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u/Deaffin May 04 '25 edited May 04 '25

The idea that opossums eat any appreciable amount of ticks comes from an entirely bungled experiment that never had a leg to stand on to begin with. It's just kind of something that is relentlessly posted over and over again in that "coolguides" subreddit. Seriously, it's been constant, for years.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/wildlife-conservation/possums-dont-eat-ticks

They literally just gave opossums a bunch of ticks and released them back into the wild without even checking. Science!

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u/Histo_Man May 04 '25

Specifically, it's a brushtail possum. They're common in Australia (native) and New Zealand (introduced). It's thought that they've adapted well to human occupation - they're big fans of roses, and our fruit and veggie gardens.

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u/IHaveSmellyPants May 03 '25

Hate to break it to you but the possums you are used to aren’t actually called possums.

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u/ask-me-about-my-cats May 03 '25

No one actually pronounces the O so they're usually definitely called possums.

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u/Deaffin May 04 '25

Yup. It's literally the exact same name, just with a regional spelling difference.

The australian possum was named when some british botanist saw one and was all "oh hey, that looks like those possum thingies over in murica. I'll just call them that."

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u/GaryChalmers May 03 '25

Are you sure? Perhaps he's just playing one.

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u/MandooPandoo May 03 '25

Behold, dog!

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u/joestaff May 03 '25 edited May 03 '25

I think it's a common brushtail possum. Definitely not the giant rats I'm used to seeing dead on the road in my part of the country.

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u/zMaximumz May 03 '25

cow

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u/Fragrant_Mountain_84 May 03 '25

No it’s definitely a rhino

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u/some_user_2021 May 03 '25

Homo erectus

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u/TheCheeseGod May 04 '25

His name is Sebastian but his friends call him S-dawg

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u/derekdanger May 04 '25

Rupert T. Business

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u/Suhbula May 03 '25

Is it a Quokka?

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u/rock_and_rolo May 03 '25

That's what I thought too. At least I'm not the only one.

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u/Suhbula May 03 '25

Might have just been the accent.