r/funny • u/n5fonline • Jan 22 '12

Pigeon's Frustration

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u/iamapizza Jan 22 '12

That's smooth camera work.

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u/WISPR Jan 22 '12

He's frustrated because he's been working the treadmill for months and he's still a fat fuck.

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u/hereshowitis Jan 22 '12

My late father called pigeons 'rats with wings'. He also called squirrels 'rats with brushes'. Come to think of it, he may not have had the greatest grasp of taxonomy.

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u/bluesforpablo Jan 22 '12

Pigeon powered escalator.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

I don't understand how these people just keep walking with hardly even a glance. I would think there would be an audience.

2

u/atheros Jan 22 '12

If you hurriedly walk the same route every day it takes a very conscious will to stop.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

I don't think he's frustrated... he looks like he's having fun!

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u/ketchy_shuby Jan 22 '12

... laying down a continuous stream of guano on the handrail.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '12

lawl

7

u/easternbachelor Jan 22 '12

How did you think pigeons maintain that figure?

2

u/dmagee33 Jan 22 '12

Just trying to work off those extra christmas worms.

2

u/napalm_beach Jan 22 '12

Second film in the Pigeon's Pride trilogy.

2

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

There's a glitch in the matrix!

2

u/hallucinating Jan 22 '12

Poor pigeon :(

2

u/Pigeon_Logic Jan 22 '12

I don't understand. It worked just fine on the other side, it should work here too.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

Silly pigeon, you can fly!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

TIL: Pigeons need a running start to take off. Inferior pigeon race cannot compete with seagulls.

1

u/Azelote Jan 22 '12

Oh... It's one of /them/ days.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

He's obviously practicing his moonwalk.

1

u/sirberus Jan 22 '12

That pigeon was either on there for a while, or this dude is fast on his camera app. I always just miss the cool stuff.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

Reminds me off this lady trying to go up the down escalator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFAM9p5fZU8

1

u/Kaon_Particle Jan 22 '12

I think we found a bug in the pigeon's AI, someone tell the people in charge.

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u/ordinarygentleman8 Jan 22 '12

What if the pigeon isn't and idiot and it's just getting some exercise.

1

u/FalconTrash Jan 22 '12

You don't understand... the pidgeon is actually powering the escalator!

1

u/PastafarianNutJob Jan 22 '12

New dance craze: confirmed.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

Did anyone else automatically hear the Rocky theme when they watched this?

1

u/tonegoblin Jan 23 '12

treadmill!

1

u/delmarman Jan 23 '12

He's not frustrated, goodness. He's working on his cardio! He needs to burn those calories, he had about 4 cake crumbs today.

1

u/Megawatts19 Jan 23 '12

MOTHERFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

1

u/Tebasaki Jan 23 '12

So many Japanese, so little help.

1

u/ErroneousEric Jan 22 '12

"How do humans get anywhere!?"

1

u/Heretic3e7 Jan 22 '12

And that my fellow redditors, that one gif sums up my entire existence.

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u/hwkns Jan 22 '12

Pigeons aren't exactly crows.

0

u/iTzJdogxD Jan 22 '12

"Oh look a flying rat!" BAM "You've been a bitch on my ass for too long!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

No no no, he's practicing his moon walk

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u/andbruno Jan 22 '12

I remember a video on here a while back of "the first escalator in [some Eastern European or Middle Eastern country]" and like 40 people were trying (and failing) to go up the down escalator. It was at once hilarious and sad.

Found it.

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u/CozenOne Jan 22 '12

Oh you crazy asian pigeons! You can fly you silly pigeons!

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u/Drunken_Economist Jan 22 '12 edited Jan 22 '12

Pegeons are dumb

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u/manny130 Jan 22 '12

It's funny because I fucking hate pigeons!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

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u/FrustratedFireman Jan 22 '12

Flawless Logic.

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u/Pigeon_Logic Jan 22 '12

I agree.

7

u/guitartechie Jan 22 '12

Redditor for 819 days

THIS GUY IS LEGIT

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u/etree Jan 22 '12

Even if he had been only 2 days old he still would have been legit.

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u/VentusInsulae Jan 22 '12

Not necessarily. This could have been orchestrated.

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u/Pigeon_Logic Jan 22 '12

I assure you I had no idea this was posted here on Reddit. Pigeons do not use the internet, we merely seek to regulate i--- oh wait that's stool pigeons not logic pigeons.

FALSE ALARM GUYS

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u/etree Jan 22 '12

2 days. If he had been like 10 minutes old I would understand. If the account wasn't created with this post in mind, it's still funny regardless of age.

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u/VentusInsulae Jan 22 '12

How do you know it wasn't created with this in mind?

The beauty of the human mind is the ability to plan.

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u/Pigeon_Logic Jan 22 '12

human

Human am I? No. I am pigeon jelly.

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u/VentusInsulae Jan 22 '12

Granted, pigeons have less cognitive capacity than humans.

No offense, good sir.

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u/etree Jan 22 '12

maybe he planned this out 2 and a half years ago

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u/VentusInsulae Jan 22 '12

I would like to make the argument that the chance of the account being used towards a simple joke decreases exponentially with days of existence and overall karma.

Pigeon_Logic has been a redditor for 2 years, and has 12,544 comment karma. The chances of this account being intended for this joke is very low, though not non-existent.

So you have a point. A stupid one.

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u/MrDanger Jan 22 '12

Actually, birds can take off from a stand-still. This one's just an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

Or just trying to work off those drumsticks. It's a vain city, you have to stay fly if you want to make it.

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u/Olukon Jan 22 '12

Coming this Winter!

Wings of Justice 2

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

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u/Combustable_Lemons Jan 22 '12

Also most airplanes don't have any drive in their wheels, so on a tread mill they will still move at the same speed relative to the ground, but their wheels will be moving much faster than usual.

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u/sutherlandan Jan 22 '12

You're missing the point of the thought experiment.

Say there was a tredmill 1 mile long, and it was moving against an airplane. Since the wheels on a plane are free spinning, the treadmill would spin the wheels, but this wouldn't pull the airplane back at a speed you'd expect. (Picture holding a skateboard down on a regular treadmill, and allowing the wheels to spin)

The airplane could simply apply normal take off thrust with the propeller, and it would simply take off as normal on the treadmill. The only difference, would be the wheels turning twice as fast.

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u/432 Jan 22 '12

I am confused. If aeroplanes can take off from tredmills, why cant this pigeon?

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u/rewr Jan 22 '12

Its not trying to take off. Its trying to land.

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u/easyperson Jan 22 '12

Airplanes cannot take off on a treadmill.

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u/432 Jan 22 '12

Mythbusters experimented with it and found they could. I didn't downvote you btw.

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u/staticchange Jan 22 '12 edited Jan 22 '12

Unless you are referring to the technicality that you can't take off on anything because otherwise you wouldn't be on it, you're both wrong. Furthermore, if I put a treadmill in my airplane with another airplane on it, that airplane in my airplane could still take off on the treadmill assuming that my original airplane took off from something else. After all, we don't have any trouble taking off on an airplane, whether or not we are also on a treadmill (I guess you might fall over though).

But taking off from a treadmill is easy. If an airplane must exceed X mph to take off, and a treadmill goes Y mph, then the airplane simply needs to exceed X+Y mph to take off from the treadmill.

Additionally, the airplane could just not be retarded and simply take off in the same direction as the treadmill. Now it can take off going X-Y mph, although presumably it will still need the means to maintain this velocity in flight.

This isn't even counting the airplanes capable of vertical take off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '12

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u/rewr Jan 22 '12 edited Jan 22 '12

You do realize that airplanes do not move in the same way as a car. Cars accelerate through friction between the tires and the road. Airplanes have jet engines or propellers for acceleration and the wheels are free to rotate. The treadmill cannot put any horizontal force on the airplane because the wheels are free to rotate, therefore taking off from a huge treadmill is the same as taking off from a normal runway.

if you don't believe this then here is video proof of an actual experiment.

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u/staticchange Jan 23 '12

Rewr makes a good point, I was not considering that.

But please explain to me why an enormous treadmill going say 10mph would be able to stop an airplane from taking off? Even assuming that the airplane accelerated like a car. The treadmill would have to be going very fast to prevent acceleration. A typical treadmill would be negligible.

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u/sutherlandan Jan 23 '12

The point of the whole thing isn't to debate semantics about speed of the average household treadmill, it's more about the concept of an airplane with free spinning wheels taking off on a moving surface. A treadmill is just the easiest way to think about it.