For me:

  • Monkeys and apes: they look too much like humans and expose many terrible traits of humans.

  • Greyhounds: their thin long body shape look weird to me.

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    Horses.

    Its an easily startled 900lb retard with sledgehammers for hands.

    No its not majestic, keep it the direct fuck away from me.

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      I was gunna ride a horse when I was real young. Was at a party or something cause there was a good amount of people there. I was next in line to ride said horse. The guy in front of me, being it was his turn, went to walk up to another horse. That horse was not a fan a bucked. Hoof straight to the side of the face. Down he goes.

      Last thing I saw was him laying there motionless. Never learned anything else of it as everyone had to leave. Never tired to ride a horse from that day foward.

      I’ll chill with some cows though

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      I wish I could find the original quote, but Sam Vimes, in one of Terry Pratchett’s books, says something to the effect of “being one of nature’s pedestrians. Never trust anything that looks at you with its teeth”

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      I’ve always found horses to be weird animals. They have personality, but have no expression outside of losing their shit. Their posture also looks uncomfortable as fuck, always being stood up, and being on small hooves despite being huge.

      I’ve always said that they’re prisoners in their own bodies.

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      I, too, share your hatred for horses. They are arrogant fucks who think they are better then everyone else. One exception: there’s these large horses with fluffy hooves and fat asses that seem to be chill and more like large dogs. You’re OK.

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      Horses are almost the worst, horae people are even worse. My girlfriend has a coworker and apparently all she does is talking about her horse and how unwell it is, and how fucking expensive the hose doctor, acupuncture, hose psychologist and keeping the horse in general is. One day she showed me a picture of her company dinner and i asked her which one the horse girl is. Of course she pointed at the 100+kg ork.
      They also shove ginger in their butts to make them walk funny. Again, i don’t even like them, but they still don’t deserve to be ridden around or drove around in a trailer for hour. I would be a miserable cunt too

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    Monkeys are total assholes. They act just like 7 year old children would if they were high on sugar and there were no repercussions for their actions.

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      I don’t understand why some people find monkeys cute. They’re so ugly and obnoxious! They don’t even have the presence or majesty of great apes either. The further from humans on the evolutionary scale, the cuter primates tend to be IMO. By the time you get to lemurs, bush babies, etc, you’ve hit standard mammal cuteness.

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    I hate how modern pugs look. I would love to launch them into orbit with my foot but I try to treat them like any other dog. It’s not their fault they momma made them fugly.

    E: Ye, we all know it was people.

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    FYI, the reason why humans look so much like apes is because humans ARE apes (specifically, great apes).

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    Pandas. They are too dumb to be alive. Their diet mostly consists of plants that have hardly any nutrition, and can’t be bothered to reproduce.

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      This is a common belief thanks to terrible science comunication by journalists. I recommend the book The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke. It’s a fascinating read and has a chapter dedicated to how we’ve misunderstood and misrepresented pandas and sloths in the media.

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    Dogs with blue eyes look absolutely psychotic to me for some reason, like it’s indicative that they’re the serial killers of the canine world or something. It’s super unnerving. This doesn’t translate to any other animal for me; for instance I think blue-eyed cats are gorgeous.

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    Squirrels. Cute as hell in the wild, not so much in my attic. They are tiny little destructive machines.

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      According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department:

      “Ground squirrels are associated with the spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rat bite fever, tularemia, Chagas’ disease, adiospiromycosis, and encephalomyocarditis. Notably, they can serve as reservoirs for sylvatic (bubonic) plague, a highly infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis…People and their pets can get plague if they visit or live in areas where ground squirrels or other rodents are infected.”

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      As a fellow Jay who has also had to deal with Squirrels in the attic, I wholeheartedly concur. Squirrels - what a bunch of bastards.

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    Moths, especially the big ones… idk, they are just insanely terrifying to me. I know they cannot hurt me, I know they are harmless, they terrify the life out of me

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    Dolphins. Everyone wants to talk about sharks taking an annual toll on people, nobody wants to acknowledge dolphins will screw more with humans just for the lulz.

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      I hate them so much I wrote a song about them and how they’ll bite the head off a fish so they can fuck the corpse. They’re messed up.

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        I knew they do something similar to each other (without biting each others’ heads off obviously) but don’t recall ever learning they do that with fish. Just wow. At least humans are a bit self-reflective about their activities at this point in time, dolphins are starting to sound like savages who could use a takeover.

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    Spiders for the simple fact that I have been “conditioned” by my mothers behaviour to fear them, cause she freaked out at the sight of even the tiniest one.

    They are incredibly fascinating creatures.

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    • leeches. i watched some movie as a kid and leeches dangling over the heroes after they crossed some water scared me good.

    • those beach jelly fishes. nope. i get why they are there and i’d prefer to give them their space.

    • anything with those scaly shiny black and yellow hornet danger colors.

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      If I were to harbor a guess, that movie you watched was Stand By Me. The leech scene as a kid freaked me out too.

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        That might be it~ I checked it out on yt and for sure, that scene is very familiar.

        The movie definitely knew what they were doing, using the fat leeches and all that.

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      Beaches jellyfishes remind me of Lurker zurg units in StarCraft. My understanding is that jellyfishes tentacles will still shoot their barbs long after the main part has died.

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        I’ve read something similar too. It’s like a motor reaction to them when they are threatened.

        The important part is to “melt” the barb, they say, and that’s were the pissing tale starts.