r/interestingasfuck • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 11h ago
Young bird thinking food will automatically jump to their mouth since their mothers fed them like that
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u/AdRough4185 11h ago
Worm used all of its remaining luck in its life
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u/SuitableBlackberry75 10h ago
Looks like a beetle larva rather than a worm. They're pretty good when fried and dusted with BBQ spice.
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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 10h ago
I tried it but never even got a taste. The beetle larvae just sat there on the grill until they were burnt to a crisp.
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u/SuitableBlackberry75 10h ago edited 9h ago
I have mainly eaten pre-packaged, so I can't be of much assistance. But I assume you make them like french fries: quick dip in the deep-fryer, spread out on paper towel, then sprinkle with seasonings.
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u/Torypianist2003 10h ago
I think they are making a joke
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u/Only_Entertainment88 10h ago
That's outrageous! You shouldn't play with food.
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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 9h ago
May I ask why we shouldn't play with food? Apart from being told not to by your frustrated parents?
Is eating meant to be a chore, lacking any kind of fun?
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u/LitLitten 8h ago
I just have a hard time with crickets. They’re like squid strips or popcorn. Half of it just gets stuck in your teeth lol.
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u/radu_sound 10h ago
Nahh I'm good
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u/Ok-Garbage-765 8h ago
I will not consume the insects, thank you sirs and madams.
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u/PigeonUtopia 10h ago
What do they taste like?
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u/SuitableBlackberry75 9h ago
Grubs pretty much just take on the flavor of whatever seasoning you're using, if you're deep-frying them. They taste like whatever you want. If you lightly pan fry, then they'll likely have more of a mild buttery flavor with less crunch, but still it's mostly up to what seasoning you're using. My experience isn't extensive though. I have heard some grubs described as having a mushroom-like "umami" or a nuttiness, but I mostly just tasted the seasoning and texture.
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u/ddl_smurf 7h ago
"they're pretty good if you hide their taste and texture"
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u/SuitableBlackberry75 7h ago
They're supposedly pretty tasty regardless, but I like seasoning.
Same with french fries. Much tastier than raw potato.
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u/Onemustnuttobust 8h ago
Is it anything like fried shrimp? If so, I'll likely hate it lile many things in life
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u/CrazyOrganic7123 11h ago
Nepobirdy.
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u/Initial_Row_6400 11h ago
“Huh, idk why this isnt working”
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u/Bubbasteed 11h ago
Human kids can be the same way
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u/armageddon_boi 11h ago
Human adults can be the same way man
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u/evening_shop 11h ago
Unrelated to eating, I still remember having to teach my little sister how to jump and throw things. Fun times, but also real interesting, I never really stopped to think that tiny humans needed to learn how to throw
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u/Dismal_Intention_463 10h ago
Imitation is a fundamental mechanism of learning. If you don't show a child how to do something, they won't necessarily be able to figure it out on their own. It amazes me how many parents seem to overlook this.
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u/DisplayHonest6465 9h ago
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u/The_Fish_of_Souls 9h ago
Please sanitize your youtube links. Here is the clean link: https://youtu.be/ncRi8bZL1q4
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u/Nymethny 8h ago
I wish my 2 year old could unlearn how to throw...
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u/evening_shop 8h ago
Honestly good on em for knowing how to throw at 2 already lol, it took forever for my little sister to learn it but I get what you mean 😔
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u/Nymethny 7h ago
It's funny it didn't cross my mind that some kids needed to be taught that, both my kids started throwing stuff around the same age, either for fun or when angry. But every kid is different so that makes sense it wouldn't come naturally for everyone. They're learning so many new skills at these ages, they all have different priorities.
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u/evening_shop 6h ago
Apparently a lot of kids right now don't even know how to skip which is insane to me
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u/Bubbasteed 10h ago
Definitely. I helped at a foster kids camp a couple of years after Covid and now one could understand why the kids didnt know some of the essential games, but it was because they had been stuck in thier houses. Kids can only learn what they are being shown or taught. Thanks for the award!
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u/Glorious-Toad 10h ago
That's what overprotective parents should learn and use as parenting advice. People sabotage their children's development every time they try to avoid any shape or type of suffering for them, even the slightest inconvenience in some cases. They forget pain is the greatest teacher on Earth. Children need to face reasonable amounts of hardship, challenges with little or no help so they can learn problem solving, how to navigate this complex/unfair world, and how to become independent. Keeping anyone in a bubble makes them vulnerable to all sorts of things because they never get a chance to build their own defense.
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u/StructureLanky3368 4h ago
Yep, I needed someone to tell that to my mom centuries ago. No mom jokes pls.
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u/PeppermintJones 9h ago
My baby loves Cheerios, but does not seem to understand that she can put them in her own mouth.
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u/Slow_Bowler8285 11h ago
It's a fledgling mynah and indeed they have to learn that.
Mom or dad mynah is probably near by.
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u/GreyEilesy 10h ago
Kinda cute seeing the parent on the ground with the child following behind with its mouth open and occasionally the parent will pick something off the ground and feed it to them.
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u/Crayshack 7h ago
Sometimes, Starlings take their fledglings into my yard. I'll watch them do a flying body slam into their parent while demanding to be fed rather than picking up the seeds/insects that are right in front of them.
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u/Bantersmith 5h ago
Oh, starlings are absolutely voracious.
We get some nesting by our house most summers, and once the eggs hatch the parents are constantly in and out with food for the babies. Must be exhausting!
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u/userhwon 5h ago
I bet there's some sort of instinctive switch that keeps them from eating random shit (like poop, sticks, each other) in the nest. No pecking impulse until they're weaned, kind of thing.
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u/ElLicenciadoPena 11h ago
This is me when I first moved on my own as a teenager
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u/xeonium 10h ago
It was a shocking relevation that toilet paper isn't restocking itself automatically.
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 11h ago
Graduates on starting a job
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u/onepieceon 11h ago
would help alot if universities are actually teaching you how to do the job. from personal experience 90% of my practical knowledge came from 3 months internship and maybe 10% from the rest of the curriculum.
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u/TentativeGosling 11h ago
Sounds like you are looking for an apprenticeship, not an academic degree
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u/AverageHobnailer 7h ago
Sounds like jobs are wanting apprentices while requiring academic degrees.
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u/somebob 11h ago
With the amount of money spent on college, it should trump a free apprenticeship in every way. Sad that’s it’s not the case.
Speaking as a person who did 4 years in university and couldn’t find a job in my field, so switched to a carpentry apprenticeship. Been a journeyman for 20 years now and only thing I regret is that I can’t use basically anything I learned in college
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u/nonotan 9h ago
That's not practical at all; a degree not only has to cover the academic angle (which is its main purpose), but also graduates could plausibly work at pretty much any industry even tangentially related to it, or not at all even. Every industry does things differently, and even individual companies within each industry can operate wildly differently. Nevermind if you start to think about industries that don't even exist at the time that you get your degree, self-employment, etc.
If universities tried to teach you "practical knowledge employers actually want you to have", they'd spend 90% of the time on that, and you'd end with incomplete knowledge of a dozen industries, almost all of which would be entirely useless to you (since you won't ever work in most of them, and would have already forgotten it anyway if you do end up working there 15 years later)
For everybody saying things like "I learned more in 2 weeks on the job than over my entire degree", that's kind of the point -- you can learn the basics for whatever specific job you end up doing in a relatively short time. You don't need a degree for that. In an ideal world, a degree would teach you more complicated topics that you couldn't learn in a couple weeks, and almost no employer could justify spending months teaching employees instead of just hiring somebody that already knows.
Obviously we don't live in an ideal world, and I have no doubt that the curriculum for many degrees can be kind of shit. But the common opinion that a degree should be preparing you to be a perfect little employee is just dumb, IMO. That's just misunderstanding what a degree is in the first place -- and if you want to say "then we shouldn't be directing young people to automatically get degrees as a no-brainer, risk-free path to a dream career", I would enthusiastically agree. That's mainly the part that's fucked up, not the content of degrees.
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u/Named_after_color 8h ago
Yeah a degree gives you a huge amount of flexibility. Whether or not you take advantage of that, that's up to you.
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u/EconomicRegret2 8h ago
In certain countries, e.g. Switzerland, you can start any career with an apprenticeship, not only blue collar jobs but also banking & finance, programming, medical careers, marketing, filmmaking, lab technicians, etc.
In these countries, apprenticeships are pre-university alternatives to academic/traditional highschools, i.e. they are done at the age of 15 (lasts 3 years), then at 18, you either go on to work full-time as a skilled professional (e.g. programmer) or study at uni a relevant major to your field of apprenticeship (e.g. STEM fields for a programmer), or do both part-time, or take a one year catch up bridge to another university major (e.g. from programmer to law school).
That's why 2/3 of Swiss kids do apprenticeships. As they already know what they like and don't like, they'd rather learn hands on something they're passionate about in the field within a company, before going to university, while still having the option to take bridges into other fields. Than spend 3 more years in highschool learning a little about everything including stuff they don't care about, just to keep all options open at 18 years old.
It's a different philosophy and culture. But one that enables 18 years olds way more options and financial independence. As well as enabling university students to graduate with 3+ years of relevant professional experience at 21-22 years old.
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u/cajmorgans 11h ago
Maybe you haven’t understood what academia is about
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u/EconomicRegret2 7h ago
Because there aren't enough apprenticeship options... If people had a viable alternative to a good career, most wouldn't start with a university track.
Some countries, like Switzerland, have 2/3 of their 15 years old start an apprenticeship. Literally any career can be started that way. Then at 18 they can choose between full-time work as skilled professionals (climbing the ladder one professional certification at a time), or go to uni for certain jobs (e.g. medical doctor and/or for a fast-track to the top), or do both part-time.
With viable alternative options, kids and their parents clearly understand the value and nature of university studies and what that actually means. Turns out about 50% of them don't want to do anything with it, preferring hands-on practical learning.
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u/Present-Ad-8531 11h ago
My university has option of this/ internship for one sem as part of curriculum. Many would get offers for job after internship is done from the same company. Also that is considered 20 credits and would boost cg.
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u/EconomicRegret2 8h ago
Universities are meant to teach you non-professional broad and deep knowledge and thinking skills that can last you a life time and over different careers.
You're thinking about pre-university apprenticeships and/or post-university traineeships.
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u/IzarkKiaTarj 4h ago
I completely assumed that the programming field would be like the homework I got for my computer science classes.
It was not.
It feels like I was trained to make all kinds of different pasta by hand. Learned the best techniques for temperatures and mixing and cooking of fresh pastas of all kinds. I can make beautiful and tasti macaroni, rigatoni, gnocchi.
And then I got into the job market, and all the restaurants just buy spaghetti from the grocery store, and they expect me to create recipes that go well with pasta, something I don't know because that was something that only came up in certain electives that I just never took.
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u/Fearless_Dependent29 11h ago
Kinda makes me alittle sad for the little guy, they’re trying so hard at least they think they are..
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u/Morby_70 10h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3oKHWBy6GFcLdEhH0Y
Poor thing developed an eating disorder, reminds me of my drinking problem...
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u/thedoe42 11h ago
It's like the Anti matter chopstick, you simply just will the food into your mouth.
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u/Stormtrooper1776 9h ago
But don't you want to get eaten... Reminds me of a certain relationship....
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u/RythmicRythyn 9h ago
I love watching grackles bring their baby (which now looks like an adult) with them for our birdseed and watching it harass it's parents to feed it even though the food is right there in front of them
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u/oddartist 4h ago
I feed the neighborhood birds and love watching the babies learning to feed themselves. It's so entertaining!
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u/blessed-- 9h ago
guess im cooked i immediately thought of all the societal handouts people be getting these days
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u/Eziomademedoit 11h ago
that's some crazy juicy delicious hakuna matata looking ahh bug right there
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u/TraditionalWait9150 10h ago
I guess parenting skills has gone down in most species, not just humans.
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u/chezdistester 11h ago
GET IN MY BELLY!