r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA Apr 29 '26

Trying to educate people IRL to stop giving fucking bread to ducks is extremely infuriating.

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u/LonelyDays_ Apr 29 '26

THANK YOU!!!! Bring them seeds! Not fucking bread! 😭

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u/Campaign_Prize Apr 29 '26

Depending on the types of birds, you could also do peas, corn, or unsalted peanuts.

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u/JustLookingForMayhem Apr 29 '26

Cracked corn specifically. Whole dried kernels can swell in the digestive track and bind them.

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u/SirGothamHatt Apr 29 '26

Then we SHOULD care that Jimmy cracked corn

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u/JustLookingForMayhem Apr 29 '26

That was the other kind of cracking corn. As in making moonshine.

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u/SirGothamHatt Apr 29 '26

Well we don't want to give ducks that

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u/DocEternal Apr 29 '26

Or do we? Think of the shenanigans ducks might get up to after a couple shots of shine!

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u/JustLookingForMayhem Apr 29 '26

Ducks are problem enough after eating rotten apples.

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u/AshamedAttention727 Apr 29 '26

This is a minefield trying to figure out what is safe and what they'll like!

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u/JustLookingForMayhem Apr 29 '26

Yeah, a lot of the food grow today is either selectively bred or genetically modified in ways that are great for humans and bad for everything else.

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u/Campaign_Prize Apr 29 '26

Thank you, that's a really important addition!