Its was a sick ostrich. Allegedly
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Well, to be fairrrr
To be faaaaaaaaiiiiiirrrrrrrr
used to work with ostriches, those things are as dangerous. Why aren't they covering it's head!!! they are much easier to handle when they are blinded.
Found The Ginger.
Explain the joke? I'm too arab to be Ginger
The original post is a Letterkenny reference about a dude fucking an ostrich (allegedly). His name is "The Ginger."
I'm glad I was ignorant, and with to go back to said ignorance.
Letterkenny is a great show though
To be faiiir
We never find out if The Ginger fucked an ostrich or if Boots helped him or if the ostrich was sick or any of the other rumours in the show. But there's an episode where the protagonists are discussing it and how difficult it would have been to pull off, a town gossip hears half a sentence out of context and tells everyone what he'd heard as if it was something true, which kind of implies that the whole thing probably got built up that way.
It's a pretty funny show and it's great at building inside jokes like that.
It’s a really great show, though.
This is just a really weird bit part of that great show.
Thanks for sharing either way - that’s kinda cool. Are ostriches as foul-tempered as they seem?
Depends, normally? they are safe to be around, the only way someone gets hurt is if they bother them and won't let them walk away.
Unless they are in heat, if a male ostrich is in heat they can be dangerous, especially if they see you as a mate.
I think the guy in the front is pantomiming putting a bag over its head, but the bag itself is missing from the illustration.
Guy in the back is going to get his kneecaps kicked out.
It’s not a horse, the legs bend the other way.
Oh right! I completely forgot.
It's happening to the guy in front 👍
Which is why he needs to hold the head down.
He's blinding it by putting a bag over its head, but the bag is strangely not illustrated. Ostriches calm significantly once they can't see. The meme of an ostrich sticking their head in the sand has some basis in reality, especially considering they love building their nests in sandy areas.
Guy in the front is going to loose his balls
Yes, loose with double o
Kicks. Kicks for everyone.
"Hey, where's Kolanaki?"
Me, exiting the bathroom: "Sorry, they told me to go to the head and I got confused."
Sometimes there's shit on the outside of the torlet.
middle boy got dem yaoi hands