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u/TrickyMixture 27d ago
And you FELL for it?
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u/Equivalent_Parking_8 27d ago
Exactly.. I will be telling people that this is my job next time anyone asks.
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u/UnusedBowflex 27d ago
Variations of this old wives tale have been around forever. snopes is on it.
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u/Dominant-Species-Mid 27d ago
How about the 2000 flights per day claim. That’s like a flight every minute if he is working a 24 hour shift. Can you even pick up 38 penguins in 1 minute?
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u/Kailaylia 27d ago
You sweet person. You must have made his day by being the first person to believe this one.
My family in the bush in Australia hosted a few Americans, and as a kid, was my job to play with their kids. I had them sympathising with me for only having a wallaby to carry me to school, as kangaroos were much faster and had bigger pockets, but they only lived in the cities.
I always invited them back for Christmas, explaining all Aussies, (pronounced ozzies, btw,) pilgrimaged to Ayers Rock, (now Uluru,) and celebrated Christmas by sacrificing the current Prime Minister on a pyre at the top.
I took them on bush walks, spotting dryads and boggarts and the great rainbow python, and often they believed they saw one in the distance.
Tall story telling is the most fun art-form ever, and I'm grateful to my Irish convict ancestors for bringing it here.
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u/Gatekeeper2019 27d ago
Bringing?
*thankful to the English for sending them
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u/Kailaylia 27d ago
These ancestors survived being rounded up as thieves and prostitutes, being left for years, as many were, on an infected old hulk at an English port to die, and then eventually crossing the world in a dangerous voyage.
They weren't even broken by the tough years of serving as convicts in a harsh land previously unknown to whites - sure, it was known the land existed, but not how to exist upon it.
Then they travelled 1,000s of miles to get to a piece of outback the government was portioning off, managed to turn the wild land into a successful farm, and raised a large family. I suspect they never lost their sense of humour and love of tall tales, which have been passed down to their descendants.
I also sadly suspect that, like many, they did much harm to the surrounding aboriginals.
But they made it here, even if not by choice, to pass on their traditions, and that took guts, perseverance and hard work. For that I am grateful.
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u/Gatekeeper2019 27d ago
That doesn’t dispute anything i said
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u/[deleted] 26d ago
They are thankful that their ancestors kept their humor and made the best of a bad circumstance, not the pricks who generated the bad circumstance.
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u/Kailaylia 26d ago
You're quite right. Surviving such terrible circumstances and going on to make a success of their lives and begin a line of hard working survivors was quite a feat.
I expect many of us have ancestors who went went through terrible times who we can be proud of, whether or not we know about them.
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u/Huge_Aerie2435 27d ago
I honestly think this job would be amazing. I do not believe this at all, but I want to.
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u/Tottochan 27d ago
What would be his job title? The Penguin Picker? Penguin assistant? Penguin lifter?
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u/Kaijudojo 27d ago
Amateur. Real Penguin pros know that you just glue weights to their butts so they are like weeble wobbles and can't fall down.
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u/lostprince62 26d ago
(PA system crackles to life) “Archie, penguin cleanup. I repeat: Archie, penguin cleanup.”
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u/DoubleP90 27d ago
Cute story 😊 but I Highly doubt Edinburgh has 2000 flights passing over it daily, it would be a nightmare 😂
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u/major_calgar 27d ago
I heard this yesterday. It’s not real sadly
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u/SirCrumpalot 27d ago
So one person works 24 hours a day picking up a penguin every 1.14 seconds?
Or if he works an 8 hour shift then he's doing 2.64 penguins per second.
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u/cruiserman_80 26d ago
The stories that matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dCoGwEnY0
Spoiler: Anke is a bit of a troll.
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u/Andawr2g 26d ago
Wtf u mean not the worst job? Ik it’s a joke but this is a dream come true! I’d do this without pay! No my pay is being with penguins!
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u/KOxSOMEONE 26d ago
Even if this were true, picking up 76,000 penguins a day sounds like a lot of hard work, no matter how cute they are.
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u/acupofmaybe 27d ago
Picturing a bunch of Scottish penguins wishing they could fly :’)