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Roll call.... what country are you from? (lazysoci.al)

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Third planet after the Sun. My country is the globe!

I'm from Paraná [inb4 "Banana"], Brazil. It's like Romania: similar shape, and also inhabited by a bunch of Latins that people insistently call Poles, but instead of wolves attacking tourists we got tourists trying to hug capybaras.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's be clear, here: you can't hug the capybaras? It'll be hard, but I can cope with that over time.

Can you sit in an "Adirondack" style chair on a dock as the sun goes down and smoke some bonkers weed with one and watch the day die? Because I kinda feel if no one was around they'd speak up and reveal some crazy poignant fact and change my life.

I may hug one after that. Or before. I'm gonna lose an ear, aren't I?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

At least in theory you could hug a one; they aren't aggressive. You wouldn't lose an ear. But tourists are loud so the 'baras feel like being hunted, and once you get close they run into the water. (It's fun to watch this in parks.)

And even if you do manage to get close... they're wild animals, so full of ticks and fleas. It's a bit unwise to pet them.

Can you sit in an “Adirondack” style chair on a dock

I'm not even sure if there are 'baras in the coast, since they're a freshwater animal.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Hm. I'll have to re-think it.

Tourist captured after leaping into Capybara enclosure, found with an unreal amount of bonkers weed. "I didn't know they housed them with the small alligators!" he was heard to say while the police tried to restrain and remove his ample, pasty-white frame.

I've got no good luck!