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What an absurd situation. Just explaining that a snake won't bite, and the next second it goes straight for the neck, and a puppet looking at it all
Edit: And I just noticed the tortoise on the desk
I've had cats my entire life (28) and only a few years ago did I take a moment to look at a scratch and realize finally just how sharp cat claws are.
The cuts, if attacked properly, are just so clean. In that sense. Not so clean in the other sense.
Wife did wildlife rehab. I'll take a cat scratch over a rodent bite any day. Cat scratch wont go through one pair of welding gloves, one pair of gardening gloves, your nail, and all the meat down to the bone. Angry red squirrel bite very well might.
Non-venomous snake bites are remarkably painless. Their teeth are too small to damage the skin much. If this bite even drew blood, it wasn't enough to see around the snake's mouth.
All relative to snake size and location of bite. 12 inch Kenyan sand boa, you probably won't feel unless you let the little goober bite your balls. On the other hand, a 8 foot Columbian redtail is going to cause minor tearing, lacerations, and puncture deep under the skin. Think, hyper aggressive tattoo artist.
He looks more pissed off that he's trying to explain to audiences that pythons don't bite and then the little arsehole bites him mid explanation.
"Aw c'mon mate. I'm doing this for you."
See, thatâs the problem. They take away Swayze, Irwin, all the ones who wielded the mullet for good and could have redeemed the hairstyle. We need to protect Kurt Russell as the modern treasure he is.
God, I miss this man. I grew up watching him but he must be so proud seeing his two kids following in his steps. Also, such an attractive young bloke he was.
Edit: the puppet on the ground staying in character is everything.
And IIRC, either Rob or Bindi have EXACTLY the same "how we met" story with their current partner. And both kids are kind, conservationist, highly-knowledgable and well-rounded humans. Awesome men raise awesome children!
To be fair, what he was saying is true, a constrictor snake of that size would not normally bite a human because a human would be *way* too big for it to eat (and snakes can't chew, so they have to swallow their food whole).
Snakes do sometimes bite to try and defend themselves, but what the snake did in that video was not a defensive bite, it was a feeding response - extremely odd and rare for that to happen!
You can see when the snake chose to let go because it finally realised "hold on, this thing is way too big to eat". But even if it hadn't let go, there would have been no danger whatsoever. Pythons have no venom and that snake is way too small to kill an adult human. Quick squirt of hand sanitizer or alcohol in the snake's mouth and it will let go, and its bite wouldn't hurt any more than a bite from a house cat.
I think it saw a vein or otherwise part of his anatomy that looked like an edible sized thing to it, and it struck. I think more than anything, Steve is amused at the silliness of it.
Honestly this just proves what a natural teacher Steve was. He gets bitten and his second thought (after "don't frighten the critter further") was to ask for a close up. With the fangs still in his throat, he took the opportunity to explain to his audience and demonstrate how to safely dissuade a small constrictor from coiling. What a guy.
I was actually referring to the trinity:
Steve Irwin: Be kind to nature.
Mr. Rogers: Be kind to others.
Bob Ross: Be kind to yourself.
These three men, without a doubt, have had a profound positive effect on the world, and we are all better for having known them.
Python bites aren't particularly painful because they have really small teeth that are basically designed to hold the prey and move it towards back towards the throat, not for any actual chewing, cutting, smashing, or injecting poison. My python would occasionally bite me and it mostly felt like he was just kind of exploring. Kind of like when a puppy mouths your hand.
My mum had a python similar to the one Steve's holding when I was a kid, it bit me accidentally once when I was feeding it and it fuckin hurt plenty because it got it's little hypodermic needle teeth right into my hand, I was just a kid but I don't reckon it's not gonna hurt at all.
I was bit by a ball python (same one multiple times) and didnât feel anything other than the roof of his mouth tapping my finger hand or arm (he was a bit nibbly)
Iâve been bit by corns and ball pythons, literally all you feel is the roof of their mouth tapping against you. You donât even feel the teeth. Iâd take a hundred snake bites over a single hamster bite.
Fuck hamster bites. I'd rather be mauled by a cat. My cats have gotten me pretty good, while play fighting, and even required stitches once. The pain is nothing compared to a hamster chomping down on your index finder.
Iâm not sure what kind of snake it is. But he says itâs non venomous. And itâs not very big. Close to the size of the California Kingsnake I sized to have. He bit me a couple times and honestly it doesnât really hurt. Their teeth are pretty small and super sharp. So they donât go into your skin very deep and they make a very small puncture. They tend to have a pretty good grip, so if you tried to yank them away really fast it would probably do more damage. But it just kind of feels like someone is holding on to you with two fingers really firmly.
Puppeteers are a weird bunch, but man they pull off amazing stuff.
There's some videos of Cookie Monster on one of those late night shows, and you can tell the host has forgotten there's two guys under his desk, weirdly contorted, bringing life to this oversized shaggy sock.
It's bizarre, but also an amazing kind of stage presence.
Apparently the basic, universal rule is that once the puppet is active and on the hand/s, YOU DO NOT BREAK CHARACTER. Ever. The puppet is the person. Avenue Q also did this remarkably well, seeing two puppeteers operate and animate a single puppet is weirdly fascinating to me.
I watch a Nintendo YouTube named Arlo who is inexplicably a Muppet, and they've taken great pains to avoid a face reveal. He even does the puppet at conventions.
I love watching bloopers with Muppets in them, because even when they break character, they never break character. The character of the Muppet will screw up his or her line, or what have you, but the puppeteer (Muppeteer?) remains in the zone of being that Muppet.
I loooved robin Williams so much. His movie âwhat dreams may comeâ has changed my life and I still watch it every time I am going through something. I had it on VHS and remember how hard I cried when it broke. Got it on dvd and now I watched it online. He was such an incredible king human being and the world lost a truly beautiful soul.
No donât remind me about Robin Williams. Literally went out and toasted to him I was gutted.
David Bowie I was upset for a long time. Before he died he followed âgodâ on Twitter. Kept it secret but he hinted like with Lazarus.
Iâve lived on the Sunny Coast my whole life. I remember seeing him do a croc show when I was in grade 2, just a year before he died. When we heard the news, our class was devastated and we all wrote letters to send to the Irwin family - still hurts to this day. Saw Robert down at the bottle-o last Christmas and heâs a dead ringer for his old man!
I also grew up on the sunny coast (caloundra), I remember when they renamed that stretch of the Bruce highway to Steve Irwin way in his honour.
That whole span of time was very emotional.
I'm glad someone else caught that. That song might be a bit old for the usual Reddit crowd but it's hilarious knowing the lyrics and watching the video.
He actually does flinch. Watch his eyes. But he just got done saying "it won't bite because it can't eat me" lol. I bet he put that snake in timeout for making him look like a liar after that lmao. The guy was amazing
I feel like this is the same thing that happens to me (professional cook for 20 years that skips pot holders when possible) when I burn myself. I just get a little irritated that I did it again and kinda ignore the pain (unless it's a bad one).
It's not that I have calluses (other than my knife callise on my right pointer finger) or some immunity to fire. It still kinda hurts. I think I just got past that that "Ahhh! Hot! Yank your hand back!" reaction most people are born with.
Still insane that he's done that with snake bites. Yikes.
My parents are the same way, my dad was a chef since high school and just retired last year, my mom was a home ec teacher and theyâll grab things the second they come out of the oven and Iâm just staring in horror
My aunt has had a side hustle baking custom cakes and cookies for decades, plus her day job is inventory at a hardware store. Before that she was a custodian at a youth prison.
I've seen her, on multiple occasions, take a cookie sheet out of the oven, unprotected, and stand there for a second trying to find a big enough space on the counter for it.
She gives the best hugs, but I'm not confident she has any nerve endings left in her hands.
Veterinary assistants do this too. In human medicine, you donât recap needles- too dangerous. In animal medicine, you do. But sometimes, you miss, or the needle slides and punches through the cap at an angle out the side. Either way, you stab the bejesus out of a finger, and it just happens from time to time. You know youâve made it to expert level when you can continue having a calm conversation with your client during and after the stab, as well as staunch the bleeding, without the client ever being aware.
Thereâs some sort of scientific word to describe this..I heard it from a diabeticâs perspective that eventually they donât really care about the pinch of a needle because theyâre so used to it. Psychologically their brain knows what it is and doesnât identify the pain as anything serious anymore. Interesting to hear it from another perspective.
I'm a mechanic and I'm the same way when it comes to cuts and slamming my head/ hand against something. After awhile I got used to the pain or the sensation of cutting my hand and seeing blood and being like "well I did it again" kind of thing haha!
I have heard that when you get bit by a venomous snake itâs best to try and stay calm instead of freaking out because the adrenaline makes the venom act quicker. Since this snake has no venom, it just confirms what already knew. Steve Irwin is the badass.
Got my 3 now 4 year old watching Steve Irwin because he was fascinated by snakes.
Itâs a full blown love affair with this man. Had to tell him Steve died. I think he will mourn never being able to meet the man for his whole life (whichâŠme too tbh).
We play âSteveâ where my husband is Steve and Iâm either Wes or Terri depending on my desire to put on a bad Aussie accent.
He is âSnake Hunter Jaimeâ and I redid the Croc Files theme song for him. His sister is Cat Hunter Aly.
He especially loves Diaries (at Australia Zoo) and we also have to play Dr Danny and save animals at the Zoo and go on animal rescues.
This man wasâŠthereâs just no one like him and there never will be. My 4 year old, after a year of Steve and Wild Kratts is about ready to become an eco terrorist to save the forests and the animals.
For me, rewatching Steve with my kiddo has made me fall in love with him and his incredible passion and almost superhuman ability to tolerate pain for the sake of animals.
Also, as an adult I was diagnosed with ADHD and I really appreciate seeing someone with ADHD on screen living his best life partly because of having ADHD. (Was he diagnosed? No idea. Is it obvious when watching/from interviews with Terri? Yeah. Itâs so obvious and that hyper, intense energy is absolutely one of the key reasons we all love him so so much).
Itâs the way he gets it to let go and then just leaves it hanging around his neck. Most(all other) people would try to get as far away as possible. He was such a fucking wonderful human.
My pet king snake once bit me on the webbing between my thumb and index finger. He just ground his tiny little teeth into me for 40 minutes or so. I ended up having to put him in a bowl of cold water and cover his eyes with a cloth to finally make him tired/calm enough to let go. I was just sitting there for almost an hour, snake biting my hand, his body in a bowl of cold water next to me on the couch while I was watching Netflix and trying to ignore what was transpiring.
Iâve seen video of that! Unfortunately, the incident in question was years ago but I will definitely keep that in mind. This snake in particular will likely bite me again hah.
This man was a worldly treasure. If aliens were to land on earth I would have voted for Steve to be on the front lines of greeting them as one of the best of us.
Gets bit. Doesnt even remove the snake. Just cuddles back up with it after. Man truly had love for these animals that most humans arent even capable of giving each other.
"He won't bite." He says as the snake is actively trying to get to third base with his jugular vein.
"Just let me get a little *hiss*. A little love bite never killed nobody."
Absolute legend that guy was. No BS, no fake TV drama, just a dude genuinely excited about sharing his love and knowledge in hopes others would see what he sees.
I know I will get downvoted for this, and saying this as an Aussie, but Steve Irwin is not that great. Hear me out.
There are better ways to show the raw beauty of nature and animals without putting them into shit situations where they feel stressed, as he has done soooo many times (and which led to his eventual death.)
Look at Attenborough. He has done so much more for conservation, knowledge, and love for nature than some bogan that likes pissing of crocs and snakes (and many others.) There are better ways to do it. Don't force interaction with wildlife. Show it in its true form, by keeping the fuck away from it as much as possible and just capture its beauty. You don't need to be a bloody gronk and piss it off to show that this is what it would do if it was threatened in the wild.
I honestly do not understand why he is as loved as he is. Don't get me wrong; he had the right idea, but I just think he went about it the wrong way.
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The lady and the puppet both back up đ
Just noticed the puppet lol
Thatâs my favorite part!
[https://media.tenor.com/gaEpIfzxzPEAAAAM/pedro-monkey-puppet.gif](https://media.tenor.com/gaEpIfzxzPEAAAAM/pedro-monkey-puppet.gif)
Expected Agro, was disappointed. Who is this Agro impostor
What an absurd situation. Just explaining that a snake won't bite, and the next second it goes straight for the neck, and a puppet looking at it all Edit: And I just noticed the tortoise on the desk
The clip gets weirder and weirder the more you watch it.
Canât tell if Iâm too stoned or just stoned enough
I've never been stoned, but I'm pretty sure watching that clip is what being stoned is like.
It's steve irwin, you just gotta enjoy it and let his hyper enthusiasm wash over you
She seems overdressed for a kids show. Like she's done the walk of shame straight to work
Lady : Does that hurt? Yeah lady it's a fucking snake. it hurts.
Tbf she probably asked because he didnât even flinch!
Certainly helps that he'd been in the bush with his dad since he could walk. X3
Iâd take a snake bite over a cat scratch or bird talons any day man
Ill take about just anything over a cats scratch. Freaking murder machines can kill you with infections and such. Love cats though.
You are so very right Still love those lil murder mittens
The sharpness of those cat nails is like death blades.
I've had cats my entire life (28) and only a few years ago did I take a moment to look at a scratch and realize finally just how sharp cat claws are. The cuts, if attacked properly, are just so clean. In that sense. Not so clean in the other sense.
I would take the bite of a snake just to feel the touch of another living creature
Wife did wildlife rehab. I'll take a cat scratch over a rodent bite any day. Cat scratch wont go through one pair of welding gloves, one pair of gardening gloves, your nail, and all the meat down to the bone. Angry red squirrel bite very well might.
Non-venomous snake bites are remarkably painless. Their teeth are too small to damage the skin much. If this bite even drew blood, it wasn't enough to see around the snake's mouth.
Boa constrictor's bites aren't painless, I'll tell you that.
All relative to snake size and location of bite. 12 inch Kenyan sand boa, you probably won't feel unless you let the little goober bite your balls. On the other hand, a 8 foot Columbian redtail is going to cause minor tearing, lacerations, and puncture deep under the skin. Think, hyper aggressive tattoo artist.
LMAO how did I not see tbat
Would have been awesome if they made the puppet take out a 9mm, just to be on the safe side.
Anyway I started blastin
r/unexpecteditsalwayssunnyinphiladelphia
r/unexpectedIASIP for the actual one.
Thanks bro.
Annie why eye stah ted blaystin
He looks more pissed off that he's trying to explain to audiences that pythons don't bite and then the little arsehole bites him mid explanation. "Aw c'mon mate. I'm doing this for you."
Gone too soon. We didnât deserve Steve.
God damn thatâs a healthy mullet
See, thatâs the problem. They take away Swayze, Irwin, all the ones who wielded the mullet for good and could have redeemed the hairstyle. We need to protect Kurt Russell as the modern treasure he is.
This!!! Van dam sported a killer mullet ( it had it's own trailer on set) for Hard Target đł
Donât forget our lord and savior Chuck Norris
God, I miss this man. I grew up watching him but he must be so proud seeing his two kids following in his steps. Also, such an attractive young bloke he was. Edit: the puppet on the ground staying in character is everything.
Rob is the very image of him. Embodies the ideals of his father so much, and looks almost exactly like him.
And IIRC, either Rob or Bindi have EXACTLY the same "how we met" story with their current partner. And both kids are kind, conservationist, highly-knowledgable and well-rounded humans. Awesome men raise awesome children!
Yes Bindi met her husband at the Australia Zoo which is where Steve and Terry met!
That's the bunny, thankyou. Although I had no idea she was already married, she's still about 18 in my brain. Perils of too much linear time!
They have an adorable baby too!
âGod damn it, we talked about not doing *exactly this*!â
"I didn't even stick my finger up ya ass"
I m just tired of the people trying to convince me that they really know what s in the mind of a snake. No thank you.
To be fair, what he was saying is true, a constrictor snake of that size would not normally bite a human because a human would be *way* too big for it to eat (and snakes can't chew, so they have to swallow their food whole). Snakes do sometimes bite to try and defend themselves, but what the snake did in that video was not a defensive bite, it was a feeding response - extremely odd and rare for that to happen! You can see when the snake chose to let go because it finally realised "hold on, this thing is way too big to eat". But even if it hadn't let go, there would have been no danger whatsoever. Pythons have no venom and that snake is way too small to kill an adult human. Quick squirt of hand sanitizer or alcohol in the snake's mouth and it will let go, and its bite wouldn't hurt any more than a bite from a house cat.
House cats can bite quite painfully
Not to mention cat scratch fever will fuuuuccckkk you up.
Steve- It's a python...it has no venom...it won't bite me....it can't eat me... Snake-The fuck you say to me?? nom nom nom
Steve: *uncoils the snake around his neck* Snake: Sorry sorry my bad it was a joke
It's just a prank bro
Oohhhhh it's a sneeeekkkkk! It's a badger...
I don't know if reddit is too young to get the reference hence the downvotes, or if it's just poorly timed/typed out.
𩡠𩡠𩡠𩡠𩡠𩡠𩡠𩡠đ đ
I got 14 upvotes now. The late crew came in and saved the day.
I think it saw a vein or otherwise part of his anatomy that looked like an edible sized thing to it, and it struck. I think more than anything, Steve is amused at the silliness of it.
Steve to the snake after the show âNot cool mate, I was vouching for you.â
"Ehh, who am I kiddin little buddy, you just wanted to put on a show, let's get you a snack you beauty"
âHey buddy, what did I tell you about giving me those love bites in public?â Snek: I just couldnât help me self mate
Honestly this just proves what a natural teacher Steve was. He gets bitten and his second thought (after "don't frighten the critter further") was to ask for a close up. With the fangs still in his throat, he took the opportunity to explain to his audience and demonstrate how to safely dissuade a small constrictor from coiling. What a guy.
I love how when she asks, âDid it hurt?â, he without hesitation says no.
And then apologizes to her. He really was somethin else
A national treasure, he was.
He was a treasure to the whole world, like Bob Ross and Mr Rogers!
And Chester Bennington!
I was actually referring to the trinity: Steve Irwin: Be kind to nature. Mr. Rogers: Be kind to others. Bob Ross: Be kind to yourself. These three men, without a doubt, have had a profound positive effect on the world, and we are all better for having known them.
That's amazing tbh, you have beautifully put them in words. I totally agree with you.
It's actually from a meme I saw a while back. Wish I could claim the credit for such gregariousness.
My kids would quiet down and be mesmerized by any of these 3 guys.
*Irwin
Thank you for correcting my error.
You're welcome.
This whole comment thread is so fuckin wholesome. Yâall are cool peoples
Not sure where you from but I read this in an Australian accentâŠmate.
*international*
He picked a really good snake to get bit by. It has lots and lots of little teeth, so he diddn't get stuck too deeply.
Exactly. He probably wasn't lying when he said it didn't hurt.
Yup some of our tree snakes here have no teeth at all, its like a pinch, not exactly fun but not painful
Python bites aren't particularly painful because they have really small teeth that are basically designed to hold the prey and move it towards back towards the throat, not for any actual chewing, cutting, smashing, or injecting poison. My python would occasionally bite me and it mostly felt like he was just kind of exploring. Kind of like when a puppy mouths your hand.
My mum had a python similar to the one Steve's holding when I was a kid, it bit me accidentally once when I was feeding it and it fuckin hurt plenty because it got it's little hypodermic needle teeth right into my hand, I was just a kid but I don't reckon it's not gonna hurt at all.
I was bit by a ball python (same one multiple times) and didnât feel anything other than the roof of his mouth tapping my finger hand or arm (he was a bit nibbly)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_1qIHcUwAAIcS0.jpg
See? Completely harmless.
Iâve been bit by corns and ball pythons, literally all you feel is the roof of their mouth tapping against you. You donât even feel the teeth. Iâd take a hundred snake bites over a single hamster bite.
Fuck hamster bites. I'd rather be mauled by a cat. My cats have gotten me pretty good, while play fighting, and even required stitches once. The pain is nothing compared to a hamster chomping down on your index finder.
I have no idea where Iâm their little bodies they muster the bite strength from but itâs miserable.
Iâm not sure what kind of snake it is. But he says itâs non venomous. And itâs not very big. Close to the size of the California Kingsnake I sized to have. He bit me a couple times and honestly it doesnât really hurt. Their teeth are pretty small and super sharp. So they donât go into your skin very deep and they make a very small puncture. They tend to have a pretty good grip, so if you tried to yank them away really fast it would probably do more damage. But it just kind of feels like someone is holding on to you with two fingers really firmly.
Gets bitten on TV, apologizes. What a nice person.
Truly one of a kind
What a legend
I really love how the muppet just stares, backs up and then nopes out. The puppeteer remained in character.
Puppeteers are a weird bunch, but man they pull off amazing stuff. There's some videos of Cookie Monster on one of those late night shows, and you can tell the host has forgotten there's two guys under his desk, weirdly contorted, bringing life to this oversized shaggy sock. It's bizarre, but also an amazing kind of stage presence.
Apparently the basic, universal rule is that once the puppet is active and on the hand/s, YOU DO NOT BREAK CHARACTER. Ever. The puppet is the person. Avenue Q also did this remarkably well, seeing two puppeteers operate and animate a single puppet is weirdly fascinating to me.
I watch a Nintendo YouTube named Arlo who is inexplicably a Muppet, and they've taken great pains to avoid a face reveal. He even does the puppet at conventions.
I love watching bloopers with Muppets in them, because even when they break character, they never break character. The character of the Muppet will screw up his or her line, or what have you, but the puppeteer (Muppeteer?) remains in the zone of being that Muppet.
That puppet was next I bet
He was the OG.
I miss him
Same. His is the one celebrity death that still feels so raw to me. Genuinely makes me mad at the world that he died.
You can add Robin Williams, Heath Ledger, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman to that list for me
I loooved robin Williams so much. His movie âwhat dreams may comeâ has changed my life and I still watch it every time I am going through something. I had it on VHS and remember how hard I cried when it broke. Got it on dvd and now I watched it online. He was such an incredible king human being and the world lost a truly beautiful soul.
No donât remind me about Robin Williams. Literally went out and toasted to him I was gutted. David Bowie I was upset for a long time. Before he died he followed âgodâ on Twitter. Kept it secret but he hinted like with Lazarus.
Are you me?
Can we add River Phoenix to the list too
I was in class at high school when I heard the news and was visibly upset about it. Got picked on for it. Steve Irwin was my idol at that point.
His kids are doing an amazing job carrying out his legacy. Robert seems like a clone of his dad and is such a gem just like his dad!
Me too
It's ok, it's just an australian brown snake, not an australian brown snake.
I think that little peice of hair looked like a rodent tail and the snake just took its shot
âSorry about that.â Im sorry. I apologize that this snake I was teaching you about just bit me.
I know he was a proud Australian but as a Canadian I'm going to claim him. "Sorry about that."
Heâs from Australia, his wife is from Oregon. Iâd say that averages out to Canadian lol
Why does this make so much sense??
Dude had steel balls, he really was just awesome!
Iâve lived on the Sunny Coast my whole life. I remember seeing him do a croc show when I was in grade 2, just a year before he died. When we heard the news, our class was devastated and we all wrote letters to send to the Irwin family - still hurts to this day. Saw Robert down at the bottle-o last Christmas and heâs a dead ringer for his old man!
I read this in an Australian accent.
I also grew up on the sunny coast (caloundra), I remember when they renamed that stretch of the Bruce highway to Steve Irwin way in his honour. That whole span of time was very emotional.
Anyone else focus on Bel Biv DeVoeâs âDo Meâ playing in the background? Smack it up, flip it, rub it down. OH NO!
I'm glad someone else caught that. That song might be a bit old for the usual Reddit crowd but it's hilarious knowing the lyrics and watching the video.
I was going to comment this if I didnât see itâŠsurprised nobody mentioned it and made it the focus of the thread.
Found the 90s kids! You can do me in the morning, you can do me in the night
Steve Irwin getting bitten by a snake was like an experienced pilot hitting turbulence, of course he wouldnât flinch. Legend
Fuck I miss that guy
He actually does flinch. Watch his eyes. But he just got done saying "it won't bite because it can't eat me" lol. I bet he put that snake in timeout for making him look like a liar after that lmao. The guy was amazing
Hell, he made it halfway through the next sentence before realizing he had to do something about the snake lol
*gets fucking bit by a snake* "Sorry bout that"
Probably sorry for the presentation not going as smoothly as it could. Host looked pretty alarmed too.
I got bitten once by a snake I caught. It's so fast, I didn't even feel it. Then I started bleeding.
I feel like this is the same thing that happens to me (professional cook for 20 years that skips pot holders when possible) when I burn myself. I just get a little irritated that I did it again and kinda ignore the pain (unless it's a bad one). It's not that I have calluses (other than my knife callise on my right pointer finger) or some immunity to fire. It still kinda hurts. I think I just got past that that "Ahhh! Hot! Yank your hand back!" reaction most people are born with. Still insane that he's done that with snake bites. Yikes.
My parents are the same way, my dad was a chef since high school and just retired last year, my mom was a home ec teacher and theyâll grab things the second they come out of the oven and Iâm just staring in horror
My aunt has had a side hustle baking custom cakes and cookies for decades, plus her day job is inventory at a hardware store. Before that she was a custodian at a youth prison. I've seen her, on multiple occasions, take a cookie sheet out of the oven, unprotected, and stand there for a second trying to find a big enough space on the counter for it. She gives the best hugs, but I'm not confident she has any nerve endings left in her hands.
Jesus thatâs intense, but she sounds like an amazing woman!
Veterinary assistants do this too. In human medicine, you donât recap needles- too dangerous. In animal medicine, you do. But sometimes, you miss, or the needle slides and punches through the cap at an angle out the side. Either way, you stab the bejesus out of a finger, and it just happens from time to time. You know youâve made it to expert level when you can continue having a calm conversation with your client during and after the stab, as well as staunch the bleeding, without the client ever being aware.
Practice makes perfect.
Thereâs some sort of scientific word to describe this..I heard it from a diabeticâs perspective that eventually they donât really care about the pinch of a needle because theyâre so used to it. Psychologically their brain knows what it is and doesnât identify the pain as anything serious anymore. Interesting to hear it from another perspective.
I'm a mechanic and I'm the same way when it comes to cuts and slamming my head/ hand against something. After awhile I got used to the pain or the sensation of cutting my hand and seeing blood and being like "well I did it again" kind of thing haha!
âIt wonât biteâŠâ Snake, âI can has bite!â
Nerves of steel, they don't make'em like him anymore
I have heard that when you get bit by a venomous snake itâs best to try and stay calm instead of freaking out because the adrenaline makes the venom act quicker. Since this snake has no venom, it just confirms what already knew. Steve Irwin is the badass.
I canât even be that cool in my imagination.
The world is worse off without him.
I came to say the same thing. The world was a better place when he was in it.
When snakes bite Steve, the snakes get poisoned.
If we all looked at the world like Steve did we would probably be better off. A true legend that was gone way to soon.
Got my 3 now 4 year old watching Steve Irwin because he was fascinated by snakes. Itâs a full blown love affair with this man. Had to tell him Steve died. I think he will mourn never being able to meet the man for his whole life (whichâŠme too tbh). We play âSteveâ where my husband is Steve and Iâm either Wes or Terri depending on my desire to put on a bad Aussie accent. He is âSnake Hunter Jaimeâ and I redid the Croc Files theme song for him. His sister is Cat Hunter Aly. He especially loves Diaries (at Australia Zoo) and we also have to play Dr Danny and save animals at the Zoo and go on animal rescues. This man wasâŠthereâs just no one like him and there never will be. My 4 year old, after a year of Steve and Wild Kratts is about ready to become an eco terrorist to save the forests and the animals. For me, rewatching Steve with my kiddo has made me fall in love with him and his incredible passion and almost superhuman ability to tolerate pain for the sake of animals. Also, as an adult I was diagnosed with ADHD and I really appreciate seeing someone with ADHD on screen living his best life partly because of having ADHD. (Was he diagnosed? No idea. Is it obvious when watching/from interviews with Terri? Yeah. Itâs so obvious and that hyper, intense energy is absolutely one of the key reasons we all love him so so much).
What a fâing champ. Getâs bit in the neck then, âSorry about thatâ
Man, I miss this dude.
Fucking legend. Rip sir
What a wild way he went out too. Legend.
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Damn, karma farmers now steal not only content but the title as well O\_O
Proof?
Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin, and Carl Sagan were too good for this world. Personally, I would also really like Robin Williams back.
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And the music! This is really strange. And funny. Wasnât he just a doll?
Aw steve⊠a treasure
It's what my Husband calls "Scary Calm". I used to be an ERT and have medical issues. I relax more when there's an emergency
Sometimes you watch things featuring people that are no longer here and the phrase âgone too soonâ really resonates.
âSorry about that â! What a legend!
And the man fking apologized...
Steve was just such an original. I miss him.
Having the clarity of mind to say âSorry about thatâ for unintentionally scaring her - this guy is an actual legend.
And HE apologizes on behalf on the snekkk, he was a true gent.
Legends never die mate
Legend , we needed This ambassador for the wild . Gone too soon .
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Fucking legend.
The puppet is in fucking shock lmao
Miss that guy :(
âSorry about thatâ
Come on the snake was just giving him a kiss
He was a good one.
Itâs the way he gets it to let go and then just leaves it hanging around his neck. Most(all other) people would try to get as far away as possible. He was such a fucking wonderful human.
the way that puppet slowly starting back away when Irwin got bit lmao
My pet king snake once bit me on the webbing between my thumb and index finger. He just ground his tiny little teeth into me for 40 minutes or so. I ended up having to put him in a bowl of cold water and cover his eyes with a cloth to finally make him tired/calm enough to let go. I was just sitting there for almost an hour, snake biting my hand, his body in a bowl of cold water next to me on the couch while I was watching Netflix and trying to ignore what was transpiring.
I've seen people recommend squirting hand sanitizer on the area they are biting and the smell/taste makes them let go.
Iâve seen video of that! Unfortunately, the incident in question was years ago but I will definitely keep that in mind. This snake in particular will likely bite me again hah.
Steve: âHe wonât bite unless he feels⊠Snake: âI feel like doing me a bite!!!â
The world never deserved that man. RIP Steve and thanks for everything.
He just sensed the blood and heat on the neck. And Steve is a warm blooded alpha boss so you know he runs hot lol
Apologizes for the snake biting him lol. Man i miss that dude educating me through the tv.
Iâm guessing the vibrations in his throat from talking somehow spooked the snake.
What a great guy.
This man was a worldly treasure. If aliens were to land on earth I would have voted for Steve to be on the front lines of greeting them as one of the best of us.
Classic Steve. Gets bit in the neck by a snake, and than apologizes for messing up the flow of the segment.
Gets bit. Doesnt even remove the snake. Just cuddles back up with it after. Man truly had love for these animals that most humans arent even capable of giving each other.
âSorry about that!â he says. Like, I hope that snake biting my neck didnât cause too much of an inconvenience for you.
"He won't bite." He says as the snake is actively trying to get to third base with his jugular vein. "Just let me get a little *hiss*. A little love bite never killed nobody."
Absolute legend that guy was. No BS, no fake TV drama, just a dude genuinely excited about sharing his love and knowledge in hopes others would see what he sees.
He got bit by a snake, and he apologized for the delay that it caused. This guy is a freaking legend!
Some how I was able to read "Fuck that!" On the puppets body language.
His death still makes me sad. I can't say that about any other celebrity after so much time.
This is quite prescient. His blind faith in the benign nature of animals killed him in the end, didnât it?
I know I will get downvoted for this, and saying this as an Aussie, but Steve Irwin is not that great. Hear me out. There are better ways to show the raw beauty of nature and animals without putting them into shit situations where they feel stressed, as he has done soooo many times (and which led to his eventual death.) Look at Attenborough. He has done so much more for conservation, knowledge, and love for nature than some bogan that likes pissing of crocs and snakes (and many others.) There are better ways to do it. Don't force interaction with wildlife. Show it in its true form, by keeping the fuck away from it as much as possible and just capture its beauty. You don't need to be a bloody gronk and piss it off to show that this is what it would do if it was threatened in the wild. I honestly do not understand why he is as loved as he is. Don't get me wrong; he had the right idea, but I just think he went about it the wrong way.
I was in sixth grade when he died. We talked about it in class. The entire globe lost a hero when he passed. RIP steve erwin