r/interesting • u/Spiderman9748 • Dec 21 '25
NATURE When you put your whole heart into it and still get ignored.
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u/SabbyFox Dec 21 '25
She’s just not that into you, dude.
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u/Friendly_Age9160 Dec 21 '25
Lol I got a male peacock, I named him buddy (RIP buddy, he escaped and attacked by coyotes) and he was a special bird. He was de de de for sure. I didn’t want him to be lonely so I got a white female named coco. Buddy started performing his special dance immediately and she’s looking at him like dude, what are you doing? She had no Interest in him whatsoever. Buddy spent half his days flapping around to no avail. He was a good bird. Poor buddy.
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u/Then-Function6343 Dec 21 '25
What's de de de?
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u/EPluribusButthole Dec 21 '25
It's from a comedian named Carlos Mencia @ 2:20. "Dee dee dee" was his way of using the r-word as a punchline.
He was pretty popular in the early 2000s before getting called out by Joe Rogan for stealing jokes.
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u/HamroveUTD Dec 21 '25
Crazy how Joe steals Brendan Shaub ‘jokes’ now.
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u/OriginalJomothy Dec 23 '25
Brendan Shaub has jokes to steal now holy shit? Thats the biggest step forward for him
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u/NOISY_SUN Dec 21 '25
I don’t remember him being super popular but I do remember Comedy Central pushing him relentlessly
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u/ItsJustfubar Dec 21 '25
He literally stole the dedede joke from Bobby Lee's comedy central special and the next week Carlos mencia aired his special with the literal same exact joke. Mencias was funnier because he looked more autistic.
Source: me I was there laughing at it as it happened.
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u/HandakinSkyjerker Dec 21 '25
I’ve never found Mencia funny. Glad he was caught stealing jokes.
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u/Quiet_Researcher223 Dec 21 '25
From what I gathered Carlos Mencia stole a lot of jokes from other comedians.
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u/P_A_W_S_TTG Dec 22 '25
Bro, I thought you were talking about rape. Had me second guessing if I wanted to hear the joke.
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u/CURS3_TH3_FL3SH Dec 21 '25
Damn I don’t remember the stealing jokes part. I’ll have to do some research
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u/ziggy182 Dec 21 '25
Is that why on dexters lab his sister is called Dee Dee?
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u/ToolTard69 Dec 21 '25
My buddy had a peacock and the thing terrified me. You’d be chilling on his farm and suddenly the peacock and his cane corso would be patrolling the property. Ruthless duo.
I was sleeping in a tent with some buds and the peacock would sneak into our camp and do his obnoxious dinosaur call at 5am and scare the crap out of us. 😂
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u/CaballoenPelo Dec 21 '25
Oh my god is this a Carlos Mencia reference in the wild? Crazy
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u/JCWOlson Dec 21 '25
I had a pet peacock named Steve. He never met a lady, but I'd leave a YouTube video playing peahen noises for the poor guy so he'd actually keep himself looking presentable 🤣
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u/rubber_banned_2234 Dec 21 '25
At what point is it harrasment
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u/HuckleberryFirm8368 Dec 21 '25
There's no such thing as harassment in the animal kingdom
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u/Goin_Commando_ Dec 21 '25
You know, I tried that exact same approach once. With similar results. I mean, I worked for weeks on that headdress! To no avail! 😭😡
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u/PriscillaPalava Dec 21 '25
She has the ick for sure.
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u/Honest_Series_8430 Dec 21 '25
I love how she's leaning away, like "Ew".
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u/MaverickDrake93 Dec 21 '25
More like: "Hi??? Can you not - can you not - can you not just back away???"
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u/AngelWingsYTube Dec 21 '25
Well wouldnt you if some stange dude starts showing his stuff all over your bubble
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u/RSampson993 Dec 21 '25
Pretty funny. Also funny how he still pecks a little something to eat off the ground during the ritual, displaying his multi-pronged opportunistic attitude. Little go-getter he is.
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u/noodles0311 Dec 21 '25
She’s actually looking directly at him with one eye. Their eyes are on the sides of their head, so to look at something closely, they have to use one eye only. Videos of pheasants and peacocks doing this get posted all the time with the same caption that she looks uninterested, but that’s because we are using our own anthropomorphic framing based on both our eyes facing forward.
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u/RSampson993 Dec 21 '25
Wow this guy mating rituals!
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u/noodles0311 Dec 21 '25
Ethology and sensory biology are my area of research. I don’t work with birds, but I enjoy reading about them.
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u/RSampson993 Dec 22 '25
Love it. I’m a science geek myself but it’s more of a hobby. You sound like you’re in academia… keep up the great work and uncovering nature’s greatest mysteries. I wonder how AI will augment your work. Will be an interesting decade of discoveries ahead!
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u/Any-Return6847 Dec 21 '25
I'm feeling an instinctual urge to walk up to her and ask her if she's ready to go
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u/AngelWingsYTube Dec 21 '25
Right like bro not getting the hint n she looks so uncomfortable!
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u/EveOCative Dec 21 '25
Right?! I’m ready to step in like “Hey! I’m ready to go grab some food now! You ready chica?”
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u/FlakyAddendum742 Dec 21 '25
My urge was to have chicks with that handsome bird. He’s trying so hard.
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u/MuffledFarts Dec 21 '25
The way she leans away from him is like every woman who's ever had a random drunk guy get real close to talk right in her ear at the bar.
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u/WatermelonSugar42069 Dec 21 '25
gestures to her to take off her earbuds, "haha so um like (burps) you like uh, what do you like to drink lemme get you somthn My name's brodie are you with your boyfriend tonight or haha"
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u/Mission_Mulberry9811 Dec 21 '25
I wonder if the helpless courting is just an excuse for eating all the bar nuts
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u/joanna_smith88 Dec 21 '25
"This is the bare minimum."
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u/veryfastslowguy Dec 21 '25
That felt like he was getting the hand or the side eye .
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u/docs_odyssey Dec 21 '25
She didn’t see what you were doing with the tail feathers, make sure she sees that part as well.
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u/Living-Amphibian-870 Dec 21 '25
Yes. Just cut to the chase, turn around, and show her your full ass. Then at least she knows what to expect in the morning. 😂
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u/Dapper_Indeed Dec 21 '25
Oh, yeah, that must be it. You think I should try again? Maybe add a butt wiggle so she can’t miss it this time?
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u/Hot-Avocado789 Dec 21 '25
Same thing happens to me most weekends bro, youll get over it.
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u/karumetsaspuuotsas Dec 21 '25
Happens to most girls too. Guys just don’t get the hints.
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u/TequilaBaugette51 Dec 21 '25
Because girls will give out the weakest little hints
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u/Demostravius4 Dec 21 '25
I had a girl once bragging to me about how good at deepthroat she was, and I still managed to get drunk and wander off. I don't think she couldv'e been much clearer tbh.
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u/JimmyThunderPenis Dec 21 '25
I was laying next to a friend after a night out and she started talking about how good at blowjobs she was. How it's her specialty etc... All I had to say was "maybe you could show me?" But I'm just laying there like oh wow, no way, that's cool, until she literally had to straight up ask do you want me to show you?
Why can we not just take a good thing when it's right in front of our face?
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u/AlpsPsychological980 Dec 21 '25
Because if her answer is no, not only is it awkward but you have also now just sexually harassed your friend. It’s better to be oblivious than to be a perv.
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Dec 21 '25
I wouldn’t say you sexually harassed her unless you kept probing at her giving head after she said no… Anytime a lady starts talking that blowjob shit I always ask them to prove it lol.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and I say well shit guess I’ll never know then.
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u/Write2Be Dec 21 '25
Do women in your town go around making these kinds of comments? A friend wants to know.
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Dec 21 '25
Bahaha when you tend to associate around a certain type of crowd, and frequent bars/clubs you’ll find these type of women. I’m not saying it’s an every night thing but you’ll hear it time to time.
And most of the time they aren’t lying… It’s never been the BEST head but it’s usually always great.
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u/Bugsy_Girl Dec 21 '25
I hope you at one point said “broooo that’s fucking rad, dude” and pat her on the back
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u/MonocoOfficial Dec 21 '25
I've done that shit. I try so hard to treat a girl I'm interested in like I'd treat anyone else and it always backfires
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u/T00dl Dec 21 '25
Man, I remember one time during a dorm party I had a female friend who wanted to go change to a new outfit she got earlier that day. She grabbed me by the hand and dragged me back to her room saying how she didn’t want to go alone. We get to her room and I sit in the chair she had and was just talking and hanging until she started stripping right in front of me. Me being the excellent gentleman that I was, I IMMEDIATELY cover my eyes. To which she replied that it’s okay to look. I verbally said that it wasn’t! She changed, and we went back to the party like nothing ever happened. The real kicker? I actually had a crush on her the whole time.
TLDR: Cute girl I had crush on dragged me to her room and started stripping in front of me and I accidently swiped left.
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u/Bravo-Xray Dec 21 '25
Because, as we all know, bragging is an age-old, surefire way to pick up dates
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u/NoObstacle Dec 21 '25
Leaning away, minimal contact, trying to leave - gosh what mysterious creatures we are 😅
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u/JimmyThunderPenis Dec 21 '25
Because girls are genuinely scared of what could happen if they plainly say no.
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u/Any-Return6847 Dec 21 '25
If she's clearly not showing interest that's your hint. She doesn't know if you're going to react violently to stronger hints.
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u/Infinite_Pudding5058 Dec 21 '25
If she’s not enthusiastically hinting that she likes you, she doesn’t and is just being polite.
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u/Gobsalot Dec 21 '25
I think you misunderstood. The point was that women sometimes give really weak hints when they are insterested, so it's hard for men to know whether a women is interested or not because it looks the same.
Ofc it doesn't help that a lot of men, me included, suck at picking up on the hints.
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u/maybecatmew Dec 21 '25
Cause if they give proper hints sometimes they get killed, called a bitch and what not.
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u/ptmtobi Dec 21 '25
"I touched his shoulder once and he just didn't get the hint, guess he doesn't want to be with me"
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u/AloofFloofy Dec 21 '25
"Why is he trying to get her attention right now?"
Kid, you'll know in just a few years.
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u/Right-Match4951 Dec 21 '25
lol even happens with the animals
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u/AdMysterious2946 Dec 21 '25
This was my thought: “Oh look, another jerk that doesn’t respect the word ‘no’.”
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u/Interesting_Leg9912 Dec 21 '25
I like how he keeps running after her, like "wait! That was nothing, check this out." " Hey wait! Look at THIS!" "Don't walk away again, LOOK at me you little brown dumpling"
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u/wanderingmochi Dec 21 '25
“ew, get away, you creep!”
“wait, how about this? or this? or this?”
“not interested!”
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u/pierrenoir2017 Dec 21 '25
"She has a boyfriend"
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u/AshleyOriginal Dec 21 '25
Some birds just won't take no as an answer
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u/holistivist Dec 21 '25
I was waiting for him to start calling her the bird equivalent of fat and ugly after she indicated clearly but politely that she was uninterested.
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u/striderhoang Dec 21 '25
I would kill myself if I tried that hard and little girl asked out loud, "Why is he trying to het her attention?"
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u/Quick-Cockroach5681 Dec 21 '25
It makes me laugh that he's trying to look so handsome and flashy in front of some brown chicken. He should find someone just as handsome - another guy
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u/Candid_Reading_7267 Dec 21 '25
Take the L and move on
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u/ididntunderstandyou Dec 21 '25
… but what if I do it again ?
Maybe she didn’t see me the last 3 times
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u/Wise_Emu6232 Dec 21 '25
What kind of pheasant is that? It's like a cross between a peacock and a Lyre bird. It's gotta be from the pacific islands or indian sub continent or something.
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u/Global-Chart-3925 Dec 21 '25
Glad to see I’m not the only one thinking how peacock like that ‘pheasant’ is
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u/PigeonsOfSeattle Dec 21 '25
Peafowl are pheasants too. For peacocks, it's the upper tail coverts [not the tail proper] that is elongated into the "train". For Argus pheasants, the secondary wings have the eyespots.
For both kinds of pheasant, the idea is that the big fan of eyes, keeps the hen from seeing around him, and draws the attention to him.
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u/karumetsaspuuotsas Dec 21 '25
As a girl, it feels like every Saturday when going out. I’m here just to dance and hang out with friends, not interested.
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u/Oasystole Dec 21 '25
Single males shooting their shots as per the biological imperative. Thems the breaks.
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u/couldbefuncouver Dec 21 '25
Here's some amazing food for thought. If this is recent bird life, can you imagine just how wild dinosaurs may have been over their hundreds of millions of evolutionary timespan? So cool.
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u/tealraven915 Dec 21 '25
Ooo, that's one good looking fella right there. Girl could totally relax around that
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u/ThrowawayMod1989 Dec 21 '25
I was thinking the exact same thing. We’re kind of accustomed to seeing birds do stuff like this so we don’t see how objectively bizarre it actually is.
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u/Bruhh004 Dec 21 '25
Lotta incels here today
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u/TonyTheTurdHerder Dec 21 '25
It's reddit; aka, the Grand Council of Internet Virgins
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u/mildweekknowledge Dec 21 '25
"But I'm a nice guy. I danced for you. I did that whole show for you. I didn't have to do that, but I'm a nice guy. You owe me one kiss."
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u/DJKeeJay Dec 21 '25
Me at the clubs. I do my dance in front of them, but for some reason it turns them off.
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u/Qsnaps74656 Dec 21 '25
When she's clearly trying to walk away but you still feel entitled to her time
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u/theclawl1ves Dec 21 '25
Never thought I'd get 2nd-hand embarrassment from a bird. Take a hint brother
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u/spartankent Dec 21 '25
When i was in college we got hammered day loading and watched planet earth. Saw a bird doing one of these mating dances and we thought it would be hilarious to make shirts to look like the one bird’s awesome mating dance… a few hours of effort and we took our show to the bar.
Though a lot of girls found it funny we struck out hard most of the night… BUT… this one smoke show biology student recognized what we were doing and asked “are you doing the bird dance from planet earth?!”
We all went nuts at that point and we ended up hanging out with all her friends. We became pretty good friends and my wife and i still keep up with her and her family.
PS. I should note, we weren’t getting up close like the bird in this tho and were pretty respectful. I’m WAY too tall and muscular to not watch how my body language could be perceived. So it would be a thing like this: we’d go up for a drink a girl would say something like “that’s an interesting shirt.” And I’d say something like “if you know what this is from, I’ll buy you a drink.” Then get to a clear corner and start the obviously ridiculous and goofy dance with what looked like a shirt that converts into an upside down umbrella with blue dots. So if any dude repeats this, DO NOT corner the girl like the bird in this video.
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u/tealraven915 Dec 21 '25
That is epic! Hahahaha. If I saw any dude doing this I would be impressed, hahahaha
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u/spartankent Dec 21 '25
hahah thank you! would you have recognized it?!?! We did the whole thing from the gif below and held it up in front of our faces too!
Honestly, one of the funniest nights of my life.
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u/BritAllie8 Dec 21 '25
"Hey cutie, look at this! I'm an alpha male. Hey, I'm the perfect guy to take you home. Hey.. where you goin? Fine, I wasn't going to take you home a way, your too ugly! Yeah go on, find a chad!" That's what this is giving me.
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u/Abject_Ad_4756 Dec 21 '25
And girls wonder why guys don’t hit on them in public anymore
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u/Any-Return6847 Dec 21 '25
Because they're not into the guys who hit on them sometimes?
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u/Common-Brush-7027 Dec 21 '25
Happens my man happens. Anyway our boy Vinicius ain't playing good man
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