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Cane toads have these things going for them: they are bigger than other toads (the biggest cane toad on record weighed 5 pounds 13 ounces, almost as much as a K
by protomyth 10y ago
Cane toads have these things going for them: they are bigger than other toads (the biggest cane toad on record weighed 5 pounds 13 ounces, almost as much as a Kalashnikov rifle)
Is that a bit of a Freudian slip indicating what the author wants to do with the toads?
- LordKano 10y agoThat struck me as odd too. I know roughly how much one of those rifles weighs but I would imagine that the vast majority of the people reading this have never held one.
- protomyth 10y agoThe more I think about it the odder the line. I've been around a lot of guns, but that is not one family of guns I have seen in person.
- LordKano 10y agoIt's arguably the most common family of guns on the planet. I have owned some but it's still an odd unit of measure to me. Along those lines, how many Libraries of Congress is that?
- vilhelm_s 10y agoAnd it doesn't seem very exact? Wikipedia says an AK-47 weighs 7.7 lb without the magazine.
- rjsw 10y agoIsn't that the kind of thing that everyone wants to do to cane toads ?
- protomyth 10y agoSeems like a waste of bullets and the potential to spray some poison everywhere. I would go with thick gloves and a bucket.
- janaagaard 10y agoMy thought was that this is just so America, to explain the weight of something by comparing to the weight of a gun, but reading your comment I'm pretty sure that the author intended this mental image.
- protomyth 10y agoYeah, but its a gun (I assume AK-47 but could be the other ones) that most American gun owners have never held. AR-15 would probably be a better comparison gun since its basically "I can add anything without a gunsmith" popular.