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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] snitchMustDie@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 hours ago

I've been trained in gorilla warfare

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Please do it anon and make sure you film this great achievement.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 2 hours ago

just jump over the fence into the zoo enclosure with him, and you'll probably get your chance

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 12 points 8 hours ago

All ya doubters sound like Joe Rogan on a chimp rant right now. Gorilla glazers....

[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 14 points 11 hours ago

The gorilla will use his insides as an Onahole when he's finished with him.

[–] DigitalNeighbor@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think he's on to something... In these times of political and economical uncertainty, we should bring back ancient Rome colosseum style games. Modern fighters taking on wild animals for glory. Give the masses something to get excited about.

Let the man get himself dismembered by a gorilla as part of a bigger event with deadly races and feats of human strength.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Sounds like an average minimum wage jog tbh.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

What's gorilla gonna do? Bite him?

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 30 points 17 hours ago

Mike Tyson was going to fight a gorilla in his prime. The zoo keepers denied his request. While he can punch a hole in a human's chest, that gorilla was going to rip his arms off with absolutely no effort.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Gorrillas weigh between 219 and 600 lbs

According to Guiness World Records they can lift 1800 lbs.

They have an arm span of over 8 ft.

Feel free to try it but spend some time putting your estate on order, first.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

they can lift 1800 lbs.

For a real-world comparison, ever try to move someone that's passed out? That's probably in the ballpark of 200lbs.

Now imagine lifting six people at once.

Current world records for a deadlift top out just shy of 1200 lbs.

Feel free to try it but spend some time putting your estate on order, first.

OP is definitely going to need a beefy insurance policy, a last will, and a pre-ordered coffin. Maybe they get ahead of the game and just give someone full power of attorney the day before. Assuming they stay in one piece, it's possible that they could survive, but they're going to need a new skeleton and a few vital organs to pull that off.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Assuming Anon has an estate to put in order... smh my head.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago

Look, Jim-Bob needs to know whether he's getting to contents of that trailer or not.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Don't forget the bite force. Monkeys bite.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 8 points 15 hours ago

An orangutan could grab a man by his feet and head and tear him in half, honestly i kind of doubt that the biggest most well trained man could even take on a chimpanzee and win without a weapon.

[–] BlanketGuy@lemm.ee 16 points 16 hours ago

I say let him. We really don't need people like this anyway.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 19 points 17 hours ago

Why bother fight a gorilla. Just cut the forest down and polute his environment. Steal his children put them in a zoo. Cut off his hands then and turn them into ash trays. We have already dominated the natural world now we are working on dominating future generations.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

This made me think of that time my partner's brother told me in complete earnest that he'd be able to jump off a skateboard going 20+ mph and run it out based solely off the fact that the fastest recorded human running speed is 28 mph and therefore he, an average fit 20 y.o. should be able to achieve 75% of that.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In his defense, you only have to run at 20mph for about a step as you'd be slowing down pretty fast.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Your torso and face certainly make for an effective, if slightly messy, brake.

[–] Bogus007@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

😂👍🤣

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

running at 12mph on a treadmill is scary and fucking exhausting.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 13 points 20 hours ago

Your best chance to kill a gorilla in a fight is probably to move so much air around him that he catches a f*cking cold and dies from it. If you don't actually touch him you may even have a non-0 survival chance as he ignores you.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 21 hours ago

if it wasn't so unethical towards the animals, i would love to let those people go for it.

Could only improve the human gene pool.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 17 hours ago
[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That would be how to do it. Humans have pretty good endurance as far as animals go. And gorrilas have pretty terrible punching technique and waste a lot of energy on those shitty downward over head swings that are pretty telegraphed.

My money will still be on the gorilla though unless you ad a few more people

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

The gorilla only needs to land one blow though, or even just bite your hand.

[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 hours ago

They're pretty telegraphed, but you don't get iframes in real life. All the gorilla needs to do is sweep his arms and grab you and then he can just rip you apart.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If I had a gun in each hand, a bandolier full of knives, and a satchel full of grenades, I might be able to take down a gorilla. But likely not before he kills me first.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 21 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I'd fight a gorilla, and win.

It would be a gun fight, from a distance, but a fight none-the-less, and I guarantee you, I know how to shoot better than a gorilla.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago

I know how to shoot better than a gorilla.

Insert Planet of the Apes intro.

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[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Just turned to my husband to ask are there really men out there who think they can really fight a goddamn gorilla??? Is it a joke? Have they SEEN a gorilla??? A chimp gonna kick your ass and they're smaller than an adult man wtf!

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

Id personally be more scared of the chimp. The gorilla is mostly a peaceful animal.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

Mike Tyson, in his prime, wanted to fight a gorilla. Mike Tyson was told he would be killed and backed down.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl -1 points 3 hours ago

Well, he might rape the gorilla, then everyone will spend the next 2 decades defending him...

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The gorilla will rip his arms off and beat him to death with them before he even attempts to dodge it.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 1 day ago (20 children)

Apparently gorillas are about 5 times stronger than a chimp, and I've seen what a chimp can do to a person.

Gorillas mostly leave people alone because they don't find us the slightest bit threatening.

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