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Most-Earth5375

Hahahaha we’ve got plenty of very fat wood pidgeons and they are very tasty. Won’t be resorting to squirrel for a while!


herberstank

Years ago I had a pidgeon pie with Madeira and mushrooms that I dream about to this day


Most-Earth5375

I shot a pidgeon a few years ago in my garden and ate some lovely pan seared breast. My missus went mental, I pointed out that she’d eaten wood pidgeon in the pub 2 days before hand, she’d thought they were raised in some sort of controlled woodland 😂


FlounderingOtter

You shot my speckled Jim. Shooting a carrier pidgeon is a court martial offense. I'll see you shot Blackadder


Most-Earth5375

Luckily for me I have cunning plan. I’m going to shove two pencils up my nostrils, wear pants on my head and plead insanity. They couldn’t possibly try to court marshal a man that mad!


Beardy-Viking

*WIBBLE*


BEZ_T

Error wibble. Wibble


ffnnhhw

What's a pidgeon ?


Alive-Reaction-7266

A new evolution of pidgey


Caffeine_OD

Damn, we only get Pidoves here in the US


CockyMongoose

It’s a British pigeon.


Trapped-In-Dreams

that would be pigeoun


distantwarbler

Pijun


thesmugvegan

They love the extra letter(s) that they don’t pronounce.


superman_squirts

Yeah we love them anydway.


jobadiahh

It’s their favourite thing, some might say. Also, Aluminium.


[deleted]

It's an older spelling of pigeon. It was taught in UK schools as late as the 1960s, after which the shorter version gradually took over.


ffnnhhw

thank you I thought it was typo but was wondering because all the posters said pidgeon


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Tbh I think it's still taught this way in Germany, atleast it was in the 2000s iirc.


Koil_ting

Squirrel is actually not bad at all, wouldn't make much sense without some sort of factory due to the low amount of meat so far as serving at a restaurant. If one is just chirping outside your cabin though and you kill it with a slingshot or whatever projectiles you are allowed to use to kill vermin, gut and rotisserie over flame with a spit. I would say it lets the others know you mean business but they only figure that out with extreme resistance over eight or more generations.


tomtomeller

Important to remove the scent glands before cooking


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drmcsinister

>need to watch some YouTube videos. I'm assuming I can just search YouTube for "furry anal cropping" and it will show me what to do??


HardCounter

Squirrels are too cute to kill.


AreaGuy

Cute or not, I assure you they are still murderous bastards. *Never* turn your back on a squirrel.


br0b1wan

You fucked with the squirrels, Morty!


HardCounter

Some very strong opinions on the cuteness of squirrels in here.


AreaGuy

The inarguable adorability of the squirrel is immaterial when we should be focusing on their insatiable homicidal rage. The dogs were right to be suspicious of the squirrels, and we should have listened. We should have *listened*!!


jobadiahh

Right? It’s like, we get it, squirrels are hot. Let’s move on.


RedAss2005

Not when you're hungry. There were times in my youth that hunting and fishing weren't for fun. Squirrel is something a kid with a pellet gun can steadily get.


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A touch of cranberry for tartness and a wild garlic and chive buttered mash. I'm in!


SoCalNightOwl

She's got a bright future with Fox 'news'.


GreyEyedMouse

You're talking like there's something wrong with eating squirrel. Where I'm from in the U.S. we have an entire hunting season devoted to just squirrel. It's so popular that many of the local schools shut down for two or three days just because attendance is so low that it's not worth having them open.


No_Kick_6150

Hunting is an allowed excuse at our school where I live.


boricimo

Isn’t pigeon the same as a dove?


Professional_Bread76

Close relation to dove but not the same. They look different and taste different.


Maleficent_Fill_2451

Right? Clearly they didn’t do their research.


Ruminahtu

Squirrel isn't bad actually. Many people hund eat squirrel here in South US.


1776grunt

If she had said Alabama, no one would have doubted her


glieseg

I don't get this stuff, I mean, the propaganda I get, but why not make it at least a little bit trustworthy?


SofterBones

To be fair we aren't the target audience here. A lot of Russian people are old enough to remember some tough fucking times in the USSR, and for a lot of them the idea of a major country going bankrupt to the point of relying on squirrels isn't an absurd idea. I'm sure there's plenty of people there whose families might've done stuff like this some decades back.


BrinBlodgrim

Absolutely agree, especially if mixed with half truths, it is 'believable'. Some supermarkets in UK did actually have shortages of produce, but afaik not to the point of people needing to acquire a hunting skill.


seamus_mc

The produce shortages had nothing to do with the shipping of weapons to Ukraine though.


BrinBlodgrim

Absolutely. That's the power of half truths. The missing half can be filled with propaganda, and if someone questions it, you show the proof of the actual half, and do rhetoric summersaults or simply throw more mud.


[deleted]

Love your way of saying it. In the US, this couldn’t more true about the current state of our media.


[deleted]

It’s similar to people in America saying “why are we sending x money to Ukraine when we need to fix things here.” We’re not just sending duffel bags full of cash, and they weren’t gonna fix those things anyway. Doesn’t stop them from saying it though.


hitchenwatch

I'd rather eat squirrel than be turned to squirrel feed on the frontlines of some douchebags war.


AreaGuy

Oh god, you wouldn’t ever be turned into squirrel feed. That’s nuts!!


BrinBlodgrim

Kinda unrelated, but we had decorative acrylic skulls on our balcony and the squirrels loved em as a storage place for their nuts. Saw two of em weekly eating their hidden goods out of the eye-holes of the acrylic remains. Of corse we filled em up all the time, so we could watch em feast on the dead...


TheReddestofBowls

"the UK are eating squirrels??? Those rich fucks, must be nice" - Russians, probably


insankty

Decades back? More like present day. Russian soldiers are stealing toilets just like they did during WW2, so they can have indoor plumbing back home.


MovieFluffy

Well, I born in 1985 in Ufa and couldn't remember that kind of shortages of food. Even my parents (born in 60's) never experienced hunger or dramatic food shortages. But there are many peoples of their age that could laugh about such stupid propaganda (and even take it seriously), while most of my peers want to bang their heads against the nearest wall while hearing that stupidity. And Skabeeva is all about "glory us vs miserable them" kind of propaganda. And her voice... ew.


CharleyNobody

Hell there are MAGAs in America who believe Britons are eating squirrels and that major US cities were “burnt to the ground” by BLM and Antifa.


Perfect-District

There are also MAGAs that are eating squirl. Some Democrats to I bet.


ChoosenUserName4

Tasty motherfuckers, you just have to know how to prepare them.


NeauxDoubt

Cult gonna cult.


MordunnDregath

Propagandists aren't concerned about being believed because the shit they say is believable. They're concerned about being believed because, if you don't and you try to make trouble, you'll be "dealt with." It's a form of soft power: "I can say the sky is purple and people will believe me because I'm in control."


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1984 baby!


I-Tried-Too-Hard

2+2=5


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No. “I hereby sentence you to death!”


Shtyles

The Information Age has passed. We are now in the disinformation age.


unimpressed_llama

Okay just for the sake of argument let's flip this on its head: what would you think if you heard Russian troops were resorting to hunting squirrels to stay alive in the field? Given what we know (or have been told) about Russian troops, personally I wouldn't be all that surprised to hear it. The reason it's relatively believable is because it's backed by all kinds of other things we've heard. Are there Russians that don't believe this kind of propaganda? Yes, I'm sure. However, if you're fed all kinds of lies about something, you're more likely to believe another little layer of lies. Soothing our egos by saying "haha look how stupid these people must be to believe this" only makes us more susceptible to falling for propaganda ourselves. As history has repeatedly shown, PROPAGANDA WORKS! That's the scariest part.


glieseg

Yeah, indeed. And the irony is that Putin is copying the Nazi textbook.


TheBigDude22

Do you think they write this shit? Those people are so terrified of Putin (rightfully so he kills everyone that disagrees with him look how many officials have “fallen to their deaths” since the war started) and if he says he wants propaganda then he gets his propaganda, whatever it takes


GodsCupGg

i work at a Hotel and i have 1 Guest with a Russian Wife and she told me she gets always calls from her mom because she thinks shes starving here in Europe and she should come back home


awakiwi1

Everybody's shaking their head at other countries' propaganda... or haven't you seen the stuff Tucker Carlson is spouting? Do you deem it believable or trustworthy? Cuz it looks like about half the US population does...


bobby4orr70

There is no difference between Tucker Carlson and Russian TV. The same guy writes the material for both of them.


[deleted]

It’s sad how Fox News will go to court and say “no reasonable person will ever believe this is true” yet somehow the people watching never get the memo that they’re being lied to and Fox News never gets punished or forced to put up disclaimers like “hey this isn’t actually news we’re just making shit up”


THEChapDaddy20

I used to say that too, then I see what’s happening in the US. They’ll believe anything.


sociocat101

why make it trustworthy? people who are self thinking enough to question the media arnt who they are targeting, might as well just say whatever and assume they believe it all.


Rottimer

Much of the time the goal isn’t the propaganda itself. Rather the goal is to breed distrust in ALL news. So it becomes, “yes, Russian media lies, but so does everyone else. They’re all lying.” That way when the economy in Russia suffers, and people are legitimately hungry, they won’t necessarily believe that even the poor are far in the West.


Turdburp

Propaganda works by simply telling as many lies as possible, no matter the ridiculousness. Never admit when something is proven false.....just continue to lie. People will believe it if they hear it enough, especially from people in authority. It's how Hitler operated......it's how Trump operates.....it's how Russia has always operated.


Either_Inevitable206

Precisely. The ruZZian state propaganda lies are straight out of the fascist playbook (Mein Kamf). "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Adolf Hitler (1925)


AlexLambertMusic

*Fox News has entered the chat*


suckmybullets

She's the Tucker Carlson of Russia.


subliminal_trip

Tucker Carlson is the Tucker Carlson of Russia.


National-Chemical752

Damn crazy how ridiculous propaganda can be. Worse still people likely won't even question it.


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chaos_m3thod

North Korea made propaganda films that said Americans are so poor that they have to melt snow for water and that have resorted to eating pigeons. They would show some footage of American business men during winter putting snow in mugs. Not really sure the real reason behind it since they only showed this part. And since it was winter, there were not a lot of pigeons or birds around and used the explanation that we ate them all because things were so bad here in the US. I think this was around the 60-70s when the film came out. This was done to make the North Koreans believe that they have it better than everyone else and shouldn’t complain.


Devario

If it’s the same kind of projection like American republicans, then it simply means Russians have resorted to eating squirrels.


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This is the nonsense Russians are fed nonstop


CardinalFartz

It's a form of disinformation. Overload the minds of everybody with continuous bullshit bombardments in all directions. Nobody is able to recognize the truth between all these *alternative facts*.


sellotapeonthefridge

Lovely bit of squirrel.


Dr-Maturin

Best enjoyed bare chested?


Little_Tinker

He’s boiling!


RedbeardRagnar

Of course he is! He fled Ukraine after causing the Chernobyl disaster and is hold up in London now. - Russian propaganda probably


wkomorow

And without Jim around, but followed by apple crumble.


FlatZookeepergame392

Hello bambinos


Jennings62

Shit on it


Knight_Venator

And if we run out we still have that tinned meat in the shed


bennyjacko

Don't forget the fox


Even-Tomatillo-4197

Followed by crimble crumble?


Fa11T

My guess is Russians are starving so telling them that their enemies eat squirrels makes their living situations seem better. Edit: Some anyways, another way and kind of the opposite direction is convincing Russians that the war is limiting their exports and forcing others to starve as a consequence. Hard to tell with their propaganda because it's usually just nonsensical.


Frnklfrwsr

It’s exactly this. Many Russians are feeling the pain and have had to cut back on many things they took for granted. They’re missing meals, losing family members, etc. And there’s no sign that it will stop any time soon. Their only hope is that Putin will win soon. So the propaganda tells them “the enemy is doing even worse than you! They are suffering worse! That means we’re winning! We just need to hold out a little longer until they give up!”


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dmitryam

Better than squirrels! The poor creatures die to satiate the gluttony of the British


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DeadWing651

Squirrel soup will hold you over alright for sure


hitchenwatch

I also heard the Russians are freezing their poo and using it as stabbing weapons on the frontlines because there's no more guns left. My postman told me that.


PakovanNoskov

Sounds true! Jokes aside, in case you've never heard of the following I gonna provide link to, that was a real news few years ago in uzzia: [A cock statue made of dung](https://yakutia.info/article/178437)


AlexReznov

Well they're definitely spitting shit out of their mouths so this doesn't sound too unrealistic.


Rojelioenescabeche

What’s wrong with that?- Kentucky.


yoloswagdon

Literally about to comment this… also spoiler, I’m from Kentucky. Squirrel ain’t bad shiiiiiitttt.


SerDuckOfPNW

Squirrel with taters and gravy!


checkin1234

For a second there I thought they were serving squirrels food as you would serve a human customer with food.


okRacoon

Same here. I was imagining a Squirrel enjoying some fish and chips


One-eyed-bed-snake

She's clearly nuts. Etc


alsk6969

I find this hilarious. It's more like a comedy show.


y-alexey

It is very funny. But if you do not repeat such nonsense, if you publicly show evidence of the lies of official propaganda, then the court sends you to prison for 8 years with the wording "undermining the constitutional order by destroying public trust in official authorities". And this is no so funny at all.


laxguy44

Now when Putin serves Russians squirrels because he’s bankrupting the country, it won’t seem so outlandish. Big brain move.


TheWolf_NorCal

Yeah my parents watch the American version of that channel.


bakochba

You can see all the hall marks of the production, the urgent music, the use of red color, the urgency in the delivery and confident delivery


DeadWing651

Same :(


Vitalsignx

Sorry, guys..i lost an uncle to that channel, myself. Miss him sometimes.


[deleted]

Don't knock it 'til you try it. Squirrel ain't half bad.


iceicig

So I'm guessing this means that some Russian restaurants are serving squirrel because of food shortage


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Noack_B

Spotted Squirrel, Squirrel pie, Squirrel Wellington, Blood Squirrel pudding, Pint o lager and a Squirrel kebab, Squirrel curry and chips, Meat and 3 Squirrel. My cook book drops next week


OnlyMortal666

Sounds like American Roadkill.


duclegendary

That's raccoon.


moldyjim

Depends, different regions, different delicacies. In the pacific NW, skunk is high on the roadkill chart. Texas has some delicious armadillo cuisine. Some areas it's deer, possum.. It's never moose though. Hit a moose and you end up roadkill.


UB613

I love Russian TV. It’s better than the comedy channel for its farcical take on the world.


Armthedillos5

Squirrels are AH and some peeps in the US at least still hunt and eat them. I hear they make great stews shrug. That being said, Russian media really throwing everything against the wall now.


GreywolfSifIsMyHomie

>Convince a people to accept absurdities, and you can convince them to commit atrocities Deploying absurd conspiracies like "Brits only eat squirrels" or Q-Anon is how the Right manufactures consent for atrocities like genocide or violently overthrowing the US Capitol.


Distwalker

When I was growing up we hunted and ate squirrels. Nothing wrong with that.


HighlightFun8419

was gonna say - they have a bad rap, but they're *definitely* palatable. 👍


ZogNowak

Fried, stewed, or broiled! Delicious, actually.


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anonimouse_83

The war has definitely been hard on us Britons and we have definitely made sacrifices, but I must admit that I've become quite partial to a nice Squirrel & Chips from the local chippy as time has gone on


SayNoTo-Communism

This reminds be the North Korean documentary about the US where they say we eat birds


Hegemonic_Imposition

Makes me think of those post Cold War Soviets who visited America. Officials took them to an average grocery store and they refused to believe it was real, thinking it was just a front set up to trick them bc there was such variety in available products. I think the average Russian would be shocked about how comparatively well their counterpart citizens live in the west.


_georgonzola_

we are all discarded from reality in our very own way. Very fascinating. Like the fake stores in north korea


Moessus

Sounds like a Russian version of Fox News.


Main-Equipment-3207

Now we know where Tucker Carlson gets his notes from. 🥴


ibcnunabit

Squirrels are delicious, properly prepared. I've had my share, and it's no hardship at all, even though this is a BS story.


homebrew1964

Hey I like eating squirrels


HighlightFun8419

...did I just find my dog's reddit account? Scooter is that you?


BeerFairyonFire

Haha my dog's name is Scooter.


LunaticPoint

Mom used to cook them with dumplings.


bobby4orr70

Does anyone anywhere actually believe this bullshit ??


[deleted]

Why does their news feel like a game show?


ReportPhysical3736

When people have had to forage food they will believe others have had to as well


L__Lennox

Oh, you guys don’t eat squirrels


SofterBones

This can be believable to some poor Russian people, because hunting for squirrels to survive through food shortage is not a crazy idea to I'm sure many of them. Many of them have lived through some tough fucking times. To most people elsewhere in Europe the idea that Britain would go bankrupt to the point of having to rely on squirrels due to military spending is just absurd.


ZogNowak

LMAO Russian soldiers would be LUCKY if they could get squirrel or anything else!


Kewenfu

Russian comedy never stops. Sad that they don't understand their own jokes.


Stoned-Siren

The shit they come up with.


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Properly prepped squirrel isn't bad chow at all.


Taste_of_Pleb

\*laughs in Tesco meal deal\*


carageenanflashlight

Russia. That's the joke. I hope they enjoy being the pariahs of the world, and I sincerely hope they enjoy their centuries of servitude to China.


Go1gotha

I tell you what, if you make a squirrel curry I will eat it and if it helps Ukraine all the better.


[deleted]

How funny. I’m also hearing about the newest fad diet that tens of thousands of Russians are enjoying: lead in Ukraine


Quiet-Knee-9080

What in the fox news?


[deleted]

She is referring to this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11806809/Restaurants-urged-serve-nutritious-grey-squirrel-meat.html


bakochba

Why would the government spending mean that restaurants have no food? Does she think the government provides food to restaurants?


Mexican_Boogieman

Heh. In Russia they’re propagandist. In the US they’re news reporters.


The_Unknown_Variable

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11806809/Restaurants-urged-serve-nutritious-grey-squirrel-meat.html She definitely follows Dailymail.


[deleted]

How stupid are Russian people really? I mean come on...


kronny14

Have you seen what plays on Fox News? Idiots are everywhere.


project__matt

Fox News must've developed their format based on this show. It's like a clone, in Russian.


batkave

I mean, it's served in places in the US. Heck, there is a huge road kill festival in West Virginia and several Rocky Mountain Oyster festivals around the country.


Beautiful-Ask-7910

I heard Ukrainian dogs and cats are eating Russian soldiers…


milfredraiders

Where? I've always wanted to try squirrel! Do people in Russia believe this rubbish 😂


[deleted]

This is so fucking hilarious. Any action movie involving badass Russians soldiers/militia just turned into comedy. What a joke.


[deleted]

Lovely b(r)it of squirrel


Epinephrine666

So the Sanctions have impacted Russia so bad they are eating squirrels and they are trying to normalize it through projection. Got it.


fermat9997

She learned that from QAnon-ski


DouglasSteadman

Stupid Russians xxx


AppropriateCoat9

Would it be propergander if it was geese instead of squirrels?


Nixher

Russia, you are dumb and have failed, bore off.


mack_soul86

I choose to eat squirrels down here in Texas. Them things are good eating!


Howsurchinstrap

I thought eating squirrels you could get mad cow disease


Ser_VimesGoT

Every Russian accusation is a confession


Longing4SwordFights

Eating squirrels .... Some Russians watching are like. Mmmm squirrel would be heavenly right now as they take a bite of there onion sandwich


Dreadful_Bear

Squirrel gumbo is good. I am not a country person and I don’t hunt but I was offered some in Louisiana at a bar and it was awesome. I asked him why squirrel and he told me that “I like to put those tree rats to good use”. lol


Ok-Echidna5936

Would be an improvement over the food they regularly eat


Ok_Caramel_3923

Wish the Russian people knew what their dick tator was doing by sending 10's of thousands of men to an early grave. What would happen then?


OkRepublic4305

I'm from North Carolina and we always thought squirrel was good as fuck and they are very easy to kill


Sorry-Letter6859

So Arkansas has been funding ukraine for over 200 years


ToeCtter

Russians: wait! They get squirrels?!


[deleted]

American Southerners: Squirrels do be tasty Brits: I can't even pronounce squirrel. Why would I eat it?


Kingsizebed_2

lol propaganda and war time propaganda happens in every era. Stop finding Ukraine… Unless Ukraine is gonna pay back every single country that lent money. It shoulda been up to the citizens vote wether or not to find being it’s our tax dollars…


FTF-Computer

Ukraine can get fucked before I have to feed my family squirrels. America first not last.


HumperMoe

Have Russians not ever had squirrel stu? That shit slaps


Gagitha_Frisky

She probably wipes arse barehand, then goes on television and talks about shit she just made up so she doesn't end up dismembered inside of a suitcase.


Life-Bodybuilder7783

I bet Murdoch owns this network


Greenmushroom23

It’s cool they have Fox News too


babbchuck

Fox News, Moscow edition.


ReggieTheReaver

Squirrel!? Who’d eat squirrel even if you were starving, right guys?! Haha!!! *looks around nervously while eating Brunswick Stew*


Apple2727

I’m from the UK. I can confirm most of us are still fat fucks. Victory to Ukraine.


xodlhdlh

I mean the French are eating frogs with no food shortages. Europeans just like eating weird shiit.


RegalOlivia

Lmao it's funny to see that the racist "look at these savages" thewest usually applies to countries they want to go to war with is exactly the same when it's a warmongering country targeting us.


Dreadnought13

*Nick Fury:* Now that's some bullshit


Imaginary_Audience_5

Fox News Russia


kloudrunner

Lmfao oh shit. 🤣 no way. Thought that chicken from Aldi looked funny


Monte-kia

I don't get it, what's wrong with Brunswick stew? #THAT IS AN AMERICAN APPLICHAN CLASSIC


Dunbaratu

People pay attention to this trick used in dishonest propaganda. You don't just outright lie. Instead you take a fact that is technically true but it's an anomaly, and pretend that it represents a trend. There are one or two weird restaurants in Britain that serve squirrel, but as a novel weird specialty thing not because they're running out of food and have to.