Tho I must admit that I would never get that close to the surface with my bare hands while doing this.
Ok Now you have a bucket of piranhas. ?
Piranhas have dozens of uses. Food, bait, aesthetics/decor, pranks, weapons of surprise, scissors, evil lairsâŠ
HI, IâM KENNY ROGERS, AND THIS IZ THE PIRANHA BUCKET ON THE DOOR TRICK!
Then you will love the German fairy tales collection of Struwwelpeter especially the thumb-sucker Konrad.
Here is an English translation of the whole book, although parts of the original humor got lost:
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Bucket of piranhas perched above a door.
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Put a piranha in the apple bobbing barrel for a âhardcoreâ mode.
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April fools (self explanatory).
This is just scratching the surface
Piranhas are one of those things I thought Iâd need to worry about when I was young.ike quick sand and properly identifying if something is good or foolâs gold.
Donât forget how to put yourself out if you spontaneously combust, and acid rain.
acid rain was legit, then the worldâs governments actually did something about it and it became not a thing. Much like the hole in the o-zone (at least until Elonâs vanity satellites start failing at a high enough rate to decimate the o-zone) and how we could mitigate climate change if there was political will
Acid rain is real. So is quicksand. Either of them being common and severe hazards experienced across the entire US (and maybe elsewhere, I donât know what the rest of you were taught in gradeschool), not really.
Real acid rain causes mass ecological damage through relatively subtle increases in acidity over several exposures. The way we learned about it in school, whether they meant to or not, came across like concentrated hydrochloric acid was going to rain from the skies and melt human flesh on contact.
The solution to acid rain actually made climate change worse. Well, not directly, just that it turns out that the sulphurs in the atmosphere that caused acid rain were also cooling the planet. With that gone, heat went up quite significantly, and research is being done now to see if we can put that back again much higher and in a more controlled way to regulate temperatures down a bit. We could add additions to airplane fuel, for example, that will disperse it throughout the atmosphere
Mine was wilderness survival, which I think would still be a thing if cell phones werenât as advanced as they are with GPS navigation, emergency dialing and location.
I know it still happens and is still a very needed skill specially for those who live out in low populated areas, but I genuinely thought that being lost or stranded in the woods was a super common thing. Like needing to start a fire, finding water and hunting to catch food was definitely an experience I would one day have to go through even though I grew up in a large city and didnât have a reason to go off the grid often aside from occasional shore fishing.
Ok, so why would anyone want to catch a piranha? Are they tasty or something?
Reading more, everything I see describes them as bony, salty and very fishy tasting, best served smoked or grilled to mask the flavor.
Sounds like weâre not missing much.
Protein is protein and if this is where someone needs to get it, then this is what it will be
At least one source who couldnât comment publicly stated they werenât joking
Theyâre almost certainly starved. Piranhaâs donât normally swarm like this
I canât tell from the video if the water is just muddy or if itâs actually, yâknow, gross. Is it safe to eat the fish from that river?
Also, Iâd always heard they didnât do that unless they were starving. Which makes me think not much is surviving in that water, making me think it might not be safe to eat the fish :/
Though, I imagine if youâre desperate for protein, such things are secondary concerns at best
Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).
Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil
Thereâs great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images âmeeting of the waters Manausâ:
Just jumping in to say that red soils are not very fertile. They are nutrient-poor in the necessary macro-nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus) and have a very poor ability to retain water. They are very rocky - little organic matter content - which limits both water retention and cationic exchange capacity (affecting N+ and K+ bioavailability), and tend to be acidic.
Cultivation is possible, but it requires large amounts of fertilizers and soil conditioning agents (liming to raise pH and add calcium, addition of organic matter). In effect, recreating an artificial soil that is closer in nutrient availability to the black soils present in the worldâs most fertile regions (which today are also heavily fertilized).
I wrote red soil, but more specifically, where I lived there was Terra Roxa (purple soil?), which seems to be a kind of red soil according to the English Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_roxa
And it is the prevalent soil on the north of the state of ParanĂĄ, regarded as Brazilâs agricultural barn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParanĂĄ_(state)
So it does confuse me that the stateâs soil would be unfertile, as I grew up learning how good it was and surrounded by prosperous farms.
The Portuguese Wikipedia page does talk about it being fertile (no English translation): https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_roxa
So maybe it isnât a type of red soil in the end; or there are some types of red soil that are (very) fertile.
For a satellite view
