Nature Is Can Be Brutal

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Sometimes you see one of those nature shows where you realize just how horrific and brutal nature really is. A writhing, slow-motion, multi-coiled, many-scaled reptilian nightmare as a gazelle slowly gets swallowed into a constrictor's gaping mouth. Or the frog without an actual head... there's just this wide maw that you can look down into with these weird handlike mandible things on either side. And then it hopped over to one of the people recording the footage. And then a horrifed, endless shrieking that will go on and ON until human history crumbles into dust. Why do I find all this hilarious?

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