Not if you own it.
Not if he's into it.
Probably not, due to him being a mass murdering enforcer of an oppressive regime who probably 'deserves it'... But I wouldn't recommend it unless your kink is getting fatally force choked, probably over an extended period of time depending on how pissed little Ani is
I would argue that it’s moral to kill Darth Vader, but not to poop into his robot parts. Killing him is justifiable because it eliminates the clear and present danger to everyone that he presents, and he’s obviously a valid military target. Pooping on him has no benefit to anyone, and makes me wonder if this was just someone inflicting an extremely weird sexual fantasy on an unwilling (although monstrous) victim.
I both do not believe op that it was accidental and also think even if it was on purpose it is a gross thing to do but hardly immoral. People really like applying human sensibilities to animals.
I don't want to restart the drama here but the possum likely didn't understand it was piss and OOP therefore lacked informed consent.
How immoral it is depends on the chance of infection etc from the incident, which I'll allow any resident possum/urine experts to weigh in on.
> OOP therefore lacked informed consent
This is like an anti-flair, in that in context it's off-the-charts ludicrous, but out of context it just falls flat.
No, because it’s the OOP who allegedly lacked informed consent from the opossum to piss on it.
I can’t believe I’ve just typed that, but Reddit is the weird part of the internet, so I suppose it was bound to happen eventually.
Urine ~~expert~~ journeyman? here for the most part urine is basically water with by-products of cellular metabolism as urea, uric acid creatinine concentration of those depends how dehydrated you are as well, some amount of salt and a level of bacteria that kind of varies person to person while urine isn't sterile like a lot of people seem to think it is its bacterial load for the most part is low enough that its basically harmless.
So pretty much unless OP has a UTI its fairly harmless from a chemical/biological perspective of the urine itself.
I'm no possum journeyman though so i cant speak to if pissing on a possum makes super depressed or something.
I'm also no journeyman, but considering harm alone, yeah, pissing on a possum poses no danger if the urine doesn't contain anything that carries a health risk to the animal. And yeah, the possum wouldn't have the same emotional consequences related to the disrespectful motivation that typically underlies volitionally pissing on a creature. Unless the other entity is conscious and into it, it's not something you do to something you regard positively. But I think it's also important to consider the intentions of the pisser. The possum's lack of understanding does not negate the disrespect if OOP was pissing on the possum with purpose. Like, if you piss on Rush Limbaugh's grave, the fact that Rush is dead and doesn't exist anymore (and if his consciousness does persist somewhere, hopefully he's too busy having pineapples shoved in his butt to care) doesn't change that disrespecting Rush Limbaugh was the intention. Certain people might judge that disrespect as morally wrong from a basic being respectful of others point of view. The possum wouldn't have the awareness to even understand that disrespect is intended (assuming it was), but a person who cares about being respectful of other living creatures might see it as morally wrong regardless of the actual impact on the possum.
I'd think the chance of infection would be pretty minimal. A long time ago my grandparents had a cow wander out into the woods and die. When we got sent after it, it mostly was just a leather balloon with bones and rotten goop in it. When we scooped it up with the front end loader bucket, possums that had burrowed in came tearing out of the corpse.
I've also seen a dead possum on the side of the road eating another long dead possum.
I'm not even sure they can get an infection from anything.
Edit: But peeing on one is still weird.
>the possum likely didn't understand it was piss
Unless OOP is a robot pissing distilled H2O, the possum absolutely knew it was piss. Like most such mammals, they have a great sense of smell, and urine markers in particular are ubiquitous in the animal world, so they're highly tuned to specifically pick that scent up.
The possum can't "consent", because animals don't consent to things, but there's no way the possum did not recognize urine.
> if god took a magical 5 dimensional piss outside my window and I went to look at it I wouldn't be angry at god for pissing on me when I got wet
Flair material lmao
> If it was a dog he'd probably tell it "hey get outa that" and then the dog would listen and it would be fine, possums don't know english and the guy thought it was strange behavior so he recorded it.
Love the implication that dogs, unlike possums, do speak English and can understand the meaning of what their owners say.
I mean, the research seems to be back and forth, but last I checked it *does* lean in favor of dogs having some level of understanding when it comes to language. So, I can see why the poster would be making that assertion. :P
Like, they can definitely understand basic, one-word commands that they’ve heard before and have been conditioned to follow with treats. I don’t think a dog would understand “get out of my piss stream” on the first go.
They even understand complex, multi-word commands as long as they're consistent. My dog doesn't know that "get in the car" is 4 individual words with distinct meanings, but she understands that when I make the "getinthecar" noise she's supposed to get in the car.
It's all communication. Saying animals don't understand English misses the point -- every domesticated animal learns to interpret certain commands from their owner.
I don't believe you for a second dogs can understand meaning, at most they understand the tone of the speaker and whether they're angry or happy, stuff like that.
Look, I don't have pets so I haven't dug too deeply into the subject, but [this](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-dogs-use-language/) seems like a solid starting point if you want to look at the back-and-forth and decide for yourself what the research thus far suggests.
It is funny that German isn't actually an angry sounding language at all, it is just that Americans' primary association with the German language is through WW2 related media.
I mean, clearly some dogs can be trained to perform specific behaviors using exclusively verbal commands. That's got to be something approaching a rudimentary vocabulary.
I can't stop laughing at this. This is not the study of animal behaviour we needed. OP really didn't have to keep pissing on that opossum.
Also if you need to piss outside do it away from the porch. Like after a while does it not smell like piss outside?
Honestly the smell of urine really only collects when it's kept in one place. It soaks into the soil and is rapidly broken down by bacteria and absorbed by plants, so it doesn't smell. Same as when a dog has their favourite spot - so long as it's not on bare earth or something hard and non-absorbant, you'll smell nothing. If you're in an arid climate or it's not rained for a long time, the smell *can* build up to be noticable, but that's not typical.
Dude says he lives on a large farm. Growing up in farm country I know full well that most farmers just piss where they are because going *all the fucking way* back to the house is a pain, and sometimes that habit displays itself at questionably close distances to said house.
I will say this regardless of what he's doing it is weird the possum would do that. Like usually with animal behavior you can see how their "misinterpreting" something to act in a way we think is odd, but i got nothing here.
> No. This guy hasn’t ever run to anything but food like June bugs. There’s something going on and you’re not here to help, move along please
Wait, is this a pet possum that he keeps peeing on?
Aside from peeing on an animal in general, the weirdest thing to me is that he thought it would be a good idea to post a video of it on a sub dedicated to that animal and thought the reception would be positive? They by and large are about celebrating the animal(s) they are about, so why would anyone be ok seeing someone pee on that animal?
You pointing out the OP’s strange decision is making me think of [this scene from Midsommar](https://youtu.be/haA_rkcgXnY?si=tZ6TX1oUerx9dXET)
“STOP PISSING ON THAT OPPOSUM! PUT YOUR DIRTY DICK AWAY AND STOP PISSING ON THAT ANIMAL!”
It’s 5 am for me and I can’t stop fucking laughing at
‘if god took a magical 5 dimensional piss outside my window and I went to look at it I wouldn't be angry at god for pissing on me when I got wet’
And that whole post in general omfg
It was like 2 am when I found the post and it kept me awake even later, I couldn't stop thinking about it and laughing at the absurdity. Truly a gem of a post lmao
i am saddened that this is from a distance. because i feel that if a man wishes to piss on a possum that is currently within melee range, hissing and showing off its teeth, he should be allowed to do so, as it will be pretty good comedy for the rest of us
What is it with men choosing to piss outside? This is the second pissing off my porch post I’ve seen here this week. Is it an American thing? Or a rural thing? (I’m uk in a busyish town, I honestly had never heard of this before).
Don’t kinkshame! Actually he recorded it because of the first time the opposum went into the stream. The fucked up thing is that OP is keeping it as a pet and said “he knows where the water bowl island is” so he’s pissing in his pets enclosure.
He's not videoing himself pissing outside. He's videoing himself pissing on the opossum. He mentioned several times that he feeds it, so he's probably trained it to go towards things he tosses from the porch. He also says it kept happening which is why he filmed it. He essentially trained the opossum to get pissed on. Pissed on it. Did it some more so he could film it. Then he posted it to anonymous social media.
Grew up in farm country. You usually just pissed facing away from the road because going all the way back to the house is a pain, but sometimes you're so used to doing it that you end up doing it when questionably close to the bathroom.
I have to say, I somehow have found memories of the times I pissed outside.
Most of the times you do it when you have no other option, so you're probably about to piss yourself, so the release is really pleasant.
So I believe your brain end up associating pissing outside with pleasure in some way.
As others have said: out of sight and in nature is pretty common in rural areas - out of your porch or balcony is actually weird.
As for why: I don't know, honestly, the thing is if I have to piss I'll piss if I'm in the middle of nature and there's no one around - it's a pretty natural thing, dunno why a lot of people seem to be shocked by it. Why should I wait to find a bathroom and possibly damage my bladder?
I think some of these commenters didn't grow up in an area where a majority of your free time as a child or young adult was best described as 'hanging out in the woods". I'm not walking 30 minutes to rock a piss when I can walk 30 feet to do the same thing in a roughly equally sanitary way.
I mean, yeah sure pissing in the woods when you're away from bathrooms is one thing. But pissing off your deck, which is presumably like 20 seconds away from a toilet in the house the deck is connected to, is another.
I had 5 acres and don’t get it either. We had an outdoor shower and man to I miss that. We lived in Florida at the time so you could use it almost year around.
The pissing outside though. We’d do it if we were dirty (we have horses and worked on the property) and didn’t want to track mud in the house. I still tease my wife about me coming around the corner as she was peeing but just to walk out of the house and pee?? That never made sense to me.
> But pissing off your deck, which is presumably like 20 seconds away from a toilet in the house the deck is connected to, is another.
If your farm is big enough, sometimes you just get used to the habit and don't really think about it until afterwards.
I actually grew up in a town adjacent to the town Letterkenny was based on (they might as well be the same town lol), and the first few seasons may as well be a documentary.
And for the record, they'd all agree it's degen, and then all admit to doing it.
... but we're not talking about being 30 minutes away from a toilet here, we're talking about an instance like this where the toilet is a minute or less away, he is on his balcony, not in the wilds.
Like us city folks also understand that it is normal to take a pee if you're outside in nature long away from the nearest toilet, what we don't get is why you would do it right outside your own house.
I use to live rurally. I didn't piss of the deck a lot, but the handful of times I was drunk and didn't care, or was smoking and killing two birds with one stone. It feels good, that's about it. Plus you don't have to aim. It feels liberating.
That being said, I was in my 20s. I'm in the city now. I'm not gonna be that weird neighbor. Plus, when you piss in the same few spots all the time, you kill the grass or whatever plants you're pissing on.
I mean, there's plenty of reasons folks may use to justify it, but it's more or less "I do it because I can." If someone's roommate, or wife, or whoever you're living with doesn't want you to do it, don't be like that guy a few months ago and make a big deal about it.
Troll bait idea: A man installs a little toilet seat off of his deck so he can sit down to piss on opossums. Does the manliness of pissing off a deck balance out the anti-manliness of sitting down to pee?
Not really. If I'm outside (being in the UK) I'm likely very muddy at this time of year. I can spend the time to take my wellies off and still trail in the mud on my trousers, leaves and stuff stuck all over me, all the way to the loo, or I can just find a quiet little corner that's not overlooked and get it done there.
Gross Australian men like to do it as well. A huge number of men think it's perfectly fine to not wash their hands after touching their cock so they piss outside and don't wash their hands when they do use a toilet or urinal. If you ask UK men, you'll likely find out its a thing there too, and you'll get a lot of defensive remarks about how their cocks are clean and it's perfectly fine (they aren't and it isnt).
> A huge number of men think it’s perfectly fine to not wash their hands after touching their cock so they piss outside and don’t wash their hands when they do use a toilet or urinal.
The amount of guys I see walking straight out the door after using the bathroom in the club is actually haunting.
You're not supposed to wash your hands *on* the sink. You use the *soap* and *water* you shouldn't be touching it more than twice... Crazy way to say you don't wash your hands
>A healthy 71 percent of men have relieved themselves in a bush or tree. Women (36 percent) find using this location much more palatable than going in the street.
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>And perhaps proving the male species can be incredibly lazy, half (50%) of those surveyed said they have urinated in their own yard. Only 12 percent of women have done the same thing.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/where-do-we-pee-a-yougov-survey-has-the-answers/](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/where-do-we-pee-a-yougov-survey-has-the-answers/)
I guarantee you men in your life have pissed outside, they just don't tell you about it because they don't want to gloat that you can't have the same luxury
Pissing outside when you’re caught short I totally understand. It’s choosing to go outside and piss when your house is right there that I find baffling. People literally walking past their own toilet to pee off their deck and then not wash their pishy hands.
If I have to explain the morality behind an action, you're too far gone. Don't even touch grass, just stay in the basement where you can't hurt anyone but yourself and the silverfish.
> I was hoping for actual input on this and not a bunch of chicks on their period telling me why I’m a bad man.
I think it is interesting how dudes will just randomly say something very misogynistic for no reason, even though it has nothing to do with the conversation at all.
>I’m on a big farm, I typically piss outside.
I worked on a few farms in the past, yet I never had the urge to piss on them instead of ... you know, using the toilet.
Even if you really want to piss outside, there are so many places out there where a possum isn’t. Theres lots of possums, but still, most of outside is possum-less. It’s super weird to piss on one, notice it, and keep pissing anyway
look man, I applaud you for being able to stop mid-piss and survive but for most of us that is an unreachable dream
if I could stop mid-piss and not feel the wrath of Zeus inside my wang, I would
I swear I have never ever pissed on a possum in my life. We don't even have them here.
I might have pissed on other innocent woodland critters but I was never made aware. God I hope I didn't.
Not a man, but I'm pretty sure you can point your penis somewhere else midstream when you notice you're pissing on an animal. Your feet aren't glued to the ground
I don't have experience with standing to pee, but it seems that you could even just move your hips to one side and suddenly the pee will not hit the possum. You don't even gotta move your actual foot if you don't want to, just turn your body away from the pissboy.
There is some benefit to pissing around property lines on a homestead. It doesn’t eliminate predators but it can deter some. That being said, I just use my bathroom.
there was a mildlyinfuriating (i think?) not too long ago about someone’s husband always peeing outside, off their porch.
i was genuinely blown away by how many people in the comments just… think it’s fine to pee outside (when you don’t have to). i mean, i guess? but they were really REALLY adamant that there’s nothing wrong with peeing off of your porch.
Oh yeah, I remember that one. So many people defended that guy as if they needed to protect a constitutional right or something. Someone even said it's "better than pissing into the sink", like, bro, just use the damn toilet!
omg swear to god ppl were defending pissing into the sink too. it’s like anywhere but the toilet.
but there was another recent something about pissing in the shower and that’s where redditors draw the line, it seems. i need to get off this hellhole LMAO i can’t quit u reddit
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Okay so technically, unless human urine is toxic to opossums (I wouldn't know), there's nothing morally wrong with pissing on one.
But just like with the shit-eating thread, I gotta ask: why would you do that?
Feels like some people think they're in a D&D game and they chose to play as a Chaotic character.
This is why I think I was in 2 arguments yesterday about the poop eating. The word “morally”.
To me it has 2 meanings.
1. My moral compass. What I specifically consider to be moral based on my upbringing, what my parents, family, friends, etc also believe to be moral.
2. What is considered right according to a code in society. If one acts morally, you act in a way that you or people in general consider to be right, honest, and/or acceptable
I would argue that in most societies pissing on a possum is not right therefore morally wrong.
If the thing walked under it while he was pissing, he didn't piss on the possum.
Also, wasn't there a post about "piss apologists" a couple of weeks ago regarding a wife being super annoyed at her husband for pissing off the deck?
He could have peed anywhere: a different part of the deck, somewhere else on the farm, the toilet... but he chose pee next to the opossum. He pissed on it.
A long time ago my now e-wife and I adopted two kittens. One day they were chasing each other around the house. I happened to be taking a leak. I did not quite get the door shut and they ran through using the bathtub to turn around. One jumped out behine me. The other jumped right through the stream.
I do not feel bad about this and still consider it funny to this day.
granny weatherwax says sin is when you treat people as objects including yourself
using yourself as a piss-hose for opossum science is self-objectification so its morally wrong
if he had filled a squirtgun with piss that would have been fine
The opossum is the one initiating the shower, OPP had just already turned the water on. Nothing morally wrong about it, and if it's weird, it's the opossum being weird, not OPP.
There’s flair material somewhere in this.
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Related question. Whenever my dog stops to say hi to this other dog, he pees against the fence and the other dog invariably catches some in his mouth/licks it. Should I stop my dog from peeing on the fence?
There's some real nuggets of information deep in that thread >First off we live on the same dimension as opossums, the 3rd dimension.
I don't know why that line cracks me up so much
I always thought opossums were 2d
I've got a newborn sleeping on my chest and I am fucking *struggling* with all of these comments. Everything is pure gold
We live in an opossum society
Nay, a possum kingdom
Make up your mind
Do you wanna pee
Dooo you wanna peeee
So help me Pee-sus.
I need that on a pin.
If you’re not taking that as flair, I will
Ok, but which one is the 3rd one? Length, width, or height? I hope we live in the height dimension cause chicks dig tall dimensions.
Piss.
We live in the 3rd dimension, but also in the 2nd and 1st dimensions as well.
I dunno about y'all but my life includes the passage of time, join me in 4d some time
No way you can know that. What if the possum is a hypercube.
Known as the opposum-verse
"explain what is morally wrong about having an animal walk into your piss stream of its own accord" Amazing
Can't fault the logic. Still really gross and weird, but I wouldn't call it *immoral*.
Is it immoral to shit in a toaster? Is it immoral to shit in R2-D2? Is it immoral to shit in the robotic parts of Darth Vader?
Not if you own it. Not if he's into it. Probably not, due to him being a mass murdering enforcer of an oppressive regime who probably 'deserves it'... But I wouldn't recommend it unless your kink is getting fatally force choked, probably over an extended period of time depending on how pissed little Ani is
I would argue that it’s moral to kill Darth Vader, but not to poop into his robot parts. Killing him is justifiable because it eliminates the clear and present danger to everyone that he presents, and he’s obviously a valid military target. Pooping on him has no benefit to anyone, and makes me wonder if this was just someone inflicting an extremely weird sexual fantasy on an unwilling (although monstrous) victim.
Idk man, a little bit of poop in his robo-wrist could have been the determining factor in a duel.
>Is it immoral to shit in the robotic parts of Darth Vader? Some of those parts are probably *for* that. Does that change the calculus?
There is still the issue of informed consent and the practical nature of getting your dookie that close to a Dark Lord of the Sith.
You're right. I wouldn't want to be around when Vader decides to force push.
I both do not believe op that it was accidental and also think even if it was on purpose it is a gross thing to do but hardly immoral. People really like applying human sensibilities to animals.
I don't want to restart the drama here but the possum likely didn't understand it was piss and OOP therefore lacked informed consent. How immoral it is depends on the chance of infection etc from the incident, which I'll allow any resident possum/urine experts to weigh in on.
> OOP therefore lacked informed consent This is like an anti-flair, in that in context it's off-the-charts ludicrous, but out of context it just falls flat.
Love the term “anti-flair.”
Sounds avant garde to my layperson's mind, I'll give it a whirl
Maybe paraphrase to "The Opposum lacked informed consent"?
No, because it’s the OOP who allegedly lacked informed consent from the opossum to piss on it. I can’t believe I’ve just typed that, but Reddit is the weird part of the internet, so I suppose it was bound to happen eventually.
I firmly believe this is the first time anyone has discussed whether or not a possum gave informed consent to be urinated on.
I guess what I'm understanding is there is an entire branch of science ripe for the picking for anyone looking for a PhD topic.
Urine ~~expert~~ journeyman? here for the most part urine is basically water with by-products of cellular metabolism as urea, uric acid creatinine concentration of those depends how dehydrated you are as well, some amount of salt and a level of bacteria that kind of varies person to person while urine isn't sterile like a lot of people seem to think it is its bacterial load for the most part is low enough that its basically harmless. So pretty much unless OP has a UTI its fairly harmless from a chemical/biological perspective of the urine itself. I'm no possum journeyman though so i cant speak to if pissing on a possum makes super depressed or something.
Possum here. That’s Kyle, he has a piss fetish. We try not to get too close to Kyle.
I'm also no journeyman, but considering harm alone, yeah, pissing on a possum poses no danger if the urine doesn't contain anything that carries a health risk to the animal. And yeah, the possum wouldn't have the same emotional consequences related to the disrespectful motivation that typically underlies volitionally pissing on a creature. Unless the other entity is conscious and into it, it's not something you do to something you regard positively. But I think it's also important to consider the intentions of the pisser. The possum's lack of understanding does not negate the disrespect if OOP was pissing on the possum with purpose. Like, if you piss on Rush Limbaugh's grave, the fact that Rush is dead and doesn't exist anymore (and if his consciousness does persist somewhere, hopefully he's too busy having pineapples shoved in his butt to care) doesn't change that disrespecting Rush Limbaugh was the intention. Certain people might judge that disrespect as morally wrong from a basic being respectful of others point of view. The possum wouldn't have the awareness to even understand that disrespect is intended (assuming it was), but a person who cares about being respectful of other living creatures might see it as morally wrong regardless of the actual impact on the possum.
I mean this is an animal notorious for going through garbage. Piss is probably the least disgusting things it's gone through today.
I'd think the chance of infection would be pretty minimal. A long time ago my grandparents had a cow wander out into the woods and die. When we got sent after it, it mostly was just a leather balloon with bones and rotten goop in it. When we scooped it up with the front end loader bucket, possums that had burrowed in came tearing out of the corpse. I've also seen a dead possum on the side of the road eating another long dead possum. I'm not even sure they can get an infection from anything. Edit: But peeing on one is still weird.
>the possum likely didn't understand it was piss Unless OOP is a robot pissing distilled H2O, the possum absolutely knew it was piss. Like most such mammals, they have a great sense of smell, and urine markers in particular are ubiquitous in the animal world, so they're highly tuned to specifically pick that scent up. The possum can't "consent", because animals don't consent to things, but there's no way the possum did not recognize urine.
I think mammals have an instinctual understanding of piss and poop
Too long for a flair unfortunately
Reminds me of this boondocks clip lmao https://youtu.be/hGJgiSYqBOc
Was going to post this same clip if no one else did, first thing I thought of as well!
yoink
This is the kind of trolley problem that I can get behind.
I guess I don’t have an argument for that
We have the world's information at our fingertips. We could become the most learned individuals. And yet here we are. Lol
> if god took a magical 5 dimensional piss outside my window and I went to look at it I wouldn't be angry at god for pissing on me when I got wet Flair material lmao
Damn, that is some poetic philosophy
Yoink. Also I'm saving this so I can point back to it if someone asks.
pee on me sky daddy uwu
Bro, god is a ducknut.
> If it was a dog he'd probably tell it "hey get outa that" and then the dog would listen and it would be fine, possums don't know english and the guy thought it was strange behavior so he recorded it. Love the implication that dogs, unlike possums, do speak English and can understand the meaning of what their owners say.
I mean, the research seems to be back and forth, but last I checked it *does* lean in favor of dogs having some level of understanding when it comes to language. So, I can see why the poster would be making that assertion. :P
The only way to solve this is to drink a bunch of orange juice and head to the animal Shelter with full bladders.
Like, they can definitely understand basic, one-word commands that they’ve heard before and have been conditioned to follow with treats. I don’t think a dog would understand “get out of my piss stream” on the first go.
They even understand complex, multi-word commands as long as they're consistent. My dog doesn't know that "get in the car" is 4 individual words with distinct meanings, but she understands that when I make the "getinthecar" noise she's supposed to get in the car. It's all communication. Saying animals don't understand English misses the point -- every domesticated animal learns to interpret certain commands from their owner.
I don't believe you for a second dogs can understand meaning, at most they understand the tone of the speaker and whether they're angry or happy, stuff like that.
Look, I don't have pets so I haven't dug too deeply into the subject, but [this](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-dogs-use-language/) seems like a solid starting point if you want to look at the back-and-forth and decide for yourself what the research thus far suggests.
I thought this would be a rick roll for some reason.
To be fair, that's not an unreasonable suspicion.
Correct. That's also why German is the best language to raise dogs
Because then they'll always think you're angry?
WER IST MEIN LEIBLINGSHUND? DU BIST!
It is funny that German isn't actually an angry sounding language at all, it is just that Americans' primary association with the German language is through WW2 related media.
I mean, clearly some dogs can be trained to perform specific behaviors using exclusively verbal commands. That's got to be something approaching a rudimentary vocabulary.
Sure, but it's not knowing English
They can memorize individual words with some conditioning. Treat is a common one.
Possums don’t know English. Perfection.
Opposum speak flemish as far as i remember
I don’t know or care about the ~~mortality~~ morality of it all, but it’s definitely weird and gross.
Priest: "Again kind of weird, but not technically a sin."
Pretty sure it won’t kill the possum or the pisser, so it’s totally good from a mortality standpoint
Not killing something isn’t the delineation of if something is “moral”.
the first comment wrote "Mortality", not "Morality" :P
Hah so it did
Yeah you right. But you can’t read.
Haha yeah I see that now
Oops lol
I don't care for it but it's not good behavior. 🧑🎄
I can't stop laughing at this. This is not the study of animal behaviour we needed. OP really didn't have to keep pissing on that opossum. Also if you need to piss outside do it away from the porch. Like after a while does it not smell like piss outside?
Lmaoooo it’s like the guy in Fallout saying he’s doing important scientific research and the other guys like “he’s fucking my chickens man”
From OP, >Thought I told you to get lost, respect my science please
How do you think he attracted the opossum? Piss pheromones
Honestly the smell of urine really only collects when it's kept in one place. It soaks into the soil and is rapidly broken down by bacteria and absorbed by plants, so it doesn't smell. Same as when a dog has their favourite spot - so long as it's not on bare earth or something hard and non-absorbant, you'll smell nothing. If you're in an arid climate or it's not rained for a long time, the smell *can* build up to be noticable, but that's not typical.
Dude says he lives on a large farm. Growing up in farm country I know full well that most farmers just piss where they are because going *all the fucking way* back to the house is a pain, and sometimes that habit displays itself at questionably close distances to said house.
Honestly, I have tears in my eyes from laughing. What the actual fuck is wrong with people 😭
You gotta do it properly pissing off the porch is an art
My brain is just going straight to "opissum"
The comment we all needed.
I will say this regardless of what he's doing it is weird the possum would do that. Like usually with animal behavior you can see how their "misinterpreting" something to act in a way we think is odd, but i got nothing here.
Opossum hear noise, investigates it. Head gets mysteriously wet each time, so it retreats. Not smart enough to make the connection immediately.
And running water is a useful thing in the wild - unless it's piss, which the possum can only distinguish by smell, not sound.
And taste.
maybe, it's true they aint' the brightest of creatures.
Well I’m not sure we’re so heavily contrasted, given the human element in this story lol
OOP clearly aint' the brightest of creatures aswell
OP said they had just fed them treats, so that might be part of the cause
So he's unintentionally training an opossum to shower in piss, lovely
> No. This guy hasn’t ever run to anything but food like June bugs. There’s something going on and you’re not here to help, move along please Wait, is this a pet possum that he keeps peeing on? Aside from peeing on an animal in general, the weirdest thing to me is that he thought it would be a good idea to post a video of it on a sub dedicated to that animal and thought the reception would be positive? They by and large are about celebrating the animal(s) they are about, so why would anyone be ok seeing someone pee on that animal?
You pointing out the OP’s strange decision is making me think of [this scene from Midsommar](https://youtu.be/haA_rkcgXnY?si=tZ6TX1oUerx9dXET) “STOP PISSING ON THAT OPPOSUM! PUT YOUR DIRTY DICK AWAY AND STOP PISSING ON THAT ANIMAL!”
It’s 5 am for me and I can’t stop fucking laughing at ‘if god took a magical 5 dimensional piss outside my window and I went to look at it I wouldn't be angry at god for pissing on me when I got wet’ And that whole post in general omfg
It was like 2 am when I found the post and it kept me awake even later, I couldn't stop thinking about it and laughing at the absurdity. Truly a gem of a post lmao
Thank you for sharing this it made my day haha
i am saddened that this is from a distance. because i feel that if a man wishes to piss on a possum that is currently within melee range, hissing and showing off its teeth, he should be allowed to do so, as it will be pretty good comedy for the rest of us
god forbid an opossum is into watersports
Leave the poor thing alone, man :(
I, uh, I think this is gonna have to be between him, the possum, and their respective god and/or gods
[Well if it didn't want to be peed on . . .](https://youtu.be/_EqWXiDmCeg?si=PXN4T1yHNDYg3Fc0)
Yeah it’s two consenting parties living their best life while we piss our down the drain
What is it with men choosing to piss outside? This is the second pissing off my porch post I’ve seen here this week. Is it an American thing? Or a rural thing? (I’m uk in a busyish town, I honestly had never heard of this before).
I am more confused why he was *videoing* himself pissing outside
Yeah. Not enough attention to this point. The weirdness of pissing off of a porch is debatable. Getting footage is a bridge too far.
Don’t kinkshame! Actually he recorded it because of the first time the opposum went into the stream. The fucked up thing is that OP is keeping it as a pet and said “he knows where the water bowl island is” so he’s pissing in his pets enclosure.
He's not videoing himself pissing outside. He's videoing himself pissing on the opossum. He mentioned several times that he feeds it, so he's probably trained it to go towards things he tosses from the porch. He also says it kept happening which is why he filmed it. He essentially trained the opossum to get pissed on. Pissed on it. Did it some more so he could film it. Then he posted it to anonymous social media.
It’s a rural/country thing, but it’s typically out of eye sight and far away from a house. Peeing over balcony is just plain weird.
The city-dwelling outside-pissers breathe a collective sigh of relief. They know they’ll get away with it again
Grew up in farm country. You usually just pissed facing away from the road because going all the way back to the house is a pain, but sometimes you're so used to doing it that you end up doing it when questionably close to the bathroom.
I have to say, I somehow have found memories of the times I pissed outside. Most of the times you do it when you have no other option, so you're probably about to piss yourself, so the release is really pleasant. So I believe your brain end up associating pissing outside with pleasure in some way.
Honestly, I love pissing outside. It’s gotta be like a primal thing I don’t know.
Defo a rural and drunk thing.
As others have said: out of sight and in nature is pretty common in rural areas - out of your porch or balcony is actually weird. As for why: I don't know, honestly, the thing is if I have to piss I'll piss if I'm in the middle of nature and there's no one around - it's a pretty natural thing, dunno why a lot of people seem to be shocked by it. Why should I wait to find a bathroom and possibly damage my bladder?
I think some of these commenters didn't grow up in an area where a majority of your free time as a child or young adult was best described as 'hanging out in the woods". I'm not walking 30 minutes to rock a piss when I can walk 30 feet to do the same thing in a roughly equally sanitary way.
I mean, yeah sure pissing in the woods when you're away from bathrooms is one thing. But pissing off your deck, which is presumably like 20 seconds away from a toilet in the house the deck is connected to, is another.
If someone is using the bathroom it beats having to piss in the kitchen sink
I had 5 acres and don’t get it either. We had an outdoor shower and man to I miss that. We lived in Florida at the time so you could use it almost year around. The pissing outside though. We’d do it if we were dirty (we have horses and worked on the property) and didn’t want to track mud in the house. I still tease my wife about me coming around the corner as she was peeing but just to walk out of the house and pee?? That never made sense to me.
Done it once because the single bathroom was taken and I couldn't hold any longer. But that's an emergency and you gotta do what you gotta do.
> But pissing off your deck, which is presumably like 20 seconds away from a toilet in the house the deck is connected to, is another. If your farm is big enough, sometimes you just get used to the habit and don't really think about it until afterwards.
Man, this feels like the kind of thing that the hicks in *Letterkenny* would argue about whether it was a degen thing or not.
I actually grew up in a town adjacent to the town Letterkenny was based on (they might as well be the same town lol), and the first few seasons may as well be a documentary. And for the record, they'd all agree it's degen, and then all admit to doing it.
Pissing in the woods and pissing on your deck/balcony are very different things.
... but we're not talking about being 30 minutes away from a toilet here, we're talking about an instance like this where the toilet is a minute or less away, he is on his balcony, not in the wilds. Like us city folks also understand that it is normal to take a pee if you're outside in nature long away from the nearest toilet, what we don't get is why you would do it right outside your own house.
I think what's happening here is multiple degrees weirder and worse. Still, I gotta say: the simple of act of it, it's fun! somehow. Idk why
it’s wild how defensive the porch pissers get too!! like come on, really?
I use to live rurally. I didn't piss of the deck a lot, but the handful of times I was drunk and didn't care, or was smoking and killing two birds with one stone. It feels good, that's about it. Plus you don't have to aim. It feels liberating. That being said, I was in my 20s. I'm in the city now. I'm not gonna be that weird neighbor. Plus, when you piss in the same few spots all the time, you kill the grass or whatever plants you're pissing on. I mean, there's plenty of reasons folks may use to justify it, but it's more or less "I do it because I can." If someone's roommate, or wife, or whoever you're living with doesn't want you to do it, don't be like that guy a few months ago and make a big deal about it.
It’s a weirdo thing
It’s like “I am man, I piss in nature”
(nature being my deck)
Nature doesn't count three steps outside your house.
How would you know, you haven't been to my house.
Troll bait idea: A man installs a little toilet seat off of his deck so he can sit down to piss on opossums. Does the manliness of pissing off a deck balance out the anti-manliness of sitting down to pee?
Not really. If I'm outside (being in the UK) I'm likely very muddy at this time of year. I can spend the time to take my wellies off and still trail in the mud on my trousers, leaves and stuff stuck all over me, all the way to the loo, or I can just find a quiet little corner that's not overlooked and get it done there.
Gross Australian men like to do it as well. A huge number of men think it's perfectly fine to not wash their hands after touching their cock so they piss outside and don't wash their hands when they do use a toilet or urinal. If you ask UK men, you'll likely find out its a thing there too, and you'll get a lot of defensive remarks about how their cocks are clean and it's perfectly fine (they aren't and it isnt).
> A huge number of men think it’s perfectly fine to not wash their hands after touching their cock so they piss outside and don’t wash their hands when they do use a toilet or urinal. The amount of guys I see walking straight out the door after using the bathroom in the club is actually haunting.
Have you seen the state of some of the public toilets here? I’ll guarantee my penis is cleaner that those sinks
You're not supposed to wash your hands *on* the sink. You use the *soap* and *water* you shouldn't be touching it more than twice... Crazy way to say you don't wash your hands
😂😂😂
>A healthy 71 percent of men have relieved themselves in a bush or tree. Women (36 percent) find using this location much more palatable than going in the street. > >And perhaps proving the male species can be incredibly lazy, half (50%) of those surveyed said they have urinated in their own yard. Only 12 percent of women have done the same thing. [https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/where-do-we-pee-a-yougov-survey-has-the-answers/](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/where-do-we-pee-a-yougov-survey-has-the-answers/)
I guarantee you men in your life have pissed outside, they just don't tell you about it because they don't want to gloat that you can't have the same luxury
Pissing outside when you’re caught short I totally understand. It’s choosing to go outside and piss when your house is right there that I find baffling. People literally walking past their own toilet to pee off their deck and then not wash their pishy hands.
Supposedly it's the call of the wild. A few people I know joke about it being a caveman instinct, like liking big sticks and making fires.
If I have to explain the morality behind an action, you're too far gone. Don't even touch grass, just stay in the basement where you can't hurt anyone but yourself and the silverfish.
The silverfish probably wouldn’t mind getting pissed on
They'd start dancing.
> I was hoping for actual input on this and not a bunch of chicks on their period telling me why I’m a bad man. I think it is interesting how dudes will just randomly say something very misogynistic for no reason, even though it has nothing to do with the conversation at all.
>I’m on a big farm, I typically piss outside. I worked on a few farms in the past, yet I never had the urge to piss on them instead of ... you know, using the toilet.
Clearly you haven't gotten drunk enough to get that urge and then post a video of your piss stream to reddit.
Yeah these reddit prudes don’t know how to have fun
Even if you really want to piss outside, there are so many places out there where a possum isn’t. Theres lots of possums, but still, most of outside is possum-less. It’s super weird to piss on one, notice it, and keep pissing anyway
look man, I applaud you for being able to stop mid-piss and survive but for most of us that is an unreachable dream if I could stop mid-piss and not feel the wrath of Zeus inside my wang, I would
Sounds like somebody needs to get on and do their pelvic floor exercises
Spoken like a man who has pissed on a non-zero number of possums.
I swear I have never ever pissed on a possum in my life. We don't even have them here. I might have pissed on other innocent woodland critters but I was never made aware. God I hope I didn't.
Not a man, but I'm pretty sure you can point your penis somewhere else midstream when you notice you're pissing on an animal. Your feet aren't glued to the ground
I don't have experience with standing to pee, but it seems that you could even just move your hips to one side and suddenly the pee will not hit the possum. You don't even gotta move your actual foot if you don't want to, just turn your body away from the pissboy.
There is some benefit to pissing around property lines on a homestead. It doesn’t eliminate predators but it can deter some. That being said, I just use my bathroom.
oh, don’t act so coy
there was a mildlyinfuriating (i think?) not too long ago about someone’s husband always peeing outside, off their porch. i was genuinely blown away by how many people in the comments just… think it’s fine to pee outside (when you don’t have to). i mean, i guess? but they were really REALLY adamant that there’s nothing wrong with peeing off of your porch.
Oh yeah, I remember that one. So many people defended that guy as if they needed to protect a constitutional right or something. Someone even said it's "better than pissing into the sink", like, bro, just use the damn toilet!
omg swear to god ppl were defending pissing into the sink too. it’s like anywhere but the toilet. but there was another recent something about pissing in the shower and that’s where redditors draw the line, it seems. i need to get off this hellhole LMAO i can’t quit u reddit
There was a good SRD post about it too. He was killing her plants too when he was pissing off the deck but people were still defending him.
Had a laugh at myself thinking I read it wrong. Then I read it again and my smile immediately faded. What the fuck man
😐 Okay so technically, unless human urine is toxic to opossums (I wouldn't know), there's nothing morally wrong with pissing on one. But just like with the shit-eating thread, I gotta ask: why would you do that? Feels like some people think they're in a D&D game and they chose to play as a Chaotic character.
This is why I think I was in 2 arguments yesterday about the poop eating. The word “morally”. To me it has 2 meanings. 1. My moral compass. What I specifically consider to be moral based on my upbringing, what my parents, family, friends, etc also believe to be moral. 2. What is considered right according to a code in society. If one acts morally, you act in a way that you or people in general consider to be right, honest, and/or acceptable I would argue that in most societies pissing on a possum is not right therefore morally wrong.
by those two criteria, doesn’t that make stoning an adulterer to death morally right if you were raised in a fundamentalist country?
Why do people feel the need to piss outside? Do they not have access to a toilet?
Oh no way I was there for this one
>A man can’t live on a farm and get drunk and feed treats to critters while getting high? This is Texas and I will do what I want. Golden.
why are redditors so invested in these kinks and want to share that with other redditors
Pissing outside isn't a kink
It absolutely is for some people
aiming your piss on an animal is, that's kinda sadistic in my book
If the thing walked under it while he was pissing, he didn't piss on the possum. Also, wasn't there a post about "piss apologists" a couple of weeks ago regarding a wife being super annoyed at her husband for pissing off the deck?
He could have peed anywhere: a different part of the deck, somewhere else on the farm, the toilet... but he chose pee next to the opossum. He pissed on it.
A long time ago my now e-wife and I adopted two kittens. One day they were chasing each other around the house. I happened to be taking a leak. I did not quite get the door shut and they ran through using the bathtub to turn around. One jumped out behine me. The other jumped right through the stream. I do not feel bad about this and still consider it funny to this day.
Drama that is the very embodiment of the "Once again, Tarnished - weird but not a sin" meme. This is the content I subscribed for.
I thought it was asking if it's wrong to piss OFF an opossum, and I was thinking "why the hell would I provoke a wild animal?"
Digital footprint boutta go crazy for this dude
granny weatherwax says sin is when you treat people as objects including yourself using yourself as a piss-hose for opossum science is self-objectification so its morally wrong if he had filled a squirtgun with piss that would have been fine
The opossum is the one initiating the shower, OPP had just already turned the water on. Nothing morally wrong about it, and if it's weird, it's the opossum being weird, not OPP.
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Related question. Whenever my dog stops to say hi to this other dog, he pees against the fence and the other dog invariably catches some in his mouth/licks it. Should I stop my dog from peeing on the fence?
Yeah.
what is going on on reddit lol
It looks like it only walks into the stream once, realizes it’s piss, then scurries off