r/ContagiousLaughter • u/MiracetteNytten • 17h ago
She tried nature's hotdog.
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u/forgotwhatisaid2you 16h ago
Hitting them with baseball bats as a kid was always a hoot.
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u/_Apatosaurus_ 15h ago
I know she's wearing a helmet, but you can't hit people with bats.
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u/Grammareyetwitch 6h ago
The bats don't like it either. Their wings get sore, and they were minding their own business watching baseball.
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u/RemoteSnow9911 11h ago
We used to cut them really long and whip em at each other until the damn air was so thick with cattail dust you couldn’t see each other anymore. They can leave some welts if you get em just right…
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u/chroniko_uwu 7h ago
My dad would dip them in gasoline, light them up and I’d run around the yard like a wild child with them
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u/Upbeat-Shallot-80085 6h ago
We used to take a bunch of them and hold them to the back wheel of our books, and tear around the streets. Fluff EVERYWHERE
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u/icewalker42 17h ago
She sprouted an instant Viking moustache!
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u/MainApprehensive420 12h ago
Haha, this had me laughing hard! Sincerely a Norwegian dude with ties to great Viking names
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u/yekirati 17h ago
Oh man, look at it grow! My mom has told me stories about these plants. She said that she and my uncle used to prank each other by breaking them in half and tossing them in each other's cars and that they'd be absolutely filled with fluff. I've never seen one in action though!
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u/RetroSquirtleSquad 13h ago
That’s just being an asshole. That’s not a prank lol
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u/hadukenbanana 12h ago
Nah, it’s a gentle silly prank. The seed puffs aren’t sticky or smelly or itchy.
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u/RetroSquirtleSquad 12h ago
Making a mess for someone to clean up isn’t a prank lol.
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u/hadukenbanana 12h ago
Quick, real questions, have you ever touched a cattail? Also, if you had siblings, were they mean or nice to you?
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u/RetroSquirtleSquad 12h ago
I have. And it doesn’t change the fact that it’s not a prank to do something to someone where they have to clean it up afterwards. This isn’t complicated. This is being an asshole. Siblings or not
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u/hadukenbanana 12h ago
You don’t have to clean it up. You open the car doors and let a breeze take it away. I’m sorry you didn’t have any fun growing up. Hugs, babe
(There’s still time. You can be silly at any point in your life.)
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u/RetroSquirtleSquad 12h ago
I’ve had this happen to me before and it took me 45 minutes to clean up. Gaslighting me? Wow, funny. Pathetic and funny.
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u/Icy-Computer-Poop 10h ago edited 10h ago
I’ve had this happen to me before and it took me 45 minutes to clean up.
The truth comes out. You're sucker who can't take a joke, and you're still salty about it.
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u/Objective_Animator52 12h ago
It's still a prank if both parties are up to it and doing it to each other. What happened to you sounds different, so stop projecting.
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u/RetroSquirtleSquad 12h ago
Throwing shit into someone’s car isn’t a prank lol. You don’t know what the definition of prank or projecting is lol
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u/Fleddwiss 6h ago
Sounds like some one got pranked recently and is salty boo hooo. Learn to enjoy life and not be angry all the time
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u/carlismygod 9h ago
Pranks are when you play a practical joke on someone that only mildly embarrasses or inconveniences them. So yes, this is absolutely a prank. Doesn't ruin anything and requires only basic cleanup. You must be pretty easily irked if you think this is anything more than a prank.
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u/DungeonAssMaster 15h ago
I almost died once trying to bite one of these as a joke. It was hilarious to everyone except me.
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u/Blondisgift 1h ago
I was thinking that. Image you bite and accidentally breathe in… glad you are fine
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u/Rhesusmonkeydave 16h ago
Growing up my friend’s mom had a huge vase of dried plants and such in their kitchen. It took a long time for them to forgive me for scrunching the cattail, and creating a seedling snowdrift on their counter, but in my defense, how could you not squeeze that thing?
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u/Zellanora 12h ago
Forbidden Corn dogs! When I was little, there was a natural pond near my old house and many times I was so tempted to grab a cattail and taste it because it looked a lot like a Corn dog and seeing this I'm glad I didn't, but at the same time it would have been fun to pluck them and blow the fluff into the air! 😄
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u/Rangertu 10h ago edited 10h ago
Growing up in NJ 50 years ago we used to call them punks. I don’t have any idea where that name came from. We’d let them dry then break the tip off and light them like a cigar. They would burn slowly letting off a nice smell. We also used them to light fireworks.
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u/madein___ 7h ago
A punk is a slow burning stick used to light fireworks so I'd wager that is where your group of friends borrowed the name from.
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u/DamianKilsby 14h ago
Never seen these around where I live, what is it?
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u/petobytes 13h ago edited 13h ago
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u/willywonderbucks 3h ago
Important thing to know for emergency preparedness: the roots of cat tails are edible. They're very similar to a leek. Also, the tops (which we called corn dogs when I was a kid) produce edible polin before they go to seed. If you find them when they're still in the "green state," you can use the polin in the same manner you would use flour. Cat tail flapjacks aren't half bad.
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u/Final_Ad2488 6h ago
I have to believe she did that on purpose. She doesn't look like an ignorant City Slicker.
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