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3mo ago

I don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.

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I like how it leaves in a swiggity swooty fashion.
- How have I never noticed that these goobers don't have arms or nothin. I can't imagine this thing walking in any way other than a swiggity swooty approach.
  This is God's creature right here.
- I had to rewatch the video to make sure I got an exact image of what swiggity swooty means
- Truly a doofus of a bird.

I thought kiwis spoke English.
- They do have a funny way of speaking it.
- They say "LILILILILILI!" Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.
- They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
  
  And their short i's to a short e
- My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video
- https://youtu.be/ZdVHZwI8pcA

Ah, so the kiwi has a bird body but still uses its dinosaur voice.
- All birds use their dinosaur voices.

barges into view
releases 20,000 demons
refuses to elaborate
and he waddled away (waddle waddle)

Nightmare Potato.

There is currently chaos in my house. I played this on my phone without headphones and my dogs have absolutely lost their shit. The Miniature Pinscher, being a Miniature Pinscher, was barking and spinning and occasionally attacking his spaniel brother who just has this "WTF BRO" face of horror on. Mayhem.
PS: He's calmed down...after a close to ten minute freak out.
- Play it again!
  
  As it goes with Min-Pins, he couldn't give less of a shit the second time around. He's over it.
- Yep, our Iggy ran all the way out to the back yard prancing around tail up, barking at the intruder back inside the house. The other two are sitting in bed with me with a 'wtf was that!' expression.
- My cat just had a very similar response =)

This is a dinosaur
- Yes.

When it ran away was pretty great.
- “Until next time”
- My job here is done! Away!

Sounds just like the fruit.

I can hear the dinosaur in it…
- Husband: I want one of those! /s
  Wife: who needs a rooster when you can hear that all night long??
- Like it ate a little dinosaur? But how??

This is the sound of an animal with no natural predators.
- Nonsense, I remember watching a documentary as a kid that the tasmanian devil would spin around into a little tornado and eat kiwis.

Worst alarm clock ever.
- And that's what you really need to wake up

slowed down would sound like the stereotypical t-rex

I eat kiwi all the time and I ain't never heard them make a sound.
- They're obviously dead before they put the them out at the grocery store. I bet you don't see yours running around outside either.

Also a very interesting run style.

So melodious.

I suddenly understand the inspiration behind shows like Lost being made:-).
- I'm still bitter about the ending.
  
  I kept waiting for the show to be finished being made. I didn't want like a Game of Thrones scenario (even though that one hadn't happened yet:-).
  Finally I relented and watched season 1. It was so good! Then I heard about the show's ending and... never bothered to watch the rest.:-(
  I guess it saved me a bunch of time, so there's that. 🙄

I don't believe this is a real animal.
- It's a fruit
- Birds aren't real

Sounds just like the sounds newer trucks make when they back up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Wt1_51EVA

Screams of a thousand dark souls...

That's some Jurassic Park stuff, right there

Holy piss I did not expect that

Sounds like a slipping serpentine belt.

Imagine you're camping, it's 2:00 a.m., and you hear that noise!

Sounds like one of my 10 alarms, all with different tones, to make sure I wake up. This one is Krypton on Android.

This reminds me so much of the scrabs of Oddworld
https://youtu.be/wJfoD51fQ4s
- yes, thank you! i knew i recognized the sound.
- Decided to scroll before I said the same thing!
- Wow, I came here to say this too! I wonder if the devs knew!

Who triggered the robot's theft alarm?

If memory serves me correctly it's named for the sound it makes
Kiiiiii wiiiiiiii
- Yeah its exactly like a Pokemon. I had no idea they went "kiwi kiwi" in a cute voice like this.

I actually wasn't expecting it to be that shade of color either.
- They are brown - just looks like that with the spotlight
  
  Thanks! Was about to ask about the Darwinian prospects of a flightless, wingless avian colored like a medium rare steak.

It sounded exactly how I expected.
- I expected more of a little squeaky "Wehh!"

Well, kiwis are clearly evil. I never knew! I've always liked the little buggers, and felt bad for them with the whole giant egg situation.
But that's a demon. It deserves egg pain. Shame it only gets the females.

Think I found the new screamer for my band

I was expecting the video to be of someone eating a fruit.

It kinda sounds like Ridley from the GBA Metroid games. I never knew he was a Kiwi, but I guess that's my new head-canon.

Drive by

Imagine this waking you up at 4am.

This is 90% what I expected a kiwi to sound like.

That's downright horrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI9NiyoxxU0

New fear

That sounds like a pokemon

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