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**What Happened:** Last Saturday, my friend Tom invited me over for a game night, promising a few laughs and some seriously competitive digital mayhem. We settled in for an epic session of the latest battle royale game, feeling confident as we teamed up. But just two minutes in, I accidentally sent Tom flying off a cliff with a poorly timed grenade. Cue the eruption of colorful insults! What followed was a spiraling descent into a hilariously escalating feud, with each of us trying to outsmart the other, only to have our plans backfire spectacularly—think friendly fire, ping pong maneuvers, and Tom’s ridiculous rage-induced speech that resembled a Shakespearean tragedy.
**Why It’s Funny:** Watching Tom shift from smug conqueror to a flailing mess was pure gold. Every time he raged at his screen, I couldn’t help but chuckle while I chimed in with “great save, buddy!” It became an all-out competition to see who could make the other rage quit first. By the end of the night, we were both rolling on the floor, tears streaming down our faces—not just from the games, but from the realization that nothing serves up friendship quite like a healthy dose of competitive anger and a few accidental explosions!
C
The fish is at a point where people regularly feed them. It has learnt this is a feeding point, and it’s spraying water to ask for food. Which is really smart and makes me think maybe fish are smarter than we think. Or this fish is just a dick
V
I think all animals are smarter than the regular person thinks.
T
And mostly all dicks.
O
Clever dick…
J
No, it doesn’t do *that* much thinking
G
Let this be a lesson to you all: Never eat sardine or tuna fish sandwiches at the docks.
S
That’s how i order my wings
D
Oh, I’ve seen that video. They… they got your order right…
O
I guess by our standards though, they’re probably being totally civilised fish like
J
That is a sign of intelligence, apparently.
D
Can confirm. Everything thats lives in the water or a tree is a dick
D
especially birds. Birds are dicks.
W
Except people. We’re dumber than we think.
T
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals”
A
Was that your Auntie?
N
I hate this quote. It is just as often the exact opposite.
G
“I’m not as dumb as you think I am!” “Nooo… you couldn’t be.”
N
I think some animals are smarter than the lower third of all humans.
E
Dude I watched a video of a bird that could figure out how to open a container. Literally smarter than some people I have worked with
T
The two bell curves of intelligence overlap by a lot
L
They are smart up to a certain point for sure. This type of fish use the same method to hit insects with water, making them fall into the water, so the fish can eat it. Which indeed is smart. But it’s not like it’s something it’s learned itself. It’s instincts. Adapting to shoot water at humans is the same as bears going close to people because someone was dumb enough to feed them. Any living thing will adapt to a easier source of food. (Unless you are a koala.. they are truly dumb)
E
So…it learned water gun 👀Sounds real Pokemon-y
D
Archer fish instinctively spray bugs on overhanging branches and in the air to bring them down. They don’t have to learn it. This one has learned that it also brings down bread from hands.
S
I’d point you to /r/OneOrangeBrainCell . You’d think all cats are crafty and smart, but some just seem special.
S
Bro, have you seen a deer?
I
Also, the average person is much dumber than the regular person thinks.
T
And I also think there’s an equal amount of people that thinks animals are smarter than they actually are.
L
Considering how a lot of people *increase* there volume when talking at someone that’s attempting to communicate back in broken language, or how some people will talk slow to anyone in a wheelchair, I’d say we most likely *severely* underestimate the intelligence of animals in general.
E
The problem is intelligence is based on how well they can climb trees.
D
I recently learned that koalas have smooth brains
A
They are asleep most of their smooth brained lives… kinda spaced out on eucalyptus gum leaf breakfast, lunch and dinner.
R
Don’t confuse simple instinct with intelligence. People tend to overestimate the intelligence of other beings and especially with animals they tend to anthropomorphize them a lot. This fish hunts prey by spraying water, often with incredible precision. This is likely a spot where it gets fed regularly. Fish is at spot, fish sees shape that usually provides food, fish doesn’t get food, fish sprays water at food source to acquire food.
M
Yeah I think the act itself is very instinctual but our biases let us ‘decorate’ a simple action with thoughts and intentions to make it appear more than it is.
T
>but our biases let us ‘decorate’ a simple action with thoughts and intentions to make it appear more than it is “Decorate” is a great way to put it!
D
It reminds me of the word “Anthropomorphism” which means to attribute human intelligence or feelings to things that are not human.
S
I’m not saying you’re wrong. I think this makes sense as one interpretation. But you don’t actually know what the fish is thinking/learning/instincting any more than the person saying this is learned behavior. A lot of people will respond to people anthropomorphizing animals to say some version of: “we can’t actually know what an animal is thinking, stop anthropomorphizing them! This is what they are _actually_ thinking!” The first part of that logic is correct. The second part makes the same mistake it’s correcting. So: is this fish’s behavior entirely learned or entirely instinctual? We don’t have a good way of knowing and assuming either option is ideological more than scientific.
C
This seems to be a learned habit not necessarily instinct. Which again is what I would say is intelligent. This is not the norm for this species this is something it has learned routinely happena at that spot
R
It’s these same kinds of logic loops that get most of through our days.
Z
There are species of fish that shoot water at insects sitting on branches near water. So behavior like that is its evolutionary way to get food fall into water. People throw food for it in the water, logically as a fish if you shoot water at the people food will fall.
D
Yeah, my first thought was them. Archerfish. Saw them in planet earth 3 and they’re so damn impressive. Just sniping those bugs
C
I am watching that episode RIGHT NOW when I stumbled upon this video, glad someone mentioned it. Those fish are serious snipers, that was impressive
O
“Do you like fish dicks?”
R
Definitely a dick cause it ejaculated on that guy.
A
*”I spit in your general direction”* – fish probably
T
i am irrationally angry and i don’t even know why.
E
There are fish that squirt water to catch their insects, but I don’t think this is one of them lol, it’s learning.
D
Sustenance is a basic driving force for adaptation and conditioning in all forms of life, even plants. You’re over thinking it, behavior like this is to be expected when as you said people conditioned them to behave that way to get food.
D
In my parents neighborhood pond, the catfish have learned being petted = food. They know the one guy that feeds them daily and will come up to him to be petted and fed. No one else though has yet managed to get them to be quite that friendly with them. They will approach your hand, then turn and splash you.
B
This image raised my blood pressure for no reason.
I
The fish is smart, we just need to figure if it means peace or not
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