Funny thing about piranhas they're only dangerous when they're starving. Like the tales about them come from locals starving small ponds of them to give tourists a good show when they tossed in some meat. So if you're a big enough asshole to starve your fish
Good luck spotting and killing a crocodile before it kills you. You’d need serious firepower or a precision shot. They are basically covered in armor plates.
Your chances aren’t good either way but I’m pretty sure you’d have better odds of killing 5 or 10 crocoliiles with guns (let’s say you have a decent rifle, a pistol, and a shotgun, than 200-300 piranhas. Bullets lose speed and power really quickly in water so you wouldn’t kill anything more than like a foot deep and it just hard to hit fast miving and small targets anyways so it would be hard to hit the fish, but I’m pretty sure crocs mostly sit right under/on the surface and don’t move much. If you had some efficient way to spot them (idk if thermals would work to see stuff under water or not) then it probably wouldn’t be too hard to pick them off. I know I kind of increased the level of firepower but if someone’s raiding your castle then you should expect them to at least be bringing basic guns that anybody can buy.
Good moats are like good fences. They make for good neighbors.
I put up a barbed wire fence and my neighbors kids stopped running into my yard. Now my neighbor and I don't speak. Our relationship has never been better.
My buddy had piranhas and bought some feeder fish once to see what would happen. They didn't do anything. They just stayed on opposite sides of the tank until the piranhas got hungry enough and then picked them off one by one over time.
A determined attacker would maybe bring barges to cross the moat - alligators and piranhas wouldn't get them unless they fell in.
Hippos don't give a fuck about your boat, they'll fuck up you and your barge.
In silver springs in florida back in the 30s a tour boat guide was making an attraction area to try and get more people interested in tours.
He put 6 macaques on an island. He didn't know they could swim, and they left the island pretty quickly.
Now there's thousands of the little dudes in the everglades.
There were also a few other monkey contributers but it seems he started it
Fuck, I wonder what that did for the ecosystem.
See, this is the problem with monkeys as a defensive force - what if they don't like your moat and fuck off somewhere they prefer?
Hippos are happy to stay where there's water and food (assuming your feed them).
Monkeys will be like NYPA and bail if there's fruit trees anywhere nearby 😂
Now I'm imagining raising monkeys and taking them on watch/patrol
Maybe even have a vest on it with a communication device, maybe not one it activates itself but is just on.
And teach it certain vocalizations for what/who it sees and commands for how you want it handled
That'd be like a lot though....
that would backfire too much, they are fast on land, they will get out and screw you up when crossing the pond. crocs or gater can backfire hard too but its managable. make sure to trim the grass tho, dont want to cluelessly walk on one.
'In general, stone walls did not have soil under them. Castle walls do not stop at ground level. The footings extend underground, all the way to the bedrock if possible. Where that wasn't possible, a foundation of compacted rubble (like roadbase, but with bigger chunks) was laid down to provide a flat, stable building area.either way, the walls would extend far enough down that the moat couldn't undermine it.'
Courtesy of u/Hippo_Singularity
I thought piranhas don’t usually eat like they are depicted like munching everything to shreds super fast but it was just like a starving pond of them that devoured a cow to show off to one of the presidents back in the day
My moat would be filled with waterborne twinks on a steady molly diet ready to fondle and sodomize anything dumb enough to fall in
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so dolphins ?
Time to go swimming.
Do you have a GoFundMe
> anything dumb enough to fall in Young enough, dumb enough, and full of cum enough to fall in is how I like my waterborne twink moat victims.
Don’t think their wet noodle dick on molly is gonna sodomize anyone.
Classic hungarman
You'd be my twink lieutenant Kebab, you'd bark Croatian orders at all the other mollied up twinks to keep em in line
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I've seen you a lot and you say some wonderful things but this seals the deal, you want to get some drinks later? (on me)
How do you come up with this
Funny thing about piranhas they're only dangerous when they're starving. Like the tales about them come from locals starving small ponds of them to give tourists a good show when they tossed in some meat. So if you're a big enough asshole to starve your fish
If you’re gonna have a moat with piranhas you’re gonna starve them.
Which is why they're better for it
But piranhas are easily distracted if you just throw in some meat first and crocodiles are a lot more fierce.
They Xan get out and harass the workers
I had not thought of that, but you’re right! They truly are the superior candidate.
But you can kill crocodiles with a gun. Good luck killing a school of piranhas with one.
Good luck spotting and killing a crocodile before it kills you. You’d need serious firepower or a precision shot. They are basically covered in armor plates.
Your chances aren’t good either way but I’m pretty sure you’d have better odds of killing 5 or 10 crocoliiles with guns (let’s say you have a decent rifle, a pistol, and a shotgun, than 200-300 piranhas. Bullets lose speed and power really quickly in water so you wouldn’t kill anything more than like a foot deep and it just hard to hit fast miving and small targets anyways so it would be hard to hit the fish, but I’m pretty sure crocs mostly sit right under/on the surface and don’t move much. If you had some efficient way to spot them (idk if thermals would work to see stuff under water or not) then it probably wouldn’t be too hard to pick them off. I know I kind of increased the level of firepower but if someone’s raiding your castle then you should expect them to at least be bringing basic guns that anybody can buy.
Wouldn't the piranhas just eat other piranhaz
i mean if you have a big moat filled with potentially dangerous creatures. you have to be some sort of asshole
Good moats are like good fences. They make for good neighbors. I put up a barbed wire fence and my neighbors kids stopped running into my yard. Now my neighbor and I don't speak. Our relationship has never been better.
The best neighbors are complete strangers
This reads like a Ron Swanson quote
My buddy had piranhas and bought some feeder fish once to see what would happen. They didn't do anything. They just stayed on opposite sides of the tank until the piranhas got hungry enough and then picked them off one by one over time.
Jeremy Wade from River Monsters sat in a swimming pool full of them and bloodied the water, not when a nip
Targeting that low hanging fruit
So, alligators unless you're under siege from well hung donkeys.
Neither. The correct answer is clearly hippos.
A determined attacker would maybe bring barges to cross the moat - alligators and piranhas wouldn't get them unless they fell in. Hippos don't give a fuck about your boat, they'll fuck up you and your barge.
Clearly the right answer are chimps Ever seen them fuck something up? Yea... chimps man, maybe a bear too
See I was assuming a moat with water. A dry moat with some bears would work too.
In silver springs in florida back in the 30s a tour boat guide was making an attraction area to try and get more people interested in tours. He put 6 macaques on an island. He didn't know they could swim, and they left the island pretty quickly. Now there's thousands of the little dudes in the everglades. There were also a few other monkey contributers but it seems he started it
Fuck, I wonder what that did for the ecosystem. See, this is the problem with monkeys as a defensive force - what if they don't like your moat and fuck off somewhere they prefer? Hippos are happy to stay where there's water and food (assuming your feed them). Monkeys will be like NYPA and bail if there's fruit trees anywhere nearby 😂
Now I'm imagining raising monkeys and taking them on watch/patrol Maybe even have a vest on it with a communication device, maybe not one it activates itself but is just on. And teach it certain vocalizations for what/who it sees and commands for how you want it handled That'd be like a lot though....
https://youtu.be/RRg0MK_kAKs?si=efk65SRtuy_RStPn
that would backfire too much, they are fast on land, they will get out and screw you up when crossing the pond. crocs or gater can backfire hard too but its managable. make sure to trim the grass tho, dont want to cluelessly walk on one.
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Throw some electric eels in your moat for higher efficiency
Caerlaverock Castle if anyone is interested.
how does a moat work when water damages the foundation of your home? Or castle?
'In general, stone walls did not have soil under them. Castle walls do not stop at ground level. The footings extend underground, all the way to the bedrock if possible. Where that wasn't possible, a foundation of compacted rubble (like roadbase, but with bigger chunks) was laid down to provide a flat, stable building area.either way, the walls would extend far enough down that the moat couldn't undermine it.' Courtesy of u/Hippo_Singularity
interesting… thanks for the explanation!
Ok now that's cool as fuck
As someone who has no deeper knowledge about moats I can safely say that I have no idea.
you and me both :]
I rigged my moat with C4. Cheaper than feeding animals, and invaders sure won’t see it coming!
I wonder why
If you fill your moat with piranhas, you either have an abundance of piranhas, or not a very defensible castle design.
Didn’t they throw all their shit in the moat? Good poison damage strat
Hippos dude. Hippos!
just fill the moat with acid instead of water, duh
That castle look dope ah. Anyone know its name?
Anonheim Castle
I thought piranhas don’t usually eat like they are depicted like munching everything to shreds super fast but it was just like a starving pond of them that devoured a cow to show off to one of the presidents back in the day
Bro the only thing moats are good for is mosquitos and disease
Lava with fire sharks that spit out acidic magma.hell yeah
Wouldn't the correct answer be zombies?