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Ya'll joke but I'm old enough to remember how fucking annoying it was when the dinosaurs were around. The fuckers shat everywhere, just like a gigantic gaggle of geese, but some of those assholes were big enough that their poop was basically the size of a goose. Sometimes they'd poop right where we made our stone tools and we'd have to spend days depooping, just absolute days wasted doing that.
I was the dino in that era i can confirmed that happened but i will apologize as i wasnt able to hold it in anymore
that's right. I was there then, and I am still here now.
Pleased to meet you, hope I guessed your name
australia and indonesia will feel a 1mil high tidal wave first after all indian ocean islands.
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I look forward to having a dinosaur friend
They're living in the trees now...
You can buy dinosaur food on Amazon.
Just fuck our shit up, fam.
That's where MH370 went missing.... coincidence?
You saying that pilot was trying to bring back the dinosaurs?
I'm not not saying that....
Shit that's near me. Can't wait to have a pet pterosaur
Where do you live!? Cocos islands?
Wikipedia tells me Cocos Island is in the pacific, off the coast of Costa Rica
aha ! there's another one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocos_%28Keeling%29_Islands
I'm in Mayotte which is not quite under the target but close enough for a flight of pterosaurs to land I think
i thought this was an Iran targeting U.S. bases in the Indian ocean meme