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I prefer hippos when they're hungry, hungry.
Oct 10, 2021 10:18 AM
DaShanghaiKid
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jennym123
I Just want to know if Buchanan is openly gay in this book and also if he's a half-decent president.
JayAdan
I just read that a couple of weeks ago. Lol.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
River of Teeth is compiled with Taste of Marrow and some other stories in the collection American Hippo.
Elijahrock
You had me at hippo.
Bigdragon12
To be fair. Those are very interesting points in time to have different outcomes. But I would like to see what would have happened if /
Bigdragon12
/ Russia dominated the space race and what would have happened if the black plague had killed everyone.
override367
I want to see this movie
notuselessjustlessuseful
No sleep til hippo
Escapehatch001
Thank God someone said it. Thumbs up for you!
FaeFalor
Can confirm that River of Teeth slaps.
FaeFalor
Also, this hippo idea is based on something actually proposed during a beef shortage.
SilentScreamsX
Well, it's on Audible. I know what I'm listening to while I work tomorrow.
aslum
I prefer hippos with guns and spaceships.
FrankJustice1
Well, flying boats at least
TheDrunkenWrench
This was an actual plan to address the meat shortage in the US, there's a Dollop on it.
LasciviousHedgehog
captaingrump
I actually read it on Kindle a few years back. It's pretty good. Pretty much what it says on the tin, to be honest.
CityYeti
Robert Welch's candy company stayed successful and he did not create the John Birch society. This stopped America going further right, and
CityYeti
the country gets free healthcare
masterpainimeanbetty1
what a beautiful dream
EaNasirIsABastard
Alternative history where the US Manhattan Project was infiltrated, the documents were destroyed and all scientists killed. Any ideas?
ColonelColon
You want to live in Soviet Russia? Because you don't want to live in Soviet Russia.
cainofdreaming
Change the president to James Buchanan Barnes and have a romance subplot with Stephen Rogers and I'm sold!
HeroniMouse
I just bought it. If it sucks, I'm gonna...come back here and down vote you....or something
EmanNiemThcin
What I mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_III,_German_Emperor didn't die of cancer so his dipshit son didn't take over.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
I'd be more interested in seeing the revolutions of 1848/49 succeed.
ElroydIsGone
That would really be interesting, yes.
WhatTheDormouseSaid
It's time machine time
allenvasher3000
I'm not sure hippopotamus could survive much of the US's winter's even in the southern states, but they are moving to reintroduce Jaguars.
Jawesome19
I know they're terrifying in person but they look so goofy it's hard to be scared of hippos
Hal1918
500 Africans a year agreed. ? (BBC News -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36320744)
Jawesome19
Don't domesticated dogs kill like 10 times that many people if you factor in their like the single cause of rabies in humans now
Hal1918
Yes. According to the article but point was to explain hippopotamuses are really mean not goofy..
billybarule
They shoulda voted for those Swamp Sherriffs after the Civil War, wouldn't have been so darned lawless.....
quasarquasarquasar
I can't seem to find this book, either the title, or by the authors name? ?
notkvothethebloodless
It's on kindle for like 4 bucks
Hal1918
Also on Kobo
SkeleyTorrington
S. M. Sterling’s Conquistador is another smashing tale of alternative history
Insensitive
To be fair, a disturbing amount of "alt history" fans are just really into Nazi fan-fiction.
robsprocket
Or they hate Nazis as much as you but just enjoy FICTION with a group of histories worst 'baddies'
Carrera26
Thank you! I enjoyed Wolftenstein because I got to shoot hundreds of Dieselpunk Nazis, not because they won.
JCBalance
January 6th was their version of LARPing?
WontWearAFedoraNorah
I shriek laughed on the toilet at this. Now my cat is staring at me with concern.
xUnrealRealityx
Well, a disturbing number of people actually are Nazis, or at least agree with their views.
Mokisan
For some, it's a way of exercising a desire for violent action, without worrying about hurting innocents. If the hero is running (1/?)
Mokisan
around killing "generic bad guys," you might feel bad for the people getting killed. They might just be goons-for-hire... But! (2/?)
Mokisan
If they are Nazis... Well, that's another story. Who's going to mind if a Nazi gets shot in the face, or blown-up, or... Otherwise (3/?)
Mokisan
brutally dispatched. Hell, that's half the appeal of the Wolfenstein games. Or the good Indiana Jones movies. (4/4)
MrGrundy
Like Crystal Skull! Right? Like...like Crystal Skull?...
JeremyPeevin
I remember a book called Guns for the South where they invented time travel just to have the South win the american civil war.
channelranger
That's the level of bullshit you need to make it happen. The only hope they have had was making the North get sick of it and go home.
channelranger
Actually taking the North over would be ludicrous.
EmporerDragon
Harry Turtledove. He also made an 11 book series where the South won in a more traditional way.
idontevenlikebeerdude
That was part of what I liked about the assassin's creed stories in the beginning. Couldn't care less about the parts in present time.
ColonelColon
I liked them both which is why it always annoyed me how pointless the present time story was.
idontevenlikebeerdude
Yes! Never meant anything. I'd go through the entire story in the past and not leave the Animus unless it forced me.
ColonelColon
It was fine in the first one, provided some mystery as to what was going on IRL but it was pretty clear they had no actual plans and 1)
ColonelColon
made shit up as they went along for cheap twists til they dropped it altogether.
briham86
US Camel Corps. There were plans to import camels to aid expansion to the west, but the experiment was abandoned.
EaNasirIsABastard
Although it was clearly successful.
ThereAreCrocodiles
I prefer hippos when they're hungry, hungry.
SeaSpace
huh what why?
Painkiller1020
Oh they're hungry, hungry alright. Hungry for human flesh!
VolcanoHerder
My dog no longer responds to "do you want dinner?" because we always say "who's a hungry hungry hippo" and she comes running.
coffeepot583
That's my secret Cap...
coffeepot583
I'm always a hippo
fromtheabyss
HedonistBeard
A non-hungry hippo is like a socially well adjusted usersub scroller: a contradiction in terms.
SeaSpace
heheheh
Sinael
I prefer hippos when they are straight and not queer
SeaSpace
nice try
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
But it appears your hippos aren't quite as famished as you claim...
SybilCrawley
I read that as "as your clam".... time for me to take a break from the internet I guess.
umbrellamaker
Mr. Bond
kamosey
I'm listening...
CyanideBreathMint
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yeetholejones
I highly recommend River of Teeth! It's one of my favorite books! There's also the sequel Taste of Marrow!
Hyperboi
Me too, I just got the audiobook
HorrorOfBiblion
The Dollop Podcast episode 104: The Hippo Bill. Seriously, if you’re listening. NO SLEEP TILL HIPPO.
Armanace
NO SLEEP TILL HIPPO
HorrorOfBiblion
I’M THE HIPPO GUY
Armanace
ACTION PARK
HorrorOfBiblion
IS IT FOR FUN?
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Hmm, I enjoy the strangeness of the description, but I'll be honest, romances are the most boring thing to read. So how "extremely queer" >
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
are we talking about? Just a relationship I have to get through, or will I be bombarded about the protagonists love life instead of the >
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
cool hippo focused heisting?
LouisArmstrongsLeftFoot
I think they mean the older version of the word "strange, atypical, odd"
JanglesPrime
I've only read a couple chapters, but one character is bi and another seems to be non-binary. And people use hippos like horses. I should go
JanglesPrime
Back and finish it.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Thank you, that sounds fine. How much time is wasted on them focusing on romantic interests as opposed to these horse-hipppos?
mmmdonutss
Mr Escobar did that in Colombia and now they are invasive. I think their plan is to neuter them. Poor bastards
nomorehate
I forgot about the Cocaine Hippos!
Anonymouse64
Yeah, I feel more sorry for whichever poor fool has to try and neuter a fucking hippo.
ImAFoxButNotReally
Or beavers in Patagonia
Rhythmaster
The only way to remove them is to kill them all. But the locals love them and they bring tourism and support local economy. Neutering will
Rhythmaster
Not be effective. It's too expensive and difficult to trap, sedate, neuter and release, they cant do enough of em fast enough to lower the
Rhythmaster
Population enough.
MARSASCENDANT
They want to, yeah. However, the logistical demands are next to impossible to overcome.
ToasterDent
Imagine being one of the guys told to neuter a hippo. "Ok, so sneak up on them very carefully..."
Iliketocommentinrandom
Neutering the Colombians seems a bit excessive ?
warmyourbeans
The hippos are ruthless!
muzzmuzzle
I wanted to comment this...
Iliketocommentinrandom
Sorry, here's an upvote
MrNardtastic
I hear that due to their mating season being tied to the rainy season and it always being rainy season in the rain forest they are >>
MrNardtastic
>constantly reproducing. South america will always have hippos now. Just like pythons in florida there no getting rid of them. Pandoras box
cainofdreaming
At least the pythons will always have nutriants.
stankginchfurbuger
Future cockroach civilization is gonna be real fucking confused. "How the FUCK did all these plants and animals move around so much???"
DakotaWolf
Could they not introduce Hippo meat? Is that even possible? I mean if it's good protein. I don't know enough to say otherwise
cainofdreaming
"You kill it." "No! You kill it!" "I shot it! I shot it!" "So?" "It got angry!!!"
Flomb
They would not be particularly difficult to cull. It’s just that the locals are against it, mostly because the hippos bring in tourists.
MidnightTacoTruck
If I ever had a reason to go I would be interested in seeing the hippos.
MrNardtastic
?? They're underwater tanks with 14 inch tusks that can open their mouths like 180°+. They're the most deadly animal in all of Africa.
SeaSpace
like crocs do they that ........strong open jaw and not so strong closed jaw?
Flomb
Right, I’m not saying they’re harmless, but I think a high-powered rifle can get the job done from a safe distance.