{"id":39988,"date":"2025-09-24T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=39988"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:41:11","slug":"not-exactly-annual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/09\/not-exactly-annual\/","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly annual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kinda far from it, actually, but nonetheless, we have the return of Beware of Strangers Baring Gifs Day<\/strong><\/a>, with another fine selection of animated foibles, curiosities, and giggles. Once again, these were collected from various places online (mostly theChive.com) that were never the originator in the first place, so I can’t give credit where it is due unless any of the creators contact me. Now that MP4s are largely supplanting gifs (pronounced, “GON-door-kolls-for-æd<\/em>“,) most of these won’t autoplay, or at least I’m not going to spend the time trying to figure out how to do it. You can handle it, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

Instant regret. And a cleaning job.<\/br>
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This primate (I’m not exactly sure what species) is distinctly unimpressed with your stereotyping.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Condescend.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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I would totally do this.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ultralight.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
Actually, I would totally fuck this up. I just want to learn<\/em> to do this…<\/p>\n

Spoiling the mood in a hurry.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Coconuts.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Nothing to add at all.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Upside-down-dog-ogled.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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This guy’s got it going on.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fishing-sassy.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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The perfect setup – this guy will never have a bigger victory.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Setup.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Rally drivers are a special breed.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rally_Car-Almost_Dead-10_26_23-GIF-3-3.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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When I first saw this, one person quipped, “It must be a school crossing.” Bravo.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SchoolCrossing.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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I love it when people add their own touches to existing gifs\/videos, especially when they’re this well executed.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cuppas.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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“Hey, man, you headed south?”
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GooseRace.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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This is how you forfeit your entire flying career.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WingsForfeit.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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“Heyo!<\/em> Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!”
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PengoBail.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Just happy to be included.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AllForPanda.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Beagles, man.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Beagle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Needed one here.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ZipGator.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Mistake
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mistake.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Pull over if you’re getting tired (it can be contagious.)
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TruckNap.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Ominous (and too damn close.)
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hippo.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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What. The. Hell?
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Doofish.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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The faces.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2ManyChefs.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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The face.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Matchlight.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
Seriously, his expression kills me.<\/p>\n

Valuable lesson.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Electric-fence-experiment.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
I’m going to use this opportunity to feature my own odd memory. I was probably about 10 years old, and my family was visiting somebody with a horse farm next door. I was warned about the electric fence and respected that, but bored while their conversation went on interminably, I plucked a long blade of grass, bent into an inverted V, and dropped this from a safe distance onto the fencing. Of course nothing happened, and I chided myself for expecting anything else – naturally it wouldn’t be so powerful to do anything like burning through the grass. I went to pluck the blade off, which was enough to ground it. In my spasms as the appreciable current coursed through my body, I saw the grass glow orange where it contacted the fence and burn clean through. Son of a bitch…<\/p>\n

So well staged.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WellDone.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Another great combination.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wazoo.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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It’s silly and juvenile to assign human expressions to other animals.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Karl-youre-a-fish-reaction.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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So helpful.
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pedicure.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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Annnddd wait for it…
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https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bubbles.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>
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I think that’ll carry us for at least another year. Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kinda far from it, actually, but nonetheless, we have the return of Beware of Strangers Baring Gifs Day, with another fine selection of animated foibles, curiosities, and giggles. Once again, these were collected from various places online (mostly theChive.com) that were never the originator in the first place, so I can’t give credit where it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,6,12],"tags":[5099],"class_list":["post-39988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-humor","category-random","tag-beware-of-strangers-baring-gifs-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}