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Bhaelfur ,
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My cats did the same thing when they found a mouse. They would stand guard where they first saw it for over a month afterwards.

Son_of_dad ,

My wife’s Yorkie once chased a mouse into a kitchen cupboard. After moving apartments and a decade later, if you asked him “where’s the mouse?” He’d run to the kitchen and stare at the cupboards

FlyingSquid ,
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I understand, Dusty. I would inspect the magic pie bush every day too. Who turns down a free pie?

NatakuNox , (edited )
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If I knew where that bush was, I’d periodically put pies in the bush just for Dusty.

FlyingSquid ,
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Dusty is clearly a good boy or girl.

superduperenigma ,

When I was a kid I pressed the “return coin” button on a vending machine at a rest stop and 50¢ came out. Gotta check every single vending machine now.

SuddenDownpour ,

Have you found many?

yokonzo ,

I do this too, and yeah you’d be surprised how many times there’s money in the coin slot

IndiBrony ,
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Can confirm. Coin slot returns saved me from bankruptcy! Sadly much less common now with the advent of contactless card payments.

glibg10b ,

Technically, any amount of money would save you from bankruptcy

LesserAbe ,

If you owed $1k then $1 wouldn’t save you

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    jaybone ,

    This isn’t 1980s Hollywood rich guy poor guy rules.

    tigeruppercut ,

    My dad said when they were kids they’d check the payphones for coins in the change slot, so sometimes kids would spit in them to fuck w people

    iggames ,

    Our neighborhood has the Magical Chicken Wing bush. The dog thoroughly inspected it for months afterwards, and still checks on it now and then just in case.

    RedEyeFlightControl ,
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    It is a well defined psychological principle called Pavlovian response.

    JuicyGyri ,

    Probably closer to intermittent reward than Pavlovian conditioning! But yeah, definitely already “well defined” by psychology haha

    RedEyeFlightControl ,
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    I would suggest that the stimulus was strong enough to condition after one trial, due to the repeat behavior.

    Mr_Blott ,

    Used to find porn mags in bushes back in my day. They were magic pie bush bushes I tell ya

    Chais , (edited )
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    When the Munich public transport introduced new trains around 20 years ago some of them had porn images stuck to the inside of legs of some of the benches. You can be sure that teenage boys find them.
    The numbers quickly dwindled but it took the company years until they had them all removed.

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    Chais ,
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    I never learned how that happened. We suspected that someone might have sneakily applied them during production or before delivery, as the trains were brand-new.
    I doubt they were “official” stickers 😉

    ChickenLadyLovesLife ,

    My parents were big hippie environmentalists back in the '70s and they were always so proud of their son (me) for volunteering at the local recycling center every Saturday. Fortunately they never found out that I did it for the porn. I had like four or five copies of every porn magazine published in that decade.

    psud ,

    I found them in local bushland (Australia) in the late 80s

    I presume they were hidden by older boys who didn’t dare take them home where a parent may find them

    I also didn’t dare keep them at home long, that book of bush went back into the bush

    Ghyste ,

    This isn’t even remotely close to being a meme.

    can ,

    I agree but I think we’re a minority at this point.

    Drusas ,

    Most memes on Lemmy seem not to be. I've given up complaining about it, aside from right now.

    Ghyste ,

    People just dump any garbage because moderators are either non-existent or don’t care, and the bulk of the community mindlessly upvote literally any crap that gets posted here.

    Meanwhile other communities lack content that these posts would be a proper fit for, and the same people supporting garbage posts here use that lack of activity in other communities as an excuse to continue the garbage posts here.

    Holyhandgrenade ,
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    There’s a Norwegian prog rock band called Magic Pie, I haven’t seen their bush yet though

    can , (edited )

    Nothing like some prog rock and bush.

    NatakuNox ,
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    Me watching Dusty find the pie I left for him in the bushes https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cc4e031c-c598-44ee-94b1-bb8829dc9582.webm

    Omega_Haxors ,

    The fridge won’t be empty this time.

    sunbytes ,

    There is a part of the dog training book “Total Recall” by Pippa Mattinson that refers to this.

    Pie-in-a-bush is her way of explaining the Jackpot reward training method.

    Very surreal to see it realised so.

    irmoz ,

    This is seen in human society, and is called a Cargo cult

    Nakoichi ,
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    More recent scholarship on cargo cults has challenged the suitability of the term for the movements associated with it, with recent anthropological sources arguing that the term is born of colonialism and prejudice and does not accurately convey the nature of the movements to which it refers.

    1950s pseudoscience bullshit.

    verdigris ,

    ?

    It wasn’t pseudoscience, it was just given a colonial-centric name that reinforces the view of uncontacted or even just aboriginal peoples as “savage” or “uncivilized”. The described phenomenon is a real thing.

    usernamesaredifficul ,

    trouble is people are only familiar with the old name

    verdigris ,

    I don’t think there is another agreed upon name? Regardless the idea shouldn’t be attacked because it’s poorly named.

    usernamesaredifficul ,

    no I agree I don’t think it’s racist to reference the fact that people from non industrial societies don’t understand how our supply chains work. Why would they. That’s not them being dumb it’s them not having detailed knowledge without being taught. It’s not reasonable to expect someone to deduce the existence of Bristol from a blue vase

    irmoz ,

    Yeah, fair, just figured it was a relevant term

    radioactiveradio ,

    And what if he found a new species of bush that grows pie huh?

    peyotecosmico ,

    Us: hahaha silly dog.

    Also us: oh a waterfall, I’ll check behind it.

    Omega_Haxors ,

    Those who do not check behind the waterfall do not deserve to see the fairy wonderland behind it.

    Hexarei ,
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    A vintage meme sir but it checks out

    HiddenLayer5 , (edited )

    Also also us: oh a lottery ticket that I know for a mathematical fact has such a tiny chance of winning that I’m literally more likely to be struck by a shark and eaten by lightning, well I’ll try my odds, who knows?

    CrushKillDestroySwag ,

    I think it’s just regular Operant Conditioning, but the reward of finding half a pie was so strong that the association will stick to this bush for a lot longer than if it was a smaller one.

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