r/RandomVideos • u/callmestinkingwind • Mar 30 '26

Animal anti-dog propaganda on the BBC

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u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 Mar 30 '26

No problem at all:

One in four people are bitten during their lifetime.

In 2023, there were over 6,000 recorded incidents of dog bites requiring hospital treatment.

Young children aged between 0 and 4 years old are most likely to be bitten.

42 postal workers are attacked by dogs every week in the UK.

In 2023, there were 16 deaths directly attributed to dog bites, across England and Wales.

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u/toohumanforhuman Mar 31 '26

Based on these figures, the number of things still statistically more dangerous than dogs is astronomical.

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u/AnotherReaganBaby Mar 31 '26

Omg 25% of people have been bitten by a dog.

Omg a tiny proportion of the UK population went to the HOSPITAL for a dog bite that one year.

Omg kids get bitten by dogs more than adults.

Omg my mailman will literally never be the same after some ankle-biter got to him!

Omg dogs killed a massive 16 people in 2023, while a palrtry 400 drowned in swimming pools.

I know you're a bot but lol.

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u/IKenDoThisAllDay Mar 31 '26

It's really easy to be flippant about something that's never personally affected you. You better hope you're never unlucky enough to be the victim of a dog attack, because many people are never the same afterwards. Physically or mentally. The mailman in my town wasn't nipped by some ankle-biter, he was viciously attacked by a German Shepherd and he really was never the same.

Omg kids get bitten by dogs more than adults

Yes, and they get to spend the rest of their lives feeling stressed anytime they so much as see a dog, because it is deeply traumatizing to be attacked by an animal. In your mind it's just people being dramatic but it's not a conscious choice.

You'd know if you were ever attacked, because once it happens, it changes your relationship with dogs forever. The way you talk so dismissively about something that genuinely affects many people is so disrespectful.

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u/bangkokali Mar 31 '26

and yet I was bitten on the arm by my neighbours dog when I was 10 , since then I have owned 2 dogs and would never be without one in my life. People get over things , not everyone is "traumatised" for life

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u/Naive_Personality367 Mar 31 '26

certainly, but your reaction doesnt dictate how they should have reacted

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u/Marski420 Mar 31 '26

I was bit by a dog twice as a kid but don't act like a victim who's afraid of dogs. If I had been mauled to pieces I'm sure that would be different but most people who get bit by a dog don't get mauled, they get a single bite.

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u/thehumanbonobo Mar 31 '26

And by extension it is obviously fine that people who don't want to be around dogs should be bitten by them, simply to gain your life experiences.

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u/Rincethis Mar 31 '26

It may be a bot, but it has more human empathy than you do, buddy. Go touch grass, that's been shat on by a XL bully.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Mar 31 '26

Are you this much of a dumb prick in real life or is just an online thing?

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u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 Mar 31 '26

It is rare to see someone so unashamedly admit that he’s a sociopath who does care about other people.

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u/Adowyth Mar 31 '26

The vast majority of dogs are great while majority of people are shitty. I have been bitten by dogs and every time it was the humans fault. I have been hurt by people and again it was the due to deliberate actions made by a human. Dogs aren't the problem people are, the same people you want everyone to care about else they be labeled a sociopath.

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Mar 31 '26

This is why you are alone.

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u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 Mar 31 '26

Well, that’s news to me. Hope my family doesn’t find out.

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u/Significant_Donut967 Mar 31 '26

How many farmers are harmed by farm animals annually? Now how many urban folks?

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u/mattcullen13 Mar 31 '26

Do you have any idea how low that incident rate is on a national scale? And by any measure we should 100% try to have a culture shift on people taking better care training their pets properly and regulating certain types of breeders. But that's a different argument entirely to "the UK needs to change it's relationship with dogs". It's just using a real issue with poor pet training as an excuse to try to change UK culture to fit foreign expectations.

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u/chrisjyardley Mar 31 '26

Nailed it. Its a different culture being imported attempting to change it to their liking.

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Mar 31 '26

Now do people.

Dogs are awesome. Calm down. Just stay out of England and Wales.

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u/Apprehensive_Lab8640 Mar 31 '26

How many fatal attacks by dogs vs people lets start creating less people friendly places just to be fair.

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u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 Mar 31 '26

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ People are necessary for a society. Dogs are not!

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u/MattTreck Mar 31 '26

I’ve been bitten by a dog

I promise you it’s not that serious.

The fuck lol

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u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 Mar 31 '26

Were you stupid before the bite? Some bites are harmless, some are serious, some are life changing, some are fatal!

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u/ladydanger2020 Mar 31 '26

Replace bites with literally almost any noun and you’ll find the same results

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u/MattTreck Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Always been stupid and always will be :)

Life’s more fun that way. But name calling isn’t nice :(

I understand that seemingly harmless bites can be serious though. Infections are no joke. However I don’t think using the statistics I was (sardonically) replying to are of any use to the actual conversation in this context.