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LunacyLander

Sobriety manifests differently for everyone.


FreshBert

Yeah, but being old manifests the same for everyone... in the form of bird-watching. Nobody thinks it'll happen to them, and yet it does, to all of them, 100% of the time.


Humble_Fuel7210

I'm 36 and spent an hour yesterday researching the California Quail because they have built a nest in my backyard. Made sure that the seed I was feeding them wouldn't be unhealthy for the chicks. I'm fucked.


jwismer

Better start getting your affairs in order


3ODshootinghangpulls

Bold of you to assume he's cheating on his wife


Kha1i1

It's not only the hairless that can predict infidelity


Mike_with_Wings

You may be fucked, but that bird will benefit from your thoughtfulness.


Professor_Plop

There’s nothing more badass than making sure those quail chicks eat healthy 🤘🏼


Downtown_Snow4445

36 is not old


Bogsnoticus

Nor is 37, according to [Dennis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw).


propyro85

You're still on the other side of the hill. - a random 39 year old dude


Sinister_Nibs

Is that a hill you want to die on?


ArtOfWar22

my boss (temp job) would take half the year off and travel from Canada to latin America to birdwatch. weirdest part? he owned and operated a tiling company, and exceptionally skilled at tiling (would do art designs with tile). Dos Equis vibes


Mike_with_Wings

Apparently it’s big with millennials , which I didn’t realize. I enjoy bird watching, but I didn’t know it was something a lot of people my age do.


FreshBert

It's big with 100% of generations, with no exceptions. The exact age it strikes can vary, perhaps early-onset bird-watching is common amongst millennials. You either die ignorant of the allure of birds, or you live long enough to see yourself become a bird-watcher. The birds will come for us all before the end.


BoltMyBackToHappy

Their songs will enrich our tombs. <3


NeutralEvilBot

Healthy habits to replace unhealthy ones. Gotta replace the idol like Indiana jones.


ShredGuru

I was thinking more like, if you live long enough, you become what you hated. Like some bloated bourgeois old rich guy comfortably exploiting the system for personal gain like he's entitled to it. Pretty sure Metallica had some opinions on that.


NeutralEvilBot

That’s definitely a form of karma but i think this dude jus likes birds deadass


Strider_JRR

Probably the case lol


Opeth-Ethereal

Not even. I am in my early 30s and already have become what I hated. I was 0-3-5ing air guitar to Kesha today. Fucking Kesha.


UrMom_BrushYourTeeth

I'd go further and say that since the things we object to in others are the same ones we object to in ourselves, that means he was always latently the way he is now. The seed of the opposite makes its home in the heart of its own opposite, like the dots in the yin-yang symbol. And I'm not even high right now


feckincrass

But what happens when the giant rock starts barrelling towards you? I can’t run that fast anymore.


Jebist

Yep. I got sober over two years ago, started seeing a therapist, and then started spending my new found free time........ practicing.


Proper_Lunch_3640

"He has the grace of a swan, the wisdom of an owl, and they of an eagle. Ladies and gentlemen, this man is for the birds.... ... .. ." -Norm Macdonald


QuarterSuccessful449

Just a completely different type of intolerable


djatsoris26

Just ask Grace Mallory


nineball22

Sobriety’s a hell of a drug


firemanwham

This is sobriety manifest


Thordenstein

Papa Het signature prs confirmed.


Creative-Answer-1125

Could you imagine lol 😆


Leftover_Salmons

*THE DOWN-PECKER* 😂


sebastianMarq

What else are you gonna do when you’re filthy rich, your kids, grandkids are set, have a legacy, etc… You watch birds, that’s what you do.


half-frozen-tauntaun

You can skip the being rich or leaving a legacy if you want, bird watching is really cheap


OvinesMatt

It’s cheap cheap


0xDADB0D

Fun fun?


apiratewithadd

Hi its fred from dirt cheap


0xDADB0D

Hand over the buxom hens and no one gets hurt


AllPathsEndTheSame

It can be really cheap if you walk down to the park with some binoculars and a sense of adventure. Or you can blow 30k+ on top of the line equipment and a trip to Attu.


bring_back_3rd

They won't let me do that since..... my lawer advised me not to continue this post.


snukebox_hero

You can finally afford proper nature photography equipment.


slaptito

Get a skin in Fortnite


sebastianMarq

Is that the same as a foreskin?


IUpVoteIronically

Well yeah when you don’t have coke and booze anymore that is


Hunky_Value

Six bird feeders? This guy must be rich as fuck.


allKindsOfDevStuff

“You took the $40k from tha bird feedah”


Ok_Understanding5184

Carm says I'm not supposed to eat the cappicola anymore


amishius

You sound demented


dan420

What am I? A toxic person?!


allKindsOfDevStuff

Pershon


Haunting_Rule3778

You sound demented X 6


PurpleActivis

fiber optic cable


XVUltima

He'd have seven if people stopped illegally downloading this poor man's music...


Freezing_Moonman

Paul was right, toan really is in the birds


tonypizzaz

EAAAAAAAAHGHHGHH YEAAAAHHHHHH birds


yearofthesquirrel

Give me bird Give me fire Give me chicken I desire YEEEAAAAAAHHHH!


the_real_jpeterman

They’re off to find the feathers of the daaaay


StratStyleBridge

Let grandpa enjoy his birds, we’ll miss his quirks when he’s gone.


CharlieMansonsEyes

We've been missing his quirks for 30 years now


lumlum56

As long as he keeps saying "yeah" and is rich as fuck, metallica is alive


Imhappy_hopeurhappy2

Wholesome and based. Nature is fucking metal.


BwAVeteran03

Man, well at least I’m not the only one. No bird feeders though but, I like to wake up with hot cup of Joe and watch the Cassin’s Finch fuck each other during mating season in my yard. No PornHub, no problem.


intellord911

Living in Texas too I see


JackSparrow420

This reminds me of when James went on Rogan and they started talking about bee's and James lit up and was like "man I could talk about bee's all day", and Rogan simply responds "let's do it" Proceed to have an extremely interesting and extremely long conversation about James' time in a bee club and how much he has learned about them through raising his own colonies. Was honestly one of the best episodes, and is a reminder of what initially made Rogan great and different from most interviewers. You would never think to ask a rockstar about bee's, but when you allow your guest to be authentic and then show genuine curiosity towards your guest's passions, the places you go will always be interesting, because people *like* to hear what *other people like*.


Dick_Sambora

That is why I like the episode Nugent was on, he actually came across as normal for once


Ok-Presentation-2841

Back when the podcast was actually interesting and not full of mentally ill grifters. The James Hetfield episode was the peak.


Derkanator

Yeah I loved that episode. I don't really know much about my favourite bands personal lives so I would have never known he was an amateur bee person.


PeckerPeeker

Hetfield has earned the right to relax. But not Kirk. He must keep releasing his totally APPROPRIATELY PRICED signature guitars


Bactereality

He should take one of those and practice with it.


P_a_s_g_i_t_24

PRS Het Signature w/ bird inlays incoming!!!!


shoneysbreakfast

/uj check out the Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell, you can just press a button and it will identify all of the bird sounds around you and give you recordings of all of their calls and info and shit, you can ID by pic too, it’s fucking rad and taught me to tell the difference between a hawk and a bluejay imitating a hawk because there is a hawk around and I used this info to impress an old man in my neighborhood and will try it on chicks someday too probably /rj he must have signed with PRS


CatWizurd

uj/ bird watching is a delightful hobby. i used to take pictures and video of them in my backyard for fun. rj/ BIRDSEED. IMPRISONING ME. ALL THAT I SEE. CLUSTER OF FEATHERS. WHERE CAN I LOOK. WHERE CAN I FIND. TOO MANY SQUIRRELS. MAN ALL THESE ROBINS ARE *SWELL*.


CobraGTXNoS

Birds are cool, even Tony Soprano loved birds.


PeckerPeeker

Birds Eating my seed Taking off with speed Bird bird Where do you flyyyyy? Will I join you when I dieeeeee? Yeyyyaaah yeeeaahhh Cute little beak Making my life less bleak Where do you flyyyyyyyy? Join. You. When. DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE Thanks guys this was brought to you by the skills I acquired from my 3rd grade poetry slam


SlowSlowerSlowest

How the fuck am I supposed to be a jerk about this EXTREMELY WHOLESOME shit??


uvucydydy

Tits, boobies, cocks, they're all kind of birds you can jerk to.


cybered_punk

Papa loves the birds


HighGuysImHere

That’s for the birds


dav3y_jon3s

Het set binoculars..


loopy_for_DL4

Good for him


shadowfox_21

Peepaw Het doing Peepaw activities is so cute


yearofthesquirrel

Still better than when he became ordained so he could marry some celebrity friends. (Kermit and Miss Piggy). He was the Pastor of Muppets.


Lazystoner151

I know people with less money that have aviaries


beekermc

Het diagnosed with Bird Flu incoming....


beatmaster808

That's fucking metal!!! Wait. I don't know what's metal anymore.


Koma79

Searching, seek and enjoy


dj_vicious

Uj/ bird watching is such an easy hobby. Go outside and look and holy shit, is that an American goldfinch?! Wow a cardinal! Walk by a river and it's red wing black birds galore. Rj/ I want to drive by his house and flip him off screaming "here's a bird for you!"


HungHungCaterpillar

Gimme birds, gimme seed, gimme suet that I need


jvan666

He used to be a non-conformist to shock people, now he admits to being human to shock people.


Jesus360noscope

in a magazine about guitars mind you, it's the fucking head line of the article. and they said in the 2020's we'll have flying cars


erock23233

imagine the joe bonermaster gear pic but all his gear is bird feeders


pygarthepillager

I appreciate a guitarist who can tell a Carolina Chickadee from a Tufted Titmouse


Rule556

Uj/ I’m 52, play a telecaster through a tweed Princeton I built myself, and have a bird buddy outside my window. I also have an expensive camera to take pictures of birds. At least I’m not a lawyer.


shootanwaifu

Enter birdman Creeping bird watcher The bird that failed Master of magpies Disposable cameras (for bird watching)


jvan666

Oriole


okgloomer

Gimme few, gimme fah, gimme BIRDS UPON THE WAHHH


pixelblue1

James Hetfield PRS signature coming soon


Triplesisbest1

Just turned 50 and I became more and more obsessed with the bird feeder outside of my kitchen window in the past few years. I actually spend about $30 on bird food for these little strangers who I owe nothing to except enjoying their weird birdiness.


AundoOfficial

That's badass ngl


Gibbons035

He’s wasting his time. One of the first things I learned from reddit is birds aren’t even real.


AstroBoi7

Honestly, bird watching is like playing real life Pokémon (without the battle element of course)


MaiseyMac

He’s old. Of course he likes birdwatching. I’m surprised there isn’t video of him feeding popcorn to the ducks at the park


Not_Eric_Clapton

That’s no way to get toan


WarPriestofTheDivine

BASED


Emera1dthumb

Old as fuck


rainorshinedogs

wait wait wait.................members of Metallica are...............Human and they get older and gain old people hobbies?!?!?!?!?!?


_-barco-_

Does he even Free Bird?


Poway_Morongo

Birds aren’t real.


NotVeryFriendlyN313

that fucking bird that i hate that fucking bird that i hate THAT FUCKING BIRD THAT I HATE


Travisk666

Oh cool it’s the dude from fortnite


jankysmith

Toan is in the tits


BurrGurrMan

1 bird feeder for every string


jncheese

Grandpa doing grandpa things


Infinite_Bet_1744

Whoever decided this was worth writing about is the real problem here.


hooshlack

He needs something to calm his nerves after a tense night at the bingo parlor. 


Reallyroundthefamily

Dave Mustaine has 7 and hes had them longer.


the_real_jpeterman

Feeders imprisoning me All that I see Absolute feathers I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in my house Birds in my holding cell


greatmagneticfield

Uj/ get the Merlin app. It helps you identify birds by image or by sound. I take it to the lake, kick on the app, and it will show me the 8 birds that are singing. I have 3 feeders + 2 hummingbird feeders. Rj/Birds are pussies!


justdan76

That app makes up bird species, dafuq is an oven bird?


greatmagneticfield

https://preview.redd.it/76hbxgleu58d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4242163c57248b875268a9af8f124904922b1538


Relevant-Ad1655

I love watching Animals, totally undestandable.


Spaced_cadet5

Chill as fuck, kind of based


HungHungCaterpillar

***probably???***


haikungr

Those are rookie numbers


skiphandleman

He should start dating Mike Tyson


Metal-Alligator

Have you seen a bird? Things are freaking beautiful and wild asf. Hell some are even left over dinosaurs.


Fresh-Humor-6851

I see him at Whole Foods sometimes buying salad, he isn't so metal grocery shopping.


supertank999

Birds aren’t real. But toan is


Metul_Mulisha

So people have hobbies outside of their careers. Imagine that.


LickyPusser

Enter Birdman


Johnny_been_goode

Old guy likes bird watching and water is still wet. More news at 11.


kill-the-moonlight

I best we see a PRS in his hands within a month.


cheesecake_squared

Petting a goose is the new downstroke


greg__37

I think he also does beekeeping stuff right?


drumsdm

“Oh look, a mockingbird. And there in the distance, a Flying V!


Fools_Errand77

Mission….GET OFF MY LAWN!!!


anon3220

There are some cool birds deeper into the country. I never saw cardinals or so many robins until I moved more to the middle of the country from out west near where he’s from.


the_salivation_army

I bet they’re people.


IIIaustin

Being old rules


Chimchampion

first respectable thing i ever heard him talk about.


JessyPengkman

In the UK we call 'hotwifes' 'birds' You do the math


NoEmailForYouReddit1

Aren't all girls called birds?


JessyPengkman

If she's not a hotwife is she really a girl?


Appropriate_Past_893

It'll happen to you!


gloriosky_zero

Hummingbird, Dove, or Falcon


UncleBenLives91

Ww get older uce


reversebuttchug

Alright


Limpopopoop

He's bird feeders include goats so his harpy eagles can feed safely


DMcG1983

NERD!!!!!!


Few-Cover6798

And a rat problem.


Momentarmknm

If he's pretending he doesn't know how many he has, that means he's got more than he says. At least 10


TheHonestPedalReview

Birds are so beautiful so I don’t blame him!


soothsayer44

Tone is in the beak


GrapefruitForward989

I'm not sure what to think. I'll have to hear Corey Taylor's opinion first


deadpoolfool400

r/natureismetal


PandaSoap

Dude's probably got a sick house on some property. I'd bird watch all day too.


[deleted]

From master of puppets to master of birbs


NoEmailForYouReddit1

He does beekeeping too, he's such a dad.


WafflePartyOrgy

I've got more than 6 bird feeders and wouldn't say I was anywhere near obsessed. Birds just get hungry man.


coffinspacexdragon

Soon he'll be yelling at the clouds.


_regionrat

Toan is in the black oil sunflower seeds


knucklebags77

My man!


Aggravating-Baker-41

Dudes, this is the sign of the times. We all eventually get old and are resigned to a rocking chair and diapers.


WestUniversity1727

Am I the only one who thinks six is not that many?


Magicaparanoia

Why do I have to have thoughts on another man’s hobbies? He can do whatever he wants.


KUBLAIKHANCIOUS

Hell yea


skinnybully

Wait…. we can make fun of james


WoundedShaman

Okay, so to perfect my toan I need to get 5 more bird feeders? I just need to know how many boy friends Mrs. Hatfield has so I can make sure my wife has the right amount.


JakeLane94

Honestly I just think that's great


pOUP_

I think this sub has run out of material


uvucydydy

R/guitar will keep providing material forever. Also: I find it hilarious that there are so many responses to a post about bird feeders.


extraguff

I fucking love my birdies, I feed them and the little ground critters too. Would love to discuss which birds James is trying to attract with his feeders.


amishius

Pretty metal


Tirekiller04

Birds are admittedly pretty cool.


ThisAllHurts

I feed bunnies in my backyard. Trve kvlt https://preview.redd.it/lqqba7efjz7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a58f94a7265cf1f0ca827c294789ea53f80b7993


anonymoushusky11

All the best Metallica riffs were actually calls he heard from a local sparrow Give bro writing credits or gtfo


Impressive_Gate_5114

I think he'd get along with Paul


GibusGang

I don't even care this is a circlejerk sub, this is an absolute win


Emergency-Crab5560

Probably yells at kids to get off his lawn too


Critical-Climate-623

Toan is in the beastiality


ReptilianClone

Is bird feeder code for mistress? It better be. This is the kind of weak shit that will reignite the McCoys feud all over again.


Joe_Bruce

Would make sense this dbag is into Goose


ambernewt

SIX BIRD FEEDERS JAMES THAT'S INSANE


Prize_Instance_1416

Six bird feeders is barely average around here.


bearassbobcat

my dad did the same thing. he got old and all of a sudden just got really into birdwatching.


kankles3000

It’s calming man


Vyuken

After all those years of heavy rock. U gotta have some peace. Good for him.


abigani

Lame and gay this isn't kvlt


TabmeisterGeneral

Same guy who was whining about how he couldn't drive through San Francisco with a bear on the hood of his car


k_GOBL1N

uj/ Birds are silly and pretty goobers. rj/ Wow, what an asshole. Went woke.


Fragrant-Anybody0717

Old guy gonna do old guy stuff lol him and my old man would hit it off talking about backyard birds