Britainology 77: Save Our XL Bullies feat. Hussein Kesvani
For this month's first Britainology, we bring on Hussein Kesvani—our special guest with whom we've never done another podcast—to discuss the recent UK Government ban on XL Bully dogs, British dog ownership culture in general, kissing your dog on the mouth, and much more.
Please enjoy the attached images which are all the ones we discussed on the episode—Milo found them in the wild.
Comments (55)
Why DOES Britainology have Wario Land: Shake It! for the Nintendo Wii music? It fucks but why
Weird take to just be like, fuck animal cruelty laws because I don't like mice?
It’s literally a Seinfeld episode already. Jerry accidentally knocks his girlfriend’s toothbrush in the toilet and doesn’t tell her and then won’t kiss her
It's true never fight a shirtless man in winter. They're either gakked to the gills and/or don't care that they're cold
This episode was pretty offensive about Travellers and perpetuated the stereotype that all Traveller men are violent. Maybe don’t make assumptions like that, pretty fucked up honestly. Especially the part at 5:40. Really disappointing
I love The Sausage Poodles peel session
Not trying to take sides but gawd this episode reminded me of this news story: https://www.9news.com.au/world/woman-killed-after-attack-by-sausage-dogs-in-us/b7de3ad1-7834-4bb7-9163-5801c2c168fe
Conflating Stand By Me and The Sandlot has been the highlight of my day so far. Thank you.
the lore of Stand By Me is that Milo Pressman's dog Chopper is a huge monster who is specifically trained to bite your dick off, but then it is revealed that he's actually a small dog. In the psychic space of the imaginary, Chopper could be an XL Bully and therefore the allusion is accurate
It's Me Or The Dog (Season 1) would be the perfect accompaniment to this episode. Fucked BritVibes.
all of this really reminds me of that weird time bubble in the Syrian civil war when ISIS would post selfies holding cats (hallal) and YPG would post selfies holding dogs (haram)
We looked after a very lovely, friendly, well-trained Weimeraner that belonged to a rich family in Bath growing up. She was obedient, was a little anxious but never barked, and pranced like she was in a Disney movie when we went on walks. We joked about her practically being human. That said, she was still a dog, so ate Actual shit quite often, can't imagine going as far as pecking a dog on the lips.
I’m an American with a Pit Bull/German Shepherd mix who we rescued as a puppy. She is jet black with a bark that terrifies people. As someone who regularly plays on her level and will even open her jaws with my hands to steal toys, I absolutely trust her 100% (even though I’m aware her fear response could make her bite me). She’s also incredibly gentle with our 4yo and 1yo children and nuzzles them constantly, and she just runs away if they pull her tail or hit her. That said, she hates strangers and barks her head off at anyone who’s not her owners. I don’t think she would bite a person but it’s certainly possible. She absolutely hates other dogs and has bitten several who were unlucky enough to run through our yard while she was outside. TL;DR, breeds don’t determine behavior alone, but dogs are obviously animals with instincts that are hard to override. It’s less a genetics issue than a situation-dependent issue.
If you want real protection dig a moat and put swans in it. Vicious royally protected roasts.
The XL Bullies and the Swans unionizing
Hey, Alaska Thunder Fuck has produced many a good dog and many a good look for the runway.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the sentiment "I feel like I'm being punished for somebody else's problem"
Yeah, and that also applies to guns in the USA. "I'm a good and responsible gun owner, so I should be allowed to carry an Uzi to pick up my kid at school."
Some dogs are doomed from birth by the what their breeding achieved. With bullies xl you get the peak physical capabilities and the short fuse you might need for a defense dog. It's not the dog for a city or a heavy populated area. Other breeds are made to look "cute" (note the air quotes) but will suffer tremendous pain and agony ( Pugs asphyating, Datschungs back problems, etc). If you can, adopt. At least you're not paying a breeder directly. And in some countries to promote adoption they help with the fees and vaccines of the little ball of hair.
inb4 XL Bully Replacement Theory
Love the picture of XL Bully Valhalla, where the biggest dog is served in the afterlife by all the infants and smaller dogs he killed in life.
I know that the problem with XL bullies is down to genetics, and there's no definitive solution other than eradicating the breed — but still, I cannot help but feel a little bad for them. They're just irrational creatures, thrown into a world they don't understand, suffering for no fault of their own.
XL Bully Putsch is a hilarious concept and something I could see happening
Haven't even listened to the episode yet but already gonna call it gold based on thumb nail art alone!
I mean, I get it. I'm arachnophobic, so every spider I encounter is objectively the most disgusting affront to the natural order that has ever existed, regardless of species or lethal-dose venom rating.
This episode reminded me that the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was formed out of the already well established RSPCA. Presumably out of embarrassment that they were fighting to protect the rights of working animals before there were rights for working children.
Came accross an XLbully walking our dogs a few months ago. It was being walked by its owners mum because he didn't want the attention an XLbully would get him any more. It was only a puppy and was trying to be friendly with small dogs, which were terrified because it was like 3 times their size, but this woman could NOT have controlled it if it had decided it wanted to attack something. It was pulling her all over the place despite her using her whole bodyweight to try and stop it. Like, at least a gun doesn't have the unknowable free will to just suddenly flip and unload a magazine.
I cannot believe we don’t automatically euthanize any dog that attacks or kills a person. These poor dogs are inbred and unnecessary and have been bred into being barely even dogs (which are meant to protect and be relied on).
Also re: the perception that hating put bills is racist in the U.S., people bizarrely take their guilt around America’s racist history and being white and think that adopting a goddamn pit bull absolves them of that guilt.
I think there's potential for someone to make an XL Bully name generator.
It's very hard for me to take the word of Bully owners that, "they're just widdle smol beans that have done nothing wrong" and then you ask what the dog's name is and they say, "Search & Destroy".
Also confirms that in the XLFam eschatology homunculuses do go to heaven
The episode art shows that all The kids a xl bully eats will serve Him in the afterlife
There is always weird overlaps between british and swiss culture. Not only did the british get our old national anthem. It is normal here to just put your glass on an other table, depending on the context. Like, you never do it in a restaurant. And you can be nice about it. But open-air bars which are busy? Sure! There is the bar, and the waiter who only walks around and collects glasses. I've done it, people did it to me, and I never wasted a thought about it.
imagine a small table that barely seats two people, indoors, at a very crowded pub on a Friday night, and imagine just stashing your empty pint glasses on that small table while two people are sitting there. Seems a bit rude, even when accounting for the fact that Brits are just insanely rude to each other on a constant basis
My parents had several rescued dogs, largely from my sister, and one was a pure bred pit bull and they had a doberman mixed with a bully of some variety. My sister also had a pure bred german shepherd. The GSD didn't live there all the time but the other 2 did. They had a perfectly fine relationship for several years until one day when I was house sitting while my parents were out of town. I was at work, and the pit bull got out of her cage at some point and got into a fight with the doberman. When I got home, both of them were covered in dried blood, but since the doberman mix was still in her cage they both mostly just shredded each other but didn't do any severe wounds. They got into at least 4 other fights, a couple with the GSD. Sometimes they had to get stitches but they never attacked a human, or showed any kind of aggression towards us. The only dog that actually bit a person was my sister's GSD that bit my mom on the arm who then needed stitches. When the 2 bullies would fight, it would be that locking bite, and the smaller pit bull more often did more severe damage to the doberman/bully mix by locking onto the other dog's neck and chest. Despite all this, the pit bull was the nice dog to the 4 other dogs under 40 pounds they also had at the time. The most pets we had at one time was 7 dogs, 5 cats, and a chameleon. 4 of the dogs are still alive, most are quite old now. One of the cats is still alive and she is also very old and diabetic but most died tragically, never from a dog.
something i don't think a lot of people realize abt uk xl bullies specifically is that kimbo a) is related to like 50% of all the bullies there, and b) has/had rage syndrome afaik, which is a genetic predisposition to sudden, unsignaled aggression and is almost certainly why uk xl bullies are Like That
you're telling me the xl bullies have their own queen vic
Biden gets a mention without talking about the fact that his dog bit a secret service agent like a dozen times. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/commander-biden-biting-incident/index.html
Diamond Joe almost literally had a pit bastard chained to an engine block on the white house front yard. We are 2 small steps removed from that reality
not only post office content this week but anti dog owner content as well, bless you. Urban anglo dog owners are in general maniacs
one of the things that make me go Milo-Mode is when I see fundraisers go by for veterinarian surgeries for small pets. like people will be posting 3000$ estimations for cancer treatment for a 15 year old cat IT'S A CAT. I'M SORRY YOU HAVE AN EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO THIS CAT AND THAT YOU FEEL SURPRISED THAT IT'S AGING AND SICK. IT'S A CAT
iirc the last one I saw was a fundraiser for a eyelid surgery for a rat. the UI said it gathere 1300$ A RAT! WITH AN EYELID PROBLEM! THEY'RE DOING SURGERY ON A RAT
From Billy the Conqueror's GYDS Book, to Trump asking how they're going to euthanize Clifford, to Hussein telling a modern day version of "Araby", to the pictures, this episode delivered.
I have found my people - people who understand dogs are gross to kiss (i do smooch my cat but no tongue!!)
as i’ve been following this story from across the pond I had NO idea regular degular pitts had been banned for 30 years????) this is wild to me, that would start another insurrection here probably
Years ago I was out with friends in a pub (converted Georgian mansion) that was ~90% standing room, maybe 100 people and one 4-tap bar. People were leaving glasses in plant-pots, the jacks, wherever. We were standing in the middle of the main, can't really call it 'lounge' per se, so we didn't even have a wall to lean them against and it was ten minutes' queueing *just to put the glasses on the bar*. All of which is to say, I put my empty glass on someone's table without asking because it's not actually their table? It's the pub's? They didn't bring it in with them? Who cares? But man, did the guy (one guy, two girls) care. He cared a lot. Tapped me on the shoulder after I went back to my people - I turned around, immediately comprehended his purpose and mouthed "I don't care" to him - he left it at my feet. A staff member grabbed it shortly afterwards. All that intro and expo to make this claim: I was right; the guy was a dumbass and it's actually fine to do that, ty for reading my blog.
as Nate’s country person and former barkeep this is bananas to me but I did enjoy your blog 🕊️ 🍻
I feel like the girl in the dog kissing story was perhaps doing it to get the guy to leave her the fuck alone lol
also wondered this
Like a bully XL having spotted a child, I am looking forward to sinking my teeth into this
I laughed out loud in line at a public place reading this comment and now I feel a new level of awkward. 😆
Yall are just jealous you don't have a dog to kiss
i am once again asking people to be normal for five minutes and stop making dogs pay the price for your weirdness
This so much this.
