Duck Stamps: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Duck Stamps: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver dives into the tense and competitive world of duck stamps.
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What an amazing midweek surprise! The Duck Hunt is fucking incredible
https://youtu.be/mLXiSYbRsXk
It really is.
The Fuck Hunt is ducking incredible too…
I’ve been wiping tears of laughter and rewinding to repeat.
@I’m A Office Boy q
The duck hunting the hunter who’s hunting the duck painting is fantastic.
It could be the cover of a video game where one duck undergoes a mutation from drinking chemically polluted water, thus becoming conscious and setting out to take revenge on every human hunter he comes across.
The hunter was hunting the duck painting?
Edit: 69 replies nice
Honestly
That’s by Josie Morway, who does fantastic oil paintings of birds. It’s worth checking out her other “serious” stuff as well.
I come from a family of hunters, and they loved it too! LOL They also completely support the EPA. After all, you can’t hunt if there’s nothing left to hunt or if it’s endangered.
I do love ducks, I didn’t realize how much I loved duck art though. The duck hunting the hunter- that was ducking awesome.
https://youtu.be/RaHw6ElcHD0
Four hours later and the “Duck Hunt” painting is already up to $20,000
Angry Video Game Nerd is prob in that bidding pool.
You also need to insure high value art, so add a few hundred per year to the final cost.
LMFAO i knew it was gonna be 🔥once the segment ended with all my fellow NES superfans!!! 😎😎😎🦾
@jpdemer5 People value nostalgia… and those who played NES as kids are now middle aged and many of them have dough
Upsetting. I had a hard stop at $57.39. 😭
that duck hunting a hunter is a legit masterpiece
Indeed, valued currently at highest $20,000. My favorite.
@koila maoh I fancy the panel and hat duck myself, but they’re all amazing in a way.
duck hunting a hunter is at 15k right now
@Illlium it’s oil
The duck with 2nd amendment rights is fantastic.
FYI there’s more than a day left and the bidding has already raised more than $70k for wetland conservation
@why do people use sentences instead of nicknames? that is absolutely true, but you can’t deny the incremental change this brings. Aside from the actual money, the attention the stamps get through LWT is fairly substantial. Even if its unlikely, the discourse on conservation this brings is still beneficial.
@Shuizid Every little bit helps and something is more than nothing 🙂
@Kosmanen “duck stamps” are mandatory taxes, essentially, so that’s why they work. You HAVE to buy duck stamps if you want to hunt or go to national reserves, it’s not optional. But obviously, this is (almost) the worst kind of tax because for a billionaire a duck stamp is insignificant but for poor person it’s expensive. Duck stamp cost should instead be proportional to the wealth and income of the individual, just like all other taxes
@why do people use sentences instead of nicknames?
That’s actually an entirely different “stamp” that’s required for hunters. The reason for it are not even touched on in this segment:
Here in TN, first you have to buy a basic “Fishing and Small Game” Hunting License. This covers most fish and hunting things like squirrels, rabbits, etc.
If you want to fish for trout, that requires an additional “Trout Stamp,” the last one I bought (around 2000) was $12. Deer hunters are required to buy an additional “Deer Stamp” which must be physically attached to the deer before dragging it out of the woods (usually tied/taped to an antler before loading it in a vehicle). All of the various licenses and stamps look similar with different number codes, they are NOT adhesive stamps sold by the USPS. While buying USPS Duck Stamps does contribute to Conservation, the Fishing/Hunting licenses and various species stamps contribute much, much more to wildlife and habitat conservation.
Ya… People are feed up with hunters, gunners and other dinosaurs… Kkkkkkkk
One of the first Last Week tonight shows that didn’t make me sad by exposing how shitty the world is.
Well done
Yeah but just realize they put in this palate cleanser before something hellacious for the next episode
Still shiitty because none of his entries got a single vote.
the ducks judging the duck stamp contest is honestly classy as fuck
If the association didn’t ask for that one as a donation to spruce up the place, theres no hope for them.
The Redhead Hunting the Hunter has a look in its eyes that says: “I’m going to kill this man. I’m going to enjoy it. And whether or not you’ll ever admit it yourself, you will, too.”
Hmmm. I think that look suggests, “I’m going to kill this man. I’m going to enjoy it. But only after he kills Mallard, my ex BF, whom I caught corkscrewing that tramp the redhead.”
The duck looks just like the horse in “you’re the first girl i brought here” meme
“I think I’ll check out the bidding”
*Sees the prices*
“Well I sure did check it out”
Just print the image out as a poster. 🤫
@Loren Z the proceeds of the auction are going to the conservation, as one lump sum.
Here’s hoping they decide to offer prints for a more affordable price. Imagine how much more they could raise.
$15,000, but look, free shipping!
@Konraden They really should do that. When you consider how many bids must have taken place to raise the prices so much I’m sure they could sell tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of copies of these paintings as unofficial duck stamps or heck even just postage stamps, which could raise even more money than just 5 rich people spending tens of thousands each.