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themachinestops ( themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com )  to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 months ago
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  • Pat_Riot ( Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ) 
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    Great tits make me brainless too

    • Janx ( Janx@piefed.social ) 
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      Pack it up, folks. We already have the best comment…

    • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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      Found the dad in the comments 👨

      • Pat_Riot ( Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ) 
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        Guilty

        • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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          I dunno man, I think your joke was quite innocent, actually.

          • huppakee ( huppakee@piefed.social ) 
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            I am yet to see an offensive dad joke though

            • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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              My boyfriend went through a period in our 20s where he became a dad-joke-demon. He was a massive hit with my friends, while I considered it a domestic violence situation.

              Every other day he would walk into the room with a smile on his face and I just knew. I just knew that now came the newest onslaught. One dad joke after the other until I was begging for mercy on the floor and then he had the nerve to ask me which ones to go use on the kids at work the next day. He was a hit with them too. Had dad-joke Fridays with them for years. Pure, unfiltered evil.

              I still have life long trauma from the first time him, my brother in law and my dad were in a room together and one of them, probably my boyfriend, started making dad jokes and then they took turns delivering their best ones and laughing because they were sooooooo funny. When people speak about the “evil of man” this is it.

              😜

    • GreatTitEnthusiast ( GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ) 
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      You and me both

  • pedz ( pedz@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn’t but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.

    • qyron ( qyron@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      A family member had a mule that had to be kept away from the chickens, as the animal would gobble up any chick within reach.

      It wasn’t casual, it wasn’t out of hunger.

      The vet was horrified when he saw it happen, even after being warned.

      • huppakee ( huppakee@piefed.social ) 
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        🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶

      • stephen01king ( stephen01king@piefed.zip ) 
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        It’s an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn’t you gobble up some chicks?

        • qyron ( qyron@sopuli.xyz ) 
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          Exactly.

          I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.

          • huppakee ( huppakee@piefed.social ) 
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            Oportunistic carnivores? Too lazy to hunt prey you mean.

    • Viking_Hippie ( Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻

  • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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    Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book where a fox steals sugar beets from a farmer because it got addicted to sugar. It’s nature. Rules are made to be broken in nature. That all I know.

    • Hossenfeffer ( Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ) 
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      Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book

      I liked it more when I thought the sentence stopped here.

      • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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        Lol. Why is the deer eating a sparrow less disturbing than a fox getting addicted to sugar beets? XD

        • four ( four@lemmy.zip ) 
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          I think that the commenter, like me, understood it as that the deer was reading a non-fiction book while eating a sparrow. Which is an interesting image

          • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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            Oh! Sorry. I don’t know how to place English commas, lol.

            • MonkeMischief ( MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) 
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              You nailed it here! :)

              Commas basically go where you want to separate two thoughts in a sentence or “take a breath” without the full stop of a period. They also often separate objects in lists

              (Example)

              (“Yesterday I saw a deer, a sparrow, and a nonfiction book.”) :::, or signify that you’re talking to somebody.

              A classic joke:

              “Let’s eat grandma!” vs. “Let’s eat, grandma!”

              “Commas save lives!”

              😂 Hope that helps a bit! You’re doing great though, don’t worry. :)

              • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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                At the very least, the only thing that got eaten was a bird. Sadly, deer are still illiterate 😢

                Thanks for the comma-assistance, btw. 🤗

                • MonkeMischief ( MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) 
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                  LOL! 😂

                  Sure thing! 🤗

            • gandalf_der_12te ( gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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              language is mostly what we make of it anyways :-)

              • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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                Yeah, I see how I screwed up in my wording. :')

        • Hossenfeffer ( Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ) 
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          I just had a vision of a deer sitting at a table in a French bistro, about to take a bite out of a sparrow impaled on a fork in one hoof and a Haynes manual for a Triumph Stag in the other. Made me laugh.

          • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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            Stop bullying me for my shitty English skills 😆

            • Hossenfeffer ( Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ) 
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              Your shitty English is infinitely better than my (I’m guessing) shitty Danish.

              • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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                You are guessing correctly. And tbf, Danish is barely a language. Anyone who attempts to learn Danish is a war hero.

                We do make funny comedies, even though foreigners seem to be disturbed by our sense of humor.

                Our humor is much like our language: ugly, brutal and thriving in the destruction of rules that are supposed to be upheld in polite society.

    • sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper ( sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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      The deer thing super reminds me of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy.

      • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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        Haven’t heard of that book, but I’ll check it out.

        In the meantime, the video in question for those of you who are curious.

        • sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper ( sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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          It’s so fun! Short synopsis: anarcho squatter punks deal with ancient deer god.

          • Nangijala ( Nangijala@feddit.dk ) 
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            That does indeed sound like a ton of fun. It goes on my tbr list. Thank you for the recommendation!

        • lessthanluigi ( lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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          It was just like gulp! like it was a Tom & Jerry episode!

  • lolola ( lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Just let me slap you in the face with my boobs bro, it’s just really cold bro, it’s just until your skull cracks open and i can eat your brains bro, please bro, they’re great tits bro, it’s science bro

  • hemko ( hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    As it turns out, many “herbivores” just need to eat and will fill in with your flesh given the chance and they’re hungry enough

    • Rothe ( Rothe@piefed.social ) 
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      Great Tits aren’t herbivores, they mainly eat lots of insects. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.

  • Alexander ( alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    …and by “harsh” they mean “typical”

    Here, in the North, as snow covers the ground we make sacrificial fat ball offerings to the beast, you know, just in case. Brain is mostly fat tissue.

  • GreatTitEnthusiast ( GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ) 
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    They deserve it, honestly

    • lessthanluigi ( lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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      The first thing to successfully starting a war is to dehumanize the target

  • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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    Source?

    • BillyClark ( BillyClark@piefed.social ) 
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      What you want to do is go to a search engine, and do an image search for mind blowing great tits. You’ll probably have to turn the content filter off because the image may be gory. Then, just go to the page associated with the most relevant image.

      • Tja ( Tja@programming.dev ) 
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        Don’t forget to share with the class!

        • OpenStars ( OpenStars@piefed.social ) 
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          It’s a video. I’ll see if I can get it to auto play here:

          img

  • /home/pineapplelover ( pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Great Tits man

  • zr0 ( zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) Banned
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    The definition of “small mammals” is too vague, because compared to a blue whale, I am fairly small. That’s why I feed those critters.

  • rants_unnecessarily ( rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ) 
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    Raptors being raptors

  • inari ( inari@piefed.zip ) 
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    I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that.

    Maybe their lifespan is so short it won’t matter.

  • sp3ctr4l ( sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    … would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.

  • Ceruleum ( Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ) 
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    Just like me!

  • Cekan14 ( Cekan14@lemmy.org ) 
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    Fool of me, I searched “Great Tits” to learn more about this bird and, well… Don’t do it.

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