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What if I told you that there is a way to keep scrolling without having some loud-mouth influencer telling you to stop it because it rots your brain? You just gotta substitute whatever that you're scrolling with the big brain version of it.
Enter clever science memes as per The Lighter Side Of Science, a Facebook group that’s all about science memes to give you an educated giggle and hopefully not rot your brain.
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Skadi Lifdis 1 year ago
It wasn't crows, but a few years ago, I noticed three pigeons walking around in this one parking spot outside my work and finally went to see what was going on. A car had, somehow, run over and killed another pigeon in the spot. They were walking around its body...maybe trying to figure out why it wasn't moving. Two of the pigeons left eventually but one of them stayed and became my work buddy. He hung out with me when I sat outside (even tried eating my toes once) and kept trying to come in the store when I'd prop the door open on nice days. I had to remind him he couldn't come in because he had no money. I definitely missed him when I left.
Cool crow 1 year ago
You're nice Skadi. Since the pandemic, I've been watching birds more closely and they are so darn interesting!
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TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
"I have cawed all of us here today to investigate the passing of Louis. As you all know, Louis crowked mysteriously. We will find out the caws and eliminate the threat."
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Yet another case: when animals' behavior resembles humans, it does not mean their they're doing what humans do.
Terra Cotta 1 year ago
They literally just said that it was just a *different* thing that humans also do.
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🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 1 year ago
He did. This was posted in a wholesome thread couple of days ago and I remember there was more info about this. Yay for gramps!
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Lou Cam 1 year ago
This is amazing! I hope he doesn't mind people touching it because I just want to feel the rocks. The Dynamic Earth museum in my home town of Edinburgh has a similar map of the world and I've always wanted to touch that but can't.
Helen Hadley 1 year ago
The Dynamic Earth guys used a load of my underwater photography for display boards.
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S Bow 1 year ago
I just said the exact same thing to my spouse, I'd even offer a drink and a nosh lol
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
"No thank you, I'm a Christian fundamentalist, I don't believe in science"
Jessica N 1 year ago
When I was 18 and first moved to a bigger city and saw a "Christian Scientist" church I thought, how refreshing, and I considered actually going there. Being the non religious person I am. I did not but laughed my a*s off a few years later upon learning that it's the antithesis of science
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I would give them the home addresses of the people knock on people's doors about religion. I suspect that's where the need is greatest.
Mega-Ladonna 1 year ago
I'd still like to talk about God. You know, I believe religion is man-made and that there's no religion in heaven. It's not about who's right or wrong. We each have our own connection to God and it's up to us to nurture it and we will find great peace.
So, there’s a Facebook group called The Lighter Side Of Science that prides itself in, predominantly, sharing memes that are lightly scientific and cool, all the while delivering a certain level of humor and relatability.
The group is actually a part of IFL Science and has roughly 741,000 members as of this listicle.
#4
Robin Canfield 1 year ago
Their tongue is long and wraps around it's brain to protect it during high speed pecking..
Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
I love that someone with a bird name fluttered in to say this.
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geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Make no mistake: hummingbirds are really aggressive little birds when it comes to defending their territories. Plus, they eat a lot of mosquitoes. Go, hummers!
S Bow 1 year ago
I've often been grateful they're not the size of eagles lol
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
I showed this to my dad (he studies birds) and he got so excited lmao he read it out to my mom in funny voices. Highlight of my day.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
We have a massive woodpecker that tries to eat from our birdfeeder that's meant for tiny little birds. He hangs off of it upside down and does sit ups to get to the food. The first time I saw him I was like WTF is happening?? Creative solution I guess? :)
gretchenstine61 1 year ago
Wait till the squirrels start filling up their bellies upside down
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zak 1 year ago
Honestly, I find the sound of hummingbirds flying to be a bit disconcerting. They are most certainly not quiet, and the sound of their wings rapidly fluttering/vibrating kinda creeps me out 😅
OpheliaPoe 1 year ago
We have a hummingbird feeder and those little punks are fierce, literally get in your face, and sound like tiny motorcycles. I swear, sometimes they fly right up to us at eye level, stop abput a foot away and seem to be sizing us up to see if they think they can fight us 😆 They'll chase the other off too, they seem to always be looking for a fight, lol!
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MAKtheknife 1 year ago
Humming birds aren't silent either. They chirp and hum, and buzz - loud!
Leesa DeAndrea 1 year ago
Hummingbirds are called Hummingbirds for a reason. Their flight is not silent, their wings make noise as they fly.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Web dev guy? Probably not. MS Exchange administrator or Active Directory admin, then maybe.
Robert T 1 year ago
You assume a Micro$oft centric organizartion. The entire world does not run on Windows. And in small companies, the web dev guy is quite likely to also have a sysadmin hat. I currently do web work, but I have an awful lot of other hats, and walking into someonelse's mailbox is hardly a challenge.
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randomhungryhamsterperson 1 year ago
and then they hiked of into the sunset to pay bills and deal with baby sick
Mustafa Kiziroğlu 1 year ago (edited)
Webdev can't do that but he may have got backing by sysadmin.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Sadly, OP would have smelt of horse, not corpses.
Skara Brae 1 year ago
This is a great idea for harmless library pranks. What other books would be fun to return while dressed in an on-topic costume?
Brocken Blue 1 year ago (edited)
Hmm… a chefs outfit and a book on cannibals? Or maybe clothing/armor from a historical war and a book on on time travel…
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The Shark 1 year ago
Going to public places after working at a horse farm is the best activity for introverts! People part like Red Sea to get out of your casual way.😂
CheshirePhrogg 1 year ago
It is esp fun when you forget to take off your spurs.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
I've told this story here before, but here goes: I had misplaced some moving supplies, and my parents were coming to help, so I was in a hurry to have everything packed and ready to go when they arrived. There was a Loews nearby, so I *ran* to the store. Dirty, dressed in old clothes suitable for hard work, and panting and early on a Saturday morning, I found a young woman employee and told her "I'm ... in hurry ... I need ... some rope ... some masking tape ... and a long knife" She gave an awkward smile. Assessing my appearance, and somewhat catching my breath, I added, "Oh, like you knew her."
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
"X (almost) never marks the spot, by Professor I. Jones Jr."
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gretchenstine61 1 year ago
I showed up for a court parking ticket dressed in my Christmas Grinch jumpsuit, and the judges were rolling with a giggle
Verena 1 year ago
This is hilarious, however, the part of being covered in dirt (and hair!!!!) is familiar to horse persons. So many things to do and so less time, so the focus lies on getting things done and not outer appearance. That said, I do change when going anywhere where food is sold, e.g. bakery, supermarkets.
For the record, it’s not all memes. There is community engagement going on in several ways, including IFL Science promoting its own articles and folks in the community themselves asking scientific questions and everyone else jumping on board and brainiacking this thing out.
Engaging to say the least.
#7
Jessica N 1 year ago
My cat does weigh 300 kilos but only in one paw at a time while stepping on me at night
JB 1 year ago
Depends on the cat. The intelligent ones can easily out think the average human.
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Helen Rohrlach 1 year ago
Years ago there was a tv show that showed a pup tagging and to work in the program you had to be able to run the 100m in about 10sec because thats how fast they can run on LAND.
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Kate 1 year ago
I also have never heard it, but I assume that's because I was a latchkey kid. My "clean up song" was the sound of the garage door opening when Mom came home. That sounds still makes me nervous, so yeah, it does work.
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Sara Frazer 1 year ago
As a preschool teacher, YES, it's surprising how effective this is... 😹 But at a tribal preschool in America we sing it in both English and Twulshootseed, the effect is the same ^-^
cerinamroth 1 year ago
How amazing - I just looked up the Lushootseed language! I love learning new things.
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8Yorkies-and-33cats 1 year ago
Thanks (sincerely) for this Bored Panda! I googled "the clean up song" and now I'm happily listening to "Mozart for babies".
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I've never heard it either. I need to see if it'll work on me some day.
Laura Mortensen 1 year ago
I work at Goodwill and have often been tempted to try singing it in the toy aisle when there are a bunch of kids making messes.
George D 1 year ago
Man, if only I can train my wife in this manner. Love her dearly but what a complete slob.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
❓What? I’m married? Where are you? And who are you? Are we happy?
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
No no, you were abundantly warned about existential dread! You just bloody didn't listen!
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gretchenstine61 1 year ago
I can get the traffic lights in the picture somehow I miss red lights in gridlock
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Speaking of arguing with robots. Why is BP censoring d-r-u-g-s?
Carrie Laughs 1 year ago
Brain not awake yet - I was pondrering the problem of 'people offering me d-i-ck-s'
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I know a lot of people are freaking out about AI, but I've seen every episode of the original Star Trek multiple times, so I'm convinced I can argue a robot into committing suicide.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I got stuck in quicksand when I was 14 years old. Thanks so much for triggering that memory.
gretchenstine61 1 year ago
I remember getting stuck in the mud at the construction sites
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Rienk Kroese 1 year ago
Funny, the two that almost cost me my life: quicksand and existential dread. 🤷🏼♂️
Now, we won’t dive into what memes are and why they are such a big deal. The tl;dr of it is it’s become a means of communication and connectivity among folks all the while they’re popular because they’re relatable.
What we haven’t yet discussed is the scientific side of it all: how can they be educational and why would that matter?
#10
Cecilia Herrera 1 year ago
Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. (AI implants, etc.)
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I wouldn't want the first few generations of AI implants. But I think they'd be great once you got past the "oops sorry our chip fried your brain, the new patch should fix that bug" issues.
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Queeqec 1 year ago
I wish I could delete some of the stored data. That would be sensational (and probably misused within splitseconds)
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Unfortunately, some people don't see pictures in their mind, so they need a text interface.
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JayWantsACat 1 year ago
THIS. People that can name their Top 10 All Time Fave songs, films, etc.. are crazy to me. I can't even remember what I went into the kitchen for. I literally have a list of my fave band, films, etc. because, despite being my all time faves, i can never remember what they are!!
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Squirrelly Panda 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be *bats 11 mangoes under the sofa, 6 under the dining table, 7 under the hutch* how many mangoes are still missing and where?
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Rienk Kroese 1 year ago
Mango icecream for the whole neighbourhood. Problem deliciously solved. 👍🏼
WindySwede 1 year ago
And here Ii first thought 'mongoose' should not be kept as a pet. I blame the daylight-savings that just started today!
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Doofnuts 1 year ago
My oldest daughter was like this. She is now an extemely succesful woman. At 4 she called me a sonoffabeach, asked her if she knew what that meant. She said no, I just said it one of those things you don't day to people you love, she said O.K.. She never said it again. Of course she called me everything else you could possibly think of.
LavenderHippoInAJar 1 year ago
I wore a Victorian style ball gown to my school's decades day for about the same reason
Tracy Wallick 1 year ago
Reminds me of a pic of a kid who, for 70s day, was dressed for the 1770s
Well, turns out, you can use memes that relate to the content at hand to teach folks something new.
Three main tactics are suggested for this, the first of which being dual coding. This one works when there is a visual and verbal component that ties in well with what you’re teaching and it ultimately strengthens student comprehension.
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Bored something 1 year ago
Definitely friends, if kitty was chasing they wouldn't be running alongside.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
The look on that cat's face is distinctly unfriendly.
Load More Replies... Lou Cam 1 year ago (edited)
My old ginger puss (RIP) had a fox as his best friend. The fox was 3 times his size but fox used to wait for him at the back door then they'd trot off into the woods together. Often found laying like book ends on the shed and sharing the scrap food we put out for the foxes and hedgehogs from the same plate (non fish cat food).
laura lee 1 year ago
So it should've been The Fox and the Feline not The Fox and the Hound
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Sue User 1 year ago
I have a Norwegian Forest cat. There claws are huge ( they can climb rocks). They are also very muscular and strong. My friend tried to pick mine up by the scruff of the neck and she twisted and got away. My friend was left with just a handful of hair.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
For real. They are only along side because that cat is going for the neck first. That's a murder face!
Load More Replies... The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
If it's an important adventure, there really needs to be a third companion, like a sarcastic pig or a plucky squirrel.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
This makes me happy! Next thing will be a potato farm.
eykntspel 1 year ago
this looks to have been done using an FDM 3d printer, a printer that uses thin (usually some kind of plastic) threadlike material fed into a heating element to partially melt and extract it onto a build plate in specific patterns and layers to create an object. This is likely the only type of 3D printing that could work in space as the filament is only partially melted an is never liquified and it hardens and sticks to the build plate rather quickly so there's little worry of it floating away. Now resin printing on the other hand would be pretty much impossible and extremely dangerous in space as it uses toxic liquid resin to create prints and no one wants that stuff floating everywhere.
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Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago
Software beamed up to a replicator. Pattern loaded, machine energized and object assembled.
Anononymeousesis (He/Him) 1 year ago
3D printers are revolutionary and not enough people know it.
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BoredPossum 1 year ago
Why would people downvote you for explaining stuff and give us extra information? Have my upvote.
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Skara Brae 1 year ago
Hoping for a transformed Congress this summer. Many of them are already partway through the process. (Hmm. Now I'm wondering if some butterflies were jerks their whole lives.)
C. T. 1 year ago
I'm afraid politicians rarely transform past the "disgusting pile of goo" stage. Don't hold your breath.
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Frank Miller 1 year ago
And on top of that, when they come out of the goo, some studies have suggested that they have memories from when they were caterpillars.
Knitting Panda 1 year ago
My kids found a swallowtail caterpillar when they were little, put it in a jar with a stick and a lot of parsley and.it formed a chysalis. Then I spent weeks preventing them from slicing it open so they could see butterfly goo... the little monsters.
Caroline Driver 1 year ago
I'm not even slightly Christian, but even I have to wonder, at what point did caterpillars evolve to dissolve their entire body and reassemble as a whole new creature, built for an entirely different environment? I get the evolution of the eye, but was there ever a halfway dissolved caterpillar?
The other two are using concrete examples, i.e. memes are concrete examples of abstract and complicated ideas or concepts, and elaboration, which is using memes to connect students’ personal knowledge with real world observations.
The former is used to support the students’ understanding of the material, while the latter helps them dive deeper into analysis and elaboration.
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TheRealFrappuchinoTheHedgehogr 1 year ago
Eye commented on this comment about eyes
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Natasha Arruda 1 year ago
Omg I have absolutely no idea how it did it, just I was standing here, reading and as I scrolled to this, I suddenly felt a damn eyelash in my eye and I am freaking out trying to get it out. Freaking voodoo. 😑
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𝙻𝚞𝚗𝚊⋆𝚝𝚑𝚎⋆𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢 1 year ago
RH: I can hold 3 bags, my phone, wallet and unlock the door! LH: Idk, I can hold the bread?
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Rosemary 1 year ago
Try knitting or crocheting. I've been crocheting for so many years (decades) that sometimes I just watch my hands doing complex interconnected motions with absolutely no conscious input. They're like little machines.
Mary Peace 1 year ago
I'm left-handed and I've been knitting for 3 years (started late in life). Supposedly I knit 'right-handed' although I can't see it makes much difference.
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The left holds a lot of shopping bags though. He pulls his weight in other ways.
Cindy Hamilton 1 year ago
As a southpaw, my right hand has learned a ton of stuff to cope in a right-handed world.
Origami Chik3n 1 year ago
I don't know what you mean. I am left handed, but in school i was forcibly "re-educated" to write with my right hand. Hearing silent "whooooooa" when drawing graph with left hand while simultaneously writing the equation with right hand is still one of the fondest memories from uni.
Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago (edited)
I'm ambisinstral and it does not apply to me. But, when I am cutting food at a meal I hold the knife in my right hand and for food prep/cooking I hold whatever blade I am using in my left.
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Cecilia Herrera 1 year ago
Serves them right. They probably still have crickets in their home.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago (edited)
Oh, they do. I kept lizards for a couple years as a kid (RIP clover and violet), we fed them with crickets, and we would occasionally hear chirping from dark corners for FOUR YEARS after the lizards died. No matter what we did, those little bastards refused to die. Eventually my cat hunted them all down, but every time I hear the sound of crickets I harken back to those dark days of war.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
OMG, forgot glitterbombing porch pirates this sounds perfect. Or maybe we could get parcels packed with 1000 live cockroaches...
Jessica N 1 year ago
Someone porch pirated my statue of a banana-duck on valentine's day. They were probably expecting jewelry or something pricy. I would have paid to see them open it like what the hell is this?! I only hope they knew it was awesome and didn't throw it out. I've ordered 8 more as gifts since, apparently everyone wants a duck with banana peel body
The Shark 1 year ago
Makes me want to be totally fcked up and put roadkill in a plastic bag to contain the smell and stick it in an Amazon box... Then wait for the fish to bite. 😈 (Something is very wrong with me 😂)
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
You are not the only one to think like this, but I am afraid I would be too nice to actually do it.
Load More Replies... Skadi Lifdis 1 year ago
Problem with porch pirates? Box up a whole lot of dog...or cat poo in an Amazon box. According to a former coworker, problem solved.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I have thought of something like that before. Or get a semi big box and put rocks in there thinking the theif is really getting something expensive and the look on their faces when they open the box.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
And all you have to do is miss one....one f***ing cricket
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
Imagine the police catch them and they try to deny it was them as crickets jump everywhere!
This in turn means that students can also engage with the material by explaining the memes that tie in with the topic and by creating them.
For the first one, students can be provided with appropriate memes or asked to source existing memes to explain how it connects to what they have learned in their own words.
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Verena 1 year ago (edited)
Well done. For those not familiar with champagne: The French are very protective of that word. Only sparkling wine from that exact region is allowed to carry the word "champagne" on the bottle. For every other wine with bubbles "sparkling wine" has to be used. Or Crémant. Edit: The Crémant part is incorrect, explanation see below. Reason for mistake: I was lazy.
Ace 1 year ago
Crémant itself is a name allowed only for those wines produced using the same process; they were previously known as "Méthode Champenoise". Crémant d'Alsace is one of the most respected non-Champagne sparkling wines, with a geography and grape varieties making it the equal of Champagne in many people's opinion. At around a quarter of the price.
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Russell Tilling 1 year ago
I read, back in history, "bad" wine which has gone all bubbly, was exported to the British, as the French dismissed it but the British liked it. It then caught-on and became fashionable everywhere.
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Edward Finger Hands 1 year ago (edited)
It’s an old joke: Who Is the Greatest Chicken-killer in Shakespeare? Macbeth because he committed a murder most fowl/foul! Love a homophone :)
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Richard Graham 1 year ago
I one time forgot to set the parking brake on my Lincoln - Continental drift.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
I am sure the hotel security was left quaking with fear...
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ƒιѕн 1 year ago
The idiom, comparing apples and oranges, refers to the differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also indicate that a false analogy has been made between two items, such as where an apple is faulted for not being a good orange.
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With the second, more hands-on one, students can be asked to create their own memes by finding pictures and coming up with captions that capture the idea of what they are studying.
The approaches to these can vary and it’s up to the teacher to find appropriate ways to deliver the material effectively.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Black hole's name is Maude and she sees the sandwich in your hand
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Mine’s name is Gryphon and I swear to god every time anything hits the floor he goes into warp drive.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Must beat you to the item so we can inhale it before you can grab it.
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Sue Bradley 1 year ago
I've got these in different colours - have I discovered a new scientific theory?
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Out of chocolate 1 year ago
The $35 you pay goes to the publisher, in addition to the THOUSANDS that the researcher Paid to have it published in that journal.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
I've done this before and it's very easy. You may have to wait a few days, but most researchers are very excited to have someone interested in their work.
Kate Mozier-Tichy 1 year ago
Discovered this hack years ago after meeting researchers in my state. Now I do it all the time, both for my own work and as a public librarian for my patrons.
Josh Gilland 1 year ago
Problem is most of their articles only get noticed because they're in these journals. Finding those articles would be like finding a needle in a haystack
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Yes, very true but it would take ages to write every author of every paper you read.
Leonie Löwenherz 1 year ago
Not really true since a) many papers are available open access, b) many authors put papers up on their researchGate for direct download, c) most of everything else can be found on scihub, so you'll end up writing maybe ten authors per year.
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It doesn't always work. I tried it with a mathematical article a few years ago (and the article was published a few years before that). Emailing the author, I was saddened to hear that she had since passed away.
DragonofMordor 1 year ago
This is actually really good to know. Immigration lawyer here. I was doing some research on a subject for a case, and I had such difficulty finding scholarly articles that I could access.
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EmBree 1 year ago
My nephew was born a couple of months after my father died. The curious thing is that my nephew has mannerisms that my father had. It's uncanny, especially now that he's older and look more and more as my father.
Fenchurch 1 year ago
There have been cases where twins separated at birth will have the same taste in clothes and the same mannerisms, which surely gives rise to the idea that some of these things are hard wired in our genes.
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Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
This is worrying. My mannerisms tend to the introvert(ish) side. How did my ancestors get together?... Am I about to wink out of existence now that I've been made awar.....................
Erik Granqvist 1 year ago
Breathing is probably the mannerism that has been passed on thru most generations. It has gone so far, so people who try to stop that mannerism allways die swiftly.
Lene 1 year ago
I know this is not so much mannerisms but I talked with my dad once about how both he and I had b1tchy resting faces. He then told me that my grandma's ancestors always looked angry and it was just a fact in the local area. So I guess brf are genetically very strong in my family. Lol. Actually, since he told me this, I've felt better rooted in my family/better connected to my ancestors. ❤
Now, there are risks involved. For starters, there has to be a bit of guidance with what prior knowledge is retrieved in the kids’ minds that would be associated with the study material.
Another huge no-no is using memes that are not as accessible as others, i.e. blind kids can’t see visual memes and kids with zero pop culture awareness might not get some of the more popular ones.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
They act like snowshoes so it can chase bunnies across the top of the snow.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Actually the business major does reap rewards from the creativity. Who do you think the record companies and agents are?
Isaac Harvey 1 year ago
He knows(knew?) too much. Business majors around the world collaborated and… got him.
But if you avoid inappropriate angles on memes, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Whatever the case, memes tend to stick with people because of their relatability and thus serves as a great way to approach learning new things. If anything, the kids should have a blast.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
I worked with a paramedic in the 90s who always replied "dressed and vertical". There are many days in my life now where I use it because sometimes that's a major accomplishment.
Marat Singh Farout 1 year ago
In rehab they say make your bed every day, it takes a while for some to realize that to do that you have to get out of it first and not plan on getting back in instaneously
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Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
A coworker once had a customer respond, 'Upright and taking in nutrition.'
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
Steve Aylett wrote a story, sadly I forget the title, the opening line of which is: "Good day so far: the sun's out and I haven't bled much". Seems like a good rule of thumb.
Jo Ann Jeffcoat 1 year ago
I knew a security guard that when asked how he was doing always replied with "Well, I woke up on this side of the dirt, so, pretty good!"
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Half my teaching periods are composed of asking the kids, "Where's the mouse? Can you see the mouse?" while flailing about on the eduboard screen.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
What? The mouse is in your hand. It moves the cursor, which can be difficult to spot. Don’t ask the kids where the mouse is; they’ll be making fun of you asking that while it’s in your paw.
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
And an oversimplification. Ethologist here, and subsistence deer hunter for 20 years. The myth about deer vision is that it's "motion based". Ah, the half truth. Yes, if you move a millimeter, that deer 200 feet away will see you instantly. But!! If you DON'T move at all- the deer will still see you - and can decide it doesn't like what it sees- and still vanish. Both are "seeing". I'd bet my shirt TRex was the same; many reasons.
Rienk Kroese 1 year ago
The cursor is not only in a different movie, but a different genre, style, year, director AND adaptation.
Leonie Löwenherz 1 year ago
This is why I use ctrl to locate the cursor on my work setup and have a huge pink cursor for teaching and videos
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The Shark 1 year ago
Annnnd now that song is gonna be stuck in my head all day. Thanks for that. Lol
Cosmikid 1 year ago
sorry, but I find it very sad that nobody knows anything about Galileo. Just nihilistic song lyrics from 20 years ago
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
In the next few years, these nihilistic song lyrics will be used in commercials for old people stuff. Me! I'm becoming an old people! I CROCHET to MEATLOAF! Honestly, I think he'd be okay with that, but I'm old!
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Lmao I would just ignore everything else in favor of petting the cat and telling him he’s the goodest boy with the lil beans
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Knitting Panda 1 year ago
I can do this with a corgi, but if I am driving a car and the corgi is panicking.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
And the guy in the other thread got a new filter for it.
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smugdruggler 1 year ago
Sound does travel slower than light. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Yep, we can go 9 times the speed of sound but nothing can go the speed of light except light itself
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Eat Dirt Crow 1 year ago
I wonder if we do actually hear it but just like we don't notice our nose that is always in view, the sound is just always there. Maybe that's why babies cry uncontrollably, they're still getting used to the sound of the sun
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
No, we don't hear it and subconsciously block it out. There's 93 million miles of vacuum between here and the sun.
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Cat Dragon 1 year ago (edited)
So either we have a false vacuum and die that way or all go deaf from a screaming sun
Brian Droste 1 year ago
If the earth was a dead cold planet, there would be no people alive on earth. So it wouldn't matter.
Pudgy Panda 1 year ago
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far through the comments to get to this!
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Rienk Kroese 1 year ago
As an electrician, I have to ask: Can I be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle instead?
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
Electricians should be called cry babies because that’s what they are.
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Angelshark 1 year ago
I, a professionally trained military photographer, forgot the word 'shutter' and called it the camera's 'blinky eye.' Thankfully, it was in front of my father and he only laughs at me for it all the time.
Delta Dawn 1 year ago
I once said, out loud to myself, while in the lab, the following: “Well, science isn’t an exact science”.
Marat Singh Farout 1 year ago
Had chemo brain and came up with cylinder made of transparent material that we drink out of, for glass
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Wait until you're 70+...you'll need plenty of alternative descriptors.
C.O. Shea 1 year ago
I once forgot my name & rank while reporting in to a board seated with seven colonels. Siiigghhh!!!
S R Godwin 1 year ago
Amongst us Crumblies this is known as a Senior Moment.....
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Dolly_of TheCowboy 1 year ago
"Flappy out for wetness" apparently = umbrella and "ear squeegee" = cotton bud. Me. Last month. During a zoom meeting. Still not living it down at work
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
I’m an orthopaedic surgeon and occasionally forget instrument names during surgery. For example, instead of asking for a verbrugge clamp, i might ask for the ‘bone-grabbing thing’. Thankfully, the scrub nurses I work with know what I need even before I ask.
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Heather Evans 1 year ago
My co-workers used to call me the excel wizard. I didn't know h9w to do anything on excel except for google how to do things in excel
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
Most of my interactions about excel at work are “I told you not to use Excel to make a table”.
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I find it fairly amazing how easily birds can disappear into foliage. Even fairly big birds and very brightly colored birds.Here in the Hudson Valley the trees are budding, and in a few short weeks it's going to get a lot harder to find even the noisiest birds.
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I think h looks happy. This guy, OTOH ... angry-bird...5741e7.jpg 
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
We would all boop the murder baby. No questions.
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Colin Matthews 1 year ago
That’s how they attract prey…you go in for a boop and POW you’re dinner
Rienk Kroese 1 year ago
Insects and small rodents. Leopard stores gazelle corpse in tree. 💯% Boop the leopard also though. 🐆
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Yeah, 'I got 5 crickets!" doesn't really equate to "um, 5 juvenile warthogs?"
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Brent Corbaley 1 year ago
This claim takes a little explanation to be accurate... it is not "more prey" by mass or any such metric, it is a higher number of kills... including insects... They eat everything from insects to small rodents and birds, so...
Isaac Harvey 1 year ago
I would boop the murder baby even- especially- if it were the last thing I would ever do.
#38
The Shark 1 year ago
Aww! I always call jumping spiders Jumpy Friends! They're literally like the cats of the spider world and the best part is, they don't leave messy cobwebs!
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Adrian 1 year ago
TIL... OK, so I like certain arachnids, not the ones who want suck my blood or my pet's blood or spread disease.
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Shelley DuVal 1 year ago
There's a rule in my house, you can kill the black bitie spiders but the Huntsmen have total priority living here than any other creature, including some humans.
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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
OP missed a golden opportunity. They could have measured a banana.
Daniele Erickson 1 year ago
https://youtube.com/@CuttingEdgeEngineering?si=d8Qzs5t6a5y8GEJy YouTube. A viewer 3d printed it for them!
#40
Surenu 1 year ago
I've seen the word "rude" get censored on numerous occasions.
Load More Replies... Robert T 1 year ago (edited)
Did you know that a p**n-broker is signified by the a set of 3 balls outside their door? And that a porn-broker is signified by a sets of 2. And that BP doesn't know the difference between the two!
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
STREAM???? With all the work on AI, does anyone find it kinda ridiculous that "STREAM" (or bone or even pubic) get filtered???
Lotekguy 1 year ago (edited)
As he said it, he pricked a finger when reaching for the k**b on the door to leave in disgust and go home to his pussycat and make sure that his beagle b***h was feeding her new puppies sufficiently from her breast milk. (The prudebot got two of them. Don't you feel safe and protected from emotional trauma by those fargin' asterisks?)
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Blocking profanity and slurs is fine, but it definitely goes overboard. I could give a lot of examples from BP alone, but my comment would be REALLY long.
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Rick Seiden 1 year ago
English is the language that tricks other languages to going into a back alley with it, beating them up, and taking whatever random words it can find in the other languages pockets.
Mike Beck 1 year ago
Two more versions I like: https://www.fromonebooklover.com/2012/08/the-best-description-of-english-ever.html
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Euel Ball 1 year ago
English is derived from the pidgin used by Norman men-at-arms to seduce Angle-Saxon barmaids, and is as legitimate as the rest of their offspring...
Rienk Kroese 1 year ago
Exactly the reason why english is widely used. That, and conquering sh!t.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Id love to hear a Norwegian opinion on this but I'm fairly sure it isn't skal but skål.
PFD 1 year ago
The Old French escale however is a prehistoric cognate of the Old Norse skal, apparently (you can see how a word for a pod or shell could become a word for a drinking vessel).
T. 1 year ago
The scale of the journey words sometimes make leaving a language until they return into it again, can be astounding!
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Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
It is a cool game though, and surprisingly frustrating as you have no clue who will win until one person does. It’s the Royal Game of Ur.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
It's a really fun game. When I was a kid, my grandma bought my sister and I a board game subscription from Nat Geo or something like that. A few times a year we would get games from all around the world. Ur was one of them as was Mankala, the African stone game.
Load More Replies... Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
...hmn. Got a travel version for m'lad 'cause his D&D character has it. We actually play it during scenes.
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David 1 year ago
I'd never heard of this - googled - so if you were wondering - "Cage, a self-proclaimed history buff, outbid Leonardo DiCaprio in 2007 for a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skull that cost him $276,000. The artifact turned out to be stolen though and in 2015, the Weather Man star had to return it to the Mongolian government."
DiscoMamaNea 1 year ago
W***y’s Wonderland He’s says not one word through the whole movie but damn he can clean
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
I ust hope he doesn’t leave Las Vegas. 😕 (And I’m an anti-Cage fan, even.)
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
Nic played himself in a movie. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
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Caroline Driver 1 year ago
Pingwings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioeH0H7Ipk4
Load More Replies... laura lee 1 year ago
Wow Antarctica is relatively small, I had alway been under the impression it was enormous
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
I know Climate Change is real because it's been ages since they've see a penguin in the Arctic.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
I don't. They'd make us wear tuxedos all the time to prove our obeisance.
Load More Replies... Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Good example of how the continents (on a ball) stretch when put on a map (flat), just look at how stretched Africa and South America are
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
I like to think its more "We are finally as far away from the bears as we possibly can."
Brigitte Pierre 1 year ago
Pour aller vers l'Arctique, on vise les Ourses (la Petite et la Grande), et pour aller vers l'Antarctique, il faut s'en éloigner. Il s'agit des constellations, pas des animaux.
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CanadianDimes 1 year ago
It actually refers to Ursus Major (the Big Dipper) rather than to real bears!
Ash 1 year ago
Yep! It's a fantastic coincidence that it also describes the wildlife! Very handy mnemonic. :)
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Actual meaning: "Bears" and "Opposite [from] Bears." The bear in question being Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, which points the way to the North Pole.
ThatG 1 year ago
Lodging petition to have it renamed to “Antspheniscidae” and “Spheniscidae”….“No Penguins” and “Penguins”
Wonky 1 year ago
"Antarctica” really just means "opposite of Arctic", not what that person said
Michael Largey 1 year ago
But "no bears" is also the opposite of "bears".
Load More Replies... Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
The cartographers of old probably weren't aware that Arctic and Antarctica even existed. When making maps they eventually reached the edge of their known world, so to be safe, in the unknown parts they placed the warning..........."Here Be Dragons".
#46
Bec 1 year ago
It wasn't unified as Germany until 1871, before that it was a lose confederation of states, this the multiple names
Michael Largey 1 year ago
And de-unified after World War Ii for several decades.
Load More Replies... Rick Seiden 1 year ago
I've wondered about this. Why do we call it Japan when they call it Nippon? Or Greece when the Greeks say Hellas?
Kari Panda 1 year ago
To add to this, why do we use articles for some and for others not? For example, in German, you‘d say, "I live in England" but "I live in the Ukraine."
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I can understand Germany and Saksa. But where does Niemcy and Nemetorszag come from (etymologically speaking)?
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
It's from a Slavic word for 'mute', by which they probably meant 'unintelligible'. The Hungarians borrowed it.
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David 1 year ago
This is something that came as a genuine surprise to me as a young adult traveling the world in the navy. "Wait, you mean they call their own country Italia and not Italy? Then why didn't you just teach me Italia in school?" They didn't do this for the historical people from other countries. Keep in mind, I went to school before the internet existed so my exposure was mainly school and USA printed books.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
And in the USA there are the Pennsylvania Deutsch which became the Pennsylvania Dutch cuz...
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany
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I am interested in how the Fins deal with "Niedersachsen" (Lower Saxony), "Sachsen" (Saxony) and "Sachsen-Anhalt" (Saxony-Anhalt), three of the 16 states of Germany....
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
To be fair there are a lot of really freaky mutations in real life too. They're just not usually fun ones like XMen style mutations.
Ash 1 year ago
Then there are those Bajau pearl divers of Indonesia who managed to evolve an enlarged spleen that lets them hold their breath longer than anybody else....
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Bored something 1 year ago
Then there's the beady eyed aggressive chihuahua which is scarier than either.
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Light skin, certain eye colors and hair colors are all results of mutation.
David 1 year ago
"Choose your pet. This one looks cute but while you are at work it is going to eat your $1800 sofa, most of what you were thawing for dinner and possibly one of your interior doors. It can't digest most of that so it will puke/poop it onto your carpets and then track it around the house." == "Hard pass. Tell me about the black one, he seems nice by comparison"
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Won't eat your couch, will however eat you, your kids, and the neighbour.
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Ann-Marie Bentley 1 year ago
I have mutations unfortunately they didn't not make me as cute as the pup:(
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Soozie Poozie 1 year ago
Picture this - the geologist got right up into the octopus' bidness while the octopus was just trying to live its best life. Octopus got fed up and BAM! Lashed out in a rage with all 8 arms, karate chops coming from all directions. Geologist didn't stand a chance.
Doctor Strange 1 year ago
Fun Fact: Scientists have discovered that some octupus will punch fish out of spite
Terran 1 year ago
Fun Fact: Fish have discovered that some octopus will punch scientists out of spite!
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BoredPossum 1 year ago
Not bitten or sucked on by its tentacles, beaten up. I'd love to see that fight. They don't even have fists.
laura lee 1 year ago
They can curl the ends of their arms into fists. Didn't you watch cartoons? 😉
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Stephanie Case 1 year ago (edited)
This implies there was a whole gang of angry octopi, and this one was their leader.
Christopher Davis 1 year ago
I laughed harder at this than I should have. 10 to 1 says Octopummeler was throwing in some martial arts moves.
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Eat Dirt Crow 1 year ago
Depends on what noise they make when you shake them. (Please don't do this)
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Leigh James 1 year ago
Cooper's Hawks are the only hawks that hunt collectively: three or more (thanks PBS).
Cosmikid 1 year ago (edited)
their example is small for Cooper's - around me anyway. ?
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Mark Rudolph 1 year ago
Based on that it appears both birds have a pale nape (not the best photo angle) and have a relatively large bill, I think both birds are Cooper's Hawks. Perhaps this photo was to demonstrate sexual dimorphism in Cooper's. The larger bird would be the female, which is common among raptors.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Imagine being a farmer and some people came and trampled on your crop for a silly photo.
Surenu 1 year ago
Till combine harvester do us part (in very small parts)
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Martin Rand 1 year ago
Imagine being here with the love of your life and a severe attack of hay fever
Auntriarch 1 year ago
With rapeseed, one of the worst. Suddenly I'm smiling....
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Flora Porter 1 year ago
Sneezing and wheezing as it appears to be my nemesis, oil seed rape (please don't censor that, it's the usual plant name here in the UK).
Julie S 1 year ago (edited)
My brother only got hay fever after they started growing rapeseed in the field behind our house, when it was a corn field he didn't suffer from hay fever.
Load More Replies... Lou Cam 1 year ago
They'll be so much pesticide on this crop that no ticks will exist for miles. This is why a lot of bird species are dying out, their food is being eradicated.
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
looks like rape seed to me.... I spend too much time laughing at Jeremy's Farm obviously...
Christopher Davis 1 year ago
Imagine being a farmer and going out to harvest the mustard and also harvesting two ugly fat humans.
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Cecilia Herrera 1 year ago
So Robocop predicted robobirds? Alfred Hitchcock would have made this into The Birds 2.
Skara Brae 1 year ago
I hope they don't do seagulls. To make them seem real they'd have to make them steal our lunches.
Natty Tempest 1 year ago
Black mirror had robo-bees, paranoids had to o-birds... Just ahead of the curve
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Kise Miarse 1 year ago
It depends. I wouldn't do this with single digits, but mathing with larger numbers does cause me to take a similar approach.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I mean thanks to Doom level builders only working in multiples of 8 back in the 90s I tend to factor things in multiples of 8, so I kind of get this.
Janos Schumacher 1 year ago
14-1=12+1=13 is the way that my brain sees it. From a logic standpoint.
#54
Kari Panda 1 year ago
What do I call a wetland if I don’t know whether it’s acidic or alkaline?
Natty Tempest 1 year ago
A BOG is a bathroom on ground(floor). Anyone wondering why brits call a toilet a bog.
#55
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
I have said this - as a musician, I have a peculiar talent to produce different vibration frequencies using a tool, and then arrange them in a pleasing manner.
River wolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Words are just wiggles on paper. If you truly understand that, you cannot understand this.
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Jinx (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
I guess 'without a vocal invite, then only if the person inside hands the warrant back,' because it's like giving dobby a sock.
Janos Schumacher 1 year ago
Implied consent is not informed consent. A warrant does not offer even implied consent, much less informed consent. As such, no, a vampire may not enter based on a warrant alone. Unless it is due to civil forfeiture. In that event, consent is both informed and implied as the property has changed hands.
Jorge Gonzalez 1 year ago
It's not consent that is needed. It is an invitation, so not even in civil forfeiture.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I'd say it depends on when the warrant is served. Daylight.... sizzle. Vampire wouldn't survive.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
It's not the rule of law that's preventing a vampire from entering your home, so having a legal document allowing them to enter doesn't mean anything. Like, it's not vampires' sense of right and adhering to societal rules that keeps them from sucking on your juicy a*s neck.
Sky Render 1 year ago (edited)
Going by the original Dracula mythos, it wouldn't really matter. The invitation was merely a contract that gave the vampire the right to enter and leave on his terms, and when done the other way allowed the vampire to keep their victim from leaving. It was just their hypnotic-like charisma being exploited. Dracula could and absolutely did go places without being invited.
Natty Tempest 1 year ago
Depending on the formulation of the warrant, that depends on if the home is still counted as a private establishment. The inability to enter the home may be due to a psychic barrier formed by the homeowners which would diminish if the home were suitably opened, disturbed or reclassified... The vamp may need another officer to go in first and say its OK...
Amy Broderick 1 year ago
I do believe that this question was answered in the show 'Being Human'
René Sauer 1 year ago
I always felt that this " Must be invited" thing is the dumbest weakness they decided to give vampires...
Eliza May 1 year ago
Well, if fear of a cross/Christian religion can stop them... never a mention of a star of david, a buddha... goes to show the mythos is created by christian god-fesring folk. And what I think about THAT, I won't say. Sunlihht/UV seems reasonable at least.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Hyde might have had a law degree. That would explain a lot.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I support trans people, but not everything IN THE PAST needs to be re-imagined or re-gendered "just because". Also, if you're going to call them "Ms Hyde" and claim they were misgendered, at LEAST use their proper pronouns: it would be "because SHE couldn't find a dress", not "because HE couldn't find a dress."
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I think they've missed the most important part of the story... they said they were researching toilet demons. I mean WTF? Can we get more on that?
Edward Finger Hands 1 year ago
At first, I thought it was a little pet name for octopi
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
I think I read that it's actually octopuses. Octopi is made up and completely wrong....like irregardless. Edit: I'm also an idiot
Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
If a word is used long enough and enters common use, its correct. Octopi, octopuses, and octopodes are all approved in different dictionaries. Your comment is the equivalent to calling someone stupid for using colour instead of color because you like Webster's Dictionary. Quite rude.
Load More Replies... Skara Brae 1 year ago
I'd be interested to know if a real octopus actually likes pickled food. Do they even have a sense of taste?
kath morgan 1 year ago
They are wonderful! I’m sure if they survived to teach their young they’d be running the world
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destineemya21, if you're going to copy every comment, wouldn't it be easier to copy/ past instead of re-typing everything?
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destineemya21, if you're going to copy every comment, wouldn't it be easier to copy/ past instead of re-typing everything?
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