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[-] teije9 45 points 3 months ago

I once saw a pigeon swallow a giant fish that was being fed to a seal, and after eating it it literally couldn't fly anymore

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 68 points 3 months ago

Seals can't fly to begin with.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Nature’s equivalent to plopping down on the couch and unbuttoning the top button of your pants.

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here we see the illusive billionaire in its natural habitat

[-] terminally_offline@infosec.pub 17 points 3 months ago

Elusive*, you'll probably try to correct me and say that you meant "illusive" but that's not the right use-case for it anyway.

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat

[-] psud@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago

It's not pedantry to point out your word choice was so completely wrong. Illusive is descriptive of things that are illusions (a mirage is illusive water); elusive is descriptive of something that is hard to find

[-] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

"Correcting" someone in a casual setting when they clearly communicated their ideas in a way that was understood by the majority of the audience without issue is pedantry, or more specifically linguistic prescriptivism. If their meaning was unclear you'd ask what they meant to say, when you tell someone what they meant to say you obviously understood them and are just being pedantic.

[-] onwardknave@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

This is the internet, and I welcome such pedantry.

[-] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Okay? If you want to "correct" people who didn't ask you go ahead, but all you're really doing is pointlessly derailing conversations. And if you cry about it when people call you out for being a dick that's more than a little pathetic.

[-] terminally_offline@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

Ignoramus will be an ignoramus.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

ignore anus? man i try to

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Elusive*, you'll probably try to correct me and say that you meant "illusive" but that's not the right use-case for it anyway.

[-] leonine@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago
[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I once watched a shag swallow a huge eel. The eel didn't want to be swallowed. It took about 15 minutes.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

That must have been gripping to watch

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago
[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

He's just salty that his break's so tiny

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago

I mean, birds being birds, they may actually share this with several members of their family still...

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago
[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

Food shaming

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Being a bird for a day would be a fuckin trip

Can I haz bird pill?

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

fuckin cormorants.

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Who actually finds this funny and why?

[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

People who aren't dead inside, for aforementioned reasons

this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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