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[-] teije9 45 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

Seals can't fly to begin with.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Here we see the illusive billionaire in its natural habitat

[-] terminally_offline@infosec.pub 17 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat

[-] psud@aussie.zone 10 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

This is the internet, and I welcome such pedantry.

[-] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

Ignoramus will be an ignoramus.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

ignore anus? man i try to

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

That must have been gripping to watch

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

Food shaming

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

Being a bird for a day would be a fuckin trip

Can I haz bird pill?

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

fuckin cormorants.

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Who actually finds this funny and why?

[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

People who aren't dead inside, for aforementioned reasons

this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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