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[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 130 points 6 months ago

You deserve this for using speaker in an office.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 127 points 6 months ago

Animals don't need to wipe because they don't have massive glutes evolved to support an entire upright body while also walking and running. This is the curse of our intelligence and endurance.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

Let’s cut the shit, it’s the curse our fat asses.

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

Let’s cut the shit

With a poop knife?

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Only way to be sure.

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

Technically humans don't have to vipe either. But it would be like dried Nutella in a shag carpet.

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 17 points 6 months ago

Something like that happened to "a friend". During a several day hike, a #2 in the wood was wiped a bit too hastily and some of it was missed.

Now the remnant bits dried and glued the hair from both cheeks together, during the hike after that my "friend" could feel the hairs being pulled from one side to another at each step he was taking.

Not a great experience.

[-] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

you know, you dont have to share every thought that crosses your mind

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

No, no, thoughts like that are the entire point of the internet, and language itself

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 21 points 6 months ago

Did we evolve to like butts because walking upright upright was advantageous? Or did we evolve to walk upright because we liked butts?

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Butts are the original boobs.

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

The baboons have been oddly quiet since you asked this

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Something that blows my mind is realising how much of our understanding of sex and attraction is socially constructed. For example, there are plenty of documented cultures where women's breasts don't have the erotic connotation we attach to them. The thing that really threw me off was learning about some people who don't kiss as a show of affection — I found this a surreal concept, because in terms of romantic interactions with a partner, I'm fairly meh about sex, but I'm a big fan of kissing/making out; There's a sense in which I obviously know that preference towards kissing is likely not an evolved trait, but more sociocultural, but it feels so intuitive that something so visceral isn't necessarily an innate trait.

Anyway, this is a long way of saying "did we evolve to like butts, though?". Evolutionary biology, the field that would consider questions like these, is unavoidably pretty heavy on the speculation side — given that humans have evolved to be such social creatures, we can't really separate out the sociocultural aspects of development from the genetic side, and that makes asking evolutionary questions on large timescales to be a tricky endeavour.

Edit: This isn't to say that asking these questions is pointless to do. I appreciated your question precisely because it's the kind of thing that cooks my brain (and I enjoy that)

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

We'd have to engineer a race of humans without butts and see if they managed to breed.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I dunno, but some other brother might deny

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

OK, I was gonna say it was because they don't have big fat butt cheeks like humans but I like your version better. It's glutes. Yeah that's it, glutes.

[-] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago
[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This makes so much sense.

I've only ever seen this scene in German, where the guy doesn't say "buns and thighs", he just says "Oberschenkelmuskeln" (which means thigh muscles) and I think that's beautiful.

[-] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I've heard spongebob in German is a quality experience

[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago

They put a lot of effort in the translation and voice acting. Whenever a joke doesn't translate, they come up with something in the same spirit. Sometimes, I like the translation better.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As you said, it's very well done, aside from very few impossible-to-solve issues*. There might be some bias at play since I grew up with it, but I'd say it's on par with the original dub. You can check out some examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOiBiRt-TOw

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 76 points 6 months ago

They also do 'wipe.' Quite often, actually. I have seen just about every variety of mammal that I've observed for longer than a few hours lick their bum clean.

[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Just a treat for later

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago
[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

The wrong thread to stumble into during lunch, but that’s on me.

this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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