• The_v@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This meme is incorrect. A botatist would have names like:

    “Little bastard who ate my Alyssum maritimum

    “Fucker who at the flower buds on my Forsythia europea

    “Little shithead who dug up my Lathyrus odoratus

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    8 months ago

    Studied Ichthyology in the early 2000’s and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.

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      8 months ago

      This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there’s no such thing as a fish.

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        8 months ago

        There’s also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification.

        P.S. If you haven’t listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you’re missing out.

  • frickineh@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I feel like even a botanist would know a seagull because their assholery is so epic. The seagull’s assholery, not the botanists’, that is.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, but don’t give them the credit. I’ll never forgive them for shitting on me that one time (botanists that is…)

  • Classy@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I call them pretty birds, unless I’m calling them a little fucker, and that’s because it’s a chickadee that won’t hold still for 2 goddamn seconds so I can get a photo