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Fruit Flies (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (7 children)

What other lies have we been told? Does time not fly like an arrow?

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Emperor penguins and king penguins are not descendants of any royal bloodlines and do not have an understanding of monarchical governments.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gray Knights have been dispatched to your location, please stand by.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Awesome, this daemon infestation on my computer (Gentoo of course) is really starting to annoy me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Better yet, they aren't actually penguins - they were just called that because they resembled real penguins.

Which are literally dead today, because they dared live close to humans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

because they dared live close to humans.

Poor dumb bastards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't even mention macaroni penguins...so disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting they're not good with cheese?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Not only that, they are completely and entirely noodleless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You sound like a conspiracy wonk.

They are the only true emperors & kings recognized by the flightless aristocracy.

Tis the human "royals" who are living lies!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ha! That's a good one. You almost had me for a second.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What the fuck...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A man in a very tight suit with a blue box once told me it's more wibbly-wobbly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was he gender, species, and time fluid?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

All the fluids. Except water on Mars, he didn't like that one bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fish fingers and custard was also a lie

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone tell this guy about Jeremy bearimy and timey wimey space stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A time, B time, and lunch time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, it just trips into the future

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Trippin', trippin', trippin'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Mosquito hawks do not, in fact, eat mosquitos.

I no longer respect those annoying fuckers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does an arrow fly at all?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Calm down, Zeno.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does time not fly like an arrow?

Does time fly not like an arrow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

When we're having fun.