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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago

Seals can't fly to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Here we see the illusive billionaire in its natural habitat

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat

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

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

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

"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.

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

This is the internet, and I welcome such pedantry.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ignoramus will be an ignoramus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

ignore anus? man i try to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

*elusive

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That must have been gripping to watch

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

a what now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Food shaming

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

What about crop milk?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Being a bird for a day would be a fuckin trip

Can I haz bird pill?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read here that you just need to selectively activate your genes.

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

that's just to get the feathers..
which isn't as far fetched as it seems, seeing as how we already get goosebumps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

powercry-1

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

fuckin cormorants.