I assumed it was something more inconsequential and personal. It’s the sort of thing I usually say after doing something particularly embarrassing that I can’t get out of my head…
Comment on me too
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
so.
what is the context to that? anyone know? I could imagine a bout of some food poisoning or something affecting the ship.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh, there’s a lot things it could have been.
Late night caused by the guy next door getting drunk and trying his hand at singing opera.
Getting rejected because barnacles reek;
Finding out the rum is gone…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Finding out the rum is gone…
Why is it always?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Where are you getting anything about a ship?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Darwin is well known for his voyage on the HMS Beagle, but there is no mention of that in the post.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right exactly. Wondered if it was just an assumption or if I missed something
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was an assumption,
De_Narm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know about this quote specificly, but Darwin spent almost 10 years working on barnacles to establish himself and came to hate them. It was supposed to be a quick detour before releasing ‘On the Origin of Species’. During that time he made a lot of similar statements.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Those things have a tendency to stick around hey
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
10 years… of barnacles.
yeah. I’d hate my life too.
Chestnut@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The history of Darwin’s Barnacles is fascinating youtu.be/plYuvU2VZkE?si=Xq6rwC8FdhXFBDYD
At the time barnacles represented a major taxonomic mystery. They have a bizarre lifecycle that baffled scientists and figuring out what they were related to was baffling
BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 months ago
The TLDR is that he couldn’t figure iut how to classify the fuckers because he didn’t have modern biology tools like genetic analysis, protein identification, or any molecular biology.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 8 months ago
Reminds me of this Onion video: https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk?si=x3vd96q2BzMRFAnA