It’s actually even more unlikely that they would be able to learn how to talk. This guy’s clearly not a very good scientist if he missed that.
Dawkins
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Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 11 months ago
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d be questioning the unique selective pressures that caused the hundred acre wood to produce sentient stuffing filled animals.
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean, if it’s the Red Forest, anything is possible
Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Darwin’s got his finches, Dawkins has his teddy, each instrumental to the modern understanding of natural selection.
Opisek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or he knows something we don’t…
waigl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unlike with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, with Dawkins, I would be quite surprised if he brought that up without being quite specifically asked about it…
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s probably from an hour long portrait interview, in which they cover a lot of ground including favourite English literary pieces, and the interviewer tries to tie it to the guest. They would probably ask David Beckham which Harry Potter character he’d have on his football team.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Dawkins would have shitposted on Twitter with the best of them if he’d been born later
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
But, now hear me out, what if there was also a rabbit?
Davel23@fedia.io 11 months ago
Why stop there? Owl! Tiger! Kangaroo!
LordTrychon@startrek.website 11 months ago
Tigger. There’s a double-guh.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s morphine’ time!
spirinolas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, not with that attitude, Richard.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
This looks like something from Viz magazine. They’ll regularly have big one page jokes about something and then have these little made up side bits in.
Whole thing was probably about illegal immigrants taking small boats to the hundred acre wood and then there’s this little bit in the bottom.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
TOModera@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, he’s a Tigger, not a Tiger, so that’s off.
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bruh you can’t just drop the t-word like that
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a feeling that A.A. Milne might just wanted to call a character the N-word, then first had a dream about how badly it aged, then in a second one how far racist gamers can go to say at least a “censored” version of it online.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It is unlikely that this transphobe will be remembered in a positive light in ten years.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uh oh, what did he do?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He claimed several times that transpeople were just the gender version of “Black Face”, so much so they rescinded one of his humanism awards
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Disagreed slightly with someone
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Iirc, he had a stroke and then became Twitter friends with JK Rowling.
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think those animals would be stitched together with cloth and stuffed with cotton, either.
NABDad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
they are toy animals, not real ones
A couple of them were real animals, and this is reflected in the stories.
The two characters are
Owl and Rabbit. In one of the stories, one of them says to the other “You and I have brains, the others have fluff”.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone take Dawkins to a zoo.
AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like this guy less and less every day.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, the dude studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, so he is an expert on the matter…
aport@programming.dev 11 months ago
And yet his statement is missing the oxford comma
SrTobi@feddit.de 11 months ago
How dare him not to say that!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Buzzkill
charonn0@startrek.website 11 months ago
“Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation”
Belgdore@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If someone released a donkey in East India this would be very plausible. Kangaroos on the other hand…
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
Yeah there’s no way that Kanga hasn’t beaten the shit out of them all already for getting too close to Roo, especially Tigger and Pooh.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Well, they’re all stuffed animals, so Kanga probably isn’t too worried about predation.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure there’s regions where people have pigs and donkeys and there are bears and tigers in the woods.
However, it would not end up well for the pig or the donkey if they hung out
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This guy’s smart. Where do I send money?
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
A tiger? What is he talking about? The thousand acre woods has a Tigger, but no tigers.
MamboGator@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Oh shit, that’s good. Write that down!”
Thorry84@feddit.nl 11 months ago
in a mirror, you can kiss yourself, but only on the lips
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Something tells me Neil has actually run that experiment to be certain.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Oh, suddenly self love is a problem?!?