50 species of gulls and every last one of them is a cunt.
#notaseagull
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Fucking love seagulls. Grew up at the beach, gulls everywhere. They used to dig in our trash cans and we had to put heavy weights on the lids. Still fucking love em. They’re awesome, amazing trash birds who give zero fucks. I have seen gulls fully steal food from people’s mouths. I’ve seen them sit on windshields and refuse to move so you can drive, including just allowing the wipers to fwap into them repeatedly.
Seagulls aren’t cunts. Seagulls serve cunt, and I love them for it.
Naich@lemmings.world 2 years ago
They most certainly are not. Make friends with one and they will bring you presents. ! gullfriends@lemmings.world
BluesF@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Wikipedia on Larus marinus, or the great black-backed gull:
The scientific name is from Latin. Larus appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The specific name marinus means “marine”, or when taken together, “sea gull”.
If that’s not a seagull I don’t know what is.
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Why does a seagull fly over the sea? Because of they for over the bay they would be bagels!
This joke echoes in my brain thanks to this one PBS commercial break snippet from my childhood. You’re welcome
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I heard this joke for the first time a few weeks back on an episode of The Penguin. :D
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Achkchually, a pineapple is neither a pine, nor an apple.
It’s actually an ananananas.
azi@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Je suis un ananas
Velonie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Bonjour, allô, salut!
TotalFat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sure, but ananananas-pen doesn’t have quite the same ring now does it?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Do dooo do do do,
ananananas,
Do do do do
superkret@feddit.org 2 years ago
That anon’s name? Steven Seagullible
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 years ago
From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
No one actually loves seagulls, but that’s got nothing to do with the fact there is no seagull.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oh hey flying vermin.
10_0@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Now I know this, I will be crying every time I go to the ocean
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
If 90% of the population call them seagulls, and 99% of the population understand what you mean when you say “seagull”, then yes, they are actually called seagulls
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s like what I say to bother botanists:
Klear@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Pretty sure botanists are aware that the same word can have different meaning outside of their scientific field. The people actually bothered by this are pedants who read about it on the internet, not people who studied botany.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 years ago
Well, no, there’s nothing wrong with the definition of berry, but there would be something wrong about a botanist being annoyed with someone using the colloquial definition of berry.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What if I told you that words can have different meanings in different contexts? Just because the same word can be used to refer to different things depending on whether its used in everyday or scientific speech doesn’t mean either usage is “wrong”.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Annoy naturalists with these other animal names too: Jellyfish, crawfish, starfish, Killer Whale, Canadian Geese, and American Buffalo.
azi@mander.xyz 2 years ago
The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Canada Goose
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 years ago
wtf who’s beefing with starfish
Machinist@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Crawdads. Tasty with some hot sauce.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Should we add an exception when it comes to technical discussions?
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
If you’re an ornithologist writing a scientific paper, you’d presumably be using a genus + species in Latin rather than any colloquial name anyway, while still acknowledging that they fall under the umbrella term “seagull” for most people. But I’m a descriptive linguist, rather than prescriptive, and that’s really what this meme is about (it’s not about seagulls)
Rooskie91@discuss.online 2 years ago
Noooo then how are we going to get memes like this?