50 species of gulls and every last one of them is a cunt.
#notaseagull
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 6 months 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 6 months ago
They most certainly are not. Make friends with one and they will bring you presents. ! gullfriends@lemmings.world
BluesF@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
I heard this joke for the first time a few weeks back on an episode of The Penguin. :D
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Achkchually, a pineapple is neither a pine, nor an apple.
It’s actually an ananananas.
azi@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Je suis un ananas
Velonie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bonjour, allô, salut!
TotalFat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sure, but ananananas-pen doesn’t have quite the same ring now does it?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Do dooo do do do,
ananananas,
Do do do do
superkret@feddit.org 6 months ago
That anon’s name? Steven Seagullible
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 months ago
From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
No one actually loves seagulls, but that’s got nothing to do with the fact there is no seagull.
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh hey flying vermin.
10_0@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Now I know this, I will be crying every time I go to the ocean
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 6 months 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 6 months ago
It’s like what I say to bother botanists:
Klear@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Annoy naturalists with these other animal names too: Jellyfish, crawfish, starfish, Killer Whale, Canadian Geese, and American Buffalo.
azi@mander.xyz 6 months 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 6 months ago
Canada Goose
olafurp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
wtf who’s beefing with starfish
Machinist@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Crawdads. Tasty with some hot sauce.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Should we add an exception when it comes to technical discussions?
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 6 months 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 6 months ago
Noooo then how are we going to get memes like this?