GandalftheBlack
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- Comment on if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen 21 hours ago:
In a way, the demise of the dinosaurs is kind of like the fall of Rome (the 5th century one), in that the conditions created by the impact wiped out many of the dinosaurs, but birds survived and are only not considered (by some) to be dinosaurs because of our categorisation, in the same way that the fall of Rome which was completed by Germanic invaders left the Eastern Roman Empire to survive long after that, and despite denial from some, has direct descendance from the Roman Empire.
- Comment on is there anything for pigeons? I desperately need remote control pigeon 6 days ago:
Silly what?
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 week ago:
Oh that’s gore. Gore of my comfort organ.
- Comment on 🐲 mg 1 week ago:
Pretty sure 250mya is before dinosaurs. According to the dates given by Wikipedia, Stegosaurus is 145-155 myo
- Comment on Real Height 📏 1 week ago:
The world could do with fewer kings and more jesters.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 week ago:
Yeah, if you’re gonna steal chocolate, at least steal nice chocolate
- Comment on Nomenclature 2 weeks ago:
Bouba and blouba
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
Some did, like my grandad. He had a DSi XL with a fancy stylus.
- Comment on So Deep 3 weeks ago:
Scotland has entered the chat
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yep, the Shire specifically
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not from the US
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A lot of us, apparently
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 5 weeks ago:
Sebastiàn liked his own message
- Comment on Deep Time 1 month ago:
I thought this was about the grass until I actually looked at the dinosaurs in the picture
- Comment on Inbred cat 1 month ago:
It’s always the people with all the dough doing whatever they want. It’s a kneedless display of flour.
- Comment on Science wins again 1 month ago:
Yeah, placebo and nocebo are future tense “I will please” “I will harm”
- Comment on Banana scale 2 months ago:
“Computer, enhance!”
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 2 months ago:
Two things can be disgusting
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 2 months ago:
Yeah, the commercially available baked beans (not baked) are in a horrible sweet tomato sauce. I haven’t eaten any in a long time.
- Comment on Diced Giant Steak 2 months ago:
Soup, the great equaliser
- Comment on Latin names suck 2 months ago:
This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 months ago:
TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist
- Comment on It really is 3 months ago:
Hapax blepomenon
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 3 months ago:
Not sure it’s a new thing to ponder, but it certainly is something to ponder.
- Comment on Anon has a bully 3 months ago:
*would be worth it
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 3 months ago:
The m in mpreg stands for mouse
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes
- Comment on nice chompers 3 months ago:
Little known fact, halberds used to be covered in feathers, but they didn’t survive in the archaeological record
- Comment on Angels 🥹 4 months ago:
And in German a bat is a Fledermaus, which literally means “wing-mouse”
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