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[–] blanketswithsmallpox 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

So here's the thing... You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

[–] TheDoozer 18 points 5 months ago

It feels like you set this up on purpose, lol.

[–] CaptainBlagbird 8 points 5 months ago
[–] MrJameGumb 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It's a copypasta from, what I'm inferring, is before your time.

A man named Unidan became a beloved figure of the reddit community, akin to /u/Poem_For_Your_Sprog, fucking /u/shittymorph, etc. He would glide into threads, drop bird facts and then talk with the people who replied to his comments before fluttering away.

Fast forward to the jackdaw incident where he very incorrectly stated the paragraph above, and that's about all I know besides his reddit fame imploded afterwards. I want to say there was more of him being a fucker to it, but I didn't care enough to remember.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're only forgetting that he was using alt accounts to upvote himself and steer the points.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That was the fuckery, thank you.

[–] MrJameGumb 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It must be very old copypasta indeed to be before my time, I'm 42 lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lol, I had to make an assumption so I assumed what I thought would be least insulting. Either way - I've given you part of the story, Obi gave you the rest.

[–] c4lm 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Are we sure that's not a Crow, its beak looks pretty long for a Jackdaw