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[–] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago (3 children)

'Bessie' is a preposterous name for a chicken.

[–] MrJameGumb 70 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I always thought Bessie was a cows name lol

[–] StarManta 45 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Who says cows can’t lay eggs?

And don’t say “literally everyone”, that’s a cop out answer

[–] MrJameGumb 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Actually I would say literally no one. I don't think it's ever come up before just now. Just so you're aware though, those things the cows are "laying" out in the pasture are definitely not eggs

[–] thomasloven 35 points 10 months ago

Well well well. Check mate, atheists!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Abraham Lincoln said that

[–] TheBat 17 points 10 months ago

That's why he got shot

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[–] taiyang 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

...wizard, time traveller, man who lives inside a clock made of chickens

[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Be me: has chickens

Also me: is a surburbanite

#restingchookface

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it weird to say that your chicken looks straight gangsta? Like I'd invite that chicken to my smoke circle

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not at all, she seriously is. She will steal your lit cigarette or joint and run off with it. Look at this chook, she’ll cut a bitch.

It was 42°C out so I had them inside to cool off.

Edit: Also, that is my smoke circle in the first pic haha

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Love it! You seem like good people, take a cool person puff for me today ✌️👍

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I think birds are just kind of smug and self assured in general.

[–] CADmonkey 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Same. Four hens and this big bastard.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

i just want to thank you for starting a thread of people posting their chickens im the midst of a bunch of debatelords being debatelords.

the internet is a better place with you in it💗🐔

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[–] JargonWagon 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] rockSlayer 63 points 10 months ago (4 children)

God I wish. I live in an American city, so it's too dangerous to walk along the 4 lane stroad to get to the grocery store a block away

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

my condolences:(

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Unironically agreed. Suburbs suck and apparently they're also bad for the environment.

[–] PunnyName 42 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Imagine being able to walk or cycle to a store in a few minutes while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺. Hopefully the US will learn to build better cities someday.

[–] grue 12 points 10 months ago

while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺

Fun fact: Although Amsterdam (~5,000/km^2^) fails to match the population density of New York City (~11,000/km^2^), similarly-human-scale Paris manages to almost double it (~20,000/km^2^) despite not having skyscrapers. Because of things like progressive setbacks and the need to build parking decks to comply with minimum parking requirements, NYC-style skyscrapers really don't buy you as much extra living space as you might think, compared to mid-rise apartment buildings that can use the entire city block curb-to-curb.

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[–] MrJameGumb 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The suburbanite sounds like she had a lot of other issues besides just owning a car lol

[–] SonnyVabitch 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Some of those other issues stem from being a suburbanite. No social interactions, no casual exercise by walking more than the length of their driveway, no easy access to either cultural institutions nor quality green spaces, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

why did u assume the suburbanite’s gender lol

[–] MrJameGumb 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry, I'll fix it... The suburbanite sounds like he, she, and/or they may unfortunately have a lot of other non-normative and potentially problematic life journeys going on besides just owning a car. Perhaps we should educate them by exchanging platitudes about living our best life?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh c'mon you know it was a classic Karen. Stop with this ridicule over everyone using common sense intuition.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the president still doesnt make the gas prices

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

that's the joke i think

[–] elrik 22 points 10 months ago

Suburbanite: Child, go open the instacart app on my phone and have some eggs delivered by an underpaid driver for $35.

[–] RIP_Cheems 20 points 10 months ago

Fuck suburbs, probably the one thing rural and urban people can agree on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

When the store is 100 mile/160 kilometer round trip, you either figure out a substitute or do without. And if you don't know what else to use, your favorite search engine is only seconds away from helping you with your problem. It ain't rocket surgery.

[–] EndlessApollo 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, it's their fault for living in a food desert and not the fault of the corporations that made it a food dessert 👍👍👍

[–] grue 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Food deserts are mostly not the fault of corporations; they're the fault of zoning. Some of that blame admittedly rests on misguided (to say the least) modernist urban planners back in the '30s, but most of it rests squarely on the shoulders of NIMBYs.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fucking hell who has time and energy to hunt down one in the suburbs?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Bessie the chicken huh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

if i'm feeling restless i'll just bike 20 minutes to the local egg farm and buy the eggs directly from their little unmanned shop, for a hilariously low price.

i have a lot of complaints about sweden but god damn stuff like this is nice

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[–] LSDpoem 9 points 10 months ago

Now, which artist or thinker said that a suburb is just the city spread too thin

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For the vast majority of my suburban life, whenever I needed eggs mid-recipe I just walked across the street to either the local grocery store or local convenience store to get eggs.

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