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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 169 points 7 months ago (5 children)

[–] Thrashy 63 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room... Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh... mission accomplished?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you ever read The Bikini Bottom Horror comic strip?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

yeah that's what I was referencing 💯

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

what.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

zzzzziiiiippppp

[–] HUMAN_TRASH 5 points 7 months ago

😏

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't leave us hanging... what are they called in France??

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They're called "étoiles de mer" in French

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

"toilets of the sea"

[–] xkforce 2 points 7 months ago

Stars from/of the sea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

this would work on me

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Seems a bit weird that every culture would call them some variant of "stars" since they don't look like actual stars. Actual stars are just dots.

[–] xkforce 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Spikes on star image

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[–] Pipoca 3 points 7 months ago

They particularly look like diffraction spikes/starbursts.

Astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma or smudged glasses can cause you to see starbursts when you look at bright lights at night.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He must have been dating someone else who has an even greater knowledge of coelacanths.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

True. When it comes to knowledge about coelacanths, never settle.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, maybe OOP didn't cite their sources correctly. There is no bigger turnoff, especially on your first date. My mom used to say know your facts and have your sources handy. Best dating advice and honestly the only one that really matters

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Also: always carry a Laptop with you, so you can always hold them a power point presentation.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago

100% this is it.

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[–] Death_Equity 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Talk living fossils to me and I'll do anything you want baby.

You tell me about cryptids and you can just take me right there on the table.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

"Hey am I boring you, you've hardly said anything and your eyes are glazed?"

"Nnggh no baby... I-I'm... really close. P-please... d-don't stop"

[–] Omgarm 28 points 7 months ago

He's just studying for the test.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.

Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.

"Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."

[–] xkforce 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Tbh if someone talked off the bat about their passion itd make me a lot more likely to want to date them. I want people to talk about what interests them and with most people it feels like pulling teeth trying to get them to do that.

[–] Alexstarfire 3 points 7 months ago

Ohh man, maybe my extensive knowledge of Europa Universalis 4 will pay off after all.

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[–] seth 7 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a dream date, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I don't think this post is meant as quippy, but rather self-deprecating. She only realized afterwards that she talked a little too much...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No lectures before the third date, everyone knows that. Huge red flag.

Did anyone else not know it's pronounced see-la-kanth? I've been saying it wrong in my head all these years omg.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm revoking your koalafications

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Surely a man is entitled to his koalafanfiction.

[–] AngryCommieKender 5 points 7 months ago

You were pronouncing it cloaca-canth weren't you?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

The nights I stayed up trying to catch as many of those fuckers as I could in animal crossing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Neurodivergent person shares one special interest, neurotypical tells you everything you need to know about them.

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[–] dohpaz42 14 points 7 months ago

Man getting lengthy lectures from a woman, and here I am talking to myself. What is wrong with some people? Not me; I know what’s wrong with me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thanks to Pokémon I immediately knew what kind of fish the post was about…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

my sapphire brain instantly got braille ptsd

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[–] Donjuanme 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm down. After that I'm paying for the meal. We're definitely exchanging digits.

[–] Wogi 6 points 7 months ago

I'm not nerdy about fish. But I am nerdy about people who are nerdy.

[–] Got_Bent 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is what it's like dating Lindsay Nikole.

For the record, she's one of my favorite YouTubers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

She's the bees knees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

maybe he was vegetarian and would have wanted to hear more about sea"cucumber" instead of fishy things.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants, not because I love animals!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Based

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I should contact her and ask her to talk at me about colecanths so I can give her feedback.

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