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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I refuse to count the platypus as a mammal until it's made up its mind.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Monotremes do what they want

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I need a farside comic like meme with a teat wearing a professors outfit

[–] DRx 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My cat once brought in a North American shrew in the house and I thought “what a weird looking mouse!” So, I went to scoop it up in a dust pan and drop it out side and the little shit bit my finger! Anyways, got it outside and went to look it up and found out they (the NA shrew) were venomous! Luckily the bite was superficial and I only had slight redness for the night.

Fun fact about the shrew is apparently it is highly territorial and can defend a territory of > 1 square mile, and somehow my cat found the one shrew in a sq mile area in our backyard which is like a 1/16 acre neighborhood plot lol

[–] daddy32 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe the cat didn't find him, but he was defending his square mile from it instead. It just didn't work out.

[–] Ibaudia 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

?, ?, Shrew, Platypus

Someone help me out here, those first two can't be real animals

[–] MacAttak8 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Slow Loris and Maned Rat are the other two. Definitely real and these four aren’t the only venomous mammals.

[–] Ibaudia 6 points 5 months ago

Imagine being born into this world with only one life and you are literally called Slow Loris

[–] Winged_Hussar 4 points 5 months ago

I want to hug them

[–] str82L 3 points 5 months ago

Teat-chers, mammals, nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Look fake to me ngl

[–] TrickDacy 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So the point is the science teachers are either stupid or liars?

[–] ClanOfTheOcho 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of nuance in science that is ignored at non-upper-level university courses. We teach models that work for most cases, and each level deeper simply "lies" a little less, if that's how we choose to describe what's being taught. For 99.9% of uses, the simplest models are sufficient.

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

My point is that I don't understand the meme unless it's saying teachers are lying. Not much nuance in that.

Upon a second viewing, it makes sense that whoever did not make their point clear also spelled the word "teacher" wrong.

[–] ClanOfTheOcho 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes. I can't speak to the intent of the meme. Not that you specifically asked me, personally, in the first place. Sorry, I'm of no help there, but if I were to guess, I'd say it's a Jerry Seinfeld "what's up with that" attempt at humor.

Regarding the spelling, well now, that's just equal parts hilarious and sad.

[–] marcos 2 points 5 months ago

also spelled the word “teacher” wrong

Hum, the meme could easily be about relatives of famous UK prime ministers.

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

Teatchers

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