You deserve this for using speaker in an office.
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Animals don't need to wipe because they don't have massive glutes evolved to support an entire upright body while also walking and running. This is the curse of our intelligence and endurance.
OK, I was gonna say it was because they don't have big fat butt cheeks like humans but I like your version better. It's glutes. Yeah that's it, glutes.
Let’s cut the shit, it’s the curse our fat asses.
Let’s cut the shit
With a poop knife?
Only way to be sure.
Did we evolve to like butts because walking upright upright was advantageous? Or did we evolve to walk upright because we liked butts?
Does walking upright make the butts more or less visible? They're slightly higher but less prominently displayed.
Butts are the original boobs.
Something that blows my mind is realising how much of our understanding of sex and attraction is socially constructed. For example, there are plenty of documented cultures where women's breasts don't have the erotic connotation we attach to them. The thing that really threw me off was learning about some people who don't kiss as a show of affection — I found this a surreal concept, because in terms of romantic interactions with a partner, I'm fairly meh about sex, but I'm a big fan of kissing/making out; There's a sense in which I obviously know that preference towards kissing is likely not an evolved trait, but more sociocultural, but it feels so intuitive that something so visceral isn't necessarily an innate trait.
Anyway, this is a long way of saying "did we evolve to like butts, though?". Evolutionary biology, the field that would consider questions like these, is unavoidably pretty heavy on the speculation side — given that humans have evolved to be such social creatures, we can't really separate out the sociocultural aspects of development from the genetic side, and that makes asking evolutionary questions on large timescales to be a tricky endeavour.
Edit: This isn't to say that asking these questions is pointless to do. I appreciated your question precisely because it's the kind of thing that cooks my brain (and I enjoy that)
We'd have to engineer a race of humans without butts and see if they managed to breed.
The baboons have been oddly quiet since you asked this
I dunno, but some other brother might deny
Technically humans don't have to wipe either. But it would be like dried Nutella in a shag carpet.
Seems like that would result in a constantly itchy butthole? I guess one could get used to it.
Something like that happened to "a friend". During a several day hike, a #2 in the wood was wiped a bit too hastily and some of it was missed.
Now the remnant bits dried and glued the hair from both cheeks together, during the hike after that my "friend" could feel the hairs being pulled from one side to another at each step he was taking.
Not a great experience.
you know, you dont have to share every thought that crosses your mind
No, no, thoughts like that are the entire point of the internet, and language itself
This makes so much sense.
I've only ever seen this scene in German, where the guy doesn't say "buns and thighs", he just says "Oberschenkelmuskeln" (which means thigh muscles) and I think that's beautiful.
I've heard spongebob in German is a quality experience
They put a lot of effort in the translation and voice acting. Whenever a joke doesn't translate, they come up with something in the same spirit. Sometimes, I like the translation better.
As you said, it's very well done, aside from very few impossible-to-solve issues*. There might be some bias at play since I grew up with it, but I'd say it's on par with the original dub. You can check out some examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOiBiRt-TOw
- example: The ghost, ghost, ghost, toast, ghost scene can't be translated, since no synonym for toast rhymes with "Geist" (German for ghost). So instead they just go with "Weißbrot" (a long synonym for toast), which is very random, but honestly hilarious.
They also do 'wipe.' Quite often, actually. I have seen just about every variety of mammal that I've observed for longer than a few hours lick their bum clean.
Just a treat for later
It's the flavor saver, Animal Planet edition.
Forbidden Tootsie roll.
The wrong thread to stumble into during lunch, but that’s on me.
Bidet.
What in the world is happening in the lower half of the first panel?
I think the person on that end of the phone call is naked in a bathroom looking at themself in a mirror, and the artist made them blurry cuz naked
I think the blur is to give it a sense of depth rather than censorship. It's just a back, not something dangerous like a nipple attached to a woman.
That could also be, and actually I think makes more sense, especially since there's a mirror you'd want that sense of depth, I'd think.
Everyone watched the same scishow video then