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[–] Siegfried 66 points 6 days ago

This is how biologists interpreted ghosting

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago

The literal version of "man has enough blood to operate his brain or his penis, but not both at once."

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This happened to me. No joke. I lost half a standard deviation from my iq for each child i had. #dunceLife

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are you sure it's not because of chronic exhaustion for several months in a row instead of the sex?

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic 18 points 6 days ago

I can keep it up for a good while, but several months is excessive.

[–] beejboytyson 8 points 6 days ago

He never said the kids were his...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If a human has sex with an octopus will the same thing happen to them? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why don't you find out for us?

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

I'm not allowed at the aquarium any more :(

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

Oh well, we will ask the Deep, or a princess.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good. They deserve it. Octopuses are dicks. They keep demanding you to call "octopi." Sure. When you start calling me and my homies squidi, I'll start calling you guys octopi.

But no, they can't see past their octopus privilege. As if having two fewer arms made them superior.

[–] Dasus 8 points 5 days ago

Octopi is the oldest plural form of octopus, coming from the belief that Latin origins should have Latin endings. However, octopus is not a simple Latin word, but a Latinized form of the Greek word októpus. Consequently, its “correct” plural form would logically be octopodes.

Nowadays "octopodes" and octopuses" are both acceptable, the latter being more regularly used.

"Squid" on the other hand isn't Latin or Greek, of unknowns origin, probably from a sailor's variant of "squirt"; late 15c., squirten, squyrten "to spit water from the mouth" (intransitive), a word of uncertain origin, perhaps via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, probably ultimately imitative.

[–] satans_methpipe 5 points 5 days ago

Post nut catastrophe :/

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