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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Hummingbird the drone unicorn?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I do find it funny how "horse with a horn" is a fantastical creature that doesn't exist

But narwhals with fucking lances on their heads and giraffes with their long ass necks do

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

I do find it funny how “horse with a horn” is a fantastical creature that doesn’t exist

It was just medieval descriptions of a rhino because how else do you explain it to people in Europe

[–] stupidcasey 3 points 1 day ago

Wow! Look at that massive beast with one Horn! I bet it weighs as much as a house, How would you even describe that thing?

Hmmm, it's a gay horse.

[–] Damionsipher 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They were causing too much of a commotion

[–] Iheartcheese 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because you will summon...them.

[–] Damionsipher 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only if the meme includes a side of bacon

[–] jaybone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At midnight. /scratches neckbeard

[–] hOrni 5 points 2 days ago

I understood the reference. /Feels old

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because it says high speed underwater unicorn... narwhals top at 4kph, swordfish top at 64kph.

[–] Damionsipher 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll take a slow actual water unicorn over some billed fish anyway, regardless of speed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if a narwhal is a unicorn then so is a warthog

[–] Damionsipher 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Narwhals have a single horn sticking out of their face from between their eyes. A Warthog has two tusks sticking out from either side of their mouth. At least their both mammals.

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

The narwhal "horn" is actually a tusk, and rarely they can have two.

[–] Damionsipher 2 points 1 day ago

Fair point. Still more of a horn than a fish bill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

both narwhals and warthogs can have their teeth pierce the tops of their heads as they grow

[–] Damionsipher 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you explain why every unicorn horn I've ever seen much more closely resembles a narwhal tusk than a rhino's horn? Are unicorn horns even horns?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

narwhal tusks are teeth but rhino horns are hair

[–] Damionsipher 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But what about unicorns?! Are they tusks or horns?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Damionsipher 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So, by extension, narwhals are way more similar to unicorns than a fish and perhaps it's the rhino that's the odd one out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

yeah but that also mean they're closer to warthogs than either of the others

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

No one talking about that rhino clearly having two corns?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] teft 7 points 2 days ago

He’s an assault unicorn so he has a backup assault uni-horn. Obv

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] spicytuna62 10 points 2 days ago

I hear this image.

[–] Carvex 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So many hours of my childhood well wasted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If you enjoyed it, it wasn't a waste.

However I've 100%'d Yoshi's Island... twice. Three times if you count Yoshi's Island DS. And now I make romhacks of Yoshi's Island and Super Mario World today. I might have a problem!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

...making a commotion...

[–] ronalicious 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think they are trying to keep this based a bit more in reality and not bring in other fantasy creatures.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

A swordfish is a variety of fishpecker, not a unicorn

[–] M137 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The person who made this image, and OP are dumb as fuck. Narwhals are the unicorns of the sea, not fucking swordfish. A unicorns horn is not the same as just a pointy thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Afaik the "horn" of a narwhal is a tooth though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Correct, it's a tusk, not a horn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Unicorns by definition have one horn, while rhinoceroses have two. So clearly there's something else wrong there.

[–] stupidcasey 5 points 2 days ago

I'm starting to think that unicorn was just a horse with a dildo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Aerial unicorn... The 359 Fighter Group is a 1940's US Air Force unit that flew several operations in WWII in P-51 Mustang aircraft. "The Unicorns" were their conical name and had insignia patches to match!

Sauce: https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/372637-359th-fighter-group-eighth-air-force-the-unicorns-caeda-forte/
and
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/123rd_Operations_Group