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[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago (8 children)

holds up platypus with feathers glued to it BEHOLD! A BIRD!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

removes feathers

And now it's a man!

Adds fedora

Perry the Man?!?

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Perry the feathered platypus?!

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I really want an avatar style platypus bird. Imagine how cute a flying platypus would be!

Actually thinking about it, I feel like that would be the perfect representation of all four elements (venom has to count for fire, no?).

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

That’s why they’re also fire! They swim, look like badger moles, and (if they had wings) they fly!

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that if avatar had a platypus it would just be a platypus.

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Now where did you find so many feathers?

camera pans to plucked chicken / man

[–] Legend 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Diogenestralia

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[–] captain_oni@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Everyone knows chicken are feathered men.

Feathered bipeds

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

In which view is chicken not a bird?

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP has been around since the Jurassic period, they're having a lot of trouble to accept what's happened to chickens.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seen a chicken fly?

Also, penguins are fish.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since when is flying the criteria determining being a bird? Are bats and moskitos birds? Are planes birds? And flying is certainly not a requirement to be a bird: are baby birds not birds? Are injured or diminished birds not birds anymore? Are kiwis, dodos, ostrichs not birds?

As for penguins I can be flexible depending on how you cook it.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] embed_me@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Feathered* man

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 13 points 1 year ago

The view of immense stupidity and ignorance.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suppose if you happen to believe that chickens specifically are the descendents of dinosaurs, but you don't believe that birds in general are the descendents of the dinosaurs?

IDK. I'm having segment fault errors occur when I attempt to parse OP's logical expression.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Flawless deduction.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All you people mocking OP-- careful now, that's a slippery slope and before you know it you'll be believing that dogs are mammals.

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then why Pluto is a pet dog and Goofy is a human dog? Checkmate scientists.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Easy explanation: slavery.

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP is now a variable, and you're decrementing him by one.

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[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chickens are birds, aren't they? Just like how penguins are birds, and unlike penguins they can actually fly short distances.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, chickens and penguins are birds

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

We can probably just use process of elimination... They don't have live babies or nurse their young, so not mammals... They're warm blooded so not reptiles, amphibians, or fish... I think it's self evident that they aren't slime, mold, bacteria, or a virus... So, we're left with birds

[–] Liz@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The ability to fly does not make a bird. Birds are actually a pretty easy group to identify. Does it look like a bird? Great! It's a bird!

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[–] aulin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminds me of some 20 questions-like tv trivia where someone asked "is it an animal" and the other went "well, not exactly an animal". It was a bird. 😳

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That reminds me of this clip. I showed this to a few people who also agreed that fish are not animals, at which point it turns into an argument about about Domain - Kingdom - Phylum - Class etc and I feel like I am losing my mind. Getting gaslit by stupid people is a frustrating experience.

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[–] lugal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Some people already understand
c/birdsarentreal

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn. And here I was, being a fool, calling chickens dinosaurs...

[–] insufferableninja@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, but dinosaurs were all chickens. One little asteroid and they all just died, like cowards.

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[–] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

No they're dinosaurs

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Birds 👏 aren't 👏 real 👏

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I love the meme but it goes so far sometimes I worry how many genuine believers there might be. Flat Earth 2.0

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Last time I mentioned that birds are legitimately being turned into drones I received tons of negative votes. Be careful, the government WILL try to silence you

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

holding a chicken to the crowd BEHOLD! A BIRD!

[–] MSugarhill@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyway, both chicienband ducks are dinosaurs. That's what I tell my child. Birds are just a subcategory of dinosaurs.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Some folks fully deserve the bird

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wait until user IsEenYourShine gets to the part about dinosaurs.

[–] ____@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Are we asking normal humans, or Noem?

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

Wait until he figures out Ducks, Chickens, and Alligators are all Archosaurs.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I have an answer but no one would want to know it.

[–] Webster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Or if you're a fan of Brandon Sanderson, all birds are chickens.

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