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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

Not to be confused with the ping pong ball eater snake, or the larger basketball eater snake

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

there's a joke in there with a trans person asking the question and the answer being an egg but i can't think of a good one

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I dont get how snakes breathe

Edit: yes I do now

His lungs apparently are somehow just warping around it

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i believe thier airway is extended and physically seperated from the throat into the mouth so they can breathe while they are swallowing food at the same time, i think alligators have a similar system. and they only have one lung because of thier elongated body doesnt allow for the extra organs. if you seen a snake swallowing you can see a hole in thier mouth thats what they use to breathe.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s interesting, I’m having a hard time picturing their diaphragm.

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (67 children)
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[–] Des@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Looking like recursion with organs: all organs placed inside a large-intestine-like animal. And if it swallowed a mouse, another set of organs, and if that mouse swallowed ... etc

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

I don't know what I was expecting, I suppose obviously all their organs would be long and thin logically, but I was expecting something else.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

I am now saving this picture, and spreading it as far and wide as I can.

And I will never, never, never translate it into English.

[–] zooi@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

I'm glad someone else also thought of this exact page

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're telling me this snake is eating a person questioning their gender? Wtf why are they taking photos instead of helping?

[–] four@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

You're not supposed to interrupt nature. I know that it might seem cruel, but the snake also has to eat and you don't want to upset the balance of the ecosystem

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 2 days ago

Actually this one got lucky and pulled a SSR egg this time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

He looks so happy.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why don't people read before they respond?

It takes a small fraction of the time and effort, and they still have to read the responses to their comment to get the benefit.

[–] Kabaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The joke is that they know it is an egg. The user, somewhat like myself, is clearly trans, and "egg" means something important to the trans community. The extra question marks and the ":3" set the rest of the humorous/teasing tone. The post on here is itself the same kind of subtle meme, with the post text just saying, quite plainly: egg.

I imagine this wouldn't be intuitive or amusing unless you're really in the loop.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago

As an outsider I can say that I didn't even know that was a trans reference. I hadn't linked their trans status with the joke because that's not my arena and there's zero context clues. So I read it literally.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is obviously pretending to be a pufferfish.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

This is how I eat eggs too

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