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[–] mech@feddit.org 198 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I've never even seen a manatee in a bikini.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

Glad I’m not the only one with that thought.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Is she single? Asking for a friend.

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Her name is Barbara.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

Because people like her keep wrestling them off.

mermaids and their songs are confusing

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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Manatees are struggling with climate change along the florida coast line where waters in the summer have been measured to up to 100 degree F in the ocean. It has devastated manatee floral diet. And they are dying off from it.

Do not torment the gentle wildlife that you are killing off.

[–] homes@piefed.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In Florida, is an extremely serious crime to even touch a manatee.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I once saw a park ranger just screaming at a group of guys and threatening them with $5000 fines just for getting near one.

I told a friend of mine who surfs, and he didn't realize they were so protected. He said there's an old girl who comes to visit them when they surf, and she rolls over on her back so they can scritch her belly. I told him it was a $5000 fine, and he was bummed. He liked scritching his manatee friend.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Destroy their entire ecosystem is a ok though :(

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The other perpetrator:

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Listen, I get it, Manatees have no business wearing a bikini.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You take that back! Leave them damn sexy manatees alone.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You've been at sea too long, sailor.

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[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In the criminal justice system, harassment of marine mammals is considered a Florida-tier offense. In Miami-Dade, the detectives who investigate these bizarre aquatic crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Meth-Adjacent Intervention Unit. These are their stories.

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean the Meth-Induced Abnormal Mannerism Investigators?

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Smoke meth in the city where the heat is on
Fight manatees on the beach 'til the break of dawn
Welcome to Miami
Bienvenidos a Miami

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why was the manatee in a park and why was it wearing a bikini. Lastly, was it a licensed wrestling match or unsanctioned?

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[–] Otakulad@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

She just wanted her bikini back after the manatee stole it.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Her hips don't lie! That's shakira! You guys arrested shakira while she was doing her wrestling routine!

You might have noticed she's not blonde.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Confirmed! You guys got shakira while she was having personal arguments with her favorite animal kingdom friend.

Just leave them alone. Its all about past manatee songs that never made it.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Manatees can't wear bikinis, their nipples are in entirely the wrong place

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Not with that attitude.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One is left wandering what a manatee in a bikini was doing in a public park...

[–] redbrick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel there's more to this story we're missing here. ..but damn, I'd wrestle her any day...

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fighting an endangered animal? Swimming in probably boat lanes. 

Come on guys.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I see you know your judo well!

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

choke me mommy

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

LEAVE IT ALONE! FIGHT ME INSTEAD!

Goes prone

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no here comes the manatee from the top rope with a steel chair! Oof! As god as my witness she is broken in half!

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Well... Who won?

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I'm going to have to see the video

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Picture is AI

Musk is responsible for this. Remember a few weeks ago when he made Grok put everyone in bikinis? Of course, Florida is now copying it IRL. And as usual, it's the poor bloody matinee ... mantit ... blobbly wobblies that suffer!

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago

Is this on pay per view?

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