Can someone explain what is funny about that? Autism adhd here.
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Woman just realized for the first time that ducks eating birdseed were, in fact, birds.
(Can I patronize? should be funny to point out that) ackshually, ducks are birds regardless of what they're eating. Like, at all times. Same happens with Penguins, Ostrich, and... Mmm.. other birds! gotcha!! Can't say the same with Velociraptors :P
Nobody said that the act of eating birdseed was the thing that makes the ducks birds.
JavaScript devs learning python: is this duck typing?
Yes.
if 'is_eating_birdseed' in obj.__dir__() and obj.is_eating_birdseed:
return 'Is duck!'
I know... yet,
ducks eating birdseed were, in fact, birds.
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Technically ducks and velociraptors are both dinosaurs, regardless of what they eat.
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I mean, you gotta admit the differences is something that varies, especially just on size and build. If I saw a guy offering fancy feast to a tiger, I'd probably also question it.
Also would say, this could be the best scene ever in a Jurrasic Park movie. Trex is charging in... a kid just drops birdseed on the ground, T-Rex stops and begins eating... Palientologist asks kid "how the heck did you know that would work", Kid "Bird!".
People normally feed ducks food like bread. The woman was used to this, so she was startled to see someone feeding ducks birdseed.
We're used to birdseed being used to feed songbirds or the various tree birds.
When the woman was directly informed that ducks are birds she was directly confronted with the knowledge that we put waterfowl in a different mental category than arboreal birds.
It's easy to imagine the feeling of realizing you've had a very basic, totally benign blindspot in how you conceptualize something as simple as ducks, and the woman's reaction captures that deep feeling of "now that you say it it's obvious" that a lot of people have felt. Knowing the feeling, it being slightly uncomfortable but harmless, and the general whimsy of ducks makes it funny.
It's funny because feeling empathy for silly mistakes makes us laugh.
I'll be honest I personally assumed ducks only ate fish.
Wrong shaped beak for that, shovel instead of spear
Pelican.
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"Duckweed" is named such because ducks like to eat it. I believe aquatic plants like that are a pretty big part of their diet.
Your systematic analysis engaged my chuckle reaction. Thank you and have a good day
Wow, this is an exemplary explanation. Being clear with several levels of cultural knowledge as well as the emotional load behind several meanings and juxtapositions, and still comes across with the humor unscathed.
I dream to one day attain such mastery.
Username checks out.
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And now folks, realize that this is true of every single thing that humans think about.
You put a duck and a sparrow side by side and maybe it seems obvious that, while not the same, these two things have something deeply in common. But most people have never considered them in one thought. When you get into abstract ideas like "freedom" or "socialism" is it any surprise that most people can't even recognize them, let alone agree on any commonalities?
You spend all day arranging dogs next to bears going "do you see how these are both canine-form mammals?" and the public is watching a tiktok while dismissing you going "Uh bears aren't pets, what a dumbass!"
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Back in my days ducks were just fish with extra wings and legs
I see you're a follower of catholic doctrine
Either that or he's a follower of Hank Green: https://youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo (plus a few more of his recent videos)
Please narrow it down, how many extra wings and legs?
Eight
Does that bring the total to 12?
no. five.
5 legs would be some weird Cambrian Explosion experiment. They got buck wild back then!
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I mean... aren't all tetrapods just fish with time added?
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Is this in Wales?
No i think you’re thinking of that story about Jonas.
Oh, it's not for growing them?
The first thing they ask for IS grapes.
Bum, bum, bum
OMG! Same!
Where did this person go to school? Did this person go to school? What did they get from the feathers and the wings and the whole flying thing?
Stop being toxic.
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Around these parts we call that getting strewheeled, after my wife's stunning realization that they are so named because of the wheel at their stern.
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If I'm being completely fair and objective, not all birds eat "bird seed" and not everyone is well-informed about the diets of various types of bird. But also, at least where I live, some parks have signs that specifically say not to feed the ducks/geese at all, and I can totally understand how that might lead people to conclude that it's not safe to feed them.
On the other hand, I'm reminded of the time that I was at an insect exhibit when one of the educators running the booth referred to "these animals" and the woman behind me asked something like "bugs is animals?" And it still leaves me perplexed that otherwise seemingly fully functional people make it to adulthood thinking that insects are not animals.
I've met people who don't know humans are animals.
Ok, so you say humans come from monkeys, right?
But then, who put the monkeys there in the first place, uh?
Have you ever thought of that?
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you need remarkably little wisdom to contribute to modern society
I recall in a high school biology class, a classmate asked whether atoms were alive. The teacher was kind, but perplexed. She went into detail about how cells, which we do consider to be alive, are built out of molecules (not alive), which are built from atoms (not alive), etc. I'm not sure the question asker had ever considered that cells are not the same as atoms 🤔
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Honestly, I can see how someone would think insects and animals are different things given that we never call them animals like 99% of the time.
Plus they're so different than say, a cat or bird or fish, it almost feels like they shouldn't be called animals.
Of course, insects are animals, but I've heard people say way dumber things than that, things like, "Trump is not a pedo."
Ducks is bird.
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