Most retarded animal "facts" people have told you.A co-worker told me with a straight face that rats don't have bones. She said that's how they can squeeze into tiny holes so well.
>>4891691People thinking mushrooms are plants.People thinking spiders are insects. People forgetting tomatoes are a fruit.
>>4891691heard something similar. namely that rats observe a room for "vibes" before they enter. i think its weird they are aura driven. basically they spend months checking everyone going in and out, with minimal apereance themselves to see wether said room is in question of longetivity. i mean now that i write it, it makes sense, they avoid traps like a pro.
this is also true about cats, btw.
>op is too autistic to understand humor
>>4891757Believe me, anon, she was 100% serious since the topic was about pest control in an apartment complex. She said rats are hard to stop because of how they can squeeze through holes smaller than their bodies because they lack skeletons.
>>4891757You’d be surprised at what people believe. A family member of mine once said bears are pigs because both female bears and pigs are called sows, and believed bears and pigs could mate and produce offspring as they were the same animal. This person is also well-educated, makes several hundred thousand dollars a year, and has a prestigious line of work; so if that’s where someone like that is at when it comes to understanding basic biology, you can only imagine what people in the general population think. I’m not sure if OP is being truthful or not, but “rats can squeeze into tight places because they don’t have bones” seems about typical.
>>4891702People forgetting that squashes are a fruit, peppers are a fruit, onions are leaves, broccolis are flowers, potatoes are main stems, garlics are axillary buds and saffron are pistils from a flower (you only get 3 per flower, that's why it's so expensive)
>>4891779>onions are leavesOnions are bulbs
>>4891780What are bulbs?Leaves full of nutrients and energy, saved for the time when flowering comes.I got too technical to make it more impactful.
>>4891691Some idiot on /an/ told me trout are more closely related to humans than to sharks because they're both in the same clade absolute fucking tardball
My mother said once I put up a hummingbird feeder I am bound to have it there forever because as soon as I take it down the hummingbirds, who have grown dependent on it, will immediately die and it will be ALL MY FAULT.This is obviously BS because hummingbirds get only a very minor fraction of their daily food from feeders and will have no problem surviving in nature without them. She seems to think they're crack addicts for sugar water or something.
>>4891702>>4891779>People thinking mushrooms are plants.dork nitpicking>People thinking spiders are insects. dork nitpicking>People forgetting tomatoes are a fruit.tomatoes are vegetables, along with everything else that this geek >>4891779 listed. vegetable is a culinary term that includes many fruits. fucking tryhard faggots
I had a lady tell me, with a straight face, that lizards don’t have teeth.
>>4891757>Hear it was a femoid>Thinks she must not be retardedWhat level is simpazoid beta obriter is this?>>4891801>Dork buttmad he got corrected over calling tomato a vegetable and spiderbros not wanting to be lumped with keksects>Reddit spacingKek-lmao. Two two double jaj mao even, with a rolf.
>>4891801>vegetable is a culinary termYes, and you're on /an/, not /ck/, so here we call them fruits since that is biologically correct.
>>4891804somewhat true.if we're talking teeth like mammals have, she's right. They don't have socketed teeth. What's called the thecodont condition.
>>4891810>>Reddit spacingwhat the fuck do you think this means?
>>4891801I'm the "geek".Sorry for being a botanist, I guess!I just love plant, hope you can find something you are passionate about one day, instead of being a midwit.
>>4891691She's right, they're a species of jellyfish. You're the retard.
>>4891813Hes ragebaiting
>>4891702Reddit-ass factoids
>>4891812This was in the context of keeping one in the apartment. She meant sharp pointy things for food processing and self defense, I think. I just nodded and agreed, so I was good to get a skink. I actually didn’t know that, thanks.
>>4891705Yup
Bears can't run downhill
>>4891801"Being right is wrong" is never going to be true no matter how hard anti-intellectuals try to push for it. Sorry, but reality isn't "vibes-based".
>>4891922What would he do if he got stuck?
>>4891801>People thinking mushrooms are plants.That one isn't nitpicking.
>>4891938>reality isn't "vibes-based".The words you use to describe reality are totally flexible in meaning though.Chasing accuracy using words is a Fool's Aaron.
>>4891933Similarly, I've heard once bears climb a tree they can't get back down.
>>4891967Sophistry
A cult leader that i happen to know told me that peacock are sacred and have "resistance to hexes"
>>4892009You don't know that they don't.
>>4892005yes I love sofasdumasses like you think the map is the terrain.
>>4892015I know, they told me the whole mythA deity trespassed a another domain so it turned it's son into a peacock, it died that way, and its blood made more peacock and i guess they carry divinityAnd that's i should totally buy peacocks feathers for protection or something
This girl told me that a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans. I laughed at the joke but she was serious and got mad at me for it so then I told her she should stick to dogs.
>>4893162I've heard that thousands of times. I didn't know people actually believed it still.
Not quite /an/ related but humans are indeed animals so I'll post it: my neighbour swears to Christ her blood type is neither A, B nor O but Rh negative. I tried to explain that she can't just be Rh negative since that just means that her blood is negative for the Rhesus factor, which is a protein found in most people's blood regardless of blood type. If someone says their blood type is O positive, that means that they have O blood and test positive for the Rhesus factor and omitting Rh in that example instead of saying "blood type O, Rh factor positive" just saves breath the same way you say something costs six forty-nine ($6.49) rather than saying the whole fucking thing (six dollars and forty-nine cents). But still, she insists her blood is this special, non-existent RH type.Dumb cow. She says lots of stupid things. She wondered why all the cat-eating Asians in Ohio looked Black and another neighbour and I spent a half hour trying to explain what a window is to her because she didn't quite understand the difference between a window, a bay, a pane of glass, a window pane and a window frame. And she argued that England is not in Europe (but China and Egypt are?) because you can drive there from Maine (?). She is very, very stupid. Certainly the dumbest person I've ever met that wasn't diagnosed with an intellectual disability.
>>4891691orangutans can't drive
Ostriches can't consent.
>>4893419>she argued that England is not in EuropeIsn't that true now? Didn't they secede? Or maybe they rejoined again. Who the hell knows, I don't follow politics. But I at least understand the confusion on that point.
>>4891959It would be a catastrophe
>>4891705>>4891922Cat and Rats should be legally classified as a liquid.
>>4893419You should convince her that eating poop is good for you kek
>>4891691>Bats lay eggs>Rhinos are reptilesBoth the same person and she was 100% certain about both facts
>>4893555>Bats lay eggsI could kind of see that, since they're birdlike>Rhinos are reptileswhat in the holy hell?
>>4891774Well, that's true about bOars. It's one letter off
>>4893476She meant geographically. She seems to think it's in North America, as evidenced by the part where she thinks you can drive there from Maine. To exemplify her stupidity further, she was surprised that Europe had the 80s and buildings.>>4893553Please, no. The missus and I take her shopping sometimes and one time, she was going on a diatribe about how Bill Gates puts gluten in everything to kill us or something so she's gone gluten free. Then she grabbed boxes of pasta, which I explained is literally gluten. She says>no, it's made of flour! Yes, neighbour lady. And flour is ground up wheat which is the source of gluten. >wait, flour is made of wheat? I thought that was just whole wheat flour that's made of wheatYes, neighbour lady; whole wheat is wheat but flour is made of peeled, polished wheat. >what about whole wheat rice? ?>y'know, that rice that tastes badBrown rice? No, brown rice is rice. Rice is not wheat. She put back her boxes of pasta and swapped them for some gluten free Barilla
>>4891702But mushrooms are a plants. Spiders are insects and bro don't get me started on tomatos.. that shit veggie af.
>>4893162I believe the origin of that is that dogs have fewer number or strains (but not both) of bacteria in their mouths by some study
>>4891691a girl i was talking to told me that snow crabs have the intelligence of a sixty five year old man
>>4891933i e heard they are having problems running downhill, just like when you encounter a crocodile you should run in a zig zag pattern. never really looked into it because the chanses i would run in to eather of them is next to zero
>>4893815kek that's a new one
>>4893815That probably do, if he has alzheimers
>>4891691My cousin relling me termites were not real animals and they are just dirt being moved by the wind
I had an argument with someone before that was telling me rocks are living creatures.
>>4894589Just curious, what was his reason?
>>4894594That the things on and around the rock are alive, therefore the rock is alive.
>>4894397thats gotta be a whole lot of alzheimers
>>4894589Is his first language not English? A lot of objects are considered alive in the more philosophical sense, like they have histories and change over time or have active associations and connections with other things in the present. English only really calls rocks “living” when they’re capable of growing, but other cultures aren’t as picky. It’s why shit like buildings or documents are called living.
Some guy I talked to tried to explain to me how some "dinosaurs" (theropods, pterosaurs, and hadrosaurs) were real while the others (ceratopsians, thyreophorans, cenozoic marine reptiles, and sauropods) were government plants because of a litmus test to see how much stupid shit people would believe if the (((scientists))) told it to them. I asked him why some were real and he said it was>Because I know t-rex devolved into chickens because of, like, how their legs look and stuff. I also know the duck billed ones and pterasaurs are basically cows and bats so they make sense. But an animal the size of a whale and giant spike covered reptiles? It's just pure stupidity.
>>4891702arent tomatoes berries?
>>4896386wouldnt aquatic dinosaurs be more believeable because of crocodiles? i know that crocodilians arent dinosaurs but still
>>4896416Well yeah, but berries are fruit.
I had my third grade teacher tell me her favorite animals are rhinos because they’re the only living descendants of dinosaurs. Some TV show told me as a kid that cats don’t have collarbones and that’s why they can fall from any height without getting injured.
>>4896657>third grade teacher>rhinos are the only living descendants of dinosaursLiterally how do these people find jobs?
>>4896422I dunno man, he just said that they looked too implausible. Trikes are also just lizard rhinos so I dunno shy it's such a leap in logic
That every horse in street carriages has a plastic bag stuffed in the anus to catch the shit and removing it is a nasty jobThat our new cat who was 2 months old would impregnate our very old senior and lesbian as hell chihuahuasThat i was the one that taught two dogs to howl and they never did or would if i didnt do thatMom mistaking a mockingjay for a baby sand hill crane
>>4892009Have you tried put an hex in a peacock? Near impossible
>>4896663Here's a secret: You don't need to know or care about animals or the world if you teach math
>>4896887I have, in fact, tried putting a hex on a peacock lmaoNot even joking. I've mentioned it before that one if my neighbours has peacocks and how much I hate the squawky cunt.Admittedly, the hex was put on it in gest, but I did, actually in reality, wish death on a peacock and asked for otherworldly intervention to do something about the fucking thing
>>4896894I assume that, like beetles and round-ish, fat-ish things like that, they fly by helicopter like action, spinning their wings fast as fuck rather than flapping them like butterflies and birds do. That's why helicopters are basically shaped liked beetles and bumblebees rather than like butterflies or birds.
>>4891791>doesn’t understand early fish evolution>troon webcomic
>>4891771Now I'm curious about her logic behind this, like how does she think they move. Or does she think they have some sort of cartilaginous skeleton like sharks?I know I've always heard the old wives tales that they and cats both have a "collapsible" skull.
>>4893667There again you just wonder what's going on in that little pea brain. Is she associating it with Canada because former British possession? Did she somehow get ahold of the fact the continents used to be connected and there are european extensions of the Appalachian trail? From the sound of it though, I'm sure either one is giving her way too much credit.
>>4896898beetles are really shitty fliershelicopters are shaped more like dragonflies, which are extremely good fliers
>>4891774Wait so Al gore was right?
>>4891959I honestly don’t think it’s possible for cats to get stuck
my gf doesn't believe in dinosaurs. but upon further questioning she confessed that she "just doesn't really think about them."
>>4896958I'm 99% it's an accent mishearing of boar
>>4896950Helicopters crash constantly so the beetle comparison is apt.
>>4896898According to wikipedia, it wasn't a misconception about how they beat their wings, it was just that some early aerodynamic calculations were simplified and didn't account for pretty much the main principle that allows bees to generate lift. So basically someone half-assed their observation, nobody checked it, and created a myth that lasted for centuries.
>>4891779I hate people whose entire personality is based on claiming certain vegetables are not vegetables because they are fruit.
>>4897029Why are these little fuckers so cute, and wasps and hornets so horrible looking?
>>4897036I hate people who hate people whose entire personality is based on claiming certain vegetables are not vegetables because they are fruit.
>>4897036I hate retards that don't understand their 1st language.
>>4897029> So basically someone half-assed their observation, nobody checked it, and created a myth that lasted for centuries.yea but suppose that myth is totally enough to create the core of a principle, a truth, it can hold up for the rest of time. bees are dancing to the sun-moon clock to communicate to other bees where the honey is. now you can come up with scientific notation (which exists) or you can just mock them bees by writing some lines about their back-and forth steps and it still just as accurate in observation and has the right to last for centuries and probably meet the bees soul more profoundly than some biologists teaching scientific charts in school.
>>4891691>Most retarded animalsorry, thats unfortanetly true. saw a mouse today running over the street and that shook some bicylce rider so he bumped into some street sign holding himself up against a "stop" sign, but he didnt fell. made me feel bad for the rider, he just wanted to not drive over the mouse
>>4896386>>4896968What's with people not believing in dinosaurs? Even most creationists believe in them (despite them getting killed in the flood.)
>>4897039They're fat, fuzzy, and mostly docile.
>>4891705but that's because cats are liquids
>>4893419she might mean Rh null. You should probably convince her to donate blood
>>4897009Because of operator error or faulty parts, not because the physics
>>4897071Is this AIposting or schizoposting?
>>4896858>That every horse in street carriages has a plastic bag stuffed in the anus to catch the shitThat would actually be a pretty good idea. I'm surprised they didn't actually ever do this.>>4896968>she doesn't think about dinosaursWhat a bleak existence.
>>4891691Back when I was probably about 9 years old I got two pet mice. My aunt who would never stop watching billionaire mega church pastors and ranting bible verses every second, thought that mice were just baby rats. I had to explain to her as a 9 year old how they were two different things and she seemed shocked.Still makes me laugh thinking about it.
>>4897220I've seen tarps being used for this
>>4897137Nope, because I thought that might be the case at first, too, so I asked how she found out her blood type. She only learned about her OMG super rare shiny pokemon blood type when she had her daughter and needed a blood transfusion. Were she Rh null, she'd have died since she'd have been unable to receive any blood from anyone else anywhere except another Rh null donor which, simply put, are uncommon enough to practically be non-existent. She's just something Rh negative but she's too stupid to understand that.Her daughter somehow got into medical school and she's only barely less stupid that she is. I hate to imagine how badly she's going to fuck people's life up as a medical professional should she ever finish.>>4896946The old bat doesn't read anything at all nor watch any television other than the trashiest "reality" junk. And by "anything at all" I mean it. She doesn't even read social media posts. She's an OAP who watches TikTok. So no, she would have neither read nor heard of either anywhere.Also, Canada isn't a "former British possession." It's a current one. The British crown appoints the Governor General who then appoints each province and territory its governor. Canadians do not have gubernatorial elections. Queen Elizabeth is on Canadian money.You can't even become a Canadian citizen without swearing an oath specifically to the crown.
>>4897340>Also, Canada isn't a "former British possession." It's a current one.They've been officially independent since 1982 and the empire's been dead longer than that so possession is a strong word..
Deer are insects.At night they become attracted to light sources.It causes millions in damages to vehicles.
>>4897396>officially independent>even though a geriatric inbred 2000+ miles away is regarded as the head of state and has the sole power to choose the governor general who, in turn, chooses every canadian governor, without input from the electorate>even though court cases are literally named shit like "the crown vs yo' momma's fat, flappy cunt" and prosecutors are literally called "crown counsel" who operate "at his/her majesty's pleasure" and legal actions are literally called "service on the crown"Sure. Independent. Whatever you say. lmao
>>4897396If you have a Queen or a King's face in your money then you're not independent.
>>4897168schizoposting, my favourite>>4897425specialist need to determine the difference between these two and install fences. if that is too low, deer hops over, if its too big, insects fly through. both creatures are equipped with a somewhat curious nature and try out new information. but if that is damaging vehicles without instsalling respective boundaries, thats on the wildlife patrol.
>>4897628oh no the UK is not independent
Wtf is this true Canada is ruled by England? What about Trudeau? Don't they vote for their president?
>>4898007They vote for their prime minister but they don't vote for their governors. Those are chosen by the crown.Weirdly, the British prime minister technically isn't elected, either, but also chosen by the crown. They're "elected" in the Commons but the that has no official bearing on the law. However, since the early 1800s, the crown just chooses whichever person wins the "election" in the Commons. Brits don't actually elect their own prime minister directly, but they choose who enters the House of Commons, who in turn, elect the PM.Makes sense?
>>4896657>>4896667ya know i can kinda see that one they look very odd when compared to other mammals
>>4893419>And she argued that England is not in Europe (but China and Egypt are?) because you can drive there from Maine (?).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_england
>>4897637I think what car manufacturers should do is install ultrasonic emitters on vehicles. We won't hear anything, but deer and other wild animals will hear the high pitched sound and be scared away from roads. It will greatly minimize accidents and animal fatalities.
>>4891691I've met multiple people who believe that rats don't have bladders or rectums and just have a constant stream of piss and shit pouring out of them 24/7. A friend even told me that this "fact" was supposedly taught to him during a workplace health and safety seminar.
>>4898115As a former rat owner I can tell you that is true, they do piss constantly.
>>4898052Nope. I suggested that, too. She specifically said>no, OLD England! as though she was super proud of herself, like a five year old tying her own does for the first time.She's just very, very dumb.
>>4897721nta but i'll rewrite the post to be "technically someone else's queen or king", but from the information i have not bothered to fact check on this thread it does seem pretty fucked up
>>4898011>They vote for their prime ministerNope. Like the British system, Canadians vote for seats in parliament and the MPs vote for the Prime Minister. Because Canada has a bunch of parties, no party needs a majority of seats to get a prime minister in, which is how Trudeau, with only a 33% approval rating, has remained PM for the last 11 years. His party hold a plurality of seats and he received the most nominations from the MPs because of that.No PM has had a majority of parliament behind him since Mulroney in 1984. Forty years of PMs that's are more unwanted than not.
>>4898124I don't know why they don't just go by popular vote. When you get an official government ID there should be a list of dates at the bottom leading to your next renewal. Each time you go vote, the attendant punches a hole for that year verifying you voted, so you can't double dip.
>>4898118Idk man I litter-trained my female rats easily. The males would piss everywhere but deliberately for scent-marking purposes and not because they couldn't not do it.
From this thread I'm starting to wonder if rats are even real.
>>4898126I didn't know why America doesn't either.
>>4898120Ok, wow
>>4897340>Her daughter somehow got into medical school and she's only barely less stupid that she is. I hate to imagine how badly she's going to fuck people's life up as a medical professional should she ever finishSurely there is no chance of her passing all her classes and graduating, right?
>>4891691My dad was convinced the words "mammal" and "animal" mean the same thing and would argue that all non-mammals are not actually animals but somewhere between plants and "real animals".
>>4898410I'm a medicfag and believe me there are medical graduates who are fucking retarded.There was a girl in my class who somehow got to final year of medical school believing that men ejaculate a cup (as in 250ml) of semen every time they cum. She would've kept believing it if we hadn't found out and given her shit for it. Was getting pretty good grades too.
>>4891781Humans are featherless bipeds.
>>4898546Did she just accidentally out herself as a virgin?
>>4898546was her boyfriend a zebra lol
Someone told me that squirrels commonly forget were they buried their nuts
>>4893495upvoted
>>4891691This was a long time ago back in school but I argued with one girl who thought that basically any interspecies hybrid would be possible, and that people just don't do it because it would be yucky. At first I thought she was joking but it seemed like she was dead serious about it
>>4898588All humans are virgins anon, sex is just a lie people tell each other to impress them.
>>4893419>She wondered why all the cat-eating Asians in Ohio looked Black and another neighbour and I spent a half hour trying to explain what a window isHow did these ideas connect at all?
>>4898410She already finished pre-med somehow and started med school this year. >>4898635Is that not true? >>4898698They're two separate instances of her being dumb. I swear, she'd believe the phrase "rabid dog" would mean some sort of lagomorph/canine hybrid or something. >>4898275Did you miss the part where she thinks China and Egypt are in Europe?>>4898134I tried to post that rat but I can't. : (
>>4898588She was apparently a virgin, but I feel like even then you should know this shit, we even studied normal sperm parameters a few years before that.>>4898612Kek
>>4891705>>4891922They can fit into anywhere their skull will fit due to um skeleton
>>4898166because then cityniggers get all the power, thats why; half the us population lives in 7 different cities, seattle, la, sf, new york, chicago, dallas, and houston>>4898126popular vote is for retards, its just mob rule, which was literally caused the fall of athens, even the romans, the massive greekboos, realized that direct democracy is actually retarded>>4898064no, only adults wouldnt be able to hear it, but children will, you dont want a cars feature to be "causes screaming children"; and i guess dogs would start barking too
>>4891704>i think its weird they are aura drivenwhat is weird here is that you are so stupid lol auras are complete bullcrap
>>4898635I'm pretty sure that's true. Have you seen the sizes of their heads? There's not a room in there for memory, not when they bury hundreds for winter. I am not a squirrel so I don't want to speak for them, but I believe it.
>>4898751>She was apparently a virginLike I said, everybody is, unless you are/pay for a hooker. I won't let you gaslight me or anybody else troll.
>>4898839leave the /x/eno alone anon, it's hard for lesser apes to mimic homo sapiens intelligence; even orangutans struggle with it, though they get closer than most denizens of that board
>>4898824Maybe it's better kids did hear it so they wouldn't run into traffic either.
>>4891704Cats do this too. You can almost read their thoughts based on how their tail twitches. Rats, not so much.
There are an alarming amount of people who get their animal information from Looney Tunes and think elephants are terrified of mice.
>>4899199I thought Mythbusters proved that elephants are afraid of mice
>>4893668You're not black, you never will be, it's not even something to strive for, and being purposely obtuse doesn't make you less of a loser.
>>4899224theyre afraid of white mice, but its more logical since its because of strange version of animal rather than regular version animal
>>4893638They don't have fur so I guess a retard could think they are reptiles
>>4896946Probably doesn't realize that New England and England are different places.
>>4899224Not to the point they will climb a tree
