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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Also, if you forget someone's name, call them Muhammad. It's the most common name, and therefore, you're most likely going to be correct.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is on the same level as "everyone has one breast and one testicle on average".

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most people have an above-average number of arms.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 8 points 2 days ago

So so so many ways in which you can make statistics for a slow and painful death

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I think the joke originally is to call someone with an unknown name Muhammed Kim because Muhammed is the most common first name and Kim is the most common family name.

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 12 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the advice, Muhammad.

[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who even has three friends?

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I do!

I mean, I have a friend, and they have two other friends, so therefore I have three friends... right?

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

You're the beetle

♫ He roller-coaster, he got early warning
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He says: “One and one and one is three”
Got to be good-looking ‘cause he's so hard to see ♫

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'm so grateful for the red outline, nobody could understand how these two brief concepts fit together as a joke without it.

[–] s@piefed.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My three friends are beetles and I get by with a little help from them

[–] parody 3 points 2 days ago

No, those are a classic bug-style car design, you’re thinking of The Beatles

[–] ray@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder which member of the Beatles was actually a beetle

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Calm down there, Kafka!

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

20-25% of all mammal species are bats. Think of the last 4-5 different mammals you've seen. Is your dog actually a bat? Seems likely.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

is this by number of species or number of organisms? diversity and populousness are not necessarily related

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How many are crabs, though? Or are crabs beetles?

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

1 out of every 4 crabs is a bettle

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

OP outing themselves for not having any beetle friends.
Neeeeeerd

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Damm have i been secretly a beetle this whole time?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

Shut up, Ringo!

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One out of every four species. Very different

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking at the other comments, i feel your comment should be upvoted more. Let me try this:

One out of every four species. Very different

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] visnudeva@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Is that because they were 4 that they called their band the beatles ?

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

We're all beetles on this blessed day.

It was purely a guess, but I wondered if butterflies and moths rank up there in terms of number of species. Sure enough I checked Wikipedia and apparently it's the second largest order of insects.

Back in the day when I first discovered Wikipedia Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random, I was always amazed at how often a species of moth/butterfly or a species of beetle would show up. Like if the feature is truly and genuinely completely randomly showing me a page on Wikipedia, and assuming there's not even a page for each and every species of these insects, it was still impressively frequent.

Though, I just played with the link for a few seconds as I was typing this up, and I didn't get one single link to an insect, so maybe they've changed how they pull random stuff or maybe the ratios of insect to non-insect articles has changed over the years.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

That is a beetle bit of a stretch to say if you ask me.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't there a similar ratio for Wasps?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 2 days ago

Wasps don’t have friends