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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Honestly, he dodged a bullet. Imagine a taxonomist who wants to date another taxonomist. It's virtually guaranteed that their relationship would be non-stop fighting.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

[Groundskeeper Willie Meme]

Damn taxonomists, they've ruined taxonomy! XD

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think I could be with anyone who understood a single word of that wiki description.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

after i read your comment, i actually asked myself a question: "why tf one would even like taxonomy?"

and i'm still asking

pls someone answer

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

Because nerding knows no limits. Taxonomy rocks.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

i see...

Take that, nerd!>:D

rustles your hair

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He should; hes a fucking idiot.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago

Because she's a con[ifers] woman.

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Clicked that Wikipedia link and immediately had a stroke

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

I can't blame you, it is pretty sexy reading.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't understand or didn't know about? It's a very straightforward hypothesis, but implausible to know about.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago

Let's go with "can't understand," as in, "she gave a satisfactory explanation of the gnepine hypothesis, and he can't understand it." Because, as you've pointed out, it doesn't seem that hard, so maybe he should be crying as she leaves

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 weeks ago

This whole link is the exact nerd thing I needed to read rn (it's notable stuff in overall evolution, not just taxonomy), thx.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

Get out of my room, Peter Pan.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bet the sex was as freaky as the molecular biology of plants. Trying to understand how conifers got their freak on over 200 million years ago? Fool's errand.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"I want to pollinate you and cover you in pine cones," he whispered and she felt her sap run hot with desire. She shivered from more than the cool spring wind on her bark. His needles moved against hers in the breeze, tickling and prickling her deliciously and she could tell his wood was knotted and hard as his sticky sap dripped from it. She craved to feel him against her, branches and bark and overwhelming passion. And then she felt it, the microspores of his grainy discharge, carrying his potent gametophytes, exploded into her, settling among her needles. Her bark tingled with exquisite, syngamic release as her branches quivered in the cool spring wind and deep inside her ovules she felt his gametes fuse with hers. "Yes," she whispered in the wind. "Take me! Fertilize me! Give me your nuts!"

"You know I'm your half brother," he whispered as she shuddered in climax. "I don't care," she whispered back. "That makes it hotter."

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Even better: i am resistible by all. 👌

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

What about cheese? Can you resist cheese and can cheese resist you?

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, never heard of Gnetum until now. Incrediblethat it is in the Gymnosperms while looking so much like an Angiosperm :O

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] knacht1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That seventies show.