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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 173 points 9 months ago
[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago

I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room... Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh... mission accomplished?

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 points 9 months ago

Did you ever read The Bikini Bottom Horror comic strip?

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

yeah that's what I was referencing 💯

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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 37 points 9 months ago

Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago
[-] pixelscience@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

zzzzziiiiippppp

[-] HUMAN_TRASH@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago
[-] clb92@feddit.dk 15 points 9 months ago

Don't leave us hanging... what are they called in France??

[-] Lampadaire_raclette@jlai.lu 16 points 9 months ago

They're called "étoiles de mer" in French

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 9 points 9 months ago

"toilets of the sea"

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Stars from/of the sea

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[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

this would work on me

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Seems a bit weird that every culture would call them some variant of "stars" since they don't look like actual stars. Actual stars are just dots.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

For clarification, the lines are caused by the mirrors’ edges, and the cross hatch pattern common on street lamps in pictures comes from a filter (or scratched lenses/other filters.)

With your normal eyeballs, it comes from defects like cataracts.

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[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

They particularly look like diffraction spikes/starbursts.

Astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma or smudged glasses can cause you to see starbursts when you look at bright lights at night.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

I must assume all people who name things have astigmatism.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 131 points 9 months ago

He must have been dating someone else who has an even greater knowledge of coelacanths.

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

True. When it comes to knowledge about coelacanths, never settle.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 72 points 9 months ago

Jokes aside, maybe OOP didn't cite their sources correctly. There is no bigger turnoff, especially on your first date. My mom used to say know your facts and have your sources handy. Best dating advice and honestly the only one that really matters

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago

Also: always carry a Laptop with you, so you can always hold them a power point presentation.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 54 points 9 months ago

100% this is it.

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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

Talk living fossils to me and I'll do anything you want baby.

You tell me about cryptids and you can just take me right there on the table.

[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

"Hey am I boring you, you've hardly said anything and your eyes are glazed?"

"Nnggh no baby... I-I'm... really close. P-please... d-don't stop"

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.

Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.

"Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Tbh if someone talked off the bat about their passion itd make me a lot more likely to want to date them. I want people to talk about what interests them and with most people it feels like pulling teeth trying to get them to do that.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Ohh man, maybe my extensive knowledge of Europa Universalis 4 will pay off after all.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

I don't think this post is meant as quippy, but rather self-deprecating. She only realized afterwards that she talked a little too much...

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Honestly, I love it when people start geeking out. It’s fun, and usually i learn something new.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Same as long as this isn't the only thing they do. I work with a guy that loves to talk about his passions and it's awesome for like thirty minutes. Then it's alright for another 15-20. After that it starts to drag and I begin to feel the weight of my mounting unfinished tasks.

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[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

He's just studying for the test.

[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 9 months ago

No lectures before the third date, everyone knows that. Huge red flag.

Did anyone else not know it's pronounced see-la-kanth? I've been saying it wrong in my head all these years omg.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

I'm revoking your koalafications

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Surely a man is entitled to his koalafanfiction.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

You were pronouncing it cloaca-canth weren't you?

[-] DuckBilledMongoose 20 points 9 months ago

The nights I stayed up trying to catch as many of those fuckers as I could in animal crossing

[-] StevenSaus@midwest.social 18 points 9 months ago

Neurodivergent person shares one special interest, neurotypical tells you everything you need to know about them.

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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Man getting lengthy lectures from a woman, and here I am talking to myself. What is wrong with some people? Not me; I know what’s wrong with me.

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

Thanks to Pokémon I immediately knew what kind of fish the post was about…

[-] Wintex@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

my sapphire brain instantly got braille ptsd

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[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I wonder if this is what it's like dating Lindsay Nikole.

For the record, she's one of my favorite YouTubers.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

She's the bees knees.

[-] smb@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

maybe he was vegetarian and would have wanted to hear more about sea"cucumber" instead of fishy things.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 21 points 9 months ago

I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants, not because I love animals!

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[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I'm down. After that I'm paying for the meal. We're definitely exchanging digits.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I'm not nerdy about fish. But I am nerdy about people who are nerdy.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

Maybe I should contact her and ask her to talk at me about colecanths so I can give her feedback.

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