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How it started vs. How it's going (lemmings.world)
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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 154 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why do those fish always pose with some dude holding them?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ever watched a fish stand up?

They need to be held.

[–] msage@programming.dev 26 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

There's like 2 people who will get the reference, but fuck it, here it comes.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't get it.

Some blobfish meme short thing?

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's dozens of us!

[–] reinei@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

It does not have nerves, yet it feels pain. It does not have a mouth, yet it must scream. And until recently: death only made it so so much stronger!

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Don't we all really?

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

It's a child, that fish just wants to look bigger

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He probably paid some fishing tourist shop to get him to just the right place so he could hook it and pull it in. That pic cost him money, and it's really important to him.