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[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 87 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's actually even more unlikely that they would be able to learn how to talk. This guy's clearly not a very good scientist if he missed that.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'd be questioning the unique selective pressures that caused the hundred acre wood to produce sentient stuffing filled animals.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

I mean, if it's the Red Forest, anything is possible

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Darwin's got his finches, Dawkins has his teddy, each instrumental to the modern understanding of natural selection.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Or he knows something we don't...

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 58 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Unlike with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, with Dawkins, I would be quite surprised if he brought that up without being quite specifically asked about it…

[–] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's probably from an hour long portrait interview, in which they cover a lot of ground including favourite English literary pieces, and the interviewer tries to tie it to the guest. They would probably ask David Beckham which Harry Potter character he'd have on his football team.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd have thought Dean Thomas. Isn't he a West Ham fan? He'd at least know the rules, which is probably more than can be said of the average wizard.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Great call!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dawkins would have shitposted on Twitter with the best of them if he'd been born later

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But, now hear me out, what if there was also a rabbit?

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why stop there? Owl! Tiger! Kangaroo!

[–] LordTrychon@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Tigger. There's a double-guh.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's morphin' time!

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Yeah, not with that attitude, Richard.

[–] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This looks like something from Viz magazine. They'll regularly have big one page jokes about something and then have these little made up side bits in.

Whole thing was probably about illegal immigrants taking small boats to the hundred acre wood and then there's this little bit in the bottom.

[–] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

Here's an example. The thoughts of the 1966 world cup winning squad on the disappearance of Lord Lucan

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[–] TOModera@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, he's a Tigger, not a Tiger, so that's off.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Bruh you can't just drop the t-word like that

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[–] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think those animals would be stitched together with cloth and stuffed with cotton, either.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

they are toy animals, not real ones

A couple of them were real animals, and this is reflected in the stories.

The two characters areOwl and Rabbit.
In one of the stories, one of them says to the other "You and I have brains, the others have fluff".

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Someone take Dawkins to a zoo.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the dude studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, so he is an expert on the matter...

[–] aport@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And yet his statement is missing the oxford comma

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

"Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation"

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I'm sure there's regions where people have pigs and donkeys and there are bears and tigers in the woods.

However, it would not end up well for the pig or the donkey if they hung out

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If someone released a donkey in East India this would be very plausible. Kangaroos on the other hand…

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah there's no way that Kanga hasn't beaten the shit out of them all already for getting too close to Roo, especially Tigger and Pooh.

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