• Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
    69·
    10 months ago

    I have to give them credit, they actually consulted a real expert whilst they were drunk. Most people don’t, not even sober

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      To be fair, “do hummingbirds have feet” seems eminently wikipediable. I’d like to think that if I ever felt the need to drunk-dial an expert, it’d be for something less trivial.

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        3·
        10 months ago

        seems eminently wikipediable

        Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia…

        In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

      • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Not even 20 years ago smart phones and the internet weren’t ubiquitous. I’m only 35 but even I remember personal stories about bar disagreements where we just simply couldn’t use our phones to search the net. Because all they were capable of is dialing a number and Snake.

      • meliaesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        But they don’t just want the answer, they want to share an experience with the people they’re with in a clever and fun way.

    • jasondj@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Did you get into a debate about wether jackdaws were crows, then put on Groucho glasses and defend your own point?

      • Zoop@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m lurking through posts trying to distract myself because I’m in an overwhelming amount of pain, and this comment of yours just made me actually laugh out loud a bit. Thank you for that! Especially the ‘putting on Groucho Marx glasses to defend your own point pretending to be someone else’ part. That whole situation, and the way you just described it as if it were happening in a bar instead of on a forum, just amuses me way too much. Also, I just accidentally typed “anuses” instead of “amuses,” which also amused me way too much…

        Anyway the point of my rambling is you’re fucking funny and I appreciate you, dammit.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Unless you were dying and/or making your Will, you didn’t bequeath anything to anyone. I wish I knew what word you meant.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    When I was little, my mom dropped me and her friends kid off at a church for arts and crafts, I was 5. We we given toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaner, glue, and some other stuff to make butterflies. I studiously started making mine, I got the wings, the antenna and asked what I was supposed to use for the legs. A full grown ass women look me right in the eye and said “Butterflies don’t have legs”.

    I had seen butterflies land on flowers and latch on with legs, I was so confused how an adult wouldn’t know that.

    • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I remember asking my teacher why you could see the moon during the day and my teacher told me you couldn’t.

      This too left me very confused, because I had seen the moon that very morning from the school yard.