• MamboGator
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    1182 months ago

    Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Oh shit, that’s good. Write that down!”

  • @[email protected]
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    822 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    582 months ago

    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
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      222 months ago

      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.

        • @threelonmusketeers
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          22 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

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

  • @ironhydroxide
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    372 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    222 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      -12 months ago

      I have a feeling that A.A. Milne might just wanted to call a character the N-word, then first had a dream about how badly it aged, then in a second one how far racist gamers can go to say at least a “censored” version of it online.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

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

      • @threelonmusketeers
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        they are toy animals, not real ones

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

        The two characters are

        Owl and Rabbit.

        In one of the stories, one of them says to the other “You and I have brains, the others have fluff”.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          True, but Owl and Rabbit weren’t mentioned.

          They do complicate things, since Owl and Rabbit shouldn’t get along unless Owl happens to be too small for Rabbit to consider him a threat.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            In their case, you can’t play the “stuffed animal” card, but you can still play the “anthropomorphized” card that all the others can as well. Animals that are able to reason and talk to one another are less likely to consider each other prey.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

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

  • Melllvar
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    72 months ago

    “Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation”

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

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

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    52 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