Deez peets
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 11 Jun 18:28
https://mander.xyz/post/31870050

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morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de on 11 Jun 18:48 next collapse

from left to right:

  • human
  • dog
  • horse
  • flamingo
tanisnikana@lemmy.world on 11 Jun 18:57 next collapse

With a helpful reminder in parenthesis that they mean flamingo the bird, as opposed to the casino, which doesn’t have any feet.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 11 Jun 19:20 next collapse

According to their press kit, their casino alone has 93,000 feet. All of them square for some reason.

don@lemm.ee on 11 Jun 19:55 next collapse

As opposed to, what, triangular feet? Spiral feet? Perhaps you’d feel better if their feet were hyperboloid? ffs get a grip.

logicbomb@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 15:25 collapse

They have even more cubic feet.

xylol@leminal.space on 11 Jun 19:21 collapse

you just have to find the right room

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Jun 21:25 collapse

Or order from the special room service menu

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Jun 15:46 collapse

But why Katakana? Those are some reasonably basic kanji- certainly not beyond bird anyway.

morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de on 12 Jun 16:03 collapse

it seems that the scientific nomenclature for families of animals in Japanese uses katakana:

this is confirmed by a few comments on this page: ja.hinative.com/questions/14614111

Basically, the kanji “犬” is used. Since “犬” is an elementary Kanji character, the hiragana “いぬ” is not often used.

The katakana “イヌ” is used in more biological contexts than “犬”.

Example:

  • “Walking with a dog” 犬
  • “Inu is a mammalian animal” イヌ

However, not all Japanese follow this rule. If in doubt, just write the kanji character for “dog” and you will be fine.

zaphod@sopuli.xyz on 11 Jun 19:08 next collapse

I keep repeating this to everyone who’s listening and add that cats have clown feet.

spykee@lemm.ee on 11 Jun 19:12 next collapse

This is a whole new level of orgasm for people who are into feet.
Yes, I am one of them.
Please do not kink shame us.

christopher@lemmy.ca on 11 Jun 19:46 collapse

No kink shame from me. I may not be into that but to each their own

magnetosphere@fedia.io on 11 Jun 19:15 next collapse

Kinda creepy, but interesting enough to be worth it!

hansolo@lemmy.today on 11 Jun 19:20 next collapse

Horse feet are so strange. Actually, horse fingers and toes. Most of what you can the horse “leg” is what would be your finger.

With a big beefy nail that looks like horror when born, and smashes and rubs into place in their first day.

If they don’t give you nightmares, you don’t understand how they work.

AppleTea@lemmy.zip on 11 Jun 19:24 next collapse

skittering around on your fingertips

what a vile existence, I cannot stop imaging it

7bicycles@hexbear.net on 11 Jun 19:26 next collapse

Horse feet are so strange.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 11 Jun 20:38 next collapse

Horses know how the world works, that’s why they’re always giving it the middle finger.

spinne@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jun 20:41 next collapse

Wait, what? Please tell me more about this horror nail, I had no idea

hansolo@lemmy.today on 11 Jun 21:00 collapse

When they’re born, they’re called foal slippers.

horseyhooves.com/foal-slippers/

But just in general, horse hooves are amazing and so weird. It’s literally if your middle finger was half your leg, and the nail was a huge wraparound thing. Then plus you grew extra keratin on your fingertip like a mega callus from birth. Because why not?

horsecareadvisor.com/horses-hooves-when-born/

spinne@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jun 22:41 collapse

TIL that horses start off as nightmare-shod animals D:

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca on 11 Jun 21:00 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/7dde2714-9e84-4c94-8f05-fab01ac50020.jpeg">

hansolo@lemmy.today on 11 Jun 21:01 collapse

Yes! I spent 20 months uh, just minutes looking for a variation on this exact image! Thank you!

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca on 11 Jun 21:03 collapse

I posted the artist name as a top level comment.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jun 19:35 next collapse

“Couldn’t you have at least changed both of my legs??”

Erasmus@lemmy.world on 11 Jun 19:45 next collapse

That picture quickly turned into the alien from the end of The Arrival.

kautau@lemmy.world on 11 Jun 21:04 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ec5c0e00-db33-468e-b411-21e31f574084.gif">

infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net on 12 Jun 00:39 collapse

Came to the comments for The Arrival mention, TY.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jun 20:17 next collapse

As if human legs aren’t the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.

tetris11@lemmy.ml on 11 Jun 20:59 collapse

I’m gonna need more info

kemsat@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 00:11 collapse

Humans evolved from animals that walked on the ground, on the part of the hand/foot we would call fingers/toes. Like most animals btw (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade?wprov=sfti1).

Then the those animals transitioned into arboreal creatures, which evolved hands in order to climb & live in trees. These animals would’ve had hands & feet like monkeys.

Then those arboreal animals transitioned back into walking animals that didn’t climb as much, which turned their feet into something more like chimp/gorilla feet.

Then those animals began walking upright, which changed their feet to lose the ability to grasp since they no longer climbed as much. This is what gave humans the feet we have now.

baltakatei@sopuli.xyz on 12 Jun 00:27 collapse

Alien 1: Wow, humans must go around saying “Kill me…” a lot.

Alien 2: Uh, rude!

Middle-aged human: No, no, that tracks.

merci3@lemmy.world on 11 Jun 20:22 next collapse

Parasyte mentioned🗣️‼️‼️ <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cb8c5175-68c9-4f3e-b0f9-1aceab387eec.gif">

tetris11@lemmy.ml on 11 Jun 21:00 collapse

This was a weird anime for me. I couldn’t eat noodles when watching it

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca on 11 Jun 21:00 next collapse

If you’re looking for more the source is Satoshi Kawasaki books “Exchanging bodies with animals”. Might have better luck finding a webpage if you can read Japanese. There’s definitely more nightmare fuel out there to find, the search term “Satoshi Kawasaki animals as human” should get you some hits.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/77b6ce06-58cb-4248-9dff-b3dab8264624.jpeg">

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 11 Jun 22:09 next collapse

It honestly is a really great way to demonstrate the concepts

someguy3@lemmy.world on 11 Jun 22:52 next collapse

Huh that one’s actually really interesting.

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org on 11 Jun 23:09 collapse

Virgin human proportions vs Chad bird proportions

GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 15:39 collapse

Gigachad pecs ngl

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org on 11 Jun 23:11 next collapse

What really puzzels me personally are bovine front legs, the joints are kinda all over the place

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 11 Jun 23:18 next collapse

A good day to be a leg man.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jun 23:46 next collapse

When a cat loafs, the things that stick up on either side of her back? Those are her knees.

Kumikommunism@hexbear.net on 12 Jun 00:32 next collapse

In case anyone is wondering the labels are human, dog, horse, and flamingo.

racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 01:21 collapse

It’s weird to see “犬” and “馬” written in katakana.

Etterra@discuss.online on 12 Jun 00:41 next collapse

What, you don’t want to be able to dunk without jumping?

gofsckyourself@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 06:00 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41a01e43-711d-4bfc-afe8-dc1b02461eb4.jpeg">

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz on 12 Jun 06:34 next collapse

Mr Hands?

meliaesc@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 15:37 next collapse

☹️

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 15:52 collapse

The Horse walks on the middle fingers

Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jun 06:26 next collapse

There was a great Vinesauce segment on Satoshi Kawasaki. I love this weird shit.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 12 Jun 06:38 next collapse

“I wish to be a werewolf; half man, half wolf!”

The monkey paw curls a finger and the wish is granted as the left half the human is transfigured into the form of a wolf

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 15:38 collapse

So you’re telling me my bird doesn’t actually have backwards knees, it’s his ankle??