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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 months ago
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  • Rolder@reddthat.com
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    My interpretation:

    Bird: The standard

    Birb: Bird being silly

    Borb: bird but fat

    Blorb: Bird but holy damn he’s even fatter

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      I think borb is just a species with fluffy feathers. Blorb is fat, though.

    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      blorbo: GYATT

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    Are there really herpetologists saying “don’t say snek”?

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      That would surprise me, also. But it takes all kinds. Maybe the average ornithologist tends to think that birds are “cute”, while the average herpetologist tends to think that reptiles are “cool”? I’m sure that whatever the group as a whole tends to think, there will be many counterexamples.

      I was just thinking about chess, and how one of the most famous chess players, Hikaru Nakamura often refers to chess pieces as “juicers”, for whatever reason… maybe the shape? Lots of people have nicknames for different pieces, like “ops” for “bishops”, etcetera. But then there are some who take themselves entirely seriously, and never joke around.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      According to my ss-ss-sources, the preferred nomenclature is ‘danger noodle’.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Danger noodle is for non venemous and nope rope is for venemous

        • theedqueen@lemmy.world
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          I thought danger noodle is for venomous, nope rope for constrictors, and snek for anything else

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      I only know one and he seemed to find it amusing but ultimately didn’t really care.

    • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m not a herp, but I sometimes refer to them as a snekeroni

  • cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    Bord

    • coolman@lemmy.world
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      Buort

  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    I’m really digging BLORB.

    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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      The eye really sells it

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      Clearly a rare sighting

      reverse image search for blorb does not return REAL blorb but it’s okay

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      … Can we get a Blorb with an Orb, pondering?

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Good lord the blorb.

    What a well fed pigeon.

    Man, I dunno if you’ve heard,

    BUT THE BIRD IS THE WORD

    BA BA BA BA BA BA OOH MAH MOW MOW

    OOH MOW MAH MOW

    WELL DON’T YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE BIRD

    WELL EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD

  • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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    Pondering my blorb

  • Gandalf the Gorsed@feddit.org
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    Bouba and blouba

  • Lembot_0006@programming.dev
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    O-o-o, so sciency!

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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    I was expecting the last frame to say “American Borb”.

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world
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    Birb’s aren’t real

    • OpenStars@piefed.social
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      Get with the times - apparently we are past that, and it is borbs that aren’t real

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    Maximum borb.

  • ooterness@lemmy.world
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    Just so everyone knows, birb, borb, and floof are official terms recognized by the Audubon Society.

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      Brilliant articles, thanks - written by someone completely conversant in both birds and internet culture, with a sense of humour but also communicating bird facts and including citations for things like why round things are cuter.

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