RandomStickman @ RandomStickman @fedia.io

General nerdy person. Used to be forklift certified. I try to draw as much

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Hell yeah. With great power comes great responsibility. I loved my time on a forklift

It's the only room with air conditioning that we can be in during class time

Been to a Simple Plan concert and it was great. It's what I'd imagine what therapy would be I guess.

Thanks for the kind words!

Oh wow, haha thank you!

Yes

Oh, sure! Thanks for asking. It's literally the first time haha.

A CC share alike to my Masto handle @RandomStickman@comicscamp.club would be great.

Ват да фук хаппенед то латин скрєрт

As in you want to use it?

Once I saw a video of a chef that swears by putting fish sauce into his chili. I tried it and it tasted good. I no long have a fear of fish sauce. I put fish sauce in everything,

The European roller chick will vomit a foul-smelling orange liquid onto itself to deter a predator. The smell also warns the parents on their return to the nest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_roller?wprov=sfla1

I've heard people call the Farrari F50 ugly but it's my favourite car from Need for Speed 2 and I've always liked the looks of it

There's a Chinese idiom 鷸蚌相爭，漁人得利. Literally it means "when a snipe and a clam fights, the benefactor is the fisherman."

It's a story about a bird trying to eat the clam but ended up with it's beak clamped shut by the clam and no body was giving ground. It left them both in a vulnerable state and when a fisherman came by he can easily just pick both of them up.

This story was told to a king to convince him not to invade a neighbouring country, leaving them vulnerable to a 3rd kingdom.

My attempt at an explanation

• Ducks are dinosaurs: Ducks, as with all birds, evolved from theropods and are considered living dinosaurs.
• Horses walk on middle fingers: Ancestors of modern horses have 5 toes the size of a small dog. Eventually they evolved away the other toes and only the middle toe remain.
• Bees are crustaceans: Crustacea is not a single branch in the tree of life but a collection of multiple branches (i.e. paraphyletic). If we pick a point and said everything after that is considered the same group, then by necessity we have to put bees (and all hexapoda) and what we traditionally call crustaceans into a single group. That group would be pancrustacea. Is that exactly the same as saying bees are crustaceans? Are jackdaws crows? I'll let you decide.
• Pterodactyls are fish: Fish is also not a single branch. By the same token, if we want to put what we traditionally counted as fish (such as sharks, carps, and lungfishes) together as a single group, we have to include all vertebrates (which includes pterodactyls, us, whales, etc.)
• Redwood are algae: I'm not too sure about this one. The wikipedia page for algae say that it excludes the land plants (embryophytes) which redwoods are part of.
• Humans are part virus: Viruses have the ability inject and splice their genetic material into our genome and have our cells do the cloning for them. Usually it is not passed on to the next generation. Apparently an ancient strain of virus from millions of years ago incorporated themselves into our genome and our germ cells (sperm and egg) and can be passed on to the next generation.

I've been to 2 weddings in a row where they had "Bye Bye Bye" I don't think people really care about the lyrics

I was thinking of magic speed boosts and magical hindrance to your opponents in a swim race but if there's a board game version of water polo you can clock people in the head and cast magic I'll take that too lol

I first read it as "enchanted" and for a fleeting moment I was in a world of magical swimmers until I read further and realised what it actually was. It was just like when I first came across "fantasy football" and thought it was about orcs and wizards playing American football.

We need a Blood Bowl of swimming.

When I was in Singapore the first PE class of every year is to record our height and weight. And also as a fat kid I would get enrolled into "fat camp" where we have to come to school early for a run. It was great.

I do something similar too! In my dnd game I treat draconic as this ancient uber conservative language and lizard folks speak reptilic, a descendant of draconic. One of my PC knows draconic so I always describe reptilic to sound simplified and with weird accent to him. The party recently came across some troglodytes and I read that the language is related to draconic so when I played the troglodytes speaking I basically went caveman-speak for the PC that knows draconic haha.

Ah, my bad