I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room… Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh… mission accomplished?
I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode
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this would work on me
Seems a bit weird that every culture would call them some variant of “stars” since they don’t look like actual stars. Actual stars are just dots.
For clarification, the lines are caused by the mirrors’ edges, and the cross hatch pattern common on street lamps in pictures comes from a filter (or scratched lenses/other filters.)
With your normal eyeballs, it comes from defects like cataracts.
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You don’t need defects in your eyes to see it. All you need to do is to close your eyes slightly and look through your eyelashes. The light refracts on the lashes and creates a star-like pattern.
They particularly look like diffraction spikes/starbursts.
Astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma or smudged glasses can cause you to see starbursts when you look at bright lights at night.
He must have been dating someone else who has an even greater knowledge of coelacanths.
True. When it comes to knowledge about coelacanths, never settle.
Jokes aside, maybe OOP didn’t cite their sources correctly. There is no bigger turnoff, especially on your first date. My mom used to say know your facts and have your sources handy. Best dating advice and honestly the only one that really matters
100% this is it.
Talk living fossils to me and I’ll do anything you want baby.
You tell me about cryptids and you can just take me right there on the table.
Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.
Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain’t.
“Hi, how are you? …Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don’t like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win.”
Tbh if someone talked off the bat about their passion itd make me a lot more likely to want to date them. I want people to talk about what interests them and with most people it feels like pulling teeth trying to get them to do that.
Ohh man, maybe my extensive knowledge of Europa Universalis 4 will pay off after all.
Sounds like a dream date, tbh.
I don’t think this post is meant as quippy, but rather self-deprecating. She only realized afterwards that she talked a little too much…
Honestly, I love it when people start geeking out. It’s fun, and usually i learn something new.
Same as long as this isn’t the only thing they do. I work with a guy that loves to talk about his passions and it’s awesome for like thirty minutes. Then it’s alright for another 15-20. After that it starts to drag and I begin to feel the weight of my mounting unfinished tasks.
This is also true. Context is important.
Reminds me of this scene from chainsaw man:
He’s just studying for the test.
Man getting lengthy lectures from a woman, and here I am talking to myself. What is wrong with some people? Not me; I know what’s wrong with me.
Thanks to Pokémon I immediately knew what kind of fish the post was about…
my sapphire brain instantly got braille ptsd
Relicanth!
I’m down. After that I’m paying for the meal. We’re definitely exchanging digits.
I’m not nerdy about fish. But I am nerdy about people who are nerdy.
I wonder if this is what it’s like dating Lindsay Nikole.
For the record, she’s one of my favorite YouTubers.
She’s the bees knees.
Maybe I should contact her and ask her to talk at me about colecanths so I can give her feedback.
Get in line. About a dozen of us are trying to audit her presentation.
maybe he was vegetarian and would have wanted to hear more about sea"cucumber" instead of fishy things.
