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If your birthday is on June 14th and for whatever reason you are feeling disappointed about that, just know that you share a birthday (hatchday) with my parrot Ripley:

He is turning 16 this year and as always, we will be throwing him a party.

draconym

He is turning 17 this year!

strawberry-crocodile

"it's not a monkey it's an ape" is so funny because. apes are monkeys. and then you'll hear someone like "i know phylogenetically yes but thats not how it's colloquially used." but like. clearly it is. someone just used it.

strawberry-crocodile

People are offering a lot of theories as to why people care, but I think it's important not to leave out that the historical and christian perspective on biology is that life is organized in a hierarchy with humans at the top and everything else ranked by proximity to humans. Apes are closer to humans than other monkeys are; thus, they are "higher" on the "pyramid of life" than all other monkeys.

This philosophy is still one a lot of people have in the modern day; fish and insects, which are distant from humans, are treated as "lesser" animals, sometimes not even animals at all, while mammals and birds are valued over reptiles and amphibians. In this philosophy, the idea that apes are monkeys is perceived as a slight; to call an ape a monkey is to treat it as "lesser" (see: every talking cartoon chimp ever), and also, implicitly, an insult to humans (because we connect with the ape and consider it "greater" because it's close to us).

strawberry-crocodile

but also to the original point. when you "correct" someone that an ape "is not a monkey"... on what authority are you doing it? like there's no scientific information being conveyed, you only have old linguistic perscriptivism to fall back on. your pedantry is hollow.

chaoticneutralwife

im like if a really boring girl had a lot of things wrong with her

3000s

after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby

3000s

a wasp. i was looking at a onion just now sorry

peelingmandarins

unmarried childless women whenever there's a newly released low birthrate statistic

apricops

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

blignick

69shrimp

why dont you make like a tree and feel the breeze and the sun and the changing of the seasons. and Grow

escuerzoresucitado

cutecipher

never had a date check my credit score or debt

justlikeheavenbyers

A real Byler never speaks ill of my baby

papayajuan2019

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

zvaigzdelasas

Its almost offensive when you see someone spreading Israeli propaganda for free like brother you know they're literally giving out soooooooooo much money to spread that shit and youre publicly declaring yourself as irredeemable and not worth talking with for zero us dollars?