andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 个月前This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1689arrow-down113
arrow-up1676arrow-down1imageThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldandros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 个月前message-square76linkfedilink
minus-squareSuck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up196·10 个月前To save everyone some time His age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025
minus-squareSphks@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up111·10 个月前And “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
minus-squaretuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·10 个月前Which is 36 years after this guy hatched
minus-squaredangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down3·10 个月前Can we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·10 个月前He’s still more tortoise than he is gay.
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 个月前That’s probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour? Hard to nail down.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 个月前Don’t nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 个月前Well then they shouldn’t slowly walk all over the place!
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 个月前By the degree his life would change were that aspect of him to change.
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 个月前Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 个月前Honestly, it’s debatable whether a blind tortoise with no sense of smell is expressing homosexuality just because they seek sexual gratification with an object that happens to be male. He might also fuck rocks.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 个月前I’m thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway. Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
minus-squareblazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 个月前I want to like this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
minus-squaredangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 个月前Oh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 个月前Alan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 个月前That one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄
To save everyone some time
And “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
Which is 36 years after this guy hatched
Can we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
He’s still more tortoise than he is gay.
That’s probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour?
Hard to nail down.
Don’t nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.
Well then they shouldn’t slowly walk all over the place!
By the degree his life would change were that aspect of him to change.
Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
Honestly, it’s debatable whether a blind tortoise with no sense of smell is expressing homosexuality just because they seek sexual gratification with an object that happens to be male. He might also fuck rocks.
Perhaps he only ambled in.
I’m thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway.
Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
I want to like this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
Oh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
Alan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”
That one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄