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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
Did you ever read The Bikini Bottom Horror comic strip?
yeah that's what I was referencing 💯
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Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little
what.
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Don't leave us hanging... what are they called in France??
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.
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
Also: always carry a Laptop with you, so you can always hold them a power point presentation.
100% this is it.
Sea anemones are relatives of the jellyfish. They have these tiny hairs growing on them that they use to feed by stunning fish, shrimp, zooplankton, and so on.
But they can survive for years without food. They're like jellyfish in that way. There are even sea anemones that have lived longer than 70 years with the proper care.
They're found all throughout the world's oceans, and they can slowly move too. There are also fish that live inside them called anemonefish. The sea anemones protect them from predators and share their food scraps.
In tropical waters, sea anemones latch on to coral reefs or rocks.
Starfish are echinoderms and relatives of the sea urchin. There are as many as 2,000 starfish species around the world. Not all of them are star-shaped either. There's even a species with 30 arms.
When they get attacked by a predator, they'll rip off their own arm to get away while the predator eats it. Their arms can regenerate, so I guess they regrow later.
Starfish can eat almost anything in the ocean. They feed by pushing their stomach out of their mouth and directly digesting their prey. Fun fact, there's an area in Kumamoto Prefecture where they eat starfish. As you'd expect from a relative of the sea urchin, you strip the skin to eat the insides, like with sea urchins.
Even in other languages, starfish mostly have star-related names. For instance, in France they're called...
I WAS COMING IN HERE TO POST THAT
Go on. What are they called in France?
"Star of the sea"
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."
Bad take. They clearly didn't offer enough information on coelacanths. I've spent the last few hours reading about them and they are cool as hell, and I want to learn even more.
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.
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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...
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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.
"Hey am I boring you, you've hardly said anything and your eyes are glazed?"
"Nnggh no baby... I-I'm... really close. P-please... d-don't stop"
He's just studying for the test.
No lectures before the third date, everyone knows that. Huge red flag.
Did anyone else not know it's pronounced see-la-kanth? I've been saying it wrong in my head all these years omg.
You were pronouncing it cloaca-canth weren't you?
Neurodivergent person shares one special interest, neurotypical tells you everything you need to know about them.
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The nights I stayed up trying to catch as many of those fuckers as I could in animal crossing
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.
This would absolutely work on me
Same. I'm not much of a talker so the more the other person fills in the gaps the better.
Thanks to Pokémon I immediately knew what kind of fish the post was about…
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maybe he was vegetarian and would have wanted to hear more about sea"cucumber" instead of fishy things.
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.
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.
Maybe I should contact her and ask her to talk at me about colecanths so I can give her feedback.
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