andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1686arrow-down113
arrow-up1673arrow-down1imageThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldandros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square73linkfedilink
minus-squareSphks@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up110·1 year agoAnd “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-up61·1 year agoWhich is 36 years after this guy hatched
minus-squaredangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoCan we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-22 months agoRemoved by mod
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 year agoThat’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-up7·1 year agoDon’t nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWell then they shouldn’t slowly walk all over the place!
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAh yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoI’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·edit-21 year agoI 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-up4·1 year agoOh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
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”?
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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!
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Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
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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.