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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 132 points 1 month ago

from left to right:

  • human
  • dog
  • horse
  • flamingo
[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

With a helpful reminder in parenthesis that they mean flamingo the bird, as opposed to the casino, which doesn’t have any feet.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

According to their press kit, their casino alone has 93,000 feet. All of them square for some reason.

[-] don@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

As opposed to, what, triangular feet? Spiral feet? Perhaps you’d feel better if their feet were hyperboloid? ffs get a grip.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They have even more cubic feet.

[-] xylol@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago

you just have to find the right room

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Or order from the special room service menu

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

But why Katakana? Those are some reasonably basic kanji- certainly not beyond bird anyway.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it seems that the scientific nomenclature for families of animals in Japanese uses katakana:

this is confirmed by a few comments on this page: https://ja.hinative.com/questions/14614111

Basically, the kanji “犬” is used. Since “犬” is an elementary Kanji character, the hiragana “いぬ” is not often used.

The katakana “イヌ” is used in more biological contexts than “犬”.

Example:

  • “Walking with a dog” 犬
  • “Inu is a mammalian animal” イヌ

However, not all Japanese follow this rule. If in doubt, just write the kanji character for “dog” and you will be fine.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you’re looking for more the source is Satoshi Kawasaki books “Exchanging bodies with animals”. Might have better luck finding a webpage if you can read Japanese. There’s definitely more nightmare fuel out there to find, the search term “Satoshi Kawasaki animals as human” should get you some hits.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 39 points 1 month ago

It honestly is a really great way to demonstrate the concepts

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago

Virgin human proportions vs Chad bird proportions

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Gigachad pecs ngl

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Huh that one's actually really interesting.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

As if human legs aren't the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago
[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Humans evolved from animals that walked on the ground, on the part of the hand/foot we would call fingers/toes. Like most animals btw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade?wprov=sfti1).

Then the those animals transitioned into arboreal creatures, which evolved hands in order to climb & live in trees. These animals would’ve had hands & feet like monkeys.

Then those arboreal animals transitioned back into walking animals that didn’t climb as much, which turned their feet into something more like chimp/gorilla feet.

Then those animals began walking upright, which changed their feet to lose the ability to grasp since they no longer climbed as much. This is what gave humans the feet we have now.

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alien 1: Wow, humans must go around saying “Kill me…” a lot.

Alien 2: Uh, rude!

Middle-aged human: No, no, that tracks.

[-] merci3@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Parasyte mentioned🗣️‼️‼️

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

This was a weird anime for me. I couldn't eat noodles when watching it

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 25 points 1 month ago

Horse feet are so strange. Actually, horse fingers and toes. Most of what you can the horse "leg" is what would be your finger.

With a big beefy nail that looks like horror when born, and smashes and rubs into place in their first day.

If they don't give you nightmares, you don't understand how they work.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 month ago
[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes! I spent 20 ~~months~~ uh, just minutes looking for a variation on this exact image! Thank you!

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

I posted the artist name as a top level comment.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

skittering around on your fingertips

what a vile existence, I cannot stop imaging it

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Horses know how the world works, that's why they're always giving it the middle finger.

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, what? Please tell me more about this horror nail, I had no idea

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

When they're born, they're called foal slippers.

https://horseyhooves.com/foal-slippers/

But just in general, horse hooves are amazing and so weird. It's literally if your middle finger was half your leg, and the nail was a huge wraparound thing. Then plus you grew extra keratin on your fingertip like a mega callus from birth. Because why not?

https://horsecareadvisor.com/horses-hooves-when-born/

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

TIL that horses start off as nightmare-shod animals D:

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Horse ~~feet are so~~ strange.

[-] spykee@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

This is a whole new level of orgasm for people who are into feet.
Yes, I am one of them.
Please do not kink shame us.

[-] christopher@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

No kink shame from me. I may not be into that but to each their own

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The Horse walks on the middle fingers

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

I keep repeating this to everyone who's listening and add that cats have clown feet.

[-] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

In case anyone is wondering the labels are human, dog, horse, and flamingo.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It's weird to see "犬" and "馬" written in katakana.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

What really puzzels me personally are bovine front legs, the joints are kinda all over the place

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 1 month ago

What, you don't want to be able to dunk without jumping?

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That picture quickly turned into the alien from the end of The Arrival.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

"I wish to be a werewolf; half man, half wolf!"

The monkey paw curls a finger and the wish is granted as the left half the human is transfigured into the form of a wolf

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

"Couldn't you have at least changed both of my legs??"

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Kinda creepy, but interesting enough to be worth it!

When a cat loafs, the things that stick up on either side of her back? Those are her knees.

So you’re telling me my bird doesn’t actually have backwards knees, it’s his ankle??

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

There was a great Vinesauce segment on Satoshi Kawasaki. I love this weird shit.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

A good day to be a leg man.

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