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Worse than having teeth. Imagine having two giant teeth, but they're built in there even more firmly so it sucks even worse if something goes wrong, and also they extend like half a foot or more outside your face. And you're supposed to use it to eat? Fucking awful. Look at videos of toucans trying to eat. They've spent their whole lives practicing and it still looks awkward, like they're doing their best not to fuck it up

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[-] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

You mean BUILT IN CHOPSTICKS? Sign me up. I'm sure we'd adapt soon enough.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 21 points 18 hours ago

Whatever, you're just mad you can't stab people with your face

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 49 points 21 hours ago
[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago

Not our fault you can't use chopsticks. Imagine how much easier eating chips would be if you had opposable thumbs.

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 15 points 18 hours ago

Beaks are chopsticks on your face.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago

Seriously I will not stand for this anti-bird slander. Birds are great

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 8 points 16 hours ago

Sounds like a skill issue on your part. Have you ever seen a bird do things with their beaks? Their beaks are very clever and dexterous. Watch them preen their feathers! You couldn't do that with fingers.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 21 points 19 hours ago

and the beak is just for acquiring and shearing stuff, they chew their food in their tum tum with mechanical assistance from a bunch of grit and rocks in a pouch they contract against what they've swallowed, to mash it up.

I like to chew food in my mouth, tyvm, as the Lord Christ Almighty intended when he personally intelligently designed my unbeaked face.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 26 points 19 hours ago

Your mouth is a disgusting face sphincter

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago

my mouth was modeled on the face sphincter of CHRIST.

suffer it's divine splendor

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I could deal with the beak, but what about not being able to digest everything you eat and you gotta periodically cough up a turd.

[-] largerfather@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

take it back. all of gods creatures are perfect. a beak is as beautiful as a nice smile on a pretty face, as pleasing as balls so big they could serve as poop platters

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

A decent sized beak seems okay, there are tradeoffs but something like a parrot beak would be great. A fifth limb for climbing and holding things, plus you can rip and tearfloppy-parrot

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 21 hours ago

It also grows so if you don’t have the proper diet it can get all out whack and overgrown so you can’t eat properly and then your quality of life is wrecked and in extreme cases you starve

To complicate the matter it’s not like a tooth, it’s more like a dog or cats nail in that it has blood vessels running through it, so if the above happens you can’t just trim it back haphazardly because then you might be seriously hurt or even killed

Owning birds is fucked up. Like a domesticated dog is one thing and still somewhat debatable philosophically but taking a bird that can literally fly, often lives 40-80 years (if we’re talking parrots), is a social animal by nature that typically exists in a flock, demands attention and stimulation for many hours of the day, and then putting it in a cage so you can like look at it is just inherently cruel. If I come to your house and you have a bird I judge you

[-] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

Tbf you don't have to keep a pet bird alone in an undersized cage, I used to follow some people on tiktok that did wildlife rehab for crows, they had an aviary built into their screened-in patio with something like a dog door to the outside, they would introduce new injured crows into the group through the screen to keep them from fighting then gradually move them into the common area, let them adjust and recover then leave when they wanted, a decent amount of the crows just stayed and would follow them around their farm through the day being awesome little pals

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago

Wildlife rehab is the exception to this, someone has to deal with all the birds that are sitting in some grandpas house right now, waiting to be abandoned at the spca by his children once he dies. You can’t just release that one back into the wild at that point (plus your examples)

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 12 points 18 hours ago

I get that, but a swearing parrot kinda trumps ethics. It's even better if you have a dog or other pets that it cusses out. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

There's a few exceptions, like that YouTuber who rescues Toucans and keeps them in a huge aviary with outdoor and temp controlled sections. Or birds many many generations into captivity (I knew someone who did falconry and it's more that the bird just decides to stick around in that case.) But yeah.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 17 hours ago

Pileated Woodpeckers are cool though they stab the tree at high speeds and get those bugs.

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago

I would be fast too if I did pilates

[-] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

Skill issue.

All my partners have remarked how quick I am in bed. And I don't even know what Pilates are.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

He's the guy that gave the order to kill Jesus

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago

Imagine a fencing match between two woodpeckers, or two hummingbirds.

[-] damnatum_seditiosus@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

Their tongues wrap around their brain too as cushion.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago
[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 25 points 21 hours ago

Crows are pretty good at doing beak stuff

[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 18 points 20 hours ago

I've never dated a crow... what sort of beak stuff?

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 19 hours ago

Over the shirt.

[-] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 3 points 16 hours ago

Well, theres [Redacted]

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 8 points 17 hours ago

Counterpoint: I got five fillings in my teeth last week

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 18 points 21 hours ago

Look at me I'm a hummingbird my whole shit's stupid boowomp

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 16 hours ago

fuck you

spoilerJK ❤️

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 19 points 21 hours ago

Idk i fuck up eating plenty, biting my lip accidentally or tongue. Coughing while talking and eating. A beak sounds pretty simple by comparison

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 7 points 20 hours ago

Beak-a mitai kodomo na no ne kiryu-dame-da-ne

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