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[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

I care, little voles. I care.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

LOL yes I'm all for mocking species-specific group names. Just say "bunch" or "group" and everybody knows exactly what you mean.

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

A bunch of bananas.

A group of people.

I like it!

[-] Hoimo@ani.social 0 points 5 months ago

There are useful group names, but they differentiate between some general types of animals, or by their collective movement. A pack of wolves acts very different from a herd of zebras, but much the same as a pack of hyenas. So if you're looking at a group of dog-like hunters from a large distance, you could call it a pack without knowing whether they're wolves or hyenas. That makes it a word with a proper function, communicating exactly as much information as you need and no more.

Species-specific is just a meme, no one in their right mind would ever use them in real conversation, because "a parliament of chimps" would technically be redundant if "parliament" already meant "group of chimps". But it doesn't, obviously, so you're forced to specify "chimps" anyway, making "parliament" useless and confusing.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Absolutely, there are useful group names that were intelligently thought out, and there are ones where somebody said ooooh, "a stitch of knitters" would be cute.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Shitstorm would actually fit pigeons nicely

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Actual terms:

  • conspiracy of ravens
  • flight of pigeons

Ravens are smart, but I really don't think they're planning anything nefarious. Pigeons on the other hand...

Podcast of white men

Precinct of racists

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Bro, they carry knives in some cities, they are always planning crime.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 5 months ago

A fuck load of bees is correct tho.

[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

No matter how many times I see this, "A 101.5 'The Hammer' FM of Moths" makes me giggle every time.

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

A 97X bammm the future of rock n roll of rain men

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

Thank you for making me laugh on a day when I’ve felt so much anger.

[-] rivan@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

My favorite is a Business of Ferrets, as the Latin translation for ferret is 'little thief'.

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Ah Martin Landau, the GOAT of goats

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I would have gone with John Darnielle myself

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Perhaps, but he wasn't in the most aggressively 1970s TV show ever. Do yourself a favour and feel the cocaine in your ears when you listen to this banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpX8bVEmJo

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

A turtle factoid! 🐢

A pancake tortoise (malacochersus tornieri) hatchling is called a Morsel, an adult is called a Flapjack, and a group is called a Stack.

...Not really, but, uh, anyway.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

How I imagine textbooks look in the Idiocracy universe... which is slowly merging with our own.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is from a religion textbook, teaching what Adam named these things in the garden of eden. Interestingly we get the word "fuck load" from this passage in the Bible:

"And Adam named the bees what he did, and so a gathering of them became a fuckload as Adam saw how many bees there were, and was pleased."

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Wo-ho
Wo-ho
Can’t touch this

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

A drawer of assorted, mis-matched screws and bolts of sea urchins

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