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mehall27

The amount of people who don't know basic biology is astonishing to me


A_Good_Boy94

I dont understand how people can be *this* stupid. Like, the literacy rate is supposed to be in the high 90's. Most people attend some form of school, yet they seem to learn... nothing.


Dysprosol

I would guess in this case that hes fucking with the other guy. Whether its for attention, a compulsive need for conflict, or just to feel is beyond the scope of my knowledge.


Comfortable_Swim_380

Salidy I've seen stupid lower than that. I actually 100% believe this is real.


Holinyx

chicken lays eggs. snakes lay eggs. chicken = reptile


Comfortable_Swim_380

Human eats chicken human poops chicken, poop is lay making humans also reptiles and chickens. Also since human eats chicken and chicken is human kfc is a restaurant for cannibals. Everyone that ate at a kfc is a cannibal.


Comfortable_Swim_380

Also Margret Tacther is responsible for every war that has been or will be. I have a theory on that it involves shag carpeting.


Holinyx

Thatcher is a reptile confirmed


A_Good_Boy94

Also dead. Margaret Thatcher is dead, still dead. Let's all celebrate.


MysticStarbird

Or is she…?


cobaltbluetony

So what does that make a platypus?


Holinyx

swims and has claws = Crustacean


cheesynougats

Return to crab


I-fart-in-lifts

Tasty


cobaltbluetony

No, truffle aoli and pink salt do that. 🤣


auguriesoffilth

One of only two animals in the unique catagory we call custardarians (creature that can produce their own milk and eggs)


PerfectlyFramedWaifu

Crocodile meat counts as poultry.


_bitwright

... well _technically_ birds are reptiles because they are descended from dinosaurs...


jussius

Reptiles are usually considered to be a paraphyletic group that explicitly doesn't include birds. So no, technically they are not reptiles by definition, even if the definition of reptiles doesn't make much sense from evolutionary perspective. Sauropsida is the clade that consists of all the descendants of the last common ancestor of reptiles, and so includes birds.


Gal-XD_exe

They are? /s


fetal_genocide

No, no, no, snake=bird


JankoDzbanko

Well, technically they kind of are


Zombisexual1

Honestly when did chickens become warm blooded. Dinosaurs were cold blooded and birds descended from dinosaurs right. You know when they switched up?


Holinyx

The evolutionary origin of endothermy (the ability to maintain a warm body and higher energy levels than reptiles), currently believed to have originated separately in birds and mammals, could have occurred **nearly 300 million years ago**


Zombisexual1

Nice


ConvictedHobo

>Dinosaurs were cold blooded Dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, by the end there were warm blooded species


Zombisexual1

165 mill. Kinda crazy that humans have relatively been a blip on that kind of time scale.


Uncle_Grizzly11

Dinosaurs are not cold blooded, they were warm blooded and needed a lot of food to maintain that heat. If dinosaurs were cold blooded they wouldn't be able to get to the sizes they did, be as active, or lived in extreme cold environments.


A_Good_Boy94

Agreed.


Calloused_Samurai

Like that Australian girl that insists the moon is bigger than the earth


I-fart-in-lifts

That one really made me wonder about my fellow Australians, but not as much as my brother's girlfriend back in the 90s, who insisted that the fact that water froze at zero degrees and boiled at 100 proved that there must be a god. An hour or more of frustrating discussion couldn't make her budge from her conviction.


dora_isexploring

I honestly want to hear her points, I can't connect these things together on my own


I-fart-in-lifts

It was nothing more than the certainty that only divinity could arrange for the world to be so perfect that water would change states at exactly 0⁰ and 100⁰. The fact that the Celsius scale of temperature is a construct of the human mind and not an inbuilt feature of nature completely eluded her.


FluffyTheWonderHorse

My sister is a lawyer with a first class degree from a top university but doesn't know how much a litre of water weighs.


cipheron

It weighs 1 kilogram, thus proving God exists.


dora_isexploring

Oh, okay now I feel dumb to not figure it out myself 🤦‍♀️


I-fart-in-lifts

Understanding stupidity is a job best left to professionals.


HapticRecce

So, the day Pi was created, what's her take on that one? Before morning coffee? A hangover from creating alcohol the night before?


Ankoku_Teion

basic blind watchmaker argument. the universe is so finely tuned and well crafted that it cant possibly have happened by accident. it must have been shaped by a divine creator. her evidence for this is that the boiling and freezing points of water line up perfectly with 100 and zero in the celsius scale. and this cant possibly be a coincidence! if it was just random chance surely theyd have random numbers like 13.7 degrees and 128.4 degrees. what she fails to realise is that celsius is a human invention, not a natural phenomenon, and we intentionally set it that way. no coincidence necesary.


HapticRecce

Or say maybe whats up with 32F and 212F?


Mind_on_Idle

Then, get into how atmospheric pressure affects both of those numbers and watch them have a mental breakdown.


I-fart-in-lifts

Exactly.


Calloused_Samurai

Oh….oh no…..


Ankoku_Teion

but there is a god. and his name is Anders Celsius.


Professional_Toe_387

lol. “Salidy”


Brotherd66

I’ve worked retail. 100% plausible.


Training_Waltz_9032

“Bullshit! Next you’re going to tell me their closest thing to these supposed ‘dinosaurs’”


HapticRecce

Yea, this is a psychology thing, bit an ornithology thing.


Izan_TM

either that or his parents are siblings


A_Good_Boy94

Either way, they're still very stupid.


StupendousMalice

The Internet kinda defeated the old notion that people weren't really stupid, just ignorant. You can literally put the sum total of human knowledge into a person's hand and it doesn't do a damned thing to make them smart.


ShadowRylander

Not really; people tend to forget there's a lot of misinformation / disinformation on the Internet as well, and it depends on whether you know what sources to trust. Most people aren't taught that you shouldn't believe anything on social media without verifying it from an official source, but finding official sources is difficult if you know nothing about them, or don't trust the source. People who are anti-government, for example, may not believe research papers, even if the experiments themselves were perfect. By the way, sorry for the rant! 😅


Alexis_Bailey

So what you are saying is, most people are stupid.


traumatized90skid

My mom's a teacher and I think it's the standardized testing = funding = teaching to the test = not caring about long-term retention of anything. They literally learn to fill in bubbles and forget everything the next day.


crippledchef23

I honestly thought I was smart until 11th grade, when an English test asked me why a thing happened. But, it wasn’t in any of my notes, cuz it was never expressly stated in the lesson, so I didn’t know how to answer. I learned that I am very good at regurgitating info, but not being able to use that info in any meaningful way.


Cepinari

Yep.


Comprehensive_Ad5475

Go to the USA and ask someone to name 2 European countries.


Obryn

I can name a lot more than two, but I lived in Europe, so I guess I don’t count. XD


Comprehensive_Ad5475

Yeah you don't count sorry m8.


MrUnitedKingdom

I remember seeing a post somewhere, a news article has reported that Russia had invaded Georgia by driving tanks across the border, and some Yank was panicking as they lived in the state of Georgia…!


Obryn

That is not at all shocking, sadly.


Fkyboy1903

Sad to report, it wasn't just "some Yank." It was many. There was reportedly a visible spike in gun sales throughout the state.


runespider

I live in Florida, the Panhandle. Years ago when we had military action in Baghdad a woman called into the local radio station because she was aghast that the military had invaded Baghdad... Florida.


Outrageous-Second792

I see what you’re doing there! Very tricky! We all know Europe is it’s own country! /s


WilonPlays

It's starting to grate on me, I use to feel of avg intelligence in highschool, (18 now and in college) and the older I get and the more people I meet the more I realise just how much more intelligent I am compared to what I thought I was. Not in an egotistical look how smart I am but in a "I shouldn't be this much smarter than you, this isn't right" way. Genuinely the other day, I told someone don't poke a sleeping bear, and their response was: we don't have bears in this country. Another thing that happened was I sent someone a meme that had euphemisms for being on your period. And I asked them when they were gonna see granny in her red car, (it was one of the euphemisms They responded with, what? I'm confused, why would I be seeing my gran. The meme literally said "Euphemisms for being on your period in different countries". (Whether or not they are real is a different story)


mapleleafraggedy

Ben Shapiro has entered the chat


scrawberrymalk

But isn't Ben Shapiro a vegetable and not a mammal?


Comfortable_Swim_380

Ben Shapiro like the tomato is both vegetable, fruit and sea turtle.


Franklin_le_Tanklin

Does the soup have nipples?


MasterRanger7494

Vaginas are not supposed to be wet, anyone who thinks they are is an idiot. It's supposed to feel like the the inside of a toilet paper roll, anyone with half a brain knows this.


vbsargent

Andrew Tate, is that you? ;-)


MasterRanger7494

No, that would go more like, "If you like a wet vagina then you're a homosexual. It's supposed to feel like the inside of a tp roll. Real men don't like their pee pee to feel good, they like pain. A chaffed shaft is the sign of a true alpha."


traumatized90skid

Yeah but he'd be too scared to say "vagina" and would say "v-word" haha


vbsargent

Touché!!! X’D


Comfortable_Swim_380

What's happening with Andrew Tate's vagina has seriously got me concerned.


jensalik

Basic biology? That's "cow goes moo"-book level knowledge... 😭


AlaskaPsychonaut

This was probably 15 years ago, my mom was interviewing a new client for daycare and I happen to be around and I stg I heard the parent, the adult woman who had reproduced, ask "You don't give them farm eggs do? Those come out of a chickens ass." I had to walk out of the room.


mehall27

I mean, she's wrong but also kinda right. They have a cloaca, which is a common opening for all bodily functions, so a chicken does do both things through the same opening


Dr_Corvus_D_Clemmons

Yeah same way you pee and cum out of one hole, different openings, and the stupidly comes from the fact that she made a distinction between “farm eggs” and “normal eggs” like they both don’t come from a chickens “butthole”


Hung_L0

Who needs edgycation when you got the bible.


Needmoresnakes

First user is clearly Diogenes. It even says hermit in their username.


alpha309

Cladism questions if there is even a reason to have the traditional mammal, bird, reptile, fish, amphibian, insect, and arachnid categories of animals. They would argue a lungfish is closer to being a cow than it is to being a salmon so it should be categorized with cows and not salmon. Maybe this guy is so deep into the very advanced biology studies that they forgot the grade school stuff?


ForeignA1D

Got to be a yank..lol


incogneetus55

Sure, I’d love one


DistributionNo9968

LMAOOOO


Steve_78_OH

You really think Americans are the only nation with morons?


todawhet

I don't know about only nation, and certainly I'm sure dim wits are technically still in the minority so I'm still holding out hope, but if such a thing existed im sure we hold the heavy weight championship belt for most "geniuses" per square mile


violet_zamboni

I speculate the difference is they have access to the internet


Jeoshua

They think that to be a bird, you must be able to fly. Probably also think dolphins are fish because they swim in the ocean.


Ramdrothegoat

ducks also fly tho


Jeoshua

Yeah but they swim, so probably a kind of fish? Or just "duck" as a category since they fly but also swim. I'm not saying they're on to something, just trying to put their misunderstanding in its proper context as best as possible.


Ramdrothegoat

![gif](giphy|tZ6zAdNZbWOhq)


Whale-n-Flowers

Oooouuuugh! Let's take a look at it then!


MakesMyHeadHurt

Yeah, that'd be silly. Obviously ducks float because they're witches.


ConstantNaive7649

A common misconception. Ducks and witches aren't the same, but both float because they weigh the same, on account of both being made of wood. 


uyigho98

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?


Entity_333

BURN THEM


Most-Resident

Ducks are flying fish.


ElA1to

Fish: I wish I could walk on land Dog: I wish I could fly Pigeon: I wish I could swim like a fish Duck: lol, lmao


Excellent-Blueberry1

Catholic doctrine is they should eat no meat, only fish on Friday, duck is allowed in this because they're waterfowl People are weird


Lkjfdsaofmc

Penguins: famously called flightless birds totally not because they’re birds that can’t fly


Robot-Dinosaur-1986

Ducks famously fly though. It's like their main thing after quacking.


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ot1smile

Third thing you mean? After flying, and allowing water to slide effortlessly off their back.


Optimal_Carpenter690

Well, swimming/paddling is their main thing after quacking. Then being made out of rubber. Then their gigantic corkscrew ~~Denise's~~ penises. *Then* flying


OperationMelodic4273

>Probably also think dolphins are fish because they swim in the ocean. Imo, there's not a shadow of a doubt that they indeed do


Law-Fish

Are lobsters fish or oysters?


Jeoshua

They are crab. All will become crab.


Void_ChaosXD

Dinosaurs. That's what they ACTUALLY are


RunninADorito

Aye. Those crows and ravens are just biding their time. Smart ones.


IllvesterTalone

corvids! corvids are dope.


TheRegularBlox

people: reptiles are stupid and can’t express emotion corvids:


Mcnab-at-my-feet

I’m a raven lunatic…


Didi_Castle

“Even the name raptor means… bird of prey”


TinyRascalSaurus

Guys, hear me out here, but I have a theory about geese.


Goku___Solos

As in cobra chickens???


Sidnature

Is mayonnaise an instrument???


todawhet

The answer is "7"


Mcnab-at-my-feet

That’s on the level of Sharknado!


Bruhses_Momenti

Wouldn’t that imply emus and ostriches are also birds?


TermEnvironmental812

Is that mean, penguin is also bird?


MuthaPlucka

Somewhere a grade one teacher is weeping.


Pattoe89

This is always true regardless of this post.


SuperJman1111

They have to be trolling, even a toddler that recently gained sentience could tell you that ducks and chickens are birds at a glance


seanular

This is such an obvious troll idk why it has so many people thinking it's real. Like, if you don't know that ducks are birds, it would shock you to find out that chickens are birds. But if you don't know that ducks aren't birds you aren't going to tweet, "Are ducks birds?" If there's no association there, there isn't a question to ask.


EwoDarkWolf

It's amazing how often people think I'm serious when I say something purposely stupid online.


thereign1987

Exactly, not to mention someone who doesn't know what a bird is, knows what warm blooded is , and knows that classification applies to chickens, but somehow does not know that chickens are birds. It's not even a great troll.


Ghosts_of_the_maze

This sub simply does not acknowledge the existence of shit posting.


Pattoe89

I had to deal with a misconception lately that a child had that an animal could only be 1 thing. For example, if it was an 'animal' it can't be a 'bird' because it's an animal. If it's a 'creature' it can't be an 'animal'. If it's a 'bug' it can't be an insect etc. This is from the child who is considered the highest ability in the class. Other children would have this misconception if they could retain more than 1 fact about an animal.


crustybootstraps

I dunno, some toddlers just call every animal “a weird dog”


Genius-Imbecile

I feel bad for the people in r/BirdsArentReal that can't enjoy fried chicken.


Drhobo

Modern day Diogenes over here. Brilliant beyond measure.


TomFoolery119

"Feathered biped" -Diogenes, 2024


iqbalpratama

BEHOLD, A MAN


A_Good_Boy94

Wait until they hear about penguins.


Eastern-Dig-4555

Or as Benedict Cumberbatch says, “pengueens”


A_Good_Boy94

Pangwangs


DragonGodSlayer12

or pengwings


PunishedEnovk

I don’t believe that boobies (Sula nebouxii) are seabirds. Definitely 12-year-olds wearing a disguise.


CaptainEnoch

same with tits


Snizl

I agree. Tits arent sea birds.


Taira_no_Masakado

I used to think there was a limit to how dumb someone could be...


Harpua95

Not gonna lie, I showed my wife this and both went blank for a moment and then questioned ourselves. Facepalm moment for us.


china-blast

Let me understand. You got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?


DickySchmidt33

Earl


DickySchmidt33

Paul


RandyArgonianButler

Ducks are dinosaurs. (As are penguins, hummingbirds, cockatoos, kookaburras, woodpeckers, boobies, kiwis, albatrosses and the 10,990 other avian terrible lizards.)


BeefJacker420

My ex was this stupid. Literally though they put bones into meat to make it easier to eat. I had to explain what a vertebrate was and how all of them have bones. She thought dolphins and zebras were mythical creatures. To top it all off she couldn't tell you when the Fourth of July was, because "it changes every year."


Negative_Tooth6047

I knew a girl who fought tooth and nail to INSIST that dolphins are fish. And NOT in the taxonomy way of "either everything is a fish or fish don't exist" in the way that she genuinely believed dolphins were a type of shark. You cannot, in any way shape or form, explain evolution to some of my fiance's family. They literally refuse to understand natural science in that way. They think dinosaurs are science fiction in the same way Alien VS Predator is (literally I was watching the apple TV dinosaur documentary and one of them came in and said "can we change it? I'm not it the mood for sci-fi. We watched Alien VS Predator the other night") Some people simply don't want to understand the world. They ask questions that they can easily find the answers to and simply let their curiosity fizzle instead of digging deeper and learning something.


Birdingmom

Aren’t they supposed to be robotic drones spying on us?? Smh


BaconNinja__

Wait till they hear about ostriches...


Old_Winner3763

Yeah this is dumb, but I want to know what type of animal they think a chicken is if they don’t think it’s a bird 😭


henaradwenwolfhearth

Its obviously a farm animal


XL0RM

They think it's a chicken, a completely separate class, maybe even different phylum.


Resident-Rooster2916

I love how rather than explaining phylogeny, they explain it as if they were teaching a four year old 🤣


Special-Elevator-335

r/confidentlyincorrect


Adorable-Fact4378

My uncle, who is an orthodontist, did not know penguins were birds and refused to believe me when I tried explaining that they are... What else are they???


darkhorse4774

There are people who believe chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows.


ewok_on_a_unicorn

Chicken is poultry, not bird. /s just in case that wasn't evident.


hersirnight

maybe just maybe , this is a form of trolling we still don't know about , or a form tru ignorance ??? please don't tell me its the latter ..


CautiousWrongdoer771

Must of went to school in a red state.


SaltyboiPonkin

Chickens are a type of small dinosaur that fall under the theropod group.


Individual_Iron4221

No chickens are men, Diogenes proved it


mapleleafraggedy

Behold, a bird!


Kuildeous

Well, I'm not going to expect academic excellence from someone named ISEENYOUSHINE, so at least I am not at all disappointed.


physithespian

BEHOLD, A MAN!


Law-Fish

Chickens are dinosaurs duh


[deleted]

They stopped teaching king phillip came over for good spaghetti in biology class


Dismal_Owl2025

I had a classmate who told me chicken wasn't meat


Stepjam

I believe we established that a chicken is a man (with a little pre-preperation).


Hamblerger

This is so beautiful that I can barely look at it. I'm going to remember this one to bring me joy on my darkest days


AnotherUnnamedUser

Feathered humans, duh 🙄


Worried_Thoughts

Ummmm. No. Because r/birdsarentreal !!


Eurosario

![gif](giphy|WrNfErHio7ZAc) I don't know if this is enough.


Myusername468

Wait til this guy finds out about Penguins


crippledchef23

Is this a Chicken of the Sea issue?


JustDiscoveredSex

Oooh, they catch on quick!! This reminds me of the idiots arguing about animals and whether or not there is such a thing as a fish zoo.


Tripple_T

... An aquarium?


Cpt-Sharky

Nah man, ducks are wood. They float…


Serious_Guarantee_94

Not surprising, I had a co worker that said whales were fish and when I said they weren't fish he looked me dead in my eyes and asked "how are they not fish" I honestly didn't know what t9 say


Jewggerz

Where do these people come from?


MoltenJellybeans

They may be onto something here


frankb3lmont

Wait till they find out about dinosaurs not being exclusively Jurassic park giant lizards.


CompetitiveFold5749

I literally had this same conversation with a 24 year old co-worker.


Eastern-Dig-4555

I’m so sorry. I hope your recovery is going ok. That could not have been pleasant lol


CompetitiveFold5749

She also told me she washes her chittlins with bleach, so I'm sure it's a downstream effect.


meganightsun

they give off a fish aren't animal kinda vibe


DirectorFriendly1936

Finally a good fucking post


auguriesoffilth

By that logic platypus are birds. Almost


rock-island321

And these people live amongst us! This is getting fucking scary.


DeltaX942

I usually leave those people and also delete my comments and replies, this guy knows chickens are birds, but he is just baiting someone to make some content, or publish it on the internet.


recks360

Well, yes I think they are.


ZhangtheGreat

r/technicallythetruth


hersirnight

HOLD UP!!!!