Obvious Things You 0nly Just Realised - 2020

[JaDanketies]

That sounds like a project I once worked on.

Richard Dawkins was on it like "yeah fuck you creationists, check out this giraffe neck, boom, mike drop" and I was like "ain't no creationists watching this show, Dick Dawk."

[touchingcloth]

Imagine what we'd know if we successfully demystified their anus'.

Tautology, mate. To successfully demystify a giraffe's anus is to know it.

[Dex Sawash]

Couldn't God make things have similar bones?

[Menu]

Richard Dawkins was on it like "yeah fuck you creationists, check out this giraffe neck, boom, mike drop" and I was like "ain't no creationists watching this show, Dick Dawk."

Ha ha! But also they'd just say, "Well, God did all that." And they'd have a point(from their perspective). If you believe there's a higher power then that's not the maddest thing you'd have to explain.

[Icehaven]

The title of the TV show (that I've never seen but have heard it being mocked on several other TV shows) "Grey's Anatomy" is a pun on the classic medical text "Gray's Anatomy".

[JesusAndYourBush]

The title of the TV show (that I've never seen but have heard it being mocked on several other TV shows) "Grey's Anatomy" is a pun on the classic medical text "Gray's Anatomy".

I knew it was named after the medical text, because I hadn't even noticed they were spelt differently.

[idunnosomename]

destroy comes from de-struere, that is, un build

[NoSleep]

destroy comes from de-struere, that is, un build

construction/destruction

[touchingcloth]

Instruction.

[Sonny_Jim]

Inception.
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Inception.
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Inception

[sirhenry]

Inception.
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Inception.
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Inception

Exception
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Reception
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Deception

[sirhenry]

The taxi company was not founded by a frenchman named Hubert.

Spoiler alert

Sorry, I just wanted to make everyone's internal voice put on a Clouseau accent.

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[NoSleep]

Couldn't God make things have similar bones?

God created evolution.

[Cerys]

But he also created Una Stubbs.

[touchingcloth]

The hectare is a metric unit of measurement.

I've only ever heard it described in terms of being 2.47 acres, but only really from my parents' generation who are still sometimes in the habit of converting figures from old money.

[Twonty Gostelow]

The hectare is a metric unit of measurement.

I've only ever heard it described in terms of being 2.47 acres, but only really from my parents' generation who are still sometimes in the habit of converting figures from old money.

A zazare is 1.7 acres, or 1.2 kikis.

That's one for the youngsters.

[petril]

Exception
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Reception
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Deception

Reincarnation?

[touchingcloth]

A Bat Mitzvah isn't how the thing which sounds like "bar mitzvah" is spelled. There is a thing spelled AND pronounced like "bar mitzvah", and it's when a boy gets his cock chopped off. When a girl gets her fanny mutilated that's spelled and pronounced "bar mitzvah"

Mazal tov!

[Ambient Sheep]

God created evolution.

Unfortunately there's quite a lump of Christianity who reject this approach, as there's a bunch of verses in Genesis that go on about how God created all the creatures "each according to their kind" which apparently means he couldn't have used evolution to do it.

[Twonty Gostelow]

A Bat Mitzvah isn't how the thing which sounds like "bar mitzvah" is spelled. There is a thing spelled AND pronounced like "bar mitzvah", and it's when a boy gets his cock chopped off. When a girl gets her fanny mutilated that's spelled and pronounced "bar mitzvah"

Mazal tov!

?  But you do articulate the first t in bat mitzvah.

[olliebean]

Unfortunately there's quite a lump of Christianity who reject this approach, as there's a bunch of verses in Genesis that go on about how God created all the creatures "each according to their kind" which apparently means he couldn't have used evolution to do it.

24. And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.
25. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And as a joke, God gave all His creatures plentiful spurious similarities and correlations of biology such as would arise through evolution by natural selection. And God felt sure that people would see the funny side of his prank and not let it get out of hand. And God saw that it was good.

[Ambient Sheep]

Quite. :-)

It does seem a particularly specific thing to say, though, doesn't it?  "Each thing according to its kind, absolutely no morphing allowed."  Like they felt the need to emphasise that.

Which unfortunately just gives the Creationists further ammo: "You see, God told them to write that down in order to help prove to people 2500 years later that evolution is wrong."

[NoSleep]

God told them to write that down as a test of people's intelligence.

[Cerys]

If God created us, then the only reason a test of intelligence would be necessary would be if he expected us to have changed to something other than his prototype.  Changed, or ... evolved.  Do you see?

[Ferris]

Deception

Antception

[NoSleep]

If God created us, then the only reason a test of intelligence would be necessary would be if he expected us to have changed to something other than his prototype.  Changed, or ... evolved.  Do you see?

But evolution provides the opportunity for a diverse range of intelligence.

[Cerys]

Precisely!  Creating Man in God's mage but then testing later versions' intelligence fits in with the idea that humanity was created to evolve.

[petril]

I think a being as knowledgable and grumpy as God wouldn't want to spend all their time micromanaging every living thing, so they'd probably just design stuff to adapt over generations and deal with their situations as they go

[NoSleep]

Precisely!  Creating Man in God's mage but then testing later versions' intelligence fits in with the idea that humanity was created to evolve.

We're more of a fluke rather than some logical peak of evolution (the origins of placenta are bizarre, for example). I don't think he particularly planned for creatures debating whether or not he existed.

[Gulftastic]

If you sort of spoonerise the name of the band Green Day, you get Deen Gray.