andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months agoThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up1689arrow-down113
arrow-up1676arrow-down1imageThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldandros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square74linkfedilink
minus-squareSuck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up196·10 months agoTo save everyone some time His age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025
minus-squareSphks@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up111·10 months agoAnd “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
minus-squaretuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·10 months agoWhich is 36 years after this guy hatched
minus-squaredangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down3·10 months agoCan we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 months agoThat’s probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour? Hard to nail down.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoDon’t nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoWell then they shouldn’t slowly walk all over the place!
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoAh yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoI’m thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway. Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
minus-squareblazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoI want to like this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
minus-squaredangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoOh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoAlan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoThat one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄
To save everyone some time
And “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
Which is 36 years after this guy hatched
Can we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
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That’s probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour?
Hard to nail down.
Don’t nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.
Well then they shouldn’t slowly walk all over the place!
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Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
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Perhaps he only ambled in.
I’m thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway.
Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
I want to like this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
Oh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
Alan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”
That one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄