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[–] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to meet one of those few. A skateboarder eating that much krill has to be such an amazing spectacle

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wanna see a whale do a kickflip more, that would be wicked as fuck!

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty cool, but I think I'd rather watch a teenager in baggypants break the laws of physics entirely by consuming multiple times his body mass

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What that fuck? I was just having a piss and I fucking read your comment and - it didn't, but - what if my snort of laughter when I did had caused my fucking urine stream to shoot back and to the left and fucking soaked my spare toilet rolls? Did you fucking think about that when ou posted? FFS.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Apologies, I hadn't considered the impact my comment might have on the urinary tract of innocent readers

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

Are you, by chance, a dolphin or whale?

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago

I think we've just reinvented the Xgames.

[–] owl 2 points 3 months ago

They do there belly flops, where they rise from the water and splash on it. I suppose that is pretty close, but I have done neither.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A shark can swim faster than me, but I can outrun a shark. So in a triathlon it comes down to the bicycle part.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but monkeys have hands on their feet, so they can pull on the pedal's upstroke as well as push on the downstroke ☝️

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Tri bikes usually have clip-in pedals so humans can do this too.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

very few whales, not 0. That's something I want to see!

[–] Trabic@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Kickflip β‰  Backflip β‰  Peanut flip

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Just because you've never seen a whale do a kickflip doesn't mean they can't.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago

They would just rather not

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't they do flipper-flips instead?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

The inventor of the trick was human, so the name stuck.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does one need feet to kick?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

One needs legs, I'd say, so a spider can do 4 kickflips at once

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

It only says most can't - but we'll never be able to prove that such a whale does not exist at all.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Despite being a shitpost this is actually quite a positive statement for your own mental health

[–] Altrex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] owl 1 points 3 months ago

I kick people and flip em off. Does that meet criteria?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's true, I can't even put away a million krill before I start feeling like a glutton.

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Bro... if you're not downing at least 10M krill per day, the Kraken wins.

[–] Una@europe.pub 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can drink hydrochloric acid without dyeing

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Watch out, that stuff can die your clothes.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

All clothes dead, even the little socks

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had my first class on heterogeneity in the classroom today and the teacher would have loved this tweet

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not share it with teacher?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I’d have to wait two weeks, because she doesn’t check her email, but I already bookmarked it