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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
If someone is lost as I was:
Spoiler
deer protect their young from predators, the young deer are in the center of the circle where the predator can't get to
a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion
Some other animals too. Especially Turkeys can also get into a "death spiral" similar to ants!
Turkeys? Some of us have their own death spiral to worry about.
Death spiral sounds like something you'd do at a metal concert
Turkeys will eventually break out of the circle as they get hungry, they stay in the flock because they feel safer in numbers, and are dumb enough to forget who's leading. Buy they won't march on to their own death unless food is incredibly scarce.
Ants just aren't self aware, and don't have enough brain cells to realize they could just break off and take a snack break if they wanted.
Deers
The grammar monster in me is going to need a trigger warning next time.
I think the wrong spelling is part of the meme adventure
Oh deer
Oh deer
I'm glad that quick answer is there, no way I'm reading that whole thing.
Why is the plural the same as singular that does make no sense
Actually I find it don't make no sense
Why is English so ridiculous that the plural and singular of deer is the same word? And why do people want to keep it that way?
Go speak a language with gendered nouns and leave English alone
The plural of "moose" is also "moose" but it's not because of English. Moose derives from Algonquian, a Native American language. It kept the same plural ending it had in its original language instead of adopting the normal "s" ending of most English plurals.
I believe the plural of "moose" is actually "meese".
Goose : Geese :: Moose : Meese
Mouse : Mice :: House : Hice
"MOOSES" Sounds like moose jesus
This isn't an english specific trait. Lots of languages have something similar.
For instance, in portuguese we do the same for words that end on the letter S.
Ex: Lápis (Pencil), Vírus (Virus), Ônibus (Bus), etc.
I thought this was common knowledge.
To native English speakers, yes. To non-native speakers, this is yet another bizarre rule they just have to memorize.
Or they could just ignore it because the point of language rules is to communicate unambiguously and the meaning of "deers" is pretty clear while "deer" is ambiguous.
Common knowledge doesn't mean people use it. It's easy to forget even if you studied about it in school.
For example you is singular and plural. But we rarely use you for multiple people nowadays, we just go "you guys", "you all", "all of you", or something else to disambiguate.
Languages move towards easy communication and simplicity.
John, you can't license away the plural of deer.
I want to stand in the eye of the deernado and see how long I can last.
If none of them are bucks, it could be a tornadoe.
Nice 👏👏👏
I’m willing to bet you’ll get a few bucks.
Considering the other comment mentioning that they do this to protect their young, probably not very long.
Whatever gets your rocks off.
Do they run in the opposite direction on southern hemisphere?
It all depends if it's a high pressure deer/ant system or a low pressure one.
Hm, interesting.
Can we save the ants by brushing them away?
Don't kid yourself, HonoraryMancunian. If an ant ever got the chance, she'd eat you and everyone you cared about.
Like, literally, no meme.
It’s just Ant… you don’t have to put the ‘s’, ant is already plural
Unless it's the human aunt. Like if your mother and father both had a sister named "Sarah" (or if one set of grandparents were very lazy with their naming and your father or mother had two sisters named "Sarah"), you would refer to them collectively as Aunts Sarah.
I actually had a pet moose named Sarah, but have never had a pet ant named Sarah so I can’t confirm this.
Deers
Not a word.