• rockerface 🇺🇦
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    1351 month ago

    Animals don’t need to wipe because they don’t have massive glutes evolved to support an entire upright body while also walking and running. This is the curse of our intelligence and endurance.

    • @Soup
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      511 month ago

      Let’s cut the shit, it’s the curse our fat asses.

      • @Maultasche
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        361 month ago

        Let’s cut the shit

        With a poop knife?

        • @Soup
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          161 month ago

          Only way to be sure.

    • @LouNeko
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      1 month ago

      Technically humans don’t have to wipe either. But it would be like dried Nutella in a shag carpet.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 month ago

      Did we evolve to like butts because walking upright upright was advantageous? Or did we evolve to walk upright because we liked butts?

      • @CleoTheWizard
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        121 month ago

        The baboons have been oddly quiet since you asked this

      • @devfuuu
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        121 month ago

        Butts are the original boobs.

      • @[email protected]
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        Something that blows my mind is realising how much of our understanding of sex and attraction is socially constructed. For example, there are plenty of documented cultures where women’s breasts don’t have the erotic connotation we attach to them. The thing that really threw me off was learning about some people who don’t kiss as a show of affection — I found this a surreal concept, because in terms of romantic interactions with a partner, I’m fairly meh about sex, but I’m a big fan of kissing/making out; There’s a sense in which I obviously know that preference towards kissing is likely not an evolved trait, but more sociocultural, but it feels so intuitive that something so visceral isn’t necessarily an innate trait.

        Anyway, this is a long way of saying “did we evolve to like butts, though?”. Evolutionary biology, the field that would consider questions like these, is unavoidably pretty heavy on the speculation side — given that humans have evolved to be such social creatures, we can’t really separate out the sociocultural aspects of development from the genetic side, and that makes asking evolutionary questions on large timescales to be a tricky endeavour.

        Edit: This isn’t to say that asking these questions is pointless to do. I appreciated your question precisely because it’s the kind of thing that cooks my brain (and I enjoy that)

        • @AnUnusualRelic
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          21 month ago

          We’d have to engineer a race of humans without butts and see if they managed to breed.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        11 month ago

        Does walking upright make the butts more or less visible? They’re slightly higher but less prominently displayed.

    • @leadore
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      1 month ago

      OK, I was gonna say it was because they don’t have big fat butt cheeks like humans but I like your version better. It’s glutes. Yeah that’s it, glutes.

      • @FooBarrington
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        This makes so much sense.

        I’ve only ever seen this scene in German, where the guy doesn’t say “buns and thighs”, he just says “Oberschenkelmuskeln” (which means thigh muscles) and I think that’s beautiful.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 month ago

            They put a lot of effort in the translation and voice acting. Whenever a joke doesn’t translate, they come up with something in the same spirit. Sometimes, I like the translation better.

  • @[email protected]
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    821 month ago

    They also do ‘wipe.’ Quite often, actually. I have seen just about every variety of mammal that I’ve observed for longer than a few hours lick their bum clean.

  • @metallic_substance
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    31 month ago

    What in the world is happening in the lower half of the first panel?

    • @edgemaster72
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      81 month ago

      I think the person on that end of the phone call is naked in a bathroom looking at themself in a mirror, and the artist made them blurry cuz naked

      • @Buddahriffic
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        31 month ago

        I think the blur is to give it a sense of depth rather than censorship. It’s just a back, not something dangerous like a nipple attached to a woman.

        • @edgemaster72
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          21 month ago

          That could also be, and actually I think makes more sense, especially since there’s a mirror you’d want that sense of depth, I’d think.

  • @Whelks_chance
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    11 month ago

    Everyone watched the same scishow video then