I was born in Wales. I used this to diffuse an argument at work where a creationist and someone that understands evolution were going at it.
When he said, "what? so you believe we came from whales?"
I said, "I came from Wales!"
Thought it was funny.
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what? so you believe we came from whales?
What the absolute fuck? How one's mind gets into this?
Creationism is one hell of a drug
Cetaceanism
I see you've never dealt with a creationist! I found it funny because he could have picked any other animal but he picked a whale which is so far out there.
My older brother was a Mormon. Before he "converted" I remember him teaching me about why giraffes necks could be long and such (he was wrong as we have newer theories now anywho). I remember like a few months after he spent time with the elders he came back and said something like, "you know why I don't believe in evolution? because it's not like eskimos have thicker skin or anything".
I've been fascinated with creationism after all these interactions so listened to talks with Richard Dawkins and Kenneth Miller and such for years afterwards.
It's really interesting as well because you can see the Republican playbook used for evolution for so many things afterwards. Also, things like singing songs to kids about how dinosaurs were in the Bible and stuff crazy stuff.
The Nepali have genetically adapted to living in low oxygen conditions. They literally have thicker blood than the rest of us. Evolution at work.
Maybe because all life originally came from the ocean? They don't understand that the animals that exist now are not the same as the common ancestors we share with them. And they definitely don't understand that whales' ancestors left the water, but then they came back!
Ok, that's not completely insane... but would they also claim that we descend from octopus or starfish? Why whales?
Are you a man who's been stabbed twice by two girls from Wales?
Which scenario does this fit.
Scenario 1:
- Welsh Girl 1: Stab
- Welsh Girl 2: Stab
- Result stabbed twice by two girls from Wales.
Scenario 2:
- Welsh Girl 1 or Welsh Girl 2: Stab
- Next occasion different time
- Welsh Girl 1 or Welsh Girl 2: Stab
- Result stabbed twice by two girls from Wales.
Neither.
Your scenarios are both 'stabbed by two girls from Wales'. Except if in your Scenario 2 it's the same girl, in which case it becomes 'stabbed twice by a girl from Wales'.
What you need is Scenario 3:
- Event 1: Welsh Girl 1 and Welsh Girl 2 stab
- Event 2: Welsh Girl X and Welsh Girl Y stab
Where X could be 1, 2, or other, and Y is the complement to X, or other.
Dude you’re like my users always finding edge cases for the code I wrote.
I figure guy gets stabbed twice and our Welsh Queens keep their mouths shut.
Reminds me of a Czech joke.
Warning: Not funny (well, only funny if you read the explanation that ruins the timing)
Pepíček přijde do zverimexu a povídá: "Já bysi wád koupiu vydwu." Prodavač mu tedy prodá vydru, Pepíček ji vloží do přepravky a jde domů.
Na ulici potká dva policajty a jeden říká druhému: "Co to tady smrdí?"
Pepíček odpoví: "Vydwa."
Little Johnny comes to a pet shop and says ´"I would wike to buy an ottwu." The shopkeeper sells him an otter. Johnny puts it in a carrying case and goes home.
He walks by two policemen on the street and one says to the other: "What so smelly here?"
Little Johnny answers: "Ottwu".
The joke is that in Czech, kids who can't yet say the difficult consonant "r" often replace it with "w" (this is the principle behind uwu-speak). When applied to the word "vydra" (otter), it will sound like "vy dva" (you two [masculine]).
Thanks I’m going to bust this out on Slack for our Prague team with zero context.
Is that James May? Must be his later adulthood after he lost his macaroni.