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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 hours ago
[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

They can still look up. They can lay on their back which they do.

[–] scbasteve7@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but like. Pigs roll in mud. They literally look at the sky when they roll in mud. The one thing theyre known to do, roll in mud. When you think of a pig, and theyre rolling in mud, they look all around including into the starts. While rolling in mud. The one things everyone thinks of when they think of pigs.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 0 points 9 hours ago

Apparently bacon coffee is a thing, I’m sure it tastes good actually…

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 58 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I've raised pigs and seen wild boars do the exact same thing in order to "look up": they sit, in order to elevate their angle of vision.

Humans can't look behind themselves. The neck does not rotate that far. The solution: the entire body rotates.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No, pick me up and rotate my head to look behind me

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 13 hours ago

Either I pick you up or rotate your head.

I would rather do the first. The second can incurr in serious harm.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Even if you are looking straight ahead at the horizon you will see stars just due to your cone of vision.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

You have treated me 2kindly

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Where pigs live, they can see stars without looking upwards. Some people in here don't get outside towns a lot I think!

Kinda like I'm 90% sure games where you take crippling fall damage after 6 feet had devs that never climbed and then fell out of a tree in their lives

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 37 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

For those wondering if it’s true that pigs can’t see the sky:

There's a fair bit of debate on the subject of a pigs ability to look upwards, but here's the gist!

Pigs are able to look up a bit and therefore can see portions of the sky, but as a result of their neck's anatomy they aren't able to look directly above them.

Pigs have short, muscular necks with limited mobility that prevents them from tilting all the way up. There are plenty of other ways for pigs to see the stars, such as rolling over on their backs, taking a few steps back from what they want to see and tilting the rest of their body in line with what they're looking at.

Source

I still thought the sentiment in the post was nice and sweet though.

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 8 points 16 hours ago

Treat me like I'm standing on a ramp or hillside

[–] umt@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 6 points 15 hours ago

It's going to sqeal like a maniac and maybe bite you while you ever so gently do this oddly sexual act to it

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Assuming that the poster is making this post on mobile, "4the" saved them one keyboard press, and "2b" saved them two keyboard presses, all at the expense of readability.

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

I thought this was aneurysm posting at first

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 4 points 15 hours ago

What4 when few w0rds do trick?

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I thought only dogs couldn’t look up

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 12 hours ago

Dogs literally every time you're eating something

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The dogs I have at home would strongly disagree with you.

They will look up at me and judge me if I am not reading their mind to satisfy their wishes of food, my food to them, walks or pets.

Fruit, in particular, will earn me pleading/accusing stares, followed by paw strikes to my legs.

What they won't do is stare down on me. I can't lie on the ground. That gets me licks and growls to get me off the floor. They will get stressed and even bark and growl at each other if I'm on the floor.

Human down is a no-no.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Dogs can look up they just choose not to.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I thought it was dogs that couldn't look up

[–] TrillianAstra@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Big Al says so.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Of all the nonsense the Internet has claimed in a mass delusion, that one puzzled me the most.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

it’s a recurring joke in Shaun of the Dead, so internet content around it is like the birds aren’t real conspiracy  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MzYIo0Wxc

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago