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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by refolde@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

It was my idea mao-clap you're welcome

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Some person that named a species Tit

[-] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 16 points 4 months ago

Ooh, I know this one. It comes from old English, meaning "small thing"

[-] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

probably from the french "petit", right?

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

person

Gender neutral when we all know it was a dude lol

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Boob used to also mean stupid.

Boob Tube - Trending 1/12/2016 | Merriam-Webster

Although boob is indeed a common slang term for a woman’s breast, and televisions did indeed formerly have tubes in them, these do not not appear to have served as the basis for the term. Boob has also served as a common term for a foolish person for over a hundred years, and television has been referred to as ‘the tube’ since the 1950s. The two words were combined based on the notion that much of what is viewed on television is either foolish, or geared toward foolish people, also known as the booboisie, a word coined by HL Mencken for ‘the class composed of all who are considered boobs

[-] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago
[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

I'm boobies for boobies.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Apparently it's because they're silly little guys.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

whose idea was it to name breasts after birds?

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Little feeties flappers be blue.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

I guess I'll be that guy

The English name "booby" was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "stupid",[6] as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten. Owing to this, boobies are often mentioned as having been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably William Bligh of the Bounty and his adherents during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his followers.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bobo are those birds indeed... they're mga dalubhasang bobo

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago
[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Basically all bird watchers and ornithologists.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago
[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

he's Greek and his name is Stavros Halkias

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

The only people worried about this are christians who haven't encountered female orgasm, i propose "one-finger squirt" for the next bird name

they should be more aspirational

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago
[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago
[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

gigachad Not sure, but they probably looked like this.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

There was a period over centuries where dudes would get on boats to get away from their wives and presumably after months of "I hate my wife" jokes they invariably got really horny and made it everyone's problem.

[-] Poogona@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Understand that zoologists, especially in the field, spend a lot of time very bored, and that's a recipe for making the dumbest dirtbaggiest jokes you can. What starts as "that bird looks like it's got a dick on its head dude" later becomes in scientific literature "phallocephalus"

If you've ever heard of the classic mating dynamic of "males who creep into the harem to mate while the alpha isn't looking," you have probably heard of them described as "sneaky males." This is a change from the original designation the field biologists who first studied this behavior gave it, "sneaky fuckers"

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