TIL a pack of lemmings is called a plague

We are all of us plague!

while this post is popular, i want to mention i dropped a new ep of my travel podcast today: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/yes-you-can--65239344

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Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 1y (3 replies)

How soon can we incorporate this into our outreach and messaging?

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think this is the genesis.

who doesn't like a good plague these days?

obstructiveThoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y

"You asked for a plague when you said no to vaccines, now here we are!"

muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y

A plague upon the mainstream social media?

RandomVideos@programming.dev · 38 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Communities shouldnt be called sublemmies, they should be called plagues

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 17 pts · 1y

this is where I'm at.

lemmy communities are plagues.

rimu@piefed.social · 29 pts · 1y (5 replies)

join my lemmy instance https://plague.social/

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

that's got to happen sooner or later. plague instances spreading like the plague.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Is there only one plague or is it many smaller plagues joined together?

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I think technically that's the same thing.

Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A plague of plagues is a plague?

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 1y

that sounds like a plague to me.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lemmings are typically solitary animals

I feel seen

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 10 pts · 1y

haha, I really liked that part of the description!

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Me logging into Lemmy:

dan69@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Ah hello Mr The Plague

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Join the plague

rimu@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

BE the plague

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I am the plague

Pantless_Paladin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Not yet.

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 1y

that's the phrase, certainly. you've nailed it.

foxlore@programming.dev · 16 pts · 1y

So on the biblical apocalypse bingo card we've got: War, Famine, Fire storms in California, The Antichrist followers will wear their sign on their head, Empathy is considered a sin, And now we find out the covid-19 wasn't the "plague" it was all the lemmies

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Avoid Reddit, like the plague

bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 1y

ooh, sharp.

good one.

barneypiccolo@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Funny, thats what I call conservatives - A Plague of MAGAs.

mine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Now I wanna see a plague of lemmy.

limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

A plague of posts please

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

a group of ravens is called an unkindess.

dan69@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

A group of crows is called a murder

Squorlple@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Now the track listing for the Van der Graaf Generator album Pawn Hearts makes more inter-connective sense with “Lemmings” and “A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers”, the latter of which briefly references the former in the lyrics.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

A large group of crows is called a "murder". A smaller group of crows is called an "attempted murder".

mox@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y

I'm partial to a prickle of porcupines.

More here

CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 1y

Ring a ring o roses