What a hilarious name to give it. Granted 'Man-o-war' is also very funny for a thing that mostly just floats around and stings you if you swim into it.
They hurt like a bitch too. Swam across one while snorkeling in Florida a few months ago. Had a couple tentacles wrapped around my arm. Not fun. And flared up again 2 weeks later. Also not fun.
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AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space · 74 pts · 1y
I was today years old when I learned they aren't jellyfish... Well, guess I am one of the lucky 10k
To anyone else that only now learned that: they are actually quite interesting, and colonial organisms of a group called Siphonophorae.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 1y
I've never even heard of this animal in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 31 pts · 1y
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
This image is great.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 1y
I’m 99% sure that’s a picture of a blue bottle, not sure what a man o war is.
Edit: Well today I learned that what we call “bluebottles” in Aotearoa and Australia is called “Man of War” in the US.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 1y
What a hilarious name to give it. Granted 'Man-o-war' is also very funny for a thing that mostly just floats around and stings you if you swim into it.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Named after a ship class that would make you scared if you saw it on the horizon
sad_detective_man@leminal.space · 1 pts · 1y
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Bluebottles are a kind of housefly in the US or UK aren't they?
nialv7@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
Shouldn't it be "we are attractive, yes".
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
What is the original dialogue?
marcos@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
It's from The Good Place. She isn't a person, and she isn't a computer either.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Thanks!
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
"And to Janet! The best robot,"
"Not a robot."
"Girl,"
"Not a girl."
"And straight up hottie!"
"I am attractive, yes."
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Thanks! :)
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
They hurt like a bitch too. Swam across one while snorkeling in Florida a few months ago. Had a couple tentacles wrapped around my arm. Not fun. And flared up again 2 weeks later. Also not fun.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
What are ya doin in my waters
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
That’s very speciesist of you to refer to a Hanar that way >:(
pepperjohnson@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
This one is unworthy!