You can try this strategy if you're tired of dating apps

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Balaquina@lemmy.ca · 81 pts · 299d

Well, based on the rampant chlamydia in the Koala population, I'm guessing that it works.

Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 299d (2 replies)

I tried it for 6 straight nights, and nary a koala joined me.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 299d

Maybe if all these damn women would stop showing up. It's probably scaring them away. :(

grissino@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 298d
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Biobaron@discuss.tchncs.de · 42 pts · 298d (9 replies)

Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 298d

They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal

You claim Koalas are dumb and yet show me even one of them who voted for Tony Abbott.

Millions of Aussie humans, many with vastly superior brain/body ratios, cannot make this claim.

UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 298d (1 reply)

I love this copypasta, thank you for reminding me.

Biobaron@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 297d

So do I! Seeing this post, it was the first thing that came to my mind. Actually, it's the first thing that comes to my mind every time I see a koala.

Azal@pawb.social · 9 pts · 298d

But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.

I know this is a copypasta but this part... Koalas are something that at a distance looks cute. But I don't know what it is about them, but the more you look at them, the more... "That doesn't look right" comes in into a creepy cryptid.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d
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AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d (1 reply)

eir brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Ma

OMG you really do hate koalas lol

better_world@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 298d

This is a copypasta iirc

plyth@feddit.org · 3 pts · 298d

Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia.

Where did it come from? Sounds like victim shaming.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 298d

Stupid long horses

MrEff@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 299d (2 replies)

Based on all the auzzis that I have known and met, it is hard to know if the Koala learned it from them, or the other way around. We will never know.

Zozano@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 298d (1 reply)

M8 it's a natural outcome of summer heat.

MrEff@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 298d

I'm from Texas, our natural reaction to summer heat is to love guns and smoked BBQ. I think we are seeing a divergent evolutionary response to heat in the human race.

Is it the eucalyptus? The chlamydia? Or the Australian love of the word cunt? The world will never know...

/s

pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 299d

I have discovered my spirit animal

Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 298d

Got a drink thrown at me and a lifetime ban from Applebee's, 2/10 do not recommend, mozzarella sticks were p good tho

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 298d

I believe this is the 80s NYC Construction Worker strategy

shalafi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 298d (1 reply)

Given what they sound like fighting, I was afraid to look up their mating call.

Yep. About what I thought. Satanic. If you heard a human making that noise, you'd be calling John Constantine.

StickyDango@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 297d

I've heard it in person, can confirm satanic mating call. At first I was like "W.. T.. F... Am I in danger" but walked a bit more and actually saw it making the sounds.

Zozano@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 298d (1 reply)

My mother used to work at a Koala sanctuary.

I asked her if this post is true and this was her reply:

Yes and no - they bellow and rub scent glands to attract - but also can be aggressive perusing female- they can even try to mate with female who still has young on her back !

The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 5 pts · 298d

Absolutely shameless behavior, Koalas...

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 298d (3 replies)

A koala came down a tree next to us and wandered off into the bush bellowing with an erection.

MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 17 pts · 298d (2 replies)

sure.. but when I do it it's frowned upon.

BambiDiego@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 298d

You have to do it right.

Pee yourself, get Chlamydia, be high as the ionosphere, bellow gutturally, be irritable, have crusty hair, and make sure you have an amazing PR team that makes you look cuddly.

...

I don't like Koalas.

axexrx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d

Yeah. When you come on the tree, it makes the bark salty, and the deer will eat all the bark off of it, killing the tree.

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 8 pts · 299d (1 reply)

So the same as sitting in a car playing loud music, revving the engine and hollering at women.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d

It's the gay equivalent of posting a faceless hookup app profile that just says "top"

Beebabe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d (7 replies)

Well. I tried the apps and it seemed to me it was mostly people who I was not interested in at all…muscles and trucks and macho gym sports etc.

So my backup strategy is to keep having IT issues so I can see the adorable middle aged IT guy. Maybe one day!

cRazi_man@europe.pub · 7 pts · 298d (1 reply)

Have you even tried lying back and bellowing?

Beebabe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d

Not specifically to summon him. But I do have a crash pad and I have done that in a “fuck this shit” moment. :p

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 298d (4 replies)

Look, we IT guys don't know if you don't say anything.

LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 298d (1 reply)

As an IT guy, may I reccomend simple, clear sentences? Maybe in writing, to make sure.

Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 297d

Or file a ticket.

That usually gets our attention in 1-2 business days.

(no but seriously, that would be hella cute)

Beebabe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 297d (1 reply)

I’m trying. I’m working my way up to it. The problem is I’m just as fucking nerdy-awkward and shy. I have another chance tomorrow. And some mochi and space stickers to share. Gift giving should register, maybe?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 297d

Sounds like a good match. Good luck!

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 7 pts · 299d

“Hey Shazza!”

sirico@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 297d

Fermenting booze in their tummies, lounging about in the sun shouting out at passing girls. Koala or English lad in Benidorm?

mechoman444@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 298d

That's pretty much what I do every night...

fckreddit@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 299d

Stop calling me koala. It's the only way left to me.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 299d

Same as it always was

https://youtu.be/ujPOfKf3xAQ?t=485

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 297d

Sheila! Get me another fuckin' tinny will ya!

AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d

Yeah, I'm so tired dating an app