But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids8 & today I hate them worse than everything so farewell & in a sweet frame of mind, I am | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Didn't he have the most amount of trouble with his hammock? I recall from the Dollop episode on him this dude couldn't get in our out of the damn thing like ever
I was actually making a joke about the hydrotherapy he used to treat his condition. It involved getting doused with cold water. I don't think anyone caught my joke.
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MoonMelon@lemmy.ml · 154 pts · 186d
His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin
TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au · 10 pts · 185d
"It is like confessing a murder"- on the implications of telling his friends about his theory. That was an interesting read thanks
Hegar@fedia.io · 136 pts · 186d
That's not even all of them, he also said "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did".
tetris11@feddit.uk · 60 pts · 186d
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters /DCP-LETT-3272.xml
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
404
tetris11@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 186d
oh weird, the link keeps getting mangled when I paste it.
Try the link now, removing the space I added to make it valid
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 186d
the space is still there though?
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xmlthis works for me?
EDIT: This is bizzare. the forward slash between letters and DCP keeps getting replaced by %2F
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 185d
Tough! Fails--
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xml
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xml
Venator@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 185d
It seems lemmy doesn't like the direct letter url. But you can find it by searching: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/search?keyword=DCP-LETT-3272.xml
It seems like they have a bug where they should be doing a url deencode on the document id url parameter, but they aren't
Venator@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 185d
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 185d
does it though? it looks like your link has the same issue as mine
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 185d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 185d
charles darwin hated those too apparently
dumbass@piefed.social · 40 pts · 186d
Which Charles Darwin are you? I'm 23 jan 1863 Charles Darwin.
goldenbug@fedia.io · 11 pts · 186d
I'm 10 of September, 1860
Zombie@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 186d
And yet, you write. Curious.
I have a timed close-book exam today so I am of course 1 Oct 1861
dumbass@piefed.social · 3 pts · 186d
I'm not happy about it.
SSETranquility@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
11 March 1958 clockin in. Hate me some variety
fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 186d
Bold to pick a date 70 years after his death. In that case, I'm 1993 Darwin, rolling in his grave at the launch of the Darwin Awards.
SSETranquility@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 185d
Hahahaha opps the fartographer got me
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 186d
Sounds like a regular programmer today.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 26 pts · 186d
Actually he sounds like a top-tier programmer today
TomMasz@piefed.social · 32 pts · 186d
I'm detecting a theme here.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 186d
Generally, he was not a fan of things
banazir@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 186d
He did love eating every new animal he ran across.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 186d
this post is a screenshot of https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/oh-my-god-how-i-do-hate-species-and
see also https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-loathe-i-abhor-the-sea-and-all
and https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ (where you can search and read the full text of over 15,000 of Darwin's letters)
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 186d
Darwin was famously seasick, but also wanted to really look at birds and shit. Bad combination.
aln@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 186d
Didn't he have the most amount of trouble with his hammock? I recall from the Dollop episode on him this dude couldn't get in our out of the damn thing like ever
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 186d
Somebody should have just given him a Snickers.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 186d
Fuck bees though.
Dumb bees and their dumb honey.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 186d
You leave the bees alone or prepare to catch some hands my good sir and/or madame. Wasps can get fucked tho
ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 186d
It's hip to fuck bees.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 186d
I am very poorly today.
Poorly what?
Poorly everything.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 5 pts · 186d
Big Darwin mood
banazir@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 186d
He sounds like he needs to take a cold shower.
Blade9732@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 186d
Good News! Hot showers weren't common place with non royalty for another 50 years. Likely his only choice of shower was a cold shower.
banazir@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 186d
I was actually making a joke about the hydrotherapy he used to treat his condition. It involved getting doused with cold water. I don't think anyone caught my joke.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 185d
Same list for me every morning before the coffee.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 186d
Well you know what they say, do what you hate!
xia@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 186d
Missed opportunity to include his praise of inbreeding to produce "superior stock".
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 186d
What?
No.
Darwin married his first cousin, yeah...that was the social norm at the time, not long ago.
But he hypothesized and later proved that the inbreeding was a direct cause of his children's poor health.
I wouldn't say he was a fan of inbreeding, just a reluctant participant who eventually warned us of its dangers.