Takes one to know one

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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 126d (2 replies)

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 126d (1 reply)

smeg@feddit.uk · 35 pts · 126d (2 replies)

Hooray, it's real, that's going straight to !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 126d (1 reply)

I was literally just wondering if there was a nominative determinism community

Klear@quokk.au · 2 pts · 120d

And an aptly named one, too!

This is like The Washington Post (owned by Bezos) with articles about how billionaires shouldn't be taxed

Damage@feddit.it · 12 pts · 126d (2 replies)

Italian name. Grande means big, -oni is suffix for big (plural) so this guy is Biggy big Dino

psud@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 126d

So probably a t-rex

isn't there a political italjan figure named Dino Grande by coincidence?

bedwyr@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 126d (7 replies)

Seeing as their closest living relative is the Chicken, not all that smart.

Ravens are equally close relatives, as are parrots.

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 126d (1 reply)

Would your kids survive an extinction event?

bedwyr@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 126d

It's just a joke, I believe animals are far more intelligent than dumbasses give them credit for.

And we will find out the answer to your question, what time is it? Oh shit, got to go.

Clearly a chickenless Lemm, they smarter than many people.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 126d (2 replies)

I thought komodo dragons were descended from them?

psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 126d (1 reply)

T. Rex and the other dinosaurs shaped like it (the theropods) are the ancestors of birds

They could be ancestors of a lot of things!

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Damn, it's just a name in my region, never seen it in that light 😂