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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

"stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn't what it's called"

That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it's an individual. Like Greenboots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Moisturised, Flourishing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

First picture was just bad hair day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

"Big Ugly" propaganda here. Only rely on their instagram selfies :P

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Source please or I'll stick to my previously unchallenged image of ugly blobfish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Blob fish, and fancy blob fish,.

Gottit!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder if you're blobby because you're in the wrong environment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Perhaps I do belong isolated in the deep dark sea.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How can it be in pain, and be a corpse?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Those were its last words

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

What worst, is i found the depiction in children's book. It's kinda sad the myth doesn't get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I thought that the Grandma Blobfish quest from Half-Genie Hero would age badly, but I didn't know how badly

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?

Me when I have water

Me when I'm a human living in the modern world

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So I don't need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Then you need to gain bone structure

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I feel like if there's anyone out there who would use this new information to make right by the Blobfish, it's him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Maybe those blobfish are magic. I'll hope for them!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago

But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Boris Johnson?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago

But he's mentioned in the fish's name.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

He looked so much younger then.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The name information is incorrect.

Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.

Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. [...] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus

The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, "binomial name" is not always the same as "proper name". There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that's the Family) above. "Fatheads" sounds insulting, and "Toadfishes" aren't toads.

I wouldn't have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the "proper name" so poorly that I first read it as "Psychrd Lutes". And the second reading, I misread as "Psychiro Lutes", due to the weird "R" that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you're trying to emphasize how it is spelled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not entirely correct either, because apparently "blobfish" can also refer to the wider Psychrolutidae family, also known as fathead sculpins, meaning that other species from the Psychrolutidae family get referred to as "blobfish". So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP's post more accurate than your comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.

I never said what you're accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.

Even when I referred to it once as "blobfish", that was to state its binomial name, not to state that "blobfish" was correct. OP used the term "blobfish" in exactly the same way. It's logically impossible for OP's post to be "more accurate" than mine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So what's Ted Cruz's excuse for looking like figure A?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

We can fix this.

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