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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

OH. I scrolled past this post like 4 times before I got it. Lesson for the other ducks on viagra, follow the directions on the label or you'll end up like this guy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's a cork screw eh?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

" Babe, you make me so hard I can literally unscrew a bottle's tap with it"

duck-1213776181(1)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Some may call it a blessing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

"wine opener" alone sets the education level

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Curse of Knowledge actually relates to educated people trying to communicate with people under the assumption that everyone knows as much as they do, forgetting that the average person might not be as educated

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually try to talk to folks to the level of their knowledge. I had a debate with some coworkers about vaccines. I explained to them that it's safe, thousands of studies proved they are, I also mentioned vaccines are produced just like any medicine. And yet people take paracetamol willy nilly without question but somehow treat vaccines differently; even though overusing paracetamol could lead to hearing loss as happened to my dad.

However, I admit that what got me is the mRNA vaccine technology when a colleague said there has been no human trial of it before. The technology has actually been developed for over 40 years but with strong proof of concept. But I find it hard to explain that to laypeople.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we all know that. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But the stupid uncursed pleb doesn't know that.

I say curse him!
It's for their good, and for the good of human kind.

But boy do some people have high curse resistance.
Over 100%.
Literally impossible to educate (which is the first part of the cursing process).

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is the wrong facial expression. That man would be laughing his ASS off. Like ribs hurting, can't breath laughing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe he or someone he loves was molested by a duck. It's been known to happen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I hate that I know this too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Try being a geoscientist.... So, so many blurry photos of rocks folks' kids find in the backyard

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

If you show a geoscientist a picture of a rock, does he still lick it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Hey what kind of tree is this?

Potato-quality photo of tree from 150 ft away

These people always manage to take immaculate, professional photos of their damn food or their damn kids but somehow revert to monkey when it's time to photograph a plant

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Various shades of dirt and plants here.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Ok, but like... Everyone down the chain gets the joke, I don't know what the problem is. Open your wine with the penis thing

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Who the hell has a counter-clockwise corkscrew!?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Coriolis Effect. Must be a Southern Hemisphere corkscrew.

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

who the hell analyses a comic so deeply >:)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Those cursed left handeds. We should burn them at the stake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Left handed people

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good catch! I had to stare at it for a minute picturing myself spinning it into a cork and it does feel like it goes the wrong way. (Not righty righty).

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they're pretty common here, you can get one at your local leftorium

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Last I checked they had none left...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did you feel left out not getting one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Without it I was screwed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You could always right the situation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

That wine opener was purchased deliberately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait what's the joke, I'm not an ornithologist

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