• Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    I have to give them credit, they actually consulted a real expert whilst they were drunk. Most people don’t, not even sober

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      To be fair, “do hummingbirds have feet” seems eminently wikipediable. I’d like to think that if I ever felt the need to drunk-dial an expert, it’d be for something less trivial.

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        seems eminently wikipediable

        Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia…

        In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

      • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Not even 20 years ago smart phones and the internet weren’t ubiquitous. I’m only 35 but even I remember personal stories about bar disagreements where we just simply couldn’t use our phones to search the net. Because all they were capable of is dialing a number and Snake.

      • meliaesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        But they don’t just want the answer, they want to share an experience with the people they’re with in a clever and fun way.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    When I was little, my mom dropped me and her friends kid off at a church for arts and crafts, I was 5. We we given toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaner, glue, and some other stuff to make butterflies. I studiously started making mine, I got the wings, the antenna and asked what I was supposed to use for the legs. A full grown ass women look me right in the eye and said “Butterflies don’t have legs”.

    I had seen butterflies land on flowers and latch on with legs, I was so confused how an adult wouldn’t know that.

    • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I remember asking my teacher why you could see the moon during the day and my teacher told me you couldn’t.

      This too left me very confused, because I had seen the moon that very morning from the school yard.