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#1133622
Sandwich Board
Although, to be fair, distinguishing between species of gull is a notoriously difficult problem in taxonomic circles and a source of perpetual debate.
In effect, they're all transitional species of each other! Hah, take that, creationists!
3/17/2010 1:57:30 AM
#1133623
Oh geez...ALL the birds you see look like gulls? Baby Jesus is hysterical over that lie.
3/17/2010 2:14:54 AM
#1133625
Recoil
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the master of tautology!
3/17/2010 2:26:32 AM
#1133627
shykid
Yay, another headache-inducing, shaped-like-itself instance of circular logic...
3/17/2010 3:24:03 AM
#1133629
Nowonmai
Uhh, no. Zoology fail on a massive scale.
3/17/2010 4:17:43 AM
#1133634
Jezebel's Evil Sister
Not all birds are the gull kind.
Some are the boy kind.
The bee kind are involved, too, but I'll tell you about that when you're older.
3/17/2010 5:14:10 AM
#1133635
breakerslion
I predict a mega-church in your future. You have already mastered the First Secret Commandment:
If you can't dazzle the sheep with brilliance, bamboozle them with bullshit. You'll go far in the right circles, but not here.
3/17/2010 5:41:40 AM
#1133636
Mister Spak
How about turtles? Are sea and land turtles two different kinds (one that swims in the sea, one that creeps upon the earth) or one kind because they look like turtles?
3/17/2010 5:46:34 AM
#1133638
Philbert McAdamia
Once upon a time in the navy, whilst I was on daytime starboard watch underway, one of the watches announced on the sound powered phone that he had spotted "a bee one arr dee, and it looked to him like a gee you eleven", and one of the idiots ran in to inform the officer of the deck of that spotting.
( B 1 R D --- G U 11 )
3/17/2010 5:52:32 AM
#1133641
emau99
"Creation science" strikes again!
3/17/2010 6:02:41 AM
#1133642
Doubting Thomas
Well they all have wings, a beak, a tail, and they fly, so why not lump them all together? Those silly definitions like "species" are something only those scientists with too much time on their hands need to worry about.
3/17/2010 6:09:46 AM
#1133652
Horsefeathers
"Welcome to the department of redundancy department. How can I help you?"
3/17/2010 6:35:16 AM
#1133662
Murdin
3/17/2010 6:57:26 AM
#1133664
Linneus must be shaking in his tomb.
3/17/2010 7:03:17 AM
#1133687
observiNG
I bet this is the same "kind" of person that would insist that a year consists of four seasons, there are four times of day, and a rainbow has seven colors. After all, winter is different from summer, morning looks like morning, and red is not at all like green, right?
3/17/2010 7:34:39 AM
#1133742
John_in_Oz
I was all eager to bucket more well-deserved shit on Orange Wizards Fundie ass, but I can't do it.
Here's what you see when you click on the link:
(1st spr) You said we named those animals gulls because of the traits that make them the same kind.
(OW) No, I said that they share a commonality. They're all called gulls because they all look like gulls. They're all called the gull kind, because they look like gulls.
The 'context statement' preceding the quote above is just plain wrong. OW's response is tightly quote-mined. His full paragraph seems obscure but need not necessarily be so in the context of the discussion, which the link does not point to.
His statement is actually uncontentious. Mostly, the different breeds of gull around the world are called gulls because they look like (other species of) gull. IE, when asked "What are gulls", we point at the birds, rather than the dictionary. No, he's not saying all birds are gulls.
Yes he's a Fundie, but this isn't a darnedest thing.
It's a shame. I was hoping to make a good pun on the idea that it's actually Fundies who are gulls.
3/17/2010 7:59:30 AM
#1133909
Oh yeah, I remember hearing about gulls stealing small pets and even small children that were left unprotected out in the open. Then they'd take their prey somewhere in the trees where they could kill it an eat it in peace. Damn those vicious, majestic eagle gulls!
3/17/2010 10:46:57 AM
#1133945
oop
This is a troll. Gulls just want to have fun!
3/17/2010 12:00:17 PM
#1133966
Sisyphus
Well, that's cleared that up. I was losing sleep over that.
3/17/2010 12:30:24 PM
#1133970
Old Viking
Gully gee!
3/17/2010 12:36:02 PM
#1133985
John
So Noah wouldn't have needed to take two of these, since they are obviously of the "mouse" kind.
PS, this is a brown antechinus, a marsupial - not remotely related to a "real" mouse.
3/17/2010 1:31:25 PM
#1133986
Headache
3/17/2010 1:42:06 PM
#1134051
Sandwich Board
@John_in_Oz
"The 'context statement' preceding the quote above is just plain wrong. OW's response is tightly quote-mined. His full paragraph seems obscure but need not necessarily be so in the context of the discussion, which the link does not point to.
His statement is actually uncontentious. Mostly, the different breeds of gull around the world are called gulls because they look like (other species of) gull. IE, when asked "What are gulls", we point at the birds, rather than the dictionary. No, he's not saying all birds are gulls. "
I agree; OrangeWizard doesn't express it very well (although, contrary to some claims here, the part quoted isn't circular), but what it boils down to is just plain phenetics; while outdated, it's not exactly WTF?! material.
3/17/2010 3:26:16 PM
#1134125
DaMentalFunism
Does that really make sense to you?
3/17/2010 4:46:58 PM
#1134180
Berny
And you're a retard kind. A fucking retard specifically.
3/17/2010 6:05:06 PM
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