Comment on how do you slice it??

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Youth Today don’t know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is?

    Just today, I learned a handy way of visualizing the size of a giraffe. If you took that asteroid that struck off the coast of Iceland, and made a copy of it and put the two of them together, that’s about the size of a giraffe.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If that doesn’t get you some Nobel prize, I don’t know what will.

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry, I need that in dishwashers or ping pong balls

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      • xylol@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you just need to translate everything to bananas then go in from there

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• Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alex Horn wrote it.

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry, I don’t get the reference and the Wikipedia page didn’t help!

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    • FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In his show Taskmaster he is well known for both writing tasks and making jokes through intentionally obtuse language and uncommon phrasing. Frequently the “obvious” interpretation of a task turns out to be non-obvious, or the answer to a riddle is this kind of nondeterministic situation that trips up the contestants and makes for better funny.

      Which is to say, the author of the headline is a troll, and did it internationally to bait this very kind of conversation. You won’t know which way they sliced the giraffe unless you read the entire thing! Of course, after you do, you still won’t know.

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      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah, no wonder the Wikipedia page didn’t help… the top result when I searched was for a cult leader named Alex Horn. Thanks for the explanation!

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People usually measure asteroids by mass (but then, those people are already abnormal, so who knows?), if so, it’s something around the size of a cow.

  Or maybe they could use metric…

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  • cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A big rock, maybe this is the appropriate time to use stone

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How many stones does a big rock weight?

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      • cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Very big stone = big rock Big stone = rock Stone = small rock

        Everyone that says metric is easy haven’t figured this out.

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• Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just slice it long ways down the middle. Bilateral symmetry makes this pretty easy.

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