Comment on Hummingbird feet

Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, “do hummingbirds have feet” seems eminently wikipediable.

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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨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.

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    • Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL: Guinness Book of World Records origin story is the same as a D&D campaign: started in a tavern.

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      • jadero@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All great things start in a bar. Or coffee shop. Or in the shower. Or in a dream. But never in a meeting.

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  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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    • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Way back in the 1950 some guy had the same observation you did. He came up with an idea for a book that would solve disputes over trivia by bar patrons. 70 years later the Guinness Book of World Records has over 22,000 entries in their database.

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      • Arielcorn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        began as an idea conceived by British engineer and industrialist Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, to solve trivia questions among bar patrons. During the early 1950s Beaver was involved in a dispute during a shooting party about the fastest game bird in Europe; however, the answer could not be found in any bird reference book.

        Wow. That guy sure was serious about bird trivia!

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    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When we kids there would always be someone who would rush home to look stuff up on the encyclopedia and get back with the results

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    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m around the same age and I’m pretty sure we had Google on our phones by the time we could drink. That was the in between time where they still had buttons, but they had browsers and colorful screens. First iPhone released in 07. We were pretty much the first ones to have ‘smartish’ phones, though, and some people definitely still had snake bricks.

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      • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In many European countries the drinking age is 18 and in some the drinking age for beer and wine is 16. So we could be talking about as early as 2004.

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    • Dutczar@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I read that as “capable of dialing Snake”…

      Snake? Snake! SNAAAAAKE! DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?

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  • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, there’s no time period listed on when the event described allegedly occurred and Wikipedia hasn’t always existed.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You're that guy who posts lmgtfy links anytime someone asks for an opinion on something, aren't you?

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    • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is an episode of HIMYM where they are in a similar situation. Before the smart phones they would argue over some things for days, now they just check it in 10 seconds. No fun.

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