It’s possible we tried but the mutant fart mirrorers weren’t sexually competitive.
We should be thankful that humans only evolved a sympathetic yawning response and not a sympathetic farting response
Submitted 11 hours ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 minutes ago
I don’t play competitive, I have running meta
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Maybe not to you 😮💨
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Wait. You don’t?
deacon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
*yet
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Speak for yourself, OP
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours ago
I developed an defensive farting response.
starik@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
If we did evolve that way, we probably would have evolved not to mind the smell so much too
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
When food rots, some microbes can release sulphur dioxide from sulphur-containing amino acids. Being able to smell that reaction product at ridiculously low concentrations will help you steer clear of rotten food. Removing that receptor or reducing their numbers could have been disadvantageous millions of years ago, so that’s why we kept that feature.
db2@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Farts
In particular, what to say after you fart in a crowd (or elevator).
“Take that!”
“What do you say?” like prompting a child to say thank you.
“That’ll be five bucks, you pervert”
“Not a bad sound out of a half inch speaker”
“Did you hear that spider bark?"
“Someone step on a duck?”
“That duck’s got bad breath”
Forest Area Reticulated Tree Spiders (FARTS)
“A bit more choke and that engine will start”
“Did you hear what that asshole just said?”
“There’s someone behind me talking shit!”
“Keep shouting Sir, we’ll find you”
“So sayeth the King”
“I shouldn’t have trusted that one”
“I don’t remember eating that.”
“That’s gonna itch when it dries”
‘‘Two sniffs of that would be greedy’’
“The the horns working, now try the lights”
“Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk”
“The Rear Admiral has spoken”
(Just before you fart) “Alexa, play something by Ed Sheeran”
“Don’t worry, (name), I’ll tell them it was me!”
“You’ve/I’ve got a turd honking for the right of way.”
“Ahh, the ghost of dinners past”
“You got that one for free, next one you will have to pull my finger”
“As foretold by The Prophecy.”
“Now your turn”
The toothless one speaks !
“Sounds much better after my tune up”
“Aaaand…scene!”
“That was supposed to be a song but came out of the wrong end”
“Message from turd castle”
“Glad I’m not in my Space Suit”
“Damn! I was saving that for the elevator”
“An empty house is better than a bad tenant”
“Guess what I had for my last meal”
“This haaause is noww cleeeean”
“carpet frogs”
“Now that I have your attention, we will have a moment of silence for all those that have died in elevator accidents”
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Are you supposed to say all that every time? Seems like a lot to remember.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Worse, we did develop a sympathetic vomiting response. It makes a lot of sense with us being communal eaters. If you buddy is puking up the communal meal maybe you’d better get rid of it before it gets you too.