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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Mammals use boob-juice to raise their offspring. That's why they are called that.

As opposed to e.g. birds that don't use boob-juice and instead elect to vomit in their offspring's ingestion orifices.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago

Ironically, birds also have a non-zero chance to be called "tits", "boobies" or some such equivalent. Whoever named those must have been very proud of being a mammal and wanted to rub it in for those poor birds

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Now I'm conflicted. Boobs are great but at what cost?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We need boob v2, where you can chew a thing and boob out the vomit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Nah boobs are great the way they are, adjust your interface program

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t… isn’t that basically how it works?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I think he means doing it voluntarily. Like, you can shoot out milk at someone by your own will

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Boob out lmao

Edit. That’s what boobs currently do. They just boob out one thing tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Not having to feed our offspring vomit?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i legit had to search whether whales and dolphins had them, and I'm shocked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sea lions have retractable nipples. Let that sink in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Should I let it sink in just like the sea lions do with their nipples?

Also, the platypus doesn't have nipples. It sweats milk.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Memes are the breast way to find out about this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Memes are literally the breasts in my language (Turkish)!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

All hail the tits

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know you think this set of boobs is important now, but those boobs will be replaced by another set of boobs. Boobs will come and go. And then, someday, you'll meet a pair of boobs that you want to marry. And those become the boobs that matter the most.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Flat earth? Nah I know the truth

Boob Earth

[–] jballs 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait... So can you milk a dolphin?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, but they do produce milk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wasn't there some marine scientist that got in trouble for milking dolphins?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

maybe that was a euphemism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe he went for the males

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, NASA paid to fund research to communicate with dolphins, and it led to jerking off one of the adolescents so he'd be able to concentrate on the lessons better. Also there was LSD in there for a bit. When the project lost funding the dolphin was moved to an inadequate facility so he got depressed and offed himself.

The 60s was a hell of a time for sciencing stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanna know why but I'm too afraid of the answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Inverted nipples, not suitable for milking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

...and the nipple never comes out like how a human nipple can get erect? Forgive my lack of biology, I am an engineering major.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw 15 points 2 months ago

This factoid is tits.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a fan of boobs, I appreciate this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I too enjoy boobs. So refreshing to meet a fellow enthusiast.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In Polish the word for "mammals" is "ssaki" which comes from "ssać" which means "to suck". So we are all suckers in Polish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's interesting that the Polish word is so similar to the English word, since Polish is of Slavic origin and English is Germanic.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I fucking hate Tumblr users

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's called the milky way because of Heracles since he bit his mom's tit so hard the milk sprayed all over the sky.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera's breast while she is asleep so the baby will drink her divine milk and become immortal. Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away, some of her milk spills, and it produces the band of light known as the Milky Way. In another Greek story, the abandoned Heracles is given by Athena to Hera for feeding, but Heracles' forcefulness causes Hera to rip him from her breast in pain.

That Zeus. He’s such a character. Not only does he sleep around on Hera (you know, his ~~sister~~ wife), but then surreptitiously tries to get Hera to breast-feed his bastard son. But I digress…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I feel this deserves more attention. Not only is the Milky Way named for literal milk; it is named for specifically for human milk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, until very recently anybody who was not born with a desire for milk and sucking tits didn't last long enough to reproduce.

So a bit of a tit obcession is understandable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ass lovers in absolute shambles right now. I guess they'll always have <3 (the heart symbol portrays an ass, or so I've heard)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The heart is boobs too, sorry.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a Greek, I feel that I have been ~~called~~ summoned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ga-lactic is where we get lactic!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I always have some doubts when I read in a Brick "Fresh Milk from certified Farmers"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

What is up, my mammals?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

~~we are starstuff~~ we are universe milk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It is admittedly pretty weird that a whole group of species developed a baby-juice organ that is only used by the females to feed only the young babies.

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