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[–] [email protected] 129 points 6 days ago (2 children)

from left to right:

  • human
  • dog
  • horse
  • flamingo
[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

With a helpful reminder in parenthesis that they mean flamingo the bird, as opposed to the casino, which doesn’t have any feet.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

According to their press kit, their casino alone has 93,000 feet. All of them square for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

As opposed to, what, triangular feet? Spiral feet? Perhaps you’d feel better if their feet were hyperboloid? ffs get a grip.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

They have even more cubic feet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you just have to find the right room

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Or order from the special room service menu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But why Katakana? Those are some reasonably basic kanji- certainly not beyond bird anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it seems that the scientific nomenclature for families of animals in Japanese uses katakana:

this is confirmed by a few comments on this page: https://ja.hinative.com/questions/14614111

Basically, the kanji “犬” is used. Since “犬” is an elementary Kanji character, the hiragana “いぬ” is not often used.

The katakana “イヌ” is used in more biological contexts than “犬”.

Example:

  • “Walking with a dog” 犬
  • “Inu is a mammalian animal” イヌ

However, not all Japanese follow this rule. If in doubt, just write the kanji character for “dog” and you will be fine.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

If you’re looking for more the source is Satoshi Kawasaki books “Exchanging bodies with animals”. Might have better luck finding a webpage if you can read Japanese. There’s definitely more nightmare fuel out there to find, the search term “Satoshi Kawasaki animals as human” should get you some hits.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

It honestly is a really great way to demonstrate the concepts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Virgin human proportions vs Chad bird proportions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Gigachad pecs ngl

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Huh that one's actually really interesting.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The Horse walks on the middle fingers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago
[–] ArbitraryValue 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As if human legs aren't the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Humans evolved from animals that walked on the ground, on the part of the hand/foot we would call fingers/toes. Like most animals btw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade?wprov=sfti1).

Then the those animals transitioned into arboreal creatures, which evolved hands in order to climb & live in trees. These animals would’ve had hands & feet like monkeys.

Then those arboreal animals transitioned back into walking animals that didn’t climb as much, which turned their feet into something more like chimp/gorilla feet.

Then those animals began walking upright, which changed their feet to lose the ability to grasp since they no longer climbed as much. This is what gave humans the feet we have now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Alien 1: Wow, humans must go around saying “Kill me…” a lot.

Alien 2: Uh, rude!

Middle-aged human: No, no, that tracks.

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

Parasyte mentioned🗣️‼️‼️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

This was a weird anime for me. I couldn't eat noodles when watching it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Horse feet are so strange. Actually, horse fingers and toes. Most of what you can the horse "leg" is what would be your finger.

With a big beefy nail that looks like horror when born, and smashes and rubs into place in their first day.

If they don't give you nightmares, you don't understand how they work.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes! I spent 20 ~~months~~ uh, just minutes looking for a variation on this exact image! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I posted the artist name as a top level comment.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

skittering around on your fingertips

what a vile existence, I cannot stop imaging it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Horses know how the world works, that's why they're always giving it the middle finger.

[–] spinne 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wait, what? Please tell me more about this horror nail, I had no idea

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When they're born, they're called foal slippers.

https://horseyhooves.com/foal-slippers/

But just in general, horse hooves are amazing and so weird. It's literally if your middle finger was half your leg, and the nail was a huge wraparound thing. Then plus you grew extra keratin on your fingertip like a mega callus from birth. Because why not?

https://horsecareadvisor.com/horses-hooves-when-born/

[–] spinne 6 points 5 days ago

TIL that horses start off as nightmare-shod animals D:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is a whole new level of orgasm for people who are into feet.
Yes, I am one of them.
Please do not kink shame us.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

No kink shame from me. I may not be into that but to each their own

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I keep repeating this to everyone who's listening and add that cats have clown feet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

What really puzzels me personally are bovine front legs, the joints are kinda all over the place

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

So you’re telling me my bird doesn’t actually have backwards knees, it’s his ankle??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

What, you don't want to be able to dunk without jumping?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

"I wish to be a werewolf; half man, half wolf!"

The monkey paw curls a finger and the wish is granted as the left half the human is transfigured into the form of a wolf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That picture quickly turned into the alien from the end of The Arrival.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Came to the comments for The Arrival mention, TY.

[–] samus12345 5 points 5 days ago

"Couldn't you have at least changed both of my legs??"

[–] captain_aggravated 4 points 5 days ago

When a cat loafs, the things that stick up on either side of her back? Those are her knees.

[–] Sixtyforce 3 points 5 days ago

There was a great Vinesauce segment on Satoshi Kawasaki. I love this weird shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

A good day to be a leg man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Kinda creepy, but interesting enough to be worth it!