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[–] Bananablob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hummingbirds are not silent, they sound like the most gigantic wasp you've ever heard

It's like a two-stroke vertebrate.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

They chirp, a lot.

Hummingbirds are territorial little fucks.

[–] duxbellorum@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their brains are in a little fluid filled crash couch so they can slam the face knife repeatedly while their brain just gently jiggles around.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't their tongue wrap around it?

[–] b14700@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

thats the underside of their crash couch

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This person has never been strafed by an angry hummingbird for daring to refill the feeder!

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a hummingbird that isn't angry. Their entire language is just high-pitched invective and curses.

Beautiful creatures, but it's a damn good thing they're so little.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Ours strafe us when we forget to refill the feeders, especially in the winter when food is scarce. They fly over 60 mph, so it's pretty scary when they go zipping past, inches from your face.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Shoop-da-whoop: Imma firin mah lazer, blaaaaah

[–] TvanBuuren 3 points 2 years ago

Why am I hearing the hummingbird as a soft spoken Patrick Stuart, and the woodpecker as Eddy Murphy's donkey?

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Woodpeckers simply peg the tree

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Woodpeckers are the Robertos of the bird world.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do people have to use crypto as a prefix for everything?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

when they want to suggest something is hidden?

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Are you sure?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Is this a Kyle Kinane joke? Why did my mind immediately make it into his voice and delivery?