Stamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoNot the same mansh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1403arrow-down116
arrow-up1387arrow-down1imageNot the same mansh.itjust.worksStamets2@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squarelime!linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agonot much call for protection from vampires around swallows, i’d think
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoVampire bats. Also, I was referencing the coconut scene from Monty Python: SOLDIER: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate? ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried. SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut? ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk… SOLDIER: It’s not a question of where he grips it it’s a simple question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut. ARTHUR: Well, it doesn’t matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here. A slight pause. Swirling mist. Silence. SOLDIER: Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second. Right? ARTHUR: (irritated) Please! SOLDIER: Am I right? ARTHUR: I’m not interested. SECOND SOLDIER: (who has loomed up on the battlements) It could be carried by an African swallow! FIRST SOLDIER: Oh, yes! An African swallow maybe…but not an European swallow. That’s my point. SECOND SOLDIER: Oh, yes, I agree with that… ARTHUR: (losing patience) Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court in Camelot?! FIRST SOLDIER: But then of course African swallows are non-migratory. SECOND SOLIDER: Oh, yes. ARTHUR raises his eyes heavenward’s and nods to PATSY. They turn and go off into the mist. FIRST SOLDIER: So they couldn’t bring a coconut back anyway. SECOND SOLIDER: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together? FIRST SOLDIER: No, they’d have to have it on a line. SECOND SOLDIER: Well simple - they just use a strand of creeper… FIRST SOLDIER: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers? SECOND SOLDIER: Why not?
minus-squarelime!linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoi’m aware, but we’ve already established that it wasn’t swallows.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoFair enough. I still feel like vampire bats might be a threat. Also, we don’t know what reservoirs harbor vampirism. Perhaps sparrows are carriers.
minus-squarelime!linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agohow would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThey wouldn’t directly. They’d have to be bitten by something else that acquires vampirism from them and transfers it to another host, like malaria.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYeah, I think that’s how reservoirs work, but I’m not a public health expert. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir
minus-squarelime!linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoimagine having to explain at the vampires anonymous meeting that you got it by cleaning out your bird feeder.
not much call for protection from vampires around swallows, i’d think
Vampire bats.
Also, I was referencing the coconut scene from Monty Python:
SOLDIER: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.
SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk…
SOLDIER: It’s not a question of where he grips it it’s a simple question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn’t matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
A slight pause. Swirling mist. Silence.
SOLDIER: Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second. Right?
ARTHUR: (irritated) Please!
SOLDIER: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I’m not interested.
SECOND SOLDIER: (who has loomed up on the battlements) It could be carried by an African swallow!
FIRST SOLDIER: Oh, yes! An African swallow maybe…but not an European swallow. That’s my point.
SECOND SOLDIER: Oh, yes, I agree with that…
ARTHUR: (losing patience) Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court in Camelot?!
FIRST SOLDIER: But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.
SECOND SOLIDER: Oh, yes.
ARTHUR raises his eyes heavenward’s and nods to PATSY. They turn and go off into the mist.
FIRST SOLDIER: So they couldn’t bring a coconut back anyway.
SECOND SOLIDER: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
FIRST SOLDIER: No, they’d have to have it on a line.
SECOND SOLDIER: Well simple - they just use a strand of creeper…
FIRST SOLDIER: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
SECOND SOLDIER: Why not?
i’m aware, but we’ve already established that it wasn’t swallows.
Fair enough. I still feel like vampire bats might be a threat. Also, we don’t know what reservoirs harbor vampirism. Perhaps sparrows are carriers.
how would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?
They wouldn’t directly. They’d have to be bitten by something else that acquires vampirism from them and transfers it to another host, like malaria.
latent vampirism…
Yeah, I think that’s how reservoirs work, but I’m not a public health expert.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir
imagine having to explain at the vampires anonymous meeting that you got it by cleaning out your bird feeder.