Speakerphone

[chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz]

You deserve this for using speaker in an office.

[moosethedog@lemmy.world]

Just a treat for later

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

[edinbruh@feddit.it]

Did we evolve to like butts because walking upright upright was advantageous? Or did we evolve to walk upright because we liked butts?

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

For the cleaning fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuWkC9wby5E

[cleothewizard@lemmy.world]

The baboons have been oddly quiet since you asked this

[bastingchemina@slrpnk.net]

Something like that happened to "a friend". During a several day hike, a #2 in the wood was wiped a bit too hastily and some of it was missed.

Now the remnant bits dried and glued the hair from both cheeks together, during the hike after that my "friend" could feel the hairs being pulled from one side to another at each step he was taking.

Not a great experience.

[cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world]

you know, you dont have to share every thought that crosses your mind

[anarchistartificer@slrpnk.net]

Something that blows my mind is realising how much of our understanding of sex and attraction is socially constructed. For example, there are plenty of documented cultures where women's breasts don't have the erotic connotation we attach to them. The thing that really threw me off was learning about some people who don't kiss as a show of affection — I found this a surreal concept, because in terms of romantic interactions with a partner, I'm fairly meh about sex, but I'm a big fan of kissing/making out; There's a sense in which I obviously know that preference towards kissing is likely not an evolved trait, but more sociocultural, but it feels so intuitive that something so visceral isn't necessarily an innate trait.

Anyway, this is a long way of saying "did we evolve to like butts, though?". Evolutionary biology, the field that would consider questions like these, is unavoidably pretty heavy on the speculation side — given that humans have evolved to be such social creatures, we can't really separate out the sociocultural aspects of development from the genetic side, and that makes asking evolutionary questions on large timescales to be a tricky endeavour.

[irelephant@lemm.ee]

[devfuuu@lemmy.world]

Butts are the original boobs.

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

I dunno, but some other brother might deny

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

No, no, thoughts like that are the entire point of the internet, and language itself

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

[leadore@lemmy.world]

OK, I was gonna say it was because they don't have big fat butt cheeks like humans but I like your version better.

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

This makes so much sense.

I've only ever seen this scene in German, where the guy doesn't say "buns and thighs", he just says "Oberschenkelmuskeln" (which means thigh muscles) and I think that's beautiful.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

I've heard spongebob in German is a quality experience

[uniquethrowagay@feddit.org]

They put a lot of effort in the translation and voice acting. Whenever a joke doesn't translate, they come up with something in the same spirit. Sometimes, I like the translation better.

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

As the other guy said, it's very well done, aside from very few impossible-to-solve issues*. There might be some bias at play since I grew up with it, but I'd say it's on par with the original dub. You can check out some examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOiBiRt-TOw

• example: The ghost, ghost, ghost, toast, ghost scene can't be translated, since no synonym for toast rhymes with "Geist" (German for ghost). So instead they just go with "Weißbrot" (a long synonym), which is very random, but honestly hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNV2XUfRr4

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

It's the flavor saver, Animal Planet edition.