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[–] [email protected] 137 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Diogenes would be proud here

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My first thought too.

To anyone unaware, plato defined man as "a featherless biped" so Diogenes brought a plucked chicken

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't spell genius without Diogenes

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

Why does it always come back to chickens?

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

He was so much more polite after Amos.

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

Because they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.

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

I wonder how Plato would have defined man if he knew kangaroos existed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

featherless tail-less biped? then we could have a story about Diogenes fighting a kangaroo to cut off its tail