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5 mo. ago • 99%

Turtle Shells

85 comments

Then explain this photograph.

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- Checkmate, nerds
  
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I'm not inside my skin. I am my skin.

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- You're a bundle of neurons piloting a skeleton inside a wetsuit
  
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  When you're in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane.
  
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- I am not up my ass. I am my ass.
  
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  I'm up your ass tho.
  
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- Now give me some sugar water
  
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They have nerves throughout their shells and can feel even gentle touch.

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- Hell yeah time to pet some turts
  
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  I've seen turtles love getting brushed by a soft bristle stuff like toothbrushes plus you alao clean them
  
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  SCNR
  
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Yeah? Then explain this, mister '''''''scientist'''''''

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- This is just yet another example of legacy media lying to us.
  
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So my head is not "inside" my skull but *is* my skull? Is the brain not a part of my head?

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- What part of you makes you? Is it just your brain?
  
  Anyway, I think what they're getting at is that the shell is actually their spine, not like some extra thing that grows on top of their spine.
  
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  Most ppl think they have a skeleton inside them. But If you think of you as your brain (as many would day). Then your actually inside your skeleton.
  
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  I get what they try to say. But it's just funny that they correct a statement with another wrong statement.
  
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- I think the right analogy would be to say "you are not inside your skull, you are your skull". And I would count this as a more or less correct statement.
  
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  Am I my skull? So I get to live as long as my skull is not decayed?
  
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- Can you put any external part of yourself inside your skull? That's the difference.
  
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  *shows toungue and puts it back in
  
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  Yeah, any time you put something in your mouth. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  
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  I've been trying but I'm still not flexible enough to reach.
  
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  I can, though probably only once
  
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I feel like an annual reminder would be entirely sufficient, to be honest.

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- I'd like to know who needs a daily reminder.
  
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Idk I see a big cavity that would contain turtle...

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- Yes, that's for pregnant turtles.
  
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That's tortoise silly billy

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- Turtoises are turtles ya dingbat
  
  https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-a-turtle-and-a-tortoise
  
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- All tortoises are turtles, umm.. pedantic Frederick?
  
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  https://youtu.be/MCx-BahDSGg
  
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who should i trust? Nintendo or a random person on the Internet?

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- Those are koopa troopas. They're turtle-like, but not actual turtles.
  
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I learned from Franklin books and Mario games that you're wrong. A picture showing a clear cavity where a turtle could pop out won't convince me!

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Please don't tap/knock on turtle shells. It would be like someone knocking directly on your bones.

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- My bones are not weak, they can take it.
  
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  Your bones are not weak but its still not a good excuse to abuse a turtle by knocking on its shell.
  
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  Surviving and getting pissed off are totally different things that can happen at the same time...
  
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- That's really easy to do, knock on your head. There's just a thin layer of skin over the bone.
  
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That's neat and all. But how do they retract their heads?

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- And feet, especially box turtles. Some species can indeed go inside their shells - while still being a part of the shell itself, of course.
  
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- Kinda looks like those vertical bones are part of a hinge joint.
  
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The English language makes it way too complicated. Just call all of them 'shield toads' and you're good.

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They can feel touch through their shells

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What about Ninja Turtles?

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- Same deal.
  
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  Turtles *are a half shell.
  
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What about ninja turtles?

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This is a tortoise or is that the joke?

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- "Turtle" can refer to both land and marine testudines
  
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  The English language makes this way too complicated. Just call all of them 'shield toads' and you're good.
  
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  That depends on your flavour of English. See Wikipedia
  
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I want to get him out though.

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- That's illegal, if I were to be a dictator! Look, if were to be a Dictator of the World, there would be only one overarching Law: If Turtles decide to go out of their shells, they shall leave a little sign around that says "out for lunch" or something equally thoughtful.
  
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Wait so they can't get out of their shells? But...

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Wait, what? I'm wrapped around my skeleton?

Queue Edgar Allen Poe

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the hollow space contains treasure

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I see no brain in this picture.

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"You know, there's good eating in them things."

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