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NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
edited June 2012 in Social Entropy++
What is the deal with sloths? I don't really know all that much about them

I guess they are the slovenly neckbeards of the animal kingdom

Exhibit A:
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apparently, sloths are so lazy that they don't even clean themselves. I once heard about a guy who had to be taken to a hospital when a sloth fell on him because it just so ridden with bacteria

why did we name a deadly sin after these weird things? how did people in, like, Europe a thousand years ago even know about them

actually, are there European sloths? I kind of assumed that they only lived in south america and australia and maybe asia


this is the sloth thread about sloths and my sloth ignorance

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    I'm going to go ahead and venture a guess that the sin came before the animal.

  • Psychotic OnePsychotic One The Lord of No Pants Parts UnknownRegistered User regular
  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    There was a group of scientists trying to study how sloths climb. They put some delicious fruit or something on a platform at the top of a pole.

    They gave up on the study after like a year of the sloth not doing a damn thing.

    True story.

    edit 3 years!

    Tofystedeth on
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  • Sir PlatypusSir Platypus Registered User regular
    Truly the stoners of the animal kingdom.

  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    someone post that vid of that celeb crying about sloths

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    I guess we can also talk about slow lorises in here
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    so many slow animals in this world
    godmode wrote: »
    I'm going to go ahead and venture a guess that the sin came before the animal.
    do you have any evidence to back this assertion up, sir

  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    do you have any evidence to back this assertion up, sir

    The bible predates the majority of modern animal nomenclature by, like, a couple thousand years.

    godmode on
  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    pfft, the Bible

    gonna need some ~real~ evidence to persuade this here athiest, yes sir

  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    lookit these fuckers

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth

    they had huge fucking sloths back in the day

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8659000/8659239.stm
    Sloths' bizarre 'toilet habit' recorded in Amazon, Peru

    The extraordinary behaviour, recorded on at least 25 occasions in the Amazon rainforest of Peru, has stumped the biologists who witnessed it.
    The sloths either crawl into the latrine to feed from it or scoop out the excrement and waste within.

    Kochikens on
  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    early man had to do, like, calisthenics when one passed by so they were less enticing targets

  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    pfft, the Bible

    gonna need some ~real~ evidence to persuade this here athiest, yes sir

    From Wikipedia:
    Taxonomy and names

    The sloth's taxonomic suborder is Folivora, while some call it Phyllophaga. Both names mean "leaf-eaters"; derived from Latin and Greek respectively. Names for the animals used by tribes in Ecuador include Ritto, Rit and Ridette, mostly forms of the word "sleep", "eat" and "dirty" from Tagaeri tribe of Huaorani.

  • ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    FAQ wrote: »
    someone post that vid of that celeb crying about sloths

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jw3T3Jy70

    this is my home page

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    I would dry her tears with my weiner caring and affection and some tissues.

    godmode on
  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Sloths are hilarious and adorable

    They just do not give a fuck

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8659000/8659239.stm

    they
    go into
    toilets
    and eat our poop

    sometimes
    The researchers suspect many individual sloths visited the latrines: on one occasion a mother and baby visited.

    they take their kids along

    sloths are fucked up

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    godmode wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    pfft, the Bible

    gonna need some ~real~ evidence to persuade this here athiest, yes sir

    From Wikipedia:
    Taxonomy and names

    The sloth's taxonomic suborder is Folivora, while some call it Phyllophaga. Both names mean "leaf-eaters"; derived from Latin and Greek respectively. Names for the animals used by tribes in Ecuador include Ritto, Rit and Ridette, mostly forms of the word "sleep", "eat" and "dirty" from Tagaeri tribe of Huaorani.

    curing so much sloth ignorance today

    thank you, godmode

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    Dude, prehistoric wombats

    TcE3L.jpg

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Gatsby wrote: »
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    Dude, prehistoric wombats

    TcE3L.jpg

    WHAT THE FUCK

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    Gatsby wrote: »
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    Dude, prehistoric wombats

    TcE3L.jpg


    Why the hell did everthing have to be so big in the past?

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    oh hey is this reddit.com the penny-arcade.com thread?

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    no, this is the sloth thread. what are your sloth questions

  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    my school had this partial giant sloth skeleton

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    in one of the buildings

    of course, reaching up from its swampy grave to pull you the viewer in with it doesn't seem very sloth like but that is the pose that they went for

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    Seriously on
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Giant sloths seem like basically walking golden corrals to early humans.

    The dodo of the prehistoric

  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Giant sloths seem like basically walking golden corrals to early humans.

    The dodo of the prehistoric

    welllll...

  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    We have a natural history museum with a full giant sloth skeleton nearby

    Its like, pretty much two floors high

    Its insane

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    Seriously wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    Giant sloths seem like basically walking golden corrals to early humans.

    The dodo of the prehistoric

    welllll...

    oh

    we ate all the big mammals

    huh

    poo
  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    HEY YOU GUYS!

    superman-t-shirt-sloth1.jpg

    Seriously, I'm disappointed that this thread went this long without a picture of that Sloth.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    Gatsby wrote: »
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    Dude, prehistoric wombats

    TcE3L.jpg


    Why the hell did everthing have to be so big in the past?

    The Earth was more heavily oxygenated back then and it made things bigger somehow.

  • Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    Gatsby wrote: »
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    Dude, prehistoric wombats

    TcE3L.jpg


    Why the hell did everthing have to be so big in the past?

    The Earth was more heavily oxygenated back then and it made things bigger somehow.

    Dinosaurs mated with normal-sized mammals

  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    I can't wait until page 3 when we start discussing Cloud Factory.

  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    Gatsby wrote: »
    FAQ wrote: »
    just really big sloths walking around can you imagine it?

    Dude, prehistoric wombats

    TcE3L.jpg


    Why the hell did everthing have to be so big in the past?

    The Earth was more heavily oxygenated back then and it made things bigger somehow.

    That makes sense. Larger stuff requires more power. We had to get smaller as power was getting less abundant (less oxygen).

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Eventually as we run out of oxygen on the earth the biggest things will be tiny people.

    And the era of Dwarf Fortress will begin.

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    Eventually as we run out of oxygen on the earth the biggest things will be tiny people.

    And the era of Dwarf Fortress will begin.

    what about the penguin men, lizard men, olm men, and cave swallowmen

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    moloks represent

  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    pipe you link the best videos

    PSN: ThatDaveFella
  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    you're a sloth

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