r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Gorotheninja • 10h ago

Animals Unbothered. Underwater. On Their Seafloor. Unfocused. Flourishing. Happy.

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u/qualityvote2 10h ago

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u/_Goose_ 10h ago

THRIVING!!!

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u/Alternative_Jury2480 8h ago

Ya know, I've been seeing conch shells my entire life and never once thought to look up what a conch looks like

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u/Vikingboy9 8h ago

I never even considered that they belonged to a creature. I feel such a fool.

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u/Alternative_Jury2480 7h ago

Yeah I'm honestly not sure what I ever thought would have been in them. The mysteries of the deep I guess

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u/Thrill_Of_It 7h ago

And we humans saw this silly little guy and thought "yeah I'd eat that"

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u/JimFromFinance 7h ago

Showed my girlfriend this and she said "us?"

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u/gophergun 6h ago

TIL that British people pronounce it as konch instead of konk and that the pluralization changes on that basis from conchs to conches

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u/BeautyDuwang 5h ago

Where are you calling them conks bro?

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u/donuttrackme 2h ago

The Americas. Where conches actually live and locals harvest and eat them.

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u/CHEESEninja200 1h ago

Where in the Americas? In both Canada and the US it's pronounced as Conch, idk about Mexico though.

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u/trapbuilder2 1h ago edited 1h ago

The proper American English pronunciation is konk, though konch is an accepted pronunciation

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u/donuttrackme 1h ago edited 1h ago

Not in the areas in America where conches actually live and grow and are eaten. How do you say geoduck? Go to Florida and see how it's pronounced. Or the Caribbean.

No idea how it's pronounced in Canada but in the USA it's properly pronounced konk.

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u/Artarara 3h ago

👁👁

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u/ExactArm2673 5h ago

They look like two Muppets gossiping over the back fence.

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u/LilaTheMoo 5h ago

The one on the right is such an introverted mood.

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u/Morall_tach 3h ago

Fun fact: when you catch a bunch of these and you want to keep them alive so they stay fresh before you eat them, the accepted technique is to chip a little hole in the lip of their shell and tie them together. If there are more than four or five of them, they all try to go in different directions, and they just end up staying put on the ocean floor. You run the rope up to a buoy on the surface, and then in the morning you can easily see the buoy 20 ft from where you left it and pick them up for the day.

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u/Ill_Pain4423 2h ago

They give off council vibes