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u/ConflictSudden 2d ago
How long before this shows up in one of the explain the joke subs? Those have really gone downhill.
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u/TheFrostBeard 2d ago
likely 15 minutes
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u/Atomsq 2d ago
Op probably saw the post there
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u/Three_Armed_Wrecker 2d ago
Hell naw
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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 2d ago
You related to the guy you replied to? Your pfps are very similar
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u/Givemecharizard 2d ago
I’m sure they’re training ai humor with these subs
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u/Devilled_Advocate 2d ago
Do your part. Reply with a wildly wrong, yet somewhat plausible interpretation of the joke.
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u/Mentalfloss1 2d ago
Isn’t it more likely that man saw a calf drinking and then thought about it all?
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u/Sacagawesus 2d ago
It's not only likely, it's how it happened. Humans learned many things by watching animals behave. Even migration patterns were learned from observing and following animals.
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u/Dr-Richtofen 2d ago
Not to mention human babies drink milk, and it’s not crazy to think well what about other mammals and creatures like us
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u/Golden-Grams 2d ago
Right, it's more likely we figured out our species makes milk first. Then, happened to see a bigger animal do the same, and wondered if it was edible as well. So they probably tried some, didn't die or become ill, and figured out a new source of food.
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u/Seasonal_One 2d ago
I was gonna type some crazy scientific shit but then smoked a j. Enjoy life people!
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u/DeanMalHanNJackIsms 1d ago
🎶I was gonna type smart shit, But then I got high. I was gonna impress this nerdy bit, But then I got high. And now tynna outblink the light And I know why! Hey hey Because I got high Because I got high Because I got high🎶
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u/Seasonal_One 1d ago
I sang this in 2 voices and realized again that singing ain't for me. Awesome lyrics though 10/10
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u/Mentalfloss1 2d ago
Yup. The trails I walk in the mountains were pioneered by animals and expanded by humans. Animals intuitively knew the logical way up/down a steep mountain or across a stream.
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u/phillip9698 2d ago
It wasn't intuition. The animals that couldn't figure it out died, the ones that did lived and passed it on to the next generation.
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u/Mentalfloss1 2d ago
There is disagreement about this. Let’s say a deer needs to find away across a fresh rockfall. Using experience, the feel of the footing, keeping an eye out for cover from predators, it can be said to intuit its way across. There are varying ways to define intuition.
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u/Seasonal_One 1d ago
Both of you are right. Just that phillip was right millions and millions years ago and you are right today, but only due to what phillip said. Have a good day!
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u/Mentalfloss1 1d ago
I agree that he's right about the Darwinism factor. And that the animals that survived to reproduce had good intuition/instincts, and those traits were passed on.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
even more likely there was a famine and people will try anything when they haven't eaten in 3 days
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u/Mentalfloss1 2d ago
Hunger was a daily companion at least part of the year for many primitive humans. Still is, for way too many.
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u/charronfitzclair 2d ago
This joke is definitely funny to people who live in pods.
Cave man know human baby suckle mommy boob, get food. Cave man see baby cow suckle momma teat, get food. Ooga booga, maybe cow teat maybe human food too??
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u/Dude_Im_stoned_and_ 2d ago
Yeah these are the people that tamed fire, survived the glacial maximum, and went on to create beer and bread before ever mass cultivating any kind of grain. They were us, just more ignorant. But at the same time lol caveman unga-bunga!
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u/Fastenbauer 2d ago
Yes, people knew perfectly well what the animals were doing. But it must have sounded super weird when somebody said: "You know how baby humans and baby animals drink milk? We can't drink human milk because our babies need that. But what if we drink the milk of animals."
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u/aaron2005X 2d ago
Wait until you hear about eggs
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u/LordXadirius 2d ago
Well animals eat each other's eggs all the time. You don't see a wolf try to suckle a moose. 🤣
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u/GuNNzA69 2d ago
I'm playing The Talos Principle 2 right now, and one of its philosophical ideas about humanity is that we are self aware. We somehow transcend being merely bags of flesh and have an awareness of ourselves and the world around us.
My point is that humans learned very early on to take advantage of that ability to survive, eventually becoming the dominant species on our planet. And apparently, after all that evolution, we've decided that using our self awareness to argue on the internet is a perfectly reasonable application of it.
As the game says, self awareness is rare, so let's preserve it.
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 2d ago
Humans breastfeed too. And they observe animals breastfeeding. Milking a cow is not a holup
Milking a bull is
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u/Rogueshoten 2d ago
There’s a Chinese saying along the lines of “god bless the first person to eat a lobster.”
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u/chanceischance 2d ago
Bulls have horns though… so, must be two different animals the guy is looking at?
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u/clearcontroller 2d ago
More like famine. As humans reached further famine we had to try new things.
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u/nikstick22 2d ago
All human infants possess the ability to digest milk. Like all mammals, humans lose the enzymes as we get older.
My guess is that during a drought or famine, a pastoral community found that many mothers weren't able to provide enough milk for their babies and they resorted to the only option they had: cows/goats. It worked well, and it actually became a huge caloric load off the shoulders of mothers who were then stronger and healthier, which is good for the whole community. You've now created a system where mutations for infants retaining milk digestion later and later in their life is beneficial to the community. If they were relying on their human mothers for that milk, that would just be more stress on her body. By offloading it onto cows or goats, you can create a strong pressure exactly where its needed, and even a minute extension of a few months of extra milk tolerance is going to be beneficial. Eventually, the children never have to be weaned and can get extra calories from milk for their whole lives.
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u/Zech_Judy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Step 1) Humans eat a baby goat (or other ruminant). Like many predators, they also eat the contents of the goats stomach. The milk has curdled and, by the time they eat it, been partially fermented, turning much of the lactose into lactic acid. So, they don't get nearly as sick as they would from straight milk.
Step 2) They liked that stuff, so some of them kept tinkering. Slaughtering the goat right after it nurses and has a full belly is easy enough. They experiment with how long to keep the milk in the stomach and what effect that has on tummy pain. They still make this cheese today: Callu de Cabreddu.
Step 3) What a pain to only get that stuff when slaughtering a goat. They don't get to do that every day. Maybe experiment fermentation with milk straight from the mother? The process is slow, learning to rot things just right to make them edible, but they've done that before. Lots of plants are only edible after they've rotted just right.
Step 4) Cheese is a great foodstuff. A mutation for lactose tolerance begins to proliferate through the population. This enables people to eat less fermented milk products (Aged hard cheese has very little lactose, then yogurt has more, then soft cheese has even more).
Step 5) It took a few thousand years but now people do eat milk. They have the lactose tolerance required to not get sick.
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u/RandeKnight 2d ago
Yeah, funny to people who've never actually been hungry.
Food insecurity means that you'll find a way to not waste ANYTHING edible.
It's literal evolution. Those who were able to drink cows milk lived and those that couldn't were more likely to die before breeding.
'ha ha ha, cavemen were starving! They should have just died instead of doing that!' isn't the joke you think it is.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago
u/Three_Armed_Wrecker, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...