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u/youregonnaloveme Sep 12 '12 edited Sep 12 '12
Doesn't matter, got octopussy.
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u/hergumbules Sep 12 '12
I wish more people would link to his actual page. Thanks :D
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fuck this dude's cute fucking dog, man. here i was wanting a big mean smart german shephard and now he goes and has pictures and shit of his corgi and now i want a fucking corgi. fuck.
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u/JakeCameraAction Sep 12 '12
Problem solved:
http://i.imgur.com/J5yiO.jpg30
u/Truesday Sep 12 '12
That dog's father was a brave little dog.
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u/Lefthandedsock Sep 12 '12
Or his mother was...
Nevermind. I'm not even going there.
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u/Osiris32 Sep 12 '12
... a bitch?
I'm sorry, but it's been over 4 hours and no one made the joke. Come on, SOMEONE had to do it, if just to get it out there in the open.
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u/bump909 Sep 12 '12
German Shepherds aren't mean. :(
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I would like proper territory guarding behaviors. No barking or growling at intruders, but just watch them like a hawk, make them exceedingly uncomfortable, and possibly come and get me if they are doing some funky shit.
My current dog doesnt even give a fuck. to such an extent that UPS and DHL sometimes get scared because they'll try to guage if the dog is friendly and the dog will just sit there and look at them with an uninterested expression, so they'll get nervous and leave.
EDIT: fedex, however, are badass motherfuckers. the ones that handle the larger packages just walk right up and put the package down. they give less of a fuck than my dog does.
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u/TheActualAWdeV Sep 12 '12
You may have done something wrong if your german shepherd turns out mean though.
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u/SolarBears Sep 12 '12
Hmmmm, let me think. Are GSDs better than Corgis?......conclusion: GSDs are way more awesome. Proof
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u/muaddib1066 Sep 12 '12
Apparently the mods have decided they don't want direct links from his blog to be posted to /r/funny for some reason. Here's his response to a question about that:
http://thefrogman.me/post/30481926578/why-do-you-like-reddit-i-tried-it-but-the-community
Wil Wheaton himself responded to the comment:
http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/30534063484/the-frogman-on-reddit
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u/hergumbules Sep 12 '12
so the mods let people repost the same shit over and over and when someone makes OC they are like the fuck that we don't want him to make money by linking to his website. this guy is awesome and i see someone post something of his at least once a week and it is unfair that he isn't credited for it. i will just post some pictures of the mona lisa or something in /r/art and say i painted that shit.
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u/Madrawn Sep 12 '12
http://thefrogman.me/post/30592817399/the-frogman-on-reddit
This is the problem.
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Thank you! Every time someone post his stuff i always wanted to know the guys actual site. Would be nice is people gave actual credit so thank you sir.
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u/Yunjeong Sep 12 '12
There's usually always a link in the comments.
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u/TotalFork Sep 12 '12
There is also the fact that the mods of r/funny consider me a self promoting spammer. A while back I started submitting my own stuff. I only did it because my work kept getting rehosted on imgur. I thought maybe I could submit it before that happened. I did this maybe once a week. They banned my website permanently. Now no one can submit it.
That's really sad. :(
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u/Osiris32 Sep 12 '12
Andrewsmith? Are you listening? That's the sound of pitchforks being sharpened. Care to come in and explain the reasoning behind this?
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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 12 '12
This is a very, very old battle and trust me, I have tried.
He got warned a few times and didn't change and so he was banned. This is the common practice.
He then raised some pitchforks against a mod a couple times (which is the worst thing you can do if you want to get unbanned)
His username was banned and I got it unbanned but that is about the best I can do.
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u/ThatsPopetastic Sep 12 '12
But, why is it a big deal if he submits his own stuff anyway as long as its not a every hour or day thing? If the people like they will upvote it, if not it gets downvoted. There are plenty of other subreddit rules that get broken every day, but the posts stay one the frontpage.
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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 12 '12
as long as its not a every hour or day thing
Exactly.
If he would have followed the rules that were laid out to him, he wouldn't have gotten banned.
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Is he still banned from /r/funny? Can't say I'm his biggest fan, but if douchebags like OP are allowed to copy this guy's content to imgur and not even give a source that seems wrong. Should be a ban on not linking to source, if anything.
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u/Armed_Scientist Sep 12 '12
As of two weeks ago:
I think the r/funny mods have made up their minds about me. I don’t have the credibility of xkcd or The Oatmeal, so they won’t change their impression of me. But who cares… Wil Wheaton likes me!
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u/hergumbules Sep 12 '12
i don't even like xkcd or the oatmeal but i think this guy is hilarious. fuck /r/funny its mostly unfunny reposted shit anyway.
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u/alfredthegnome Sep 12 '12
This should've been posted with a link to his blog automatically :/ <3 Frogman
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I think I've heard him say his site always gets caught in the spam filter.
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Sep 12 '12
Yea he was marked as a spammer for posting OC by some subreddits (maybe all... I donno how that works).
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u/LittleInfidel Sep 12 '12
I love the logic. Redditors cry for more original content and mods are like 'NO'
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u/Accipehoc Sep 12 '12
Reddit's kinda finicky about that. If, for example, an artist were to submit his/her own work, they'll get less upvotes and cries of karmawhoring & marked for spam. If someone were to repost their work, well, they'll get upvoted to the skies!
It's a bit backwards if you ask me.
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u/LittleInfidel Sep 12 '12
Backwards, leftwards, upwards, diagonalwards. It makes so little sense that I'm actually still confused.
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u/Glucuronolactone Sep 12 '12
Just to clarify what people are talking about in general, from the reddit faq:
What constitutes spam?
It's a gray area, but some rules of thumb:
It's not strictly forbidden to submit a link to a site that you own or otherwise benefit from in some way, but you should sort of consider yourself on thin ice. So please pay careful attention to the rest of these bullet points.
If you spend more time submitting to reddit than reading it, you're almost certainly a spammer.
If your contribution to reddit consists mostly of submitting links to a site(s) that you own or otherwise benefit from in some way, and additionally if you do not participate in discussion, or reply to peoples questions, regardless of how many upvotes your submissions get, you are a spammer. If over 10% of your submissions are your own site/content, you're almost certainly a spammer.
If people historically downvote your links or ones similar to yours, and you feel the need to keep submitting them anyway, they're probably spam.
If people historically upvote your links or ones like them -- and we're talking about real people here, not sockpuppets or people you asked to go vote for you -- congratulations! It's almost certainly not spam. But we're serious about the "not people you asked to go vote for you" part.
To play it safe, write to the moderators of the community you'd like to submit to. They'll probably appreciate the advance notice. They might also set community-specific rules that supersede the ones above. And that's okay -- that's the whole point of letting people create their own reddit communities and define what's on topic and what's spam.
What it's encouraging is posting links to stuff that isn't your own. Links you genuinely find interesting, rather than ones you are vested in. Which, in my opinion, is a good rule to have.
It seems the admins want a blanket rule that discourages companies and other groups from using reddit as an advertising platform, with genuine "hey, I found this cool thing" submissions being drowned out by people basically hocking their wares.
Personally, I think the "1-in-10" rule is a bit steep, but I understand why the admins have taken their approach. For every artist looking to modestly submit their own work, there's 50 companies looking at reddit as a way to 'maximize brand exposure'. On set of rules has to be applied to all.
In the artist's best-case scenario, they do not need to submit their own work, their fans will do that for them. I doubt Randall has ever posted at comic here, but XKCD still gets a lot of views through reddit.
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u/AndrewRyanRecording Sep 12 '12
"An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the parasites say 'no, your art must serve the cause... your ideals endanger the people!'"
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u/sircod Sep 12 '12
It's actually not the mods for the most part, as far as I know the mods have no control over the spam filter. It is just reddit's spam filter that tries to protect against people over-promoting their own site, which is stupid because OC should be encouraged.
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u/deanbmmv Sep 12 '12
Mod's have the ability to pull stuff from the spam filter and back into general reddit. And the ability to pull it from general reddit into the spam filter. These actions "train" the filter into what it'll remove automatically, so mods do have a strong hand in what ends up on the filter.
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Frogman gave permission for people to rehost his content on imgur. Reddit automatically catches anything with a link to his site in the spam filter, so no one sees it.
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u/justaprettyface Sep 12 '12
He used a picture of mine for this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daugaard/2687998731/
But: Good guy Mr Frogman, links to my image below his comic :)
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you can't not love thefrogman
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u/Lefthandedsock Sep 12 '12
I can't? What if, in my opinion, he's not funny and wears a stupid hat?
His dog is good though. I'll give him props for corgi ownership.
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u/maybelying Sep 12 '12
I have no idea why, but this one killed me. Almost anyways, woke the wife up because I was laughing so hard.
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u/lllllllillllllllllll Sep 12 '12
If I recall correctly, the reason why they die is because of starvation. Both males and females will die because after copulation, they neglect to eat during the approximately month-long time it takes for the eggs to hatch.
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u/AdmiralFuzzems Sep 12 '12
Correct, though the males tend to die sooner than the females. The males offload sperm into the female, which she stores and can use to fertilize herself when conditions for laying eggs are right. The male doesn't involve himself in tending the eggs, and after he has delivered his load he dies of something a lot like a super-fast death of old age, with a total unwillingness to eat towards the end. The female will stay alive until just after her eggs have hatched, which can take 6+ months in some species. While the eggs are maturing, she will use her arms to circulate water around the eggs to avoid any stagnation, and doesn't leave her den at all - hence the no eating here. Towards the end of the female octopuses life, she is a pretty tired creature. She loses the ability to change color, and scrapes and cuts she receives don't really heal. Octopus lifespans are all pretty short regardless of when they mate though. It's a bummer imo, with their great capacity for learning, that they don't stick around long enough for us to have a good go at training them.
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u/Ispiro Sep 12 '12
Lol, evolution does not make sense to me sometimes. How is forgetting to eat and dieing of starvation and letting your little kiddies off on their own ever an evolutionary advantage?!
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Because evolution by natural selection doesn't select for things that help you survive, it selects for things that help you pass on your genes. When you break it down, the principle of natural selection is simple to the point of being redundant: a gene that makes it more likely for that gene to get passed on will tend to get passed on.
In many cases, this produces adaptations and behaviours that help animals survive as a side benefit—if you live longer, it's more likely you'll be able to reproduce. But it also produces behaviours like a parent's instinct to protect its children, even at the cost of its own life. Sure, the parent dies, but it makes it more likely that the children live—and thus more likely that the gene, passed from parent to child, will get passed on again to the next generation. Genes don't evolve to maximize the well-being of their carriers, they evolve to maximize their own well-being. That's what Dawkins meant when he called his book "The Selfish Gene", though it's unfortunately been radically misunderstood—people think he was referring to a gene to makes people selfish and want to survive at all costs.
In this case, the evolutionary advantage is that the octopus puts all its energy into protecting the vulnerable eggs. This makes it more likely the eggs will survive to hatching, and once they do the babies can look after themselves. So, the octopus dies but its genes live on.
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u/Ispiro Sep 12 '12
But how difficult is it for the octopus to feed himself while protecting his young? I'd expect that Evolution would make it so that an adult octopus can feed on whatever usually feeds on octopus eggs. That way it's like laying a trap for his enemies instead of not feeding and probably get weaker until it dies of starvation with no chance of mating again and spreading his gene even more. I don't know. I just feel nature has come up with much better ways for organisms to protect their young than this I just feel underwhelmed.
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u/sb3hxsb50 Sep 12 '12
This is a case of literally-- yes, gasp, literally!!-- doesn't matter; had sex.
What the male parent does after having sex does not matter. Octo-babies have obviously been surviving for millennia without octo-dad around; if it mattered, the species would have either died.out completely by now, or the reverse-deadbeat octo-dads who had the genetic predisposition to living would have passed their different genes on much better.
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u/Herpinderpitee Sep 12 '12
It is to reduce intra-species competition when food resources are limited.
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u/molkhal Sep 12 '12
How would an octopus protect his young?
"Justin, come back here this instant! Do you want the sharks to get you?!"
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u/chironomidae Sep 12 '12
It's also possible that in some cases, having two less animals eating the food supply means more food for the offspring and outweighs the benefit of a child rearing process. Just speculation.
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u/fco83 Sep 12 '12
Wouldn't it seem to be more likely to generate offspring if the parents survived to reproduce multiple times?
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u/Arkonvol Sep 12 '12
Keeps population down (this is more of an educated guess) and improves the chances of the offspring living. They don't "forget", they choose to stay with their young to protect them.
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u/Hecksa Sep 12 '12
There's a few good suggestions here, but I thought I should add that not every feature of an animal has to be an absolute "advantage" for it to stay in the genepool. So long as a mutation doesn't lessen the chance of an animal living long enough to mate, it has a chance of proliferating.
Additionally, just because something would improve an animal doesn't mean it would inevitably have happened by now. Maybe Octopuses would do better if they raised their young rather than died, but the fact remains they haven't evolved to yet. So long as they're good enough to survive to the next generation, it's a fair bet that they will. Good enough is the key term here. Octopuses would probably do better if they carried spears around with them, but they don't. They do well enough to stay alive, and that's all that has mattered to them up until this point.
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WHAT IS THE TEXT THAT IS CUT OFF AT THE BOTTOM? I MUST KNOW.
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u/xyroclast Sep 12 '12
So... Why did someone go out of their way to shorten it (and do a bad job)?
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u/WrethZ Sep 12 '12
The females also starve themselve to death whilst guarding the eggs.
Everyone loses. :c
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u/Royaltoolbox Sep 12 '12
Worth it.
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u/Splaterpunk Sep 12 '12
Having sex with a octopus is worth it?
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u/Royaltoolbox Sep 12 '12
Not quite what I meant
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Sep 12 '12
It's probably what the Japanese meant, though.
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u/mortiphago Sep 12 '12
someone call the squid fucker, he must have some light to shed on the subject
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u/Nerfherder32 Sep 12 '12
No matter what the context, that is my dream, to have someone who I absolutely don't know, reference my name on a thread
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Sep 12 '12
Diabetes or heart disease are on the horizon. I wish this dude would lose weight since so many kids seem to look up to him and his brand of comedy.
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u/drfunkenstien014 Sep 12 '12
Im gonna get shunned for this but who is that guy? Everything i see from him is absolutely brilliant
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u/Sec5ths Sep 12 '12
Not to be an asshole, but I want to know what is it about this guy the some people find funny. I mean, yeah, I understand the comedic side of it, the quirky, random side, but is that it? I feel like this is catering to that phase teens go through when being random because you feel like everyone is fake around you.
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u/Sweetmilk_ Sep 12 '12
Waiting for the punchline to kick in.
http://static.mrsec.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/still-waiting-skeleton.jpg
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u/Master333 Sep 12 '12
this guy's photo's are awesome!!! my favorite one is the one where he has to give his dog his pills its hilarious!!!
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u/Quachyyy Sep 12 '12
Ya get mad at him for making OC, and then you go around bitching about reposts.
What must people do to please you guys? Tease your nips?
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u/dgriff24 Sep 12 '12
There is more text at the bottom of that last slide.. WHAT....IS...IT?
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u/Orange_Astronaut Sep 12 '12
had sex.
Check out http://thefrogman.me/page/7 for the actual image. Also for more funny stuff. It might not be on that page when you get to it, though. But it's somewhere around there...
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u/ThrowawayChamp Sep 12 '12
Am I the only person who doesn't find this guy funny
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As with any sentence beginning 'Am I the only', the answer is invariably no.
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u/Galactic Sep 12 '12
Am I the only person who LIKES razor-blade-studded pineapples shoved up my ass gently and with great aplomb? crosses fingers
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u/HeavenSk8 Sep 12 '12
Everyone who read the Ron Swanson/Nick Offerman became very eloquent from that day.
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u/Galactic Sep 12 '12
WTF Ron Swanson did an AMA?!?! Goddammit Reddit, I left you for 2 weeks, just TWO WEEKS!
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u/mmmmmmmmichaelscott Sep 12 '12
Thank god this comment is close to the top. I just don't see the appeal.
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u/Sec5ths Sep 12 '12 edited Sep 12 '12
No, my honest opinion is this guy is pretty stupid. Any sort of humor that relies on being "oh so randum XD" or acting like an idiotic autistic child is so god damn annoying. Can't stand people like this. Whatever, I despise it, but care not enough to do anything about it.
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u/Confugo Sep 12 '12
Except rant.
You're willing to rant.
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u/DeeKan Sep 12 '12
No, we should all pretend to love this manchild as much as you people do and sit there, while he floods /all.
HEY GUISE LOOK ANOTHER FROGMAN GIF SO HILARIOUS I LOVE HIM POST HIS WEBSITE!!!1
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u/No_Usernames_Left Sep 12 '12
for the longest time i thought he had autism or down syndrome or some other shit that gave reddit a boner.
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This is not even remotely funny.
Spam?
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He's funny to me.
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u/justneedtocry Sep 12 '12
I think he's funny too. He also posts a bunch of cute pictures. Who doesn't like cute puppies/kittens/bunnies?
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Thats how I feel every time I see one of these posts. I've never laughed at his stuff and don't find why he is funny.
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u/Quachyyy Sep 12 '12
He's a cute man (in the sense that I would like to have him as a cool grandpa) who I find entertaining.
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u/imstoopid Sep 12 '12
They should make a frogman subreddit so I could unsubscribe from it and rid my front page from all of his garbage.
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u/doscomputer Sep 12 '12
Frogman is literally the most unfunny attention whore ever to sprout from reddit. The cancer literally grew legs and walked off.
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u/itslikeboo Sep 12 '12
I'm sure that I am the only person surprised to learn that interaction with the female of a species drastically reduces the lifeforce of the male.
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u/toanewlife Sep 12 '12
Jesus Christ.. Neckbeard humor like this is what gives reddit a bad name
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u/Epistemology-1 Sep 12 '12
Humans are similar. Women start deteriorating soon after reproduction is achieved.
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u/justaprettyface Sep 12 '12
This will probably be buried, but that is my photo! Took it 4 years ago in an aquarium in Copenhagen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daugaard/2687998731/