104 points

Feel like a good sponge costume would allow you to pee right where you are.

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I got the “Robert Sponge Rectangle Slacks” version from Spirit Halloween… but it doesn’t hold water when pissing myself :(

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Should probably come with a warning about that. Pretty disappointing.

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I guess it depends on what kind of sponge, but I think in all likelihood since most sponges have no symmetry that this comes down to the same politics as an agender person choosing a bathroom.

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Flounders are not bilaterally symmetrical.

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Dafuq you say about me?

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YOU’RE NOT BILATERALLY SYMMETRICAL

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14 points

He can’t understand you, dude.

Hey,

Flounder!

You’

re no

t bila

terall

y sym

metri

cal!

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In the tree of life, flounders are a sub-sub-…-sub-species of bilaterally symmetrical animals: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Holozoa=5246131?otthome=%40_ozid%3D1&highlight=path%3A%40Apionichthys_finis%3D3640785&highlight=path%3A%40Bilateria%3D117569#x2913,y-2310,w8.2796

Edit: let me preemptively be a pedant to myself and say that “sub-…-species” is wrong because “bilaterally symmetrical animals” is not a species. Flounder is itself a species AFAIK, not a sub-species of anything. It is a descendant of the common ancestor of all bilaterally symmetrical animals. There, now surely no one will find anything to be pedantic about :D

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I appreciate that information. However, flounders themselves are not bilaterally symmetrical. I have caught many dozens of them and it’s pretty easy to tell that they are not.

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Flounders are born symmetrical; eye migration happens as they transition to the juvenile stage of growth.

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8 points

Just like starfish!

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2 points

Forego the illusion of species and families. It’s taxa all the way down.

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18 points

It depends on whether it was a larvae or not.

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5 points

They’re “differently symmetrical.”

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Pretty sure from my B- in zoo that sponges eat from what amounts to our waste hole.

So you are supposed to piss in the punchbowl and drink from the toilette.

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They are a single orifice kind of animal. Take a gulp of sea water, sift oit the goodies, and expel the rest

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Yeah. ok. See what kind of biological insight a B- gets you?

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9 points

Toilette du fromage.

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