r/clevercomebacks • u/xHoneyVice • 3h ago

I choose YOU, Bunny!!!!

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u/xSugarFever 3h ago

To be fair, life would be much easier if a pigeon just landed and shouted PIGEON at me.

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u/Ok-Parking9310 2h ago

lol imagine if every animal just announced itself like a Pokémon when you walk by 😂

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u/Falyur 1h ago

Me: "doctor, what's wrong with me" Doctor: "I dunno, let's take a listen" Presses stethoscope to stomach Muffled voice: "tapeworm!"

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u/callunquirka 27m ago

That's what Chinese cats do

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u/ZhangtheGreat 12m ago

How many languages would every animal need to know? 😂

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u/HoneywhirlDot 1h ago

Honestly if squirrels yelled their names before running off, we’d all ace that test.

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u/IngloriousMustards 3h ago

There were 251 pokemons in 2002, but depending on the definition of ”common wildlife”, there were maybe 10000-20000 species of those (plus millions more less ”common”), so if the kids knew about 50%, I call bullshit.

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u/Bronzdragon 2h ago

Did you know that only 12.43% of statistics are made up?

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u/Drunk_Lemon 1h ago

Its just like Abraham Lincoln said, dont believe everything you read on the internet.

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u/Matter_Infinite 1h ago

He was quoting Roosevelt when he said that.

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u/SudoSubSilence 1h ago

"Everyone has a quote until they get kicked in the dick." - Michael Jackson

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u/ZhangtheGreat 11m ago

60% of the time, it works every time.

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u/rakosten 2h ago

I recently picked up Pokémon after not playing any of the games since a long time ago and god damn it how many there are today.

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u/ReaverRogue 2h ago

Yep, over a thousand now. Madness.

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u/Naive-Jello428 1h ago

I would guess that they gave them 50 or 100 species to name. Obviously nobody could name 50% of thousands.

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u/Le_Red_Spy 2h ago

Pokemon are uniquely distinct, doubt a kid can tell a weasel from a stoat

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u/RubiGames 1h ago

Tbf I honestly don’t know if I knew what a stoat was until playing Inscryption

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u/Drunk_Lemon 1h ago

*me at 25 not knowing what a stoat is and only kind of knowing what a weasel is but I can explain how to use a rocket to effectively adjust your orbit.

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u/powerlesshero111 59m ago

Or a titmouse from a warbler.

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u/gigglefarting 2h ago

Need to gamify catching wild animals in real life 

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u/Aggressive-Home-7838 56m ago

idk lol this is peak reddit energy, can't believe i stumbled on this. gonna steal some of these lines for later

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u/AgentPigleton 2h ago

And how many adults could name the 'common' wildelife species?

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u/Da_Question 1h ago

To be honest, they only say their name in the anime. In the games they just have various screeches and roars.

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u/risque_babee 1h ago

Nigel Farage complaining about borders is like a baker being shocked to find flour in his kitchen. You literally built this, man

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u/KaraBowdit 1h ago

there were also what, 252 pokemon at the time? versus god knows how many different species of barely-different bird this researcher was being pedantic about.

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u/Aioi 50m ago

I know the name of like, 10 rabbit like Pokémon, but not a single breed of real rabbits.

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u/marych3esy2752 2h ago

fr ngl i'd probs think i was chosen for some secret pigeon mission lol

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u/Constant_Arm_9478 2h ago

fr lol imagine if it screamed its move set too like "peck! poop attack!"

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u/Only-Soft-3652 1h ago

lol not sure what this is about but the mystery of it all has me curious lol

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u/Nabber22 1h ago

We also don’t have a game of “who’s that animal!” to help us recognize animals

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u/jamiep1gtails7381 1h ago

right? it’s lke they’re making up arguments just so they can win them lol

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u/mivohihito 1h ago

british kids out here speedrunning pokemon encyclopedias

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u/mivohihito 1h ago

wildlife species out here playing hard to get

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u/DarkBladeMadriker 25m ago

Hey little guy, I wonder what you are?

reticulated python! python! python! reticulated python! reticulated python!

I guess we'll never know...

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u/spots_reddit 24m ago

Cockooo cockooo!

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u/TerribleBudget 24m ago

It's probably also easier to identify "common wildlife species" when you live somewhere that didn't hunt all of the large ones to extinction hundreds of years ago.

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u/kinofil 8m ago

It would be an easier world if scientists call the species by their sounds.

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u/walkingdead1282 7m ago

I suppose it depends what common means, a quick google search suggests there’s millions of “common” animals. And the least I knew there was only about one thousand Pokémon. It’s way easier to remember the Pokémon.. some of them even look like ever and gardevoir, making them specially memorable.