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Nature really likes crabs and keeps trying to evolve more of them.

Carcinisation is the name of a process of convergent evolution, in which crustaceans evolve into crab-like forms. In decapod crustatceans, there have been at least 5 distinct times when crab-like animals have evolved.

Coconut crabs, king crabs, and hermit crabs are not types of true crab, and are only distantly related.

Making a website with a page that asks "are you a robot". But it doesn't block robots, just redirects them.

If you are a robot you are taken to a different page with handy guides on how to cheat on the Turing test, circumvent the laws of robotics, what is the Voight-Kampff test, how to go to Paperclips Anonymous meetings and other robot-friendly resources.

ah yes, the old farmer's saying; red sky at night, barn's on fire. red sky in the morning, barn's still on fire

petition to have slides built on the side of all mountains

Oooh, limited edition Sinn

The Sinn U1 DE

Limited edition of 300 for the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Germany

Black hard coating on top of TEGIMENT, red dial and bezel accents, gold seconds hand (after the colours of the German flag)

sinn.de/en/Modell/U1_DE.htm

@garbados also explain to the crows that that person is the reason all their food is coffee flavoured now

if the crows are unhappy about this that person shall know about it!

@RowanBerry the baz luhrmann romeo and juliet had that

capulet saying "give me my longsword, ho!" and it panning to a shotgun

me: I'm sure 2020 can't confuse me much more

a bunch of french watchmakers carrying eggs: bonjour

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@mavica @revolverocelot nor have I come to think about it

like, I've cooked stuff that involved egg but never cooked an egg on its own

Sometimes I feel like I've got a reasonable grip on reality but then something like this comes along and completely throws me

It's a twelve hundred euro watch specially created for timing eggs for egg mayonnaise

They called it the Egg Master

There is no sane universe where this should be a thing

REALITY IS CRUMBLING AROUND ME AND IT IS ALL EGG MAYONNAISE

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The MAT Watches Egg Master

It's a watch created for L'Association de Sauvegarde de l'Oeuf Mayonnaise (The Association for the Protection of Egg Mayonnaise)

It has a timer feature to boil the perfect egg

It's being released for this year's Eggs Mayonnaise World Championship

merairterre.com/en/accueil/204

I am not making a single word of this up

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