The oceans are queer now.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001q0sk?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Potentially interesting program made tedious by being told about how all these interesting creatures and habitats are like being queer.

It’s getting like thought for the day, ‘this thing is a bit like Jesus’ now it’s ’this thing is like being queer’.

It’s getting like thought for the day, ‘this thing is a bit like Jesus’ 🤣
Who was it used to do that in a sketch show?

The Fast Show did a sketch with waiters who said things like “the white wine is a crisp, dry Sauvignon and the red? The red is the blood of our saviour..” might be that?

Donkeys years before that. Alan Bennett in Beyond the Fringe: “Life is rather like a tin of sardines. And we’re all of us looking for the key.”

Was it Harry Enfield?

Here was also Pause For Thought For The Day on This Morning With Richard Not Judy and I’m done derailing now 😂 sorry everyone.

Omg I've come across 'queer ecology' as a thing and it sounds like the biggest load of bollocks ever, for several reasons:

It's projecting an anthropomorphised idea of human relationships into animals and trying to label them as 'queer' when they then don't fit that human 'norm' - when they're being completely normal for them.

Virtually all animals have sex to reproduce. That's it. So trying to map human ideas of relationships and the variety thereof onto them makes no sense.

'Normal' has a specific, mathematical meaning when describing a population, it's not pejorative, it just describes a dataset where most cluster around the middle. Most animals do x or y thing, it's normal. Some don't. This is interesting. It's not 'queer'.

Ffs.

I heard this in the car this morning.
I swear I could hear all the Radio 4 listeners switching off.
Never had a contemplated the ocean as a queer space.
I have now contemplated it and decided that's a load of queer bollocks.

Absolutely.
Normal is defined by your population. (That's why I hang out here😁)

I prefer the phrase ' more than a couple of standard deviations from the mean', but I don't think it's very catchy.😂

I had to switch Radio 4 off, something normally only prompted by I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.

It wasn’t like just the oceans being like queer spaces? It was, like, the relentless use of rising question intonation at the end of, like, sentences? Also the repeated use of the word “like”?

I started feeling murderous and shouted at Alexa to stop.

Not sure about the oceans but the ponds are definitely queer ..

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=2e90640651ea09996c54f283f992290df6287633

This is a bit like bullshit.

I think Billy Connolly had something, I just remember the punchline was something 'and in a way he was right'. The Big Yin was being funny, it sounds like this was supposed to be taken seriously?

No it was Mark Steele. It was his only funny joke

There was a Fast Show character who would say ‘and that’s a little bit like Jesus’.

I was listening to R4 today and when I heard that the "ocean is a queer space" I burst out laughing. These people are nuts.

Yes, that sounds familiar. Cool vicar tells unrelated story then adds ‘and that’s a little bit like Jesus’. Was that it?

Is this to do with all ships being 'she' maybe they are gender neutral now.

what pronouns is the sea using these days?

I’m sorry I know I said I’d stop.

You heard me then.

That paper is called:
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves:Anatidae)

And that is what it is about. A male mallard rapes the corpse of another male mallard. Continuously, for 75 minutes.
NAMallardsALT

But slapping “queer” in front of academic disciplines opens thousands of new dissertation topics, so more money for unis and more worthless PhDs 😄

Haven't listened.
But - are there clownfish?
Nemo's law is a thing.

The sea always make me feel queasy, is that the same thing. 🤮