Accomplishment Unlocked!

[dave_littler]

I have received delightful news: My groundbreaking video, The World's Most Terrifying Penises: The Echidna is now YouTube's #1 search result for the word "Echidna". You cannot know how this delights me, to know that when someone searches that site for information on this repugnant little animal, my cockpunching video, and the horrific mysteries

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[thingie]

Personally, I really loved your bit on the bed bug. Being an amateur fan of all things heteroptera, I thought it was spot on. Most terrifying breeding habits, ever.

So, due to the fact that I am also a fan of hedgehogs, I must now investigate this echidna issue.

[dave_littler]

Just as long as you're aware of the fact that echidnas are only cosmetically similar to hedgehogs; they're actually no more closely related to hedgehogs than they are to whales, or horses, or us. It's more or less completely coincidental that they've ended up looking like hedgehogs.

[thingie]

right. they're marsupials, correct?

[dave_littler]

Nope!

They're monotremes. They're even more-distantly related to the rest of the mammals of the world than marsupials are. They're practically reptiles; they lay eggs and such. They're way, way off in the corner of the mammalian family tree.

Watch the video. Much of it is explained there.

[thingie]

lol. good show. the dick reminds me of voltron, although I also watched transformers, but not that late in the series. (i saw dinobots. i stopped watching before dinobots.)

although, voltron was five not four.

what intrigued me about the video was the guy who had this vice-like grip on the echidna while it continued to sport this huge boner. What's the story with that? Im grabbed mercilessly by this human but Im still looking for a hummer?

otherwise, it sounds a lot like the platypus. a mammal who lays eggs.

but you're right, Australia is fucked.

[dave_littler]

Well, that particular echidna was apparently a bit of a sexual deviant, and was filmed specifically because of the "wtf-factor" of its behaviour.

And yeah, Platypuses are also monotremes. There's actually only five species of monotremes left in the world, I think. Two species of echidna (and the other species, not pictured in this video, is in some ways even more bizarre-looking), and three species of platypus.

[nerdfury]

Plural of platypus is platypi. Also, leave my country out of your hate speech, jerk! We're Canada's older, cooler brother!

[dave_littler]

Leave your country alone, you say? Well, my good sir, I'm not sure that's really in the cards.

Muhuhaha.

And I've heard "platypuses" as well as "platypi". I suspect that the latter is a pluralization which is local to Australia.

[nerdfury]

I recall that grammatically-speaking, the 'us' suffix is usually pluralised to an 'i' suffix. And I would know - I still speak the King's English! Your people renounced your right to correct spelling and grammar when you swapped Z for S and dropped the mighty U!

[dave_littler]

You speak madness and nonsense. We Canadians are accused of OVER-using the letter "u"!

And I'm not even sure what the "z" versus "s" business is a reference to.

[nerdfury]

What about poor Aluminium? Won't anyone think of Aluminium!?

American-English has replaced the letter S with Z in a lot of words. Like familiarise. And utilise. And pluralise. And Zpace Ztation.

That lazt one waz a lie. But the zwapping of S for Z remainz!

[dave_littler]

Yes. American English is a wart on the face of western culture, to be sure. Fortunately, we Canadians do make use of International English, and we remember the proper spellings of words like honour, colour, and demeanour. Also, that the final letter of the alphabet, the much-maligned "z" is in fact pronounced "zed."

[nerdfury]

Bless you, Canada! Bless your little heart!