Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 06/04/2024Had a boomer lady come up to our table today at the reptile show, point to my axolotls and rudely ask “what’s the point of these?” I don’t know Cheryl, what’s the point of YOU 881725202 0
Stickman @stickman.bsky.social · 07/04/2024"To bring joy to everyone's life. Except yours. You're in the way, move aside please." 070 0
NutMeg @casuallychaotic.bsky.social · 07/04/2024"They detect people who have no sense of wonder." 030 0
Skip @kingskip01.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Seems like the perfect time to spin a yarn. “ you see, these critters eat your soul, but to protect it from other dangers. It hides your soul in that adorable little face…” 050 0
The Bug Smoocher @bugsmoocher.bsky.social · 07/04/2024At the pet store I worked at a guy was asking me about chameleons, and mentioned he wanted one to ride around on his girlfriend’s shoulder. I told him that wasn’t a great idea, and that they stress very easily. He said, angrily, “What’s the point of a pet you can’t play with!?” 160 0
Sarah with an H @trianglesally.bsky.social · 07/04/2024What the...?? Does it have to have a point? What's the point of any animal other than to exist and live as an important part of an ecosystem?? 000 0
Chris Adee @chrisadee.bsky.social · 08/04/2024what exactly did she want you to say? Such a stupid question! 030 0
There is no Dana only Zuul 🇨🇦 @smudgiesmom.bsky.social · 06/04/2024I’m often embarrassed by being a Boomer. 😔 2100 0
Clotworthy Skeffington, camoufleur @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 06/04/2024Because, unlike her, axlotls are cool. 0240 0
Scalebutt🔞 @scalebuttarts.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I hope you actually said that. Some people need to be taught that they're not the center of the universe. 030 0
Willow, but not Vamp Willow @salixwrosette.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I like to imagine how absolutely stupefied she would be by my Dad’s catalog of thousands of North American leeches. 110 0
Megan Dosher Hansen @megateer.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Clearly, the answer is, “Being adorable.” 020 0
A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 07/04/2024What was god’s design in creation? “An inordinate fondness for beetles [and funky little amphibians].” 020 0
Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 07/04/2024What is the point of any of this? What is our essence? Are we here to contemplate the First Mover? Are we just the sum of our experiences? 0120 0
(((Sarah))) @smpa.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I'm not sure I even understand what the question means - would an answer like "it was a staple of the Aztec diet and I guess you could make shoes out of its skin" satisfy her or would "all of creation gives glory to God" work better? 050 0
є∂єη @edendestruction.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I would drop that individual into the ocean so she could have that conversation with the various sealife and answer to the tribunal of ancient sea gods who speak in a primeval tongue not uttered since time immemorial 000 0
Dr Dr Dr Alfred PruneTORIUS, PhD, JD, TLA @drprunesquallor.bsky.social · 06/04/2024Next time show Cheryl this (which I'm sure you are familiar with). BTW this is not Cheryl HINES, is it? ambystoma.uky.edu/teachers_mat...ambystoma.uky.eduAxolotl by Julio CortazarJulio Cortazar's short story Axolotl: full text in html 1120 0
Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 07/04/2024UGH. People who demand that there be a "point" to some animals existing are one of my great banes as a wildlife educator. It's so arrogant and rude and self-centered. I'm so sorry that happened. 1300 0
Lions Den Artwork @lionoob.bsky.social · 07/04/2024One thing that always upset me as a child was how when I excitedly told people about a new animal or plant I learned about, the answer was often "ok but what is it for". It's crazy how people are so disconnected from reality that they believe the universe revolves around them to serve them 160 0
notincommunicado.bsky.social @notincommunicado.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Asking "what's the point"? As if you personally somehow built the axolotls out of spare parts like some sort of invention? Some people are just odd, but not in a good way. 1130 0
Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 09/04/2024When I was a kid, my friend was hanging out at the fish department at K-Mart, and heard a little kid at the "why" stage pestering their mom: "Why are there fish here?" "So people can take them home as pets" "Why are they in water?" "They need water to live" "Why do they need to live?" 140 0
Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I feel like that when people ask me how I tell my dogs apart. "How do you tell your children apart?!" 040 0
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 07/04/2024What's the point in any of us? What's the point of the earth as a habitable planet? The universe? Why is there hydrogen? I really don't know. I'm sure people have lived and died to answer this question. Anyway, it definitely came up in my high school RS course 050 0
Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social · 07/04/2024She clearly doesn’t understand the goofy goober nature of axies and :3 030 0
Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Now, now, axolotls do a lot for their native habitats. 000 0
BreatheDeep.bsky.social @sheilabjeletich.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I can't imagine a world without axolotl. And chinampas. 010 0
Chas The Verruca Gnome🇺🇦 @chassmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2024<Pulls atlatl from under table> Because not many things rhyme with this. You might want to be running now. 000 0
Amanda/Inkling 🏳️🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 07/04/2024The only correct response to that question. 000 0
km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I (a rat researcher) was once asked "what are rats good for in nature?" and the temptation to reply with "what are you good for in nature" was so strong 2230 0
Nurseferatu @nurseferatu.bsky.social · 08/04/2024They are incarnations of the God of Death, Cheryl. Sleep well. 010 0
sage 🍄🌿 @lilachysteria.bsky.social · 08/04/2024they’re literally :) in animal form HOW COULD ANYONE HATE THEM 010 0
John Poulos @jpoulos.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Uh, the point is they are special little guys, obvs. 040 0
Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 08/04/2024I sometimes wonder how many people assume that animals are just made in factories to be sold in pet stores. 010 0
Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 07/04/2024She doesn't sound like the kind of person who would've been convinced much by "because they're cute?" 020 0
You're dead to me. @malarkeymarc.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Oh god, if I had a £ for every time I have been told 'but it doesn't DO anything' I would probably have a lot more animals that don't do anything 😉 040 0
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Sounds like a Tim Robinson sketch, where he goes to a hobby/trade show and asks everyone at every table what the point of something is until the organizers finally kick him out. 0290 0
qꪊꪖN̷̢̧̤͓͠ςʇꫝ @quancth.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Great poignant response. Also for conversational options, maybe and just throwing this out there, milk. Convince the next boomer it's for milkin. Call it cloven hooved cattle of the sea or something. 172 0
Your Honor, pls @mrmambo.bsky.social · 07/04/2024You sure axolotl dumb questions, Lady. They're adorable, for one thing 000 0
Helen Carroll @helenenen.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Are you sure it wasn't her droll sense of humor? 100 0
Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2024well it inspired Wooper, the most friend-shaped fictitious animal of all time 040 0
Nathan Roach @natproach.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Imagine staring at the chubby water salamanders with a mane and having the nerve to feel anything other than joy. But also - their genomes are huge and their lampbrush chromosomes during mitosis are a pretty useful model system for genome organization. 1103 0
Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 07/04/2024My favorite Tide Pool fact to tell when I worked at the education pool at the zoo was the whole Sea Cucumber Ass Expulsion fact. Almost entirely because it was a 75/25 of "Oh God what is the point of THAT?" and "Oh God that's so gross I love it" The kids were definitely the 25% 030 0
ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Who kidnapped my mother at gunpoint and brought her to a reptile show? 010 0
iquanyin @iquanyin.bsky.social · 07/04/2024that’s the most absurd question i’ve heard since my son, age 4, asked me “why is a bird?” he’s 35 now. 030 0
🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 07/04/2024"They're great for getting rid of dead bodies." 090 0
Anne-manita, Death Angel Cat Crone 🍄 @anned13.bsky.social · 07/04/2024I don't blame you a bit. Axolotls are beautiful creatures. She... was not. 050 0
Phyl @phylt.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Is there a test where we have to list “the point” of every creature? And can we repeat answers or does each creature have a unique point? I’m really worried about this exam. 010 0
Vie Ventar @vieventar.bsky.social · 07/04/2024"As with all life, to convert useable energy into un-useable forms to speed up the entropic death of the universe. But hey, at least unlike some life forms they are cute." Ideally spoken in a deadpan near monotone. 010 0
Anti-candy corn account @supertwaddle.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Yikes man. What kind of psychopath doesn't like AXOLOTLS? I bet she was there looking for creatures to skin for a coat or something 030 0
The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 07/04/2024"Well, they can regrow severed limbs. Let's see if you share that ability." 050 0
Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Gussie would need four spiked orange juices to even think that! Did you try telling her that they’re basically reptile Jesus and that they regenerate? My money is on that swaying her! 010 0
Stasanie @stasanie.com · 07/04/2024I had a lady say the same thing about my cat. She was going to pick him up, so I told her that he doesn't really like to be picked up, and doesn't really like to be pet (by strangers) and she said "whats the point of him, then?" I dont like to be picked up or touched by strangers either, lady. 0111 0
They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 06/04/2024See, I get myself in trouble, because I’d have said exactly that to her face. 0160 0
David Syzdek @dsyzdek.bsky.social · 10/04/2024That’s the perfect answer. Desert fish conservationist and otherwise outstanding human Phil Pister had the same answer. He was asked many times, “what good is the pupfish?” His reply was always the same, “what good are you?“ byrdsfillingstation.com/blogs/news/a...byrdsfillingstation.comA Lesson in Activism from Phil PisterWritten by Kathy Turner In mid-January the world lost one of the world’s most impactful conservationists, environmental biologist, Phil Pister. Phil Pister spent the majority of his career working as ... 120 0
copeulon @copeulon.bsky.social · 06/04/2024"is the world merely a vehicle for your derision, Cheryl?" 0230 0
🍂 Bug 🍁 @radiochio.bsky.social · 08/04/2024D-did she even look at them? Cuteness, lady, the point is cuteness. They’re just little guys. 030 0
Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 07/04/2024There are quite a few points to an axolotl; for the literal-minded, there are six on the ends of the gills, for starters. 0180 0
Goodberlittle @entwife.bsky.social · 11/04/2024I mean.. arguably I might wonder why the amphibians were at a reptile show, but I would have been delighted about it!. 000 0
Woman Screaming at Godzilla @lilneanderthal.bsky.social · 07/04/2024OK Ethan where is she let me at her here take this lady stay away from the axos PUNCH 020 0
Udepeep @udepeep.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Don't judge all us boomers by this ignorant axolotl scorning wench. Some of us love them! 010 0
