Also isn't there like 12 bazillion chickens per person? No fucking way could it be cats/dogs.

The most annoying part of that is that cats and dogs both eat meat! He thinks there are more cats and dogs than the chickens and cows (etc) we feed them? What demented food web did they teach him in elementary school biology?

Cats and dogs aren't even species; they're vague categories. I tried to find the actual answer to this question, but trying to nail down individual species is proving impossible. Every source is like "copepods" or "ants" like that isn't incredibly broad. ChatGPT says it's the Antarctic krill with 5x10^14 individuals. Going from there, the WWF says there's over 7x10^14 , and Wikipedia only says they're one of the most abundant species. I'm not going to get an answer to this question, and I'm going to be mildly annoyed about it infrequently for the rest of time.

I would have guessed ants, but I think they're just in the top 10? I wonder if humans are even in the top 1000, lol.

"What animal breathes through its butt"

I answered sea cucumber. They wanted sea turtle. But we complained and they accepted our answer too :)

Arson out of the question due to rain?

Humans aren't even in the top 10. They're probably not in the top 100, really.

If he meant mammals the answer is mice and rats.

There might be the nuance that there are many species of ants and flies, though still idk if any one of them outdoes humans, their pets and chickens.

Wikipedia's page on biomass says that ants can compete with humans in global biomass (though the estimates vary wildly), but there are 15700 species of ants.

Antarctic krill is the safest bet with shittons of them in just one species.

im really intrested. what is their answer for if insects were not animals?

This is how I felt as a kid when my peers insisted the thumb is not a finger. Like what are you talking about bro? If I asked before this came up, you'd have said you have ten fingers, not eight.

It's wild to me... And then to get mad? Like "how dare you make me learn something"

Proud ignorance is basically a religion in the US now.

I'm able to understand conceptually that "meat" doesn't literally mean any animal's muscle tissue in every language. Sometimes it's a more vague concept of a large mammal's meat and excludes fish, poultry, etc. And that's okay. But I also hate it.

They are kind of right ... there is no such thing as a fish.

More people need to be told to their face that they're imbeciles.

I have a workmate who loves to act dumb. We’ve decided fish aren’t animals, they are indeed fish, we’ve also decided jellyfish are crustaceans.

Do we have to decide to share the Nobel prize or does a committee decide that for us?

She got mad

Laugh in her face then walk away and let her be mad

I had a teacher in 6th grade who told us that God placed the earth the perfect distance from the Sun; a few inches closer and we'd all burn, and a few inches further and we'd all freeze. I got detention for standing on top of my desk and asking why I wasn't on fire yet.

That kinda shattered my view of teachers being arbiters of knowledge.

Silimar, I had a teacher ask us to write down the first animal that came to mind and I wrote, "wolf spider" because to an 8 year old, there are few more bad ass sounding animals.

She said "really? That's the First animal you think of?" Eye roll

Me: looks down at doodles of giant spiders battling tanks that shoot lightning, "it's the only animal I'm thinking of right now..."

My third grade teacher told me that negative numbers aren't real.

Reflecting back on it thirty years later, it's clear what she meant, but the poorly communicated statement and arguments she made were very upsetting to me, someone who at the time was very proud of having just learned the concept.

In the moment, I had the same reaction as you. Shortly thereafter, my mom - who was not at all a fan of that teacher - took my brother and me out of public school and we started homeschool.

autism has entered the chat

Or that we are quite literally apes.