His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin
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That's not even all of them, he also said "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did".
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids8 & today I hate them worse than everything so farewell & in a sweet frame of mind, I am | Ever yours | C. Darwin
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters /DCP-LETT-3272.xml
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Which Charles Darwin are you? I'm 23 jan 1863 Charles Darwin.
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Sounds like a regular programmer today.
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I'm detecting a theme here.
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this post is a screenshot of https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/oh-my-god-how-i-do-hate-species-and
see also https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-loathe-i-abhor-the-sea-and-all
and https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ (where you can search and read the full text of over 15,000 of Darwin's letters)
Darwin was famously seasick, but also wanted to really look at birds and shit. Bad combination.
Didn't he have the most amount of trouble with his hammock? I recall from the Dollop episode on him this dude couldn't get in our out of the damn thing like ever
Fuck bees though.
Dumb bees and their dumb honey.
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Big Darwin mood
He sounds like he needs to take a cold shower.
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I am very poorly today.
Poorly what?
Poorly everything.
Somebody should have just given him a Snickers.
Same list for me every morning before the coffee.
Well you know what they say, do what you hate!
Missed opportunity to include his praise of inbreeding to produce "superior stock".
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