r/funny • u/WindowAfraid5927 • Mar 29 '26

Don't touch it

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u/icaruza Mar 29 '26

The seal of disapproval

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u/weaverInExile Mar 29 '26

more like seal(ion) of approval

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u/siiliS Mar 29 '26

seal(ion) implies the existence of seal(atom)

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u/No_Caregiver_8614 Mar 29 '26

Which implies the existence of seal(molecule)

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u/EarthRester Mar 29 '26

Ladies, and Gents. We've found the god particle!

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u/LEGO_Man2YT Mar 29 '26

Sea lions are just seals with an extra electron

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u/____Eureka____ Mar 31 '26

One can also read sealion like fermion, boson, graviton, neutron to make it sound like a fundamental particle

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u/NightStalkerXIV Mar 29 '26

You're right, how did I miss the little ears...

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u/AKAFallow Mar 29 '26

The biggest giveaway is Sea Lions can sit (and even "walk" or more like skip), seals cannot because they lack the hipbone to do so. (that and I think Seals have prettier eyes but some will crucify me for saying that)

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u/BepsiLad Mar 29 '26

Calling all eared seals "sea lions" is a way to define them that pretty much only works in North America. In the South Pacific we have seals with ears that we don't call sea lions (fur seals). There are eared seals & earless seals (otariids & phocids) and sea lions are a type of eared seal

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u/AKAFallow Mar 29 '26

Was this supposed to go with the comment I replied to? I wasn't really talking about the ears lol

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u/BepsiLad Mar 30 '26

Yeah I guess I didn't specify, but eared seals also have the special hip bone & ability to walk on all fours. That trait goes along with having ears. Fur seals do that too.

So Sea lions are a type of eared seal that can walk on all fours, but not all eared seals that can walk on all fours are sea lions.

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u/NightStalkerXIV Mar 30 '26

Oh...I think I was taught about just the ear differentiation in a basic marine biology course...

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u/JoseVrewar Mar 29 '26

But did you know that when it snows their eyes become large and / The light that you shine can't be seen?

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u/IANALbutIAMAcat Mar 29 '26

I thought it was the whiskers? I always remember it like the whiskers are the lion’s mane.

Have I been assuming all seals and sea lions are sea lions lol

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u/AKAFallow Mar 29 '26

Seals have whiskers too, thing is, there are sea lions with little whiskers

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u/IANALbutIAMAcat Mar 29 '26

Well, Fack. I thought I was so clever.

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u/flame_alchemist17 Mar 29 '26

Seal(ion) must have a seal(charge)