Post Ao7CbK4KX5wJtP2SoK by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #Ao7CTnZMxyHj4Qy9r6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-16T23:10:35Z
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The collective noun for ants is "colony" which wasn't very excited so I searched for other answers. I found an AI generated article which suggested "nest" "swarm" and..."bike"A bike of ants?What hath the garbage machine hallucinated now? ... thing is... I kinda like it. Like if you had enough ants you'd have a larger and more useful machine. A bike of ants invaded my kitchen! The peddled away with everything!
(DIR) Post #Ao7CbK4KX5wJtP2SoK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-16T23:11:56Z
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Most of the "collective nouns" for groups of animals are just made up by silly 19th century list makers from what I can tell. So if I want to talk about bikes of ants... no one can stop me.
(DIR) Post #Ao7CswZcctokEg4sC0 by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
2024-11-16T23:15:05Z
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@futurebird i would use ”hive”.A hive of ants is the collective being.
(DIR) Post #Ao7DC93uQ17aTDOrc8 by Lichtenbergian@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-16T23:18:28Z
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@futurebird We believe in you!
(DIR) Post #Ao7DVwBnzLV2L1Wzlw by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
2024-11-16T23:22:08Z
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@futurebird I've heard there is a group of scientists lobbying to change the collective noun for squid from "school" to "squad".
(DIR) Post #Ao7DfH4jhisPilg1dg by lan@lor.sh
2024-11-16T23:23:49Z
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@futurebird a bike can also be a crowd of people
(DIR) Post #Ao7E2N4ZZXcCywc7CC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-16T23:28:02Z
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@davidtheeviloverlord And what are they called? A quibble?
(DIR) Post #Ao7E9EfpCMwOxYJMlU by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
2024-11-16T23:28:59Z
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@futurebird I think that's the collective noun for tribbles.
(DIR) Post #Ao7ESiVIVyICyig14K by bryanredeagle@beige.party
2024-11-16T23:32:48Z
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@futurebird Honestly, you know more about ants than anyone else I've ever known. You could have just started using it, and I would assume it was correct.
(DIR) Post #Ao7HkpnGRx2mf7PYWm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-17T00:09:38Z
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@neckspike @mym The ants agree! Bad experience all around.
(DIR) Post #Ao7KCHFEh9CLWlhy9A by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
2024-11-17T00:37:01Z
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@futurebird A bicycle built for two ... thousand?
(DIR) Post #Ao7LXesI8Olgqkje9w by Overbern@mstdn.social
2024-11-17T00:52:06Z
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@futurebird I think I found the source of the madness.Did this searchhttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22bike+of+ants%22&t=lm&df=1990-11-16..2020-11-17&ia=webWhich had exactly one resulthttps://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/language-linguistics-and-literary-terms/english-vocabulary-d/bikeWhere ants are an example of a thing that swarms.
(DIR) Post #Ao7LwG5TQkRPDFdCvg by anne_twain@theblower.au
2024-11-17T00:56:30Z
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@futurebird Here's a "bike" of capybaras.
(DIR) Post #Ao7RifVKjVSJiHd7mi by yonder@spacey.space
2024-11-17T02:01:19Z
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@futurebird Yeah they were made up by the nobility & they'd learn them to show off their nobility credentials (nob-cred?) while out hunting & fishing or whetever, so most of them are animals you'd see in the wild.
(DIR) Post #Ao7Y9kRd4ZLmZxC2hU by australopithecus@mastodon.social
2024-11-17T03:13:19Z
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@futurebird Really, though, we should consider using "ant" as a mass noun.
(DIR) Post #Ao7wPgS05VbHj0Uxn6 by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2024-11-17T07:45:14Z
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@futurebird How about a tandem of ants?
(DIR) Post #Ao8FHTB1SDIHMxM06C by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2024-11-17T11:16:39Z
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@futurebird Why not hill? For applicable species, of course.