this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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mintgoth: just learned that the word "ferret" is derived from the Latin word furittus meaning "LITTLE THIEF" and that a group of ferrets is called a BUSINESS and i am absolutely pleased with this new knowledge

insomniac-arrest: I am enriched by this knowledge, thank you

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OP left it in the oven a bit too long

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

As long as it's not deep fried. Some of those are completely unintelligible. But I suppose that's the point.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably one of those blue light filter apps was on during the screenshot

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I'm looking at the meme with bedtime mode on my phone, it's just gray on my screen, lol.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So a group of thieves is a business, huh

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Just listen to the word. Busy with what?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dun dun dun, dundun, dun dun dun, dundun, dun dun dun.

Dun dun dun

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

One of our ferrets used to steal things and hide them in the arm rest of one of those old wood frame grandma couches. We had to periodically flip it over and fish out whatever had wound up there. One time we found a steel shoehorn, none of us had ever owned a shoehorn. We called it the giving couch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ferrets are WAY cuter than billionaires

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, but that's a really low bar to clear.

Like saying "cereal is WAY tastier than duct tape".

You're not wrong, but... It's almost an insult to ferrets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I am enriched by this knowledge, thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd always heard the collective noun to be a "parliament of ferrets".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Also rooks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sounds just as good