This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”
This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”
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To save everyone some time
His age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025
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And "The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
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Which is 36 years after this guy hatched
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Can we all agree to use "Sashayed in" rather than "hatched"?
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He's still more tortoise than he is gay.
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That's probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour?
Hard to nail down.
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Don't nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.
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Well then they shouldn't slowly walk all over the place!
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By the degree his life would change were that aspect of him to change.
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Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.
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Honestly, it's debatable whether a blind tortoise with no sense of smell is expressing homosexuality just because they seek sexual gratification with an object that happens to be male. He might also fuck rocks.
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Perhaps he only ambled in.
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I'm thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway.
Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
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I want to like this bc I'm almost genx, but I think it's sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
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Oh you don't stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
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Alan Davies: "And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp."
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That one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄
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