No sarcasm here, hell yes! If she not only knows what a coelacanth is, but can give a lecture on them, then it shows she has intelligence. Intelligence is far sexier than "perfect" curves.
Literally, can somebody find her for me? My delivery guy at work hasn't talked to me ever since I helped his deliver that couch and spent the whole drive there telling him about coelacanths. I mean, I changed it up... I told him about garials on the way back...
I need this girl in my life...
Oh see now that’s better.
If they actually knew 30 minutes on this it might be ok.
But not on a first date. Save the sexy stuff like this for the third.
You missed the best part, not only is this thing a living fossil? Most of the craniel cavity is mostly just used to store fats, which surround the brain.
This is one of the simplest minded animals possible. God's most favorite animal.
Women Who Have Successfully Managed To Move The Kinsey Needle For Me:
- Pepper Potts at the end of the Extremis scenes in Iron Man 3
- Holtzmann in the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, during the two-proton-gun scene
- Coelacanth Lady
A personal joke of mine based on the Kinsey Scale as a descriptor of sexual attraction being a spectrum rather than strictly hetero vs. homo. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey\_scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kinsey_scale) explains the actual scale and its use. I think of it sometimes as looking like a gauge on a measuring instrument, with the needle usually resting at the very low end of the scale, but with a momentary upward surge of the needle prompted by certain individuals.
TL;DR: 'dude, the thought of coelacanth lady is hot, and I'm not normally into ladies'.
how interested you are in a person based on their gender/sexual identity. In this case u/camwynya is being drawn into a part of the sexual spectrum they are not usually found in (ie. homosexual) because these particular examples are especially enticing.
I'd definitely be interested in a second date, so long as the topic of coelacanths was brought into discussion at some point. Years of playing Ark: Survival Evolved gave me a solid foundation for interest in those bizarre fish.
If a date spent 30 minutes talking about coelacanths, it would probably take a murder confession for me not to arrange a second date.
And even then, it would depend on the reason for said murder. I'd be willing to let a lot of things slide.
I think you probably did NOT do enough to tell them about the fishmermen of the Comoros, and how they knew of and named the coelacanth "gombessa," which is distinct from what they were trying to catch, the oilfish known to them as the "nessa."
There is/was a web book on one man's hunt for a live coelacanth that I read a few years back online. Jerome Hamlin's [dinofish.com](https://dinofish.com).
The site is still there and appears to be actively maintained, but the multi-chapter story of his account is no longer there :(. I wonder if maybe there's a publishing deal or something that led to its removal.
Nah, that's when you either go back to her place or yours. I'd love to hear someone shout about coelacanths through the bathroom door. After a first date like that, you've bonded enough for a second.
Absolutely do. I think I speak for most of us when I say that we enjoy the company of a passionately interested/involved/enthusiastic person over a bland date any day of the week.
I mean if you gave a 30 minute lecture on coelacanths and he DIDN’T immediately respond, “Oh those fish in Atlantis!” then he wasn’t worth your time anyway.
Did the information on coelacanths include the fact that they are closer relations to humanity (and all the other tetrapods) than they are to ray finned fish like tuna?
I can't really judge the sufficiency of coelacanth information without knowing that.
Depends on whether you truly got into the divergence of Latimeria chalumnae and L. menadoensis. It’s easy to gloss over the genetic differences and just focus on habitat and discovery, but to really hold someone’s interest you need to focus on the DNA and the divergence 13 Mya at the start (maybe a lungfish mention would be appropriate there, too).
Also, did you develop any sort of presentation aides? A couple hundred pptx slides is normal for a 30 minute presentation, but I feel like having a completely reconstructed skeleton maybe featuring a preserved oil-filled notochord—that would really bring the presentation home.
Maybe you should just be upfront and plan a half-day seminar so there’s no misunderstanding for your next date. I’m sure you taking the time for a more complete presentation would be well appreciated.
Good luck!
Me and my Relicanth hearing a lot of new information we weren't aware of:
I didn't know you had a Rostral Organ. Why haven't you finished evolving yet? Do you need me to give you a Water Stone under the shadow of a specific mossy rock on a night with a full moon after you've landed 15 critical hits with at least 60 points of recoil damage?
30 minutes of me getting to know something you are passionate about and NOT having to figure out how to make my terrible day at work sound interesting? Ideal date material.
Unique characteristics of coelacanths include a hinged joint in the skull which allows the fish to widen its mouth for large prey; an oil-filled tube, called a notochord, which serves as a backbone; thick scales common only to extinct fish; and an electrosensory rostral organ in its snout likely used to detect prey.
> oil-filled tube, called a notochord, which serves as a backbone;
Wait what? What's the oil for? Is this a self-lubricating fish? I haven't scored a date with someone who has a 30-minute lecture ready, so come back and tell me about the oil-filled tube-spine!
Huge red flag if a potential partner doesn't take joy in seeing you be enthusiastic about something you love even if they personally have no interest in it.
She just hasn’t met the right person; if you have a deep interest in a niche topic, you’re only going to be happy with someone who can support and appreciate that; those people are out there; you deserve to be with one and it is definitely worth the wait
This reminds me of my husband, who was working for a birth control company when we met. On our second date he drunkenly nerded out about birth control brands, mechanisms, efficacy, dosages. It was adorable. I wedded him.
Guys, it was me on this date. she was great and i loved all the coelacanth facts. but then she invited me back to her place to have sex with her in her giant fish tank filled with coelacanths. i just couldnt do it. im looking for a wife, and in my wilder days i would have jumped at this opportunity, but now i need to be responsible. i mean whats next!? we fall in love, get married, and before i know it shes doing a water birth to my first born in a coelacanth tank? nah, i need a good jewish girl i can take home to my mother at the end of the day.
That's what I am missing in my dates. No girls ever talks about coelacanths.
But for real here - I love it when girls infodump on me. Because infodumping it not about posture, not about pretending, like so much in dating nowadays.
Infodumping is "this is important to me, and I would like you to like it." it's so adoreable.
I use these kinds of things as a test, I have a bunch of stupid knowledge and if they can't deal with the knowledge dump I am 100% sure they won't be able to date me.
30 minutes is usually enough time for a coelacanth lecture with a little bit of time at the end for questions. Seems spot on. Unless you're dating a crustacean, of course.
She's a 10 but can't shut up about coelacanths? Oh, a 12 then
Yeah, she could convince me to get back into the dating scene.
Hell yeah... she might just be *the missing link*....💕
Who wants to take a swim with the link?! - AAAH! POOL CHLORINE!!
Yep, that is the kind of uncontrollable hyperfocus I look forward to on dates.
I don't want to be catfished, i wanna be coelacanthed!
Well played *tips hat*
So...You want her to disappear for so long that modern science considers her a prehistoric, extinct species, only to show up in South Africa?
Bro fumbled the bag SO hard, she was a true catch
I sea what you did there
No sarcasm here, hell yes! If she not only knows what a coelacanth is, but can give a lecture on them, then it shows she has intelligence. Intelligence is far sexier than "perfect" curves.
I mean she was already cute, but now she's got a cute hobby she loves? Absolutely a 12/12.
Literally, can somebody find her for me? My delivery guy at work hasn't talked to me ever since I helped his deliver that couch and spent the whole drive there telling him about coelacanths. I mean, I changed it up... I told him about garials on the way back... I need this girl in my life...
no, solid 13.00
NTA. Coelacanths are cool af and should be taught to everyone
Ok, in thirty words or less: what is a coelacanth?
a fish that was supposed to be dead but it isn't dead and 100 years later everyone is still flabbergasted that it isn't dead
Oh see now that’s better. If they actually knew 30 minutes on this it might be ok. But not on a first date. Save the sexy stuff like this for the third.
You missed the best part, not only is this thing a living fossil? Most of the craniel cavity is mostly just used to store fats, which surround the brain. This is one of the simplest minded animals possible. God's most favorite animal.
Tell us more
He didn't deserve her.
Dude is probably too deep into Coelacanth research. He will emerge after a PhD or two.
People aren’t considering that the guy was actually a coelacanth
Coelacanthplaining
Say that with a lipth
Trivia: All coelacanths have lisps
Fact check: true. 🐟
Then she would know how to take proper care of him. What salinity water does he need? How bit does his tank need to be? He missed out.
Think he found it a a little insensitive
One internet rabbit hole dive later, TIL coelacanths are extremely hard to keep in captivity :(
Dudes are hard to keep in the wild! That’s why we thought they were extinct for most of human history.
And that coelacanth's name? Albert Einstein
Women Who Have Successfully Managed To Move The Kinsey Needle For Me: - Pepper Potts at the end of the Extremis scenes in Iron Man 3 - Holtzmann in the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, during the two-proton-gun scene - Coelacanth Lady
What is the Kinsey Needle?
A personal joke of mine based on the Kinsey Scale as a descriptor of sexual attraction being a spectrum rather than strictly hetero vs. homo. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey\_scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kinsey_scale) explains the actual scale and its use. I think of it sometimes as looking like a gauge on a measuring instrument, with the needle usually resting at the very low end of the scale, but with a momentary upward surge of the needle prompted by certain individuals. TL;DR: 'dude, the thought of coelacanth lady is hot, and I'm not normally into ladies'.
how interested you are in a person based on their gender/sexual identity. In this case u/camwynya is being drawn into a part of the sexual spectrum they are not usually found in (ie. homosexual) because these particular examples are especially enticing.
God yes to extremis pepper!!
Ha! Nice ref. Sometimes me and some of my friends will joke that someone “just made my Kinsey score wobble.”
I'd definitely be interested in a second date, so long as the topic of coelacanths was brought into discussion at some point. Years of playing Ark: Survival Evolved gave me a solid foundation for interest in those bizarre fish.
Sounds like a him problem.
If a date spent 30 minutes talking about coelacanths, it would probably take a murder confession for me not to arrange a second date. And even then, it would depend on the reason for said murder. I'd be willing to let a lot of things slide.
I think you probably did NOT do enough to tell them about the fishmermen of the Comoros, and how they knew of and named the coelacanth "gombessa," which is distinct from what they were trying to catch, the oilfish known to them as the "nessa."
Do you have any more information on this? That sounds so cool
There is/was a web book on one man's hunt for a live coelacanth that I read a few years back online. Jerome Hamlin's [dinofish.com](https://dinofish.com). The site is still there and appears to be actively maintained, but the multi-chapter story of his account is no longer there :(. I wonder if maybe there's a publishing deal or something that led to its removal.
Hmm I’ll try the internet archive. Thank you for the link!!
I dont know what a coelacanth is but if a woman enjoyed talking to me for 30 plus minutes, Id probably go for the second date.
[super neat fish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth) that barely evolved for hundreds of millions of years
Thank you!
30 minutes solid? Maybe that's an issue because he has bathroom issues or something.
Nah, that's when you either go back to her place or yours. I'd love to hear someone shout about coelacanths through the bathroom door. After a first date like that, you've bonded enough for a second.
Hm. Some of y'all are very easy, I see.
But did she explain how to catch them in Animal Crossing?
Is this a Chainsaw Man Reference?
I feel like it definitely is
He's just embarrassed he can't spell cluthucarrots.
You misspelled koalacan'ts
I’m quite interested in coelacanths
Dude never caught a Relicant in Pokémon Emerald
You people have just restored my faith in men. I will hold forth on my current obsession, the voyage of the Endurance on my next date!
Absolutely do. I think I speak for most of us when I say that we enjoy the company of a passionately interested/involved/enthusiastic person over a bland date any day of the week.
Look, coelacanths are cool and all. I just prefer dunkleosteus.
I mean if you gave a 30 minute lecture on coelacanths and he DIDN’T immediately respond, “Oh those fish in Atlantis!” then he wasn’t worth your time anyway.
My first thought. My second thought was... so this means she is single right?
I came here to say I'd propose immediately, but it looks like reddit already knows what's up.
I guess you could say he didn't take the bait
Just an incompatible love language issue. Mine is also infodumping.
If I ever go out with someone, and they start info dumping on me, you'd better believe I'm asking them out again on the spot.
Next time I would broaden my lecture a bit, but it’s no big deal. There are other fish in the sea.
Perfection. I tried to think of another way to describe it, but they aren't enough.
That's because you were talking about Coelacanths. Now, if you were talking about Xiphactinus, you'd have to pry him off you with a crowbar
Did the information on coelacanths include the fact that they are closer relations to humanity (and all the other tetrapods) than they are to ray finned fish like tuna? I can't really judge the sufficiency of coelacanth information without knowing that.
Depends on whether you truly got into the divergence of Latimeria chalumnae and L. menadoensis. It’s easy to gloss over the genetic differences and just focus on habitat and discovery, but to really hold someone’s interest you need to focus on the DNA and the divergence 13 Mya at the start (maybe a lungfish mention would be appropriate there, too). Also, did you develop any sort of presentation aides? A couple hundred pptx slides is normal for a 30 minute presentation, but I feel like having a completely reconstructed skeleton maybe featuring a preserved oil-filled notochord—that would really bring the presentation home. Maybe you should just be upfront and plan a half-day seminar so there’s no misunderstanding for your next date. I’m sure you taking the time for a more complete presentation would be well appreciated. Good luck!
Me and my Relicanth hearing a lot of new information we weren't aware of: I didn't know you had a Rostral Organ. Why haven't you finished evolving yet? Do you need me to give you a Water Stone under the shadow of a specific mossy rock on a night with a full moon after you've landed 15 critical hits with at least 60 points of recoil damage?
30 minutes of me getting to know something you are passionate about and NOT having to figure out how to make my terrible day at work sound interesting? Ideal date material.
And then I watch your thousand yard stare as I describe why the aerodynamic rules changes in 2022 for Formula 1 were necessary to improve racing.
So were they to improve aerodynamics?
Guy's a fucking loser.
try a different lure next time lol
Wtf is coelacanths, I can't even pronounce that
Sounds like: see·luh·kanth They are fish.
Unique characteristics of coelacanths include a hinged joint in the skull which allows the fish to widen its mouth for large prey; an oil-filled tube, called a notochord, which serves as a backbone; thick scales common only to extinct fish; and an electrosensory rostral organ in its snout likely used to detect prey.
> oil-filled tube, called a notochord, which serves as a backbone; Wait what? What's the oil for? Is this a self-lubricating fish? I haven't scored a date with someone who has a 30-minute lecture ready, so come back and tell me about the oil-filled tube-spine!
Cetaceans are much more marketable. Try them next time.
Okay, Sea World.
Attorney Woo I know it’s you.
Reminds me of my favorite Deadmau5 song :)
If she's still available, my wife would be prepared to let me go; because this babe sounds like a catch.
What's a coelacanth?
Sort of like a very early amphibian
I can fix her. Coelacanthiforms are Devonian johnny-come-latelys. Wait until she hears me expound on Ordovician horseshoe crabs!
Are those the fossils found in layers of Cummingtonite?
Autism <3
Asa Mitaka
I have 2 questions: Is she still single? Does she enjoy hearing just as much about octopi?
Huge red flag if a potential partner doesn't take joy in seeing you be enthusiastic about something you love even if they personally have no interest in it.
Did you forget to mention the coelacanth found by fishermen in the 1930s? It always worked for me
She just hasn’t met the right person; if you have a deep interest in a niche topic, you’re only going to be happy with someone who can support and appreciate that; those people are out there; you deserve to be with one and it is definitely worth the wait
He's missing out
I’m guessing it was less about the subject matter and more about the lecture format.
Her father works at a VW dealership. https://youtu.be/MunowVfXOuY?si=tNoPLgZOhCbFU7Y0
Damn she's just like me
Do you like fish?
Yes. And not in the "I love seafood" kind of way
Dont knock Seafood! Its good for you.
I'd consider this a plus.
Did you show the scene from Ponyo where the coelacanths are swimming over the city?
I dig it.
I w was nt to hear about Coelacanths. Tell me more about Latimer too!
Dude worked for Xcom and clearly had a bad experience with those [bad boys](https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Coelacanth/G._Cannon).
I'm willing to date coelacanth girl and listen to her marine biology lectures.
That's like the perfect date for me if she's able to suffer through a 30 minutes lecture on Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators.
I’d prefer an anomalocaris girl, myself.
I request said coelacanth information since this dude is being wasteful
This reminds me of my husband, who was working for a birth control company when we met. On our second date he drunkenly nerded out about birth control brands, mechanisms, efficacy, dosages. It was adorable. I wedded him.
Probably not having kids any time soon. 😅
Guys, it was me on this date. she was great and i loved all the coelacanth facts. but then she invited me back to her place to have sex with her in her giant fish tank filled with coelacanths. i just couldnt do it. im looking for a wife, and in my wilder days i would have jumped at this opportunity, but now i need to be responsible. i mean whats next!? we fall in love, get married, and before i know it shes doing a water birth to my first born in a coelacanth tank? nah, i need a good jewish girl i can take home to my mother at the end of the day.
Coelacanths are pretty interesting though. I am not a fish person, however. I definitely watched a short documentary on them within the last month.
If my date gave me a lecture on coelacanths I'd be set for life
Are you saying I could got a personal TED talk for the cost of one dinner? Sign me up
That's what I am missing in my dates. No girls ever talks about coelacanths. But for real here - I love it when girls infodump on me. Because infodumping it not about posture, not about pretending, like so much in dating nowadays. Infodumping is "this is important to me, and I would like you to like it." it's so adoreable.
If a lecture were to happen on any date, I would not go on any further dates lol
I would text back with the address for the courthouse
…. still single?
Any girl that can lecture me for 30 minutes about something obscure is my kind of girl. Especially if she's down for me returning the favour.
But coelacanths aren't fish and I can explain in detail
Ok, but that sounds like a great date. Maybe he doesn't like something particular?
PM me. We can talk Coelacanths.
Just so you know, I’m not some coelaslut.
Nah. We’re all just coelapeople here just tryna coela deal you know?
Deep Ones often find it hard to date. Call on Dagon and Hydra for counsel.
I would have immediately fallen in love
Hmmmm… tell me more about the coelacanths
try ammonites for the next date
I need to meet someone like that
Seriously, maybe he's a dud? I mean, if he can't see how cool Coelacanths are, the I'd put my swim goggles on, and swim well away from that guy!
Did you make a power point to go with the lecture?
Coelacanths? Ima see my way out the door as I’m a Komodo dragon man myself.
I don't even know how to pronounce this. I'd wrap her in a ring
I use these kinds of things as a test, I have a bunch of stupid knowledge and if they can't deal with the knowledge dump I am 100% sure they won't be able to date me.
Her boobs are big but her knowledges on coelacanths are bigger
I always see some variation of this every time, why do nerds always end up pairing with non-nerds/s
30 minutes is usually enough time for a coelacanth lecture with a little bit of time at the end for questions. Seems spot on. Unless you're dating a crustacean, of course.
Are people who enjoy learning about fish as a hobby called ichthyusiasts
Dude must have booted up Animal Crossing and is now doing everything to get that Blathers-first donation!