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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Oops, you're absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo. Fixed. Pretty funny that that you can have a photo decades later than you thought and you can't tell by the animal in it, but by the technology in the background!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Heh. I just spent half a minute squinting the dark trees in the background, looking for the outline of a car. I didn't realise the picture was swapped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

me too. I thought i was more blind than the tortoise in question lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, same lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That is definitely funny. I was just thinking, “How many fads and fashions has this one tortoise seen in his life?”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He's been around humans long enough to see to see, what, 6 or 7 generations?