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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you 🙏

[–] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] lesnout27@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah we like our memes sorted here, everyone is hella confused now

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Regular uranium is not radioactive enough. The horse will get cancer but not radiation poisoning. You have to use either enriched uranium or plutonium, or something more exotic.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

The resulting horseshoes would also be about three times as heavy so maybe there would be back pain in addition to the cancer

[–] mortn@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wtf? Why? Is this a joke I didn't get?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Can you think of a more efficient way to give the horses radiation poisoning?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Having them eat something containing a radioactive isotope comes to mind...

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Okay smart guy, but how about when you can't make them eat anything?

[–] Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

Like in that famous idiom, you can lead a horse to radioactive pellets, but you can't make it eat.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can always get them to eat, I've never had a horse not eating when handfed...

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tell me you've never tried to feed a horse enriched uranium without telling me..

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

U235 pellets in an apple...easy peasy

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

You put it into the water trough, and then you take the horse to it

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Make them eat horse shoes made out of uranium!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a small nuke or dirty bomb work?

Oh, sure, if your horses are all in the same place.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

uhm... put them in a place with lots of radiation...? wait...why do we want horses to have radiation poisoning again?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think mortn is unable to relate to the outcome (of giving horses radiation poisoning) being desirable.
Kinda similar to people who can't get the Joker's desire to "See the world burn", which is why they don't understand his jokes.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think anybody said it's desirable. It just has to be done.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A horse walks into a bar.

The bartender says “why the long face?”

The horse says “I’ve got radiation poisoning.”

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's not funny. Radiation poisoning is not funny. The horse should have something you can laugh at. Like full blown aids. Contracted from an African prostitute. It should be riddled with it. Now that's comedy.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

ok that's funny

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

so that the horses get radiation poisoning

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what did the horses do to you

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

because fuck horses, that's why.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Screenshot of tumblr post of screenshot of reddit post.

[–] merci3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, saving this for later

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] notsure@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

...what is the best armour for our soldiers in their armoured vehicles?...horse shoes, fuck off...

Just so y'all know, this is what I think of when y'all say "horseshoe theory"