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daniel-barker.bsky.social • 5 days ago

The BBC is fully in the pocket of Round Egg. Don't be fooled. You just can't tell cos it's all done through shell companies.

Reposted from michael veale

You might be intrigued by the BBC's coverage of a 'one-in-a-billion' find of a spherical hen's egg but I bring you news that the BBC has brought you news of 2 other separate spherical egg finds in the last 9 months alone

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slowbikeiain.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is one of those "is this a big number?" questions. There are around 10 billion eggs laid every day worldwide, so not very surprising that a "one in a billion" egg would show up fairly regularly.

andrusi.bsky.social•5 days ago

You have to wonder what kind of scheme they've been hatching

jajrobertson.bsky.social•5 days ago

Might cause problems in the war between the Big Endians and Little Endians.

kumimono.bsky.social•5 days ago

Flat egg conspiracists in 5, 4...

crowby.bsky.social•5 days ago

And profiting at the top of it all is big farmer, who owns all the chickens.

rich-bryant.uk•5 days ago

I mean, there are A LOT of eggs so statistically, this is fairly reasonable.

frogfather63.bsky.social•5 days ago

That was a terrible yolk!

eukaryotex.bsky.social•5 days ago

That editor should be tarred and feathered.

nick5775.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well then, looks like you cracked this one wide open.

theniceman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Chatgpt is a little confused. But if this many eggs are layed then 3 one in a billion ones over a few years seems about right.

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amias.net•5 days ago

breaking news !

drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social•5 days ago

I feel like the pun went unloved. Love the pun. 👏👏👏

daniel-barker.bsky.social•5 days ago

Given how many eggs we get through I guess 1 in a billion events would be pretty common worldwide.

daniel-barker.bsky.social•5 days ago

Important to run the numbers on this. Not to ova-estimate it. https://bsky.app/profile/vuintrieri.bsky.social/post/3lq5nh3xass2b

aarontunney.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think I could cope with one round egg story every six hours.

daniel-barker.bsky.social•5 days ago

Might be quite soothing.

alexholt.uk•5 days ago

Now this is eggsactly the type of content I want to see on social media.

ernekid.bsky.social•5 days ago

You’ve cracked it!

loquaciousscribble.bsky.social•4 days ago

Round eggs would have saved so many Lilliputian and Blefuscunian lives in the 18th Century. So sad.

matt-click.bsky.social•5 days ago

Don’t give me that MSM propaganda! We all know eggs are flat! 😉

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gazchap.com•5 days ago

I was offered two of these "one-in-a-billion" round eggs when I was Paris last week. I didn't need both, just the one egg was un oeuf.