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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Wait, are they using Spongebobs toothbrush?

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 6 days ago

Me every night with my cats (after getting a 2500 bill from the cat dentist)

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago

The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought this was a guy trying to cut a toothbrush in half.

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago

What is this, The Flintstones?

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a live action adaptation of that one episode of Monogatari series (if you know, you know)

[–] Zkuld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But why? don't they have many sets of teeth when growing up?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

they can replace them constantly, unlike mammals where we get a set amount of teeth. because thier bite forces, or ripping causes them to lose teeth quite often.

[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly and crocodiles keep growing teeth so they actually did evolve a defense against the dentist…

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This particular one is clearly not ornery.

[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

At least one person gets it

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The dentist or the reptile?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush