Spiders eat bugs. Bugs are bugs.

2 years ago by SomeoneElse to c/confidently_incorrect

orangeNgreen 57 points 2 years ago

Confidently incorrect

Edit: aaand just realized what community this is.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey 24 points 2 years ago

Confidently unknowingly correct?

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DarkThoughts 27 points 2 years ago

Reminds me a lot about Frankenstein's Monster type comments of a similar nature.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey 14 points 2 years ago

screams echoing across the internet: Dr. Frankenstein WAS the monster!

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samus12345 12 points 2 years ago

Um, ackshully, it's pronounced Fronkensteen!

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lastunusedusername2 4 points 2 years ago

Body-building competition!

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Tolookah 25 points 2 years ago

Spiders don't even have recording devices to be called bugs, ugh. They likely also don't run software.

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kamenlady 5 points 2 years ago

But what would be the Internet without spiders?

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Draegur 21 points 2 years ago

moreover, they drink bugs. liquefying their insides and sluuuuuuuuuuuuuurping it up

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acockworkorange 19 points 2 years ago

Bug is not even a scientific definition. If I want to group spiders with bugs, that’s perfectly fine.

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GoodStuffEh 7 points 2 years ago

Doesn't "bug" refer to the order Hemiptera in entomology?

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acockworkorange 7 points 2 years ago

Bug is a kid’s term for bug-like things. That’s as closest to a scientific definition you’ll get. It’s like trying to precisely define creepy-crawlies.

Case in point: the children’s movie A bug’s life. There’s a spider and two rolie-polies in the main cast, along insects (not sure all are in the Hemiptera clade).

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mojofrododojo 15 points 2 years ago

Even more to the point, many spiders drink bugs by slurping up the innards after injecting a bug-gut-melting enzyme. neat read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/....

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Legend 10 points 2 years ago

Oh god the usernames . The usernames are fucking perfect .

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hark 3 points 2 years ago

You are what you eat.

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Anticorp 1 point 2 years ago

Do you think this person had that response all planned out ahead of time? Is that why they posted the first thing, so they could catch someone with the second?

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SomeoneElse 2 points 2 years ago

Nah. It’s not a particularly clever comeback. I don’t doubt he was pleased to have the opportunity but I don’t think that’s why he posted.

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hemko -18 points 2 years ago
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blargerer 16 points 2 years ago

Even if you give him missing the joke. Bug as used colloquially refers to spiders and insects, not just true bugs. There is a reason why true bugs have to be called true bugs.

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DarkThoughts 15 points 2 years ago

It is, or would be, if you'd understand the difference between confident and confidential.

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confusedbytheBasics 11 points 2 years ago

Also he's just wrong.

The Hemiptera are called 'true' bugs because everyone - entomologists included - tend to call all insects 'bugs'. That is a loose term, whereas the true bugs are just those contained within the insect order Hemiptera.

He'd only be missing the joke if the spider's preferred beer was True Bug Lite.

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entropicdrift 7 points 2 years ago

Also, plenty of people call non-insects "bugs"

Some would even argue that shrimps is bugs.

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hemko 2 points 2 years ago
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lastunusedusername2 9 points 2 years ago

You sound pretty confident...

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hemko 9 points 2 years ago
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