Bug isn't even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!
That's a great point you big dumb bitch.
Yeah I always assumed "bug" was like "vegetable" --- it's a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are "true bugs" so maybe the analogy isn't completely sound.
(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)
Agreed. In my mind "bug" has always meant arthropod. So it's include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.
You wouldn't say that if you ever tried those tomatoes https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/17/culture/foodTravel/tomango-tomato/20210117130800678.html
I'd even call them candy.
But they wanted to feel smugly superior! Poor fella can't even be pedantic properly...
fewer beer
So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.
Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.
But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?
The number one rule for pedants is: if you're going to be pedantic, you'd damn well better be correct.
Display Name: Mentally Healthy
Username: EAT_ROADKILL
Dude is at odds with himself.
Duality of man
I'm not a scientist, but I'm the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I'd allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.
create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area
You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)
Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I'd like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It's either giftig or it isn't.
None that I know of. I think the OC was just mocking a bit on how some people can get so bent out of shape when the word is used colloquially.
It's an unfortunate false friend that the German word Gift means poison in English.
They eat spiders too.
They're autonomous content scraping internet bots. Aka web crawlers.
You son-of-a-bitch! I'm in! Subscribe me to your facts.
- there is no scientific definition of "bug". the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
- this person's first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren't
TIL, vegetables are a social construct.
This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/
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Anyone know what the first known case of 'bug' exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It's a very English-language term so it surely wasn't when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.
Except...what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.
I'm guessing you missed where that was stated in the image.
That's a typical case of someone who is so eager to sounds right in an argument that they will not bother double checking to see if they missed the original point or true meaning before replying.
There are a lot of people like that on Reddit. Well, I assume there still are I deleted my account a while ago. What a toxic place.
Uhm lmao
Neil Degrasse Tyson tier reply
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mmm, human-lite
