This is how women feel when people tell them to smile more
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Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This is how I feel when people tell me to look happier. I have punched at least one person in the face for saying said shit.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
I wish
The travails of living with RBF 😔
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I had an ex girlfriend who used to tell me to smile more. I guess I was her trophy boyfriend
WagnasT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
they also eat bedbugs and other harmful pests, they’re awesome other than being fucking terrifying.
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I have a super old house that has these in it, along with spiders and other various creepy crawlies (nothing dangerously venomous in the area, save one spider species I’ve never seen, which only produces mild tissue necrosis).
I really don’t mind them -certainly not enough to do anything about them- and the cats like chasing them in the middle of the night, so whatever.
But man, on the rare occurrence I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and see one in the red light of the nightlight, skittering across the wall with a quickness, scares the bejesus out of me. Every. Damn. Time.
WillFord27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do they ever crawl on you? I’ve found that if I ever spot a spider in my house, in the next week I’ll find it somewhere on me
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Man and my wife and I complain about sugar ants infesting our kitchen.
Yeesh…
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well then maYBE YOU SHOULDN’T ACTIVATE MY INSTINCTIVE FEAR RESPONSE BY MOVING SO DAMN FAST!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
see, jumping spiders understand this. they recognize that we’re effectively gods and their lives are entirely in our hands, so they damn well stand still and try to look non-threatening.
androogee@midwest.social 1 year ago
Until the jumping
The jumping
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At least they have the decency to try to look cute! House centipedes just come right out with “You can hate me but you’ll never catch me fuckers!” as they damn near burn a track into the floor
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Jumping spiders are so cute. I taught my 5 year old to call them “spider bros.”
He does not know what a bro is.
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
At least they can’t fly. Yet.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 year ago
PSA for people with cockroach problems: Diatomaceous earth is a lifesaver! Non toxic, (also a good fertilizer for the garden) and keeps working until it gets wet.
What is it? fossils of diatoms in a chalky-powder what do you do with it? Sprinkle (dusting) into hard to reach areas (think behind & under kitchen equipment, drawers, along baseboards)
what it does is sticks to anything with an exoskeleton & dehydrates them…they die.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
we live in a humid, costal town where they are endemic and we have ZERO of these motherfuckers in our shop & home
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Yes, I used to use this stuff all the time in my old roach infested apartment. And then I felt really bad for the cockroaches and had to stop though.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Nice to know I’m not the only one. I feel bad about them too.
Forester@yiffit.net 1 year ago
HEY JOE HOWS THE WIFE?
Inui@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
[deleted]The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 11 months ago
From Wikipedia
“Inhalation of crystalline silica is harmful to the lungs, causing silicosis. Amorphous silica is considered to have low toxicity, but prolonged inhalation causes changes to the lungs.[44] Diatomaceous earth is mostly amorphous silica but contains some crystalline silica, especially in the saltwater forms.[45] In a 1978 study of workers, those exposed to natural diatomaceous earth for over five years had no significant lung changes while 40% of those exposed to the calcined form had developed pneumoconiosis.[46] Today’s common diatomaceous earth formulations are safer to use, as they are predominantly made up of amorphous silica and contain little or no crystalline silica.”
Any type of dust isn’t good for you but this stuff is wayyyy better than some chemical companies toxic aerosol, drop poison, or bait
MxRemy@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Why are people afraid of house centipedes? They already ARE cute! It’d be one thing if they were at least somewhat willing to bite you, like some spiders, but they won’t. They’ve got the best eyesight of any centipede, which inadvertently gives them really cute little eyes too.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Though i agree they are harmless, they do not meet any classical, popular definition of cute
aport@programming.dev 1 year ago
They have too many legs and move too quickly. It just freaks me out, man.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My tiny lizard brain refuses to acknowledge their usefulness. Skittering and many legs? Dead!
draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t forget the painful, venomous bite!
If I find one in my house, I’m killing it. They’re my irrational fear. You can’t talk me out of it.
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
If they’d have the decency to have two legs and two arms, we’d be fine.
Aquilae@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Wayyy too many legs
MxRemy@lemmy.one 1 year ago
The more to hug you with! 🥺
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That’s got like a hundred feet!
I don’t like looking at that one.
Just call it something that means a hundred feet and get it off the screen!
Dabundis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.
If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn’t exist.
criticon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
For me it’s the fact that I lived in a desertic place for most of my life and centipedes there have a very painful bite
I know house centipedes are smaller and handles but it’s difficult to retrain the brain
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Gosh this was hard to read. Those centipedes really did a number on you huh!
space_comrade@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Idk they creep me the fuck out with those legs and also they move way too fast.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They creep me the fuck out. I know they’re harmless and beneficial to have but when I turn on my bathroom light and see one on the wall above my toilet I have to get rid of it. They’re literally the only big that freaks me out, even roaches aren’t that bad to me.
_skj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For me, they manage to trigger the “SNAKE!” and “SPIDER!” panic responses simultaneously. The rational part of my brain likes them, the instinctual part tells me to smash it with a rock
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Look at them.
I’m sure they’re terrified of me, too…but ya know.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Also I move really fucking fast.
Deal with it
JCreazy@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’ve heard of a legend of a man named Joe who lived with cockroaches in his apartment.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve heard stories about another Joe in whose garage we could jam
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 year ago
I still appreciate it a lot
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine if these things were huge. Like horse sized, or even duck sized.
Hootz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Don’t joke about that shit bro, last time they got that big they killed my great grandfather.
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have you ever seen starship troopers?
Jax@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure if these things were horse sized that the human race would never have made it out of caves.
If these things eat cockroaches they are either 1) insanely fast or 2) ambush predators, and still probably very fast.
I think I’d rather go toe to toe with a velociraptor.
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Shareni@programming.dev 11 months ago
Usually extremely fast and venomous
mihor@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I saw one catch a silverfish by literally jumping off the roof onto it and gobbling it up in seconds. I’m appalled to this day by the sheer brutality.
Dalvoron@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No thank you, I don’t want to imagine this please
stembolts@programming.dev 1 year ago
I see these leggy boys in my basement all the time. Wolf spiders, leggy boys, and me are allies. I often have to save the spiders from my cats. Damn things suck at not dying to cats. Never seen my cats kill one of these tho.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Get rid of their food, they go away.
Not saying you should do that… but if, you find the wolf spiders are assholes that like to run across your face while you’re sleeping, for example…
stembolts@programming.dev 11 months ago
Hahahaha. Jeez I hope not. I love the little guys but I’d flip the fuck out. I drop them down into my basement, usually never see them again tho sometimes they make their way up to the main house.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have gecko(s) instead, and I need to stop my dad from destroying them
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Never had any cockroaches (do they even exist in Germany?) but I have those from time to time in my basement. Not sure what they eat there.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go to the USA Southern States if you want to see cockroaches. Holy shit, man! The warm weather and humidity are like steroids to them. They get as big as a mouse, and they don’t care if you have the cleanest building in the world, they’re still going to invade and wake you from your sleep by crawling on your face.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Those American Cockroaches don’t breed indoors though. They are transients and are relatively benign compared to the German roaches which will fine the single square mm of your home without pest treatment and then evolve resistance to it.
higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 year ago
I mean…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cockroach
To be fair, they really originated elsewhere, but Germany certainly has cockroaches. I think Germany is probably too cold for them to be a big problem, though.
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 year ago
You mean the climate or, like, emotionally?
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
wow, TIL. Never seen them.
Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They eat anything that is smaller than they are legs included. They’ll eat anything from bed bugs to spiders. I even saw one chewing of a wasp at one point.
Mannimarco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s 100% cockroaches in Germany, there is literally a species of cockroach called “german cockroach”
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
yeah, they were first believed to have originated from germany; currently science places them as an southeast asian expatriate with a pit stop in NE africa. It’s too cold for them to live outside of human settlements in germany, although i’m pretty sure that will change in the next years, and then the name fits at last.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They eat other insects. All of them, not just roaches.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well, good to keep them around then.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Depends what you mean by cockroach. The usual pests are not really around. But there are some smaller ones that are sometimes also found inside the house. I frequently find this one in my home for example, which is really cute <3
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yes, I know those. They accidentally end up in houses but they can’t survive there, they can only live outside.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dragonflies
NABDad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eyelash bugs.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It doesn’t even get to pay taxes. Why bother?
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Based and true
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ladybugs are predators too and they look cute. You have no excuse.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Pish, ladybugs. Not even a true bug. They only look cute so they can let you know that they’re toxic. And if you try to bother them they’ll start bleeding from the knees. They’re lucky most of their food is a pest.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I eat them anyways. Don’t bother me none.
exocrinous@startrek.website 11 months ago
And who decides what a true bug is, huh? Bullshit pseudoscientific taxonomists?
lauha@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Cats are also predators.
Shareni@programming.dev 11 months ago
More like genocidal sociopaths. Can you guess what two species are the main cause of multiple extinctions?
theextinctions.com/…/the-flightless-wren-and-the-…