Fuck I have the stupid shitty cilantro gene and there’s some dudes with ant hunting genes?
Not fair :(
human anteaters
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I put soap and cilantro into stuff i make so no one feels superior
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
“Now it sucks for me and you! Just kidding, I like the taste of soap.”
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can smell ants. I’ve eaten one before. They taste like iron. Like blood mixed with pepper. Idk why I told you that just now.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They taste awful. Like licking a battery.
50MYT@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Different ants taste different!
I’ve had ants that taste like fizzy lime…
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Not something I ever wondered, but it’s a pretty neat anecdote.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
sartalon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There was a brief moment, while I was going through SERE training, in the Navy; it was before we were “captured” but long enough that I hadn’t eaten in a while. We were in the low mountains of SoCal, dry and hot. Whenever we would stop movement for a money and take a seat, I could smell when an ant was on me.
I didn’t recognize what the smell was at first until I saw an ant, after smelling it. I hooked him on my finger and brought him close to my nose and it was clear, he was the source.
I couldn’t describe it very well though, not a common smell to me. Never experienced it since.
Maybe it was the combination of no food or bathing, and heightened stress. My SiL also went through SERE, says she has no idea what I was talking about, and just makes fun of me about it. But she’s also the type of person who would lie about it, just to fuck with me.
So who knows.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a genetic quirk, entirely possible they don’t have it and you do. There’s definitely a thing with real hunger and increased several too though. I experienced the same thing in Iraq when we out ran our supply lines and went on severe rationing.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You went through SERE training? Damn soldier, you’re harder than woodpecker lips! What was your MOS that required that training? I know someone who went through it and he said they locked him in a box that was too small to move in, and then played a recording of someone counting to 10 very slowly over and over again for hours. Did they do that to you?
sartalon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was a helicopter aircrewman. They sent all aircrew through.
I definitely wouldn’t consider myself “harder than a woodpecker by any stretch”, and yes, I got the box and there were several songs they would loop that were designed to prevent you from relaxing. The “Boots” song is one I probably won’t forget
The box actually didn’t bother me. But there were a lot of things that really messed with head. They were also still water boarding back then.
We still had SEALs going through the same school (they have their own now), and we had one that kept escaping. You couldn’t really escape though, because this was all training, so you if you did escape, you were supposed to stop and announce it, and let the guards come get you. And then you get punished. So it was stupid to escape. Except this fucking guy didn’t give a shit. He just kept escaping. The stripped him, hosed him down, slapped the shit out of him, he didn’t care. In the debrief, they said they almost failed him because they thought he wasn’t taking it seriously. I thought they weren’t taking it seriously if it was that easy to escape
That wasn’t something I ever want go through again.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Gonna starve myself to see if I have the intent smelling superpower
sartalon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let me know how it goes. I honestly would love to know.
kemsat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some comments are calling it a genetic quirk, but I submit to you all that it is the ones that lack the ability that have a deficiency.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Am I also deficient if I lack the ability to taste soap when I eat cilantro?
ARk@lemm.ee 5 months ago
please eat all the cilantro so we never have to see it on a dish again
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes because it makes you worse at finding and disposing of those damn stink bugs, whose stink smells vaguely like how soapy cilantro tastes because of aldehydes.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I have an anteater but I can’t smell the ants
And009@reddthat.com 5 months ago
You gotta show em who’s the real boss. Hold tight and jerk hard until successful complaince is observed
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I have it. My mom used to crush ants she saw in the kitchen before she realized that the stink I was complaining about was the stench of compressed ant corpses. Don’t get me started on these stinky fucks:
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I’m so intrigued! What do centipedes smell like?
geomela@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think that’s a millipede. Centipedes = 1 pair of legs per body segment, millipedes = multiple pairs per body segment.
In the picture it looks like more than one pair of legs per body segment.
I think that’s how it is, anyway.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The closest I can equate it to is hair chemicals.like the stuff they use for perms or coloring…but worse.
crawancon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
yeah a small % of folks can smell them.
Last time I was reading through comments from those who could, the common response was “sorta like raisins”
Gnugit@aussie.zone 5 months ago
A little like cilantro
crawancon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m one of the ones that dislike the smell of cilantro as it is repugnant. (to me)
phx@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Old cilantro that’s starting to go bad maybe. That has a very “earthy” smell similar to an over-watered plant
BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If I touch an ant I can certainly smell it on my finger but I wouldn’t be able to detect an ant in the room with me
bunchberry@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can’t say I’ve ever gotten ant on my finger then proceeded to smell my finger.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I was a kid it was a thing to stick a stick into a nest of ants so they’d piss on it so you could then suck/sniff the stick for a… sensation.
I never did as I didn’t want to bother the ants.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I can’t do that, I think you have special ant powers
Allero@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I can register formic acid if I touch an ant or am fairly close. Probably wouldn’t smell an ant from a distance, though
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Like some kind of any man
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Omg, this is peak nerd.
If this is a thing it’s def a special subset of ant smellers that would go ant hunting (whatever quantify of ants).
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
They smell SO BAD. I was super sensitive to it as a kid, and the smell would be impossible to get off, so I developed a habit of never crushing them.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Why tf would anyone crush ants? Is this a thing?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Like, killing them? One or two running across a table, and you just pop em?
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
As a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It releases the smell. It stays around in the room.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Only if he eats it.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah. It sounds more like he could be Ant-Man and is able to pick up on the trails. If he can communicate with them by twreking his butt into the ground, I’m convinced.
Maalus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Antmeeter. He can always arrange an in-person meeting with an ant. Even if the ant’s schedule is full.
GluWu@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I wouldn’t say I can smell if there’s a single ant in the other room, but I can absolutely smell if there are ants. And I hate if I have to sweep them out do anything because they really pop off in distress. Its crazy how such a tiny thing can smell so bad.
Hux@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
He’s like an X-Men hero designed to find Ant-Man when he gets stuck between couch cushions or something.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The odorous black house ant is pretty common in the US. The smell is pretty pronounced if you crush them - grad student I was doing field work under randomly shouted “come smell my finger!” and yeah - it’s very much like blue cheese.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
mom, my nuts?
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I can smell ant death pheromones. It smells like cleaner and artificial sweetener. A very unique smell but very pungent.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can do this too.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Weirdo.
…I like that about you.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You can, but do you hunt?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If I smell them in my house, you’re damned right I do!
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I equate it to the smell of juniper berries.
FidelChadstro@hexbear.net 5 months ago
I could see “gasoline”. Maybe peppery.
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Gon Freecss moment
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can smell a single bedbug. That smell is terrifying
FourThirteen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, what do they smell like?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a sour bitter smell. Hard to describe, but I know it when I smell it. I fled to the SW US to never smell them again
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
…what do they smell like?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a sour bitter smell. I fled to the SW US so I never smell them again
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe it was a particularly stinky ant
MycelialMass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lee Mack can smell dead flies
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Damn, I really believed him
Reyali@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is exactly what I thought about increasing this! I asked my bf what bug it was because I couldn’t remember for sure. If only I’d kept scrolling before asking, lol.
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I can smell dead flies. They stink.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it smells like mint gum and wood chips. I’ve only ever smelled it when I was doing landscaping.
ar_fox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
An anteater in a human suit
Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
I think it smells more like vinegar.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’d say the smell is closer to turpentine or maybe kerosene
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have the same thing. Maybe not quite that powerful, but as a kid I used to root out ant hills to shove sticks in and be a general terror. I thought it was normal until I started dating a girl and we went on a picnic and pointed them out saying we shouldn’t eat there. If I smash one it smells like someone opened a can of gas in the room.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re a genetic masterpiece.
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, I hope she realized that she should have a family with that guy. Those genes need preserving
Tyfud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And when did Charles Xavier reach out to you?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I was 14, but I asked if he had a sister cause I’m into girls with shaved heads, and he just waved his hand and gave me ADHD and then walked away.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Forget Westchester - my boy Shino here has a whole clan, come to Konoha
Kcap@lemmy.world 5 months ago
youtu.be/ZHJG48NSWzg had to do it