Pissebed

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• bobtimus_prime@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  German is not quite correct. We say “Kellerassel”.
  Keller -> Celler
  Assel -> Isopod

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  • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In English isopods qualify as bugs

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bed pisser is just mean.

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• Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Roly polys or get the fk out! /s

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did the Dutch confuse them for dandelions?

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is some etymological debate on the subject. Some sources say they were ground to a paste and administered for diuretic effect, the same as the flower.

    However it’s not a common bit of knowledge or myth, so some etymologists say that the weird has formed in Dutch separately to French.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know some fancy restaurants have served them as miniature backyard shrimp.

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• Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love these Lil dudes. I have some in the basement and I feel bad to see them scurry around to find darkness whenever a light is turned on. They are my spirit animal.

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They were Potato Bugs or Ball Bugs for me as a kid, until I heard Roly-poly from a kid at summer camp.

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• GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fuck is “global” supposed to mean?

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  • Crankenstein@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The official common name for the insect, Armadillidium vulgare, in the scientific community. All the rest are colloquial names.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Cheesy bug” in parts of the UK? Where I grew up that’s close. They were “Cheesybobs” to everyone I knew.

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• executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That right there’s a Chucky Pig

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The theory that children get to name these things makes sense.

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• zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a Canadian : woodbug

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m in one of “certain regions” for carpenter.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve lived in a few places around the UK and I have never, ever heard of a “cheesy bug”.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I always knew them as cheesybobs as a kid, and only realised they were the same thing as “wood louse” or whatever when I grew up.

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