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Glitter Bats!!
Submitted 11 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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v_krishna@lemmy.ml 29 minutes ago
fitjazz@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours ago
Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains “bubblers”. They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn’t know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.
Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Massachusetts (Boston) also calls them bubblers. Or, “bubblah’s”
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:
Common names include:
- armadillo bug
- boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
- butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
- carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- cheeselog (Reading, England)
- cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
- cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
- chiggy pig (Devon, England)
- chisel pig
- chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
- doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
- fat pig (Ireland)
- gramersow (Cornwall, England)
- hog-louse
- millipedus
- QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
- mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
- pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
- potato bug
- roll up bug
- roly-poly
- slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
- sow bug
- woodbunter
- wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)
bubbalu@hexbear.net 37 minutes ago
I had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol
myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 hour ago
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 3 hours ago
I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 minutes ago
Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.
Why, I don’t know.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Roly poly or pill bugs!
watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Potato bug ftw
davidgro@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don’t know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.
janus2@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
when one dad gives a joke answer to “what are these called?” so hard that a regional dialect change happens
fulcrummed@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That makes so much sense. Explains why the same bug within like 100 mi.² is called a Slater, a pill bug, a roly-poly, a potato bug, an armadillo bug…
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
The steamed hams of the insect world
tpihkal@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Just don’t call them extinct!
Godric@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I love looking at accent maps of the US, it’s interesting to see how batshit bad at the language some of my countrymen are
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nukular
watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Yinz.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
Yinz love them lighning bugs.
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
my favorite is the tiny area in mississippi/alabama that says “the devil’s beating his wife” when there’s a sunshower.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
My buddy is from South Carolina, and I distinctly remember the first time he said this. We were hanging out in his living room with some other friends, and it started to storm. He dropped the “devil’s beating his wife with a frying pan” line, and I swear it was a record scratch moment for everyone in the room. Every single person instantly stopped what they were doing, trying to process what he had just said.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
My grandmother & great grandmother said this when I was a kid, but they were from Nebraska.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I heard that plenty in East Texas too.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This is lovely. I really like the quirks of language.
Makes me think of the jibberish that my dialect makes when simply pointing out a direction.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”
Zidane@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Hell yeah I love regional pegging
can@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Here’s another article that doesn’t require a sign-in.
Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies “bunny hugs” and no one knows why.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 hour ago
I’ve only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that…
cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
re: “no one knows why” i’ve heard it was just. department store catalogue regional marketing copy. i know that doesn’t fully explain “why” but it’s at least a bit of an explanation.
can@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Thank you. I didn’t have that requirement.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Me moving to the South:
“Red bugs.”
“Chiggers?”
“Yes. Red bugs.”
“Are we talking about the same thing?!”
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Just find me the place where ‘u’ is still relevant, like they’re using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won’t continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.
Nevermind. They’re a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 38 minutes ago
I just had to convince someone the real game of tapping people and running around the circle to grab their seat is called: Duck, Duck, Grey Duck
And they straight up wouldn’t believe me. Who cares if it’s only the Minnesotans that say that. So do some Swedes!