“Joke’s on you, venomous snakes won’t recognize chopped up human meat chunks as food; you’re just gonna have a mess to clean up.”
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Submitted 16 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Etterra@discuss.online 3 hours ago
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Feeding his poisonous snakes to you would be much more effective.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
ickplant@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Admit it, y’all wouldn’t resist correcting them.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The killer almost had me, but I learned in self-defense class that “poisonous [organism]” only inherently means ingested in colloquial usage and that venoms are more properly a subset of toxins (naturally-occurring poisons) which are a subset of poisons. Consequently, it’s like the killer showed me a square and told me it was a quadrilateral: I’m too pedantic to be affected.
stephen01king@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
If you’re too pedantic, wouldn’t you want to share this knowledge with the killer or at least confirm that he used the term with the proper knowledge and not because of a mistake?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Its like the Rodger Rabbit shave-and-a-haircut bit, but for internet losers.
Klear@quokk.au 15 hours ago
I don’t have a strong opinion on this, since in my language we use the same word for both. I’m aware of the difference in English, but but I just don’t have it internalised enough to care if someone makes a mistake.
Lilac@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I initially missed out the “to” in the Killer’s sentence, and I was like “but they’re correct, though”
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
My even-more-pedantic take is that poisonous is correct, but imprecise. There’s lots of ways to be poisoned. Ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact, and, yes, injection. But it’s all poison.
A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by a living organism. A Venom is a toxin that’s delivered subcutaneously.
Poison is the parrallelogram to venom’s square.
python@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’d be much more bothered by the fact that there is no venomous or poisonous snake in the world that could swallow a whole adult human. The only ones that could arguably get close to food of that size are all constrictors.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
yet
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Have we as a collective eaten every species of snake in the world to know that absolutely none of them are poisonous? Can we rule out genetically modified snakes that would make them so? Or maybe they are fed a diet of human flesh and a steadily increasing amount of some supplemental toxic substance such that they have become immune to the toxin as it slowly builds up in the snakes’ flesh causing them to also become poisonous? Is it possible most snakes are actually poisonous but only if consumed in sufficient quantity on Thursday November 18th, 2084 at 6:30 p.m.?
marcos@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.
ickplant@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Asking the very important and frankly, controversial questions.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Some men are born into greatness.
huppakee@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Killer: actually, they’re red-necked keelbacks, so they’re both venomous AND poisonous!
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Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Cute learning is the best kind of learning!