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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Killer: actually, they’re red-necked keelbacks, so they’re both venomous AND poisonous!

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cute learning is the best kind of learning!

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feeding his poisonous snakes to you would be much more effective.

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, the snakes could be poisonous, and the killer could be feeding you to them, but he’s just telling you his plans for body disposal, not his method of killing you. He’ll likely use a knife, that way he can give the snakes bite sized pieces. You will be alive for this at first.

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Admit it, y’all wouldn’t resist correcting them.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • stephen01king@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh my god I thought I was the only one banging this drum

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not really a difference in English, either. “Venom” is a specific term, but “poison” is general, so too with poisonous.

    I think it’s specific in some scientific areas, but insisting on that is like insisting on calling a tomato a fruit, or a banana a berry.

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• amne@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Understanding the difference between things matters, dang it.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “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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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.?

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.

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  • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Asking the very important and frankly, controversial questions.

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    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some men are born into greatness.

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• HotDog7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t be so pendantic!

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• Lilac@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I initially missed out the “to” in the Killer’s sentence, and I was like “but they’re correct, though”

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• python@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yet

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• huppakee@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hi venomous!

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its like the Rodger Rabbit shave-and-a-haircut bit, but for internet losers.

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