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[–] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes! Three of my favourite reptiles:

Spiders, Centipedes, and Scorpions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, my favourite three are on there too! Etc, thank you and mgmt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

MGMT have a good song called 'time to pretend" so i guess that helps the sign make more sense.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anywhere that casually lists spiders and centipedes along with reptiles is not somewhere that I wanna be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

No trip to Straya for you then.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Scorpions are my favorite reptile"

(Sarcasm aside, what's so worrying about lizards? Only a couple types are venomous, only a few more are big enough to seriously hurt you (and most of those live in tropical forest sort of places), and anything smaller is probably just going to run away and hide it you get close to it. Lizards are pretty non-threatening.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how common it is, but in some very rural parts of Kentucky and Tennessee in the USA, people frequently referred to scorpions as lizards. Also, regular lizards were called lizards. And newts were called lizards.

It was very confusing to me when I was a young kid. Still is confusing to me if I'm being honest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m sorry are there scorpions in Kentucky?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They're called lizards. Didn't you read my comment?

But all kidding aside, yes, there are scorpions in Kentucky. They aren't large or aggressive and from what I was told their stings don't really hurt very much. Mostly I would see them hiding under rocks and in crevices during the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's pretty rural.

Did your town just have one road named after Bedford Forrest or two?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The majority of spider-related injuries are self-inflicted by people panicking and hurting themselves.

In most lizard-related fatalities, the lizard is the one who is killed

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

2/5 isn't great. Also why would anyone have to watch out for lizards? I'm doubtful Godzilla is just over the hill

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some lizards such as Gila monsters and Komodo dragons you really don't want to mess with..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even an iguana can ruin your day, and the iguana wants to ruin your day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

#RelatableLizards

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You say that but Godzilla is one sneaky bastard. In fact, there's a significant possibility that Godzilla is the hill.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One time my pet tortoise bit my big toe thinking it was food and he took an entire chunk out of my flesh. Reptiles are not to be underestimated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still have a scar from my childhood when my pet turtle bit the webbing between my right thumb and index finger. The turtle had a blade of grass stuck in the area next to its neck that's kinda like a dimple and it couldn't get it out, so I stupidly put my finger there to try to get it out. Their beaks are like nail clippers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

the webbing between my right thumb and index finger.

The finger crotch.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I know reptile is a bullshit classification that includes things more closely related to birds than each other, but also it definitely doesn’t include arthropods.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sign has a reptile dysfunction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This is the best thing I've read all day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Why do I suddenly feel the need to start digging holes...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Looks more like Arizona to me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hah no, we don't have scorpions oddly enough. Probably killed off for not being deadly enough.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

TIL the scorpions in Australia probably won't kill you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Go for a night time bushwalk with a blacklight. You’ll find some of those scorpions we “don’t have”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I almost puked my coffee 🤣🤣🤣.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

rattle snake is not an Australian variety that I am aware of

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I mean, “etc” is right there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The spiders might want to stay in the car as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I thought it said watch out for replies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Markov Chaney strikes again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They didnt say mark zucc!