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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Tf is "global" supposed to mean?

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

As a Canadian : woodbug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm in one of the "certain regions" for carpenter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Bed pisser is just mean.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

German is not quite correct. We say "Kellerassel".
Keller -> Cellar
Assel -> Isopod

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

In English isopods qualify as bugs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did the Dutch confuse them for dandelions?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Roly polys or get the fk out! /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That right there's a Chucky Pig

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

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