this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
572 points (98.5% liked)

Science Memes

10940 readers
1968 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
572
arthropods (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We've got some pretty big centipedes around here, and they're one of very few animals I slaughter ruthlessly without remorse. I have a hammer for the express purpose of braining them. Fuckers don't need an excuse to bite you, they just do. And, they love bedsheets, clothes, etc. Ironically, we also have house centipedes, and they get a pass. They're hideous, sure, but anything that eats cockroach eggs (another one I kill without remorse) is A-OK in my book.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Where do you live? I'd like to know so I can put that on my list of places to not go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't move to the American Southeast. Look up palmetto bugs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Let me put it to you this way:

I would rather slam my fingers in a car door than move to the South.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sorry to tell you that my particular location is pretty much irrelevant. Centipedes and roaches are just about everywhere. The further north you go, the safer you are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Centipedes sure but we don't get the big tropical horrors in Europe.

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

Yet...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Am north, no centipedes in my clothes or roach eggs in my house.

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

That you know of.