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Centipedes Don't Fuck (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Ok now I'm curious about what the fuck the two centipedes I found in my basement that I thought were fucking were actually doing. They sure looked like they were fucking.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A disappointingly large proportion of the general population appears to be unable to tell the difference between centipedes and millipedes. Is it possible that the "centipedes" you saw were actually millipedes? If so, they may have been "fucking", or at least the millipede equivalent of it.

Additionally, it appears that this "fact" is actually wrong (big surprise, huh?). Many species of centipede do have courtship strategies that involve males and females meeting up. The sexes may even employ various forms of physical touch as part of the process. So, it's certainly possible that the critters you saw where centipedes courting each other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

millepedes are gross. centipedes are scary

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#/media/File%3AMillipede_centipede_side-by-side.png

Assuming this is actually representative of the difference, it was definitely a pair of centipedes.

I'm not surprised in the least that at a minimum it's more complicated than the meme suggests, and now I've learned far more about centipedes than I ever wanted to. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Centipedes see other Centipedes as food, which is why they reproduce this way.

Source: made it up, but it seems logical. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

maybe they're just the cuddly-type except for the distancing-fucking

EDIT: I just realized this is Zizeks perfect romance as described by him stalin-stressed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They could have been fighting. Maybe there was a lack of available food or fluid.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

When two centipedes ~~love each other~~ are both really hungry...

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Don't humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gonna put put my dick in a centipede

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

too late

Too late

Too Late

TOO LATE
centipede morphmoe

There are way, way more "centipede monster girl" image results... DuckDuckGo/Google

Caterpillar girls are fine though.

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

Centipedussy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

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

The head tail goes hard

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

That top one is from momodora right?

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

Oh actually yeah looking at the momodora character again its not even a resemblance besides the white hair and being a centipede

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Those are clearly millipedes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I draw the line at 8 legs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Avatar checks out.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eww, making it a head tail is so much worse!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Just makes me wonder if it's a centipede girl or a centipede that ate a girl's brain and puppets her body around.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Someone has already centipedized humans. This is the next step.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just gonna take a quick stroll over to rule34.xxx and see what there is to see...

Edit: Jesus fuck 638 results. We just needed ONE to confirm the rule, but 638?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

And three movies that never should have been made.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Don’t humanize centipedes

I'M DOING MY PART!

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they were those queer centipedes that fuck in person. Degenerates

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

They do it just for fun! Gross.

[–] [email protected] 178 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They were wrestling. Go back to bed.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wrestling 😏

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Step-centipede, what are you doing?!"

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

I don't know how to boil the water ~~~