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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What's with all these weird names for a pill bug.

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

Do you mean the bean bug?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, I mean a sow bug.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the first time I've heard anyone call them anything other than a woodlouse

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

I only ever called them woodlouses when I learned that name as a teenager because everyone here always called them "roly-polies" or "potato bugs."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Roly polies does sound adorable, I'll give you that

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts... *checks notes ...Granny Grunters.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It's called a roly-poly and I will tolerate no disagreement, good day to you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Re: your username: Is a Replicant Batty Coda just a normal Batty Coda? He's already a cyborg with crappy/ intermittent reception.

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

I had to look that up lol, I've never seen Fern Gully. The username is a reference to Roy Batty, the character from Blade Runner.

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

Ahh, gotcha. It's a good movie. Kinda sad looking back. They played it in schools in the '90s and drilled the message in that we were already doing clear cutting of forests without "The Leveler." This was back when they "cared about global warming, and we will have to do something about it soon." Rather than just claiming it doesn't exist.

Robin Williams played Batty Coda, so I remember the character fondly.

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

Roly-poly is correct, but I'll also accept potato bug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Potato bugs are Jerusalem crickets no?

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

No no Jerusalem crickets are Wavypills

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll accept carpet shrimp.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They roly and they poly. No better names exist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I would've been with you until I saw Grumper Pig.