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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

PKD has a novel in the same vein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indefatigable_Frog

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

It is good to give credit. That is PBF

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-shrink-ray/

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago

If I had to ask my boss for permission to use the restroom all the time, I'd probably respond the same way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Permission to use the restroom", like what? What's he going to do, say no? I can take a shit in your trash can if you'd prefer. I'm not asking for permission, I'm informing you that I'm going to the restroom, deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

i have distinct memories of one of my early teachers having read a book to the class about a kid who peed themselves because they weren't allowed to go to the bathroom, and from that day on we always had that one comfort in her classes: you're always free to go to the bathroom, no need to ask (just inform that you're heading to the toilet).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the video with the two beetles fighting until one gets yeeted into the shadow realm

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

https://youtube.com/watch?v=f7SgQEoMJvA

I think the original video has been set to private.

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

Several videos have been removed (including one for being violent?).

The original came from twitter, but has since been removed (I think, maybe x is just bad), but the DailyMail did a news article on it (ugh) and happen to still host the video.

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/08/03/5104484344653724905/480x270_MP4_5104484344653724905.mp4

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was remembering a different video, but this one was also funny:

Stag Beetle Throws Girlfriend Out Of Tree | Life | BBC Earth

Jump to 2:55 for the bit that the title is referring to

But the hurling habit dies hard

hurl

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

hmmm. I think I'd go with centipedes. For sheer creep-factor. (more than 8 legs is just excessive.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Are centipedes that scary

For me, a centipede would be less scary

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

I LOVE centipedes and all million of their legs

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

Calm down Satan

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If I were really satan, I'd reverse the shrink ray and make centipedes large enough to ride. I bet they'd add it to the geneva conventions as a war crime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ha, fat chance! Your centipede would be discretely drone striked very quickly and the jumbo-wumbo gun research would be used to fuel a new division of the military industrial complex before NATO ever got a chance to add it to the no-no list.

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

Any large enough insect is relatively easy to kill, you just need a Buick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Just the fact you thought of this confirms your identity