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

It is called a pissebed in Dutch...

Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )

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

I was 30+ before I knew not everyone called them slaters

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

They're proper pokemons, they have shiny version

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

I call them isopods but that's only because I started keeping them as pets Rn I have some dairy cow isopods

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

Me in Australia: Now that's a real Butchy boy.

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

Me in Australia: that's a slater

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

I mean I have a pair of aquatic sowbugs I've been keeping in an empty yogurt cup. They look like regular sowbugs but they're underwater, hence aquatic sowbug.

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

I was taught they were called pill bugs. Although I knew them as also roly polys. My mother called them pill bugs, the other kids called them roly polys.

She told me it was an east coast versus west coast name and clearly is more "every group of people had decided they wanted to name this thing themselves" XD

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm my head a doodle bug is more like a beetle with long segmented legs that kind of bobs around as it doodles along.

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

Yeah, we all have our own tags for critters. Went looking online for doodle bugs and most all of the links pointed to ant lions. We called those sand diggers when I was a kid.

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

Swedish: Gråsugga = gray sow.

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

My MIL calls them Brick Beetles…cause every time you lift a brick up there one under it. Partner was 30 before she found out that’s not their real name.

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

It's because they roll up into a cute little ball and it tickles us in a way nothing else does

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Man, what the fuck did the roly polys do the the Netherlands?!

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

i think they might have pissed in some beds

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

https://thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/

Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.

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

Yeah fair, I'd have a bit of anger too if I'd been force-fed woodlice as a child.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They piss in our beds! grrr

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

"I swear, it was these bugs!"

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