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Confidently incorrect
Edit: aaand just realized what community this is.
Confidently unknowingly correct?
Reminds me a lot about Frankenstein’s Monster type comments of a similar nature.
screams echoing across the internet: Dr. Frankenstein WAS the monster!
Um, ackshully, it’s pronounced Fronkensteen!
Body-building competition!
Spiders don’t even have recording devices to be called bugs, ugh. They likely also don’t run software.
But what would be the Internet without spiders?
moreover, they drink bugs. liquefying their insides and sluuuuuuuuuuuuuurping it up
Bug is not even a scientific definition. If I want to group spiders with bugs, that’s perfectly fine.
Doesn’t “bug” refer to the order Hemiptera in entomology?
Bug is a kid’s term for bug-like things. That’s as closest to a scientific definition you’ll get. It’s like trying to precisely define creepy-crawlies.
Case in point: the children’s movie A bug’s life. There’s a spider and two rolie-polies in the main cast, along insects (not sure all are in the Hemiptera clade).
Even more to the point, many spiders drink bugs by slurping up the innards after injecting a bug-gut-melting enzyme. neat read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553785/#:~:text=After physically attacking the prey,10%2C 20%2C 24].
You are what you eat.
Do you think this person had that response all planned out ahead of time? Is that why they posted the first thing, so they could catch someone with the second?
Nah. It’s not a particularly clever comeback. I don’t doubt he was pleased to have the opportunity but I don’t think that’s why he posted.
Eh, this ia not really confidently incorrect but he just missed the joke.
Even if you give him missing the joke. Bug as used colloquially refers to spiders and insects, not just true bugs. There is a reason why true bugs have to be called true bugs.
It is, or would be, if you’d understand the difference between confident and confidential.
Also he’s just wrong.
The Hemiptera are called ‘true’ bugs because everyone - entomologists included - tend to call all insects ‘bugs’. That is a loose term, whereas the true bugs are just those contained within the insect order Hemiptera.
He’d only be missing the joke if the spider’s preferred beer was True Bug Lite.
Also, plenty of people call non-insects “bugs”
Some would even argue that shrimps is bugs.
Oof I’m blaming that on the suggestions on mobile keyboard and my lack of caring to read them
You sound pretty confident…
This might bite me in the ass :P
