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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that a hotdog or are you just happy to see me? πŸ₯ΉπŸ˜

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

You aint kidding.. HUNGry

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Scolopendra subspinipes~~

~~...the species is known by many common names, including jungle centipede, orange-legged centipede, Hawaiian centipede, and Vietnamese centipede.~~

~~...it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States...~~

I think it's actually Scolopendra alternans because the one pictured has only 4 segments on it's antennae, but subspinipes has many.

Scolopendra alternans is a species group found in the whole Caribbean island and northern South America, with the Florida population reevaluated as a distinct species Scolopendra longipes.[1] They have also been reported as far north as Georgia.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That's not centipede, I counted only 17x2=34 legs! Its thirtyfour-pede

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, to be fair, a centurion commanded les than one hundred people..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And no such century lasted for a century either.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like a dick with a toupe

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No I'm a dick with a full head of flowing lovely hair

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Hmm... very mammalian.

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

Thank you for reminding me that Lemmy needs a "Fierce Flow" community, for men with long hair to celebrate their amazing locks.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Centipedes are the absolute worst of the worst in terms of disturbing insects. I can't even look at one without my brain vividly simulating the way all of those crispy little legs would feel clinging along the length of my arm.

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

Imagine how they’d all feel making purchase on your soft throat tissue as it forces its way down your throat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I saw a video once of a giant centipede devouring a live mouse, and it still fucks with me every time I think of it. I still remember that mouse's eyes.

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

Like the stretched limo of a beetle. But also with the most horriblist type of spider legs

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A wild false eyelash appears

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

House centipedes are entirely harmless. I would be happy and honored to see one skittering around in my home. They eat harmful things.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Knowledgeable identification of an ~~insect~~ arthropod from the photo with cited reasoning: nice.

Dick joke : 4x the upvotes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Not a clue.... But it is his hotdog/sossage/wiener now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A deadipede if I ever see one

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

noooo it just wants to fertilize your hotdogs it didn't do anything wrong

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For a second I thought this said "Hotdog for Sale".

No, I would not purchase it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I do understand why they want to sell it thought.

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

Gicho is a delicacy, you shouldn't turn your nose up at it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's a scalopendra, very venomous.

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

Dude I remember visiting the Caribbean, a car ran over one of these lengthwise and it was badly injured but alive.

Where the what the fuck??m

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. Haven't you read Stephen king's From a Buick 8?

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

The kind that killed an idiot mukbang streamer in China.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not my proudest fap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wow I sure don't like that:(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, hot dog for centipede. It can fucking have it.

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

That's an exotic condiment

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