We've all made the embarrassing mistake of ordering 6 orders of spiders, thinking it was 6 individual spiders, and succumbing to a ego belly encumbered with as many as 36 spiders for sake of seeming ignorant of how spider restaurants work. And since it's usually a mistake made on nascent visits in unfamiliar cultural territory, we're already acting inured to the strangeness of eating raw spiders, so it's often a double-whammy.
Plot twist: these are 6 legged bed bugs. The survivor was right, but now it has to live with the fact that its last words to its buddy were, "You're stupid."
27 Comments
kakes@sh.itjust.works · 90 pts · 2y
I'm still salty that I once lost a game of trivia because I said this myth was false, and the "official" answer said it was true.
realitista@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y
Now you know why.
kakes@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 2y
Darn Spiders Georg.
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 2y
If it helps, I - a stranger - am absolutely livid on your behalf.
kakes@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 2y
It does help, thank you.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2y
Sorry, the card says moops
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y
Was their source the moops?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Here you go, if it’s any comfort after the fact.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de · 12 pts · 2y
Nice.
Huschke@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
Do you have a source that this claim is just a myth?
kakes@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
It was intended to be an example of a ridiculous "false fact" that went on to become widely believed.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/
Also, I can barely eat 6 spiders in one sitting.
5wim@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 2y
6 orders of spiders, maybe.
We've all made the embarrassing mistake of ordering 6 orders of spiders, thinking it was 6 individual spiders, and succumbing to a ego belly encumbered with as many as 36 spiders for sake of seeming ignorant of how spider restaurants work. And since it's usually a mistake made on nascent visits in unfamiliar cultural territory, we're already acting inured to the strangeness of eating raw spiders, so it's often a double-whammy.
kakes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
And the worst part is that they charge extra for any leftovers, so you can't leave even a single leg unmasticated.
Huschke@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
Thanks for the link! Was an interesting read.
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
So you have a source that its true?
Jilanico@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y
Plot twist: these are 6 legged bed bugs. The survivor was right, but now it has to live with the fact that its last words to its buddy were, "You're stupid."
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 18 pts · 2y
Good. Bed bugs should suffer.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Simple. Ship them off to Mar a lago
rockerface@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 2y
Attack on Titan moment
Gestrid@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
The perfect soundtrack for this comic: https://youtu.be/6tMhkQ520Sk
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 2y
The third panel has a very nice hand 👍
nifty@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I didn’t believe you that it could be that good, but I wasn’t disappointed
FatTony@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
"That's stupid, you're stupid."
I don't know why, but this line is so funny to me. 😄
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
True or not, this becomes moot when you sleep using a full face mask CPAP. It’s also nice, because it also protects against rank farts.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Unless there's a spider inside the mask.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I would know pretty fast if there were.
lugal@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Afaik this is a myth someone put on the internet to see how misinformation spreads.
Source: I read it on the internet