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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:

God said to the insects "you may each pick three traits." The millipede said, "I want legs!" The centipede agreed. God nodded. "And for your second trait?" The millipede smiled brightly and said "More legs!" The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. "More legs!" The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. "Teeth."

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we're a tribe based war loving species, but if it's simply because we're so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you ever met a Belgian? Same thing

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    Or, as various sci fi stories have laid out, will they immediately try to kill us, because they are an insect based race and we are dealing with drones that only follow basic instinct, and we’d need to commune with the queen or some such to get them to understand that each of our species has a consciousness and free will, and we don’t exist in a hive mind

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    [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Creepiest house bug ever. I let them be because they eat other bugs.

    If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat. Could be an infestation of other bugs like roaches or a dead animal in the walls.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat.

    But... not for long, so problem solved soon, right? Right?

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you start seeing canaries everywhere in your coal mine, chances are you have a lethal gas leak. wait what?

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia)

    wtf is going on with these guys

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.

    I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.

    I'd rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don't bite.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    What kind of insect is that? I can't think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I've encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.

    They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn't know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:

    House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I got stung/bit by one of those little bastards once in the shower. Usually they don't bother humans and their mouth stingers(kind of like legs that are turned into venomous fangs for killing other bugs) can't really go deep enough, but I guess this one got motivated once he started drowning and crawled up my leg.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    There should be a fifth panel that’s says:

    “Your chances are worse when you look like that.”

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    The reality is that these guys won't actually make a big dent in a roach infestation. They are pretty territorial and their population will always scale in proportion to the food supply, so if you have a lot of centipedes, you'll have a fuck ton of roaches.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They also eat jumping spiders, which is why I kill them.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Spider is arguably less effective in terms of big-bug-eating, but I would choose spiders over that nightmare fuel any day.

    Have you ever seen that thing dead in your sink, all soaked wet? I swear that's can't be something originate from earth.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    "If it's more than 8, it's has sealed it's fate."

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    I wish I had a couple of these guys. Nothing else I've done has gotten rid of the roaches in this shit-ass apartment. Might as well try more bugs.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I swear one of my cats can smell these fuckers.

    Or they're just noisy on some level, and I don't wanna think about that.

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