Glitter Bats!!
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 01 Jul 17:23
https://mander.xyz/post/33191677

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janus2@lemmy.zip on 01 Jul 17:27 next collapse

when one dad gives a joke answer to “what are these called?” so hard that a regional dialect change happens

fulcrummed@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 18:07 collapse

That makes so much sense. Explains why the same bug within like 100 mi.² is called a Slater, a pill bug, a roly-poly, a potato bug, an armadillo bug…

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tpihkal@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 18:14 collapse

They’re called isopods.

tonyn@lemmy.ml on 01 Jul 18:40 next collapse

Your dad is an isopod!

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 21:34 collapse

Isopod deez

fulcrummed@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 22:59 collapse

Not by those Dads

can@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 18:01 next collapse

bunny hug

Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 19:45 collapse

Here’s another article that doesn’t require a sign-in.

Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies “bunny hugs” and no one knows why.

www.cbc.ca/…/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965

can@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 19:50 next collapse

Thank you. I didn’t have that requirement.

cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Jul 00:09 next collapse

re: “no one knows why” i’ve heard it was like department store catalogue regional marketing copy. i know that doesn’t fully explain “why” but it’s at least a bit of an explanation.

Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 00:26 collapse

I’ve heard so many explanations I’m pretty sure Saskatchewan is like the Joker, coming up with a different lie every time someone asks.

DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jul 23:07 collapse

Also like the Joker, Saskatchewan is fictional

Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com on 02 Jul 02:33 collapse

I’ve only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that…

Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 06:32 collapse

Just them. We all think it’s super weird.

tpihkal@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 18:13 next collapse

Just don’t call them extinct!

shalafi@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 18:22 next collapse

Me moving to the South:

“Red bugs.”

“Chiggers?”

“Yes. Red bugs.”

“Are we talking about the same thing?!”

chiliedogg@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 18:57 next collapse

The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”

Zidane@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 21:14 collapse

Hell yeah I love regional pegging

chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 01 Jul 19:25 next collapse

my favorite is the tiny area in mississippi/alabama that says “the devil’s beating his wife” when there’s a sunshower.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today on 01 Jul 20:12 next collapse

My grandmother & great grandmother said this when I was a kid, but they were from Nebraska.

WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jul 20:29 next collapse

I heard that plenty in East Texas too.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jul 20:38 collapse

My buddy is from South Carolina, and I distinctly remember the first time he said this. We were hanging out in his living room with some other friends, and it started to storm. He dropped the “devil’s beating his wife with a frying pan” line, and I swear it was a record scratch moment for everyone in the room. Every single person instantly stopped what they were doing, trying to process what he had just said.

Gerudo@lemmy.zip on 01 Jul 19:43 next collapse

The steamed hams of the insect world

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 01 Jul 19:46 next collapse

Just find me the place where ‘u’ is still relevant, like they’re using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won’t continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.

Nevermind. They’re a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.

Godric@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 20:35 next collapse

I love looking at accent maps of the US, it’s interesting to see how batshit bad at the language some of my countrymen are

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 21:49 collapse

Nukular

teslasaur@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 21:13 next collapse

This is lovely. I really like the quirks of language.

Makes me think of the jibberish that my dialect makes when simply pointing out a direction.

swizzlestick@lemmy.zip on 01 Jul 22:09 next collapse

Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

  • armadillo bug
  • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
  • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
  • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
  • cheeselog (Reading, England)
  • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
  • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
  • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
  • chisel pig
  • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
  • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
  • fat pig (Ireland)
  • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
  • hog-louse
  • millipedus
  • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
  • mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
  • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
  • potato bug
  • roll up bug
  • roly-poly
  • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
  • sow bug
  • woodbunter
  • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)
watson387@sopuli.xyz on 01 Jul 22:35 next collapse

Potato bug ftw

davidgro@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 23:37 collapse

I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don’t know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 23:51 next collapse

Roly poly or pill bugs!

Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one on 02 Jul 01:05 next collapse

I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.

swizzlestick@lemmy.zip on 02 Jul 04:29 collapse

Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.

Why, I don’t know.

I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org on 04 Jul 14:54 collapse

DRG?

myrrh@ttrpg.network on 02 Jul 02:47 next collapse
bubbalu@hexbear.net on 02 Jul 03:55 next collapse

I had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol

Chump@hexbear.net on 02 Jul 20:06 collapse

rolly-poley gang rise up

watson387@sopuli.xyz on 01 Jul 22:37 next collapse

Yinz.

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 02 Jul 01:46 collapse

Yinz love them lighning bugs.

fitjazz@lemmynsfw.com on 02 Jul 00:22 next collapse

Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains “bubblers”. They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn’t know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.

Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.

WrenFeathers@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 01:28 collapse

Massachusetts (Boston) also calls them bubblers. Or, “bubblah’s”

Krauerking@lemy.lol on 02 Jul 03:53 next collapse

I just had to convince someone the real game of tapping people and running around the circle to grab their seat is called: Duck, Duck, Grey Duck

And they straight up wouldn’t believe me. Who cares if it’s only the Minnesotans that say that. So do some Swedes!

v_krishna@lemmy.ml on 02 Jul 04:02 next collapse

Peenie wallie! 🇯🇲

grissino@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 06:19 next collapse

Glitter BUTTS makes more sense

edg@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 18:06 collapse

Back where I come from we call mirrors ‘leaks’.