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[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 year ago (5 children)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room... Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh... mission accomplished?

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

I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you ever read The Bikini Bottom Horror comic strip?

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

yeah that's what I was referencing 💯

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

Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little

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

zzzzziiiiippppp

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't leave us hanging... what are they called in France??

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're called "étoiles de mer" in French

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"toilets of the sea"

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

Thanks!

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

Np

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

Stars from/of the sea

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

this would work on me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems a bit weird that every culture would call them some variant of "stars" since they don't look like actual stars. Actual stars are just dots.

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

Spikes on star image

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

They particularly look like diffraction spikes/starbursts.

Astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma or smudged glasses can cause you to see starbursts when you look at bright lights at night.

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

I must assume all people who name things have astigmatism.

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

Surely whoever named astigmatism had astigmatism.

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

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