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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the ~~90s~~ 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.
Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.
That's fucked.
Oh...geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game...
Holy Jebus
Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan
The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.
It is fucked though.
That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.
There's also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.
But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.
If some other thing that's observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they're going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.
When in reality they just can't masturbate anymore.
how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??
Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham
According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.
SLPT: Poke out your girl's eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.
ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)
https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html
That's pretty interesting.
You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.
Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.
And they're fucking delicious.
Then why don’t they call it bug fried rice? Checkmate Atheists
Are shrimps bugs, though?
Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.
So if you're a biologist, no, if you're an anthropologist, yes.
Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.
So is lobsters and crabs.
Eating them anyway, though.
yes but there's a distinction with lobsters, crabs and crawfish that shrimp do not posses:
THEY TASTE GOOD.
Shrimp taste like rubbery turds. there's a reason the cocktail comes with a bucket of ketchup garbage.
They taste fine to me. Are you sure you had them prepared by a competent chef? Sure they can taste awful, but they don't have to.
Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.
There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.
I've eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it's pretty good
Can't remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried
Small crickets maybe? I haven't had them in years but they're delicious with the right seasoning.
Sounds about right, I keep thinking Cockroaches, but I'd be too grossed out about those bastards so it was probably crickets lol
At least the message is delivered on a cake.
It occurred to me while playing Helldivers that all the bugs we were killing would probably taste like crab after boiling.
puts on bib and grabs the shell crackers
Hmm. Deep rock too probably.
edit: ok fuck whoever posted that fake PNG
Every time I look at the hive guards after killing them, I think how delicious they look.
I want to eat the hive guards. For democracy.
Steam crabs, don't boil them
Oh, you have no idea.
You can have them by the fistful like this, shell and all.
So is crab and molluscs
They juicy bugs though, not as juicy as lobsters though
I've been saying that for years and I call them water bugs
People and fish are more closely related than shrimp and insects
The taxonomy puts us right about the same, splitting after phylum. That being said, a shrimp looks a hell of a lot more like a silverfish than I do like a carp.
Well, depending on my general state of health.
