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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What's with all these weird names for a pill bug.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's called a roly-poly and I will tolerate no disagreement, good day to you

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They roly and they poly. No better names exist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I would've been with you until I saw Grumper Pig.

[–] lemmyng 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll accept carpet shrimp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Re: your username: Is a Replicant Batty Coda just a normal Batty Coda? He's already a cyborg with crappy/ intermittent reception.

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

I had to look that up lol, I've never seen Fern Gully. The username is a reference to Roy Batty, the character from Blade Runner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ahh, gotcha. It's a good movie. Kinda sad looking back. They played it in schools in the '90s and drilled the message in that we were already doing clear cutting of forests without "The Leveler." This was back when they "cared about global warming, and we will have to do something about it soon." Rather than just claiming it doesn't exist.

Robin Williams played Batty Coda, so I remember the character fondly.

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

Roly-poly is correct, but I'll also accept potato bug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Potato bugs are Jerusalem crickets no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No no Jerusalem crickets are Wavypills

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the first time I've heard anyone call them anything other than a woodlouse

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts... *checks notes ...Granny Grunters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I only ever called them woodlouses when I learned that name as a teenager because everyone here always called them "roly-polies" or "potato bugs."

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

Roly polies does sound adorable, I'll give you that

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

Do you mean the bean bug?

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

No, I mean a sow bug.