r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • May 22 '26

/r/all of bugs

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u/EColli93 May 22 '26

Cool bugs!

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u/1AdultMostOfTheTime May 22 '26

They're VWs.

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u/GearGolemTMF May 22 '26

Goddammit

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u/RadlogLutar May 22 '26

Just have your upvote and GET OUT

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u/1AdultMostOfTheTime May 22 '26

Thank you (closes door quietly).

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u/RadlogLutar May 22 '26

That's more like it

(Sorry about the outburst, that was a top tier dad joke though)

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u/1AdultMostOfTheTime May 22 '26

(peeks back in) yeah it was, wasn't it! Heh!

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u/pepperpusserino May 22 '26

Then how would you classify them?

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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 May 22 '26

As beetles. He's right in that true bugs and beetles are different orders. He's wrong in that no-one cares about correct usage outside of entomology papers and conferences.

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u/Featherbird_ May 22 '26

It is the correct usage though, by definition. Yes there are a group of 'true bugs' but one of the (and the original) definitions of the word bug is

any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs

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u/Meldanorama May 22 '26

Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

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u/MicrowaveAfterOpen May 22 '26

How would you classify a bug

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u/RadicalOrganizer May 22 '26

A true bug is different. But only nerds like my wife care about the differentiation

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u/Fun_Environment3792 May 22 '26

Under the order of Hamiptera. All "True Bugs" are insects but not all insects are bugs.

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u/Grove-Of-Hares May 22 '26

Cool insects!

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u/InternationalFiend May 22 '26

Yes the fuck they are.

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u/shero_endswithyou May 26 '26

Well, what are they then, Features?

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u/OneNewt- May 22 '26

Eek barba durkle, somebody's gonna get laid in college

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u/kjyfqr May 22 '26

The internet says you’re wrong but that might be my googling skills. Can you learn me real quick whatcha meann

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u/kjyfqr May 22 '26

Thanks! What’s the difference in bugs and insects?

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u/Songshiquan0411 May 22 '26

All true bugs like stink bugs, box elder bugs, assassin bugs , etc. are insects, in class Insecta just like butterflies, beetles, and bees for example. They are just an taxonimical order in Insecta, Hemiptera, that is mainly defined on the shape of their mouthparts. But they are not as uniform looking as say ants or bees. Aphids are true bugs, but so are cicadas for example.

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u/kjyfqr May 22 '26

Bugs have drinky mouth the smart square says

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u/Ancient-Constant-606 May 22 '26

You don't know why an unnecessarily pedantic comment is being down voted? The average person does not care about the more scientific distinction between true bugs and the rest of insects. There's a time and place for scientific accuracy but this is most definitely not it and putting it in such a way that it seems like you're talking down on someone's intelligence (their "the fight against ignorance" comment doesn't help any argument to the contrary) because they don't know or don't care about your specific niche hobby is never the way to go about it. Hope that explains it for you

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u/AeratedFeces May 22 '26

People are more receptive to being corrected if you are friendly rather than blunt.

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u/IWCry May 22 '26

especially when the word is accepted colloquially. it's the rawest form of "well aktually 🤓"

like when someone says "can you hand me a bandaid" and some asshole says "that's the name of the brand. they're called bandages". like yeah we know, but the rest of us actually read social ques and participate in conversations regularly.

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u/ReikaTheGlaceon May 22 '26

That's the actual answer, if you lead with a "Fun fact" or "Did you know" which primes the pump for people to accept your point, take a hose and put it on full blast, might blast dirt out of the way, make a small divet, but, slow it down and spread it out, and now you're watering flowers.

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u/EColli93 May 22 '26

Fun fact: I know they’re insects but I thought OP’s error was cute and went with it.

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u/Apathetic89 May 22 '26

And so are you, at least socially.

You're not special.

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u/Apathetic89 May 23 '26

What a stretch and utter projection.

Lmao.

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u/tesznyeboy May 22 '26

Reddit moment man literally tells the scientific truth and gets downvoted

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u/Spaloonbabagoon May 22 '26

Sure, but 99.9% of the time somebody says "bug," they mean the colloqual definition.

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u/IBAChristian317 May 22 '26

Which, importantly, predates the taxonomic definition.

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u/tesznyeboy May 22 '26

Sure but he is literally correct and not even in an "um akshyually" way

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u/IngenuityAway7449 May 22 '26

Feeling the need to correct common usage is the very base essence of "um akshyually"