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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love this comic every time I see it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Honestly, I want to watch an entire tv series about this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Wow what a life charger for those guys.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What were they called before beds were invented?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

Bugs

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Beds predate language. Non-human apes build "nests" - beds in trees - to sleep in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

But is it really a bed when you didn't get it from Ikea?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Haha, but batbugs and birdbugs - bedbug cousins that prefer the blood of bats or birds - are a thing. Bedbugs and their preference for specifically human blood evolved alongside primates starting to build sleeping structures.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The middle frame; That's Kramer busting in the door.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I could practically hear it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is a censored version. There was actually an impolite intersection uttered suggesting that something occur "sideways," from which a troubling tradition has merged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's such a creepy biological characteristic. Bedbugs are mildly social, and prefer to sleep near other bedbugs. But the traumatic insemination seems to be unpleasant for the females, and after enough holes are poked all over their bodies, they will leave the main colony. A single inseminated female hitchhiker is normally how they infest new places.

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

Evolution always knows what works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

More importantly it knows what doesn't work. We just don't see the results of that too much.

[–] brbposting 1 points 4 months ago

And I thought barbed cat penises & ducks’ corkscrew cox were bad…

Traumatic insemination 🤮