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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

German is not quite correct. We say "Kellerassel".
Keller -> Cellar
Assel -> Isopod

[–] Kellenved 4 points 3 weeks ago

In English isopods qualify as bugs

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Roly polys or get the fk out! /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Bed pisser is just mean.

[–] ryedaft 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did the Dutch confuse them for dandelions?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is some etymological debate on the subject. Some sources say they were ground to a paste and administered for diuretic effect, the same as the flower.

However it's not a common bit of knowledge or myth, so some etymologists say that the weird has formed in Dutch separately to French.

[–] ryedaft 1 points 3 weeks ago

I know some fancy restaurants have served them as miniature backyard shrimp.

[–] Unforeseen 9 points 3 weeks ago

I love these Lil dudes. I have some in the basement and I feel bad to see them scurry around to find darkness whenever a light is turned on. They are my spirit animal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That right there's a Chucky Pig

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The theory that children get to name these things makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

They were Potato Bugs or Ball Bugs for me as a kid, until I heard Roly-poly from a kid at summer camp.

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

Tf is "global" supposed to mean?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The official common name for the insect, Armadillidium vulgare, in the scientific community. All the rest are colloquial names.

[–] moopet 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Cheesy bug" in parts of the UK? Where I grew up that's close. They were "Cheesybobs" to everyone I knew.

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

As a Canadian : woodbug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm in one of the "certain regions" for carpenter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've lived in a few places around the UK and I have never, ever heard of a "cheesy bug".

[–] moopet 1 points 2 weeks ago

I always knew them as cheesybobs as a kid, and only realised they were the same thing as "wood louse" or whatever when I grew up.