• blargerer
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      166 months ago

      Even if you give him missing the joke. Bug as used colloquially refers to spiders and insects, not just true bugs. There is a reason why true bugs have to be called true bugs.

    • DarkThoughts
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      156 months ago

      It is, or would be, if you’d understand the difference between confident and confidential.

      • @confusedbytheBasics
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        116 months ago

        Also he’s just wrong.

        The Hemiptera are called ‘true’ bugs because everyone - entomologists included - tend to call all insects ‘bugs’. That is a loose term, whereas the true bugs are just those contained within the insect order Hemiptera.

        He’d only be missing the joke if the spider’s preferred beer was True Bug Lite.