• @[email protected]
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    466 months ago

    Anywhere that casually lists spiders and centipedes along with reptiles is not somewhere that I wanna be.

  • @[email protected]
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    376 months ago

    “Scorpions are my favorite reptile”

    (Sarcasm aside, what’s so worrying about lizards? Only a couple types are venomous, only a few more are big enough to seriously hurt you (and most of those live in tropical forest sort of places), and anything smaller is probably just going to run away and hide it you get close to it. Lizards are pretty non-threatening.)

    • @[email protected]
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      66 months ago

      I don’t know how common it is, but in some very rural parts of Kentucky and Tennessee in the USA, people frequently referred to scorpions as lizards. Also, regular lizards were called lizards. And newts were called lizards.

      It was very confusing to me when I was a young kid. Still is confusing to me if I’m being honest.

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          36 months ago

          They’re called lizards. Didn’t you read my comment?

          But all kidding aside, yes, there are scorpions in Kentucky. They aren’t large or aggressive and from what I was told their stings don’t really hurt very much. Mostly I would see them hiding under rocks and in crevices during the day.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      The majority of spider-related injuries are self-inflicted by people panicking and hurting themselves.

      In most lizard-related fatalities, the lizard is the one who is killed

  • @[email protected]
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    196 months ago

    2/5 isn’t great. Also why would anyone have to watch out for lizards? I’m doubtful Godzilla is just over the hill

    • @jubilationtcornpone
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      6 months ago

      You say that but Godzilla is one sneaky bastard. In fact, there’s a significant possibility that Godzilla is the hill.

  • @[email protected]
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    176 months ago

    One time my pet tortoise bit my big toe thinking it was food and he took an entire chunk out of my flesh. Reptiles are not to be underestimated.

    • M137
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      56 months ago

      I still have a scar from my childhood when my pet turtle bit the webbing between my right thumb and index finger. The turtle had a blade of grass stuck in the area next to its neck that’s kinda like a dimple and it couldn’t get it out, so I stupidly put my finger there to try to get it out. Their beaks are like nail clippers.

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    156 months ago

    I know reptile is a bullshit classification that includes things more closely related to birds than each other, but also it definitely doesn’t include arthropods.

  • @full_on_rapist
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    46 months ago

    I didn’t realize spiders, centipedes and scorpions were reptiles.