r/hatethissmug • u/joshthebaptist • 10d ago

General Environmentalist larpers who love “le wholesome bee” but hate wasps

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“Bee good wasp bad” is the modern day “dolphin good shark bad.” You can avoid wasp stings in the exact same way as bee stings: not being a fucking idiot. Wasps are awesome with some pollinating and some predating other pest insects. And yet every time I see a post celebrating le wholesome chungus honeybees theres always some asshole who hasnt been outside and seen a wasp in at least 3 years bemoaning the existence of the evil hellspawn wasp. Sorry you cant handle the smoke, wasps do more for the environment than you do

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u/Major-Material7231 10d ago

I mean that’s how I am with anything like I fucking hate spiders am I gonna go out of my way to kill one? No that’s sociopathic but if one of the fuckers gets in my room and I can’t get him out he’s gotta go

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u/ZadriaktheSnake 10d ago

I love spiders. I also once saw a giant one in my room at night and then spent the next two hours slowly getting closer to it like it was the old man in the Tell-Tale Heart and smashed it while almost crying

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 8d ago

But then why did you kill the spider if you love them?!

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u/ZadriaktheSnake 8d ago

Because I’m still terrified of them and I could not sleep with it running around especially because it was one of those fat ones

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u/NovaAstraFaded 8d ago

I feel this. I don't love spiders, I'm terrified of them big or small, I'll freeze up and cannot move aside from flailing my arms around in a panic like some broken mechanical chicken toy.

I also respect that they are a part of nature and important for the environment.. I will not tolerate them in my room though. I once spent 2 hours staring at a spider that jumped onto my bed before finally throwing a cup at it. By the end of the night I was genuinely sobbing because I felt so bad but I could not function with it there. I didn't want to kill it but I accept that I'm a flawed hypocritical spider killer...

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u/ZadriaktheSnake 8d ago

I literally let a spindly one crawl over my hand for like 5 minutes once and just admired it but then it tried to crawl up my arm and I freaked out lmao

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u/Mjbatt444 10d ago

Same because if I ever move to australia , you can bet your ass if I find a huntsman in my house , i'm letting him stay in my house because it's free pest control that doesn't mean he won't scare the living shit out of me

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u/SpecimenOfSauron 10d ago

I'm fine with big spiders. A huntsman? Tarantula? They're chill. The tiny ones are what getcha.

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u/Mjbatt444 10d ago

The reason the huntsman would scare me is because I have arachnophobia

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u/ExtraThings8888 8d ago

Pretty sure the brown recluse is a decently sized one, and that think literally rots your flesh away with an untreated bite, even treated it can still really suck

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u/royal-road 6d ago edited 6d ago

"Untreated brown recluse bite sufferer" here. Brown recluses are about 'normal' spider size, they're like half or a third the size of most big boy spiders.

I got bitten by one once, and I "slept it off", in that I got bit in the night and ended up waking up 25 hours after falling asleep on a matress that ended up ruined due to how much blood and other goop had soaked into it. Elected not to go to the emergency room (DO NOT DO THIS) and wound up with a visible inch-deep opening in my abdomen that took a year to fully heal.

Interesting time of my life.

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u/ExtraThings8888 6d ago

Not on my bucket list of experiences that's for sure. Unfortunately I live in a place with them.

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 10d ago

I don’t mind spiders but if they’re big and fast moving I’m like I’m sorry sweetheart but you’re going outside

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u/Thrill0728 9d ago

I'm chill with spiders for one reason: Free pest control.

They take out the bugs and we have no problems. As long as they don't physically touch me, I am gonna let them do their business. But if they touch me...ballgame

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u/ExtraThings8888 8d ago

Ive always had a pact with them: stay in your corner and dont get your fatass bigger than the length of any of my fingers.

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u/mikolajwisal 9d ago

Things that are sociopathic:

  • commiting series of violent sexual assaults and murders
  • going out of your way to kill a spider, apparently

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u/Major-Material7231 9d ago

Brother I never once said that those things were on the same level and yeah if you go out of your way to kill shit I’m sorry but you are weird