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Would girls allow ladybugs to crawl on their hands and arms if they didn't have the "pretty" shell.

Posted on 02/02/2020 10:35:37 AM PST by SamAdams76

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1 posted on 02/02/2020 10:35:37 AM PST by SamAdams76
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I’ve let lady bugs, love bugs and small wolf spiders crawl on me.

Small wolf spiders are the only spider I’m not terrified of.


2 posted on 02/02/2020 10:37:30 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: SamAdams76

They are called “lady” bugs.


3 posted on 02/02/2020 10:38:40 AM PST by nickcarraway
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When you remove the bushy tail a squirrel becomes a rat.


4 posted on 02/02/2020 10:38:53 AM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: SamAdams76

“Would girls allow ladybugs to crawl on their hands and arms if they didn’t have the “pretty” shell.”

No


5 posted on 02/02/2020 10:39:20 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: SamAdams76
I let a blood sucker clean out the wound on my leg. Of course, my big brother was orchestrating this life saving measure.

Catching grasshoppers was a great sport. Pinning them on the cardboard was even more fun.

6 posted on 02/02/2020 10:41:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Lady bugs are cool, Asian lady beetles are a pain in the butt......


7 posted on 02/02/2020 10:41:51 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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Yeah. Those were the good old days.
Back then, we could even look down in our undies and even tell whether we were a boy or a girl.


8 posted on 02/02/2020 10:41:53 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: devane617

Yup...my dad always called them tree rats.


9 posted on 02/02/2020 10:42:08 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: chris37

I’m sitting wondering who the hell would take the “shell” off the lady bugs in the first place.


10 posted on 02/02/2020 10:43:05 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: SamAdams76

Reminds me of one of the great lines from Hans Landa in “Inglourious Basterds”

I propose to you any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Would you agree? Yet, I assume you don’t share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you? Yet, they’re both rodents, are they not? And except for the tail, they even rather look alike, don’t they? However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel. If a rat were to walk in here, right now, as I’m talking would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk? I didn’t think so. You don’t like them. You don’t really know why you don’t like them. All you know is you find them repulsive.


11 posted on 02/02/2020 10:43:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: chris37

This is a very interesting question. My daughter loves them.

This is a subject Isaac Asimov has explored at length - the way we fear and kill “ugly” things.

I will never forget watching a daddy long-legs in the garden with my son.

He watched with delight as the daddy long-legs crawled down a weed and noto the ground.

There, another daddy long-legs came up to the first. They touched antennae and began caressing.

“Is that a Mommy long-legs,” he asked.

I laughed.

“No, son. That’s a daddy long-legs, too.”

My boy lifted his right foot and quickly stomped on both of them.

There was a sort of squirt of guts, but otherwise just a mess of legs.

He looked at me and said-

“Well that’s enough of that gay shit in OUR garden!”


12 posted on 02/02/2020 10:43:19 AM PST by golux
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I’ve let ... small wolf spiders crawl on me

No frickin way!!!! That's just wrong.....

13 posted on 02/02/2020 10:45:16 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: golux

not funny


14 posted on 02/02/2020 10:45:25 AM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: devane617

When you remove the bushy tail a squirrel becomes a rat.
= = = = = = = = = = =

A squirrel is just a rat with a better publicist.


15 posted on 02/02/2020 10:45:30 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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Imagine how people would view them if they were called "cute little girl bugs," not just "lady bugs."

I wonder what a "tranny bug" looks like...


16 posted on 02/02/2020 10:50:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Squirrels are a good example of what I’m talking about. Remove the bushy tail and we are suddenly setting traps for them and calling the exterminators if we ever see them in our homes.


17 posted on 02/02/2020 10:51:30 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: chris37

Jumping spiders are great... fun to handle and flash signals at, ...and cute.

My favorite when I was a little girl was Phidippus audax, the Audacious/Daring Jumping Spider.


18 posted on 02/02/2020 10:51:36 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: golux

Your story really got me LOL. Really did.

Now, did that REALLY happen?


19 posted on 02/02/2020 10:52:13 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Salamander

Same people who pull the wings off flies.


20 posted on 02/02/2020 10:53:04 AM PST by Black Agnes
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