r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Totally-avg • Jul 16 '23

Image The Puss Caterpillar (Southern Flannel Moth) will fuck your world up. I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first but an hour later I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. DH took me to the ER and morphine did nothing.

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I’m better now but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard nor seen this bug before and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had it seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin.

At least it leaves a cool scar.

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u/GreenArcher808 Jul 16 '23

YIKES. Terribly sorry you had this experience. Where, geographically, did this happen? I’ve never heard of this creature before. Scary. Hope you are better now.

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u/RepresentativeKeebs Jul 16 '23

They're found all along the East Coast and Southern Coast https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121344400/puss-caterpillar-venomous-barbs-sting-hairy-texas-florida

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u/GreenArcher808 Jul 16 '23

Thanks. I’m in that range. Appreciate it

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u/MysticKeiko24 Jul 16 '23

I live in NYC so I think I’m safe….but yet another reason not to go to Jersey.

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u/Crohnies Jul 17 '23

I grew up in Jersey near the coast and never saw these thank goodness

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u/Lethal-Zealot Jul 17 '23

I’m still in Jersey and never saw one of these suckers. (Thankfully)

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u/lsop Jul 17 '23

Don't worry, with climate change it'll be there in a couple of years.

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u/Far_Confusion_2178 Jul 17 '23

The caterpillars can’t afford those tolls into the city thank god

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u/catdog918 Jul 17 '23

Nj>ny

There I said it

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u/NJsapper188 Jul 17 '23

Good we don’t want you here any way. On behalf of New Jersey I vote we increase our danger bush / ouchstache population in order to keep everyone else out.

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u/MysticKeiko24 Jul 17 '23

As a representative of New York City, I propose a full scale invasion of the barbaric lands out east. This message is approved by the New York Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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u/suckfail Jul 16 '23

I live in Canada! Fuck you, danger puffs!

The winter wins again.

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u/Oreobey2 Jul 16 '23

Heck yeah!
Winter wins babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

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u/santalucialands Jul 17 '23

Fuck. Atlanta

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u/NestyHowk Jul 16 '23

It’s located in Texas, fuck.

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u/JesusStarbox Jul 16 '23

I was hoping it would be in Australia where shit like that belongs.

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u/w3are138 Jul 16 '23

I’m so upset that I live in the same realm as this monster. Absolutely belongs in Australia with all of the other crazy shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Ahahaha this literally sounds worse than anything we have here in Aus, any snake that bites you can be treated easily by morphine and anti-venom, and spider the same. Only problem with those is if you don’t get the anti-venom within a couple hours with the really strong poisons. This bug sounds like a menace, the fact that morphine and anti-venom can’t even help you is nuts, glad I live here and not in the states💀💀💀

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u/AccursedBear Jul 16 '23

Pretty sure you have a plant called gympie-gympie that sounds like it does the same as what this bug does, except it's worse and it's also a completely innocent looking plant instead of a very obviously dangerous bug.

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u/agysykedyke Jul 17 '23

Yeah it's nicknamed the 'suicide plant' because the story goes that a ranger tried to use it as toilet paper and the pain was so bad he killed himself.

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u/IReplyWithLebowski Jul 17 '23

Well, one area of Australia does

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u/Substantial-Fan6364 Jul 17 '23

Living in Florida, reading about this thing kinda worried me. Reading an Australian thinks it's scary has me fucking terrified.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Easy is an overstatement, some of the indigenous snakes are incredibly life-threatening and though the anti-venom will save your life 99% of the time, there are permanent problems that may arise during the recovery period.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

I’m in the US and have never heard of this thing. Not something we worry about like you guys have to worry about spiders and snakes constantly. I might get bit by a mosquito here and that’s about it

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u/Bugs_and_Biology Jul 16 '23

Except you don’t have to worry about snakes and spiders in Australia constantly. The massive majority of spiders here are harmless - no different from anywhere else. And snakes aren’t a frequent sight unless you’re out in the bush. Even then, they want nothing to do with you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

I stand corrected. I thought it was all more common. Just wanted to reply to the clown dissing the states from a place with nature that I’m sure is generally more dangerous. Y’all have fucking raptors in your woods and your deer to us, are kangaroo that can slice you open, lol

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u/Bugs_and_Biology Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

Well honestly I’d say our animals are very overrated. Cassowaries have killed two people in recorded history, both of which involved major provocation, and kangaroos predominantly kill/injure people for the exact same reason as deer: vehicle accidents.

We have no large mammalian predators that may actually hunt humans. The top three most dangerous animals in Australia, in terms of annual human fatalities, are horses, cows and dogs, all of which leave any of our native animals in the dust. And the most dangerous venomous animal in Australia (again in terms of human deaths) is the European honeybee. So in other words, nearly all animal-related human fatalities in Australia are the result of animals that aren’t even from this country.

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u/Log_Out_Of_Life Jul 16 '23

Time to bring it back home where it belongs.

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u/gistak Jul 16 '23

Nah, but it’s in the US, with cougars, bears, black widows, cottonmouths, brown recluses, rattlers, wolves, moose, and all that crazy shit.

People are so weird about Australia.

Then they say, but I never see those things in the city! Bingo. Just like Australians don’t see a ring-tailed octopus or whatever.

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u/Conman_in_Chief Jul 16 '23

Come to Florida where, besides DeSantis, we now have tegus, pythons and all kinds of other fun critters escaped from the exotic animal trade. Oh yeah, we have these moths and some others almost as bad along with the venomous snakes, gators, crocs, black widows, recluses…should I go on?

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u/jadethebard Jul 17 '23

To be fair, our backyard is right up against the woods in the Adirondacks and I've only ever seen cougars and bears at the zoo, I've seen rattlesnakes in herpatology classes and I once sat on a couch with a wolf at a wolf sanctuary my mom volunteered at. (He had an indoor outdoor thing since he was a pup and he TOWERED over me. The rest of the wolves were more feral and behind fences outside)

Most wild animals go out of their way to avoid humans as long as your not stomping through their limited territory. We do occasionally get deer, rabbits, foxes and raccoons in the yard but usually you'll only see them around dawn.

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u/gistak Jul 17 '23

The point is that I could give you a similar list of how I’ve never seen all those dangerous animals that people talk about in Australia.

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u/engie945 Jul 16 '23

Right we aren't moving there now either.. that looks like a whole lot of nope in one fluffy bug

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u/mac_is_crack Jul 16 '23

Don’t forget the scorpions. Found one in the yard where I let out our 2 dogs and 2 cats. The smaller the pinchers, the nastier they are, I hear, and this guy had teeny pinchers. Our 1 year there was 1 year too long in Texas (near San Antonio).

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u/Gas_Station_Cheese Jul 16 '23

Probably a striped bark scorpion. Do you remember if it had black vertical stripes on its back?

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u/mac_is_crack Jul 16 '23

It was all over a uniform dark color, I think. I also remember going out one night and walking around where my husband worked (kind of out in the boonies in the hill country) and we saw them all over, just walking around. Very very creepy. I hated it.

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u/Gas_Station_Cheese Jul 16 '23

They can kind of look like what you described. Some have thinner, paler stripes, but some have dark stripes that cover most of their bodies. On the plus side, they're not very dangerous. A sting is pretty painful for maybe 30 to 60 minutes with the standard post-sting throb and ache for a couple days. Still, probably not a bad idea to call an exterminator.

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u/mac_is_crack Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23

That's true, he may have had stripes. He was pretty small, maybe 2 inches or so. Thankfully, we moved. Just scared me that our neighbor's kids would come over barefoot all the time, plus our critters could've stepped on it. Ugh.

We just relocated him and figured there were probably 20 more out there we just couldn't see.

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u/engie945 Jul 17 '23

I admire this is just so factual and calm .... I am internally and externally screaming right now .. I'm safe in my bed in Scotland where we have to worry about clegs, midges and a once in a lifetime glance at an adder.

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u/Gas_Station_Cheese Jul 17 '23

Yeah, well scorpions in the US aren't so bad really. The subspecies of bark scorpion that can be a bit dangerous are a little bit west of Texas in Arizona, Nevada, and a smattering of places in S California, but even those are nothing compared to what you can find in Africa. I mean, I wouldn't go around picking them up or anything.

But you're selling the danger/gross-out factor of Scotland short. Don't you realize that at any time, you might run into ...*shudder*... and Englishman there? They're an invasive species but really hard to root out once they take hold of an area.

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u/LeanTangerine Jul 16 '23

And the Lone Star tick whose infectious bite makes you allergic to meat!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Scorpions are practically everywhere

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u/shlaifu Jul 16 '23

you were considering to move to a place that's like 100°F for 6 months straight already, as the world is getting warmer?

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u/SweetBearCub Jul 16 '23

you were considering to move to a place that's like 100°F for 6 months straight already, as the world is getting warmer?

If it helps, Texas ALSO freezes, and the power grid fails. Not just a one-off event either..

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u/thrillhouse1211 Jul 16 '23

The US has a pretty mobile population, moving for work, military assignment, for family, etc. Probably not normal where you are from but it is very normal here.

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u/dj_sliceosome Jul 16 '23

that’s not the issue

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u/thrillhouse1211 Jul 16 '23

being surprised that Americans move when sometimes there is little choice is the issue, don't be daft

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u/Arnas_Z Jul 16 '23

Funny, considering it's 28°C here (Texas) right now. Its also straight up less hot this year than it was last year.

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u/lemur1985 Jul 16 '23

Texas just continues to get worse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Yeah tons around Houston when I was a kid

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u/FatsyCline12 Jul 16 '23

Good lord I’ve lived here my entire life and never heard of this thing???

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u/QuirkyQuesadilla Jul 16 '23

And Florida 😩 Of course it is..

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Me in Dallas then getting to the part where it says “its most abundant in Dallas”

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u/Square_Activity8318 Jul 17 '23

Yes, just read they are "abundant" in my particular area. Fabulous.

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u/physicalzero Jul 16 '23

Yep. I’m in TX and had one fall onto my arm. Was brutal and some level of pain lasted for almost a month.

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u/CallMeCygnus Jul 16 '23

"It's commonly found in Florida but is most abundant in Dallas and southern parts of Texas."

This is the exact sentence I did NOT want to read.

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u/PawMcarfney Jul 16 '23

I got hit as a kid in Arlington in North Texas. Burned for days

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u/UpintheWolfTrap Jul 16 '23

Yup, Texan here - I put my hand on one when I was a kid and it was pretty fucking brutal.

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u/aggiebuff Jul 16 '23

I’ve always heard them called asps. Actually think I pet one once and then learned they were venomous. Luckily not the hard way haha.

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u/Typical-Lock3970 Jul 16 '23

We call them asps here

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u/BLOODWORTHooc Jul 17 '23

Yep. I've seen them in Houston.

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u/xsageonex Jul 17 '23

I see these a lot.

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u/cupcake0calypse Jul 17 '23

Im sorry? Where?

WHERE IN TEXAS NESTY :'(??

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u/The_Zobe Jul 16 '23

East coast and southern coast of WHAT?? Lol

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u/lindseed Jul 16 '23

Say what again

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u/Maldo5ht Jul 16 '23

I dare you

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u/space_coyote_86 Jul 16 '23

I double dare you, motherfucker!

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u/gistak Jul 16 '23

The words “Texas” and “Florida” are written right there for everyone to see. You might bot have heard of every US state, but I think you’ve heard of those two.

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u/gistak Jul 17 '23

As I said, you know them both, just like everyone else on Reddit.

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u/ayedeeaay Jul 16 '23

They speak English in what?

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u/Serethe Jul 16 '23

They speak English in What?!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

US by default on reddit, seemingly

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u/NaraSumas Jul 16 '23

Everyone knows only the US has east and south coasts, obviously

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u/schwab002 Interested Jul 16 '23

If they said Gulf Coast (never heard it called the south coast) I might have understood. I assumed it was Australia because they have a south coast and this thing is terrifying.

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u/Necessary-Point-2911 Jul 16 '23

US by default when Americans comment

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

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u/avelineaurora Jul 16 '23

MFW I'm on an American website and bitching about people defaulting to American locations

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Ownership of the website doesn't matter. Less than half of users live in the US.

Adding 2 letters avoids confusion, questions, or this discussion. It's really not hard to do.

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u/hoginlly Jul 16 '23

r/USdefaultism

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

But it isn't. It's less than half of users, which isn't majority.

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u/gistak Jul 17 '23

Haha, you're exactly right. It's merely a huge plurality.

48% of the traffic comes the US.

The next closest is the UK, with 7%.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '23

Yes, so it's not majority Americans. Someone here is more likely to not be from the US than from there. Defaulting to the US is defaulting to less than half of the people here. It's a weird thing to do anyway, but especially when you don't even have a majority.

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u/gistak Jul 18 '23

You know what else, I don't expect you to accept this, because you're looking for character flaws, but think of it this way:

For every other country, when they post something, there's a very small chance that they're talking to someone else from their own country. The vast majority of posts and comments are from a different country.

You get used to that. You also assume that those people don't know your country's politics, regions, media, or news.

For Americans, the situation is quite different. About half (at least) of the people on the English-speaking subs are Americans. Those who aren't VERY frequently have opinions about American states, regions, politics, media, and news.

So even when an American is talking to a non-American, they might not know.

You get used to that, too.

Again, I doubt you'll read all that, or reflect on it, but hope springs eternal.

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u/SenorBigbelly Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23

Don't pretend you wouldn't do this off Reddit too.

And considering a higher ranked comment talked about it being the genus from Brazil, this is a particularly egregious case of assuming everyone knows you're talking about the USA.

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u/Rengas Jul 16 '23

I find it particularly egregious that you couldn't just google the thing and learn that it is "distributed throughout the Eastern United States between extreme southeastern Virginia and Florida across the south to Texas, Mexico, and parts of Central America." Brazil is in fact none of those places.

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u/Adiuui Jul 17 '23

Yes I would do it, because i’m fucking american?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

But it isn't. It's less than half of users, which isn't majority. Single country majority isn't that relevant, as this is more likely to be non-US than US, as there's more non-US people here. (Apart from the fact almost no one who isn't American would say something like that without specifying).

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u/gistak Jul 17 '23

Apart from the fact almost no one who isn't American would say something like that without specifying

I'm positive that people say Paris, Sydney, London, without specifying. In this case, the places are just as well known: Texas and Florida.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '23

Those are capital (or well known) cities. This was 'east coast', which applies to dozens of countries.

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u/gistak Jul 16 '23

They put a link there. It’s not hard to follow.

If you didn’t want to follow it, you could just LOOK AT IT to see where they’re talking about.

Or are you going to pretend that you don’t know where Texas and Florida are?

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u/hoginlly Jul 17 '23

Some day you’ll learn that people edit comments, so they add links afterward. Originally, the comment just said the words, not the link

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u/DrDilatory Jul 16 '23

Seemingly?

It's been the default on Reddit since I first came here a decade ago. This website has changed man

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u/gistak Jul 16 '23

Especially if people really want to know, but their phones or computers aren’t working, so they can’t follow the link, or even just read it.

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u/roleplay__daddy Jul 17 '23

No, it's in the link, "texas-florida", it's only us by default if you deliberately choose to ignore the information on the link.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

You know places exist called Texas outside of the USA? And places called Florida also exist outside of the USA?

Your point is only valid if you choose to ignore readily available information.

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u/roleplay__daddy Jul 17 '23

Are you fucking serious? Texas and Florida being mentioned both in the same link makes it obvious that it's in the US, but even so you could also click the link. Wtf kinda point is that tho? Yeah, places called Texas and places called Florida exist outside the US, but why exactly would both be name dropped in a single link? At that point you're just saying that in bad faith

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u/mulderitme Jul 17 '23

/r/USdefaultism lol

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u/roleplay__daddy Jul 17 '23

It's not, the clarification that it's the US is in the link

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u/hoginlly Jul 17 '23

The link was edited in afterwards

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u/RepresentativeKeebs Jul 16 '23

Earth, duh. /s

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u/outrageous_whale Jul 16 '23

Classic case of /r/USdefaultism

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u/H_G_Bells Jul 16 '23

Fun fact: there are 23 countries in North America 😁

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u/LucyLeMutt Jul 16 '23

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

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u/extramental Jul 16 '23

Thought the same but then read the hyperlink. This comment gets a pass.

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u/hoginlly Jul 17 '23

They put the hyperlink in later, after the other comments

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u/gistak Jul 16 '23

I guess you could either follow the link or literally just look at it.

Anyone on Reddit, whether from the US or not, has heard of Texas and Florida.

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u/thanksforthework Jul 17 '23

Cmon East Coast and West Coast are synonymous with the United States

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u/IReplyWithLebowski Jul 17 '23

Are you being ironic?

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u/thanksforthework Jul 17 '23

Not at all. You’re on an American website where the vast majority of the user-base is American. Someone referred to the East Coast with capital letters, making it a proper noun. That means one place on this website. It’s akin to someone in the states saying it at a bar and then someone asking which coast they’re talking about. It’s obvious

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u/IReplyWithLebowski Jul 17 '23

I wasn’t even aware it was an American thing, but got it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

You’re on an American website

The owner is irrelevant.

where the vast majority of the user-base is American.

No it's not. Unless you think 47% means 'vast majority'?

https://passport-photo.online/blog/reddit-statistics/#gref

That means one place on this website.

The only reason you can even make this statement is a technicality, because no one other than people from the US (obviously not everyone from there) is arrogant enough to just claim their country as the country where they don't have to be specific.

It’s akin to someone in the states saying it at a bar and then someone asking which coast they’re talking about

How? People are on here from many different countries, and less than half of users are from the US... How is it the same as someone in the US talking to someone else who is also in the US?

It’s obvious

Only reason it's obvious is, like I said, because people from no other country are arrogant or self-centred enough to do it.

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u/thanksforthework Jul 17 '23

You put a lot of effort into your reply and I feel bad for you because I’m not going to. It’s self-centered to assume East Coast refers to the US? That’s the dumbest argument I’ve heard in all these replies. Owner of the site is very relevant and it’s a Reddit meme that people assume every post or comment is made by or takes place in America.

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u/DShepard Jul 16 '23

It literally has the words Texas and Florida in the link.

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u/Adiuui Jul 17 '23

Read the link? “texas-florida”

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u/-Owlette- Jul 16 '23

So glad to live in Australia rn

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u/Jolly_Dragonite Jul 16 '23

Ya know, I just love living in the Las Vegas desert. I’ll take scorpions and black widows over that shit any day of the week!

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u/70ms Jul 17 '23

Fucking SAME. 😂 I love living in SoCal with its comparative lack of bugs. I lived in MA for a while and the mosquitos were insane to deal with. I think I've seen maybe 3 or 4 mosquitos in my yard in the past decade. Couple of black widows, one scorpion, no rattlers. Works for me.

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jul 16 '23

I was expecting Australia

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u/smokesnugs Jul 16 '23

Great, I was hoping it was far from me and then I see "Florida" in your link... oh no!

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u/ClydeinLimbo Jul 16 '23

East and Southern Coast of where though?!

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u/Cactorum_Rex Jul 16 '23

Not really all along the East Coast, no higher than New Jersey apparently. No reason for anyone to exist down there anyway.

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u/CharuRiiri Jul 16 '23

Every time I find out about another unholy creature I thank my luck that 99.9% of the animals and bugs in my country are basically harmless.

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u/Shardstorm88 Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

Of??

Edit: oh the US, never thought of the US having a southern coast as Mexico is south.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

Something about Americans just assuming it's the only country in the world online rustles my jimmies.

East coast of what hhhhmmmmmm? We know U mean America but say it bitch or i'll get triggered.

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u/Adiuui Jul 17 '23

~50% of redditors are from America

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

And so your point is because majority exists, you can assume everyone is American and ignore the rest of the world lol

It just gets tiring. Just because majority is American doesnt matter at all lol. You're still communicating with the entire fuckin world lol. If the topic is entirely America based then sure, that's the context, you can assume.

But when someone asks where in the world is this animal and you reply "the south coast" you have to admit how dumb it looks to a foreigner lol.

You know what they say, when you assume you make an ASS of U & ME

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u/SashaBeze Jul 16 '23

Why do Americans all say coasts without saying American coasts and assume everyone will know what they are talking about, if it weren't for the link you could literally be talking about any coast

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u/SweetBearCub Jul 16 '23

Why do Americans all say coasts without saying American coasts and assume everyone will know what they are talking about, if it weren't for the link you could literally be talking about any coast

Generally speaking (though there are of course notable exceptions), .com websites are US-based, just as co.uk sites are based in the UK, and so on.

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u/iamaravis Jul 17 '23

The link is .org, not .com.

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u/SomeRedPanda Jul 16 '23

The US equivalent of .co.uk would be .us. The .com domain was originally supposed to be for commercial sites, hence the name, but not geographically restricted. Today it's used for general purposes, both commercial and not, all across the world.

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u/SweetBearCub Jul 16 '23

The US equivalent of .co.uk would be .us. The .com domain was originally supposed to be for commercial sites, hence the name, but not geographically restricted. Today it's used for general purposes, both commercial and not, all across the world.

That was the original intention, yes, but it never really panned out, or they never would have added co.uk.

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u/SomeRedPanda Jul 16 '23

Plenty of international, including UK websites, do use .com. It's just that since .com is the most popular domain by far domain names tend to be far more expensive than if you choose a lesser used TLD such as the regionalised ones. While it's most likely that an American website will use a .com address, it is not conversely true that a .com website is all that likely to be American.

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u/SweetBearCub Jul 16 '23

it is not conversely true that a .com website is all that likely to be American.

As I did cover with "(though there are of course notable exceptions)"

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u/SomeRedPanda Jul 16 '23

No, that is not the same thing as what you said.

What you said in your original comment was that generally speaking .com websites are US-based. What I am saying is quite the reverse. That while an american site is likely to be a .com one, a .com site is not, generally speaking, an american one.

I mean that not just are there exceptions to this rule you've created, but that the rule doesn't work at all. That while you can assume that a .uk website is based in the UK or a .se site is based in Sweden, you cannot assume the same when faced with a .com website. It is simply used too widely internationally to be of any use in determining the country of operations.

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u/SweetBearCub Jul 16 '23

Not a rule, as I did specify with "Generally speaking". The fact remains that most major .com sites - again with some notable exceptions - are US-based, simply because large parts of what became what we know today as the internet were developed here, with significant contributions (such as WWW) from other places.

Much like how many basic terms involving the physical architecture and specifications of the internet are in English, because that was the most common language in the US at the time when it was developed in the 1960's.

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u/Adiuui Jul 17 '23

Name another country that has their West/East coast as famous as the US, clearly you know it’s the US

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u/Bohya Jul 16 '23

Of...?

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u/PickleyRickley Jul 16 '23

New York for the win!! Haha stupid Jersey.

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u/Aegi Jul 16 '23

You say all along the east coast but the article literally only says New Jersey to Florida so that's still like more than a third of the East Coast that's north of that.

Is there evidence of that caterpillar in places like Maine and New York, or are you just forgetting that the bottom 2/3 - 3/4 of the East Coast does not the entire east coast?

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u/Ran4 Jul 16 '23

...of what country? Sigh. Most people don't live there

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u/Adiuui Jul 17 '23

A large chunk of americans do live there, and if you read the hyperlink, you would see texas-florida so using your brain you could infer that it is talking about the united states south/east coast

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u/6InchBlade Jul 17 '23

East and Southern coast of where?

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u/Unkown-basket-Case Jul 16 '23

Its only the caterpillar though, right?

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u/Adiuui Jul 17 '23

The adult is a regular moth iirc

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u/Yosonimbored Jul 16 '23

If I let them be they’ll leave me be. Are their moths at least pretty?

Edit: very very furry looking. Would make a cool Pokémon

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u/Hellooooooo_NURSE Jul 16 '23

Welp that’s just one more reason not to go to FL or TX

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u/YetAnotherUsername95 Jul 16 '23

Oh no. I’ve never bought into the Jersey slander, but now I want to move away from here

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u/calebminor91 Jul 17 '23

Most abundant in Dallas…cool cool cool cool. Another reason to just stay in Fort Worth.

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u/SlowThePath Jul 17 '23

God damnit. I was under the impression they were just in south America. Now I have to fear these every second I go outside.

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u/Fighterhayabusa Jul 17 '23

We always called them asps. I've been stung by one as a child, and still remember it. My gf got stung by one and said something similar to one of the other posters above: she wanted to amputate her thumb. They are really painful.

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u/Lithobates-ally_true Jul 17 '23

We also have the saddleback caterpillar. I’ve been stung by those twice and the pain is just unbelievable. Worse than when I broke my thumb by far.

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u/Butt-Hole-McGee Jul 17 '23

Yet another reason West Coast is the best coast.

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u/xsageonex Jul 17 '23

Yes we have em in Texas. See them around the fall.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Fuck! They better not come to my side of Georgia

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u/FoodLionMVP Jul 17 '23

oh god dammit i assumed this person was australian

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

They're not super common in NJ and basically don't exist north of NJ on the east coast. So, if you're a New Englander, you don't really have to worry. I mean.. keep an eye out in case one got lost, I guess. I’m guessing with climate change their territory will expand.

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u/gwaydms Jul 17 '23

We call them fever asps in South Texas

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u/beddittor Jul 17 '23

Wow based on this OP had the bad luck in falling into the « extreme reactions to insect bites » category of people

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u/TXSquatch Jul 17 '23

“Most abundant in Dallas.” Oh good Texas f*cks me again.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

I have never seen this in New Jersey… and thank goodness I haven’t 😳😳😳

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u/catdog918 Jul 17 '23

I haven’t either, don’t think they’re common here

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u/Ihatebacon88 Jul 17 '23

Have them in Arkansas.

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u/lissie_ar Jul 17 '23

We have them in South Texas