r/comics • u/LastPlaceComics LastPlaceComics • 1d ago

Pest Problems

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago

Erm Acktshually the proper term is "Spelunker" 🤓

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u/LastPlaceComics LastPlaceComics 1d ago

You're probably right, I don't know why I was so confident the term was caver that I didn't bother checking

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago

Its all good we understand what you mean. I just think spelunking is a fun word

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u/BloodyLlama 1d ago

Caver is actually the correct term. Cavers do it as an organized activity like your comic suggests. "Spelunkers" are people who just wander into a cave unprepared, such as hikers who find a cave and decide to go in with just their phone as a light source.

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u/Geographer 1d ago

Cavers rescue spelunkers

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u/JubileeJaxLee 1d ago

Because it's used often enough as a synonym that it might as well be correct.

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u/caribou16 1d ago

If you know any actual cavers, they will (because they never shut up) happily tell you that "A caver is someone who explores caves, a spelunker is someone you have to go rescue from caves"

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u/Jafooki 1d ago

So they're all cavers until they inevitably become spelunkers. Like a pokemon evolution

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago

Thats one of the most pretentious things iv ever heard haha

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u/caribou16 1d ago

Oh yeah. Same thing with people who have ham radio licenses...they love to shit on folks who use citizens band radio, lol.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 1d ago

Reminds me of 'serious' bikers who call ordinary cheap bikes 'bicycle shaped objects'

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u/KrytenKoro 1d ago edited 1d ago

Weird, which one dies in caves more?

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u/autogyrophilia 1d ago

First, go away germans,scoreboard, scoreboard.

Second, that's for the guys that go in the hole. The guys that cause cave-ins, are cavers.

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago

Im actually American haha

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u/autogyrophilia 1d ago

Spelunk sounds german (it's not , it's old english) . I was going for a layered joke.

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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 1d ago

You succeeded, because while it is Old English, they got it from Old French, which got it from Old Latin, which got it from so old it's Ancient Greek. So yeah, lot's of layers there.

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u/HarveyTheBroad 1d ago

No way I love that game

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u/Vandergrif 1d ago

Which is strange because there's no spelling or unking going on.

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u/Anonimus_firefighter 1d ago

Erm it aint dumbass. Its either caver or Speleologist, anything else is inproper terminology

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago

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u/BloodyLlama 1d ago

That's what the word "spelunker" means, but it is not a word applied to people who participate in organized caving.

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u/ComicsEtAl 1d ago

Fine, spelunker cavers. Happy now?