It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.
Humans? Legendary assholes.
Dolphins? Assholes.
Cats are notorious for being jerks.
Dogs, ducks, geese, seagulls, crows...all have dickish individuals.
What're some species that would be least likely to solve a crossword puzzle, but still produce a significant percentage of assholes?
Like are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Bruce Heerssen
in reply to Mike Rutenberg • • •Bees are chill. You leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. Wasps will sting you just because you failed to cross the street when you walked by them. Total jerks.
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in reply to Zimmie • • •Well, bees are basically vegan, communist wasps.
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@alice @alice
I don't remember where I read it, but I once read that yellow jackets are the biggest assholes (most aggressive) of the bunch. But don't look nearly as evil as some.
Roknrol
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Wolverines and badgers are notorious assholes...they don't seem particularly bright to me (but then again, I'm probably speciest)
What about Octopuses and other types of cuttlefish? They seem to be pretty smart and don't seem to be *particularly* assholish.
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in reply to Roknrol • • •@roknrol has anyone seen an octopus troll another animal?
Never mind, futurism.com/the-byte/spitefulโฆ
Scientists say that "spiteful" octopuses punch fish when they're angry
Dan Robitzski (Futurism)Roknrol
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in reply to Roknrol • • •@roknrol as someone who has a lot of crow acquaintances, some are serious dicks.
There's one my girlfriend and I dubbed "Notch" on account of him missing a couple feathers on either side. He knows we feed all the crows on our walk, but if we're not fast enough for him he'll swoop by and tag my head with the tip of his wingโsometimes two or three times like "where're the goods, kibble fairy?"
Roknrol
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •He's not shitting on you?
I mean, with limited ways to communicate with those big stupid humans that seems downright polite.
Forget to feed your cat or your kid for an hour and see if you just get a love tap ๐
Samael
in reply to Roknrol • • •crows don't poop while flying!
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in reply to Samael • • •@Kishi I wouldn't either if I could fly.
@roknrol
Bill
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •@Kishi @roknrol
I would if I could and an appropriate target was available.
A certain Orange Turd would be a great target.
NosirrahSec ๐ดโโ ๏ธ guillotine enthusiast
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •@roknrol Is there a possibility this is excitement expressed in terms of feeling safe enough to touch you?
I don't know enough, or have context, but that would be my take if it occurred to me lol
Kat S
in reply to Roknrol • • •@alice Like, those six fish in particular?
Roknrol
in reply to Kat S • • •@KatS Far be it from me to assume anything about anyone's situation
But yes
<wait for it>
They look fishy.
promโข๏ธ
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •One summer while I was wearing shorts, I had a big hornet fly over, bite into the side of my thigh and then proceed to sting me like half a dozen times for no apparent reason.
I feel like hornets, wasps, and yellow jackets are all pretty much raging assholes.
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Wild bee: just getting snack
Me: no prob bee
Mason bee: just make house
me: build a way B
Honey bee: jus sampling the lavenders
me: you know i got an assortment
Bumblebee: hey *bonk* I just *bonk* I h
me: *holds flower still*
Wasp: ILL SEE U IN HELL
me: TELL THEM WHO SENT U
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •I was going to say it's proportional to language skills, because the better a species gets at communicating, the more they can piss each other off.
But yellow jackets and hornets might be an exception, they don't dance like bees so they? Or however the hive coordinates things counts?
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •I've been stung by wasps twice in the last couple weeks, for no fault of my own.
Bastard assholes. Hate them, and they me.
Paul_IPv6
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •one summer, i was swimming in the Y pool and my hand came up under a dead yellow jacket that i didn't see in time. even dead the stinger embedded in the back of my hand and had to be pulled out with tweezers. i still have a scar.
hornets/wasps/yellow jackets are *SO* assholes, even dead.
ROTOPE~1 โญ๏ธ
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •You're 100% correct. They are absolute jerks and they have nothing better to do with their existence than to, well, be jerks.
Multiple times I've had wasps just land on me and hang out, waiting for me to think they're gone and I'm safe. Once I was halfway up some stairs, so kind of stuck in a pretty uncomfortable position. Each time they just patiently wait for me to make a movement of some kind so they can pretend it's my fault that they're stinging me.
Oh, and once I had one where I assume I got too close to its nest, but it just followed me all the way across an entire yard, stinging over and over. Like, I got the freaking point, move on!
If that isn't the very definition of a jerk I sure don't know what is.
I think they enjoy stinging people. I really do.
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in reply to VHG ๐ช๐บ๐ฉ๐ช • • •@vgoller I almost thought i was the only one.
Never had any problems with hornets and rarely with wasps.
Don’t make fast moves that look like you’re trying to attack them, don’t try to blow them away (IIRC the concentrated CO2 in mammalian breath triggers their defensive responses) and check that they don’t fall into your drink and you’re usually fine.
Oh and don’t kill them.
They release a pheromone that makes their sisters pretty mad when they‘re killed.
So I f you kill one, others will turn up doing the Inigo Montoya number.
(OTOH no one in my family is allergic to their poison, so getting stung isn’t really dangerous, merely painful, so I’m playing with low stakes here).
BTW, depending on the time of the year, they’re either looking for proteins for their little sisters and/or sugary stuff for themselves.
So a tiny slice of sacrificial ham may divert them completely and give you the c
... Show more...@vgoller I almost thought i was the only one.
Never had any problems with hornets and rarely with wasps.
Donโt make fast moves that look like youโre trying to attack them, donโt try to blow them away (IIRC the concentrated CO2 in mammalian breath triggers their defensive responses) and check that they donโt fall into your drink and youโre usually fine.
Oh and donโt kill them.
They release a pheromone that makes their sisters pretty mad when theyโre killed.
So I f you kill one, others will turn up doing the Inigo Montoya number.
(OTOH no one in my family is allergic to their poison, so getting stung isnโt really dangerous, merely painful, so Iโm playing with low stakes here).
BTW, depending on the time of the year, theyโre either looking for proteins for their little sisters and/or sugary stuff for themselves.
So a tiny slice of sacrificial ham may divert them completely and give you the chance of observing them cutting out pieces to bring home.
@alice
Douglas Edwards
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I agree 100% about wasps being evil. The "emerald cockroach wasp" is a particularly extreme example. Their behavior doesn't strictly fit into your paradigm of gratuitous assholishness, since it's merely their standard method of feeding their young โ but it has to be near the top of any hierarchy of horrible techniques of parasitism. Briefly, the wasp achieves MIND CONTROL over its cockroach victim by injecting venom into a specific nerve ganglion. I never thought I could ever feel sorry for a cockroach until I read about this wasp and its mode of reproduction.
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Emerald cockroach wasp - Wikipedia
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Maybe it's a difference in specific subspecies? My experience is based on the European Hornet ๐ค
I. L. Villiam
in reply to Sven/Sarah • • •We have a plum tree that attracts wasps and hornets and we had no trouble at all so far. But maybe the plums make them peaceful so that they don't mind any humans around. (And also Europe.)
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in reply to Salty • • •@david hey, only like 57% of us! ๐
@Drude @pascaldragon
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Yes, otters are quite smart, but this is human, or at least dolphin, level of assholery.
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Very low intelligence, extreme assholery.
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •@bielsubob ๐คฃ ๐คฃ ๐คฃ
I really love the image of the goose pecking at Alice, and then they just slap the goose upside the face and it looks confused and offended.
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in reply to Joscelyn Transpiring • • •@JoscelynTransient that is exactly what happened. It chomped me, I reflexively slapped it, we both looked shocked, then started yelling at each other until the goose fucked off into the water.
The ducks were all like "WTF was that about??"
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Would have loved to see that.
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in reply to Bill • • •@w_b almost had a repeat of it a few days agoโwhile walking with my girlfriend by the lake, a goose started hissing and running at me, I thought "oh, I'm about to have to slap a goose again", but at the last minute a pair of joggers ran past me and the goose was like "fuck that giy in particular" and went straight for one of the joggers instead. The guy yelled "oh shit!" and took off with a goose on his tail.
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Bill
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •@JoscelynTransient @bielsubob
"Slap a goose" sounds like a euphemism for a solo sex act
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in reply to Bill • • •@w_b *honk*
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •@w_b @bielsubob โoh, Iโm about to have to slap a goose againโ - Alice
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goats are the creature most likely to solve a crossword puzzle a least likely to be an arsehole.
I used to work on a farm with goats. They were constantly working at cross purposes to humans, but the thing is they were right.
Every time they did something I didn't want, I would be forced to concede that's exactly what I would have done when presented with another species trying to do farm stuff at me.
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josh susser
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •probably some species of cichlid. those fish are surprisingly complicated.
on the other hand, hermit crabs are so polite that they will line up in order of size to wait for a shell of the right size to become available and then pass an empty shell down the line.
Mrinappropriate
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Carcinization comes for all of us.
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Mosquitoes.
Late at night, you're trying to sleep. You hear that high pitched whine in your ear. The little bastard is right next to your ear. Deliberately next to your EAR!
You wake up waving it away, but there's nothing, NOTHING!
But you go back to bed, and it's back in your ear.
Fucking BASTARDS! Mosquitoes are arseholes.
...oh then there's malaria, dengue and all those people they kill.
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •an actual bus
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in reply to Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ • • •@catsalad
@alice There are individuals...
We warned a house-sitter that Oscar was a prick, especially to his brother. She seemed dubious, but took it under advisement.
When we returned, she greeted us with "you're right. He is such a prick."
John Q McDonald
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in reply to John Q McDonald • • •Joscelyn Transpiring
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •@jqmcd I actually feel like spiders are pretty cool. Like, they eat other animals, but that's just surviving as a predator. They don't go out of their way to be cruel, and when they hurt humans, it's usually our fault.
I say this despite having moderate arachnophobia. I appreciate them...just abstractly and from a distance and oh god oh god don't come any closer!!!
John Q McDonald
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DDR
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@alice Sydney Funnelweb spiders. Specifically, males in mating season.
Normally, if you don't annoy them, they'll be... well, they won't normally come after you.
But come mating season, they pull out their switchblades, drink a case of moonshine, and go on a rampage. If they see you, they will fuck you up.
Just for added hilarity, their venom is harmless to cats and dogs. They hunt mice, and it's pure biochemical coincidence that it's also bad for humans. The hilarity commences when the family dog brings one into the house and starts playing with it on the kitchen floor. Yes, this is a thing that happens.
Oh, and they can survive for weeks at the bottom of a swimming pool, just on the air that's trapped around their body, and being pulled out does not improve their mood.
Duke
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xs4me2
in reply to Duke • • •The birds...
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •When humans develop on utero, the first thing that develops is the digestive system and the anus.
So we all start out as little assholes. For some, little has changed aside from size.
Birchenstein
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in reply to Andrew Pontious • • •@apontious totally true.
@MrBirch
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •I love this, so I
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •pretty sure octopus could solve a crossword puzzle in between punching random fish
octonation.com/octopuses-punchโฆ
[Video] Octo-Punch: The Truth Behind Why Octopuses Punch Fish
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Rinaldo
in reply to I love this, so I • • •Protรฉgeons notre fabuleuse vie marine !
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grrl_aex
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Whales seems pretty chill...and smart! They may not do crosswords, but there's a decent chance they do their version of poetry, philosophy, and opera! ๐
Irene (she/they, Sir/Mr.)
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •"least likely to solve a crossword puzzle" sounds like slugs, sponges, and if im very honest, lionfishes
Edit: tho upon reflection the only one of those that id describe as "jerk who would never solve a crossword" is the lionfish
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in reply to Irene (she/they, Sir/Mr.) • • •@Irenetherogue what makes lionfish jerky?
(cue dehydration joke)
River
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in reply to River • • •@river "legendary asshole"
"Thanks, I take a lot of stairs"
AutistiCritic
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DefaultKevin
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Houseflies. Nearly forty years later I vividly remember a sleepless night at my grandparents' caused by this utter bastard who flew a pattern from one corner of the room to the opposite and back, each time dive bombing my head. All goddamn night, every few seconds.
You'd best _believe_ I hunted this one the next day.
Autumn Meadow
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • •I don't know how intelligent they are, but yellowjackets are massive pricks, and they will chase you down if you so much as brush by their nest.
Oh, and brown recluses are straight-up hellspawn which leave necrotic bites, as in, if you get bit by a brown recluse, your skin can literally rot away around the bite area if not immediately treated by a medical professional.
Fuck brown recluses, they can go right back to the pit of hell they crawled out from.
On a happier note, jumping spiders are adorable though as are bumblebees and a lot of native bee species.
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •Funny you ask this. We have two Guinea Pigs. They're sisters. Both cute as heck and dumb as rocks. But one is a real jerk. Bullies her sister, nips at fingers, steals food.
The bonus fact is - it used to be the other way around. When they were young the other sister was the jerk. One aged into a sweetheart & the other into a crotchety grump. ๐คฃ
So attitude is fluid among #GuineaPigs apparently.
(Photo is Kaysah - the nice one.)
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in reply to Lyrial • • •@lyrial Agree. And only cute as long as they're kittens, but even then. @alice
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in reply to Luka ๐. ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ • • •@enbypirate ...
Should I tell them?
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/โฆ
An elephant trampled a 90 year old woman, then came to her funeral and trampled her again.
And octopi punch fish.
Some whales seem pretty cool though.
Male Bonobos, Close Human Relatives Long Thought to Be Peaceful, Are Actually Quite Aggressive, Study Suggests
Christian Thorsberg (Smithsonian Magazine)Innocent Loverboy
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They're smarter than you think, especially given how they use their legs when they run. Faster than a cheetah and very good at camouflage and ambush.
But they're ALL arseholes. They will attack basically anything and they don't give a fuck. Lengthy war machines.
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •"are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?"
Mel Gibson
Henry Edward Hardy
in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •"Like are there any shrimp out there that are just little fuckers?"
Absolutely, here:
@alice
Jo - piรจce de rรฉsistance
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Dragonflies: The ultimate hunters | Natural History Museum
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in reply to Jo - piรจce de rรฉsistance • • •Jo - piรจce de rรฉsistance
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in reply to Jo - piรจce de rรฉsistance • • •Jo - piรจce de rรฉsistance
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in reply to ๐ ฐ๐ ป๐ ธ๐ ฒ๐ ด (๐๐ฆ) • • •A**hole shrimps? The Oatmeal has got you covered:
theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_sโฆ
Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal - The Oatmeal
The OatmealLuna :3
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in reply to Salty • • •@david y'all keep saying that, but no one is giving examples.
I know they hunt by punching holes in fish, but that's just "how they do". Do they yell slurs or punch baby fish in front of their parents or something?