Had to evict a big ass spider from my room today and was reminded of this meme template. At least it’s easier to evict spiders than cats, the latter don’t fit in measuring cups.

  • TheNextMuon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    It’s also common knowledge that when you’re inactive (sometimes referred to as asleep) spiders descend into your mouth about 8 times per year. 🫥

    • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      For anyone that may actually’ve believed that:

      So how did this claim arise? In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of “facts” that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous “facts,” among which was the statistic cited above about the average person’s swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a delicious irony, Holst’s propagation of this false “fact” has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet.

      Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/

    • LeonineAlpha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      See the average is stated as 8/year, but the problem is Spiders George, who lives in a cave and swallows 37 000. Spiders George is a statistical outlier that should have been pulled from the data set!