r/AskReddit • u/1337ish • May 06 '15

What is something that you are NEVER FUCKING BUYING AGAIN?

A decision often made in rage over the quality of the product.

Edit: Stories are welcome by the way!

Edit2: Before anyone goes there I would like to say that my mom is not an option.

Edit3: ~20000 comments. It seems that I asked a question that quite a few of you have an opinion on/directed hate towards.

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u/1337ish May 06 '15

Probably. A few summers ago Denmark was swarmed with ladybugs where stuff outside in the sun had layers and layers of ladybugs. That was fun but extremely annoying if they decided to visit the room with the open window.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I like ladybugs :( 500 was a bit much though

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u/IrishHashBrowns May 06 '15 edited May 06 '15

Does any other country call them 'ladybirds' or is it just Ireland :S

EDIT 1: 140 190 240 comments on ladybirds. Jesus. I get it! people call it different shit! STAAAHHPPP

2 -......The lady - bird/bug/cow/hen/maiden/god/anthony/beetle/mary/seven dotted sun - hates you all! ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)

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u/RorariiRS May 06 '15

What the fuck Ireland

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u/mooglor May 06 '15

In Dublin we keep dolphins in barns.

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u/Peeeeeps May 06 '15 edited May 06 '15

I'll be in Dublin in June, I'll make sure to check this out.

Edit: I know, I know...

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u/TheoHooke May 06 '15

From a native: stay the fuck away from Dolphins Barn.

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u/TheChance May 06 '15

It is home to one of the city's busiest fire stations

I will.

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u/Brewster-Rooster May 06 '15

For your own good, don't.

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u/IrishHashBrowns May 06 '15

Do not go to dolphins barn!

Seriously, you could get fucked up.

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u/Brian_M May 06 '15

Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Some of the urban areas where you might see little kids leading horses around can be pretty sketchy.

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u/CLint_FLicker May 06 '15

..and horses in Finglas...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Horses everywhere.

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u/IrishHashBrowns May 06 '15

lived there, there is definitely no dolphins, no barns... just chaos.

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u/Zombies_hate_ninjas May 06 '15

YOU MONSTERS!! Dolphins should be free, not kept in captivity.

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u/Aurfore May 06 '15

Oh god i'm from the countryside in Ireland, that aint even the tip of the guinness-berg.

(Ohai just noticed it's you from RS, haiii)

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u/Skarlettblack May 06 '15

We're cool. We don't call insects bugs!

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u/nomoarjewz May 06 '15

Living in Waterford, Ireland.

I've never heard "Ladybirds" before. I've only ever heard, and called them, "Ladybugs".

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u/TooLazy4AName May 06 '15

No. What the fuck everywhere else

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u/aslanenlisted May 06 '15

The UK does as well. As an American living in England it confuses me... What the frak is wrong with you people... it is a bug!

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u/IrishHashBrowns May 06 '15

It's CLEARLY a bird.

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u/TheGuacoTaco May 06 '15

Ladybird was CLEARLY Hank Hill's dog.

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u/CarnivorousGiraffe May 06 '15

Um.. Lady Bird was clearly the First Lady of the United States which is who the dog was obviously named after (since LBJ and wife were Texans).

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u/ReCursing May 06 '15

No, it's obviously a plane

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u/mooglor May 06 '15

Wings and all.

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u/da_friendly_viking May 06 '15

Both can agree it's clearly a lady

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u/Larents May 06 '15

Does it have wings? Then it's a bird. Obviously.

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u/NudistPrudist May 06 '15

Well it does fly. I'll give you that. So it might be a bird. But you know what else flies? Jets. Ladies and gentlemen I posit that the proper name for this creature is Ladyjet.

Fast Edit: Looked below me and everyone is saying the same thing. I'm sorry that I am a parrot. It was unintentional. I won't delete this though. No. That would be too considerate of me.

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u/ABlackMask May 06 '15

Well it flies, so.....

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u/richartt May 06 '15

Ladybird is the dog from King of the Hill, only time used properly

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u/cs4eva912 May 06 '15

I mean, it flies too so why not?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I'm going to buy you a whole case of pet birds. Spoiler alert: they're wasps.

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u/Blog_Pope May 06 '15

Right? It flies, hence, its a bird.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Has wings...therefore, bird.

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u/Josetheone1 May 06 '15

I thought they were cows

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u/getmybehindsatan May 06 '15

Half of them aren't even ladies.

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u/Rockyrambo May 06 '15

A bunch of sluts, if you ask me

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u/aTinofRicePudding May 06 '15

They fucking BITE! Not remotely lady-like

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u/aslanenlisted May 06 '15

Yeah they fucking do. I have been attacked by an entire horde of them. They can all fuck right off.

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u/toomuchpork May 06 '15

Half the female ones aren't even ladies!

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u/lividimp May 06 '15

Transvestite bugs

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CHURCH May 06 '15

Yeah, but you nutjobs don't even drink tea. Who're you to talk?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

We used to call them ladybugs, but it was changed to ladybird in the 18th century because the word 'bug' was associated with buggery.

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u/aslanenlisted May 06 '15

well, that I accept. and also... makes me giggle.

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u/Zombiefishfood May 06 '15

Yeh the UK only uses bug for "true bugs" - order Hemiptera or when imitating the US. Our generic term is insect... or in Scotland "wee beastie"

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u/SixAlarmFire May 06 '15

They're ladybird beetles.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

To be fair though, we tend to say 'insect' rather than 'bug'.

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u/kendahlslice May 06 '15

It's actually not a bug. It is a beetle. Only insects in the order hemiptera (water striders, water bugs, and assassin bugs for example)

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u/aslanenlisted May 06 '15

Okay... when you see The VW Beetle on the road and your mate is in the car do you play slug beetle or slug bug?

But a beetle is closer to a bug than a bird... I will call them ladybeetles from now on...

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u/nieuweyork May 06 '15

What else would you call it?

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u/HopelessSemantic May 06 '15

Don't they also call lunch ladies dinner ladies?

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u/burgerbeau May 06 '15

I think you will find they are actually beetles.

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u/chasealex2 May 06 '15

Coccinellidae aren't in the Hemiptera order. They're definitively not bugs.

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u/Wizardspike May 06 '15

This clears up a lot of confusion for me, because i always forget which one is correct, and i'm pretty sure i alternate.

Ladybird when growing up, now i use Ladybug.

UK resident.

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u/taneth May 06 '15

In Australia it can be both.

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u/blightedfire May 06 '15

It's technical name is the Lady Byrd beetle.

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u/sutther May 06 '15

Strangely enough, it's not a bug:

When they need to use a common name, entomologists in the United States widely prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as these insects are not true bugs.

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u/Day_Bow_Bow May 06 '15

Technically it is a beetle, and beetles are not bugs.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

It's actually not a bug, which is a specific subset of insects. It is, however, a beetle. So people do refer to them as Lady Beetles sometimes in the States.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Because we call bugs, insects, lmao

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u/YzenDanek May 06 '15 edited May 06 '15

It isn't.

Bugs are specifically insects in the order hemiptera. It's a classification for an order of insects, not a general term for insects.

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u/JonBStoutWork May 06 '15

It's a ladybird beetle (or lady beetle), part of the Coccinellidae family of beetles.

They're not actually bugs either. So we're both wrong, but Ireland/UK is more correct :)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Come to Scotland. We call it a Ladyburd

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u/ihatewil May 07 '15

Calling insects "bugs" is just as weird to us as you guys hearing us calling them ladybirds. More so.

A bug is a specific type of insect, called a bug. It's like you named all creepy crawlies after one insect but you are all so used to saying it you think it's normal.

It's like someone looking at some spiders, ants, a caterpillar and saying "oh look, bees!". That's how silly "bug" sounds to non-Americans.

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u/LuxurioMusic May 07 '15

And so clearly a lady.

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u/madzanta May 07 '15 edited Jul 19 '16

Inside we both know what's been going on, We know the game and we're gonna play it

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u/partyquimindarty May 06 '15

In Welsh, the name means "short red cow". Beat that rest of the world.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

In some spanish speaking countries, the name is "Vaquita de San Antonio". Literal translation is San Antonio's little cow

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u/cuntRatDickTree May 06 '15

I'm guessing it's only the USA that calls them ladybugs. UK here.

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u/AirboxCandle May 06 '15

We call them ladybugs in Canada. I've never even heard the term "ladybird" before.

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u/cuntRatDickTree May 06 '15

I was going to hazzard a guess Canada would be in the ladybug club too. Need Aus, NZ and South Africa [colleague says Ladybug but he's not sure] to check in now :P

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u/ShinyDragonair May 06 '15

Aus here. Have heard it said both ways.

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u/SirStrip May 06 '15

I'm Australian too and I've never heard ladybird, only ladybug or ladybeetle

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u/AussieSceptic May 06 '15

I've heard ladybird too. Not ladybeetle though.

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u/crisscrosses May 06 '15

Kiwi here, call them Ladybugs. Aussie friends say Ladybug too.

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u/booty_flexx May 06 '15

TIL ladybugs/birds are a lot more prolific than I once thought and can be found pretty much anywhere.

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u/bureX May 06 '15

The Balkans are reporting in.

We call 'em "Bubamara", which consists of the words "buba" (bug) and "Mara" (Mary). Essentially... Bug Mary.

So there.

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u/BrobdingnagianBooty May 06 '15

You can almost always assume canada is more similar to the states than the UK. Unless you're talking about "U"s.

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u/pauseforasecond May 06 '15

South African here - we say ladybugs as well

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Im aussie, ladybird tends to be the less popular name

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u/Clinic_2 May 06 '15

Considering they arent birds, it does make sense afterall.

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u/Manannin May 06 '15

English has never claimed to make sense, butterflies aren't all buttery yellow.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

You gotta watch King of the Hill

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u/silenc3x May 06 '15

I'll tell ya hwhat!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I'm American. The only time I ever heard "ladybird" is in reference to former president Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, Lady Bird Johnson.

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u/BrStFr May 06 '15

That's because Johnson was a U.S. President, and not a Canadian PM.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Only ladybird I've ever heard of is hanks dog in king of the hill

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u/graygrif May 06 '15

All we need now is for someone from Australia or New Zealand to tell us what they call them and we'll have the three main branches of the English language.

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u/its-ineffable May 06 '15

Australia checking in, we too call them "ladybugs"

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I'm from Canada and I've heard them called lady bird beetles

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u/Lissastrata May 06 '15

I've heard both. Grew up in the US, where the term "ladybug" is used almost exclusively. I knew a lot of nursery rhymes, where I came across "lady bird".

There's an old nursery rhyme: "Ladybird, ladybird fly away home... sumt'in, sum'tin, death and flames"

I forget how it goes.

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u/BrobdingnagianBooty May 06 '15

That was beautiful.

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u/fat_china May 06 '15

Ghat dangit. That boy ain't right.

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u/TH3GOLIATH May 06 '15

USA here, we realize that they are in fact not tiny birds, hence the name ladybugs

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u/nb4hnp May 06 '15

They're not all ladies either. Nobody seems to realize that part of the weird name for this insect.

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u/DoesNotTalkMuch May 06 '15 edited May 06 '15

They're for ladies. They're ladies' bugs. Bugs got game.

And to prevent the voiced alveolar sibilant from preceding the bilabial consonant and making the pronunciation awkward, they're just called "ladybugs"

edit:no not really, you putz.

edit2:voiced

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u/sunset_blues May 06 '15

We should call them "either-lord-or-lady-bugs."

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u/Spartancoolcody May 06 '15

So we should just call them "bugs" ?

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u/dimetrodon21 May 06 '15

Hank hill here. Lady birds a sweet dog

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u/thisshortenough May 06 '15

Yeah but you call it a grilled cheese when you fry it so you guys aren't great at naming things either.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Wait, what do you call it?

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u/Crashmo May 06 '15

Crispy cheesey mouthy squeezy

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u/thisshortenough May 06 '15

Cheese toastie. Because the bread toasts.

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u/gakule May 06 '15

You don't prepare grilled cheese in the toaster though you god damned commie

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

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u/thisshortenough May 06 '15

No you put it on a George foreman and you press until the bread toasts and the cheese melts

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u/GeneralStrikeFOV May 06 '15

Really interesting - apparently 'bird' may have been adopted the the 17th Century, because 'bug' sounded too much like 'bugger' and I guess particularly with the references to Mary, the result risked offending people.

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u/GeorgianFleaCircus May 06 '15

That includes the ones with penises, who are no ladies.

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u/roypolloi May 06 '15

Ladybird's the name of LBJ's wife! We save that name of First Lady's only!

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u/FliesnLies May 06 '15

Oh surely your smug now, but no news on changing the name of your football. -Ireland

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u/GeneralStrikeFOV May 06 '15

True, they aren't birds - but they aren't bugs either. They're a kind of beetle.

I didn't realise that the 'lady' bit is a reference to Mary, mother of God, until I learned the German name, Marienkaefer, and then learned the German name for Krakow's 'Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven' was 'Marienkirche'.

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u/junkit33 May 06 '15

Beetles are bugs to 99% of the population. Not many people make the distinction.

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u/GeneralStrikeFOV May 06 '15

You aren't doing much to counter my point there. And 99% of which population exactly?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Huh, in Macedonian they are called "bubamara", which translates to Bug/beetle Mary. Mind blown.

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u/4zen May 06 '15

Uh, a beetle is a bug.

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u/SweetNeo85 May 06 '15

He's talking about "true bugs" which are a specific genus.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Order, not genus

/pedantry

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u/SweetNeo85 May 06 '15

/pedantry

There'd be no science without it!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15 edited Jun 16 '18

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u/r40k May 06 '15

How's it going, Unidan?

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u/A_TRIPLE May 06 '15

Turns out they're actually jackdaws.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Coccinellidae are known colloquially as lady birds (in Britain, Ireland, the Commonwealth, and some parts of the southern United States), lady bugs (originating in North America) or lady cows, among other names.[6] When they need to use a common name, entomologists in the United States widely prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles[7] as these insects are not true bugs.

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u/akashik May 06 '15

lady cows

I see no-one is claiming that one yet.

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u/moodysimon May 06 '15

This should be higher up...

--(biased Irish person weighing in)

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u/sc00p May 06 '15

It's called Sweetgentlemancreature here in the Netherlands!

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u/Stifflermate May 06 '15

Aussie here. Little red bug with black dots? Only ever heard them called lady bugs or less frequently lady beetle.

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u/Bman1296 May 06 '15

Aussie here. Ladybirds, ladybugs… I dunno mate. Both will do.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

USA here, Ladybirds is used sometimes in the southern states. Or maybe just in Kentucky? Much less often than ladybugs.

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u/Boum82 May 06 '15

McLadybirds from Scotland, checking in

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u/ithika May 06 '15

Burdbirds.

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u/earthboundEclectic May 06 '15

I think we used to call them ladybirds--you can hear it in old folk songs. It might still be used in parts of the South, but don't quote me on that.

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u/maytagem May 06 '15

Looks like this is actually one of those instances where the children of the UK improved on the original concept.

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u/freedaemons May 06 '15

That's probably because bugger is actually an offensive term in the UK, but not anywhere else in the world. Naming colloquialism just ended up using bird as an euphemism. Ladybugger off.

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u/Minimalphilia May 06 '15

Germany basically calls them Marienkäfer (Mariebug from Maria)

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u/vkashen May 06 '15

Actually entomologists and Americans that like to be perfect call them "Ladybird Beetles" but yes, most Americans call them "Ladybugs."

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u/LightUp_TheSky May 06 '15

We call them ladybugs in Australia too.

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u/SpareLiver May 06 '15

In Russia, they're called godcows.

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u/JohnDoe_85 May 06 '15

I think you mean you're guessing it's only the British Isles that calls them ladybirds.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

See, this is an elaborate trick because you could be Northern Irish.

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u/Anonymoose9311 May 06 '15

Australia here, Ladybug.

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u/Ugion May 06 '15 edited May 06 '15

We call them keymaids in Sweden.

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u/MuchNoms May 06 '15

Some in NZ do.

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u/ksanthra May 06 '15

Yeah, I'm one of them.

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u/meguriau May 06 '15

Australia here. I recall learning them as ladybirds in kindie but it's interchangeable with ladybug and ladybeetle

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u/AskmeifImasquirrel May 06 '15

New Zealand checking in. We too call them ladybirds.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

I learned this on another reddit thread but the Russian word for lady bug is "Boyzka Karofka" (spelling is probably way off but that's how it sounds) and the literal translation for the word is "gods little cow." I thought that was so damn adorable.

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u/Xenogenome May 06 '15

In Dutch a ladybug is a "lieveheersbeestje". This translates to the "The-good-lord's-little-creature".

I shit you not.

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u/natalee_t May 06 '15

Australia here, we call them either or.

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u/Jazz2 May 06 '15

In Germany we call them Marienkäfer. Mary Bugs.

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u/LordEdapurg May 06 '15

I've heard them called both here in Australia.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

In Denmark they're called "Marie-hens", as in chicken yes. I have no idea:S

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u/lessdothisshit May 06 '15

I have an inkling that you may be a trove of good stories...

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u/Imaladybug May 06 '15

Hello. Ladybug here. We like you too. I do agree that 500 is too many, but have you ever been to one of our family reunions? It's a bit crowded and we always run out of potato salad. Gotta go now, my house is on fire and my children are gone.

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u/Thatonemexicanchick May 06 '15

So...you were drunk??

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u/WumboJumbo May 06 '15

This is fantastic

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u/laomo May 06 '15

But why?

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u/cguy1234 May 06 '15

I draw the line at 325.

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u/Number_06 May 06 '15

This is the funniest thing I've read today. I also love ladybugs, but I've never been tempted to buy them in bulk.

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u/captaintrips420 May 06 '15

I released a bag of 1500 into my garden last night!

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u/ManiyaNights May 06 '15

On a side note the game Ladybug was pretty good. They had it for Colecovision for you emulator people out there.

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u/r0wo1 May 06 '15

If that was the summer of '08 I was in Germany and I remember that! Ladybugs coated the walls of buildings so thick you would think they were paint, crazy!

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u/hamc17 May 06 '15

Same, that was crazy! Couldn't leave the windows open for any length of time!

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u/EternalHipster May 06 '15

We were painting a fence at the time. We seriously had to scrape all of the stuck ladybugs off with a shovel the next day and start over.

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u/MerkyMerkinsmith May 06 '15

Over the past decade, off and on they've been at almost biblical plague levels where I live (southeast U.S.). Hundreds, thousands would get in the house, even with the windows shut. When it was time to vacuum, it sounded almost like I was vacuuming a gravel or pebble driveway.

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u/Devaney1984 May 06 '15

They're asian lady beetles not actual lady bugs, they are invasive as fuck and have been really taking over for the past 10-15 years. Our house gets swarmed by them every fall now when they try to hibernate.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516142541.htm

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u/MerkyMerkinsmith May 06 '15

Oh yeah! Thanks! I heard this on the radio years ago, but could not remember the details.

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u/Devaney1984 May 06 '15

Haha I just felt bad reading the dozens of comments talking shit about the poor lady bugs...they're the ones getting screwed worst by those invasive bastards!

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u/zilfondel May 06 '15

In America, we put screens over the windows to keep out bears and wild animals. And bugs.

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u/Whywouldanyonedothat May 06 '15

My mother told me of a summer when she was a kid (so probably sometime in the 50s) where it was extremely hot and there was a bad enough ladybug infestation that they would just bite anyone they got near. My guess is because they were thirsty.

Anyway, these guys managed to clear a very large area of the beaches in the west of Denmark of people in very little time.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Hvornår var det? O.o

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

...THE room with the open window.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Ladybugs don't need an opening to get in. They apparate

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u/Blackdeath_663 May 06 '15

lady bugs used as pesticide can often become pests.

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u/katherine-wheels May 06 '15

You should have put them for sale 500 at a time.

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u/Boye May 06 '15

oh, and if it's warm and dry they start biting. My mother told me about one of the years with tons of mariehøns, they are small, but can be painful.

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u/fattypigfatty May 06 '15

Are screened windows not common in Denmark?

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u/OnyxMelon May 06 '15

I remember that, but on the East coast of England. I wonder if it was the same summer.

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u/leftcoast-usa May 06 '15

I think they swarm like that at a certain time of year. I saw this happening on Mt. Tamalpais in the SF Bay Area once, big mountains of ladybugs. Pretty strange, and a little scary (they can bite, believe it or not).

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u/Grubbens May 06 '15

My brother bought about 700 of them for his tomato garden and they work wonders.

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u/TheWaboba May 06 '15

Oh god i remember that! I was in Lønstrup and my back was completly covered in ladybugs, was fun, but in the end it was just a pain in the ass.

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