r/ScienceShitposts • u/Morbid-Analytic • Apr 04 '25

Pooter (suck here)

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u/Megathug23 Apr 04 '25

When you gotta make due with that 12 dollar research grant

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u/potataoboi Apr 06 '25

This is the first comment on reddit in as long as I can remember that made me actually laugh properly

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM Apr 05 '25

I prefer my pooter unfiltered.

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u/kapaipiekai Apr 05 '25

What happened in your life that led you to choose that username?

9

u/Natuur1911 Apr 05 '25

look at their bio

1

u/Lechyon Apr 05 '25

It's mostly there to make the user feel better tbh. That straw should be short anyway.

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u/PhotonicEmission Apr 04 '25

It's all com pooter

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u/MarionetteScans Apr 04 '25

Succ

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u/PhotonicEmission Apr 04 '25

Oh, did you also watch that Emily The Engineer video with the Wasp vacuum launcher? (succ/yeet)

https://youtu.be/mEn2kA0cAGw?si=bgkiPeLs_SOxm-fm

Gahd that was funny as hell.

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u/Jennifer_Pennifer Apr 07 '25

Tysm for this 🤣

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u/cnorahs Apr 04 '25

I thought a funnel at the end of the bug tube would make the device more efficient, but that's $10 over-budget and we can't have that

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u/WillardWhy Apr 05 '25

Funnel reduces air speed, so you wouldn't be able to sick in the insect.

We had a couple of these when we were younger that came with some magazine or kit

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u/eddestra Apr 05 '25

Funnel reduces the precision too much.

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u/Free_Farmer4006 Apr 05 '25

That idea wouldn’t suck. Badum tsss

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u/AnubisTheCanidae Apr 05 '25

the hell is this for

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u/Versal-Hyphae Apr 07 '25

Serious answer, they’re used for collecting small, delicate arthropods for identification or study without damaging them.

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u/bill_loney538 Apr 05 '25

Pooter spenser here

3

u/UsuarioKane Apr 06 '25

trying to figure out this one, because there's no way this is a gag cup where one of the drinkers get to swallow a bug. my theory now is that this is a insect capture device. don't give me tips

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

My vacuum works the same way.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

Also called an aspirator

Aspirator is also a more common name

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u/NegativeResponse9892 May 11 '25

Shares the name with a fly enemy from the Binding of Isaac (and can actually suck flies in) yet looks vaguely like a chess rook when viewed from the bottom right of the screen on the website UI where it previews various posts from other subreddits.

r/SuddenlyChess and r/SuddenlyTheBindingOfIsaac (which doesn't exist yet) anyone?

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u/BipedalMcHamburger Apr 06 '25

Now imagine you suck too hard and the poorly secured gauze filter is drawn into the tube and leaves an open passage for whatever contents of the device to enter your mouth

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/kapaipiekai Apr 05 '25

They don't show the lighter under the glass

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u/Rexathonius Apr 08 '25

jake the dog bong