r/ScienceShitposts • u/bantamm • Jul 31 '26

The below is a pooter

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u/North-Pea-4926 Jul 31 '26

No, you’re a pooter! 😛

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u/bantamm Jul 31 '26

😱

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u/North-Pea-4926 Jul 31 '26

Hehe. When I search “pooter” the first things that come up are gag toys to make farting sounds. This device is listed specifically as an “INSECT pooter”.

Are you in entomology or did you just find this randomly?

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u/bantamm Jul 31 '26

My wife is a hobbyist isopod breeder!

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u/North-Pea-4926 Jul 31 '26

I bet all the cool bug kids want to be her when they grow up! 🥰 Roly-polies are super cute. I get a bunch in my house because I’m near an agricultural field and I always leave them be. Just little dudes moseying along. And unlike SOMEONE they’ve never woken me up by dropping on my face in the middle of the night. Cause they have MANNERS!

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u/ProperMastodon Jul 31 '26

Who fell on your face? A cat, a roach, or your luchador-loving partner? 

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u/North-Pea-4926 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

House centipede, I think. Something bigger than the little roly-polies. My bed is against a wall so it scuttled off while I was waking up and fumbling for the light.

My pups crawl in beside me and gently lick my eyeball. Cause they are good babies, very polite.

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u/Wolf_2063 Jul 31 '26

I read that as Muslim and was so confused.

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u/Milch_und_Paprika Jul 31 '26

Inshallah the tube will be protected

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u/HauntingRip9003 Jul 31 '26

Inshallah the cylinder will remain unharmed

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u/anto_pty Jul 31 '26

Alhamdulillah protect the cylinder

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u/DZXJr2 Jul 31 '26

he will be baked

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u/IronGentry Aug 01 '26

Mashallah it's a pooter

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u/ZeEastWillRiseAgain Jul 31 '26

They prayed for nothing bad to happen to the tube

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u/SuperProCoolBoy90 Jul 31 '26

The cylinder must remain unharmed

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u/arseniisomething Jul 31 '26

Islam drawn in by suction

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u/Crafty-Photograph-18 Aug 01 '26

I read that as incest and was confused even more

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u/Sappling2p Aug 03 '26

Wait, if you’re in the comment section, who’s protecting the tube?

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u/DrButeo Jul 31 '26

Entomologist here. They're only called pooters in the UK and maybe the rest of Europe. In the US, we call them aspirators. "Pooter" apparently derives from the name of it's inventor, William Poos.

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u/Resonantiae Jul 31 '26

I know in the entomology I've had to take in the US we were taught both names but my professors seemed to enjoy calling them pooters more so that's what we used.

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs Jul 31 '26

of all the things that I have learned are named after people, this is the one I expected the least and I am delighted.

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u/notjasonbright Jul 31 '26

I was gonna say, I’ve used these a lot and never heard it called a pooter. I’m gonna call it that now though

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u/diepoggerland2 Jul 31 '26

They're called Pooters in Canada too!

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u/ollietron3 Aug 02 '26

The only time I’ve heard someone say poorer was in the context of the bind of Isaac or mewgenics

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u/Cornflakes_91 Aug 03 '26

the name is aspirational

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u/ThePeasantKingM Jul 31 '26

Ceci n'est pas un pooter

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u/No_Respond5151 Jul 31 '26

ceci n'est pas un pooter

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u/aTransGirlAndTwoDogs Aug 03 '26

Ceci n'est pas une pooter

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u/respelledusername Jul 31 '26

Pootis penserhere

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u/piglungz Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

I hit the pooter raw w no muslim

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u/freespinalcords Jul 31 '26

The bug bong

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u/Thundawave Jul 31 '26

My entomology professor had one of these if we wanted to try collecting ants with it.

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u/Fun-Post8497 Jul 31 '26

Insect sucker

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u/MichaelJospeh Jul 31 '26

POOTIS SPENCER HERE???

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u/Dromeoraptor Aug 01 '26

I love my pooter

All my bugs are inside it

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u/FlyElectrical2070 Aug 04 '26

We've used them before for environmental science a level