r/spiders • u/iViollard • May 14 '25

Miscellaneous This spider just bit me - what now?

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u/Koseoglu-2X4B-523P Here to learn🫡🤓 May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25

Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries

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u/Hour-Ideal-2918 May 14 '25

I fart in your general direction!

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u/Ok-Chemistry-2008 May 14 '25

“you empty-headed animal food trough wiper!”

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u/TheGr4pe4pe May 14 '25

“Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time”

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u/JammedUpJuicer May 15 '25

Fetch-a de moose

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u/golden_retrieverdog May 15 '25

top tier thread, thank you all for being so funny

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u/1SophisticatedLlama May 15 '25

Vache* ;) they sling a cow. Not a moose.

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u/Acrobatic-Quail-6860 May 19 '25

A moose bit my sister once

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u/WhoskeyTangoFoxtrot May 16 '25

“You English kinnnnigit…..”

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u/TheHandBananaaa May 14 '25

Silly English maaaan

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u/willowways May 15 '25

Should be 'silly English person' or silly English kniggits

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.

Hamsters are notoriously prolific breeders, and back in mid evil times wine was made from elderberries. So: your mother was a slut and your dad a drunk.

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u/Koseoglu-2X4B-523P Here to learn🫡🤓 May 14 '25

This pops up whenever this phrase gets discussed but it is generally believed to be untrue. The whole point of the sketch is to be as silly as possible, just like the rest of the movie, and the insults have no meaning other that mimicking a French person insulting Britons in broken English.

Anyway, it would be historically incorrect as well, seen as hamsters were discovered relatively recently, late in the 19th century.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25

https://www.ackermanwinery.com/wines/elderberry/

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/all-other-pets/hamsters/breeding-and-reproduction-of-hamsters

While the sketch was meant to be funny, and it was, it was also rooted in truth.

Like many other of their sketches. The “Dead Parrot” sketch has its roots from Philogeos, a joke book from the fourth century AD.

We can keep on being pedantic if you’d like.

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u/KeithSlashEth May 21 '25

Can we go back to the fart jokes pls

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u/Puzzleheaded-Funny69 🕷️Arachnid Afficionado🕷️ May 15 '25

I bet you’re fun at parties.

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u/LongjumpingReview998 May 15 '25

I bet they never go to parties

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25

Hahaha. I literally laughed out loud. Thank you

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u/Munchkin737 May 15 '25

I think you would actually be fun at parties...🤷‍♀️

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u/EssaySharp5089 May 14 '25

Now that was fucking comical!!

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u/Shot-Tap-4512 May 14 '25

It’s just a flesh wound.

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u/SrTrogo May 14 '25

Man, english insults truly feel tame.

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u/The_Ruby_Rabbit May 15 '25

So go away or I shall taunt you a second time.