bugs

Bug isn't even a technical term. Lobsters are considered bugs!

That's a great point you big dumb bitch.
Yeah I always assumed "bug" was like "vegetable" --- it's a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are "true bugs" so maybe the analogy isn't completely sound.

(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)
- They're culinary vegetables. My wife likes to say it like this: intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that it doesn't go in a fruit salad.
- Agreed. In my mind "bug" has always meant arthropod. So it's include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.
- You wouldn't say that if you ever tried those tomatoes https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/17/culture/foodTravel/tomango-tomato/20210117130800678.html
  
  I'd even call them candy.
I'm sorry but you're simply incorrect.

Bug is a technical term. Only insects of order Hemiptera, categorized by the ability to fly and the presence of piercing, sucking mouth parts, are considered true bugs.

Lobsters are certainly not considered bugs.
- I'm sorry but you're simply incorrect. Bug can be a technical term, but that doesn't also preclude it from also being a non-technical term, because words often have more than one meaning. See also: theory.
- Merriam-Webster, definition 1:
  
  a: any of an order (Hemiptera and especially its suborder Heteroptera) of insects (such as an assassin bug or chinch bug) that have sucking mouthparts, forewings thickened at the base, and incomplete metamorphosis and are often economic pests
  
  called also true bug
  
  b: any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs
  
  c: any of several insects (such as a head louse) commonly considered obnoxious
- The scientific taxonomic system was made, in part, because traditional colloquial terms are a mess. For example, "daddy longlegs" refers to a type of spider in my area, but there are two other animals and three plants that it could refer to depending on where you grew up. Taxonomists saw that there are ten different standards, decided to make a new one to replace them all, and for once, it actually worked out for the most part.
  
  "Bug" is one of those old terms. It might have been mapped post hoc on top of the modern taxonomic system, but it didn't start that way, and isn't always used that way. I wouldn't expect an entomologist to use the term at all in formal contexts.
- But commonly it's a catch all for any creepy crawly, including arachnid. The classification is even called True Bug, not just Bug
- Crawdads are still mudbugs though.
But they wanted to feel smugly superior! Poor fella can't even be pedantic properly...

Jesus Christ someone get that dude a therapist.

But his username is mentally healthy so how could he need a therapist?
Or tell him he's the Lord of the Flies for being a Hemiptera expert and see what he does.

fewer beer

So close. Less beer, fewer beers. Both acceptable.

The number one rule for pedants is: if you're going to be pedantic, you'd damn well better be correct.

Display Name: Mentally Healthy

Username: EAT_ROADKILL

Dude is at odds with himself.

Duality of man

I'm not a scientist, but I'm the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I'd allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.

create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)
We're going to need a link
- It was a Google site (from years ago) so all that's left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.
Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I'd like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It's either giftig or it isn't.
- None that I know of. I think the OC was just mocking a bit on how some people can get so bent out of shape when the word is used colloquially.
- It's an unfortunate false friend that the German word Gift means poison in English.
- There is a distinction to make. For example some snake venom is not poisonous when traveling through your digestive system, and only becomes a problem when it enters the blood stream (usually from a bite).

They eat spiders too.

They're autonomous content scraping internet bots. Aka web crawlers.
- You son-of-a-bitch! I'm in! Subscribe me to your facts.

Stupid science bitch couldn't even understand the joke.

What's a science removed
- Curses are probably replaced with "removed" for you.

there is no scientific definition of "bug". the entire category is a social construct much like vegetables
this person's first sentence defined spiderd as insects and the second sentence said they weren't

They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.
- ah yes, thank you, my bad
TIL, vegetables are a social construct.

This article illustrates this nicely:
https://athensscienceobserver.com/2019/09/30/vegetables-are-a-social-construct/
Neither of those two sentences define the spider as either insect or non insect. Did you even read them?

*Edit: I understood wrong your comment is valid but phrased weirdly
- And the first sentence literally describes the scientific definition of bug...

A retort in three parts;

It's bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),
There's being pedantic and then there's being a jackass - that's you, jackass, and
@eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure taxonomy is in latin because actual scientists got tired of dealing with pedantic dipshits.

"Bug" is an english word so it's the domain of an etymologist not a biolgist. My lookup of the word indicates applying "bug" to arachnids is perfectly cromulent.
- Obligatory xkcd.
Also, Op never called spiders a bug to begin with

By this logic Bud Light drinkers eat their buds.

that bud is hops
- Nobody would eat hops you big dumb bitch.
As long as you decarb it first, I don't see an issue. Throw it on some peanut butter crackers and have a good time.
Who among us has not dined on their bud's ass after a few beers? It's just common courtesy.
It was said by a big dumb bitch

username doesn't check out...

Anyone know what the first known case of 'bug' exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It's a very English-language term so it surely wasn't when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.

Taxonomy is a conspiracy invented by neckbeards so they could "um ackshually" us when we call a bug a bug.

My bio professor basically admitted to us that a lot of that pedantry is pure smugness and nobody cares. Further still, all those names are so complicated because scientists love to try to one up each other on difficult to pronounce and needlessly long latin names.

Except...what do spiders eat? Hence, a bug-lite would fit perfectly with their favoured prey. Big-brain missed the obvious.

I'm guessing you missed where that was stated in the image.
That's a typical case of someone who is so eager to sounds right in an argument that they will not bother double checking to see if they missed the original point or true meaning before replying.

There are a lot of people like that on Reddit. Well, I assume there still are I deleted my account a while ago. What a toxic place.

Uhm lmao

Neil Degrasse Tyson tier reply

mmm, human-lite