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[–] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 119 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Ok now I'm curious about what the fuck the two centipedes I found in my basement that I thought were fucking were actually doing. They sure looked like they were fucking.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 178 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They were wrestling. Go back to bed.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Step-centipede, what are you doing?!"

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I don't know how to boil the water ~~~

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 114 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they were those queer centipedes that fuck in person. Degenerates

[–] oce@jlai.lu 41 points 3 months ago

They do it just for fun! Gross.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 56 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Don't humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things...

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

too late

Too late

Too Late

TOO LATE
centipede morphmoe

There are way, way more "centipede monster girl" image results... DuckDuckGo/Google

Caterpillar girls are fine though.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eww, making it a head tail is so much worse!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 17 points 3 months ago

Just makes me wonder if it's a centipede girl or a centipede that ate a girl's brain and puppets her body around.

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Someone has already centipedized humans. This is the next step.

Don’t humanize centipedes

I'M DOING MY PART!

[–] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just gonna take a quick stroll over to rule34.xxx and see what there is to see...

Edit: Jesus fuck 638 results. We just needed ONE to confirm the rule, but 638?!

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 3 months ago

When two centipedes ~~love each other~~ are both really hungry...

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A disappointingly large proportion of the general population appears to be unable to tell the difference between centipedes and millipedes. Is it possible that the "centipedes" you saw were actually millipedes? If so, they may have been "fucking", or at least the millipede equivalent of it.

Additionally, it appears that this "fact" is actually wrong (big surprise, huh?). Many species of centipede do have courtship strategies that involve males and females meeting up. The sexes may even employ various forms of physical touch as part of the process. So, it's certainly possible that the critters you saw where centipedes courting each other.

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

Centipedes see other Centipedes as food, which is why they reproduce this way.

Source: made it up, but it seems logical. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] brap@lemmy.world 95 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The last time I left sperm packets on the ground I was branded a "pervert" and a "freak" and told to leave the restaurant immediately before they called the police.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Have you tried growing 98 more legs first?

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

Or at least 28 more

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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago

You need to dress it up as geocaching.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Sooo are centipedes like fruit flies and not engage in any real form of sexual selection, or is the female going around judging the fuck out of every jizz pile she encounters?

"Mmm-mm, look at that poor viscosity, obviously from a low-quality male. This one on the other hand: deep color, firm texture, nice and sticky... clearly produced by a male with the superior genes I want to pass along to my offspring."

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm upset no ones chimed in with a really technical breakdown and linked some studies

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The DoorDash approach to sexual reproduction. Fantastic.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Poots@mander.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

And a complementary turkey baster, too!

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

have you seen a centipede? completely unfuckable

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...unless you are a leg man...

[–] occhionaut@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now im imagining a centipede sticking out fifty pantyhosed legs from around the corner while catcalling its mark.

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[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago

Woah there buddy, please don't fetish shame.

[–] nick@midwest.social 44 points 3 months ago

Taking “hit it and quit it” to the next level.

Skeet and yeet.

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So THAT'S how Vance & his wife have kids: he leaves her some fresh sperm in the couch

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

damn, the lore thickens

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[–] nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Does this mean jd vance is a centipede?

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, guess I'm a centipede then.

[–] Disk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what do you mean by this WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THIS

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming he's male, but no females are collecting his packets.

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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've heard that this is how incels reproduce.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So we're just walking around and stepping on centipede cum?

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[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

Relationship goals.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure this is how the junkies in my town reproduce.

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