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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.

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They were wrestling. Go back to bed.

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wrestling 😏

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

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They do it just for fun! Gross.

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Don’t humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things…

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Don’t humanize centipedes

I’M DOING MY PART!

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6 points

And three movies that never should have been made.

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

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too late

Too late

Too Late

TOO LATE

There are way, way more “centipede monster girl” image results… DuckDuckGo/Google

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

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I draw the line at 8 legs.

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Those are clearly millipedes

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That top one is from momodora right?

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The head tail goes hard

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Thanks, I hate it

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Centipedussy.

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Gonna put put my dick in a centipede

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When two centipedes love each other are both really hungry…

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They could have been fighting. Maybe there was a lack of available food or fluid.

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maybe they’re just the cuddly-type except for the distancing-fucking

EDIT: I just realized this is Zizeks perfect romance as described by him

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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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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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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#/media/File%3AMillipede_centipede_side-by-side.png

Assuming this is actually representative of the difference, it was definitely a pair of centipedes.

I’m not surprised in the least that at a minimum it’s more complicated than the meme suggests, and now I’ve learned far more about centipedes than I ever wanted to. Thanks!

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millepedes are gross. centipedes are scary

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44 points

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

Skeet and yeet.

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I’ve heard that this is how incels reproduce.

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Don’t pick up crusty socks

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Octopi do something similar but at least they meet up, the dude will just hand her his dick tentacle for later. Octopi being octopi I would assume it grows back. So it’s one specific Cephalopod that actually makes a shell and they actually die after giving it to the female.

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Most cephalopods die after mating. Their sex hormones make them go crazy and they stop looking for food except to eat themselves occasionally. Once the sex hormone glad starts pumping them out, it doesn’t stop until they die a horrible death. Live fast and die young.

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I’ve met people like this

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I was very excited about humanity killing itself off and letting the superior line of sapience take over until I learned this fact. It’s going to be a bit before the octopi are ready to create a civilization.

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They don’t do any parenting, either. Nor do siblings ever team up. Baby octopus just has to take care of itself, alone.

It’s weird, they’re so intelligent, but don’t teach anything to the next generation.

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You mean you have to choose between a life without sex and a gruesome death? … Tough call.

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I mean have you seen a centipede? I wouldn’t want to hang out either

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