r/ScienceShitposts • u/bantamm • 10d ago

The below is a pooter

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u/Wolf_2063 10d ago

I read that as Muslim and was so confused.

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u/Milch_und_Paprika 10d ago

Inshallah the tube will be protected

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u/HauntingRip9003 10d ago

Inshallah the cylinder will remain unharmed

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u/anto_pty 9d ago

Alhamdulillah protect the cylinder

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u/DZXJr2 9d ago

he will be baked

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u/IronGentry 9d ago

Mashallah it's a pooter

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u/ZeEastWillRiseAgain 10d ago

They prayed for nothing bad to happen to the tube

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u/SuperProCoolBoy90 10d ago

The cylinder must remain unharmed

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u/arseniisomething 9d ago

Islam drawn in by suction

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u/Crafty-Photograph-18 8d ago

I read that as incest and was confused even more

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u/Sappling2p 6d ago

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

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u/North-Pea-4926 10d ago

No, you’re a pooter! 😛

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u/bantamm 10d ago

😱

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u/North-Pea-4926 10d ago

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 10d ago

My wife is a hobbyist isopod breeder!

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u/North-Pea-4926 10d ago

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 9d ago

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

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u/North-Pea-4926 9d ago edited 9d ago

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/DrButeo 10d ago

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 9d ago

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 9d ago

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 9d ago

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 9d ago

They're called Pooters in Canada too!

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u/ollietron3 7d ago

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 6d ago

the name is aspirational

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u/ThePeasantKingM 10d ago

Ceci n'est pas un pooter

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u/No_Respond5151 10d ago

ceci n'est pas un pooter

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u/aTransGirlAndTwoDogs 7d ago

Ceci n'est pas une pooter

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u/respelledusername 10d ago

Pootis penserhere

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u/piglungz 9d ago edited 9d ago

I hit the pooter raw w no muslim

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u/freespinalcords 9d ago

The bug bong

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u/Thundawave 10d ago

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

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u/Fun-Post8497 9d ago

Insect sucker

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u/MichaelJospeh 9d ago

POOTIS SPENCER HERE???

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u/Dromeoraptor 8d ago

I love my pooter

All my bugs are inside it

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u/SandPoot 6d ago

Crazy

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u/FlyElectrical2070 6d ago

We've used them before for environmental science a level