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Posted: 8/3/2014 12:31:28 PM EDT

Just caught my 3 year old daughter eating rollie pollies out back. She was scarfing them down as fast as she could find them.

I asked her why, and she said "The naked people on TV do it..."

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:32:53 PM EDT

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Dont have to worry about her going hungry

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:34:01 PM EDT

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I would love to go back in time and show Philo Taylor Farnsworth this thread. Ask him if he still wanted to go ahead with his newfangled invention

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:34:45 PM EDT

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What's a "rollie pollie?"

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:35:15 PM EDT

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Don't stunt that kid's development. Encourage her to explore and conquer her world.

Give the 3YO a Bowie Knife.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:35:27 PM EDT

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Bugs that roll up when you fuck with them.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:35:58 PM EDT

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Bugs that roll up when you fuck with them.

Ah.

We call them pillbugs or waterbugs.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:36:06 PM EDT

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"Sow Bugs", Yankee.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:36:12 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/3/2014 12:36:24 PM EDT

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You should've told her she needed to get shelter and a fire first.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:36:25 PM EDT

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hahaha

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:36:51 PM EDT

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I can move. You're stuck being a 14er.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:37:08 PM EDT

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Protein.

She's not afraid of it.

(SV-80 grad/1986

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Posted: 8/3/2014 12:37:11 PM EDT

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Tater bugs, pillbugs, potato bugs, or as my gramps called em the gawd damnits when he found them in his garden.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:38:10 PM EDT

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Yep. Shelter, heat, water, food in that order.

I'll have a talk with her.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:38:10 PM EDT

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Weird people sometimes call them pill bugs, or potato bugs.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:38:39 PM EDT

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damn I thought everyone knew what a roly poly was.

must be another one of those things like coke/pop or y'all/youse

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:39:36 PM EDT

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A bug that does this.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:41:21 PM EDT

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it's a type of grub with a finely segmented shell; it curls into a ball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidaewhen threatened.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:43:31 PM EDT

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Atta girl!

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:45:04 PM EDT

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My 3 year old puts them in her pocket. She's a hoarder evidently.

Those little guys look like mash once they've been through a wash and dry cycle.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:45:59 PM EDT

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We took the scouts out last month to get their wilderness survival merit badge. I was shocked none could light a fire with flint and steel. They also couldn't start a fire with one match. Also their shelter sucked.

boys these days would die quickly in the wild.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:48:01 PM EDT

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Meh, she is fine. My 2 yo eats them occasionally.

They are like M&Ms of the bug world, crunchy on the outside, creamie in the middle.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:50:00 PM EDT

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Sow bugs don't roll up like roly polys. Ask her which tastes better.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:51:33 PM EDT

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I wonder if you can get parasites that way. Tell her to cook them next time.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:52:16 PM EDT

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We call them pillbugs or waterbugs.

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Bugs that roll up when you fuck with them.

Ah.

We call them pillbugs or waterbugs.

Water Bug-

Pill Bug-

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:53:20 PM EDT

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Bugs that roll up when you fuck with them.

Ah.

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What you call I water bug, I'd call a roach.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:53:39 PM EDT

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We took the scouts out last month to get their wilderness survival merit badge. I was shocked none could light a fire with flint and steel. They also couldn't start a fire with one match. Also their shelter sucked.

boys these days would die quickly in the wild.

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We took the scouts out last month to get their wilderness survival merit badge. I was shocked none could light a fire with flint and steel. They also couldn't start a fire with one match. Also their shelter sucked.

boys these days would die quickly in the wild.

When I start a fire with flint and steel people look at me as if I'm some form of wizard.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:53:49 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/3/2014 12:54:29 PM EDT

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i did that as a kid and I came out okay

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:54:42 PM EDT

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Correct.

Also, you should monitor her the next time she needs to use the bathroom....

....just in case she's thirsty.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:55:50 PM EDT

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I think they call them doodle bugs around here.

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:56:28 PM EDT

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Correct.

Also, you should monitor her the next time she needs to use the bathroom....

....just in case she's thirsty.

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Correct.

Also, you should monitor her the next time she needs to use the bathroom....

....just in case she's thirsty.

Hahahaha

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:57:33 PM EDT

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A Californian calling someone a Yankee?

Posted: 8/3/2014 12:59:51 PM EDT

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I can move. You're stuck being a 14er.

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I can move. You're stuck being a 14er.

Take two pillbugs and call me in the morning.

"No," they are not potato bugs, people. Or waterbugs.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:01:20 PM EDT

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My daughter's first time at Girl Scout camp was for a "survival session" and she learned all sorts of stuff. However, we had to have a talk when I walked outside and found her eating edible grass.

I told her that some f'ing dogooder will drive by and call DHS b/c you are out here eating grass!

I forget the name but there is one that tastes like Granny Smith apples and it's good.

Yea, I tried it. Do I want to subsist off of it? Not unless I have to.

I also told her it might be a good idea to wash off the grass. She has to bring it in and wash it off. She doesn't do it very often. Funny part was that her brothers gave her hell but they were jealous as fuck she got to go to camp.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:01:25 PM EDT

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Gaaaaaaaaaaaaross

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:03:03 PM EDT

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A Californian calling someone a Yankee?

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It's hard to explain very satisfactorily, but this is GD, not a courtroom. And I do have strong roots going back "South."

People are mobile, their parents can come from anywhere... It's not like it's impossible. I'm sure I'm not the only square peg in a round hole.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:10:06 PM EDT

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That's just about sigline material.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:11:08 PM EDT

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What you call I water bug, I'd call a roach.

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What's a "rollie pollie?"

Bugs that roll up when you fuck with them.

Ah.

We call them pillbugs or waterbugs.

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What you call I water bug, I'd call a roach.

Most northerners would like to call in an airstrike the first time they see one, lol.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:22:46 PM EDT

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We took the scouts out last month to get their wilderness survival merit badge. I was shocked none could light a fire with flint and steel. They also couldn't start a fire with one match. Also their shelter sucked.

boys these days would die quickly in the wild.

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We took the scouts out last month to get their wilderness survival merit badge. I was shocked none could light a fire with flint and steel. They also couldn't start a fire with one match. Also their shelter sucked.

boys these days would die quickly in the wild.

So who taught them their skills? I don't mean to be a dick but if you're one of the adult leaders in the troop then the problem rests with YOU.

Eagle Scout 1978

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:25:03 PM EDT

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Land lobster?

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:27:26 PM EDT

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Fuck that!

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:29:15 PM EDT

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What we called doodle bugs in SE NC are the larvae of the ant lion. They burrow into sandy soil, forming a conical pit, and when a small insect approaches the rim, they toss sand up trying to make it fall into the pit.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:32:10 PM EDT

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Ugly as sin but damn good eatin. No season, no limit either.

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:35:52 PM EDT

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OP.....Take a video of her eatin those things and play it back for her when she's 14 or 15

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:43:45 PM EDT

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DoodleBugs

Posted: 8/3/2014 1:44:01 PM EDT

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They don't carry disease according to wikipedia, and they are crustaceans so they are pretty much like a delicacy. It's possible that your daughter is the smart one, and we are stupid for paying high lobster, and crab prices when our houses are full of them.