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Bugs are not just bugs
Bugs are a subcategory of insects and you are wrong almost every time you call any old insect a bug
this is just a fact. Hemiptera is often referred to as true bugs
Yeah I suppose the OP says "opinion" but this here fact has put me in the situation in the picture more than once
Why would you say that about Brett Stephenβs?
Hoooooly shit I forgot about the bedbug meltdown
HE GOOGLED "JEWS AS BEDBUGS" what a classic
I like to call all creepy crawlies bugs so I can pull this pedantic fact. I'm calling spiders bugs and you can't stop me, because you're just as wrong when you call a fly a bug.
Shrimps is bugs.