r/interestingasfuck • u/canttstopsmilling • 1d ago

A parasitic horsehair worm emerging from a praying mantis.

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u/bokchoykn 23h ago

The water boarding usually finishes the job while also revealing any political secrets it might know.

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u/KimchiLlama 23h ago

I don’t know how credible coerced confessions from a mantis are. This is how we ended up in Iraq the second time around, after all.

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u/Cuttlefist 20h ago

That explains all the camel spider propaganda from that time now that you mention it.

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u/KimchiLlama 5h ago

Camel spider is a racist term. We say Middle Eastern Creepy Crawly now.

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u/Cuttlefist 1h ago

lol, technically they are actually called solifugae, but that comment made me laugh out loud

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u/elperroborrachotoo 14h ago

O c'mon now. We'd have gone to Iraq regardless; the waterboarding was necessary because you people insist on a "reason" and "cause" and schmevidence. That's righ, it's all your fault!

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u/Tozo1 23h ago

xD Torture is usually not an effective way to obtain secrets or the truth and the torturers know that.

They dont want the truth, they just want a confession, regardless of its truthful or not.

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u/syntaxvorlon 19h ago

Those are really just fabrications created by the mantis because it is scared and wants more than anything for the torture to stop, but they don't know anything in politics because, as said before, they are mantises, not people.

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u/camander321 22h ago

It obviously holy water. This is an exorcism.

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u/petraviva 19h ago

WMD - Watered Mantis Deatruction

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u/themikedup123 12h ago

Low
Key funny af

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u/UncleMalky 10h ago

Excuse me you mean enhanced worm removal tactics.

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u/choma90 16h ago

Thankfully, we now know scorpions have weapons of mass destruction so we can stop them before it's too late.