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[–] [email protected] 173 points 8 months ago (5 children)

[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room... Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh... mission accomplished?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you ever read The Bikini Bottom Horror comic strip?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

yeah that's what I was referencing 💯

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

what.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

zzzzziiiiippppp

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't leave us hanging... what are they called in France??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They're called "étoiles de mer" in French

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

"toilets of the sea"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Np

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Okay…. Why are they called that?

What kind of toilettes are they using over there?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thankfully they're not.

As [email protected] said above, "Étoile de mer" means "star from/of the sea". "Toilet of the sea" would be translated to "toilettes de mer" (wich don't exist)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Stars from/of the sea

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

this would work on me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Seems a bit weird that every culture would call them some variant of "stars" since they don't look like actual stars. Actual stars are just dots.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Spikes on star image

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For clarification, the lines are caused by the mirrors’ edges, and the cross hatch pattern common on street lamps in pictures comes from a filter (or scratched lenses/other filters.)

With your normal eyeballs, it comes from defects like cataracts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You don't need defects in your eyes to see it. All you need to do is to close your eyes slightly and look through your eyelashes. The light refracts on the lashes and creates a star-like pattern.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

They particularly look like diffraction spikes/starbursts.

Astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma or smudged glasses can cause you to see starbursts when you look at bright lights at night.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I must assume all people who name things have astigmatism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Surely whoever named astigmatism had astigmatism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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