Yep, seen this one before, by the standards outlined it means that:
Lava is poisonous and Bears are venomous.
Venom vs Poison
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ransack3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hmm, I was going to say there’s a chance you survive biting lava - but technically there’s also a chance you survive biting something poisonous.
So yeah, flawless logic. The most poisonous and venemous things happen to be the pure unbridled power of the earth and 900lbs of muscle and hungry.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
fossphi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Chomp!
Rolando@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Froakie is unable to battle!
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aw, it works on my end. It’s Venom and Poison sprites from Final Fight.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
cmhe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if I put poison on my teeth, bite someone and they die?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can something be both poisonous and venomous at the same time?
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Good question. Not an expert. Or even a amateur. But yea eating the venom can’t be good.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aren’t those frogs also venomous? The natives use their toxin for tipping their hunting darts and arrows.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The toxins are excreted through their skin, and adhere with the oils that keep their skin moist. It is a defense that keeps other animal from eating/touching them. They are not really facilitated to bite as a defense. They pull prey in, and their mouth mostly crushes, and is used to swallow.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I meant that if we’re saying it’s venom when it kills you by it being introduced to your bloodstream, then their poison is also venom.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Voodoo like they’re suggesting is made up of old racist ideas about certain religions and spiritual practices. So no, they’re wrong and racist about that part.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
@fossilesque Your chance to replace the legs of one person with the Saddam Hussein figure…
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This explains the name poison ivy.
4oreman@lemy.lol 2 months ago
this whole thread bites
Kalkaline@leminal.space 2 months ago
If I call a snake poisonous, or a frog venomous there is no knowledgeable person that will be confused about what I’m saying. The only people who bring this point up are people who love to be pedantic.
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You called?
LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Would you say the same thing about being envious and being jealous?
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the way that language is commonly used, yes. People have been using it wrong for so long “jealous” has effectively become synonymous with “envious”. Even if I dislike and disagree with it being used this way.
If someone is eating a donut and you say “I’m so jealous [of having the donut]” I’m fairly confident most everyone would understand you mean envious by definition but are using the word jealous to convey that meaning.
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 2 months ago
And nauseous vs. nauseated.
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You sound like the kind of person that thinks tomatoes are vegetables.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How dare you!
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Unless we’re talking about eating the snake. That could cause some confusion.
AEsheron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, but we can go even further beyond in pedantry. This distinction is only wxclusive when we’re talking about a living thing. When talking about the substances themselves, one is a subcategory of the other. A venomous snake is not poisonous, but a venomous venom is a poisonous poison.
TechLich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, and even when talking about living things it’s not a clear distinction.
In biology, poison is a substance that causes harm when an organism is exposed to it. Venom is a poison that enters the body through a sting or bite. In a bunch of medical fields though, poisons only apply to toxins that are ingested or absorbed through the skin and that definition sometimes carries across to zoology.
Venomous creatures are poisonous by most definitions because venom is a poison. But if the distinction is useful in a medical or zoological context then they’re not.
tldr: The pedantry is totally pointless and mostly wrong.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe calling a Snake Poisonous
But if you tell me a Frog is venomous I’m certainly going to misunderstand and get away from it asap
Because funnily enough iirc there are actually venomous frogs that kill if they touch you
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
A possibly important distinction is lost, though.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
Wait until you have to go out in the wilderness and eat snakes. Then you find a non-venomous snake with hypodermic poison.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months ago
This is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it’s just the language evolving.