human anteaters

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have the same thing. Maybe not quite that powerful, but as a kid I used to root out ant hills to shove sticks in and be a general terror. I thought it was normal until I started dating a girl and we went on a picnic and pointed them out saying we shouldn’t eat there. If I smash one it smells like someone opened a can of gas in the room.

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  • NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re a genetic masterpiece.

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    • sir_pronoun@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, I hope she realized that she should have a family with that guy. Those genes need preserving

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  • Tyfud@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And when did Charles Xavier reach out to you?

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• TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck I have the stupid shitty cilantro gene and there’s some dudes with ant hunting genes?

  Not fair :(

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• Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only if he eats it.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah. It sounds more like he could be Ant-Man and is able to pick up on the trails. If he can communicate with them by twreking his butt into the ground, I’m convinced.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Antmeeter. He can always arrange an in-person meeting with an ant. Even if the ant’s schedule is full.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have it. My mom used to crush ants she saw in the kitchen before she realized that the stink I was complaining about was the stench of compressed ant corpses. Don’t get me started on these stinky fucks:

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• Hux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He’s like an X-Men hero designed to find Ant-Man when he gets stuck between couch cushions or something.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I equate it to the smell of juniper berries.

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  • FidelChadstro@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I could see “gasoline”. Maybe peppery.

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gon Freecss moment

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• GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t say I can smell if there’s a single ant in the other room, but I can absolutely smell if there are ants. And I hate if I have to sweep them out do anything because they really pop off in distress. Its crazy how such a tiny thing can smell so bad.

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• Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it smells like mint gum and wood chips. I’ve only ever smelled it when I was doing landscaping.

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• sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There was a brief moment, while I was going through SERE training, in the Navy; it was before we were “captured” but long enough that I hadn’t eaten in a while. We were in the low mountains of SoCal, dry and hot. Whenever we would stop movement for a money and take a seat, I could smell when an ant was on me.

  I didn’t recognize what the smell was at first until I saw an ant, after smelling it. I hooked him on my finger and brought him close to my nose and it was clear, he was the source.

  I couldn’t describe it very well though, not a common smell to me. Never experienced it since.

  Maybe it was the combination of no food or bathing, and heightened stress. My SiL also went through SERE, says she has no idea what I was talking about, and just makes fun of me about it. But she’s also the type of person who would lie about it, just to fuck with me.

  So who knows.

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• crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  yeah a small % of folks can smell them.

  Last time I was reading through comments from those who could, the common response was “sorta like raisins”

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• Catfish@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it smells more like vinegar.

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• MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lee Mack can smell dead flies

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBL5HR9Cuo&pp=ygUgbGVlIG1h…

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d say the smell is closer to turpentine or maybe kerosene

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