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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?

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I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode

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Did you ever read The Bikini Bottom Horror comic strip?

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Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little

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what.

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zzzzziiiiippppp

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😏

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Don’t leave us hanging… what are they called in France??

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They’re called “étoiles de mer” in French

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“toilets of the sea”

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Stars from/of the sea

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Thanks!

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this would work on me

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I must assume all people who name things have astigmatism.

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Surely whoever named astigmatism had astigmatism.

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