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TBF if someone tased you every time you set your phone down you’d fucking remember

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I only turn into goo after a particularly bad day at work, though.

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Or for the pretty ladies, but that’s different.

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Or after Shinji has had a particularly bad day at work.

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Get in the dam robot Shinji!

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Omeleto!

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Ready for the bucket, Odo?

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Parenting method from the year 3000

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bold of you to assume that you will be able to put down your phone in the year 3000…

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Your right, I’d prolly get tased.

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I imagine they feel like “man, I really need to turn to goo” in the same way we are like “man, I really gotta take a shit”

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I would fucking love to be a pile of goo for a couple of hours. I feel you, little caterpillar.

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That’s basically why I was a heroin addict for 15 years. I just wanted to chrysalis-out the world and goo down.

I still want to but I’m clean now :|

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I’m glad you’re clean though. Keep it up!

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Well done.

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In the wild while someone might interrupt the process tho? No, no thanks

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Odo, is that you?

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They don’t exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the “cocoon” is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o

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Basically, its like everyday you change into the same somewhat similar shirt and then one day you went to change shirt and suddenly the shirt is not the same shirt but more fabulous shirt then before ?

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They don’t know they’re going to be butterflies. They are driven by instinct to build the cocoon. It is a natural urge, an irresistible drive.

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Insects with their tiny brains never really “know” what they’re doing. They just do.

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Sounds like the conservatives

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Ha, you think they have brains

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How accurate is this description?

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Nice video. Yes caterpillars have a proto-wing internally before they pupate. But, as they say in the video, it’s a myth that they turn into goo in the cocoon. They don’t.

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