Telling someone to drink less beer and study more is wild.
Academics in general have a long history of being alcoholics or alcoholic adjacent
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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I am in 1st year of college, I don't drink, and I am failing.
Heavy drinking is considered irresponsible through your bachelor's. After that it's considered "networking" and "building professional relationships". With the implicit usage as a coping mechanism
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If you’re not joking, reach out to your college’s academic support/tutoring centers. They’re literally paid to be there and help you with your classes. Even if you understand all the class content already they can still help you with whatever you’re struggling with, like figuring out how much time a project needs or how to get it started/organized.
I struggled my first go ‘round in college 20 years ago and wish I’d known that, now that I’m going back I’ve been using the support systems the college has a lot more and it’s been paying off.
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*fewer beer XD
Akshully I think it's either "less beer" or "fewer beers" (plural).
To build on this, this usage is called a non-count noun. Less beer, less water, less air, less sand, etc. all refer to non-countable quantities of some substance. Beer could be counted, if referred to by some metric (“one glass of beer,” “24 ounces of beer”), same as “a bottle of water,” “one tank of air,” “a truckload of sand.”
Which is all to say that you’re right. “Less beer” makes far more sense than “fewer beer.”
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There are three types of academics, ones that are addicted to alcohol, ones that are addicted to caffeine, and ones that are addicted to both.
(For health reasons I dont reccomend both at the same time)
I'll never forget my proffessor that just slammed monster and chain smoked cigarettes during fieldwork.
I only saw him drink water once. It was about 115 (Fahrenheit) and he took a single sip of water from a nalgene before putting it away.
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Yeah, that "EAT_ROADKILL" fellow is far too serious.
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Ok but "bug" has multiple meanings, and almost nobody means "hemiptera" when they say it. More commonly, it's any terrestrial arthropod. Arachnids are bugs. Centipedes are definitely bugs.
Heck, there's a broader definition that basically includes all arthropods. "Moreton bay bugs" are a popular food this time of year. And they're a kind of lobster.
The ocean is quite literally lousy with sea lice. They've even got rolly-pollies down there.
Not just roly-polies, but Rollison J. Pollimagnussons:
What in the name of Cthulhu is this?
Unhand at once me you filthy dry-skinned ape!
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I make a point of referring to birds as "feather-bugs", much to the weary resignation of my RL friends.
Where I live, the definition of a bug is super liberal to the point of absurdity.
But even that's been topped a few times over the years. When I used to be active on Reddit, I would participate in the "bug" identification sub. It wasn't frequent, but it also wasn't all the uncommon for folks to show up asking for ID on reptiles and amphibians, even remember that a shrew (or maybe it was some other small mammal) was posted once.
It wasn't that big of a surprise for me. I used to work retail decades ago and I remember a customer who returned a bag of salad greens because there was a bug in it. The "bug" was a very small baby frog (just out of tadpole stage) -- likely some kind of tree frog.
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they kinda drink them actually
Sometimes calling someone a big dumb bitch is the only appropriate course of action.
Rattling off insect classifications while a simple pun goes over you're head is a great demonstration of the difference between knowledge and intelligence.
*your
Yeah, but I'm not fixing it, you big dumb bitch.
I'm not big.
That was at least 3x funnier than it should have been.
Well done.
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“Bug” is a folksy word for any invertebrate with 6 or more legs. For example, they call lobsters and crayfish bugs.
many people call slugs, snails, and worms bugs too. So any invertibrate with the right vibes
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I've learned recently that "Vegetable" is kind of like that too. Like most vegetables are fruits, seeds, leaves, roots, etc etc. Vegetable is a culinary term, not a botanical one, and it's still foggy. It's basically a plant that isn't sweet, but they also call sweet corn a vegetable so whatever.
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Does "bug" have a technical definition? If so then it's news to me and everyone who uses it to mean pretty much any small invertebrate (or microorganism, or software defect).
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Three Tweets, each replying to the previous.
By "you're right, i'm wrong" @OkBu...:
what kind of beer do spiders drink? bug lite
By "Mentally Healthy" @EAT_ROAD...:
bad joke, spiders are not bugs only insects of the order hemiptera classified as bugs and spiders aren't even insects. maybe if you drank fewer beer and spent more time studying you would know that but it's your life
by "you're right, i'm wrong" @OkButStill:
they eat bugs you big dumb bitch
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In Australia the spiders don't eat bugs, they mostly eat low flying birds and posties
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So you’re telling me people who drink Bud Light eat their buds?
I know anti-intellectualism plays into this somewhere somehow.
... I'm just not sure where and how.
"When you argue with fools, others may not be able to tell who's the fool."
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