I was the only person in a group who didn’t know. Everyone else knew a nickname as well as a common name.
Even when I saw a photo it meant nothing to me.
- I know what a cockchafer is
- I don’t know what a cockchafer is
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What a thread.
Yes, but only because my gran had a conversation about them five years ago and I had to leave the room to 1) look up what they were, and 2) mop up the tears of laughter after she said she was plagued by cockchafers
I’m a big fan of how it looks like they have massive eyebrows.
Is this about cycling? If so, yes.
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Ok seems about 60% don’t know. I’m happy with that.
The group I was in were incredulous that I didn’t know what they were. Like it was impossible to live in the UK without seeing them.
So, those of you who didn’t know. If I show you this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer
What’s your response?
- Oh yeah, I know those things but didn’t know they were called cockchafers.
- Hmm, didn’t know these existed
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Best Cockchafer:
- Common
- Forest
- Large
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I would say doodlebug.
- I really wanted to answer with a mum joke
- I’m such a grown up it never occurred to me.
- I pretended to know what it was and offered up a fact about eyebrows to prove it (I’m marckee)
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I thought I knew what raunchy was. Then I read this
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3032.2000.00183.x
Best read when you’ve got some alone time, if you know what I mean.
Thought it was a bird tbh.
Mayflies are like little dragonflies. Maybugs are cockchafers.
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It’s what they call me in the Countdown community.
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So annoying that it’s a ten-letter word though, isn’t it?
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Pretty hard to miss them, the day or so they are alive is chaos, dented cars, smashed windows, they are hardcore
COWBANGER is a nice 9 that also sounds a bit rude.
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Sounds painful.
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COWABUNGA would be the greatest Countdown 9er.