if you had an uncle who spent 40 years working as plumber, who quit his job, spent a few days at home learning to dance, then put on neon wristbands and a dayglow bumbag and went to Ibiza clubbing for a week, knocked some sheila up before dying of a heart attack, and were asked at his funeral "what did uncle terry do?", you wouldn't say "Uncle Tel was a raver". you'd say he was a hard working plumber who had a mad week at the end of his life. You are what you spend most of your time doing. they should be called flying fuck caterpillars, not butterflies
(, Sat 23 Oct 2021, 23:13, Reply)
But in that uncle metamorphosis analogy the uncle would have spent 40 years as a baby.
There's a species of beetle whose larval stage can last 50 years and those periodical cicadas lurk for 13 or 17 years as nymphs.
(, Sun 24 Oct 2021, 3:07, Reply)