"Genetic quirk", you say?
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“What’s your mutation? Teleportation? Laser Eyes? Weaponized Tornadoes?”
“…I… I can smell ants... how about yours?”
“Oh… well… my mutation is that cilantro tastes like chalk to me.”
What is this.. Xavier's school for ANTS?!
My anime head sees „quirk” think MHA lmao
Who the fuck is out here censoring fuck?
Please spoiler your comment
because its a fucking swear word
Wait are you telling me y’all actually don’t smell ants? They’re a weird and kinda smell like blue cheese. Definitely the smellier of insects.
Never in my life has an ant had any smell whatsoever. I was today years old when I realized people could smell ants.
In fact, I’ll go one step further. I grew up on a farm, tons of bugs. The only bug that I can ever remember smelling are those stupid Asian stink bugs invasive thingies that seem to have proliferated in the northeast US recently. When you squish them, they smell like green apples.
I can’t think of any other bug that smells at all - even when they are squished.
I'm convinced these people are just making it up, I've been alive nearly 40 years and not once heard of this being a thing.
I mean, they probably DO smell - but like I’ve never gotten on my hands and knees and sniffed any bug up close. Maybe these people are more sensitive to smells and can pick them up yards away - or a whole colony?
But ya it’s weird that I’ve never heard of this at all. I had heard of people born with tails or horns, females with beards, color blindness, tiger stripes on skin, the asparagus thing, rain man, hemaphrodites, on and on…
But today I learned ants smell ;)
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It's like me figuring out after 23 years that most people don't sneeze looking at the sun
DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN
I'll look at what I want!
Same for me. If I feel a sneeze coming on I look at a bright light to hurry it up. I thought this was normal but appetite isn't.
I wiggle my fingers in front of my nose in a sort of “multilegged gallop” motion, as if ky hand were trying to scramble up the bridge of my nose and slipping. But with no touch.
Biting into a piece of dark chocolate for the first time will cause me to quickly sneeze similar to how people do when the step out into the sun or inhale black pepper.
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do you mean like in the morning when the sun rays hit your nose you must sneeze?
🎶 When-the-sun hits-your-nose and you sneeze un-con-trolled IN THE MORNIIIING 🎶
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought of that song. XD
Gotta love how they see a video talking about it, with comments talking about it, and their first step is to post on Facebook asking about it before doing a simple search on their own.
It's seem to be the same as with cilantro a genetic trait that some people have and other don't
https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/61/2/85/1756864?login=false
Dunno if that a good source as everything i found about that exept for thos page talked about the tiktok post and not science
Tldr : ( i did not read the article in full ) the smell is described as a moldy pina colada
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Same as asparagus wee. Man, when anyone has eaten asparagus I can smell it before I enter the door to the bathroom. When I have eaten it myself, I’m partly horrified and partly morbidly fascinated. What the fuck is up with only some people being able to smell it.
I have this and coffee pee. I guess I'm a super small minority that can smell both.
Are there people who can’t smell a coffee wee? You’re blowing my mind.
I never noticed this, but I'm not around ants that much as a software engineer. :)
As a software developer and a few of my colleagues are ants. You might need to find a new job, somewhere more inclusive.
Write more bugs.
So, what do ants smell like?
To me they smell like a strong chemical-y smell. A lot like a Sharpie.
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Which ants? All ants?
I can smell the tiny black ants more than any other but I can smell all of them. I didn't know this was a genetic trait until now.
I've never smelled ants, but like maybe ants in Sweden don't smell? It's why I wanted to know which kinds.
I’ve never tried smelling isolated ants but the anthills in the forest just smell like forest to me. Also Swedish so my forests smell like pine and soil.
I agree it's surprising that people can smell ants as a genetic quirk, but it's not typing-what-the-fuck-in-all-caps surprising.
I can for sure smell them but only close up, not from feet away so I’m not sure what that means for me in terms of this gene. They have a very odd musty smell which is also detectable on anything they’ve walked on recently. It’s not a very pleasant odor.
As far as I know it’s all ants, not just a particular type.
i want to know how many things people had to snarf before realizing it was a tiny bug that they are smelling. how many ants were lost in noses over the years from people testing the theory?
I have a very powerful sense of smell.
I'm pretty sure I'm in the camp of people who can smell ants.
But... How do you even know you can smell ants? Why did you try it? Or can you smell them from meters away?
I somewhat experience this with ants, but I really experience this with ladybugs. Am I the genetic freak for being able to smell ladybugs?
Ladybugs smell like piss.
Yes they do
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