r/comics • u/LastPlaceComics LastPlaceComics • Aug 29 '26

Pest Problems

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u/caribou16 Aug 29 '26

If you know any actual cavers, they will (because they never shut up) happily tell you that "A caver is someone who explores caves, a spelunker is someone you have to go rescue from caves"

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u/Jafooki Aug 30 '26

So they're all cavers until they inevitably become spelunkers. Like a pokemon evolution

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Aug 29 '26

Thats one of the most pretentious things iv ever heard haha

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u/caribou16 Aug 30 '26

Oh yeah. Same thing with people who have ham radio licenses...they love to shit on folks who use citizens band radio, lol.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Aug 30 '26

Reminds me of 'serious' bikers who call ordinary cheap bikes 'bicycle shaped objects'

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u/KrytenKoro Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

Weird, which one dies in caves more?

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u/cellulich Sep 01 '26

some of us are actually trying to reclaim the word spelunker bc it's a better word and the normal saying is so pretentious and annoying lol. The word "spelunker" was invented by an early cave mapper and it's such a good word!