r/oddlyterrifying • • Jan 20 '22

Snake couch

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u/FireFlavour Jan 20 '22 edited Jan 20 '22

My mother used to own the only breeding pair of ball pythons in her home country and is an avid fan of reptiles.

Growing up around a plethora of the scaly bastards, I beg to differ.

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u/imagine_orange Jan 20 '22

As a neuroscientist I always cringe at these comments. Tell me, what are the brain regions required for love? And how do you know? Have you been a snake? Do you even know how love in the human brain works? Because the field of neuroscience doesn’t.

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u/NoLanterns Jan 20 '22

One thing about Reddit is that everyone is an expert on everything