Microsoft CEO Can't Understand Why No Fish Wants a Tongue-eating Parasitic Louse in its Mouth
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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"It has lousy swimming capabilities and gravid females — females with eggs and juveniles in her pouch — are especially non-agile. This is in contrast to some species [of the same family of isopods] which are free-living and can occur in such large numbers that they can deflesh a fish or body entirely."
Solid louse joke...although technically an isopod. I'll never look at a rolly polly the same...
Seems obvious to most I would think.
I know this isn’t what I should be focusing on, but “louse”?!
That's the singular of lice
Omfg I just thought they spelled “loose” wrong. XD
Be careful not to loose your mind.
What a lousy name.
Wait, fish have tongues?!
'S kind of self-evident, innit?