I just assumed it would be insanely high off the ground.

The American version would require a modified F350HD with a fork lift to get the Pope lifted into the back.

Edit: actually kind of hoping to see if they do that for am American tour when he visits Chicago and such

They might be varying in size by location but those might be American Cockroaches you are seeing. Usually they are something like this in size and frequency of flying varies by type. Not sure if there is inter species breedability or not, or I imagine we’d have 10,000 breeds. I think they are intentionally pulling antennas and legs “in” to make them all appear smaller in this image.

Lol, I would avoid the southeast U.S. then. Florida Georgia and I think they are in South Carolina.

Over time I think we just adapt. Palmetto bugs don’t make my skin crawl, spiders I don’t recognize will usually get me. I’d rather find a black bear than a spider I don’t know crawling somewhere I need to get it out of.

That one’s great, this is one that I remembered

That’s where I found a lot of those visual illusions back in the day. Like you could would stare At them and they would rotate in your view but weren’t actually moving, and if you changed your view they could move the other direction or such. Those were neat.

Trying to explain to people that the much larger flying cockroaches you find in Florida are fine and the much smaller invasive German cockroaches are far more of a problem is near impossible when they first come across them.

I feel like we call them Palmetto bugs instead of roaches just to make them feel better about them. Yet they don’t spread disease the same way, or seem to cause home infestations, which is why they really arent as bad. But when my partner moved from Tennessee to Florida and saw one out on the balcony by the beach, she almost chose to fly over the railing to get away from it either way.

For me it was always, what do you want for Christmas? How about a computer chair (because she didn’t like the chair I used, it was one you knelt on kind of like this.

I would say absolutely not, I love my chair. And she would get me a computer chair for Christmas.

Same thing happened with my graduation. She got my brother a watch a couple years before when he graduated, told her absolutely don’t get me a watch I never wear them as they always bothered my wrist. (I sweat and run hot, and we lived in Florida, which means it’s always 100% humidity). I of course got a watch for Graduation. I took it to get sized 7 years later, wore it home from the place that sized it put it in a drawer and the battery died god knows when after that, but long before I ever went to wear it, I just saw it was dead when I had to move it to another house. So now I carry a dead watch from place to place and I doubt it’s worth anything as it was engraved on the inside, so I doubt you could even pawn in.

I mean, at least it wasn’t a Zero Bar. I got those a couple times as a kid and they were okay if you were in the mood for it, but damn if someone said they got me a candy bar and handed me that I’d be a bit disappointed. But hell, Id still be happy someone gave me a candy bar though.