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[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 209 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never questioned this until about 15 seconds ago…

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 105 points 2 months ago

They definitely do, as that was my thought too

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're fictional, so I guess they work however the writer wants them to.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I want them to work in a warehouse. I smell A sitcom!

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was hoping for this and was not disappointed

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

It took a while to load on my phone and the longer it took the bigger my hope and smile. Big relentless reward now.

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Once wrote a series of short stories about fantasy creatures living and working in a warehouse. My favorite were the weekending ghosts, who haunted a manor through the week, but took weekend trips to haunt the warehouse on Saturdays and Sundays to get a break from it all.

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Vampire anatomy expert here.

They are totally like straws. You were dead on.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought the same thing. Glad I was right all along

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am here for you. You can know that you're right by me telling you so.

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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 62 points 2 months ago

Unless they’re referring to the bat, who’s to say otherwise? The lore police?

[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Circa 2008 the wikipedia entry for vampire bat claimed that their teeth were like this. archive.org didn't capture it at that time, but another page copied the whole thing: https://www.mundoandino.com/Argentina/Vampire-bat

The bats incisor teeth are hollow, allowing them to suck blood in through the teeth like a straw, the saliva has several ingredients that prolong bleeding.

My favorite thing about this is: where does the blood go once it hits the top of the tooth? Into the gums? Into the sinuses? Out the back of the tooth and into the mouth, removing the need of a straw in the first place?

[–] fern@lemmy.autism.place 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I assumed they were basically reverse snake fangs

Diagram

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

One is the venom tooth and one is the straw tooth.

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[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I think there's been a shift in media here over the years. Older vampires, the formalwear "I vant to suck your blaaaad" types, often have very long teeth and leave only a couple of punctures after biting someone. It's pretty reasonable to assume these are actually drawing the blood through their teeth like little syringes.

Then as time goes on, vampires have gotten grittier and gorier. We've gone from beautiful damsels with tiny pinpricks on their necks, to staight up cannibalism. Vampires now just fuckin eat people sometimes. Somewhere in between, we did get a phase of vampires biting open the neck with a big gush of blood, and the now classic image of a vampire with blood all over their lower face. At this point it's clear they're just drinking it normally.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So vampires have become sloppier and more impatient. The new generations I swear /s

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

The Swedish radio show "Christer" called up the ambassador of Romania somewhere around 2014 (IIRC) to pop the question, and he confirmed the teeth were like straws.

So there's that!

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 38 points 2 months ago

That is how they worked on the HBO show True Blood.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the vampire documentary "Dead and loving it" distinct straw-slurping sounds can be heard so I think this is indeed correct.

However when I was a kid I totally thought vampire bats also do the sucky-sucky not the licky-licky they actually do.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What made them change their mind? Pretty sure that’s always been part of the implication lol.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that how they insert the paralytic venom?

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I'm 53 and never considered it to be different from that. Damn you OP. I have shit to do today and I'm gonna be running this shit on a loop instead.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never have I ever thought otherwise until seeing this post...

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Everybody knows vampires don’t suck, they scrape and lick!

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Wait, you're telling me they aren't?!

My whole life has been a lie...

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I used to think this was silly but now pretty sure thats how it works now. Also vampire bat teeth look like metroid teeth

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago

I also thought this.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This brings me back! Jhonen is quite the artist

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Isn't that how the real blood sucking species do it?

(Bonus: lookup how cats of all sizes drink water)

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Mosquito straw > Scrape and Lick

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The opposite of that is kinda how I thought tattoo machines worked as a kid- as in with hollow needles and an ink cartridge, like fountain pens, and each poke into the skin would deposit ink that way. I even 'figured out' that the tiny vacuum from pulling the needle out would be what pulled the ink down into the skin.

When I found out how tattoo machines actually worked, it seemed so messy (and loud!).

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

IKR? But yeah, nah, tattoo machines are basically a motor that pumps the needle up and down, and you have to dip it in ink to transfer it into the skin.

[–] nepenthes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I looked it up:

Tattoo needles are more like the nib of a fountain pen than a syringe; the ink isn’t shot down through the needle, but suspended at the end of it when an artist dips the tool into a well. Then, when the tip of the needle pierces a hole in the recipient’s skin (both the epidermis and the dermis beneath it), capillary action—the same force that makes liquid creep up the sides of a straw—draws the ink down into the dermis.

Source: https://www.popsci.com/how-tattoos-work/

[–] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

And here I thought "Dracula - dead and loving it" cleared up that topic. Of course they're hollow.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

That's why they make that empty hollow carton sound when they finish sucking all the blood out.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
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