[Misc] OT: Super worm moon. WTF?

[Fungus]

Had anyone heard of a "super worm moon" before?

In the last year or so, the BBC have become obsessed with any time the moon looks a bit bigger than usual. It's not even rare - it's the third one already this year, but also the last.

And of course, they have to illustrate it with unrealistic photos taken with enormous lenses. (Should that be "super worm lenses"?)

If it really looked anything like this, I'd get excited:


From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47652390

 

[Me and my Monkey]

What do worms have to do with it?

 

[HastingsSeagull]

It's pretty impressive here 8 hours ahead of you in Asia. Currently at a rooftop bar and everyone including Mrs HS is going crazy about it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

They're just making up names for full moons now, a bit like storms now apparently need names

 

[Fungus]

What do worms have to do with it?

Apparently, "Worms are said to emerge from the soil around this time".

They must come up to eat the BS.

 

[Fungus]

They're just making up names for full moons now, a bit like storms now apparently need names

My surname is Moon, I'd be delighted if they used my first name every March, but my parents never called me "Super Worm" n

 

[Jack Straw]

I thought a Super Worm Moon was when you took you trousers and pants down and showed your frontage?
It used to be called "Flashing"?

 

[Fungus]

I thought a Super Worm Moon was when you took you trousers and pants down and showed your frontage?

Ah, you remembered that?

 

[Jack Straw]

Ah, you remembered that?

Yeah. I used to get a bit cold sometimes.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What do worms have to do with it?

Arguably Tina Turner's greatest hit

 

[pearl]

I thought a Super Worm Moon was when you took you trousers and pants down and showed your frontage?
It used to be called "Flashing"?

no no no, that's indecently exposing yourself. You need a dirty old mac for flashing (so I've heard)

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

What exactly is a super worm moon(in the lunar rather than flashing sense)?

I've just popped outside to have a look. It doesn't look any different to usual. Possibly a bit brighter but I'm not convinced.