what critter scares you the most?
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I happen to find those giant marine isopods sort of cute. I must have watched too much pro-wrestling back in the 1990s,resulting in the Ultimate Warrior having more of an effect on my mind than I thought that he did. If that's your nightmare, then nightmares are the best part of my day [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4ZTcuhixc]!Drakmeire said:
So, will I be able to fully comprehend the mysteries of Destrucity now? More importantly, do I get a spaceship filled with Warriors?
I dunno some scorpians have very deadly stings depending on where you live-Drifter- said:
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Now you're in serious danger of being rocked... like a hurricane.
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The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.
Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.
The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.
Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.
Given what you do for a living and having read on other threads what you've done, I'm genuinely taken aback by that.ace_of_something said:
Anyway, I work around a number of creepy crawlies 'cos of my research (more crawly than creepy to be fair) but given that there aren't that many really scary creatures in the UK, I'll have to go with the enemy of British apiculture:
How the owner of that hand isn't freaking out is beyond me. Those buggers are massive, aggressive and downright nasty.
Bugs in general scare the shit out of me, but there's a few animals that are just so balls-out insane that they shouldn't exist in nature.
My friends, I present to you: the pistol shrimp.
My friends, I present to you: the pistol shrimp.
Oh thats the camel spider, and my friend is in the US army and he was stationed in Iraq and he says those are the scariest mother fuckers hes ever seen. their fast, they jump, and their bites tear through your skin because their fangs are serrated (this might not all be true but he was pretty scared of em)LobsterFeng said:Whatever the crap that thing is. I'm just glad I don't live anywhere near where I might find one.
He also told me a story of a time when he was in his Base and he and his friend saw one and it charged him and they literally shot the thing with their assault rifles. So yeah I'm gonna go with this.
"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is"SckizoBoy said:Given what you do for a living and having read on other threads what you've done, I'm genuinely taken aback by that.ace_of_something said:
Anyway, I work around a number of creepy crawlies 'cos of my research (more crawly than creepy to be fair) but given that there aren't that many really scary creatures in the UK, I'll have to go with the enemy of British apiculture:
How the owner of that hand isn't freaking out is beyond me. Those buggers are massive, aggressive and downright nasty.
Theres a batman like origin story there. When I was a kid a badger killed our neighbor's stud bull in the most horrific way. Basically it ripped out it's guts and ran like the dickens while still holding the guts spreading them out over a huge area. It was pretty damn traumatic.
I also saw the aftermath of a badger attack on two rottweilers on my job as well. It looked like a fricken Francis Bacon painting.
While camel spiders are indeed a real thing that picture uses forced perspective (like how normal sized actors were made to look like half-sized actors in the lord of the rings) they're only about 5 or 6 inches across. Which is still damn big.LobsterFeng said:Whatever the crap that thing is. I'm just glad I don't live anywhere near where I might find one.
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Really? They're rather cool, I think. The worst they'd do to a human is nick our cutlery and kitchen utensils. They're mostly vegetarians, anyway, though I do believe they eat carrion.ReservoirAngel said:This ************:
The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.
Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.
However, I will concede that those claws are fucking tough. It only requires a pinch to shatter a coconut.
Honey Badger. I am dead serious, those things van kill a wilderbeast! They're smart enough to bring down that crap because they can spot any weak spot. They're infamous castrators.
I'd rather not be around to risk one of them tasting flesh and going bloodthirsty. I know it's unlikely, but I reckon if the choice is "hang around while something that can massacre thick-skinned fruit as if it were tissue paper might potentially get a taste for brains and/or scrotums" or "run the fuck away just in case", I'm going to be running before the person asking such a question can even finish speaking.SckizoBoy said:Really? They're rather cool, I think. The worst they'd do to a human is nick our cutlery and kitchen utensils. They're mostly vegetarians, anyway, though I do believe they eat carrion.ReservoirAngel said:This ************:
The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.
Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.
However, I will concede that those claws are fucking tough. It only requires a pinch to shatter a coconut.
Fighting dogs and the like. Also chavs.
(look, bite me, I'm a uk midlander - these are seriously the most dangerous things I'm likely to encounter in my everyday life, and they could kill me dead with little warning or provocation. hence I have a healthy fear of them. I couldn't give two craps about funnel web spiders or american badgers ... at least, until my life should take such a turn as to send me into their manor)
Oh and that bloody statue in SCP173 (basically a mutated weeping angel made out of concrete and spraypaint), which my subconcious tries to convince me is hiding around every darkened corner in a empty house at midnight. Even though I fully accept it's a totally irrational fear (...because even if it was real, which it isn't, it's safely locked up in Site 17... right?). I'm not even bothered about housebreakers and muggers hiding round the corner, just... that thing.
(look, bite me, I'm a uk midlander - these are seriously the most dangerous things I'm likely to encounter in my everyday life, and they could kill me dead with little warning or provocation. hence I have a healthy fear of them. I couldn't give two craps about funnel web spiders or american badgers ... at least, until my life should take such a turn as to send me into their manor)
Oh and that bloody statue in SCP173 (basically a mutated weeping angel made out of concrete and spraypaint), which my subconcious tries to convince me is hiding around every darkened corner in a empty house at midnight. Even though I fully accept it's a totally irrational fear (...because even if it was real, which it isn't, it's safely locked up in Site 17... right?). I'm not even bothered about housebreakers and muggers hiding round the corner, just... that thing.
*meh* Fair enough, I wouldn't wish to shake hands with it either... they tend not to let go (unless, that is, you tickle their crotch). But would you believe that they're kept as pets (in fucking adamantium cages, probably).ReservoirAngel said:
Excellent another anti-chav. A couple other UK Escapists were contemplating the formation of an army of chav-hunters (i.e. going around the UK with cricket bats, shotguns and flamethrowers, taking glee in their suffering wherever we roam)... are you interested?tahrey said:
I thought this was a joke, some sort of illusion or paint job.ReservoirAngel said:This ************:
The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.
Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.
I then proceeded to look it up online and it is in fact real. It's a remnant of a time long past heh.
It can crack open coconuts with its claws, that's pretty intense. I wouldn't call it scary but definitely interesting, like giant sea turtles.
Noooooo! I hate these things. Give me the shivers just thinking about them. Image if they learned to crawl into your house while you're asleep...ReservoirAngel said:This ************:
The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.
Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.