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lisarea · 04-22-2003, 02:01 PM

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Originally posted by Abacus
I looked it up.

There surely is no God.

There surely is a God, and He surely has one of those little signs reading, "I don't swim in your toilet, so don't pee in My pool."

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When candirus parasitize humans, it is usually only when they are skinny-dipping while urinating in the water. The candiru tastes the urine stream and follows it back to the human. It then swims up the anus and lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines. Blood is drawn, and the candiru gorges itself on both the blood and body tissue, its body sometimes expanding due to the amount of blood.

Duvenoy · 04-22-2003, 04:03 PM

People.

doov

mongrel · 04-22-2003, 06:58 PM

I don't know how nasty they are, but these bloody big claws look pretty bad.

They're good eating, though.

Amie · 04-22-2003, 07:33 PM

I don't like those bot flies either...especially after seeing that picture in the book called Parasite Rex
Great science book though...

RevDahlia · 04-22-2003, 08:17 PM

Pipa frogs are fascinating, but they're freaking gross. These are the ones that squish their eggs into the mommy frog's back, which then grows over the eggs until the little frogs pop out. Like giant, living zits. They give me the creeps.

www.carlscreepycrawlies.com/larvae.html

Apart from pipa frogs, the only critters that gross me out are jerusalem crickets. Everything else, including spiders, I'm fine with.

The Naked Mage · 04-22-2003, 11:30 PM

Flesh-eating bacteria. I refused to even let any part of my body come into contact with the GROUND the first week after I heard about that shit.

Cockroaches. They don't scare me, or creep me out, or anything like that; they just carry a stigma of filth with them that I'd rather not share the same space with.

Oh yeah, and they're too damn big to even think about squashing inside the house.

Anything that lurks in opaque seawater and nibbles your toes/rips off your genitalia/swims up your ass/drags you down into its Lovecraftian undersea lair/injects you with horrible fatal toxins that turn your legs purple/whatever. I think that speaks for itself.

ieyeasu · 04-22-2003, 11:50 PM

Bees, Wasps, Yellow-Jackets, and their kin.

When I was nine, I hit my baseball over the hedge of small trees in our back-yard. As I tramped over to retrieve it, I, the little eco-terrorist that I was, smashed the small trees with my bat. Lo and behold, I struck a tree with a paper wasp nest in it, destroying their little dome and ripping in apart to expose literally hundreds of wasps.

I never ran so fast in my life. I escaped to my nearby sliding glass door with but one sting.

Azathoth · 04-23-2003, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Abacus
I looked it up.

There surely is no God.

Of course there's no god.

The Candiru's what I would have put.No pictures,though.So,here's a few Candiru pictures

This may be a little disturbing for some people.You were warned.

http://www.internext.com.br/urologia/Casosclinicos.htm

GypsyLife · 04-23-2003, 07:10 AM

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Originally posted by The Naked Mage

Cockroaches. They don't scare me, or creep me out, or anything like that; they just carry a stigma of filth with them that I'd rather not share the same space with.

Ahh, ahh, ahh! I become an irrational, blubbering, idiot when it comes to cockroaches (and also... palmetto bugs). I keep finding this one kind in the house that TURNS its little HEAD and LOOKS at you <itching> with its little freaky eyes...

Other smaller roommates I have are fine... geckos, big curly-tailed lizards (but if 6 of them started chasing me, I'd develop a phobia though....), strange flying things....
but with cockroaches... <shaking head>

RevDahlia · 04-23-2003, 09:13 AM

I used to live in a janky walkup in NYC... one window faced an alley wall, about twelve feet away... my roommate used to spend evenings skeeting roaches off the wall with an air rifle. He was quite good at it, never missed. In the morning there would be little drifts of carapace confetti on the ground below. Ah, memories.

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04-22-2003, 04:03 PM	#12
Duvenoy Veteran Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Just another hick from the sticks. Posts: 1,108	People. doov

04-22-2003, 06:58 PM	#13
mongrel Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: North of the South Pole Posts: 5,177	I don't know how nasty they are, but these bloody big claws look pretty bad. They're good eating, though.

04-22-2003, 07:33 PM	#14
Amie Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,626	I don't like those bot flies either...especially after seeing that picture in the book called Parasite Rex Great science book though...

04-22-2003, 08:17 PM	#15
RevDahlia Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austin, TX, USA Posts: 4,930	Pipa frogs are fascinating, but they're freaking gross. These are the ones that squish their eggs into the mommy frog's back, which then grows over the eggs until the little frogs pop out. Like giant, living zits. They give me the creeps. www.carlscreepycrawlies.com/larvae.html Apart from pipa frogs, the only critters that gross me out are jerusalem crickets. Everything else, including spiders, I'm fine with.

04-22-2003, 11:30 PM	#16
The Naked Mage Veteran Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: The Execution State, USA Posts: 5,031	Flesh-eating bacteria. I refused to even let any part of my body come into contact with the GROUND the first week after I heard about that shit. Cockroaches. They don't scare me, or creep me out, or anything like that; they just carry a stigma of filth with them that I'd rather not share the same space with. Oh yeah, and they're too damn big to even think about squashing inside the house. Anything that lurks in opaque seawater and nibbles your toes/rips off your genitalia/swims up your ass/drags you down into its Lovecraftian undersea lair/injects you with horrible fatal toxins that turn your legs purple/whatever. I think that speaks for itself.

04-22-2003, 11:50 PM	#17
ieyeasu Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bellingham, WA Posts: 844	Bees, Wasps, Yellow-Jackets, and their kin. When I was nine, I hit my baseball over the hedge of small trees in our back-yard. As I tramped over to retrieve it, I, the little eco-terrorist that I was, smashed the small trees with my bat. Lo and behold, I struck a tree with a paper wasp nest in it, destroying their little dome and ripping in apart to expose literally hundreds of wasps. I never ran so fast in my life. I escaped to my nearby sliding glass door with but one sting.

04-23-2003, 09:13 AM	#20
RevDahlia Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austin, TX, USA Posts: 4,930	I used to live in a janky walkup in NYC... one window faced an alley wall, about twelve feet away... my roommate used to spend evenings skeeting roaches off the wall with an air rifle. He was quite good at it, never missed. In the morning there would be little drifts of carapace confetti on the ground below. Ah, memories.

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