Jesus's middle name is Hume! Caution: Some NSFW images within!

[[DHT]Osiris]

yep. sand fleas. literally nothing can possibly be terrifying about that image. I don't get it.

Whole lotta people out there have never flipped over a rock.

 

[sdifox]

yep. sand fleas. literally nothing can possibly be terrifying about that image. I don't get it.

encountering them on the beach is one thing, sticking your hand into a box of them is another.

 

[pmv]

I didn't know 'sand fleas' were that large. I don't think I've encountered them in real life, but I would have assumed they were, well, the size of fleas.

Edit - hmmm, so they are crustaceans, and apparently limited to the coasts of the US and Africa - which is presumably why I've never seen one.

Dunno why they get called "fleas" though. They don't seem anything like fleas.

Emerita (genus) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[stargazr]

 

[stargazr]

 

[kage69]

yep. sand fleas. literally nothing can possibly be terrifying about that image. I don't get it.

Same. Lots of people have never been to the beach I guess, which I think is sad. Probably not too many salt water bait shops either. If you people think those are nasty, just wait until you see bloodworms.

 

[Captante]

Same. Lots of people have never been to the beach I guess, which I think is sad. Probably not too many salt water bait shops either. If you people think those are nasty, just wait until you see bloodworms.

Sandworms are always fun for the squeamish too!

They sure LOOK like they can do some damage but even a big one can barely break the shin on your hands. (did a lot of saltwater fishing with my grandpa as a kid)

 

[skyking]

I've never seen those sand fleas as I'm a west-coaster but scary? Nah bro. What got me going recently was finding a tick on the back of my hand and then searching for the 10 that had to be somewhere else. I don't want lyme disease.

 

[lxskllr]

Dunno why they get called "fleas" though. They don't seem anything like fleas.

I thought that was curious too, but looking at your wiki link, they do kinda look like fleas in profile. Could you imagine if there were real fleas that size?! They'd go from amusing to terrifying. You could be fixing shingles on your roof, and one of them could jump up from a grass, and rip a chunk of skin out your face D^:

 

[Fanatical Meat]

 

[cytg111]

View attachment 47673

Thats maybe the one thing both species understand.

 

[Torn Mind]

Sandworms are always fun for the squeamish too!

They sure LOOK like they can do some damage but even a big one can barely break the shin on your hands. (did a lot of saltwater fishing with my grandpa as a kid)

I see where the Matrix got its inspirations for its machines.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I see where the Matrix got its inspirations for its machines.

Sorry, did you mean the Squiddies? The things with their inspiration literally in the fucking name? Those machines?

Or did you mean Agent fucking Smith?

 

[pmv]

Bit overly aggressive in making the point there, I thought. Need to save that sort of weapons-grade scorn for P&N, where it's so often needed and merited. No sense wasting such a precious resource on OT trivia and fluff.

Those worms are slightly reminiscent of the articulated arms of those squid machines, now I see them.

 

[Spacehead]

 

[Spacehead]

Funny but apparently fake

 

[Spacehead]

 

[Spacehead]

 

[Spacehead]

 

[stargazr]

 

[sdifox]

we tried it a few times.



not enough freedom involved.

4.4B in 30 years is not exactly a lot of money.

 

[pmv]

View attachment 47762


Funny but apparently fake

Disappointingly, apparently so is the Cricket commentary
"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey"

Brian Johnston - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Johnston was renowned for his on-air schoolboy humour and puns. In one incident during a Test match at the Oval in 1991, Jonathan Agnew suggested that when Ian Botham was out hit wicket, trying to hurdle the stumps, it was because he had failed to "get his leg over" (a British slang term meaning to have sex; Botham's sexual exploits had attracted national attention). Johnston carried on commentating and giggling for 30 seconds before dissolving into helpless laughter.[10][11]

Among his other gaffes were: "There's Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle", which he uttered when Harvey was representing Australia at the Headingley Test in 1961.[12]

The oft-cited quote "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" supposedly occurred when Michael Holding of the West Indies was bowling to Peter Willey of England in a Test match at The Oval in 1976. Johnston claimed not to have noticed saying anything odd during the match, and that he was only alerted to his gaffe by a letter from "a lady" named "Miss Mainpiece".[12][13] According to Christopher Martin-Jenkins,[14] his Cricinfo biography,[15] and the biography by Johnston's son Barry,[16] Johnston never actually made the remark. Barry Johnston says "It was too good a pun to resist ... but Brian never actually said that he had spoken the words on air." Holding himself has expressed his doubt about the phrase ever being said, pointing out that no recording of it exists. Henry Blofeld and former TMS Producer Peter Baxter said that Johnston did not come up with the phrase and did not say it during commentary.[17]

 

[biostud]

 

[Sonikku]

 

[stargazr]