Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 3:31 PM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
13 Comments:
Hmmm ... looks photoshopped to me, but I could be mistaken. The real question is, does that guy have enough melted butter to serve along with it?
i think it's what you get when you cross a lobster with a cockroach.
Would agree with both of Ahab's observations. There's a site for cryptozoology that I've found to be pretty good, and they get cases/photos like this all the time, they might be of some help - cryptomundo.com
Ahab: Thanks. One of these days I should read up on Photoshop -- I have no idea how to spot a faked picture. I thought at first it might be a model, but it would be a lot of work to make something like that.
You couldn't get me to eat that thing for all the tea in China -- aside from the fact that it looks just as capable of eating me. Eurypterids were more closely related to scorpions than to lobsters, anyway.
Nonnie: Cockroaches and lobsters are quite bad enough by themselves, thanks -- even being the size they are.
Mendip: Thanks for the link. It's incredible what people believe in or try to convince others to believe in. If the bigfoot nutters ever produced a photo one-tenth as convincing as this one, I might think they were on to something -- but the more I look at it, this critter actually is a eurypterid, therefore it can't be real.
There was a creature, an arthropod, that was discovered a few years ago. It did not look like it could be real. It was crab-like with, yellow, and with a furry tail, IIRC.
The creature in your post will now haunt my nightmares.
Eurypterid? Eubyterid!
PS. I just found this.
SK: The creature in your post will now haunt my nightmares.
Not very cuddly, is it?
Thanks for the link. I'm glad it's fake. Ants are bad enough.
Shaw You nailed it!! I usually can find pictures like these on "snopes.com" but was unsuccessful. Imagine it will show up there eventually.
It's totally real, and the reason I haven't cleaned under my bed since The Incident.
I just had to comment ater reading all these comment's, that the first thing I thought when I seen this yesterday, was it made me hungry .... I first thought of crawfish. I remember as a kid a friend who lived on the coast in Seabrook (outside Houston), we used to go over his stilted cottage on the shore and he would put nets out and get the crawfish, boil them in a big pot and we'd smoother them in cajun hot sauce ... a night of munchies from all the pot we would smoke and all them damn fish we would satisfy our appetite's with, washing it all down with Lone Star beer ... just brought back pleasant memories of a simpler time! :)
RtS: Very likely, since it's apparently been making the rounds.
MB: If "The Incident" looked anything like this, I don't blame you.
RC: Fine, if any surviving eurypterids are ever discovered, we can sic you and Ahab on them, and the hideous abominations won't know what hit them. I'll stick with tofu.
wow... this thing looks so familiar to me... and I swear I've never seen anything like it... that's odd...
Damn! That is one ugly lookin' critter! I hope to God it ain't real. Melted Butter?!?! I hope you arn't suggesting eating it?
Post a Comment
<< Home