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Title: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: General Battuta on September 11, 2009, 06:38:36 pm
oh god oh god oh god (http://io9.com/5357663/tongue+eating-parasites-attack-fish-near-normandy)
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Scotty on September 11, 2009, 07:03:06 pm
[blanch] Creepy.

Off Topic:  Nice to see you finally made a CBT account.

BACK ON TOPIC:  Oh wait, says it doesn't attach to humans.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 11, 2009, 07:08:23 pm
Why didn't the dumb fish just spit it out
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: IronBeer on September 11, 2009, 07:09:50 pm
http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html)
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Scotty on September 11, 2009, 07:10:00 pm
It attached?  Try flexing a tick out of you skin sometimes.  It doesn't work.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 11, 2009, 07:11:27 pm
Off Topic:  Nice to see you finally made a CBT account.

I should bother using mine someday.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Pred the Penguin on September 11, 2009, 09:32:48 pm
http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html)
That sure links to a lot of scary ****...
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: High Max on September 11, 2009, 09:43:42 pm
It's like "Alien". Why do the teeth on that fish look non-fishy and more human? They look like a human's yellow teeth in need of brushing. That alone is scary.

I'm wondering if it is real despite what it claims. That looks unreal, and replacing the tongue with itself sounds off the wall sci-fi. That fish head even looks like that "Alien" creature. That is freaky if it is real. Not just the parasite's appearance and what it did, but that fish as well.

Maybe I should look up images of weaver fish and see what they are suppose to look like.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Scotty on September 11, 2009, 10:14:11 pm
Truth is stranger than fiction.  Clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angler_fish#Reproduction)

Before that sets of your paranoid-o-meter, it's wikipedia.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Kosh on September 11, 2009, 10:17:14 pm
The most horrifying parasite IMO is the zombie fungus. It seriously sounded like something out of the X-Files.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: mxlm on September 11, 2009, 10:59:44 pm
I refuse to believe there could possibly be anything worse than the candiru.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: High Max on September 11, 2009, 11:04:55 pm
Truth is stranger than fiction.  Clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angler_fish#Reproduction)


Yeah, I heard scientists say something like that on some channel, or more like "fact is more amazing than fiction" or something. It was probably a normal person saying that in the advertisement or that show. Maybe it was an advertisment of the show monster quest. I can't remember. I might have also heard "science fact is stranger than science fiction". That could have been Dr. Michio Kaku talking as the advertiser to "The Universe".
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Sushi on September 12, 2009, 12:38:03 am
http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html)

Thanks. I'll have the jibblies all week now.
http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/d/d8/jibblies.gif
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Nuke on September 12, 2009, 01:35:10 am
i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Bobboau on September 12, 2009, 03:00:33 am
gee, thats clever...
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 12, 2009, 03:38:22 am
i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien

He's not even amusing anymore! :(

You gotta get back in the game, man!
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Pred the Penguin on September 12, 2009, 03:45:47 am


i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien
True.... but that's old news.

Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: High Max on September 12, 2009, 04:09:39 am
i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien

Yeah, I often feel an anger towards the species. Maybe you too. You must wonder if humanity deserves to survive for long. I consider a lot of it bad. I like using the very true saying "nothing lasts forever". Well, at least in the physical world it doesn't.

Nothing lasts forever is both sad and a relief, depend on what it is. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wishes that certain moments and good times in life could have lasted, though. :(
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Pred the Penguin on September 12, 2009, 10:42:21 am
Yeah, I often feel an anger towards the species. Maybe you too. You must wonder if humanity deserves to survive for long.
Humanity will simply no longer exist if it ever stops trying to adapt to worsening situations.
But of course everyone knows that, so why does nothing change?
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Locutus of Borg on September 12, 2009, 10:48:44 am
Tis homo sapien SAPIEN guys
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Snail on September 12, 2009, 11:43:14 am
i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien
Reminds me of Agent Smith.

But this not as cool as teh zombie fungus... Cordyceps FTW.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: MP-Ryan on September 12, 2009, 12:10:03 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

This little guy looks nasty, but apparently it functionally replaces the fish's tongue, causing little or no true ill effect to the fish itself.  Nature is crazy =)
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Snail on September 12, 2009, 12:12:46 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

This little guy looks nasty, but apparently it functionally replaces the fish's tongue, causing little or no true ill effect to the fish itself.  Nature is crazy =)
Not sure I'd like to have an isopod in my mouth though.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: MP-Ryan on September 12, 2009, 12:30:54 pm
Not sure I'd like to have an isopod in my mouth though.

I dunno, if I were you Snail I'd be more concerned with this nasty piece of work:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: High Max on September 12, 2009, 12:54:34 pm
The former looks kind of neat.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Snail on September 12, 2009, 04:33:28 pm
Not sure I'd like to have an isopod in my mouth though.

I dunno, if I were you Snail I'd be more concerned with this nasty piece of work:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum
:nervous:
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Kosh on September 12, 2009, 08:33:22 pm
i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien


Well then you can say the same about pretty much any animal species. We all feed off of each other, the only difference we are more successful.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Flipside on September 12, 2009, 08:44:37 pm
I think Humans are only the sort of animal that wouldn't see what was wrong with using the benefits of civilisation to promote the end of it ;)
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Nuke on September 12, 2009, 11:29:46 pm
were also the only species to invent nuclear ****ing weapons, and i think we need to start using them.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: High Max on September 12, 2009, 11:35:31 pm
Really? :wtf: Be careful, Nuke might build one. :P
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Flipside on September 12, 2009, 11:35:38 pm
:lol: I rest my case.

Seriously though, we also invented Art, Literature, Poetry, Medicine, Science and a host of other things, we invent ****, that's us, if we bombed ourselves back to the stone-age then in about 5000 years, we'd have Nuclear weapons all over again. That's why Anarchy is pointless, it's just winding the clock back and repeating the same mistakes over again. And, yes, we'd also have other people claiming we should nuke ourselves back to the Stone age all over again, it's a vicious circle.

The trick isn't to clean the board and start over, it's to learn to actually read what is written on the board in the first place.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 12, 2009, 11:44:44 pm
were also the only species to invent nuclear ****ing weapons, and i think we need to start using them.

You're volunteering? Let's have GPS coordinates for your place of residence, then?
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Kosh on September 13, 2009, 02:39:01 am
were also the only species to invent nuclear ****ing weapons, and i think we need to start using them.

We're also the only species to invent anything more sophisticated than sticks and stones. I think you've spent way too much time in Alaska dude.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: karajorma on September 13, 2009, 03:05:09 am
Nihilists are a bunch of posers anyway. The ones with any real commitment to their point of view have already committed suicide. :p
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Snail on September 13, 2009, 04:42:28 am
Nihilists are a bunch of posers anyway. The ones with any real commitment to their point of view have already committed suicide. :p
Heaven's Gate Away Team

Beam Me Up UFO
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 13, 2009, 05:34:04 am
were also the only species to invent nuclear ****ing weapons, and i think we need to start using them.

We're also the only species to invent anything more sophisticated than sticks and stones. I think you've spent way too much time in Alaska dude.

All Alaska has is sticks and stones.
Oh and a nice view of Russia.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Bobboau on September 13, 2009, 05:35:30 am
We're also the only species to invent anything more sophisticated than sticks and stones. I think you've spent way too much time in Alaska dude.

ants have farming, beavers have dams, they might not have figured it out the same way we do, but the end result is the same, modifying the environment to better server them, there is nothing humans do that any other animal doesn't do, we are just better at a few of the things.

and nuke, why do you stop at humans, why not everything?
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Flipside on September 13, 2009, 01:19:57 pm
I wasn't aware that Nukes were selective about that kind of thing.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Thaeris on September 13, 2009, 01:26:58 pm
"You have been eaten by a Grue."

 :nervous:
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Bobboau on September 14, 2009, 12:43:10 am
I wasn't aware that Nukes were selective about that kind of thing.

well this one is, he has been fairly consistent about it being humans who need to die. now he doesn't seem to be too concerned about collateral damage, but still it seems as though he only is targeting humanity.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Stormkeeper on September 14, 2009, 01:04:18 am
Holy ****!
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: zookeeper on September 14, 2009, 03:03:29 am
:lol: I rest my case.

Seriously though, we also invented Art, Literature, Poetry, Medicine, Science and a host of other things, we invent ****, that's us, if we bombed ourselves back to the stone-age then in about 5000 years, we'd have Nuclear weapons all over again. That's why Anarchy is pointless, it's just winding the clock back and repeating the same mistakes over again. And, yes, we'd also have other people claiming we should nuke ourselves back to the Stone age all over again, it's a vicious circle.

The trick isn't to clean the board and start over, it's to learn to actually read what is written on the board in the first place.

Yeah. But only as long as you can't actually blow up the whole board, thus ensuring no one can start over. However, I'm pretty sure we won't be capable of wiping the planet permanently clean of life anytime soon. :sigh:
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 14, 2009, 03:07:17 am
It's been tried before, by a Giant Rock From Space among other things. Not as easy as it looks. :p
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Stormkeeper on September 14, 2009, 03:22:05 am
It's been tried before, by a Giant Rock From Space among other things. Not as easy as it looks. :p
Mostly cause the rest of the world doesn't see it your way and violently objects.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Flipside on September 14, 2009, 09:04:43 am
I always liked Terry Pratchett's theory that life possesses an unknown element called 'Bloodimindium', and regardless of how hard you try, it'll just keep coming back :)
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Gortef on September 15, 2009, 11:00:00 am
oh god oh god oh god (http://io9.com/5357663/tongue+eating-parasites-attack-fish-near-normandy)

almost looks like the parasite is smiling...

kind of like an "Eeexcellent" -expression.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: McCall on October 07, 2009, 04:47:29 pm
When I read the title, the first image I got in my mind was Gordon Brown.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Janos on October 08, 2009, 12:27:33 pm
i think the worst parisite on the planet is probibly homo sapien

Your gimmick has been boring for the last 3 years and doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Locutus of Borg on October 08, 2009, 04:32:32 pm
not to mention necrothreading?
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: General Battuta on October 08, 2009, 04:33:35 pm
Less than a month is not necrothreading. Chill!
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: stuart133 on October 10, 2009, 05:33:50 pm
This has got to be the worst parasite in the world by far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru
Although I'm not 100% sure if all the stories about it are true, wikipedia doesn't seem to think so, if any one of them is then ...
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 10, 2009, 06:12:23 pm
Quote
Although lurid anecdotes of attacks of humans abound, there is only one documented case of a candiru entering a human orifice.[7] One popular myth was that the fish was capable of swimming up a man's urine stream in mid-air to enter the urethra, though this is actually impossible.


I'm happy with that statement. My pee-pee will remain unviolated should i ever find myself trying to fend of pirannhas and alligators in the Amazon.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: stuart133 on October 11, 2009, 08:11:40 am
Yeah maybe not in mid air, but if you are peeing in the water it can still swim up their. Also it has rearwards facing spikes so it cannot be pulled out and it mashes up the inside of your urethra.
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 11, 2009, 09:53:14 am
If it made inside my bio-system, the alcahol content would kill it. So i'm not bothered :p
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Thaeris on October 11, 2009, 10:03:57 am
Or...

It doesn't, gets a beer gut, sits about all day and is generally lazy... not to mention irritable and prone to drunken violence.

...All this in your trousers...
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 11, 2009, 10:22:09 am
Long or short of it (no pun) It's really not likely to happen to me.

If it did, i would become

Spoiler:
ROBOCOCK


that's all..
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: stuart133 on October 11, 2009, 12:40:55 pm
Um, I see.
Well moving swiftly on ...
Title: Re: a monstrous and horrifying parasite
Post by: Scotty on October 11, 2009, 04:24:46 pm
Yeah maybe not in mid air, but if you are peeing in the water it can still swim up their. Also it has rearwards facing spikes so it cannot be pulled out and it mashes up the inside of your urethra.

Only if the person is in the water when relieving themselves.  Clarification, as that seems kind of unclear.