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DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Tenebrais posted:

Don't worry arachnophobes, that whip spider isn't actually a spider (it lacks spinnerets) or a scorpion (no tail). It's its own whole kind of arachnid!

To make up for its lack of spinnerets or wicked scorpion tail, the whip spider instead employ's the age old defense of just looking loving scary as all hell.

:69snypa:

DandyLion has a new favorite as of 19:46 on Nov 17, 2021

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
You might remember whip spiders from seeing one get tortured to death in one of the Harry Potter movies

Unperson_47
Oct 14, 2007



Vinegaroon is a much cooler name than whip scorpion, imo.

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Spiders and Vinegaroons all the way down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc0w1LmWxrw

mcbexx
Jul 4, 2004

British dentistry is
not on trial here!




Lucky fucker.
Remember when early in Jurassic Park, Sam Neill's character explains to kids at the dig site how a raptor would use its claw to disembowel them in an instant?

That's what ostriches do. Those two kicks at the man's abdomen could have gone so, so much worse. Ostriches don't gently caress around.

mcbexx has a new favorite as of 21:47 on Nov 17, 2021

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo
That ostrich wasn't prepared for the spinning back elbow

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

haveblue posted:

You might remember whip spiders from seeing one get tortured to death in one of the Harry Potter movies

Actually I remember them from people having to eat live ones on fear factor

I really wish I DIDN'T remember that, but I do

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

What's the six leggy cactus looking thing with the scorpion tail?

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



OwlFancier posted:

What's the six leggy cactus looking thing with the scorpion tail?

Turn on your monitor

Garrand
Dec 28, 2012

Rhino, you did this to me!

Phlegmish posted:

Turn on your monitor



I think my monitor iss broken, all I can see is a fat baby

CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Regy Rusty posted:

I believe that's a whip spider (sometimes also known as tailless whip scorpions if you're truly deranged) and they're completely harmless.

I'm completely harmless.

Doesn't stop me from being creepy.
:colbert:

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

OwlFancier posted:

What's the six leggy cactus looking thing with the scorpion tail?
One of the stocky kinds of stick insect.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/187a3cw.gifv

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Tenebrais posted:

Don't worry arachnophobes, that whip spider isn't actually a spider (it lacks spinnerets) or a scorpion (no tail). It's its own whole kind of arachnid!

You will no doubt be perplexed and astonished to discover this doesn't help at allllll

18 Character Limit
Apr 6, 2007

Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!
Nap Ghost
Spiders are good and blessed because they remove bugs from the world by externally digesting them like slurpees.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/krYWzla.gifv

SimonSays
Aug 4, 2006

Simon is the monkey's name

That coffee looks stale as hell... Much like dick but

greazeball
Feb 4, 2003



SimonSays posted:

That coffee looks stale as hell... Much like dick but

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH

The Sausages
Sep 30, 2012

What do you want to do? Who do you want to be?

Tenebrais posted:

I was gonna say, I'm surprised about how none of those bugs are murdering each other.

Don't worry arachnophobes, that whip spider isn't actually a spider (it lacks spinnerets) or a scorpion (no tail). It's its own whole kind of arachnid!
The trick is to make sure they're well fed before the bug party. At least that works for deadly snakes apparently, according to the guy whose job it was to stand there and talk to people about snakes while a variety of deadly snakes slither around his feet and each other like a little snake party going on, with a few lizard friends too. Which was nice but it was also nice for me that day to just see snakes in captivity for a change. Due to the nature of my work I see them too often and have even been attacked a couple of times, lucking avoiding envenomation. Nothing like this though (apologies for the c bombs, not my vid):
https://i.imgur.com/CKbs77d.mp4
Actually in retrospect I used pretty much the same language. Despite their lethality most of the deadly snakes here aren't aggressive unless provoked or startled, and will just slither up to people like it's nbd and oh boy you better play along.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

My arm is covered in scabs because I have a young cat that plays a bit too rough but if I see a bee or a spider - whose bite/sting would be no more painful and certainly wouldn't draw blood - I'm freaking out. The cat I let sleep in my bed.

freeedr
Feb 21, 2005

freeedr
Feb 21, 2005

https://i.imgur.com/SxMd9jt.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/G0lJ36x.mp4

BooDooBoo
Jul 14, 2005

That makes no sense to me at all.


https://fi.somethingawful.com/images/gangtags/severancemdr.gif

THE CIA ASSASSINATED TREVOR!?!?!

Erebus
Jul 13, 2001

Okay... Keep your head, Steve boy...

BooDooBoo posted:

THE CIA ASSASSINATED TREVOR!?!?!

I mean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3_kUaYFJA

freeedr
Feb 21, 2005

BooDooBoo posted:

THE CIA ASSASSINATED TREVOR!?!?!

First time they have used the “make a guy drunkenly dick around and fall off of the balcony onto his head at 2:00 am” method, but it worked

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/9zvtpPH.gifv

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013



I guess we now know where the word scowling comes from.

Squatch Ambassador
Nov 12, 2008

What? Never seen a shaved Squatch before?

Darth TNT posted:

I guess we now know where the word scowling comes from.

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy

And you can't hear the attack coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WigEGNnuTE

Owls are fuckin' rad

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Ragequit posted:

And you can't hear the attack coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WigEGNnuTE

Owls are fuckin' rad

Owls are stupid quiet for sure

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/s8DV11l.mp4

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013

That’s a vampire.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/zjb469r.mp4

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Ragequit posted:

And you can't hear the attack coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WigEGNnuTE

Owls are fuckin' rad

I had a big owl zoom me in the woods once and it was downright eerie how silent it was

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Owls are responsible for a lot of cryptid myths, such as the mothman

Bigfoot is actually just a misidentified phenomenon known as an "owl king"

burnsep
Jul 3, 2005

DandyLion posted:

Owls are stupid quiet for sure

Who?

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever


A One, A two, A Thrreeeee



Threee licks!

BooDooBoo
Jul 14, 2005

That makes no sense to me at all.


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freeedr posted:

First time they have used the “make a guy drunkenly dick around and fall off of the balcony onto his head at 2:00 am” method, but it worked

It's just the first time we've noticed! "Drunk person falls off thing" is the most acceptable way to write off a death!

Too bad they didn't learn that trick until after Kennedy, Imagine "JFK died falling out of a window of the Texas book depository, witness say he was fukken' wasted"

WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS!

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

How do you pronounce vinegaroon? Is it vine-garoon or vinegar-oon?

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CainsDescendant
Dec 6, 2007

Human nature




I've kept a couple, and I usually heard it as vinegar-own. I've heard vinegar-oon, too, though, not sure which is correct

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