# Camels are thoroughly strange and disgusting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138 "2012-02-17T14:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/1 "2012-02-17T14:58:58Z")
I just watched a documentary About camels. They are the strangest, most disgusting things! They drool and blow weird rasperries with ugly red floppy baloon organs out of their mouths. Not to mention the whole eating each other thing, but that wasnt mentioned in this documentary, i saw that on youtube. If you notice any camel docs, check it out. Way weirder than you thought. ---
**Author:** ![KneeSid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dec6dc/32.png) [@KneeSid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneeSid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/2 "2012-02-17T15:12:32Z")
But even they look cool while smoking 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/3 "2012-02-17T15:19:16Z")
They’re not as creepy as _fish_–fish freak me out. They float there \*staring \*at you with their evil fish-eyes, and you _know_ they are plotting and planning. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/4 "2012-02-17T15:29:30Z")
Well, yeah, fish are the model for every freaky monster ever, I agree. But still, you gotta check out camels. WAY weird. Especially for being big mammals…I mean, you expect fish to be weird and creepy. And reptiles. And bugs. But mammals are generally pretty accessible. Not camels. Weird. And, as we know, crabby fuckers. Probably from being so weird. “I feel alienated from my animal order, so fuck off! And here’s some foamy spit in your eye if you don’t think I mean it!” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/5 "2012-02-17T15:31:00Z")
One hump or two? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/6 "2012-02-17T15:49:09Z")
My sister was spit–or _barfed_–on by a camel as a small child at a petting zoo, and I’m not sure she ever really got over it. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/7 "2012-02-17T16:12:41Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > My sister was spit–or _barfed_–on by a camel as a small child at a petting zoo, and I’m not sure she ever really got over it. \ I sure wouldn’t have. Would have meant thousands in therapy. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/8 "2012-02-17T16:14:18Z")
The smell bad too. (Also they have that look on their faces. They know something, but won’t tell.) ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/9 "2012-02-17T16:16:11Z")
The creepy [camel raspberry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zjtb5wUF8A&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF98B1D85CAF32E11) It’s not a tongue. It’s some special thing that exists just so they can do that with it. Fukkin’ weird. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/10 "2012-02-17T16:28:43Z")
PRO CAMEL POST!! They are _really_ soft, and also have pretty eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/11 "2012-02-17T16:37:33Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > The creepy [camel raspberry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zjtb5wUF8A&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF98B1D85CAF32E11) It’s not a tongue. It’s some special thing that exists just so they can do that with it. Fukkin’ weird. Wait, do all camels do that? Or just the particularly disgusting ones? It’s not really fair judge an entire species based on the acts of one sicko. You know that _if_ humans could do that, we’d see a few of us doing it. I could fill about 100 posts with some of the disgusting things that I’ve seen humans do here on the streets of NY. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/12 "2012-02-17T16:59:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > They’re not as creepy as _fish_–fish freak me out. They float there \*staring \*at you with their evil fish-eyes, and you _know_ they are plotting and planning. First of all, I am totally there with you on the issue of fish. I’m tryin’ to get some cultcha, so I’m reading Herotodus. He says that the Persians lead by Cyrus, defeated the famed Lydian cavalry lead by Croesus (as rich as…) at the Battle of Thymbra by putting their pack camels at the head of the charge. The Greek horses said “FUCK NO” and ran away; the Greeks had to dismount in order to fight. Thus proving that camels disgust even war horses. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/13 "2012-02-17T18:34:22Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Wait, do all camels do that? I believe it is just the boys. Trying to impress the girls, who are evidently impresssed. Ew. And I admit they do have pretty eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/14 "2012-02-17T20:00:18Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > The creepy [camel raspberry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zjtb5wUF8A&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF98B1D85CAF32E11) It’s not a tongue. It’s some special thing that exists just so they can do that with it. Fukkin’ weird. OH MY GOD I was not expecting that! I hit the link, I was kind of watching it out of the corner of my eye with the sound off at work, and… good lord. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/15 "2012-02-17T20:06:09Z")
Their toes are universally admired. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/16 "2012-02-17T20:34:36Z")
The only camel I have ever met personally was friendly. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/17 "2012-02-17T20:41:28Z")
My driver in Cairo had a low speed head-on collision with a camel and his rider. There was more damage to the van than to the camel although the bloody thing squalled like it had been murdered. Tough bastards. To my knowledge no fish were injured. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/18 "2012-02-17T21:21:43Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Also they have that look on their faces. They know something, but won’t tell. This is why I got my girlfriend a coffee mug with a picture of a camel on it when we were in the Abu Dhabi airport. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/19 "2012-02-18T00:24:59Z")
Adding some camel love. I have been around several nice, friendly camels. Camels like me for some reason. We used to have a bacterain camel at our local zoo named Cashmeir who adored me for some reason- he would come running to me making that loud honking sound. (I used to hang out at the zoo almost every weekend) The keeper allowed me to feed him slices of apple and said he didn’t take up with anyone else like that. I love camels! ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/20 "2012-02-18T02:01:03Z")
Had to add this bit of information. Q. Do you know why camels are called “ships of the desert”? A. They are always filled with Arab semen. And while on this subject (sort of), Did you know that the first condom was invented by Arabs in the 13th century by using the intestine of a goat? Then the British improved it somewhat in 1876 by first removing the intestine from the goat. Sorry - I’ll go away now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138.md?page=2)