Giant Squid: Because the chance of seeing a live Giant squid would be a once in a life-time experience (pun intended). I’d go with the larger colossal squid but don’t particularly like the idea of being torn apart by hooked testicles. Failing that I would probably go with a Sperm whale. As I’d also like to see one of them up close and it’d probably be over pretty quick.
I do apologize, but the rules are the rules. It’s the ants for you.
I’ve decided **Ann Hedonia **shall be eaten by a pack of wolves, because I don’t think anyone’s picked that yet and, anyway, the ants are pretty busy. A wolf will probably go right for the neck so it might not be too long a death, though it will certainly meet her criteria of being surprising when a pack of ravenous wolves bursts through her door.
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Fine, whatever. Maybe I wanted to be devoured by ants!
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Then well played, sir.
Great choice! I wonder what it would be like to get eaten by the smaller Humboldt squid – dosidicus gigas – could just one of these “red devils” kill an adult human? Or would it take several of them?
A Humboldt squid isn’t that big, about the size of a Doberman. They are smart, aggressive and can go a bit nuts and swarm on something when feeding, so they absolutely could eat you, but their beaks aren’t that big - smaller than the palm of your hand, like a large bird’s beak, and they’ll bite you in little chunks.
Advantageously, since by the rules you are placed where the animals can attack you to its advantage, you might die quite swiftly, as Humboldt squids live REALLY deep.
Come to think of it,I have a vague recollection of reading that there have definitely been people killed by these vicious beasties, when they go into a frenzy.
One animal I would NOT choose is the dengue virus. Those bastards already tried, when I contracted dengue fever in Thailand in 1989. No fun, I’ll clue ya.
Hooked testicles?!?! And prehensile ones at that?!?! :eek:
[sub]The sad part is that I had to look it up to make sure colossal squid really only have hooked tentacles.[/sub]
Tough question, I guess anaconda, I’d be dead before it could swallow me.
Would licked to death count? Like an ice-cream cone? Because I suspect my neighbor’s dog may be trying to off me this way.
My brother had it twice! Both times in Managua, Nicaragua where he was living. He was in his early 20s and healthy. He beat it fairly well, but almost died the first time. He had dangerously high fevers both times.
He must have caught two different strains. Once you come down with it, you’re supposedly immune to that strain from then on, but you can still fall ill from the other ones. I don’t envy him having that twice. It’s some bad-ass shit. I know about the dangerously high temperature – I think mine was 106 degrees before I was forced to stop taking my temperature, as I could not shake the thermometer anymore – but that may have been a hallucination. I was just stuck sick in my house and had to ride it out until I was well enough to emerge and seek help.