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Why has nobody mentioned Opossums? Red lips and eyes set against their deathly white/gray fur and skin. Evil night crawlers who consume the dead …
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You took my entry! Yech, these possum critters are disgusting. Beady eyes, bristly hair, little hands (!), long tail like a rat, pointy snout. Once I heard something scratching outside my window in the dead of night. I pulled back the curtains to see what it was. Big mistake. It was one of these ugly critters staring right back at me! Yipes.
How do you people live in the world? I see cats, dogs, birds, possums, snakes, spiders, wasps, and moths every single day. Do you guys spend your whole lives in a permanent state of creeped out? When you say you hate birds, do you mean owls, hawks, and those type birds, or just sparrows and the like? Hummingbirds are the most beautiful animals on the planet, IMO. I like birds.
I don’t get the monkey hate. Monkeys, well, we’re all monkeys, aren’t we? Some of us just have better barbers.
There is no animal with 0, 2, 4, or 8 legs that bothers me. Even most 6 leggers are not squick-worthy, excluding the disease-carrying kind like mosquitoes, ticks, cockroaches and flies. Those are terminated with extreme prejudice.
I reserve my greatest loathing for the multi-legged: silverfish, centipedes, those bastards. They run really fast and once you see them, you know you’re stuck with them in your, possibly right under your bed :eek: . Why can’t they just stay out of the house like the rest of the arthropods?
[QUOTE=DianaG]
I pray that this is not a real animal, but if it is… ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
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It’s real, but it’s just a hairy caterpillar; kinda cute like a teddy bear, I think. Admittedly a slightly evil teddy bear with far too many appendages, but still…
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
It’s real, but it’s just a hairy caterpillar; kinda cute like a teddy bear, I think. Admittedly a slightly evil teddy bear with far too many appendages, but still…
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There seems to be some controversy about it, and I have to admit that I’m suspicious. It’s allegedly a puss caterpillar, but it doesn’t look particularly like any of the other pictures I’ve seen, and the legs seem all wrong and frankly mechanical to me.
I can’t imagine why there would be any genuine controversy about it. For any given image or footage, you can always find people on the internet who are prepared to cry “fake” or “obvious photoshop!”.
[QUOTE=DianaG]
I pray that this is not a real animal, but if it is… ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
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Aww, I think that’s kind of cute! I don’t mind furry bugs. In fact, I find them endearing. What’s cuter than a fuzzy little bug?!
I’ll throw in a vote for pigeons, though. I like birds in general. They’re cute, they’re smart, and the domesticated ones will sit on your fingers and sometimes even talk. Very cool.
Pigeons are evil though. There’s just so damned many of them, but you never see babies (didn’t Cecil do an article on that?). It’s like they multiply like gremlins or something. Of course you all know Hitchcock’s “The Birds”? I wouldn’t be surprised if that was based on a true story, but changed because “The Pigeons” isn’t as good of a title.
It’s not monkey hate so much, Ruby, (well, for some people it is) - it’s mostly ape hate. We’re not monkeys - we’re apes (the tail is the difference); I figure we hate apes (and monkeys) so much because they’re so similar, yet so alien. Creepy.
I’m with you on the fish, Mr. Excellent. I would go fishing to have a nice day out in the fresh air, but there’s a chance I might catch something, and then what would I do, with this cold, slimy, scaly, flopping bug-eyed thing on my line? :eek:
[QUOTE=featherlou]
It’s not monkey hate so much, Ruby, (well, for some people it is) - it’s mostly ape hate. We’re not monkeys - we’re apes (the tail is the difference); I figure we hate apes (and monkeys) so much because they’re so similar, yet so alien. Creepy.
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I agree with this. I can’t get in on the monkey hate in general. Mostly I think they’re cute. Still, I find the bonobo picture linked above to be very creepy - mostly because it looks so much more human than most apes.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
It’s not monkey hate so much, Ruby, (well, for some people it is) - it’s mostly ape hate. We’re not monkeys - we’re apes (the tail is the difference); I figure we hate apes (and monkeys) so much because they’re so similar, yet so alien. Creepy.
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I agree; also, they smell like dirty humans.
I feel deep affection and respect for virtually all of earth’s life forms. From virus to Blue Whale, we are all kindred spirits on this crazy blue orb.
Except for chipmunks :eek: . They are abominations of nature whose very existence keeps my psyche thrust into a downward spiral of perpetual anxiety and a feeling of impending doom.
