right, if you could be a sea creature what would it be?

[q-t]

I'm a turtle and I've got guns.
Beat that.

[Genevieve]

personally I`d like to know WTF this is???

A rapist.

[_TraX_]

The Ancient Steipereidur as identified by Abraham Ortelius in 1603

[apmje]

[syrup]

Seagull. Read a cool book about them once

[particle-jim]

Seagull. Read a cool book about them once

not sure i would really consider a seagull a sea creature to be honest, what with being avian and all that

[syrup]

But it haz sea in itz namez!

[badger]

sea otters have got to be up there



badman

I'm a turtle and I've got guns.
Beat that.

sorry to piss on your bonfire (or whatever the sea version would be - pile of rotting kelp? ) but that's a tortoise and they live on land

[cityzen]

But it haz sea in itz namez!

The correct term is simply 'gull', sooo......

[esfandyar]

I'm a turtle and I've got guns.
Beat that.

sorry to piss on your bonfire (or whatever the sea version would be - pile of rotting kelp? ) but that's a tortoise and they live on land

correction badger thats a blastoise? yeah..

these guys. mantis shrimps box and break shells with their mighty punching fists.

via wiki:

Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" — because of the animal's ability to inflict painful gashes if handled incautiously — mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Although it happens rarely, some larger species of mantis shrimp are capable of breaking through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon.

there are 2 types:

Spearers are armed with spiny appendages topped with barbed tips, used to stab and snag prey.

Smashers, on the other hand, possess a much more developed club and a more rudimentary spear (which is nevertheless quite sharp and still used in fights between their own kind); the club is used to bludgeon and smash their meals apart. The inner aspect of the dactyl (the terminal portion of the appendage) can also possess a sharp edge, with which the animal can cut prey while it swims.

Both types strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g (102,000 m/s2 or 335,000 ft/s2) and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start, about the acceleration of a .22 calibre bullet. Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface. The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 newtons that are caused by the impact of the appendage against the striking surface, which means that the prey is hit twice by a single strike; first by the claw and then by the collapsing cavitation bubbles that immediately follow. Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to kill or stun the prey.

[3rdeye]

^ Badass!

[oski]

creepy

[mashmash]

this thread just reminded me of my phobia of the sea in general. always been terrified of sea creatures/ underwater in general, especially sharks

[particle-jim]

these guys. mantis shrimps box and break shells with their mighty punching fists.

Mantis shrimps are badass, they fuck shit up, my friend was gunna get one but i think he's decided to get axolotls instead

[magma]

Changing my vote to Octopus. Their brain extends a little into each tentacle making them not just prehensile, but semi-autonomous. Fucking AYE.

They can also undo bottle tops including child-proof pill bottles, break into locked ship holds, steal lobsters from fishermen's pots and, if they were given a typewriter, write the Ascent of Man in a 1/4 of the time it took Darwin (probably).

[FluidMoShun]

Something with lungs so I can still smoke weed.

[ehbes]

Magma I couldnt agree more with your sig. People history is such a depressing book

[sigbowls]

a surfer

[magma]

Magma I couldnt agree more with your sig. People history is such a depressing book

One of the best things I read as a young adult, though... props! The lyric's actually from a NOFX song...

[nousd]

this thread just reminded me of my phobia of the sea in general. always been terrified of sea creatures/ underwater in general, especially sharks

surf with em all the time,
just try to keep novice sharkbait between us
& like me mate Magma, I'm changing what's left of my mind:
I wanna be a plankton,
there being so many trillions of us
that I'm bound to survive & find a gorgeous planktonette.
(hubba hubba, I'm in for the krill)