Comments on: My Pet The Giant Snail

My Pet The Giant Snail

Nevin — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:45:09 -0800

My Pet The Giant Snail

By: sobarel

sobarel — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:52:17 -0800

For those of you disappointed when escargot is only available as an appetizer.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:53:22 -0800

gruuuuu

By: a lungful of dragon

a lungful of dragon — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:55:31 -0800

This is from Chs Bruno, which breeds rats and snails (warning: Google+).

By: stinkfoot

stinkfoot — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:57:42 -0800

I like how the camera angle changes and you can see the sheen of snot on the kids forearm.

By: tonycpsu

tonycpsu — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:58:52 -0800

NOPE

By: colossal

colossal — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:00:01 -0800

Remember when the giant snail broke out and left slime trail across the ceiling and moved into a teapot? Fun times.

By: VioletU

VioletU — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:10:35 -0800

That was neat to see! I've had garden snails as pets from time to time - they're really and truly fascinating. Listening to the 'rasp rasp rasp' sound as they eat a carrot is just too cool. I would LOVE to hang out with a giant snail for a bit.

By: Flood

Flood — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:13:43 -0800

As they say: There is an ass for every seat.

By: sobarel

sobarel — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:26:41 -0800

I suspect they're less cute if you live in Florida and they're eating your house and giving you parasitic lungworm. (Also, have changed my twitter bio to "never runs away, addorable and sticky")

By: jamaro

jamaro — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:36:31 -0800

Oh, it's running away alright. Just very sloooowly.

By: jamaro

jamaro — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:38:08 -0800

Also, the top YT comment is comedy gold: "Your music doesn't trick me. That is a fucking snail. "

By: poffin boffin

poffin boffin — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:43:52 -0800

I suspect they're less cute if you live in Florida and they're eating your house and giving you parasitic lungworm. Florida is so full of invasive bizarre species at this point that I really think it would pay to detach it from the rest of the country by way of some sort of moat.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:45:24 -0800

I don't think Flordia is real.

By: Fizz

Fizz — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:46:46 -0800

Everyone loves someone.

By: sobarel

sobarel — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:47:27 -0800

Florida is basically The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly in landmass form.

By: Don Pepino

Don Pepino — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:49:11 -0800

Hip hip hooray for exotic pets from a gazillion miles away that are dangerous and terrifying! Who could object? What could possibly go wrong? (poffin boffin and The Whelk and sobarel, global warming is coming for you in Wisconsin or Albequerque or Helsinki or whatever little frozen fairyland you live in, and it is going to make you eat your terrible words along with a whole mess of giant African snails. Be sure to boil the dook out of them so you don't end up screaming in agony before lapsing into paralysis and dying.)

By: sobarel

sobarel — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:58:56 -0800

Living in Helsinki eating thoroughly-boiled snails. It's always been the dream.

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:45:04 -0800

I saw these snails a few years back while on a trip to St. Maarten (where they've decimated the native snail populations). A dozen of these guys would emerge early every morning in the courtyard of our hotel. They move surprisingly quickly. My wife would refuse to go down for breakfast until they left. Me, I was scared of the sexagenarian nudists going for their morning stroll on the beach. At least the snails had shells.

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:46:47 -0800

Giant African Land Snail Massage Treatment.

By: Katjusa Roquette

Katjusa Roquette — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:51:34 -0800

Came here to add to the 'leave those guys in Africa' chorus. Did you know they eat concrete? Yes they're cute and everything but I'd far rather have a few giraffe as statement pets.

By: vapidave

vapidave — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:53:27 -0800

In the 70's when I was being Teenage Stoner Dude there was an elderly neighbor lady who lived on a corner lot and loved to garden. She was friendly and we would talk any time I was passing by. She had a pet turtle that she would bring outside when she was tending the flower beds. The turtle wanted South. She would bring the turtle and her gardening tools outside and put her friend in the north end of the yard and no matter which way the turtle was originally oriented it would pivot, like a slow compass needle, and head south. The process was that after about twenty minutes the turtle would reach the end of the yard, about to cross the sidewalk, and my neighbor would put down whatever tool she had to hand, rise from her knees and retrieve and redeposit the turtle at the north end of the yard. I think it was their way of joking with each other.

By: Don Pepino

Don Pepino — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:53:34 -0800

You know, something about the course of this discussion seems hauntingly familiar. Almost as if something thematically related happened just recently in the news cycle. It may even still be going on. I have this vague sense that early on everybody watched with horror and said to themselves, "Wow, whew, dang, glad we don't live there, can you imagine?" But the magic or science whichever it is of the aeroplane means that organisms do not always stay in their habitats of origin. So that not being on the continent or the island or the poor, clownish, afflicted peninsula is no longer a guarantee that you will be safe... Add in the fanged slathering sociopathic genocidal hellwraiths that run the exotic pet trade, and you've got a real Halloween story! California fights back with powerpoint. Key concept: "There could be nematodes in the slime trail." Hawaii fights back with powerpoint. Australia fights back with lots of pictures of big-eyed children and furry puppies plus House-style animations ripped off from that abysmal show, Monsters Inside Me.

By: harrietthespy

harrietthespy — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:55:41 -0800

Huh.

By: A Terrible Llama

A Terrible Llama — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:19:06 -0800

Well jeez I guess I'm some sort of mutant because I thought that was adorable.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:28:19 -0800

(singing to self: "I want to thank you for puttin' me back in my snail shell....")

By: Fizz

Fizz — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:29:15 -0800

Well jeez I guess I'm some sort of mutant because I thought that was adorable. posted by A Terrible Llama at 2:19 PM on October 31 [3 favorites +] [!] ~~Spider~~ Snail-Man (2002) directed by Sam Raimi

By: clone boulevard

clone boulevard — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:43:03 -0800

I thought it was cute, too. I don't often think about snails, and I certainly never considered that they liked to be patted.

By: Don Pepino

Don Pepino — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:44:25 -0800

I've been watching the Hawaii rat lungworm conference video in short intervals since I found it. It's kind of hard to take, but it is good if you're trying to diet because it's nauseating. Not only are the slides grody, somebody seated unfortunately near a microphone keeps coughing and coughing and coughing--obviously a psychosomatic reaction to all the nasty slides about eating slugs and rat feces and coughing up larval worms and getting them all up in your brain and whatall. To these stomach-turning effects, I regret to inform you, you can add the constant and eventually maddening din of coqui frogs because the conference was held on the Big Island, and that sound is inescapable anywhere you go there because the whole place is overrun with them and they are, like every other invasive species in Hawaii, destroying the place. Just on a whim, I googled "coqui frog exotic pet" and found a thread full of weird-animal junkies all raving about the cute and asking each other where they can get some of the adorable little scamps so they can build "frog rooms" in their houses. So, coming soon to the southeastern USA, I guess. Thanks, everybody with a hard-on for cute edgy animals from BFE! Thanks in advance! Anyway, so if listening to piercing bells while watching an immense snail that looks like a vulva wearing a turban flow over a child gets you salivating, you don't have to just sit there wishing. Get on kingsnake.com and order you up a whole mess of cool looking spiders and snails and little frogs and incredibly rare endangered tortoises and baby boas and ocelots and albino cinnamon bears and naked mole rat/ferret crosses and dwarf hippopotami. Just go for it. Get a caribou calf. Get a California condor. You're at the top of the foodchain; you're in the first world; it's time to live like it, Ted Nugent.

By: bonobothegreat

bonobothegreat — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:59:59 -0800

I thought it was fake because the eyes never once retracted. I'm surprised to find out there are super large land snails out there.

By: moonmilk

moonmilk — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:13:58 -0800

Chs Bruno, which breeds rats and snails WITH EACH OTHER!?

By: a halcyon day

a halcyon day — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:29:58 -0800

Chs Bruno, which breeds rats and snails > WITH EACH OTHER!? At least then we'd be able to catch the fuckers.

By: Chitownfats

Chitownfats — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:30:27 -0800

This is from Chs Bruno, which breeds rats and snails You know, give them half a chance and they'll do it themselves.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:49:39 -0800

Snails vapidave, we're talking snails.

By: A Terrible Llama

A Terrible Llama — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:06:03 -0800

Anyway, so if listening to piercing bells while watching an immense snail that looks like a vulva wearing a turban flow over a child gets you salivating, you don't have to just sit there wishing. Get on kingsnake.com and order you up a whole mess of cool looking spiders and snails and little frogs and incredibly rare endangered tortoises and baby boas and ocelots and albino cinnamon bears and naked mole rat/ferret crosses and dwarf hippopotami. Just go for it. Get a caribou calf. Get a California condor. You're at the top of the foodchain; you're in the first world; it's time to live like it, Ted Nugent. gahhhhhh i just thought it was sweet how gentle he was no worries I'll show myself out i have to make hollandaisse sauce out of all of these condor yolks

By: InsertNiftyNameHere

InsertNiftyNameHere — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:46:05 -0800

Just think of all the snail cooties that family is being exposed to.

By: boilermonster

boilermonster — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:02:10 -0800

More snail amusement. First a Song ,then a short Film about a concerned naturalist.