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Spirrow 03-31-2011 04:33 PM

Fungus Ants
 
I have no idea why. But I'll understand if you squeal like a girl and your hair stands up when you see this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ter-ant-fungus

Man, that shizz is strong. Imagine if we infected a few Oddworld Forumites with a modified version. Heh. That'd be sooo cuul. Zombie Havoc. Zombie Alcar. Zombie Molluck's Assistant.

MeechMunchie 03-31-2011 11:40 PM

I always thought it was freakiest the way it affects their thinking. I remember David Attenborough describing how 'after a few hours... it gets an uncontrollable urge to go up...'

STM 04-01-2011 10:58 AM

Yes, it sends signals to override the brain so that they go up very high to send more fungal spores through the air.

Spirrow 04-02-2011 08:09 AM

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Yes, it sends signals to override the brain so that they go up very high to send more fungal spores through the air.

Yup. The higher you go. The further your spores go. It's just freaky how they erupt from their bodies like that.

Mac Sirloin 04-03-2011 08:06 AM

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I'm a worse poster than Spirrow.

Nah, see, we're still ingratiated to some of your annoying quirks 'cause you still post regularly. Spirrow comes and goes (ooh) too often for us to get used to him.

Also, I've known about fungus ants for awhile so this is just like that other time someone found something I knew about.

T-nex 04-03-2011 12:38 PM

This thread is now about Fungus Ants.

Havoc 04-03-2011 12:45 PM

That's some freaky shit. Why you would want that to happen to me though, I dunno.

Wil 04-03-2011 01:55 PM

Damn, I misread and thought this was about Fangus.

Dynamithix 04-03-2011 01:59 PM

Fangus ants.

Jordan 04-03-2011 11:10 PM

Remind anyone of Paras and Parasect from Pokémon?

Phylum 04-03-2011 11:11 PM

No.

enchilado 04-03-2011 11:29 PM

















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Mr. Bungle 04-04-2011 01:56 PM

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Remind anyone of Paras and Parasect from Pokémon?

Yup.

Also, Enchilado, what the fuck is in that last picture? Looks like remnants of frogs, bugs, and other, unknown entities.

I am terrified of frogs.

Dipstikk 04-04-2011 10:39 PM

Sci-fi short story fodder.

enchilado 04-04-2011 11:00 PM

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what the fuck is in that last picture?

Caterpillar fungus and seahorse soup.

MA 04-05-2011 10:49 AM

i'd eat it. i'd eat the shit out of it.

nah, its fucking disgusting.

STM 04-05-2011 11:08 AM

Really? I ate a shit load of bush tucker in school once, for five minutes I was the big man when all the cool guys pussied out. Was ok but dry.

Tl;dr - I'd eat that shit.

T-nex 04-05-2011 11:12 AM

I once ate an ant cos a classmate used to eat lots of them and I got curious. It tasted kind of lemony.

STM 04-05-2011 11:14 AM

Like a live ant? My Granddad ate a worm for a fiver (£5 back then dunno how much that is now, I suppose more than £5)

Dynamithix 04-05-2011 11:19 AM

My friend and I ate ants on a regular basis when we were 7.

T-nex 04-05-2011 11:21 AM

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Like a live ant? My Granddad ate a worm for a fiver (£5 back then dunno how much that is now, I suppose more than £5)

Yes a live ant. But it was the small, black kind.

Denmark doesnt really get big ants. Denmark doesnt get anything. it's just filled with turds and cows.

Wings of Fire 04-05-2011 11:22 AM

Which one are you?

STM 04-05-2011 11:23 AM

Well that was un called for.

Wings of Fire 04-05-2011 11:24 AM

I'm tetchy.

STM 04-05-2011 11:26 AM

Oh you and your references.

OANST 04-05-2011 11:28 AM

Did he get the job?

STM 04-05-2011 11:40 AM

No the vacancies were filled several weeks ago! AHAHAHAHAHA.

If you get this reference you get some rep.

enchilado 04-05-2011 12:44 PM

Monty Python "Silly Job Interview" sketch (the one with John Cleese ringing the bell).

I don't get why you quoted it, though.

STM 04-05-2011 12:54 PM

Did he get the job...I answer with the sketch.

Wings of Fire 04-05-2011 12:57 PM

Inside references that were posted within twenty minutes of eachother can arguably be clever and funny.

Outside borderline obscure references for the sake of referencing cannot. Ever. Regardless of what 4chan/facebook/twitter tells you otherwise.