Fungus Ants

[Spirrow]

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]

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]

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

[Spirrow]

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]

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]

This thread is now about Fungus Ants.

[Havoc]

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

[Wil]

Damn, I misread and thought this was about Fangus.

[Dynamithix]

Fangus ants.

[Jordan]

Remind anyone of Paras and Parasect from Pokémon?

[Phylum]

No.

[enchilado]

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[Mr. Bungle]

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]

Sci-fi short story fodder.

[enchilado]

what the fuck is in that last picture?

Caterpillar fungus and seahorse soup.

[MA]

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

nah, its fucking disgusting.

[STM]

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]

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

[STM]

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]

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

[T-nex]

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]

Which one are you?

[STM]

Well that was un called for.

[Wings of Fire]

I'm tetchy.

[STM]

Oh you and your references.

[OANST]

Did he get the job?

[STM]

No the vacancies were filled several weeks ago! AHAHAHAHAHA.

If you get this reference you get some rep.

[enchilado]

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

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

[STM]

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

[Wings of Fire]

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.