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I love the Effing petting zoo!
Cool fucking petting zoo
Yeah that might be the best of your lifetime as it might be drastically shortened
good effing joke, “once in a lifetime event”
Wouldn’t any joke from that account be an effing joke?
For sure, pettings this cute little guy can be the the experience of the rest of your life, same as listen the sound of the sea in a Conoidea (a bite on the neck or face can kill you in less than a minute)
Oh it’s the rule 30 sea snail! Didn’t know they were super poisonous, huh
If you put it to your ear, you can hear the sound of yourself screaming.
Another cute and friendly little guy, spreading a lot of joy.
Oh man I would love to live in a town called Effing. If only it wasn’t in South Carolina.
I have good news for you:
I love Octopus, but this on is better not to pet. Yes, you can survive a bite, but only if there is an medical aid very near.
Shame they felt the need to censor the name of the petting zoo.
Well they didn’t want people getting the wrong idea.
I grew up on the East Coast of the United States. MD and FL to be specific. Going to the beach was a regular thing in our household, whether it was the Chesapeake Bay or the Atlantic Ocean somewhere in West Palm Beach. My grandad has a house on the actual bay. Grew up spending every family gathering there. The adults would visit/catch up, and us kids would be in the water. I was NEVER scared of the water.
Then, as a young adult, Im sitting at an inprocessing for a base in Okinawa, Japan, and the briefer is going over local hazards in the region.
I had never heard of the Blue Ringed Octopus before.
And from that moment on, I became terrified of things in the ocean.
My husband always laughs about that story because its rare that they even make it into the waters around Oki, but that genuinely really was the moment that my brain was like “Omg, you have to worry about more than sharks in the ocean.”
For a while, I lived in Havre de Grace, MD. In that timeframe, I experienced several fourths of July. One of those times, for some reason, my then-girlfriend and I got in a mood to watch horror movies.
We opened Netflix (then our only streaming service) and looked in the horror category, eventually settling on The Bay. We’d never heard of that movie before and selected it pretty much at random.
Turns out that movie is implicitly set in HdG and explicitly on the fourth of July. Kinda freaked us out for a bit.
After that, we looked up movies set in HdG and that’s how I found From Within, a mediocre movie featuring Bruce Willis’ daughter; and also how I found out that House of Cards filmed Kevin Spacey’s home town there.
Well, as someone who adores horror movies of all styles from pure camp to serious, and as someone who feels hella nostalgia for MD, I thank you for putting The Bay on my radar!
My husband is a super cinephile though, so Im super hell be interested in the others (provided he hasnt already seen them).
The ocean is beyond beautiful. Spent some time on the shores of NC and VA…
Started studying marine biology due to the oceans vast amount of mystery…Now it’s “The ocean is beyond beautiful and just as deadly.”
The ocean is indeed beyond beautiful. I’m not a marine biologist, but I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon and truly appreciated it there. A lot of my time was spent just … Admiring the water.
I remember a Jamaican local commenting that she’d seen the ocean around the USA in movies and wouldn’t swim in the ocean around the country based on that.
Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.
Beautiful, though.
Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.
Please elaborate.
There was a cluster of fish and the water was so clear that you could see them from the surface, which I thought was cool. Some of them were even jumping out of the water, which I’d never seen in person before! Because of that, I worked my way to around the middle of the cluster and crouched, then just kind of settled down to watch. Eventually, I guess I had been still long enough that they forgot I was there and started jumping around me. When I was done surveiling them, I stood up and turned around, only to receive a fish directly to the face.
It was so unexpected (to me and, I presume, to the fish) that my first thought was that someone had thrown a rock at me, but my newly minted wife clarified that it was, in fact, a fish.
not OP but I’ve been slapped in the noggin clean by a nice big salmon while fishing. was quite the nice greeting. I’ve also been jizzed on as well.
I’ve also been jizzed on as well.
Also by a fish?
Started studying marine biology
How were you able to dissect one?!?
(recorder clicks on) “It seems the diet consists…mainly of a waxy chunky substance…apparent preference towards bright primary colors.”
Strap them on the table tightly
👀
Oh no.
I honestly want to know the story behind this picture. Maybe their venom glands can be removed? A quick Wikipedia search showed that this one isn’t brightening up its blue rings like they do when they feel threatened, and that generally you can survive if a respirator is available, but that doesn’t seem like enough to risk holding one…
I honestly want to know the story behind this picture.
Take it with a grain of salt: I remember reading years ago that the person handling the octopus was suffering from degenerative disease, and losing his fight against liver cancer. So, he wasn’t fazed about the prospect of a fatal bite.
There’s also a video of a woman holding one not realizing what it is. "my first reaction was just “pick it up”
Meanwhile, in Mexico, an octopus swam near my brother and I and we both got the fuck out the water like it had turned to lava lmao
A fish about a foot long jumped out of the water within arm’s reach of me while swimming at a Florida beach. First thought was what might be hunting that fish. I got out for a while.
If I remember correctly, the guy holding the octopus had terminal cancer and was traveling around doing dangerous things before he died.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
You see, it’s not.
I didn’t read ‘Effing SC’. I was confused as to why they’re cursing the petting zoo.
Maybe because they’re trying to get people to pet a blue-ringed octopus?
Once in a lifetime. Probably the crowning achievement
Because they brought in blue ringed octopi for casual petting
Petting a blue ring octopus could definitely be a once in a lifetime event!
Well they were planning on Effing it, so maybe they were wearing “protection”.
