Yesterday's post of hermit crabs elicited confessions of crustacean phobias from Aughra and Chemical Billy.
I didn't know there was such a thing.
Maybe because I've never had a crustacean crawl on me and stab out my eyes with it's needle-like legs and then crawl into my mouth and lodge in my throat choking off my airway until I died.
Spiders, yes. Never crustaceans.
Hey, don't knock crustacean phobia. I was chased by a lobster once. I was about 5 years old. I was scared of them for years.
ReplyDeleteI just don't want to make friends with anything that wears its skeleton on the outside. That's just gross.
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ReplyDeleteanything that can pinch me causes fear.
Crustacean: NO (MIAM)
ReplyDeleteSpiders: NO (Not MIAM but cute)
Worms: NO (BEURK)
Maybe LIONS and TIGERS and BEARS...
YES...
By the way, are those crustaceans really BLUE???? Nice pic.
I feel bad for them ... all cooped up with their little paws constricted. Just doesn't seem right. ;-(
ReplyDeletenice colour...
ReplyDeletetoo bad they are not in blue when is cooked
Wrath: You were chased by dinner! and imagine how it is for them with us wearing our guts on the outside. ewww.
ReplyDeletesteph: *pinch*
merlinprincess: Well, that one is.
What is MIAM and BEURK?
Wendy: But you're ok with the Boiling Them Alive part? ;)
zbjernak: I proposed that we cook it at the end of year to see if it does, indeed, turn red, and to see how it tastes. Last year they just took it over to the bay and tossed it back in.
MIAM in French means good to eat
ReplyDeleteBEURK means disgusting. Try to say it 5 times in a row... you'll see.
My word verification word is 'bpnceqen.' Is that lobster for don't cook me?
ReplyDeleteI was, indeed, chased by dinner. My next door neighbour put it on the floor so we kids could see it better (Look kiddies! See what an interesting and unthreatening animal it is we're about to boil to death?) and sensible Exoskeletor that it was, it made a beeline for the door. Where I was standing. I kept backing up and by the time she came to fetch it, it had backed me through the dining room and halfway through the living room. Not sure why I didn't just step out of the way. Maybe 'cause I was only 5? All I know is I was shouting for someone to come get the darned thing and realizing I was running out of places to go!
And... eeeeew! We're wearing our insides on the outside. I'd never thought of it that way. Well, I'll sleep well tonight now...
NO!! No, I am NOT ok with that at all!! I don't know HOW anyone could do that. I would never eat lobster. 'Sides, they eat doodies off the bottom of the ocean. That's how they get their revenge for you eating them. Yuck!! ;-)
ReplyDeletejk, you are a bad man. Here I thought, now that my computer is back, it would be safe to surf, but nooo.
ReplyDeleteBTW - wrath of dawn - Sartre had recurrent hallucinations of being chased by giant lobsters, after a mescaline experiment gone horribly awry. So there is a proud history of crustacean phobia.