If You Could Wipe Out One Animal Species...

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Well I chose Sharks (obviously) and below, in this clip from Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, you'll see exactly why they should not exist:

Has this whole poll been set up to give you an excuse to post that, admittedly excellent, clip?

Have I really alienated every dog-loving member of MR (i.e. most of them), purely just so that you could share that clip, again, admittedly excellent, of a shark attacking an aeroplane?

[Patricia]

I chose mosquitoes. I find sharks fairly easy to avoid but mozzies are a pain. They bite me.
Also they carry malaria and a number of other diseases.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

paaa hahahahaha !!!!

(that was a joke, right ? that's not a real film ?)

No, it's real. I have it on DVD

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Patricia

I chose mosquitoes. I find sharks fairly easy to avoid but mozzies are a pain. They bite me.
Also they carry malaria and a number of other diseases.

well that's done it.

if patricia will vote for the mosquitoes, i'm voting for them too, and the law of unintended consequences be damned.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

No, it's real. I have it on DVD

well that's just...


i'm at a loss for words. consternation and hilarity are fighting it out in the dark recesses of my psyche. i'll let you know how it comes out.

[pshrynk]

Some filmmakers should never be allowed to access a computer graphics card...

[Peverel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

No, it's real. I have it on DVD

and best understatement quote of the day goes to:

"We're dealing with a menace"

[Verencat]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

No, it's real. I have it on DVD

I need to see that!


And I voted spiders. I don't care about their utility, this is just a poll. So yeah, spiders. They make me insane.

Let me tell you a story about how much I'm silly, how much I hate spiders and how much I'm thinking about paint (making ties between threads, ain't that wonderful?).

This happened a few months ago. I was sweeping the floor in my old apartment's corridor. Since that one had no place to hang coats, I had a nice, 6 feet tall bookcase that I cut vertically in half in the corridor, on which I threw coats, shoes, tools and paint stuff. Thanks to my craftsmanship it wasn't deep, so on top of it I had just enough space to line up paint gallons - some of them full, other half empty (or half full, depending on where you stand). While sweeping, I saw a tiny spider running away from the broom, hiding behind the bookshelf. I considered leaving it there, but I kept thinking about the possibility of it getting out and climbing on me while I slept, so I proceeded to move the bookshelf. With the paint gallons on it.

They all fell down, three of those exploded. White, lilac and bright red paint up to the ceiling, on the walls, on my coats, on my boots, two inches of it on the floor, and about half a gallon on me. I cried, laughed, cried again and spent 4 hours cleaning it up. 4 hours. It was surreal. Still funny, anyway.

I HATE SPIDERS!

[rlparker]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

...
That's made me think, can we have humans on the poll?
...

I think it's probable that humans will take care of it (wiping ourselves out, I mean) one way or another sometime in the next century.

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I chose mosquitoes also! If they were gone, maybe the birds would eat more spiders.

Well, I don't particularly care for mosquitoes either, but ticks are worse. And you, aren't you a southern girl?? I'm surprised you didn't name what is far and away the most obvious worst critter on earth: chiggers!

[Idoine]

Ok, so it's only a poll, then I vote Spiders !
I know about their utility and so on, but a phobia (controlled one, I can squash them... ) is a phobia, isn't it ?

[krisk]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Well, personally, although I wouldn't go so far as to say I would wipe them out, I could quite happily live in a world without dogs.

They serve no real purpose other than to be surrogate children for people who really can't believe that other people do not see the fun in having a smelly flea ridden mutt stick its nose in inappropriate places and slobber all over you ("Oh, isn't he cute, he must like you" - ARRRGGGHHH).

OK, maybe it's actually dog-owners I object to?

Runs away and hides deeeeep underground to avoid the wrath of the multitude of dog owners on MR

oh! and I vote snakes *shudder* got bit in the bum when little. I'm totally phobic about them!


I think it is not only dog owners, but probably even LITTLE dog owners that you have issues with. you need to go out and meet a few dogs with jobs such as my princess. she does not crotch poke, almost always smells good, have fleas!?NEVAH!!! and the slobbering means she is working which means she is either training or actually out looking for someone lost.

[Moejoe]

Oh I didn't put on Mansquito as an option....

From the same cheap straight-to-DVD production house that brought you Megashark vs Giant Octopus and the classic Megasnake comes the ultimate horror.....


MANSQUITO!!!! Half-man, half mosquito!!

[Verencat]

I think I'm going to be sick.
What the...how did they... why would...???? Huh?

[zelda_pinwheel]

dear god. i'm not sure i'm brave enough to watch that.

[Verencat]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

dear god. i'm not sure i'm brave enough to watch that.

Don't, just don't. There's even a romantic plot between the manquito and a young lady, just don't watch it. It's disturbing. And as I've been reminded by a wiseman yesterday, nothing can be unseen.