Here at the Yes, parasites are very cool. For instance, check out this cricket, forced, for reasons beyond its ken, to the water, whereby this happens:
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Parasite corner
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2 comments:
What in blazes is "cool" about having some monstrously long turd-worm spool forth from your rectal cavity, taking half your guts with it, and leaving you to either drown or simply float to death***?
Poor cwicket.
*** Much more painful and less zen than it sounds.
Because, probably due to some horrendous inability to empathise with our orthopteran friends, I'm only see the monstrous Giger-esque sci-fi horror mind-fuckery, rather than the notional suffering and despair of an animal with only a rudimentary nervous system. I would surely feel different if this was happening to, say, Alan Carr.
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