IN PRAISE OF....THE ISOPOD because the more legs the better and you probably wish you had eyes like that except you are not as cool

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http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/isopod00.jpg

Recently these creatures were talked about on another thread. Someone suggested they should have their own thread and I couldn't agree more. In fact, I insist. I think these things absolutely rule. I guess there's probably only so many pictures of them on the internetz but I'd like to look at lots of pictures of them so if anyone can hook me up...

p.s. this is not "Isopod porn".

― He was feeling canonical (Bimble), Friday, 3 July 2009 04:46 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOSXtBCY30

― He was feeling canonical (Bimble), Friday, 3 July 2009 04:47 (sixteen years ago)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/22/article-1100243-02DF9F34000005DC-641_468x405_popup.jpg

― rent, Friday, 3 July 2009 05:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g178/freesoftjazz/trilobite.gif

― rent, Friday, 3 July 2009 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/7/75/Kitteh_isopod.jpg/355px-Kitteh_isopod.jpg

― rent, Friday, 3 July 2009 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

http://pocuswhiteface.com/images/isopods.jpg

― rent, Friday, 3 July 2009 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

http://a894.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/115/l_de7d037f50a4fa3402b646c6e9325e55.jpg

― rent, Friday, 3 July 2009 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

Isopod, Usopod, Wesopod.

― StanM, Friday, 3 July 2009 06:13 (sixteen years ago)

aaah, Bimble I heart you so much, you have given me the biggest laugh of this morning.

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Friday, 3 July 2009 07:15 (sixteen years ago)

They look like creepy alien creeps and they creep me out.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3022/2553594100_f844a0a27b_o.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/969961464_4f5e5af0e8_b.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 3 July 2009 07:25 (sixteen years ago)

KNEEL, HUMAN

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/3175413284_6037ea3921_b.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 3 July 2009 07:26 (sixteen years ago)

http://elece.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/giant-isopod.jpg

UGLIEST. THING. EVER.

― ailsa, Friday, 3 July 2009 07:37 (sixteen years ago)

I has a fluffy isopod pyjama-holder from Ikea!

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3070/bugsiy.jpg
(image stolen from neatorama as I am not near it or my camera)

I mean, the label claims it's a "skalbagge", which seems to be Swedish for "beetle", but that's no beetle, right?

Anyway. Isopods rule. All hail bathynomus giganteus. More pics please!

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 3 July 2009 07:47 (sixteen years ago)

This thread needs video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOSXtBCY30

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

it has video, too

― what a delightfully quirky new voice! (bug), Friday, 3 July 2009 08:05 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2763717970_3364ebd7cb.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:06 (sixteen years ago)

Bah, skipped ahead too fast

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:07 (sixteen years ago)

YOU'LL BE THE FIRST TO DIE

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/1468513329_802ba9a90d.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:08 (sixteen years ago)

I swear these have come straight out of Metroid Fusion.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 3 July 2009 08:22 (sixteen years ago)

http://accel7.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/280x280/0/24/04/68/albums-12/ADLiveLOndon.jpg

^ I think this is some sort of isopod-bat hybrid

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2009 08:40 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/102984876_0aa7d562b8.jpg

tickle tickle!

― ledge, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:45 (sixteen years ago)

These things are fucking horrific.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/380353_028542ead3.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1102/969960806_fa7b1e7bb0.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/3239166571_1a2d1251c0.jpg

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 3 July 2009 08:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://i40.tinypic.com/2yko0vp.jpg

― ledge, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:49 (sixteen years ago)

You didn't specify giant isopods, right? So others are welcome too? Like this cute tongue-eating one?

HI GUYZ

http://www.entomologia.org/bugs_in_the_news/Cymothoa_exigua.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:51 (sixteen years ago)

Gotta say I feel a bit glum for these fellers marooned on dry land. Sure they'd rather be on the ocean floor snacking on a dead dolphin, than taking enforced shore leave with some hominid douchebags.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2009 08:51 (sixteen years ago)

One of them tongue ones will be on display in the -ahem- horniman museum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

― StanM, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:52 (sixteen years ago)

That tongue eating one is so wrong on so many levels. The fish has teeth like a human, for a start. Eurgh eurgh eurgh.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 3 July 2009 08:54 (sixteen years ago)

we need to reign this thread back. how 'bout a nice picture of a cute harmless woodlouse?

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08a98osd995Fs/610x.jpg

― ledge, Friday, 3 July 2009 08:58 (sixteen years ago)

AWWWW - look how cute isopod ~~kitte~~ ~~puppie~~ ~~podpole~~ ~~calve~~ podlings are:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2328727534_096ecc3026.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 3 July 2009 09:08 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know what to say except I love these critters and I want them to be happy on dry land or water or wherever they're supposed to hang out.

― Where's All The Hippies? Fuck off! (Bimble), Friday, 3 July 2009 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://ag.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/crustacea/isopoda/isopod2.gif

― ailsa, Friday, 3 July 2009 11:40 (sixteen years ago)

^ one of those tongue-eating freaks in a fish's mouth.

― ailsa, Friday, 3 July 2009 11:41 (sixteen years ago)

And that is why they say not to look a gift fish in the mouth.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Friday, 3 July 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

the girl in the pic elvis telecom posted with the isopod and the t-shirt is actually someone I know.

― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Friday, 28 August 2009 11:07 (sixteen years ago)

what's funny is that they're just giant underwater rolly pollies basically

― crappy, use her name (latebloomer), Friday, 28 August 2009 11:30 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 25 September 2016 05:55 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

BORIS KARLOFF as ISOPOD

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 26 October 2019 08:04 (five years ago)

The first thing I thought when this thread had been bumped!

― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 26 October 2019 13:42 (five years ago)

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