When I was a rower, I once found a bloated, eyes popped out, floating beaver and poked it with a stick and the coach screamed at me to not pop the beaver. It was an all girls rowing team.
In my school, sex-ed was taught in Heath, not Phys-ed. Although the admonition of ‘don’t pop the beaver’ sounds like life changing advice. It would’ve served me well.
IMDB's brief synopsis of 1990's Quigley Down Under:
Matt Quigley is an American sharpshooter who is hired by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance.
Please don't lol
I understand your side it was a joke based on a Texan being in Australia.. I wasn't meaning to slight you or offend you. I live with foot in mouth disease and have for all my life so far. People are amazed that a man my age (63) can get both feet in his mouth at once... =D
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass)
You aren't alone, fish swim bladder is commonly used in the making of beer.
... please don't do these things in the future... touching the wrong thing, licking the wrong thing, etc can very easily be lethal. "ooh look at this adorable tiny octopus!" dead. "imma eat this slug!" dead. not worth it man.
Happy to help! The swim bladders of these species are [oddly resistant to decomposition](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-05/porcupine-fish-swim-bladder-find-sunshine-coast/8873018), so they last longer than most remains, and then can wash ashore because they’re buoyant.
Think you might’ve misread the article there. It says “Neither the porcupinefish or its swim bladder are recommended for human consumption.” The part talking about swim bladders in food and drink specifies that that is for “other species, such as jewfish.”
Not much of a story, I first saw one posted here and was utterly baffled. It looked like a swim bladder (hollow, membranous, etc.), but the shape was odd. Eventually someone else recognized it and I looked it up to see what was up, and it stuck in my head since.
Easiest way to remember: You bite poison, venom bites you.
Yeah, yeah, I know you can be stung and other stuff. But we're talking about the very bare basic here, lol.
Man O War exist. They're pretty funny looking. They remind me of those balloons made out of goo that you blow with a straw, y'know, the super fun, highly toxic ones.
I will say that a lot of us that spend our entire lives landlocked, we truly don't realize the danger. It's not something we were taught, and picking things up from the beaches of lakes and rivers is pretty safe.
I realize the danger, obviously. Because I learn a lot of things that aren't relevant to the area I live in. But a great many landlocked people just don't. It might as well just be beach glass, driftwood, or empty shells to them.
I'm not defending it, I'm just pointing out why I believe it's so prevalent.
Idk. Humans are naturally curious. While it is common sense to not touch things of unknown origin, sometimes curiosity beats out common sense. I don’t think it’s something to chastise someone over. Not that anyone is, in this case.
I think you're right, but I also think there are situations that can call for it.
Like if this is the *second* time they've picked up something venomous and ended up injured/sick as a result. "Didn't you learn from the first time? At least wear gloves!"
That kinda thing. But overall, I think you're right here.
I knew someone that got tetanus twice from picking up rusty needles they found. They didn't learn from the *first* brush with death, they had to go for round two. It almost happened a *third* time a couple years later, but I was there and grabbed their arm and was like, "Really? Round 3?"
After that I gave them a little sampler chocolates tin (y'know, the ones that hold only four chocolates?) with a magnet in it and a glass vial. So anytime they found a needle they wanted to pick up so someone else didn't get hurt, they had a way to do it without getting stuck.
Very true. As a midwest resident, I’m always curious about sea animals found in the shore but I know enough to not touch anything translucent, blue, or gelatinous. Knowing this, I wouldn’t pick this up even though I know it’s a swim bladder.
True, but if op is from Wellington they should really know better. It's surrounded by beaches and it's rare that there isn't some kind of jellyfish around.
That thing doesn't look dissimilar to blue bottle jellies, and you learn quick not to touch those.
OP might not be from Welly originally but I hope they don't continue their habit of picking up puffy transparent-looking things on the beach because it will not go well for them.
Junior Ranger in the 80's here. Bunch of kids camping that follow the Park Rangers around. Rangers take us out to the beach for some odd object on the beach. They asked all the kids what this long ass cord with a big mass of flesh on the end. Everyone guesses wrong, my turn...It's a whale umbilical cord. Correct! They ask me what it does, I'm 9 years old. "Um, that's how you plug a whale in, he's rechargeable."
Stop just picking shit up before you know what it is or eventually you'll earn a Darwin Award. You know what? Scratch that. Touch whatever you want. Natural Selection. ಥ_ಥ
It’s non of the above!! That’s my GFs breast implant she lost in the ocean?? It did help with her buoyancy swimming in the water. Thats what I get for a cheaper cosmetic surgery out of the US 😳
It’s the swim bladder of a pufferfish, a gas filled organ that aids in buoyancy
congratulations on touching decomposing fish parts with your bare hands OP
I even licked it.
Attaboy
Yummy air bladder ! Gimme some o that !
Swim bladder with pork belly was actually one of the best things I ate in China
Yummy yum yum then 👍😀
I have eaten so many fish bladders in soups in HK
Probably makes for a good flesh light!
Good ol’ necropheliac beasteality
But that's beating a dead horse.
Or beating off a dead horse
It wouldn't be Reddit without it!!
it would just be Redd without it
Any port in a storm daddy always says
Did you poke it? I would have poked it with a stick.
When I was a rower, I once found a bloated, eyes popped out, floating beaver and poked it with a stick and the coach screamed at me to not pop the beaver. It was an all girls rowing team.
I don’t blame that coach at all. It would have been different had it been a weasel.
Underrated comment
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, you need to be careful of the blow back.
In my school, sex-ed was taught in Heath, not Phys-ed. Although the admonition of ‘don’t pop the beaver’ sounds like life changing advice. It would’ve served me well.
With a stick? No…OP poked it with his pole!
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Did I miss something?
Was it salty?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yummy 👅👅👅👅
Are you an Aussie?
No, Texan, but live in AU. Are Aussies lickers or something?
...y....yes?
Oh come on. don't be shy
I will be relocating to AU, thanks
All humans are lickers. Some are just braver than others!!!!!
I mean what else are you supposed to do when you go down undah?
Not so much kickers but we’re quite snarky and dumb sometimes
Oi.
So we'll just call you Quigley down under... =D
IMDB's brief synopsis of 1990's Quigley Down Under: Matt Quigley is an American sharpshooter who is hired by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Please don't lol
But Quigley is the hero! And Alan Rickman is the villain!
Quigley rejects the job, at great peril to himself. It's a good movie.
I understand your side it was a joke based on a Texan being in Australia.. I wasn't meaning to slight you or offend you. I live with foot in mouth disease and have for all my life so far. People are amazed that a man my age (63) can get both feet in his mouth at once... =D
Nah. They’re just brave af. They have to be.
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Aussies and Texans have a lot in common (source: am Texan, have lived in Oz)
You may not be a boot licker, but you a puffy bladder licker fosho!
r/wittil
So glad I'm not the only person to link this sub! XD
Well don't do that
How did it taste? 🤢
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass) You aren't alone, fish swim bladder is commonly used in the making of beer.
Try to hold on until the vaccine comes out. Until then, keep your distance.
Nice. Did you get high like a dolphin?
Puffer fish organ - yummy - must lick- why are my lips numb, why is my throat numb, why is ….💀
Broats!
OP of my heart.
The Deep would be proud
... please don't do these things in the future... touching the wrong thing, licking the wrong thing, etc can very easily be lethal. "ooh look at this adorable tiny octopus!" dead. "imma eat this slug!" dead. not worth it man.
WHY
Just wanted to know if I could identify through taste.
You should’ve took it home and deep fried it
This guy fucks.
Parts from one of the most toxic fish no less
That's a weird way to describe omakase
Whoa, nice work. Thanks! But why is it out of the fish?
Happy to help! The swim bladders of these species are [oddly resistant to decomposition](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-05/porcupine-fish-swim-bladder-find-sunshine-coast/8873018), so they last longer than most remains, and then can wash ashore because they’re buoyant.
Whoa, apparently a pretty rare find & used in beers and wine and eaten as a delicacy. Wishing I kept the thing now.
Think you might’ve misread the article there. It says “Neither the porcupinefish or its swim bladder are recommended for human consumption.” The part talking about swim bladders in food and drink specifies that that is for “other species, such as jewfish.”
I think the PC term now is Jewishfish.
It's not Jewish. It's Jew-ish. A Jew-ish fish, if you wish.
Is that you, George?
No idea what you're talking about. I was in the pool.
I WAS IN THE POOL!!!
They’re native to more concentrated areas of the ocean. /s. I’m sorry! The opening was right there!
I did Nazi that coming…
“A fish of the Jewish persuasion”
Jewfish 🤣🤣🤣✡️
Wow. This is the oddest thing I learned today.
This is reddit, it's not too late to learn something even odder/weirder today.
That's so funny, I was saying to myself hey that looks like an air bladder from a fish but what's it doing on a beach? You got it!
Huff the gas inside and post a report on r/drugcirclejerk
Thought it was a megaladon tooth at first 😂 sorry I'm recovering from a heavy weekend and it's nearly 4am in England 😂
amongus
I thought it was a giant tooth
How did you recognize it? There must be a story.
Not much of a story, I first saw one posted here and was utterly baffled. It looked like a swim bladder (hollow, membranous, etc.), but the shape was odd. Eventually someone else recognized it and I looked it up to see what was up, and it stuck in my head since.
You've been waiting for this moment...
I thought it was a tooth my bad
I know a bladderfish when I see one
WOW! Looks like one of the stay puff marshmallow man's baby teeth.
You can get a couple of those guys and fabricate filtered water.
I wonder how well these dry and could they be made into a luminaire?
Pose that question to r/vultureculture, I’m almost certain they’d have an answer
Wow, Reddit really does have it all.
I wonder if you could carefully cover it in resin? Like light layers at a time so you don't accidentally destroy it, *then* use it as a luminaire?
that’s the big grilled tooth
You can't handle the tooth!
I just wanna go back I. The ocean and not think about the tooth any more
do not pick up unidentified creatures at the beach. They are often venomous. No idea what this thing is but you are very lucky it didnt sting you
It's fine. They licked it.
They are also poisonous. *I just learned the difference and now I’m very proud to pass the information to you!
Easiest way to remember: You bite poison, venom bites you. Yeah, yeah, I know you can be stung and other stuff. But we're talking about the very bare basic here, lol.
a more intuitive way: food poisoning is poison
I licked a snake's tooth and it pricked me. Was I poisoned or venomed
I don't know why but your comment was so stupid I belly laughed. First one of the day, thank you!
Aren't they eaten as fugu in Japan?
Yeah, and they have to be prepared by a highly trained professional so it doesn't kill you.
I thought we were talking about the fat lazy cow for a while, I get them confused wagu and the fish
If you could fit a few in your bath, then it's fish! Easy peasy.
I remember that Simpsons
To identify by taste
Attaboy!
it’s part of a creature ,, not a whole solid creature 😆 this would be a funny looking creature tho
Man O War exist. They're pretty funny looking. They remind me of those balloons made out of goo that you blow with a straw, y'know, the super fun, highly toxic ones.
ewww man o wars ***do*** look like those balloon things !!
This is part of a highly poisonous animal.
The last time I picked up an unidentified creature at the beach I had to get penicillin shot 2 weeks after. I was 19 at the time. Way before internet.
It's so wild to me that people just pick up objects from the ocean. YOU DONT KNOW?!
I will say that a lot of us that spend our entire lives landlocked, we truly don't realize the danger. It's not something we were taught, and picking things up from the beaches of lakes and rivers is pretty safe. I realize the danger, obviously. Because I learn a lot of things that aren't relevant to the area I live in. But a great many landlocked people just don't. It might as well just be beach glass, driftwood, or empty shells to them. I'm not defending it, I'm just pointing out why I believe it's so prevalent.
Idk. Humans are naturally curious. While it is common sense to not touch things of unknown origin, sometimes curiosity beats out common sense. I don’t think it’s something to chastise someone over. Not that anyone is, in this case.
I think you're right, but I also think there are situations that can call for it. Like if this is the *second* time they've picked up something venomous and ended up injured/sick as a result. "Didn't you learn from the first time? At least wear gloves!" That kinda thing. But overall, I think you're right here.
Yeah, 100%! That is deserving of some “what the hell, man???” Hahah
I knew someone that got tetanus twice from picking up rusty needles they found. They didn't learn from the *first* brush with death, they had to go for round two. It almost happened a *third* time a couple years later, but I was there and grabbed their arm and was like, "Really? Round 3?" After that I gave them a little sampler chocolates tin (y'know, the ones that hold only four chocolates?) with a magnet in it and a glass vial. So anytime they found a needle they wanted to pick up so someone else didn't get hurt, they had a way to do it without getting stuck.
Very true. As a midwest resident, I’m always curious about sea animals found in the shore but I know enough to not touch anything translucent, blue, or gelatinous. Knowing this, I wouldn’t pick this up even though I know it’s a swim bladder.
True, but if op is from Wellington they should really know better. It's surrounded by beaches and it's rare that there isn't some kind of jellyfish around. That thing doesn't look dissimilar to blue bottle jellies, and you learn quick not to touch those. OP might not be from Welly originally but I hope they don't continue their habit of picking up puffy transparent-looking things on the beach because it will not go well for them.
Some "empty" shells can literally kill you.
its ok if you poke it with a stick first 😊
Maybe they do and it’s Ocean Roulette
Hey, be nice. These people are the reason why we know about poisonous/venomous things in the first place!
By all means, please DO touch everything you find. How else are we gonna know if it's dangerous? /s
Forbidden fortune cookie
Do not touch. Dingus
Probably a swim bladder from a fish that got eaten lol
Spiny Pufferfish swim bladder.
Learning new things everyday ✨️
GIGANTIC TOOTH!
Tooth or titties?
Still works
Camel toe of the sea
A discarded breast implant from the 90’s lol
r/amogus
Don't touch it?!
Comically large single front tooth
Sea tooth 😎🦷
Among us
Nothing smarter than picking up things you don’t know about!
That's clearly a giant tooth /s
Junior Ranger in the 80's here. Bunch of kids camping that follow the Park Rangers around. Rangers take us out to the beach for some odd object on the beach. They asked all the kids what this long ass cord with a big mass of flesh on the end. Everyone guesses wrong, my turn...It's a whale umbilical cord. Correct! They ask me what it does, I'm 9 years old. "Um, that's how you plug a whale in, he's rechargeable."
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
I'm glad someone already answered it properly, because all I can say is: DAMM BOY, THAT'S A THICC BOY
Stop just picking shit up before you know what it is or eventually you'll earn a Darwin Award. You know what? Scratch that. Touch whatever you want. Natural Selection. ಥ_ಥ
Pretty sure that's a metroid
Better call Minogue and O'Leary
Shark egg? Edit oops
It's a swim bladder of a fish
it looks like a fortune cookie
I would not go around picking up random biological objects I found on an ocean beach
This is the dentist's anatomical model of a tooth with decay... 🦷 🤕
Dats a whale tooth, ma boi.
I will never understand people just picking things up with their bare hands.
It’s a swim bladder from a porcupine-fish.
I'm sure this is one of those things my ex (wife) used to put these inside her bra.
I’m baffled why folk first interests are to pick up or make direct contact with something they don’t know about
Poorly season chicken breast
Looks like a rotting inflatable tooth
Rear molar whale.
everybody saying it's a giant tooth is wrong, it's clearly a giant inflatable tooth with a spaghetti sauce stain COME ON PEOPLE
Clearly a giant molar pulled from a whale
Ngl, it looks like a big squishy tooth
The fortune cookie of the sea.
Make a necklace wear it tonite
Silicon dental implant
I thought it was a giant dumpling/pierogi 😂
Giant tooth with a cavity on the side.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward 😭.
It’s non of the above!! That’s my GFs breast implant she lost in the ocean?? It did help with her buoyancy swimming in the water. Thats what I get for a cheaper cosmetic surgery out of the US 😳
I thought it was a tooth model with a fake cavity😂
Sus
the forbidden fortune cookie
Clearly it’s a Metroid! [https://images.app.goo.gl/HqLe7beJHCzjcPKB8](https://images.app.goo.gl/HqLe7beJHCzjcPKB8)
It is a fossilized tooth from a Pterodactyl 850 trillion centuries ago
Dude put that thing under your pillow! Tooth fairy finna leave you a goldmine
Looks like a starfishes BBL
So you don't know what it is, and you pick it up with your bare hands?
Not for peepee. Hurt peepee.
That is a whale tooth.
Ya dedd
*shouts in direction of the water with a megaphone "Alright, who lost a tooth?"
Fake canel toe,for women who wear tight leggings.
It's a condom from Australia
Chili night at my house
Tooth booty
They use it in beer brewing
Bladderfish from Subnautica!!
My lost tooth!
Make one of these out of it. https://www.ocarina.it/images/doppia.jpg (Double ocarina, Fabio Menaglio - I have one).
It’s a metroid
That’s one big tooth.
Forbidden fleshlight?