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A big part of adult life is learning to overcome your fears. As you get older, the things that once terrified you become benign or, at the very least, survivable. Often times we are confronted face-to-face with something that scares us and when we live to fight another day we learn the cliche but genuinely valuable lesson that what doesn’t kill us actually can make us stronger. The dark is not a magical realm where all of the creatures with knife teeth and bleeding eyes live, it’s just the dark. Quicksand doesn’t exist. Sharks don’t live in swimming pools. Your parents will never die. And then all of a sudden you are reminded of a childhood fear, piranhas, which you had pretty much forgotten about entirely, because you’re a big boy now, and OK all it’s doing is biting a stick but even just seeing it bite a stick draws up something deep and black from the well of your soul and you realize on a fundamental level that OH, WHOOPS, WAIT A SECOND, MONSTERS ARE REAL, THE DARK IS A NIGHTMARE, EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE, AND EACH SECOND IS JUST A RAZOR WIRE TIGHTROPE OVER THE ABYSS. Yikes. Oh well. TGIF. (Via TheAwesomer.)
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This is much more effective than that time I tried to use a perch as a seat.
Oh fuck, DO NOT let the video finish and recommend other videos.
“Python eats Alligator, Time Lapse Speed x 6″. That couldn’t possibly be that bad.
IT IS MUCH WORSE. I DO NOT ACCEPT.
I think we’re getting different videos. I have a half-eaten human hand show up in mine. Goin to check out this time lapse vid though.
Ha, dumb alligator.
Did anyone watch the Huge Centipede and Snake best fwends video? They’re hugging! Adorbs.
I don’t know why i watched that. That’s the first time hugging has made me almost vomit.
Really? I’m in the 50s! Maybe you’re not hugging and kissing poisonous snakes correctly.
That video made me very sad, poor, stupid snake.
Everything about everything on the internet is terrible.
I may or may not have spent my childhood turning on the lights as quickly as possible just in case there were Sleestak waiting for me.
Boo!
Nice try, but unlike Sleestak, ghosts aren’t real.
Boooo
One of the reasons I didn’t go outside as much as maybe I should have as a kid is the knowledge that wendigos were totally real and totally jonesing to murder the hell out of me.
I was talking to my cousin in Mexico a couple of months ago about this girl I know who is so legitimately terrified of zombies that she can’t even hear people talk about them without having a panic attack. My cousin laughed at me and said “Oh, Canadians. You’re so cute! You have to invent things to be afraid of. We don’t do that here, we have narcotrafiquantes.”
“What is this, aquatic asshole week?”
You called?
arg…I’m sorry this is so huge. I just thought some of you might want to take it to the Wal-Mart photo booth and have a poster made. So I’m sorry, but also, you’re welcome.
“Piranha Scissors” – More like FISHkars, am I right?
Or SHEARanhas! Right…?
(SHEARanhas narrowly beat out my original idea, ScissorFISHs and- HOLY SHIT, just realized, FISHssors)
Oh, goddamnit, I genuinely forgot about the comment I was replying to… which, despite the odd spelling, I think beat me to FISHssors.
Nope. Not a Piranha Darko. I was referring to Fiskars, a brand of scissors that I guess is maybe not as universally known as I thought?
this is exactly why I exclusively use safety scissors.
did you guys hear about that toddler who just got a finger bitten off by a [pet?!] piranha? all i could think about watching that stick.
I’ve never been more worried about a persons finger in my entire life. Yeesh.
Pirahnhas? I used to find them scary. That was until I learned about the testicle chomping Pacu. Especially after I found out someone found a testicle chomping Pacu in a lake in FUCKING ILLINOIS! I live in Illinois! This thing has people teeth!
It also has the early stages of periodontal disease. Learn to floss, stupid fish.
can’t sleep… Pacu will chomp me…. can’t sleep…. Pacu will chomp me….- me, wide eyed at 3am.
Oh man those teeth are so unsettling.
They look British. Or should I say they LORRY British!
I’ll see myself out.
my main concern with this video is why is the piranha just perfectly fine being out of the water for that long?? WHAT EXACTLY IS STOPPING THOSE CREEPS FROM RISING UP OUT OF THEIR WATERY NIGHTMARE WORLD AND CHOMPING US ALL TO DEATH??
Could be worse, could be a carandiru.