As wirecutter said, it's a cuttlefish. This is a cephalopod like the squid and octopus, which are descended from molluscs (like clams and snails), but have come out of their shells. That thing the guy is grabbing and pulling on is its siphon; in cuttlefish, this is supposedly the nozzle to shoot water for propulsion or ink for defense, but it looks to me like it might be breathing through it since it buried itself with too little water for the gills.
In the cuttlefish, the shell became internal, the "cuttlebone", and evolved a remarkable microstructure to serve as a float and also as a stiffener. It's formed from calcium carbonate (like limestone), which is normally dense and brittle, but cuttlebone is light, stiff, and resists cracking. The light weight comes from being so porous that the rock is less than 10% of the volume; it contains gas and liquid, and the cuttlefish regulates it's buoyancy by changing the ratio.
Stiffness comes like most light, stiff structures, from hollow chambers covered with a stiff surface layer - but with a building material as poor as calcium carbonate, you'd expect this to be fragile and break into pieces if overloaded. Instead, it has rods in the layers and tiny pillars between them. Small breaks happen, but the crack cannot run straight through but is diverted into all those tiny elements. It takes a lot of energy to enlarge a break and do serious damage. Since it's easy to break off a little but hard to break off big pieces, it's put in cages for animals that need to peck or chew a calcium supplement.
Cuttlefish. A staple seafood in many areas of Korea. Dried, they keep forever and are a tasty snack for a Cajun tank commander who was raised eating dried shrimp as a snack.
#10 On a right of way we were burning piles of wood the size of small houses. I lit a pile one day and and it was starting good. I looked up and on the highest log sticking out at an angle stood a squirrel. A young buck of sixteen, I grabbed leather gloves off the dozer and started climbing, lots of smoke and fire. Got to the squirrel log and started scooting out on it. Finally I reached for the squirrel and it jumped. Not only did it jump it flew. It was a damn flying squirrel. Thought my boss on the dozer would never stop laughing. Heard that story more times then I cared to.
Prefer Striplula… get your ammo on strippers and use Striplula to refresh your mags. I have a tool similar to a Maglula, and by the time the thing is prepped to go I probably could have already loaded several mags from strippers. Just not the time/effort saver one might think. But then, as always, different strokes…
Army probably "rewards" those qualifying expert right away by "allowing" them to load all the mags for all the cross-eyed retards with tremors and a glass eye that try to qualify for days.
Join the Army, they said, it'll be fun they said, you'll get to shoot a lot and blow stuff up they said...
It seems most civilian ammo comes loose or in bulk, hence the maglula. Yes, in the military, all ours came on strips and we all kept a couple of loaders on us. They were like P-38s, everybody had 2 or 3 in their gear.
A coworker was driving into his garage, to drive his car up onto a ramp for an oil change. He had the driver's side door open, to look and see just exactly where he needed to go to get his car up on the ramp. His car door hit the edge of the garage doorframe, and began to close, with his fat head stuck between the car door and the frame of the car. He could not reach the foot pedals anymore, and was just lucky he had an emergency brake lever between the front seats, that he was able to use to stop the car, before it popped his head like a huge pink zit. He had been a long time worker there, when they hired an intern from Purdue to work for the summer. She was one of the big girls who might have been able to grace the cover of magazines. Good looking, but fat. Sorry that is just the truth. He was single, and somehow they hooked up. When summer was over, she was ready to head back to Purdue, to keep on with her education to become a metallurgist. Our coworker was going to quit his job of over 20 years and follow her to Indiana, and we tried to stop him from doing something so stupid. Lucky for him, the girl told him that she had no desire for him to follow her anywhere, for anything. She was just a horny college student, who found a safe guy with no possible STD's, due to his celibate lifestyle, with a few one night stands in the very far past. He had some issues to work on. I don't know how that worked out for him, but he must have gotten straightened out a bit. He got married a few years later and had a kid. He also was one who had the worst temper of anyone else I ever worked with. That is not a good thing. He was a nutjob, and got put on some drugs to try and fix his anger. I don't know about the issues, but I do know that he was on the start of the mental drugs, and was looped as a mountain goat.
3) Used to see dried pressed cuttlefish stacked up for sale on street vendor carts in the ROK. They had this little steamer they would run it through if you wanted to start chewing on it right there. It expands while you're chewing on it. Travel and you learn things.
OK, WTH is #3, and where is that, so I’ll make sure never to go there!?!?
ReplyDeleteI believe it's a cuttlefish. I think.
DeleteYep.
DeleteYou might have seen dried ones on the side of a birdcage.
Source of calcium & grit.
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I don’t know what it is but it reminds me again why I hate the fucking ocean. Arty
DeleteAs wirecutter said, it's a cuttlefish. This is a cephalopod like the squid and octopus, which are descended from molluscs (like clams and snails), but have come out of their shells. That thing the guy is grabbing and pulling on is its siphon; in cuttlefish, this is supposedly the nozzle to shoot water for propulsion or ink for defense, but it looks to me like it might be breathing through it since it buried itself with too little water for the gills.
DeleteIn the cuttlefish, the shell became internal, the "cuttlebone", and evolved a remarkable microstructure to serve as a float and also as a stiffener. It's formed from calcium carbonate (like limestone), which is normally dense and brittle, but cuttlebone is light, stiff, and resists cracking. The light weight comes from being so porous that the rock is less than 10% of the volume; it contains gas and liquid, and the cuttlefish regulates it's buoyancy by changing the ratio.
Stiffness comes like most light, stiff structures, from hollow chambers covered with a stiff surface layer - but with a building material as poor as calcium carbonate, you'd expect this to be fragile and break into pieces if overloaded. Instead, it has rods in the layers and tiny pillars between them. Small breaks happen, but the crack cannot run straight through but is diverted into all those tiny elements. It takes a lot of energy to enlarge a break and do serious damage. Since it's easy to break off a little but hard to break off big pieces, it's put in cages for animals that need to peck or chew a calcium supplement.
#3: Part 1: WTF is that? Part 2: How many asian countries consider it a dining delicacy?
ReplyDeleteWhat in the FUCK is #3?
ReplyDeleteOk. I’m stumped and a bit weirded out. What the devil is #3?
ReplyDelete#3 What and where?
ReplyDeleteWhat is that nightmare in #3?
ReplyDelete#3 WTF is that thing?
ReplyDelete#3. WTF is that and why the hell is that person trying to acquire it???
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is #3? I've seen a lot of creepy marine critters but that isn't one of them!
ReplyDeleteCuttlefish they basically inhale their prey into the large sac-in-back for digestion be relieved they don't eat shark sized prey.
Delete#3 what sort of cthulhui-inspired monstrosity is that???
ReplyDeleteWhat is that thing that is being pulled from the sand?
ReplyDeleteWhere do these animals make their home?
Heltau
Cuttlefish. A staple seafood in many areas of Korea. Dried, they keep forever and are a tasty snack for a Cajun tank commander who was raised eating dried shrimp as a snack.
Delete#10 On a right of way we were burning piles of wood the size of small houses. I lit a pile one day and and it was starting good. I looked up and on the highest log sticking out at an angle stood a squirrel. A young buck of sixteen, I grabbed leather gloves off the dozer and started climbing, lots of smoke and fire. Got to the squirrel log and started scooting out on it. Finally I reached for the squirrel and it jumped. Not only did it jump it flew. It was a damn flying squirrel. Thought my boss on the dozer would never stop laughing. Heard that story more times then I cared to.
ReplyDelete#3 WTF?
ReplyDelete????????????
Delete#3. What the actual f&ck? Nightmare living in the muck.
ReplyDelete#6 Maglula Magazine loader. The best $ you’ll ever spend.
ReplyDeletePrefer Striplula… get your ammo on strippers and use Striplula to refresh your mags. I have a tool similar to a Maglula, and by the time the thing is prepped to go I probably could have already loaded several mags from strippers. Just not the time/effort saver one might think. But then, as always, different strokes…
DeleteArmy probably "rewards" those qualifying expert right away by "allowing" them to load all the mags for all the cross-eyed retards with tremors and a glass eye that try to qualify for days.
DeleteJoin the Army, they said, it'll be fun they said, you'll get to shoot a lot and blow stuff up they said...
It seems most civilian ammo comes loose or in bulk, hence the maglula. Yes, in the military, all ours came on strips and we all kept a couple of loaders on us. They were like P-38s, everybody had 2 or 3 in their gear.
Delete# 3 is a cuttle fish! They bury themselves in the sand to avoid predators!
ReplyDelete#3: It's a sea beaver.
ReplyDeleteI hate those damn monkies.
ReplyDelete#10, did the cat use one of it's 9 lives?
ReplyDeleteMust be the beach below the house H.P. Lovecraft rented for the summer.
ReplyDeleteCthulhu
Delete#3. That is what the Japanese call . . . "runch."
ReplyDelete#10 - cats are assholes.
ReplyDeleteCats usually sense personalities and mimic the human nearest them.
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#5 That's what you get for using a pink ball.
ReplyDelete#5 That's one evil greens keeper.
ReplyDelete#8 - I lost a friend to one of these. Yes, alcohol was involved.
ReplyDeleteA coworker was driving into his garage, to drive his car up onto a ramp for an oil change. He had the driver's side door open, to look and see just exactly where he needed to go to get his car up on the ramp.
DeleteHis car door hit the edge of the garage doorframe, and began to close, with his fat head stuck between the car door and the frame of the car. He could not reach the foot pedals anymore, and was just lucky he had an emergency brake lever between the front seats, that he was able to use to stop the car, before it popped his head like a huge pink zit.
He had been a long time worker there, when they hired an intern from Purdue to work for the summer. She was one of the big girls who might have been able to grace the cover of magazines. Good looking, but fat. Sorry that is just the truth.
He was single, and somehow they hooked up. When summer was over, she was ready to head back to Purdue, to keep on with her education to become a metallurgist. Our coworker was going to quit his job of over 20 years and follow her to Indiana, and we tried to stop him from doing something so stupid. Lucky for him, the girl told him that she had no desire for him to follow her anywhere, for anything. She was just a horny college student, who found a safe guy with no possible STD's, due to his celibate lifestyle, with a few one night stands in the very far past.
He had some issues to work on. I don't know how that worked out for him, but he must have gotten straightened out a bit. He got married a few years later and had a kid. He also was one who had the worst temper of anyone else I ever worked with. That is not a good thing. He was a nutjob, and got put on some drugs to try and fix his anger. I don't know about the issues, but I do know that he was on the start of the mental drugs, and was looped as a mountain goat.
3) Used to see dried pressed cuttlefish stacked up for sale on street vendor carts in the ROK. They had this little steamer they would run it through if you wanted to start chewing on it right there. It expands while you're chewing on it. Travel and you learn things.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in Hawaii I remember cuttlefish in small cellophane packages as a snack at the same place I'd find the Li Hing Mui.
ReplyDeleteI was just telling my wife about Li Hing Mui snacks at the movie theater at Hickam AFB...
DeleteLMAO at #3 comments. That’s a big damn scuttle fish lol!
ReplyDelete#3 - I pictured Cthulhu as being much bigger!
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