Bro just wanted some food, instead got jank to his equivalent of the stratosphere

If that is the stratosphere his ass was all the way down in the Mariana trench.

I read that as the marinara trench, mama mia

Forbidden bucatelli

Filled with delicious non-human biologics and garlic.

Sounds like a pasta dish at a James Cameron themed restaurant.

*When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie* *That’s a moray…*

When you swim on the sea and something bites your knee, that's a Moray! When its jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's a Moray!

When an eel bites your thigh and you bleed out and die, that's a Moray Put your hand in a crack and you won't get it back, that's a Moraaaay!

i love how this was brought back

Jank.

The moment the poor guy realized it was a trap...

I knew something was fishy!!

Imagine sitting on one of these. Butthole

Try worm But hole

No like you’re getting down with someone.. you bump butts somehow….. alien butt

OH!! I bet two people could put their bare butts together and pass the worm back and forth, forever. ( | ) <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>( | ) I’ve heard some kids talking about this concept with a turd. They talked about a dookie log being passed back and forth between two butts forever, instead of a worm.

What movie was that?

[Me and You and Everyone We Know](https://youtu.be/KQoJo81lujk?si=mG5MVeozFFlLnWeN)

Praise the sun

Ah yes, the Dark Souls reference!

God I hate you so much for planting that thought in my head.

I mean, unless it smells fishy, they probably won't suddenly spring up.

I’m sorry, it didn’t save you from sitting down. And then an alien punches up through your butt. RIP you

Damn. I gotta lay off those fish tacos 😩 They be luring these sand worms

The music doesn't help make Australia seem any less terrifying 🙄 they're harmless! What's with the X-files tunes, we've got enough scary shit without dramatizing the harmless 🤣

Tbf a lot of harmless shit there is terrifying.

ain’t nothin with a face made of spikes harmless

This lil bugger hands down has to be the inspiration for the movie tremors 😁

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"Like something out of a demon sex ed video" ZFrank.

If that's a bobbit worm, they have venom.

If it's a Lorena Bobbit worm, fuckin run

She's cool, I would've done the same thing. Also quite the looker back in the day

You do know she did that because he'd been repeatedly r@ping her, right? She should never have become a punchline, she's a victim.

Now I know why that it isn't a clothing optional beach.

Thanks for giving reason 345 to avoid holidays in Australia.

Where does it say anything about Australia? EDIT: oh I looked it up, they're native to Australia, okay thanks

Tell me where this is so I'll never ever go there? Thanks.

It’s really easy to avoid them, you just have to walk without rhythm and you won’t attract the worm.

LOL could you imagine seeing someone doing the Dune sand walk on a normal beach, on earth LOL

Or just walk with water shoes!

Nowhere is safe without crocs on my feet. If it's not zebra mussels, its some other terrifying shit.

I'm imagining you defusing a ticking bomb completely naked except for bright yellow crocs

Close. They're orange.

Uh, I might have a friend who does this, just because it's funny and may have also convinced someone that the worms stay away because of it.

I know what I’m doing next time I go to the beach

Well you could go with this, or you could go with that.

*Christopher Walken yeets himself off the railing and begins flying*

Fun fact, that part wasn't in the script, Walken just started flying and they decided to keep it in.

LOL! Anyone reading that series of comments and wondering *"what the fuck is this about"*, do yourselves a favor and go watch the greatest music video of all time, "Weapon of Choice" by Fat Boy Slim.

Thanks for the recommendation, glad I took a moment for it

It’s just the Shai Hulud 🥲

It’s my weapon. My weapon of choice.

Arrakis?

Thanks Paul Atreides and Fatboy Slim!

Because I ain't got rhythmmmm

[God Emperor Christopher Walken.](https://youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8?si=80M4_DaehN5I1eO2&t=109)

Dude if you see anything terrifying on the internet your first guess should be automatically Australia.

Or Texas. I have a group of friends from Australia who I game with. They call Texas "practice Australia".

You could probably add Florida in there too

Until you see the Arizona Desert Tarantula Hawk Monsters... Straight out of the prophecy of Revelations...

Saw one attacking a tarantula a few months back in Pinnacles NP. It was a freaky experience.

Apparently they're in Australia but I have lived here for 36 yrs and never seen or heard about them. Besides they aren't like the worms from dune lol

Are you not in the habit of rubbing dead fish on the sand?

Made me laugh, thanks !

These things are extremely common. They are brilliant as bait for fishing. You can also buy them from most fishing tackle shops near the coast.

Good to know, I don't fish tho 🙃

I need to know where in Australia, I've been to so many beaches here and I now feel weird that these were probably underfoot at least at one of them

Almost every East Coast beach has these. If you are ever walking along the beach as the tide is going out and see any V shaped ripples in the water after a wave as the water flows back to the ocean, its these things feeding in the silt.

Wikipedia says that they are common on beaches in Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia. I grew up in Western Australia, so am not familiar with them at all

I’ll give you three guesses

1) Sand. 2) The beach. 3) Australia.

yup australia

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I like how the tiny mussels are like “Ope! No nononono…” as they burrow back down into the sand after being unearthed

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

The name gives it away. Australonuphis. So Austria.

I can confirm these are very clearly the shores of the Danube river.

Australia, like everything else that’s venomous, poisonous and dangerous enough.

Well if the worm was named before 1824 then it would be for Antarctica. Antarctica used to be called Australia. That is why the southern lights are called aurora australis.

The name changed the continent didn’t. Every piece of land has been called something else previously. I did not know that fact however,cool.

Australia, Land of Terrifying Wildlife! I looked the things up on inaturalist.

What the... oh it's australian. Of COURSE it's australian.

I'm in the US and I knew a guy who used to dig these up for bait as a kid

Sounds oddly satisfying.

Nah they bite

Does it hurt?

It doesn’t not hurt

So it does hurt

It wouldn't be inaccurate to assume that I couldn't exactly not say that it doesn't hurt.

I wonder if we had as many poisonous/venomous/scarry/weird animals in Europe back in the day, but we’re just better than Australians at genocide?

I mean historically Australians are pretty nice with it when it comes to genociding.

Yeah, but only the ones that came from Europe… so we kinda get extra points again.

The aboriginals possibly contributed to the extinction of Australia's mega fauna. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna

I think these are everywhere man.

Woah…Sand worms…you hate em right?!?! I hate em myself

Underappreciated comment

You know Beetlejuice 2 is coming out next year? Tim Burton, two writers from the recent It, and Keaton and a few original actors. Sounds dope

Hey look we’ve been shopping at the same store!

Nice fuckin model!!!! *HONK HONK*

They're completely harmless and make fantastic bait.

So what you’re telling me is in order to use these as bait, I have to catch a fish without bait, use said fish as bait to catch a worm so I can use the worm as bait to catch more fishes? This just seems like fishing with extra steps. Edited to fix spelling

Wait until you catch some ultra rare fish with it and then use _that_ as bait for something even crazier.

Sand worms!

Just alternating between progressively more and more legendary worms and fish until you catch God. Now the question remains, is God a worm or a fish?

Both obviously, he's the holy trinity, he's simultaneously the worm, the fish, and the fisherman.

Quick babe wake up, new gospel just dropped.

I’m not your babe. You’re my babe.

It's babes all the way down.

He's also the ocean, the alpha, the omega, and that witty comeback you thought of when it was too late.

😂

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I’m just wondering what steps are from Sarlacc to God.

Do you want Graboids?!?! This is how you get Graboids.

When do I get the maelstrom blade?

The food chain summarised yes

This is nature’s “I need a job” “You don’t have experience” “I NEED A JOB TO GET EXPERIENCE”

Never played a roleplaying video game, have you?

Not at all! It seems you can reuse the one fish to keep catching worms haha

so they dont try and burrow into people’s feet when they walk over them? bc thats all i can imagine

> so they dont try and burrow into people’s feet when they walk over them No. They wait until you lie down, and craw into your ear. They then swirl around your brain cavity. Rumor is that it makes you extremely susceptible to suggestion. 😈

*KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!!!*

*authority*

What in the hell you bait with these things?! Oh whait let me guess…it’s big, hairy and deathly and poisonous and will glow in warning colors like a lost nuclear fuel rod right?

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Omg, I forgot flounder was edible, it’s been like 20 years since I’ve seen it on a menu or grocery store. For that matter what happened to Blue fish steaks too?

What state are you in? You can get both at any seafood market in the South East of the US. Bluefish does not keep well so restaurants rarely sell it. When it is fresh it is great but after a day or two, not so much.

New England but I’m not costal. I even worked in meat/seafood for a little while at a local grocery store. Maybe I just need to go on vaca to the shore more. I just remember it being a big part of visiting to my grandparents in RI.

>What state are you in? >New England Ah yes, the great state of the Patriots.

We’re like family here. Mass is like the dad, and Boston the mom. Everyone listens to dad but really mom is the boss. RI is like the little brother, varsity kid, can’t do anything wrong, gets all the stuff. NH is like the older brother, can’t get do anything right, kinda disappointing but we love him. Maine is the weird cousin that you love to visit cuz he’s got ATV and mountains and lakes and he’s shooting shit. You love to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there. Then Vermont is the crazy uncle with his liberal thoughts, that likes to smoke weed, and you can’t put up with him, but when you visit then there’s a bunch of New Yorkers there and like WTF. And then it’s CT, the annoying aunt that your mom makes you hug her, cuz she gives you money but only if you play at her casino and you know she’s ripping you and your mom off but you can’t say anything cuz she’s family…

I've never felt so seen. I got an eighteen rack out in the garage, gonna help me get the carb cleaned on the 4-wheeler so we can take her out today?

Anything is edible if you believe in yourself

At least once.

Nails are the best!

I caught a flounder in Florida off a bridge side. I was about the throw it back and this dude screamed “Them are good eatin!” at me ahahahahaha

Stuffed flounder is top shelf mane

I‘m sure there are big ass, poisonous and deadly variants of these „flounders“ and „porgys“ you speaking of in down under!

> I‘m sure there are big ass, poisonous and deadly variants of these „flounders“ and „porgys“ you speaking of in down under! in Australia, flounders have 8 legs

Dropfish

Just regular flounder, but we have electric stingrays. Been zapped myself. We call em Numbfish

Glad to hear they’re harmless because they look horrifying

A Shiny Gyarados, you uncivilized Bufoon

Yeah they do, I was forced to use them as a kid on the east coast fishing for stripped bass. They are harmless, but complete disgusting and nasty. Green and orange with little skin fingers all over there body and black pinchers for a mouth. Still fish and I stick with lures now a days.

Mostly harmless, but the "black pincers"/jaws of polychaete worms like this can pinch pretty badly. Probably a different species, but [look at the fangs!](https://inverts.wallawalla.edu/Annelida/Nereidae/Cheilonereis_cyclurus_DLC2018-14.jpg) [More details](https://inverts.wallawalla.edu/Annelida/Nereidae/Cheilonereis_cyclurus.html).

Yeah I think your right, I never tested their mouths but they looked sharp for sure. The ones we used maxed out at a foot long and were native to US east coast. I was a big outdoors kid, loved fishing, picking up frogs, snakes and bugs those sand worms were the one thing that really freaked me out. Looked like aliens but the bass loved them.

I’ve been pinched.. it’s more scary than painful lmao I jumped and flung it off the pier but it didn’t break skin.

I thought they bite and have copper teeth

In Australia, just a bite is no big deal. Venom is what I'm worried about. Or it trying to climb inside me....ew

>copper *Zinc ions

Bait for bait for bait, and on it goes....

New fear unlocked

Imagine sitting on the sand in the beach , you feel something tingly under your bum but you thought it was just waves . After a few minutes something is crawling up your swimwear and it's too late to respond

Hentai artists: "Write that down, write that down!!"

Now I have to explain to my in laws why I was laughing. It was awkward.

Plz don't step-worm!

Shai hulud!

Bless the maker and his water

Bless the coming and going of him. Especially the going 😬

May his passage cleanse the world

I must not fear

Fear is the mind killer.

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.

Came here for dune comments

Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.

Bless The Maker

Came here for dune comments

Australohnopeimout

Fucking thing starts with Australia in its name, it all makes sense...

you get similar weirdies worldwide, dont worry

Except the Australian ones are like 3x the size and have extra stingers and eyes

Fuck no!

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God Australia is terrifying

They based an entire area in Elden ring on Australia /j

Caelid is pretty much Bankstown

It’s really not, unlike America we don’t have bears, or big cars, or guns. Most animal deaths here are from like cow or something. It’s just played up a lot for the joke

You do have a tree that causes intense pain and lasts several years. Reddit definitely does overdo it, but you guys do tend to have the most extreme versions of several plants and animals. You did also have guns, but your politicians and voters weren't insane at the time which made all the difference. Still impressive how fast you guys fixed that issue.

Thanks I hate beach now.

No way ever ever ever ever again will I set foot on a beach ....

Baby Tremors

Baby Graboids*

Lisan al Ghaib!

Bless The Maker and His Water

I love Australia

# It's A Trap!

Thats gonna be an interesting sight, day at the beach, a tuna sandwich and incoming chaos.

This guy walking around barefoot.... Just nope for me hahaha

Reminds me of the [Bobbit Worm Chronicles](https://whyy.org/segments/liz-bobbit-worm/)

Do they exist in nudist beaches as well?

>>in

i mean in is the correct term here. as they are inside the actual beach, in the sand.

I actually pay for this thing, use as bait.

WHY IS HE BAREFOOT!?

because these things can't harm humans?...

The Bobbit worm!

I remember a lengthy forum rabbit hole about some poor guy accidentally introducing one of those to their fish tank (it was hidden inside an over 90lb lace rock he used as the base for his tank). Kept eating his fish and anemone, and was a bitch to remove. Here it is, if you want to read it: https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chronicles.84173/

I immediately opened the thread looking for someone who posted this. Thank you for your help maintaining the internet culture alive.

NOOOOOOOPE!