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10/25/2002: Defiant shellfish
I was browsing the German Yahoo! Most Popular images, scouting for stuff... and this came up. The caption read:
Eine Languste überquert am Donnerstag nach schweren Regenfällen eine geflutete Straße im spanischen Castelldefels.
Babelfish translates this to "A Languste crosses a flooded road in the Spanish Castelldefels on Thursday after heavy rainfalls."
Languste? What is that? It looks like a half-crab, half-lobster.
But what struck me funny is how this guy is giving the two-finger "up yours" salute (the euro version of the middle finger) to the flood waters he just got past. With those hands, it's the only salute he can give. And it's an oversized version, too. No wonder he's so ticked off.
"Ey, stupid flood waters... thinking you can push me around... fuck you!"
blowmeetheclown Friday Oct 25 01:17 PM
Fich dich!! Deine mutti!
dave Friday Oct 25 02:21 PM
Fick dich! Ihre Mutter?
Nic Name Friday Oct 25 02:34 PM
This might be photoshopped
The languste, a noble relative of the lobster, doesn't have the claws represented in the yahoo image.
Also, see this photograph in natural habitat.
http://www.aquamare.ch/fotos/languste.html
Beletseri Friday Oct 25 03:27 PM
Looks like a crawfish to me. They are fresh water inhabitants so it would make sense to find one in a river.
blowmeetheclown Friday Oct 25 05:24 PM
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Originally posted by dave Fick dich! Ihre Mutter? |
And yes, it does look like a crawfish. Nic just might not know what they look like <font size="-3">(he's Canadian)</font>.
Beletseri Friday Oct 25 05:46 PM
They don't have rivers in Canada?
Nic Name Friday Oct 25 07:06 PM
Canadian Crayfish 
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/bil/fish...lobster2.shtml
ElPresidente1972 Friday Oct 25 10:16 PM
It looks like a string of bad translations
Languste sounds like a bad translation of the Spanish word "langostina" which is a european equivalent to a crawfish / crayfish. Think of a lobster with the claws of a fiddler crab, that's what the critter in question looks like. Bigger than American crawfish, IIRC.
-EP
Nic Name Friday Oct 25 11:20 PM
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The noun langouste has 2 senses 1. spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish -- (warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California) 2. spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish -- (large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters) |
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crawfish (French: languste; German: Languste.) Crustaceans (without claws) of the family Palinuridae, also called spiny lobster, rock lobster, sea crayfish. |
But it's a funny photoshop, though. .V..
dasviper Saturday Oct 26 01:07 AM
Oh, come on now...
Is anyone else willing to give the photographer the benefit of the doubt? It doesn't seem like someone would have taken pains to fake this one, and we're basing the claim on a german report of a spanish animal. I think it's legit. It seems more likely that an editor at a German newspaper mislabeled it.
Nic Name Saturday Oct 26 01:13 AM
I said, "This might be photoshopped."
Has anyone got any confirming picture of a creature like this? It looks strange to me.
By the way, it takes no pains to fark a foto.
I have no problem with the image. It's really cool. I just want to know if it's real or fake.
Logan Saturday Oct 26 07:24 AM
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Originally posted by dave Fick dich! Ihre Mutter? |
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Oct 26 08:26 AM
Whatever it is it's obviously hailing a water taxi.
Urbane Guerrilla Saturday Oct 26 08:35 AM
And the reason it looks funny is its thorax obscures its tail at this angle. The critter is facing the photographer.
blowmeetheclown Saturday Oct 26 08:46 AM
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Originally posted by Logan Why would you use the informal mode in one sentence and the formal mode in the next? |
Beletseri Saturday Oct 26 09:10 AM
The only issue I have with the photo is that it is bright red. Most of these types of critters don't turn bright red until they are cooked. Maybe it was posed just before it was consumed?
chrisinhouston Saturday Oct 26 09:35 AM
In Texas and Louisiana they are know as "mudbugs", and I do suck the heads!
Leus Monday Oct 28 09:45 AM
Re: It looks like a string of bad translations
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Originally posted by ElPresidente1972 Languste sounds like a bad translation of the Spanish word "langostina" which is a european equivalent to a crawfish / crayfish. Think of a lobster with the claws of a fiddler crab, that's what the critter in question looks like. Bigger than American crawfish, IIRC. -EP |
Nic Name Monday Oct 28 02:19 PM
I think that Beletseri is correct.
The red color of the creature indicates a boiled or dehydrated lobster.
Dehydration doesn't seem to be this lobster's problem!
Leus Monday Oct 28 03:22 PM
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Originally posted by Nic Name I think that Beletseri is correct. The red color of the creature indicates a boiled or dehydrated lobster. Dehydration doesn't seem to be this lobster's problem! |
This guy is a Cangrejo Real. It's not a lobster, but it is red.
This other guy is a Norway Lobster.
Here is another photo, of... other lobster. Red, not boiled.
What I mean is: you don't have to be boiled to be red, even if you are a lobster.
How amusing
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