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Count Arioch the 28th · Sun May 10, 2015 8:43 am

Giant land snails are illegal in the US. That makes sad...

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Sun May 10, 2015 10:55 am

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:

Giant land snails are illegal in the US. That makes sad...

They are illegal in the USA?

(checks net)

Holy shit they are illegal in the USA!

Like, I used to go hunt* those where I live along my grandmother when I was little, then boil them to eat with the family. Plenty of people sell them in street stalls when it's the right season. If I google their name in my language, the first pages are all about recipes with them or publicity about restaurants offering them. Pretty tasty.

We even dissected them once in biology class because the school budget was pretty tight.

I never heard of anyone keeping them as pets though. Although I'll admit I loved to look at how they climbed things and moved their horns/eyes.

*more like just looking for them in the near forest, not like they can exactly run away from you or fight back. Although if left in an open box they could spread around the house surprisingly fast when you weren't looking.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon May 11, 2015 6:56 am

maglag wrote:
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:

Giant land snails are illegal in the US. That makes sad...
They are illegal in the USA?

(checks net)

Holy shit they are illegal in the USA!

I can kind of understand. No natural predators, they can do a lot of damage, they are capable of asexual reproduction (closer to say they can self-fertilize as they have both sets of parts). They seem to be semi-common in Great Britain as pets, and you really have to clean up the eggs and smash/freeze them because they lay a lot of them.

Now I kind of want to eat one too...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon May 11, 2015 7:43 am

I take it that it would be too difficult to sterilize them without killing them?

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon May 11, 2015 9:49 am

In general, invertebrate veterinary medicine isn't very well established. Not sure the specifics on Achatinidae medicine, but I'm guessing that no one really knows how to sterilize one, let alone how do it safely.

zugschef · Post by **zugschef** » Tue May 12, 2015 2:05 pm

Prak wrote:I take it that it would be too difficult to sterilize them without killing them?

You know, when women started taking the pill a lot of fish became sterile. Just sayin'...

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:32 pm

http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop ... uad-joker/

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:39 pm

i like the 2nd one.
it just isn't the joker without the facepaint damn it <.<

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:41 pm

This one's the best:

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue May 12, 2015 6:25 pm

http://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-go ... heerios/3/

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed May 13, 2015 4:54 am

I like that the one thing WotC seems to have learned from the post 3rd era was that they needed better art. It's something at least.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed May 13, 2015 2:21 pm

It needs some pretentious title, like "The Agony of Choice".

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed May 13, 2015 4:35 pm

Someone posted it on tumblr, I liked their interpretation that the iconic antipaladin (visible behind the tree) had put up those signs himself.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:17 pm

I didn't even notice the bugger until you mentioned it. Either I have bad eyes or I severely overestimate my powers of observation.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu May 14, 2015 4:21 pm

hyzmarca wrote:
Leress wrote:
You missed one.

They're from this painter.
https://www.behance.net/astoralexander

http://astoralexander.deviantart.com/