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TexasTowelie
(112,901 posts)hedda_foil
(16,380 posts)(Psst Ted .... It doesn't.)
pwb
(11,356 posts)have an ugly face.
Blue Owl
(50,676 posts)BidenRocks
(829 posts)It's Ted!
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sl8
(14,182 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 27, 2023, 09:21 AM - Edit history (1)
A bit like dragging a human 3,000 feet underwater before taking their picture.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-defense-of-the-blobfish-why-the-worlds-ugliest-animal-isnt-as-ugly-as-you-think-it-is-6676336/
The blobfish is the worlds ugliest animal. But we dont think the contest was very fair
Colin Schultz
September 13, 2013
Its that time again, when the whole world gathers together to pick on the blobfish.
Yesterday, after the votes were cast and tallied, the blobfish was deemed the worlds ugliest animal. The run-off was led by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. The Society was looking for a mascot, an ugly mascot, a champion for all the animals out there whose unappealing visages garner them less support then their cute and cuddly brethren. As the Society says: The panda gets too much attention.
But though the cause may by noble, we think the world was too hard on our friend the blobfish (or, if you want to call him by his proper nameand really, hed prefer it if you would!Psychrolutes marcidus).
Honestly, we think that droopy blobfish up there is actually holding up alright considering everything its been through. Psychrolutes marcidus are a deep water fish that live off the coast of Australia, somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 feet beneath the waves. Down there, the pressure is up to 120 times higher than it is at the surface. You wouldnt want to be down there without an intense submarine. And, likewise, the blobfish really doesnt like being up here.
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Beautiful Disaster
(667 posts)Jerry2144
(2,147 posts)Ugly heart, mind, and soul
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Meadowoak
(5,597 posts)Emile
(23,359 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,312 posts)of any other kind.
ZonkerHarris
(24,347 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,663 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)This is the correct answer.
Shellback Squid
(8,943 posts)inside and out
Walleye
(31,215 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,944 posts)glued on to his face.
2naSalit
(87,115 posts)lapfog_1
(29,252 posts)At least that is what my mother told me.
ornotna
(10,821 posts)I'm surprised it doesn't smolder and smell like sulfur.
Polybius
(15,578 posts)There was a time recently when they were exceptionally rare in politics. They made a huge comeback the past 10 years.
retread
(3,769 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,518 posts)Ole Rafe has a face that resembles a wet sock.
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