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The new greatest website ever, give it a visit:

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Could someone post the results (with spoiler tag) of the spider rounds?? There is no way in hell I could ever watch one of those, yet I'm curious who wins.

All the fun of watching two creatures try to kill each other, none of the guilt or nausea that would be induced if they were creatures anyone gave a shit about or empathized with. I approve. I think I watched like 10 fights in a row.

The centipede in #4 is pretty crazy.

Ahaha. Pokemon IRL! Awesome.

haha WOW

Somehow it is kind of disturbing, but only after watching the first 10.

My favorites are the beetles with the big crushing pincers or mandibles or whatever they are. Rarely does anything get through their shell, and anything they get a grip on is toast.

Wow this is super amazing.

Crayfish V. scorpion was an epic battle.  I mean watch the end and the claw reaching out "Tell my wife...I love her....."

Man, some of the team ups are totally unfair.   :awesome_for_real:

Why bother putting those hornets in there? They keep getting destroyed.

Also, the fight intros = epic.

Spider was winning, but then the Ref looked away for a second and these two earwigs ran in and started beating the shit out of it with a folding chair.

Stag beetle > all.

I don't even understand how the stag beetle KO the scorpion.  The scorpion passed out from exhaustion?

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it got hold of it by the torso just behind the head and squeezed until it died. Also, the hornet does kill a thing or two. There's one where it kills a praying mantis about 10 times it's own size.

Somebody posted that Japanese Hornet snuff film in another thread. Those things are nasty.

This is the greatest thing to come out of Japan since sushi and Godzilla.

When I first got to Japan, they assigned two Japanese university students to every forign student to be our Nihongo partners for our stay (help show us around, get paper work done, teach us Japanese, have sex with, etc).  On the first day I asked them:

"So, I'm on a whole different continent now, and I have no idea what sort of bugs or snakes are poisonous.  Is there anything I should watch out for?"

Long pause as they both think about it.

"Don't get stung by bee."

"By a Bee?"

"Yes. Bee."

"Why?"

"You'll die."

It was later when I actually saw one of those fuckers buzz by me and read up on them that I realized they hadn't quite picked the right word for translation.   :awesome_for_real:

What university was this!?!?!?

Some interesting wiki facts just gleaned....

20-40 people die in Japan from them each year.
a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honey bees per minute thanks to their large mandibles
Adult hornets cannot digest solid protein, so the hornets do not eat their prey, but chew them into a paste and feed them to their larvae. The larvae produce a clear liquid, vespa amino acid mixture, which the adults consume

Asian honey bees can defeat loan scouts by cooking them to death in a giant bee ball surrounding the scout and vibrating to produce enough heat to kill them.

Enyclopedia Dramatica (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Japanese_Bug_Fights) actually has a pretty decent write-up on the whole thing. Be warned that it's full of spoilers. I shouldn't have to say this, but also assume it's NSFW.

Kwansei Gakuin.  "Mastery For Service"  :awesome_for_real:

And I'm not really joking.  I mean, that's not part of the roll the university set out for them.  But it went like this:  We had about 80 exchange students in the program.  Each had 2 volunteer Nihongo partners assigned to them.  So we had a total of about 160 Nihongo partners (all volunteers).  Only 7 of them were men.

There were motives involved other than wanting to teach foreigners Japanese.   :drill:

This had me cracking up especially after watching the fight.

I always did want to learn Japanese properly, but never had time due to course conflicts.  Maybe I should go back to school...

They had me at Vinegaroon vs Fail Beetle.

Sometimes I feel like the cage is a bit too small and so kind of unfair to some of the bugs that need some space for leverage--but I assume that in a lot of cases if it were bigger that they'd just go to the other side and not bother each other.

When I was a kid, I sometimes used to dig up ant nests and put the whole thing in a spare aquarium we had (kept outside). If I did it carefully, I'd sometimes get the queen and and the nest would still be functioning--they'd dig themselves out after a few days and get back to normal, except now I could see a lot of their tunnelling. I put some branches from the dirt inside to the rim and then a few from the rim down to the ground to help them get in and out. Once I sat down to look at them and somehow an earwig had gotten in there. While I was watching the ants happened to notice it. Was pretty amazing: they boiled over it in a few minutes and pulled it apart.