***Worlds Hardest Creature VIII: Second round GAME FIVE***

[Guinness Boy]

#Teamgull

An enormous specimen landed on my garden FENCE this morning and looked at me through the window with a look that unmistakably said "Come on, let's 'ave it." Plus the cricket ball thing.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Genuinely looking at the facts, a Seagull is harder than a Shrimp. The shrimp is insanely tooled up for it's size. That ISN'T hardness. Seagulls piss off FAR larger creatures than themselves, and are cheeky little *******s. Far, far harder.

The mantis shrimps behaviour includes ritualised fighting, fight club in other words. Hard. They attack creatures massively bigger than them and are known to be seriously aggressive, tools or not.

The seagull just eats shit off the beach and out of the bins. Not hard.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The mantis shrimp creates a shock wave that kills you. It's straight out of street fighter. I genuinely dont understand how thats not hard? The seagulls attitude gts it in the door...but it cant back it up. It talks the talk but cant walk the walk. Ultimately this competition comes down to the walk. And the mantis shrimp walks it.

 

[Mellotron]

The mantis shrimps behaviour includes ritualised fighting, fight club in other words. Hard. They attack creatures massively bigger than them and are known to be seriously aggressive, tools or not.

The seagull just eats shit off the beach and out of the bins. Not hard.

Fair points, well made. Even if I disagree.

 

[Brovion]

The mantis shrimps behaviour includes ritualised fighting, fight club in other words. Hard. They attack creatures massively bigger than them and are known to be seriously aggressive, tools or not.

The seagull just eats shit off the beach and out of the bins. Not hard.

It's still just a ****ing SHRIMP! If I were fighting for my life and I wanted one animal beside me it wouldn't be a SHRIMP! (In fairness it wouldn't be a seagull either, but that's beside the point)

 

[Bladders]

Hold on, I 've just been told in the other thread HARD has nothing to do with fighting

Does any one know the rules to this ****ing game?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Does any one know the rules to this ****ing game?

Of course I do.

Rule 1: The mods decided the winner in November and rig the voting accordingly. Said rigging only to occur if the winner looks like, errr, not winning.

Rule 2: There is no rule 2.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Hold on, I 've just been told in the other thread HARD has nothing to do with fighting

Does any one know the rules to this ****ing game?

Scale. You have to take into consideration the scale.

 

[MattBackHome]

Of course I do.

Rule 1: The mods decided the winner in November and rig the voting accordingly. Said rigging only to occur if the winner looks like, errr, not winning.

Rule 2: There is no rule 2.

To be fair to the mods, I think they actually wait until the competition has started before deciding which competitor going to be rigged to beat the Honey Badger.

 

[jackanada]

Hold on, I 've just been told in the other thread HARD has nothing to do with fighting

Does any one know the rules to this ****ing game?

Think of it as Mornington Crescent with animals.

Its nothing like that obviously but similar in that trying to make sense of it will have a lont term negative psychological outcome.

 

[Giraffe]

The seagull would just tred on it. No contest, Seagull wins for me.

 

[jackanada]

Looks like the reigning champ is going out to a winged rat.
Meanwhile Honey Badger looks like surviving what was a very close contest with an immobile microscopic pillow.
Harder to call than the Grand National is WHC.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I'm genuinely surprised at this result. The Seagull brings less to the table than the comfortably beaten Cassowary yet here it is about to knock out the reigning champion. It just goes to show how important a good PR campaign is. Last year the Mantis Shrimp had one, this year there's been a lot less buzz about it and look what happens. It also goes to show how hard it is to retain the WHC title.

Edit: Just to remind anyone that hasn't voted yet...the Mantis Shrimp is aggressive little bugger that hits so hard it creates a shockwave that is powerful enough to kill you. It deals death twice with one hit. The actual hit plus the shockwave. And it creates intense heat and light with the power of said hit. How is hitting something so hard that it creates a death shockwave along with intense heat and light not hard?!

There are 45 minutes to turn this tie around...

 

[Mellotron]

This shows up even more what a farce last year's result was. All based on a superb PR campaign, admittedly.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

This shows up even more what a farce last year's result was. All based on a superb PR campaign, admittedly.

In terms of PR campaigns I think the best was the Black Mamba in 2012. Came from several years of achieving nothing to storming to the title. Followed by two consecutive early exits.

I maintain that the Mantis Shrimp has a lot going for it but its lacked the popular support that it had last year. I suspect, and I may be wrong, that a lot of honey badger fans voted for it up to the final but after it saw off the H.B in acrimonious style a lot of them have left it.

 

[Hillian1]

This shows up even more what a farce last year's result was. All based on a superb PR campaign, admittedly.

It may have something to do with it being a "Seagull"

 

[Pevenseagull]

The shrimp is doing a Brazil.

Good.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

This is a scandalous state of affairs, but I guess highlights the unpredictable nature of this fine competition

 

[Mellotron]

Edit: Just to remind anyone that hasn't voted yet...the Mantis Shrimp is aggressive little bugger that hits so hard it creates a shockwave that is powerful enough to kill you. It deals death twice with one hit. The actual hit plus the shockwave. And it creates intense heat and light with the power of said hit. How is hitting something so hard that it creates a death shockwave along with intense heat and light not hard?!

Impressive? Yes
Cool? Undoubtedly.

Hard? ......meh. Otherwise you come back to humans being hard because of nuclear bombs, being able to obliterate entire cities in a second. Boring.

 

[Mellotron]

In terms of PR campaigns I think the best was the Black Mamba in 2012. Came from several years of achieving nothing to storming to the title. Followed by two consecutive early exits.

I maintain that the Mantis Shrimp has a lot going for it but its lacked the popular support that it had last year. I suspect, and I may be wrong, that a lot of honey badger fans voted for it up to the final but after it saw off the H.B in acrimonious style a lot of them have left it.

I was a fan of both, and happy to see that final, but my sentimental side wanted to see the ultimate underdog, the people's champion the HB win it.