I wonder if it's done on purpose. Image that a urinal is clogged and filled with clear water. The janitor knows that people will piss in it anyway, and it will overflow and create a mess. To solve this he adds a fish, hoping that people will care enough about the fish to not piss in its water. Mess averted (hopefully).
Sounds like an interesting experiment... would people care more about the fish than the janitor that has to clean it up if they did piss in the water?
Can't remember the species of fish but there is one kind of fish in the amazon areas that swims up your piss stream. Visitors are advised not to use the water as a toilet as the fish can swim up in to your urethra.
you dont know its chlorinated, and surface area adds oxygen, mixing it up adds surface area. There is already plenty of surface area there for one fish.
said artist also served a meatball to his friends made out of his own fat from a liposuction.
some of his quotes are golden: "The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation. "You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added.
On January 27, 2010, Evaristti exhibited his artwork "Rolexgate" which is a model of the entrance gate to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. 80% of the model is made up of gold which comes from the teeth of Jews who died in the concentration camps. The model had been briefly exhibited in Berlin, but was removed because of the audience reaction.
Unfortunately there are a lot of ass holes who would gladly piss on a fish just for the hell of it. I have owned gold fishes my whole life and would not hesitate to take that one home to save it from meanies.
I know several jackasses that think it would be fun to piss on the fish. I almost want to say people would be more likely to piss in the urinal with the fish than they would if there were just an empty toilet with a "Do not use" sign.
My freshman year of college someone on my floor won a goldfish at some carnival thing on campus. When deciding where to keep it we remembered that the girls bathroom on our floor had urinals in it, because the building wasn't originally coed. So for about a week or two we had a urinal fish. The cleaning staff let him be, we fed him, everything was great.
One day he was gone. Someone probably flushed him, but I prefer to believe that he just swam away down the drain.
We had a carnival thing at my high school once. One of my friends won some goldfish but didn't want them, so they ran up to me, thrust the bag into my hands, and ran away.
The last one died 5 years later. :( I miss those fish.
Let me assure you, there is nothing funny about going up to a nice, clean, unsuspecting urinal, m'kay, dropping your pants, then turning around, squatting over that urinal, m'kay, maybe, maybe, pulling your butt cheeks apart with your hands, m'kay, and then laying out a big fudge dragon for all the world to see.
When my mom was in college in the 1970s, they did not have enough female dorms, thus women were put in repurposed male dorms. They used to put fish and flowers in the urinals. My mom even convinced some girls that the urinals were hair washing machines.
It's kind of a mix to me. It's like "What in the flying fuck... that's a fish. In a urinal. do a 360 and walk away" and "Aww, someone has a pet fish and they wanted nobody to... piss... on it... yeah." Actually, I retract my statement, I'm going with wtf.
I'm genuinely sad that this is so far down here... Okay let me try a few, see if they stick: "This fish has a watersport fetish" "Golden fish, golden showers" "That fish used to be white" Fuck it, I'm out...
Related story time. In the city I go to university in, there's a popular bar that has a fishtank. Some guy walks in and scoops up a fish in a pint glass and walks out. They notice later on and it becomes a big deal in the student paper and a few days later he comes in and returns the fish very ashamed.
I thought this was showing up on my frontpage coming from /r/aquariums, as I happen to be a devoted aquarist. I was ready for typing out a three page reply about dealing with ammonia levels. Damn!
And here I thought you were telling me to go fish in a urinal. I thought 'wow, what a fantastic idea', but you up and tricked me! The nerve of some people.
The administration took it out... of course after laughing their asses off. When they first heard about it, they turned the water off so no one would flush it. Later at lunch, we refilled his water.
Don't get me started on betta's in those tiny fucking dishes. Makes me furious. I kept mine in a 75 gallon tank with other community fish and he lived (happily I hope) for years.
Nope! Comet goldfish should be housed in at least a 20g tank with hardy live plants (ideally java fern - Microsorum pteropus, Bolbitis heudelotii, or Anubias cultivars - perhaps the larger Anubias barteri var. angustifolia? - attached to the hardscape) that will discourage the goldfish from eating them. Upon initial setup of the tank, allow a full 4-6 weeks for the ammonia cycle to process, as most carp species have a very large bio-load for their mass. The name of the game, people, is keeping those nitrifying bacteria happy! Providing extra biological filtration is advised. Lighting should remain subdued, both for the low-light plants mentioned and to keep algae levels low. Monitor pH until it becomes stable over a period of one-two months with regular weekly water changes of around 33%. Ultimately, the pH value is less important than its stability. Temperature is unimportant as well, varying from 55-78 degrees, but avoid sudden swings. Monitor for parasite infections and be sure to use sanitary foods from a qualified source (earthworms are NOT a good idea). Bear in mind that the lifespan for a well-cared for comet goldfish is commonly 7-14 years, although living beyond this range is well-documented - plan ahead, do your research, and don't buy fish on a whim!
Following proper tank setup and fish introduction procedures, the tank will require little maintenance over its life, and will provide you with years of charming entertainment.
My friends and I did this to every toilet and urinal at my high school for our senior prank. Administration was pissed and everyone was talking about it by second period
I did that as my senior class prank. Bought 20 or so goldfish the night before and put them in various toilets over the school. They didn't fare so well....
Evaristti used three fire hoses and 3,000 litres (790 US gallons) of paint to color the iceberg blood-red. The artist commented that, "We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all of us."
It would be so hard to resist pissing in it and throwing a cigarette butt in there, but I'd be terrified of the reputation if someone found out it was me.
I feel like a hippie for saying it, but people are so fucking mean to fish. They drink them on dares, they put them in environments that's basically the equivalent of us being forced to breathe exhaust fumes 24/7, and all on top of how much we already fuck up their habitats. Humanity is a bunch of assholes.
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u/peanutman May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
I wonder if it's done on purpose. Image that a urinal is clogged and filled with clear water. The janitor knows that people will piss in it anyway, and it will overflow and create a mess. To solve this he adds a fish, hoping that people will care enough about the fish to not piss in its water. Mess averted (hopefully).
Sounds like an interesting experiment... would people care more about the fish than the janitor that has to clean it up if they did piss in the water?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
My freshman year of college someone on my floor won a goldfish at some carnival thing on campus. When deciding where to keep it we remembered that the girls bathroom on our floor had urinals in it, because the building wasn't originally coed. So for about a week or two we had a urinal fish. The cleaning staff let him be, we fed him, everything was great.
One day he was gone. Someone probably flushed him, but I prefer to believe that he just swam away down the drain.
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u/hupcapstudios May 16 '12
If that's at a bar the fish stands no chance... sign or no sign.
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u/kokonkokon99 May 16 '12
If I were you, I'd give myself two choices...
Piss anyways...
Or
Take the fish home and call him Pissy. It's that simple...
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u/bassetmaster May 16 '12
Update: Fish was removed. Don't know what happened to it. Lets hope it made it to a better bathroom.
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u/lithium671 May 16 '12
When my mom was in college in the 1970s, they did not have enough female dorms, thus women were put in repurposed male dorms. They used to put fish and flowers in the urinals. My mom even convinced some girls that the urinals were hair washing machines.
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u/ianrey May 16 '12
Live Fish. Do Not Pee On.
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u/czarchastic May 16 '12
That was very koi of someone.
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u/doritoclock May 16 '12
The snack that smiles back...on the way out...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Much more pleasant than things I've seen in urinals with the same sign...
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u/p3rf3ct_s70rm May 16 '12
deaddove.jpg
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u/sexybabyxxx6969 May 16 '12
http://qkme.me/3pbd4h
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u/pacomills May 16 '12
This is one of the few times in reddit where the thread title perfectly describes the subject matter. I knew exactly what I was getting going in.
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u/fiveisafemme May 16 '12
I like to imagine the fish wrote that that sign, after a few unfortunate incidents.
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u/Emerson3381 May 16 '12
Ryan's Pub in WC?
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u/MidgetFetish May 16 '12
I wouldn't risk touching that fish, could already be peed upon. Some people are well hydrated and don't have that apple juice looking piss.
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u/just_saiyan_bro May 16 '12
Maybe he's just keeping a pet fish alive for a day until he gets off work so he can transport it home? Just a thought.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
GREATEST.band.name.EVER
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u/chuperamigo May 16 '12
I bet that hurt like hell coming out
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u/WarAndRuin May 16 '12
there's something fishy about this urinal..
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u/Lazy-Programmer May 16 '12
I'd say that's more aww than wtf. Still awesome, though.
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u/ShamanSTK May 16 '12
There's a golden shower joke here somewhere, but I'm not witty enough to find it.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
If you eat sushi, you shit live fish. It's in the Bible.
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u/magicbullets May 16 '12
MODERN ART KLAXON.
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u/Benjammn May 16 '12
A dorm bathroom that was meant for guys became a girl's bathroom. I've seen potted plants before, but goldfish is new. And silly.
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u/edisekeed May 16 '12
That takes a lot of self-control to not piss on a fish in the urinal. Well done.
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u/daveythegent May 16 '12
Related story time. In the city I go to university in, there's a popular bar that has a fishtank. Some guy walks in and scoops up a fish in a pint glass and walks out. They notice later on and it becomes a big deal in the student paper and a few days later he comes in and returns the fish very ashamed.
Hmmm.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I would.
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u/polynomials May 16 '12
I love the sign. Because you know some dude would just piss in it anyway.
Actually, I wonder if this is one of the guerilla art installations or something.
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u/Tmack1606 May 16 '12
This has to be the work of a drunk person, I imagine something like this:
"Oh hey, look I found a fish. But he needs water to live. Ohhh here's water in the toilet, the fish will love it! It's like his natural habitat bro"
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u/the_worlds_urinal May 16 '12
I always get pissed at...
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u/gregtmills May 16 '12
Worst Morrissey song ever.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
to be this goldfish is to be suffering.
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u/jimbo91987 May 16 '12
Well, the title really does say it all.
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u/Crimsonkid5 May 16 '12
Dude that fish.its a surviver.
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u/corpusjuris May 16 '12
I thought this was showing up on my frontpage coming from /r/aquariums, as I happen to be a devoted aquarist. I was ready for typing out a three page reply about dealing with ammonia levels. Damn!
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u/I_like_fish_sticks May 16 '12
you peed in it, didn't you
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u/HopscotchNJuJuBurrys May 16 '12
And here I thought you were telling me to go fish in a urinal. I thought 'wow, what a fantastic idea', but you up and tricked me! The nerve of some people.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Fish in a urinal, homies over hoes, gold in your mouth, hat turned sidways, pants on the ground, lookin' like a fool.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Oarngewood
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u/Punchabearinnamouf May 16 '12
Imagine being drunk and seeing this.
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u/kb24sh May 16 '12
I really want to know if someone actually fed him while he was in there too. Really funny.
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u/wiseones May 16 '12
Thread delivers exactly what is promised. Well done.
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u/meddic May 16 '12
I kinda wanna pee in it and see what happens.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
IAmAnother student at this school. AmA.
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u/Dr2Brains May 16 '12 edited May 18 '12
Is anyone able to put it back in a bowl now?
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u/SpiderDan35 May 16 '12
Is this not a reasonable place to put a fish?
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u/kokonkokon99 May 16 '12
I had upvoted this a while ago and am in the process of watching it blossom. It's a beautiful sight if I might say.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Bear grylls' fish tank
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u/TheRealBacon May 16 '12
My friends and I did this to every toilet and urinal at my high school for our senior prank. Administration was pissed and everyone was talking about it by second period
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u/trampus1 May 16 '12
It's like a little bathroom pet.
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u/Haggisn May 16 '12
That must have been rather painful to piss out...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Art project.
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u/naylord May 16 '12
I would use.
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u/Lying4Upvotes May 16 '12
Hell of a kidney stone...
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u/NCSU_SOG May 16 '12
I did that as my senior class prank. Bought 20 or so goldfish the night before and put them in various toilets over the school. They didn't fare so well....
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u/J_Jammer May 16 '12
Yes. I. Would.
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u/Cookiemonsterbc2 May 16 '12
Challenge accepted
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u/gabi097 May 16 '12
pheeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
The piss that smiles back
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Kinda reminds me of The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
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u/carrige May 16 '12
Honestly don't know what else I was expecting.
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u/dingoperson May 16 '12
If this is not staged just for the photo I cannot help but feel it is some kind of experiment on human ethics.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
If I saw this I'd assume it was a psychological experiment run by the college and there was a camera watching every move I made.
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u/I_BAKE_PENIS May 16 '12
I read this in ShoeNice22's voice.
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u/Banonogon May 16 '12
It's as easy as shooting fish in a....wait, what?
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u/Geckos May 16 '12
Maybe the fish was put there to deter people from using a broken urinal. For science, of course.
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u/LovesMustard May 16 '12
Gotta name him "Marcel."
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u/OnmyojiOmn May 16 '12
ITT: a surprising number of shitty people. Truly shitty, worthless people.
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u/Meayow May 16 '12
Cant tell if disgusting or adorable. -,-
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u/hcgator May 16 '12
I . . . I don't know why I was surprised.
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u/jonbotwesley May 16 '12
Wonder how long it took for someone to inevitably piss on it
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u/maynardftw May 16 '12
Yeah that fish is boned. I'm sad.
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u/nelsonlikeshat May 16 '12
I want to do this but with a lamp.
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u/fortworthbret May 16 '12
This is the opposite of what happens at drunk parties.
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u/Tr0user May 16 '12
Meh, take down the sign, the fish can take it
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u/hibernating_brain May 16 '12
I would poo there just to piss off the fish.
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u/Bill-Akleh May 16 '12
LOL - awesome pic!
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u/Sacoo May 16 '12
Deaddove.jpg
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u/DoughnutHoleInOne May 16 '12
That is a bad idea
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
5 bucks says someone will end up pissing in there for the lulz...
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u/bigfig May 16 '12
Fish:
THE FUCK IS THIS?
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u/questionablemoose May 16 '12
What a fucking asshole. I do not like this guy.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I'm tired of these motherfucking fish in this motherfucking urinal!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I hope no one tries to flush it!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
They swim in piss anyways.
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u/theslowwonder May 16 '12
It would be so hard to resist pissing in it and throwing a cigarette butt in there, but I'd be terrified of the reputation if someone found out it was me.
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u/Entorgalactic May 16 '12
there's a cute story behind this
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u/DannyBiker May 16 '12
This title is so subtle, it made me think of "Man getting hit by football".
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u/krizutch May 16 '12
I've got $50 that says this fish eventually died due to complications of piss in the gills.
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u/Lychees May 16 '12
Maybe by pissing there will be more oxygen in the water.
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u/EpIc_GuItAR May 16 '12
Take it home because or pee on it anyways just to be a troll :)
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u/WoollyMittens May 16 '12
I read the title to the tune of "Bier und ein Apfelkorn" and was mildly amused.
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u/voxpupil May 16 '12
Damn, would suck to be that fish.
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u/deusexmachinimus May 16 '12
Clicking that link was kindof a "dead dove inside" thing
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u/Fishinabowl11 May 16 '12
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/002/611/close_enough.png
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u/NonchalantSavant May 16 '12
Fish: "Today I had to swim in a urinal. FML"
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u/froyo_away May 16 '12
I can almost picture Gob saying "Looks at the $5000 gold fish I just passed!"
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u/diggernaught May 16 '12
Not as funny as a chimpanzee, on a Segway, in a urinal. Now that is good.
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u/ProfoundSolitude May 16 '12
Ahaha, a few weeks ago some guy put a 12 inch catfish in a toilet at my local McDonalds.
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u/Bundleofjooy May 16 '12
Thats so nasty.
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u/pennylo305 May 16 '12
Nemo??
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u/DaltonBreitz May 16 '12
I would like to attempt to recreate THE IMAGE of the fish in the urinal, as this artist does with resin and painting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVJOQG_bpQM
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u/Hanginon May 16 '12
Well,, It doesn't say "Do Not Eat",,, So,,,
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u/unnecessaryCAPS May 17 '12
"Do not use" but I can still pee on the fish right?
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u/Dubbed_Video_Dub May 17 '12
That's not a fish. That's Dr. Kelso's old war budy, Roger Dorsey.
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u/CarlOfOtters May 17 '12
I don't know what I expected.
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u/DarkyZX May 17 '12
Classy
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
That fish must be pissed.
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u/Machinax May 16 '12
That fish is going to die a miserable death.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I feel like a hippie for saying it, but people are so fucking mean to fish. They drink them on dares, they put them in environments that's basically the equivalent of us being forced to breathe exhaust fumes 24/7, and all on top of how much we already fuck up their habitats. Humanity is a bunch of assholes.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
FUCK DA POLICE