Does it have to get up after four hours sleep to work all day and go to IKEA at the weekend or does it just mess around it's whole life in a warm ocean eating seafood and thinking gentle echinoid thoughts.

I'll do you one better:

Imagine you're born and you're a crab who parasitizes the rectum of one of these.

I wouldn’t know anything else so I wouldn’t care.

Oh, that's kiki

You have no fear. There'd be no point to it. All your defenses are passive. Fear is meant to inspire sudden action. You're incapable of that, so your kind discarded that emotion millennia ago.

While holding that exquisite level of peace in your tiny mind, a fisherman plucks you out of the water so some rich dude can eat your gonads.

I don't appreciate having my photo posted without my permission, Isaac.

I think I will be okay because I wouldn't have a nervous system that can think at that level, porbably

I'm unintentionally the social version of that

Ever see the underside of these on a fishtank side?

I did once at a fish pet store.

I remember it looking like a hundred tiny suction cups.

But I can't seem to find a good photo. This was the best I could find. Check out a real one if you get a chance.

Apparantly these are a local delicatesse in some regions..

So we caught one with the mindset to see if we could barbecue it and when we placed it on the table it started to move and wiggle its needles.

We originally thought it was similar to fungi, technically not plant but pretty much a plant… we quickly brought it back to the ocean.

If I am correct about my cosmological theory.

We will all have a turn.

Based

Envy is a sin dude! Who wouldn't want to look this metal and NOT pay rent?

don't threaten me with a good time

And their genitals are yummy: “uni”

*makes the noise of a catcalling porcupine

How asshole bosses and landlords get reincarnated? (and have those crabs mentioned in the thread)

An Immense World by Ed Yong talks about this.

If I come back I wanna be spike

Imagine looking like a demonstration of magnets with iron shavings

You could never be born a sea urchin. They dont even breed, they just squirt gametes in to the water and hope for the best.

I'd name them Fluffles

Ivan the Urchin?

I wonder how many tube feet I have? One... Two...three...

Hedgehogs Dilemma.

Chunsoft
You're gonna carry that weight

Latchkum!

...and all you want is to cuddle...

Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about hardships in life I remind myself that I'm lucky that life exists, that I got to be born at all, that I was born as part of the most intelligent species on Earth and I was born in a country where I have every opportunity to have a good life.

I could've been an ant or I could've been nothing at all.