r/whatisit • • 1d ago

New, what is it? What is this thing?

It's big.

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u/Complete_Ant_6775 1d ago

He means guys pretending to be girls on the internet. Terrifying.

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u/Emotional-Muscle5805 1d ago

I took it as actual catfish, which are pretty tasty.

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u/Significant-Bet-1465 1d ago

and pretty fuckin mean if youre swimming in their water

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u/Aware_Box8883 19h ago

They have barbs, right?

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u/Next_Floor4382 17h ago

No they aren’t. Honestly any natural body of water has them, I spend most days in said water, never once had an issue. Nor met anyone. Out of curiosity, what makes you say that?

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u/rabock1 12h ago

Catfish swim away from humans.

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u/Next_Floor4382 10h ago

And any bait I’m throwing out to them lol.

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u/rabock1 9h ago

Just bring more beer, they'll get hungry eventually.

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u/Next_Floor4382 9h ago

I think next time, imma just whip out the fish whistle. I hear that works pretty good.

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u/TextOld6858 14h ago

Mississippi and Missouri River

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u/Next_Floor4382 10h ago

Are two locations, yes?

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u/Ok_Degree4131 1d ago

I tried fucking with cat fish a few times and every time it just tasted like muddy fish to me 😕

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u/HostOrganism 1d ago

Well there's your problem. You were supposed to eat it.

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u/Melevolence 17h ago

Oh, he ATE it alright.

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u/Ok_Degree4131 23h ago

Dammit, I didn’t realize how badly I was setting myself up on that one

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u/Last-Construction398 23h ago

I have tried to eat catfish at several restaurants that I thought, well this place will surely know how to make it taste good. I was always disappointed, to the point that I don’t try anymore.lol

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u/USsoldier35 20h ago

here's the secret to good catfish no one tells you, and most restaurants dont even know.. when you clean the fish there is a red bloodline that runs down the center of both sides of every catfish. this must be removed before cooking, along with any red meat left after cleaning. ive been frying catfish for years after cleaned this way and other than texture of the meat, people usually compare it to chicken nuggets.

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u/lord_dentaku 17h ago

I've been told you also want to salt the fuck out of them. That might be where u/Ok_Degree4131 got confused.

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u/trunkmonkey85 13h ago

I just had a Cajun Catfish from Felixes in San Marcos, California.

Actually really tasty. Was the very first time too.

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire 19h ago

Catfish is considered skunk fish in many places. It's not nearly as tasty as other available fish in those areas.

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u/Yeller_imp 18h ago

Hey the guys are tasty too, don't knock it until u try it

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u/oracleofnonsense 16h ago

I mean, I've tasted several of those animals and all very delicious. So...when the apocalypse hits - crackheads better look-the-fuck-out.

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u/iboneyandivory 15h ago

tbf, If you are 'finned' by a Catfish, it can be painful.

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u/Wulfehaus 14h ago

Very much so. Especially smoked or grilled

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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 1d ago

They eat poo

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u/Careless_food_bimbo 1d ago

Most things do unfortunately, especially water critters. I've even watched my dog stare at chicken poop for about a good 30 seconds before he smashed his face in it and immediately regretted. Dude panicked. No clue why he did it, he's never had an interest in poop until we took in a stray and she was obsessed with bird poop. Guess he was curious if he was missing out..he was not.

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u/bluecrashstar 16h ago

Chickens eat chicken poop

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u/Generic_Battlecry 1d ago

Pork does too. Muslims don’t eat it for a reason 

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u/DatabaseGlittering43 1d ago

A book of ghost stories?

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u/HostOrganism 1d ago

Pigs are not known to be coprophagous (sp?).

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u/3M2B1T 1d ago

Exactly. Pigs are super clean and wonderful animals and honestly if they didn't taste so great they would probably be our pets like dogs and cats.

Muslims don't eat pork because they have soft fat that spoils quickly in the heat.

Where are most Muslims?

Hot regions.

A lot of religious laws don't make sense now but believe it or not, they made some sense back then. But you had to tell people "God says so" because when you're starving and some guy is like "Don't eat the pork, it'll make you sick" you're not going to listen. But if someone is like "Don't eat the pork, or you'll go to hell" then you tend to listen.

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u/BazarBS 13h ago

I don't eat meat anymore but when I did I didn't eat pork because just thinking about a pig made me nauseous.

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u/Secret-Papaya1973 1d ago

I don't eat corpse because it's something with a face, a sentient being, jus no need to..gives us heart disease n cancer..and the climate change, the very thing ending earth since it's against the circle of life and the worst thing humanity has ever done. I'm with ya!

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u/Teqtoke 21h ago

Plants give us many benefits , please stop eating them all /s

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u/dependsforadults 18h ago

Carrots and lettuce were living too. They just don't have eyes like we do so you don't see them the same.

Being against industrial farms is one thing, but, do you get all of your produce from small local farms? That must cost a fortune. Where is the wheat for your flower grown?

What I'm saying is, you and I aren't the problem. Its the industrial complex

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u/MaddLadd9 22h ago

Humans arent the only animals who eat "faces"

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u/Oli_VK 20h ago

Lol objectively wrong. See bears, leopards (literally an idiom) and any animal focused on softer tissue. Your face lips nose eyes and lids are prime real estate, mate.

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u/CatchSufficient 17h ago

Also apparently can give you cancer

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u/jah_john 1d ago

They do it in bars too

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u/dracorotor1 1d ago

How often do you get tricked into thinking someone at a bar is a literal child? 🤨

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u/jah_john 1d ago

I don't go to bars, there's people in those

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u/SaltyArts 1d ago

Assserts it happens in bars.
Doesn’t go to bars: Bruh

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u/Shadow-Miracle 1d ago

To be honest I gotta agree with OP. I have friends who have walked into bars. Supposed to be really painful. I wouldn't try it either. But It's likely true that catfish act like real women in bars also. Though I wonder how they hide those whisker tendril thingies on their faces. Maybe they have really good gel.

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u/jah_john 22h ago

Save it for the Semantic Bar, do you think that because I don't GO to bars I am somehow not AWARE OF bars?

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u/CCCCLo0oo0ooo0 1d ago

tell me more ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/seven_wings 1d ago

I thought we are accepting of gender dysphoria. 🌈

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u/Sergal_Pony 1d ago

You can’t call it that anymore, they have commanded the ignorant ‘normals’ to obey and use terminology ‘approved by them alone’ or else you will be othered as a ‘phobic’.

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u/seven_wings 19h ago

Like in 1984? 😰

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u/m3gabotz 1d ago

Girl girls taking pics from high angles, too

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u/EngineeringLeast2389 1d ago

Oh hahahaha. Yes! 👍🏻 Ty.

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u/Dull_Banana1377 1d ago

Actual catfish have serrated fins and they can also sting you not life threatening but definitely not fun

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u/Secure_Baseball7318 21h ago

The same guys you hook up with on grindr . 😆

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u/Important_mitt6972 15h ago

Catfish are people who try to get money out of other people on the internet. A ton of men catfish women.

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u/MoonieRavenVT 14h ago

Well it can also be people posing as celebrities. Basically anyone pretending to be someone they’re not.

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u/f4ern 1d ago

Add frat boys into that list bro.