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Benedict Arnold

In your opinion, what is the most useless animal on the planet?

Anybody who says dogs will earn three demerit points and will have their post flagged. :(

Posted - April 1, 2017
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  • Out of deference for your plea about dogs, I will refrain from demonizing housepets in general, for as useless as they are in a natural sense, it can be said that their companionship is a legitimate, tangible use. 

    Further consideration has brought me to the utterly useless hippopotamus. Every creature that plies this earth, even in their least moments serves as either food for something else or, as apex predators, to cull the herds of food species. Not so with the hippo. A voracious herbivore, famously bad tempered, it decimates landscape, consumes and befouls enormous amounts of fresh water, wallows constantly in ponds of its own excrement, and serves as prey for no other species. Companionship, anyone? 

    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 1, 2017 9:58 PM MDT
      April 1, 2017 9:06 PM MDT
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  • Wonderful answer. I shall never again say a kind word about a hippopotomus. 

      April 1, 2017 10:01 PM MDT
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  • 16781
    Mosquitoes. God's only mistake.
      April 1, 2017 9:11 PM MDT
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  • You got that right. There's not much to be said for the mozzie. 
      April 1, 2017 10:02 PM MDT
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  • The mozzie... Can't quite see how it benefits anything... Apart from tadpoles... Total pain in the rear end
      April 1, 2017 9:12 PM MDT
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  • Don't forget the Aeroguard. :)
      April 1, 2017 10:02 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Every being in Nature has a role to play in this cosmic world Didge!
      April 1, 2017 9:15 PM MDT
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  • I understand that from an ethical or religious point of view, but if it's true, why did so many go extinct... And I'm not talking of recent man made extinctions?
      April 1, 2017 9:18 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    No, I had no religious or ethical point in mind. It is a fact...!
      April 1, 2017 9:30 PM MDT
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  • That's very kind of you, Veena. Even mosquitoes?
      April 1, 2017 10:03 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    a roach
      April 1, 2017 9:17 PM MDT
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  • They're not very pleasant, Pearl. 
      April 1, 2017 10:04 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    Mosquitos. 
      April 1, 2017 9:17 PM MDT
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  • Yay... That's three for mozzie!
      April 1, 2017 9:19 PM MDT
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  • They're certainly leading the unpopularity parade.
      April 1, 2017 10:04 PM MDT
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  • I also immediately thought of mosquitoes. Disease-spreading bastards. Kill them all.

    All parasitic animals are terrible, really. Any animal that has to survive by the sucking the life out of another shouldn't exist as far as I'm concerned :P This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 2, 2017 7:10 AM MDT
      April 1, 2017 10:08 PM MDT
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  • You wonder what Himself was thinking when he created parasites, don't you? 
      April 2, 2017 1:09 AM MDT
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