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    Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks

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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    Does anyone else have a problem with the use of the word "shaved"? Obviously the sloth didn't shave itself and I highly doubt anyone is shaving a sloth and then letting it loose. You can see that part of its hair is still attached near the lower part of the torso on the top left picture.

    It's more likely a result of floating around in the water, similar to how the Montauk monster looked.

    The idea that a sloth moved quickly enough to scare these kids is the worst part. They are just lying. [From WikiAnswers: Sloths Move .5-1 feet per minute. But when they are in danger, they can move up to 15 feet per minute. When on the ground, though, they can move up to five feet per minute.]
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    Image of starfury5 starfury5
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    Why did they have to pose it like some sort of otherworldly 'SI" swimsuit model?
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    Trystero promoted this comment starfury5 was starred starfury5 was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    Anyone else think of this?
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    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    09/18/09

    @Wookie1972:
    HAHA, That's the first thing I thought. I heard that's Lynch's Halloween costume every year.
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    ThisDudeRufus promoted this comment Gaucho85 was starred Gaucho85 was unstarred
    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    09/18/09

    Yes. I thought of it then quickly tried to forget.
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    Image of SeXX ED SeXX ED
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    There is such sadness in these images. Is it because the sloth seems so very human without his hair - or is it the fact that little children brutally slaughtered this helpless creature? I'm sure these animals must be indigenous to the area - they had to know they were out there. Stupid. Fucking. Humanity.
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    Image of Froggore Froggore
    09/18/09

    @SeXX ED: I share your sentiments.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks

    I would check if that things got 4 arms. The first thing I thought when I saw this thing was Dark Crystal!!!! Bad picture but its the only one I could find. Now take a look....then imagine it neked. Now youve got this beasty!!!!
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    Image of Srum Srum
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    What kind of person would kill a shaved sloth? I would have took it back to my place, gave it some dinner, had intercourse with it and then killed it!
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    Chip Overclock approved this comment Srum was starred Srum was unstarred
    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/18/09

    @Srum: Of course, as would any right thinking individual!
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    09/18/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    Oh, kids, don't hate on Gollum! Hate on Andy Serkis for doing that craptastic voice.
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    Image of Ariton Ariton
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    it doesn't even look like it had hair to begin with. It looks like it was waxed rather than shaved if it even had had hair to begin with, and who is the sick bastard who waxes a sloth?
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    Chip Overclock promoted this comment Ariton was starred Ariton was unstarred
    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/18/09

    @Ariton: "And then I buff it until it gleams."
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    Aw, fuck those kids. Also, what kind of sick bastard sits down and says, "Hey, I think I'm going to shave a sloth"?
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    Image of MissingPieces MissingPieces
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    I don't understand why we don't understand! DESTROY! DESTROY! DESTROY! It's a vicious cycle.
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    Image of SamhitaDampt SamhitaDampt
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    I used to shave sloths professionally, and this one really had the whole package. Really top-notch sloth-shaving.

    Try saying that 3 times fast.
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    cletar promoted this comment SamhitaDampt was starred SamhitaDampt was unstarred
    Image of ejs2000 ejs2000
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    So that's where the baby from Eraserhead has been hiding!
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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    Sloth my ass. It was a Moleman. Albino, Hairless, living in a cave; Clearly a Moleman.

    You berate the child. Me, I say, "Bravo!" To you it was a wonder. To me and the kids it was a scout for the first wave. Those children may have very well saved the world from subterranian tyranny. Bravo little children, bravo.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    09/17/09

    @♠ Final ♠ is Soylent Green now.: Molemen are designed to be targets of violence.
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    Image of ShubNecktie ShubNecktie
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    *sigh* Kids today. In my day, we would have lured it into the house with Reese's Pieces and then dressed it up for Halloween.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    09/17/09

    In reply to Feral Children Beat Gollum To Death With Sticks
    I'd hit it.
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    Image of DoctorZoidberg DoctorZoidberg
    09/17/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: The correct, and more humorous, expression would be "I'd hit THAT".

    And frankly, that's disgusting that you'd have sex with a shaved sloth...
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment DoctorZoidberg was starred DoctorZoidberg was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    @DoctorZoidberg: I think it's more an ironic statement on the sloth being beaten to death.
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