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Someone really hates the Mola Mola Fish, aka the Ocean Sunfish..

Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:15 pm
Posted by LSUAlum2001
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:15 pm


THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH)

They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fricking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.

They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT frickING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fricking go.

So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fricking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shite outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fricking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons.

"If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job.

They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fricking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all frick.

They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the frick out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them.

"Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question.

BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY frickING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST frickING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY.

And this concludes why I hate the frick out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
Posted by deeprig9
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Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:16 pm to
Hit one going 45 knots in your brand new Contender, you'll hate them too.
Posted by LSUAlum2001
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Member since Aug 2003
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:18 pm to
How bad did it frick up the boat?
Posted by LSUTigerBait07
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Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:19 pm to
Wow that's a lot of anger towards a fish
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57553 posts
Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:19 pm to
Ok
Posted by GEAUXT
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:21 pm to
I bet that was funnier in your head
Posted by Motorboat
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:22 pm to
Unpopular opinion: dolphins are worse
Posted by castorinho
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:22 pm to
Posted by Rainydave
New Orleans
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:23 pm to
I laughed way too hard at this. But, I’m pretty drunk...
Posted by halleburton
Member since Dec 2009
1520 posts
Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:24 pm to
Snag one in the back and see how 'docile' they are. Bastards are strong as hell and jump like crazy, think of it as a 500# tripletail.

eta: and you suck LSUAlum2001
This post was edited on 11/7/19 at 9:25 pm
Posted by WaWaWeeWa
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:24 pm to
That’s a Tun-er bro!
Posted by Obtuse1
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Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:24 pm to
They eat jellyfish which is enough for me to tip my hat to them.
Posted by PrivatePublic
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:27 pm to
If that fish read this thread, I imagine it would say "OK Boomer" and just keep right on swimming.
Posted by Tunasntigers92
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Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:28 pm to
I saw a charter in a 36' Freeman run-over one about 90 miles due south of Venice, all of his lower units are resting peacefully in several thousand feet of water
Posted by GEAUXmedic
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:30 pm to
Ok, I laughed. This was great.
Posted by NakaTrash
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:31 pm to
Posted by ZappBrannigan
Member since Jun 2015
7692 posts
Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:33 pm to
Show us on the doll where the dolphin touched you.
Posted by jnethe1
Pearland
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:35 pm to
This is the best thing I’ve ever read here.

I’m crying laughing right now.
Posted by NOFOX
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 11/7/19 at 9:36 pm to
quote:

They do this to regulate their body temperature - after a deep dive into icy waters, they spend time on the surface to warm up. By using the sun and warm surface waters to regulate and raise their body temperature, sunfish are able to spend more time foraging in the cold depths.



quote:

Unlike most other fish, sunfish do not have a swimbladder - the organ used by fish to adjust their buoyancy. Instead, sunfish have a layer of jelly under their skin that makes them neutrally buoyant, meaning they neither sink nor float in the water

Posted by biglego
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Member since Nov 2007
76719 posts
Posted on 11/7/19 at 10:19 pm to
I like the OP and I like sunfish. What do I do
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