1st round 5th Tussle

[Remmie]

Diamond-backed trap-door puff-whelk

 

 

Vs

 

Portuguese Man-O-War

 

[Remmie]

Finding an image of one of those whelks was hard so that might not be the correct species

[Bourbon]

This Man-o-war-inho(portuguese, you see) lad's got bad news written all over him.

 

If he gets under-side of you it's all over bar the shouting. Taxi to Whiston, or Hardacres Funeral Directors.

 

All manner of electro probing gastro-experimental issues there. Anyone with "trap door" involved in thier name is conceding a psychological edge to an opponent literally named after war. Grr.

[Spy Bee]

The snail effort, calling yourself a man of war and then being pink is proper gay.

[Fink]

Bluebottle wins after 30 seconds

[RJ Fan club]

I like the look of the Whelk, hes unassuming like the really hard small guys in kung fu movies. Takes a lot to get him moving, a Cooler (bouncer, like Swazye in Roadhouse) of the shellfish world if you like.

 

Keeps quiet, avoids confrontation. Then Wham, you're fucked if you step out of line.

 

The Whelk looks more durable as well and better suited to all terrains too. The Man-o-war looks a little fragile and has probably got a glass tentacle.

[mattyq]

Fuck - the whelk. The pink jellyfish is pure evil but a bully. As soon as something stands up to it it starts crying and fucks off to sting some Ozzie swimmers

[SoMuch4Gravity]

AdamS, you should be ashamed of yourself for voting for the frickin' pointy shell and whatever lives in it. let me explain to you how this is fight goes down: the Man-o-war wraps itself around the conch and shits in it until the the whelk asphyxiates on the MoW's excrement. The MoW in a marathon shitfest while reading the daily paper front to back.

[Plewggs]

That photo is an impostor; it’s a conch not a Puff Whelk.

As can be seen from the following photo, Whelks are armour plated killing machines and masters of disguise.

 

 

The following C&P from Wiki gives testimony to the awesome powers of a Whelk:

 

Whelks are found in temperate waters.

They are scavengers and carnivores, equipped with an extensible proboscis that is tipped with a file-like radula.

The radula is used to bore holes through the shells of clams, crabs and lobsters.

They also have a large, muscular foot with which they hold their victims before eating them.

 

In orther words: Jake the Peg meets Drilla Killa!

 

Whelks eat everything they kill.

Their victims include the Titanic, the crew of the Mary Celeste, the city of Atlantis and the tropical rainforests of Antartica.

 

That bloody Rashid-fish has no chance.

[Remmie]

I stand corrected. An edit shall take place. However finding a picture of the exact species is going to be fucking hard

[dirty_sanchez]

That Man-O-War looks like a comedy 80's mullet wig that someone has dropped in the water. Nil Point.

[Turkish Delight]

Man-O-War.

 

Whelk tries to grab hold of it but it's foot is stung to fuck and as anyone knows hurting your foot is really painful. The whelk then retreats into its shell while crying and waves a white flag out of the shell-hole.

[SoMuch4Gravity]

Man-O-War.

 

Whelk tries to grab hold of it but it's foot is stung to fuck and as anyone knows hurting your foot is really painful. The whelk then retreats into its shell while crying and waves a white flag out of the shell-hole.

 

wait a minute, i was under the impression that these were fights to the death?

[Owen]

A tie. Null and void. Neither can inflict any harm on the other.

 

The whelk gets my vote on this, due to the fact it can move under its own propulsion.

[Red Dawn]

The propulsion issue is indeed a worry but to decide this I wondered which one of these creatures would I least like to confront in open water. The answer would be the Man-O-War , hands down. I'd fancy my chances against that whelk thing.

[Turkish Delight]

wait a minute, i was under the impression that these were fights to the death?

 

I thought it was just a fight but admit that I wasn't paying enough attention.

 

If it's a fight to the death, the whelk is too terrified to put it's injured foot outside its shell while the Man O War is in attendance and starves to death.

[madstock]

Portuguese Man-O-War - it looks like a yoghurt, but it wobbles like a jelly.

[The Chief]

The Portuguese diver, after all the Whelk is a fucking PUFF!!!

 

But i suppose the Whelk could try and hit the Jelly with its handbag. Then again, if the MoW stings the Whelk and it has a long enough schlong he could just piss on the sting to kill the pain. Fuck i voted for the Fake Ronaldo lookalike and made a good case for the Puff.

[SoMuch4Gravity]

I thought it was just a fight but admit that I wasn't paying enough attention.

 

If it's a fight to the death, the whelk is too terrified to put it's injured foot outside its shell while the Man O War is in attendance and starves to death.

 

remmie, what are the rules again? is this a fight to the death or not?

 

"Time to shiza or get off the crapper" (no reason, just wanted to write that beer fest quote down)

[Remmie]

remmie, what are the rules again? is this a fight to the death or not?

 

"Time to shiza or get off the crapper" (no reason, just wanted to write that beer fest quote down)

What kind of Animal war do you take this for of course it's to the death

[Victor Ganges]

That whelk doesn't exist. It's a fake. A fraud. The jellyfish is a bit of a trifle.

 

I'll vote for jellyfish because as crap as it is, it at least exists.

Here here. I concur. The integrity of the championship has been compromised.

 

I'm off for a fish supper.

[Dirk]

The whelk lives much longer than the man of war. Neither would inflict pain to one another, the whelk would wait around for the man of war to die of natural causes, thus walking away with the victory.

[SoMuch4Gravity]

What kind of Animal war do you take this for of course it's to the death

 

Turkish Delight and I weren't sure for a minute, but i always thought it was to the death.

 

I'm still waiting for something to the effect of "man-o-war #1" v. "man-o-war #2" though...

[Remmie]

Portuguese man o' war through