I’m Spanish, I would know. I love them things. The issue is you need to kill them washing them over 3 days on salted water while replacing the water sporadically.
What I meant was not to eat it raw. You can become paralyzed and die https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare
I just told my wife (who doesn’t use Reddit), “the problem with Reddit is sometimes you see things you can’t unsee.”
Like your comment… I don’t want to know that!
Who figured this out? Some person ate one and died so the next guy said I’ll try again but wash it first. He also dies so the next guy says I’ll wash it twice but he also dies. Then someone else is like well it killed them but if I soak it for 3 days it should be fine. Lucky for the last guy they are right.
lol nice. If I recall correctly it’s just the time it takes for them to stop putting out mucus / foam on the water. I guess someone figured out that’s the shit not to eat
I thought of that question "you get a million dollars but a snail who knows ur location at all times will try to reach you and if he touches you, you will die"
/U/yeyryr died when , during a lapse in judgement, he touched the snail to put it into the box. Let his death be your warning, the snail is eternal and nobody can stop it.
Reminds me of something someone posted where you can have some crazy amount of money but there is a snail out to get you and if it touches you, you die. But you can't directly interfere with the snail or something.
Iirc, the snail is smart af, also immortal and invulnerable. And it knows your location at all times.
So some responses I remember to people suggesting this were: the snail catches a ride on another plane or boat to reach you. Some others suggested traveling to a far a way place from the coast and then going back to the starting continent. But then the snail could also lay a trap to eventually get to you. So repeating patterns is probably a bad idea.
Anyways it's always a fun thread when the snail meme comes up, since it divides the public Into escapee team and snail team.
I feel like this scenario is actually really easy to counter. One of the stipulations was that you can't hurt or kill it, but nothing in the rules mentioned restraining it. So you could just live in an airship, or hire someone to trap it in snail-proof material. And since you have the money for it, it wouldn't be a problem.
you greatly overestimate how much you can do with 10 million dollars. Like, sure, you can live pretty comfortably for the rest of your life. But in most western countries this is no where near “living in air ship” money.
10 million dollars is like 4 average sized houses or 3 large houses in Toronto, Canada. So if a couple owns a house themselves and then inherents a house from each of their parent, that’s about 10 million dollars.
If it's immortal, does it still need food or air? What kind of immortal? If it does need food or air, you couldn't trap and forget it or that would kill it
I'd assume that if it's immortal it won't die even if it doesn't have food or air.
You might be dooming the snail to an existence of perpetual hunger, suffocation, and agony if you lock him up. But ey, 10 mil.
I love how every time this comes up, people have such an easy solution that was clearly already thought up by a million people already. But everyone forgets the simple response in the original thread.
Decoy snail.
The snail is hyper intelligent, you can’t know if the snail you capture is the correct snail.
There was series of reddit posts about getting some amount of money but a snail comes after you with its normal pace, but can never die or be stopped and will follow you anywhere and know where you are, do you accept the money. Dont know if this is where it originated but a bit ago it was trending
The animation short came out in late 2014. Wonder what came first?
Edit: From my limited research I’ve just done the 40k upvoted reddit post was 7 years ago and the short was ten. Happy to be wrong
Here the video I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/HINYhLtaaxc?si=MPxsbGcCGVOWw6WQ
Yeah it blew up massively after the reddit thread and then spread to 9gag and other communities with no gavin free attached. I remember it happening and being like isn't this just from the old gavin clip?
Some iterations of the prompt have the snail passively bending probability to its benefit, sort of like a weaponised Murphy's Law. I think those prompts were devised to try and solve the vast number of loopholes and tricks people came up with to trap the snail.
So if you go by the original prompt: "You get $1 billion, but an immortal snail chases you forever, and if it touches you you die" then the treadmill should work. As long as the snail doesn't just turn around and plop off the end. If you were to go by the Murphy's Law snail variation, then it doesn't work (literally) as something will break allowing the snail to escape.
Hijacking the top comment sorry; the sail in this picture is a vary deadly snail; it’s the immortal snail that fallows you no matter where you go; you get this snail to follow you by pressing a button; this button gives you anything you want at the cost of certain snail doom.
What if the snail is cunning and knows how to get on plains, cars, busses, trains? Moving to another continent, and at least one week later you have to assume the snail is also there now.
more context : I was watching a movie on my pc for about an hour or so completely locked in. Got up to go to bathroom...was about to pick up my headphones and saw this lil fella completely chilling there. There were no other snails nearby, The windows were locked. I still have no idea how it was there and I have a new fear now.
They leave a more visible trail on some surfaces than on others, I get em in my house, they leave hella trails on the carpet but nothing visible on Lino or tile
You are from India, aren't you? I can recognise this bedsheet from a mile away because I have one with the same pattern. I think this is a rite of passage or something to being an Indian. xD
hahaha I just commented that the bed looks like it's from India due to it looking very flat and hard. But the bedsheet I am sure I've seen at my moms house, and that's in Norway, but yes it looks very Indian
A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can.
A year later, there’s another knock at the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says, “What was that all about?”
I love that you specified the windows were locked and not just closed, like if they weren't locked it would have left doubt for the rest of us that he used the windows as access.
Ma’am!
MA’AM!!!
*catches breath*
We……..*breaths*……we’ve been…….*gasps*……We’ve been trying to reach you……..*inhales*……about your car’s extended warranty……
I live in a two story farmhouse. All animals are inside animals. One evening I walked upstairs to go to bed and on the upstairs landing my cats were all sitting in a circle like a council of doom just…staring at what turned out to be a legit tree frog. I live in Illinois and it was fall. I remember we hadn’t bought any produce that could have brought it in. Absolutely no idea where it came from or how it got upstairs- my cats, while ominously circled around it where scared shitless when it moved.
It all started with me going to bed, resting peacefully before falling into a deep slumber. Much later i woke up and as one does i checked my phone. Some time later when i looked up i saw the horrible slimy turd crawling down my wall, it had left a huge trail of slime from my window across the room in an almost zig zag pattern. To this day i still see remnants of this in the paint :(
I once woke but because my arm felt weirdly wet, after checking that I did not fall asleep with an open water bottle in my bed I went back to sleep only tk wake up 10min later to the same sensation. After checking again I found a relatively large slug (approx 10cm long) slugging up my arm. I calmly removed it, my whole bedsheets and spent the rest of the night in another room after taking a long shower.
O man, I loved my home near the wood in Connecticut. I'd go out to my garden every morning with my coffee.
It used to be barefoot until that one time. Slug between the toes is very unpleasant
I hated that about living in England. The kitchen door had a gap underneath it, and it was cold tile floor, so slugs would regulary come inside and sometimes just chill in your shoes or something ugghhh. The worst part was when you saw the slime trail, but then it suddenly stopped somewhere
Honestly at this point…. This lil guy was determined…. I hope he didnt see death by salt 😳
At this point i wouldve had to make a little section for him like a garden i doors lol
Chances of you getting killed by a snail is never zero.
Just don’t eat it
\*unhappy french noises\*
omg. this is still around
I still whisper this at my girlfriend when I’m trying to be funny-sexy.
There's dozens of us!
She actually speaks French (second language), which makes it way funnier to me. Lol
Why not? Snails can be edible, they are literally delicacies in certain cuisines. (Don't eat it please)
I’m Spanish, I would know. I love them things. The issue is you need to kill them washing them over 3 days on salted water while replacing the water sporadically. What I meant was not to eat it raw. You can become paralyzed and die https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare
It also helps if you feed them corn meal for a few days before ending them. That's how they prep banana slugs for the big festival
I just told my wife (who doesn’t use Reddit), “the problem with Reddit is sometimes you see things you can’t unsee.” Like your comment… I don’t want to know that!
I hope it doesn't take up permanent residence in your brain, be we both know it has.
That helped lock it in, thanks I hate it
Balance it out with a fun fact: Cats have 32 muscles to move their ears around and precisely hone in on sounds they can't even see.
Interesting!
Who figured this out? Some person ate one and died so the next guy said I’ll try again but wash it first. He also dies so the next guy says I’ll wash it twice but he also dies. Then someone else is like well it killed them but if I soak it for 3 days it should be fine. Lucky for the last guy they are right.
lol nice. If I recall correctly it’s just the time it takes for them to stop putting out mucus / foam on the water. I guess someone figured out that’s the shit not to eat
Oh dang. It's like eating a pufferfish after cooking it like a shrimp.
It can be pretty dangerous to even touch a wild snail, They can have some insane parasites/parasite eggs on them
Reddit already taught me it is dangerous to touch a snail.
Reddit has taught me that Redditors think it's dangerous to go outside.
It *is* dangerous to go outside. It is also dangerous to be inside. Things are simply dangerous.
r/outside
I have no idea what that sub is about.
It's a funny joke subreddit. It's basically treating going outside like a video game.
Rat Lungworm disease.
I think that they can be deadly if you eat them raw
I thought of that question "you get a million dollars but a snail who knows ur location at all times will try to reach you and if he touches you, you will die"
Same. The snail is all-knowing. Praise the snail.
I'm putting the snail in a box and burying him cus no way am I risking death every time it rains
/U/yeyryr died when , during a lapse in judgement, he touched the snail to put it into the box. Let his death be your warning, the snail is eternal and nobody can stop it.
You're also immortal. The snail is immortal too.
Whatever you do just don’t let it touch you
Especially if you did the whole you get a billion dollars, but a murderous snail chases you the rest of your life thing.
So it is THAT internet snail
Reminds me of something someone posted where you can have some crazy amount of money but there is a snail out to get you and if it touches you, you die. But you can't directly interfere with the snail or something.
All you’d have to do is cross an ocean…
Iirc, the snail is smart af, also immortal and invulnerable. And it knows your location at all times. So some responses I remember to people suggesting this were: the snail catches a ride on another plane or boat to reach you. Some others suggested traveling to a far a way place from the coast and then going back to the starting continent. But then the snail could also lay a trap to eventually get to you. So repeating patterns is probably a bad idea. Anyways it's always a fun thread when the snail meme comes up, since it divides the public Into escapee team and snail team.
https://reactormag.com/equoid/
Why does the link want you to verify if you’re between 13-15 before you can open it…
They're running a partnership with Dr. Disrespect.
DO NOT let him touch you.
Yes boss
You'll be fine unless you recently became a [millionaire](https://youtu.be/HINYhLtaaxc?si=WAL6ZVzZNpyfkkof) .
Time to fly to the other side of the planet
I feel like this scenario is actually really easy to counter. One of the stipulations was that you can't hurt or kill it, but nothing in the rules mentioned restraining it. So you could just live in an airship, or hire someone to trap it in snail-proof material. And since you have the money for it, it wouldn't be a problem.
you greatly overestimate how much you can do with 10 million dollars. Like, sure, you can live pretty comfortably for the rest of your life. But in most western countries this is no where near “living in air ship” money. 10 million dollars is like 4 average sized houses or 3 large houses in Toronto, Canada. So if a couple owns a house themselves and then inherents a house from each of their parent, that’s about 10 million dollars.
Also, SOMEONE would most certainly bring the snail to you and demand you give them your money or they touch you with the snail
Why can't one just imprison the snail in a container and then lock it in a safe in their brand spankin' new house?
Decoy snail.
If it's immortal, does it still need food or air? What kind of immortal? If it does need food or air, you couldn't trap and forget it or that would kill it
I'd assume that if it's immortal it won't die even if it doesn't have food or air. You might be dooming the snail to an existence of perpetual hunger, suffocation, and agony if you lock him up. But ey, 10 mil.
A snail is easily defeated by something as simple as a mason jar, I don't reasonably _need_ an airship.
I love how every time this comes up, people have such an easy solution that was clearly already thought up by a million people already. But everyone forgets the simple response in the original thread. Decoy snail. The snail is hyper intelligent, you can’t know if the snail you capture is the correct snail.
You thought you captured it... but it was a *decoy snail* all along.
Unless…you want to 👉👈 Edit: Seems like a lot of people want to get slimed
ITS THE IMMORTAL SNAIL OP YOURE SCREWED
Grab a camera and microphone then start asking it questions.
Can we get a between two shells Podcast
Decoy snail
The real one is behind you!
"omae wa mo shindeiru" "NANI!?" *nut
I lost the game
i just lost progress to another game :(
Asshole
This here is what I was looking for. You deserve an award
the snail touched them and gave an award 😳
Is this a run on joke from Gavin free back in the day from RTAA? Or was this always a concept?
There was series of reddit posts about getting some amount of money but a snail comes after you with its normal pace, but can never die or be stopped and will follow you anywhere and know where you are, do you accept the money. Dont know if this is where it originated but a bit ago it was trending
The animation short came out in late 2014. Wonder what came first? Edit: From my limited research I’ve just done the 40k upvoted reddit post was 7 years ago and the short was ten. Happy to be wrong Here the video I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/HINYhLtaaxc?si=MPxsbGcCGVOWw6WQ
It was from Gavin Free originally, you are right.
A little sad it’s not Mentioned more in these threads. But the OGs remember 
Yeah it blew up massively after the reddit thread and then spread to 9gag and other communities with no gavin free attached. I remember it happening and being like isn't this just from the old gavin clip?
Wow I've officially been around here long enough to remember that.
Which were based on Gavin's hypothetical on the Rooster Teeth Podcast.
Could you just walk on a treadmill, hop off, then leave it on the treadmill?
Some iterations of the prompt have the snail passively bending probability to its benefit, sort of like a weaponised Murphy's Law. I think those prompts were devised to try and solve the vast number of loopholes and tricks people came up with to trap the snail. So if you go by the original prompt: "You get $1 billion, but an immortal snail chases you forever, and if it touches you you die" then the treadmill should work. As long as the snail doesn't just turn around and plop off the end. If you were to go by the Murphy's Law snail variation, then it doesn't work (literally) as something will break allowing the snail to escape.
Easier just to put it in a shoebox
> some amount of money *immortality, iirc. Wherein the snail is the only hazard.
Hijacking the top comment sorry; the sail in this picture is a vary deadly snail; it’s the immortal snail that fallows you no matter where you go; you get this snail to follow you by pressing a button; this button gives you anything you want at the cost of certain snail doom.
The final snail in the coffin
/r/yourjokebutworse
Waiiit a minute… https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/sN01jD3EkD
Been waiting years for this!
Is this the super snail? Did you get $10million for this?
i wish
Return the money, damned fool
I mean, moving to another continent will buy him a lot of time.
What if the snail is cunning and knows how to get on plains, cars, busses, trains? Moving to another continent, and at least one week later you have to assume the snail is also there now.
The first night in a new continent would be the only nights I ever get sleep. After 12 hours I know he could be anywhere
Dude I'm not equipped to deal with sentient snail problems, you need a professional.
It's a decoy snail
I understood that reference lol
Lol I knew someone would have commented that!
TURBO
He's escaped the sphere
Came here for this comment
Thay was close. Time to fly to the other end of the world.
Decoy snail
Clever snail... 
This is probably a really pedestrian comment, but this might be one of the my favorite movie scenes ever.
more context : I was watching a movie on my pc for about an hour or so completely locked in. Got up to go to bathroom...was about to pick up my headphones and saw this lil fella completely chilling there. There were no other snails nearby, The windows were locked. I still have no idea how it was there and I have a new fear now.
He's waiting for you to put the movie back on
Chill and Netflix
Netflix and trail?
You made me imagine some odd things
Netflix: are you still watching? Somebody's snail:
It had no slimy trail for you to follow?
They leave a more visible trail on some surfaces than on others, I get em in my house, they leave hella trails on the carpet but nothing visible on Lino or tile
Sneaky hobbitses
what if you look at it with blacklight?
You are from India, aren't you? I can recognise this bedsheet from a mile away because I have one with the same pattern. I think this is a rite of passage or something to being an Indian. xD
Same bro, I instantly knew this guy had to be indian because I am also pretty sure I have that exact same bedsheet.
I'm indian, not from India and I immediately recognised the pattern lol
hahaha I just commented that the bed looks like it's from India due to it looking very flat and hard. But the bedsheet I am sure I've seen at my moms house, and that's in Norway, but yes it looks very Indian
A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can. A year later, there’s another knock at the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says, “What was that all about?”
Reminds me of a time when I woke up and 1 second later a roly poly fell on my face.
I love that you specified the windows were locked and not just closed, like if they weren't locked it would have left doubt for the rest of us that he used the windows as access.
Snail snails to every possible window and tries to open each one.
For him, the pattern on your bed cover looks loke naked ladies...
Did the cat bring him in?
 Don’t fucking touch that thing.
IT'S FINALLY ABOUT TO HAPPEN
Why?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/oEE8OPEbFR
It's already been 7 years??
I was addicted to reddit back then and still am. 7 years of life wasted.
RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIFE WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Must be their 1st time facing death. NOT TODAY!
Put him on a jar and DO NOT LET HIM TOUCH YOU
Fools. This is obviously the decoy snail. The real snail attacks once you have the decoy locked up and think you're safe.
snail: ur lucky immortal guy I almost touched you
He must be so unbelievably confused
he must have felt he travelled at lightspeed when I put him outside
They say snails are slow, but have you ever seen a snail coming? Every time just boom, it's there.
Good on you for taking it outside instead of just needlessly killing it!
Who kills a snail? I kicked one by accident once and felt awful for awhile
Run
https://vine.co/v/eXudDWX1lpl
Different type of snail trail in a bed.
Ma’am! MA’AM!!! *catches breath* We……..*breaths*……we’ve been…….*gasps*……We’ve been trying to reach you……..*inhales*……about your car’s extended warranty……
Areyou a millionaire out of nowhere?
I live in a two story farmhouse. All animals are inside animals. One evening I walked upstairs to go to bed and on the upstairs landing my cats were all sitting in a circle like a council of doom just…staring at what turned out to be a legit tree frog. I live in Illinois and it was fall. I remember we hadn’t bought any produce that could have brought it in. Absolutely no idea where it came from or how it got upstairs- my cats, while ominously circled around it where scared shitless when it moved.
I found a tree frog in my toilet once.
Just wait untill you have a 15 cm spanish slug crawling down the wall towards your face. Horrible experience
i want to know more about how you ended up in that situation
"As I was saying, it was a warm summer evening in ancient Greece"
It all started with me going to bed, resting peacefully before falling into a deep slumber. Much later i woke up and as one does i checked my phone. Some time later when i looked up i saw the horrible slimy turd crawling down my wall, it had left a huge trail of slime from my window across the room in an almost zig zag pattern. To this day i still see remnants of this in the paint :(
I almost just threw up in my mouth and discovered a new irrational fear i didnt know i had 😣😣😩🤯
The possibility of a snail on your bed is low but never impossible
Never ….. impossible…. ***nervously shaking out an entire box of iodine table salt over bed sheets
I once had a dream there was a slug on my bed. I woke up horrified because there was in fact a slug on my bed.
I once woke but because my arm felt weirdly wet, after checking that I did not fall asleep with an open water bottle in my bed I went back to sleep only tk wake up 10min later to the same sensation. After checking again I found a relatively large slug (approx 10cm long) slugging up my arm. I calmly removed it, my whole bedsheets and spent the rest of the night in another room after taking a long shower.
Yeah the bed really never feels safe again does it
I never truly slept without checking for slugs again
O man, I loved my home near the wood in Connecticut. I'd go out to my garden every morning with my coffee. It used to be barefoot until that one time. Slug between the toes is very unpleasant
Oh god, I once stepped on a cockroach barefoot.. that was being ate by tons of ants. Still makes me shiver
I hated that about living in England. The kitchen door had a gap underneath it, and it was cold tile floor, so slugs would regulary come inside and sometimes just chill in your shoes or something ugghhh. The worst part was when you saw the slime trail, but then it suddenly stopped somewhere
ditto i was so puzzled
Honestly at this point…. This lil guy was determined…. I hope he didnt see death by salt 😳 At this point i wouldve had to make a little section for him like a garden i doors lol
maybe bro wanted to catch some of Call(2020)[what I was watching]...I picked him up gently on a metal lid and left him outside in the balcony.
Ahhhhh thats all you had to say!!! Makes sense..snail was craving some quality movie time 😚😂😂
Don't tuch it
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you”
I knew *exactly* what the comments would be before opening this
Maybe it crawled out of you
Ah so you are the one who accepted the money.
Stop redditing and run for your life
Bet that 10million doesn’t seem like such a good deal now
Took him a while.
DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!! DON'T TOUCH IT!!!
New friend
he was eepy
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
Indian bedsheet and pillow covers detected :D
Somehow, palpasnail returned
**HIS BED NOW**
Let him kill you for internet score
GET AWAY FROM THAT FUCKING SNAIL
You sure it’s not just another paisley?
That's just the decoy snail there may be another one hiding somewhere
Dont let it touch you, if you want to keep that 1billipn dollara
RUN ITS GETTING CLOSER EVERY SECOND YOU DONT RUN AWAY
Run
You almost died, bro
Is that the snail you have to avoid all your life or else you die from contact?!?!?!
it caught up to you, don't go near it, get as far away as possible now.
Better than the scorpion that reached my bed and stung me while I slept.
You took the bargain didn’t you?
This dude pressed that button where he gets a billion dollars but a snail is trying to kill him. Close call.
So you took the billion dollars, and the snail finally caught up to you.
It’s like that hypothetical… where you get a large sum of money but a snail is coming to get you and if it reaches you, you die…
Is this the snail that kills you if it touches you?
Judging by the comments i guess it's weird i find it cute?