They look like if Trig Palin and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop came out the wrong end of that teleportation machine in The Fly.

Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more....

35 replies on “How the Fuck Do These Things Survive in the Wild?”

  2. “How the Fuck Do These Things Survive in the Wild?”

    They seem weird bc they aren’t in their element! Once you get those things in a tree it all makes sense.

    See how they were climbing the sides of the box? They want to CLIMB something, anything. They probably wanted to climb up the body of the person filming them.

    I saw a captured sloth do that once. Climbed right up its captor to the top. We couldn’t peel him off the person’s head/neck. It was like a bulldog who gets a bite on.

    Get those kids a jungle gym. They need one.

  9. Hey, c’mon. Don’t make fun of that baby. I know his Mom’s a wacko, but he didn’t ask for who he is. She’s toated him all over like a mascot, and I think it’s terrible.

  16. @6 yeah, bad call. cuz tasmanian devils aren’t surviving in the wild. they’re all catching cancer, an ugly horrible contagious face cancer, and killing off the species. Taz is a bad name for something you want to live long and happy.

    Unless you want it to breed young.

  17. @15 It’s called “cognitive dissonance”, where you can hold two contradictory thoughts in your head at once. For example, you say all retards are spontaneously aborted and yet you weren’t.

  20. They are a bit like Koalas. They live in trees like Koalas. Giant sloths as big as horses once roamed earth. I don’t know what they use as a defense except those claws. Some sloths also grow moss on their fur. It makes them green.

  21. Trig Palin jokes? I have a nephew with Down’s Syndrome and you’re a stupid fucking bitch. Wishing you get an extra dose of bad karma for this. Hope you ride bikes in Seattle a lot or enjoy back country snowboarding.

  22. Oh, I’m sorry, is Trig Palin where we draw the line here on SLOG? We certainly are delicate flowers over here, aren’t we?

    BTW you should really be redirecting your outrage to Sarah Palin herself. She totally used that kid’s disability to give her candidacy pro-life street cred and pretty much brought him out for every photo shoot imaginable (anyone remember him getting gussied up as an elephant for Halloween?). So what’s worse–saying a sloth looks like Trig Palin (KINDA TRUE ACTUALLY) or exploiting Trig Palin to further your political career?

    Fucks.

  28. 22 – I’m pretty sure everyone here is outraged with the way Palin pushed her children into the public spotlight. Except this post had nothing to do with Palin or her political career. It was a cheap shot at a kid with a disability.
    Making jokes about Bristol getting knocked up is one thing. Making fun of Trig because he has Down’s is pretty disgusting.

  29. lindy west, you are a stupid twat.

    trig didn’t ask to be born to a republican lunatic. he just was. and his genetics weren’t his choosing, either, though i’m sure as hell he’ll turn out to be a much better person than you, because most down’s people aren’t bigoted jerks like you’re being in this post.

    shut the fuck up, you’re such an idiot.

  30. there are no standards at all to work or post at the Stranger.

    I own a business, and if I heard such trash, I would fire at once.

    Who could be around such a flabby mind for long?

    Oh I know, it is so funny to mock the disabled. And throw rocks at bums, and kick in the heads of the homeless and tie fags to fences and let them die ….. all so funny …. you know…..just queer funny…. since they don’t count as much as hot shot me ….

    Yuk.

  31. I’m glad I’m not the only one offended by the Trig comparison in what was originally a very adorable youtube video. The election is over, Palin lost, she will probably lose if she comes back in 2012. Time to move on.

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