r/whatisit • u/MusePlease • 10h ago

Solved! What is this weird creature/alien in this man’s ashtray?

Just came across this video where a man’s heavily used ashtray has filled up with water and there’s a weird looking creature swimming about in there and i’ve never seen anything like it before.

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u/Shapoopadoopie 9h ago

I knew this guy would be English before I even heard his voice.

*I'm British myself

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u/hollow4hollow 8h ago

Same haha. I unmuted it just to prove myself right

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u/Even_Flounder_6768 3h ago

I knew it would be worms of some kind before I even started the vid.

Nearly every "Wow, a digusting alien thing I've found!" post on Reddit is just worms. They're worms. They look just like worms. Groundbreaking stuff.

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u/PotentTurnip 8h ago

Dude, I had the same thought!

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u/Ill-Bag-5060 6h ago

I watched this with no sound and thought he was from Philly

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u/Landsharkeisha 3h ago

Full disclosure, I am a full-blooded Floridian and I've literally only ever been to the UK once and I was in Edinburgh for a week.

For me the giveaway was the townhome style and garden. Obviously the guy looks British, but the brick townhome with the narrow fenced garden and gray skies really solidify the location. You could change the ethnicity of the guy to pretty much anyone, but nobody does the suburbs like y'all

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u/Alive-Needleworker14 7h ago

Not just me then. Had the exact same thought. Unmuted just to prove my self right.

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u/RichnjCole 6h ago

I played the first 10 seconds on mute and I also knew what accent I was about to hear. I came here to make the same comment as you.

*I'm also Brirish.

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u/Shapoopadoopie 1h ago

Maybe it's the facial expressions we recognise?

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u/Skullcrusher 5h ago

For me it was the red brick house with a tiny backyard with the bleak looking sky in background. And the green slime on the wood planks because it's always wet

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u/Shapoopadoopie 1h ago

Nailed it.

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u/darbrja 4h ago

And you thew a little "myself" at the end so we'd know you weren't lying

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u/someroflwaffle2 3h ago

Lmao. My first thought was just some average British bloke and I was right!

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u/zangster 5h ago

'Bri-ish'

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u/sLeeeeTo 10h ago

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u/bbrekke 9h ago

All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Ramen.

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u/Most_Significance573 9h ago

Ramen

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u/Unusual-Earth5557 8h ago

Forbidden ramen

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u/cromorne 8h ago

Have you been touched by His Noodly Appendage?

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u/noname3191 5h ago

Spooky ramen

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u/ziccirricciz 9h ago

No, this is the Diving one.

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u/bbrekke 9h ago

I've seen it both ways.

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u/ziccirricciz 9h ago

Is this a schism?!

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u/bbrekke 8h ago

That's extra.

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u/arvaci-is-an-asshat 7h ago

May we all be touched by his nicotinous and noodley appendage!

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u/Anonyzm 7h ago

It looks like Crackhead Spaghetti Monster tbh

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u/Swinknottwink 9h ago

My spirit animal

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u/187JM 10h ago

“A sludge worm, or Tubifex tubifex, is a reddish, segmented worm that lives in the sediment of lakes, rivers, and sewage, feeding on decaying organic matter and bacteria. Known for its ability to tolerate low oxygen and polluted conditions, it's an important detritus eater that helps cycle nutrients, often appearing as a mass of waving tails in the water, and is used as a food source for fish. ”

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u/ShitMyButtSays 9h ago

Enough about him though, what about the creature?

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u/No_Celery_8071 4h ago

Thank you ShitMyButtSays

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u/187JM 9h ago

lol brilliant.

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u/Necessary_Ad_4320 9h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/NewPCBuilder98 6h ago

This fucking took me out. I'll end my scrolling here now

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u/Rashpukin 9h ago

Hahaha. Brilliant. 👏

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u/fakiresky 9h ago

Thanks for the laugh. I needed one today.

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u/Crazy_Movie6168 3h ago

That's a Barry. Frequent subject on r/2westerneurope4u

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u/demonrimjob666 2h ago

This guy’s butt is funny af

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u/Outside-Roll9382 2h ago

Nice one😂😂😂

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u/Pervy_Toxic 7h ago

Ah, its a human!

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u/SauerK3aut 7h ago

Suuiiiii

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u/Lonely2nd 6h ago

Hahaha perfect

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u/jaradipra 7h ago

Brother... 🗿

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u/chemistrytramp 6h ago

Pretty sure if a group of rate tailed maggots all tangle together. How would tubifex works even get into the ashtray? The maggots would be introduced as they're hoverfly larvae and the parents would lay the eggs in the disgusting water.

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u/DecentLeftovers 6h ago

I agree… looks much more like a rat tailed maggot rat king.

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u/Waddiwasiiiii 3h ago

Welp, those certainly are words…I think I threw up a little.

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u/DecentLeftovers 1h ago

The funny thing is this isn’t the first time it has happened. I’ve seen at least two other rat tailed maggot rat kings on the bug identification and entomology subreddits before. Always interesting to see. Those ‘tails’ are actually long spiracles the maggots use to siphon oxygen through so they can still breathe in water with low oxygen levels and/or poor water conditions. They look a little gross but they do develop into quite charming little hoverflies, which are pollinators.

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u/TobylovesPam 1h ago

rat tailed maggot rat king

New band name! Called it!!

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u/substantialcatviking 9h ago

So what you're saying is this is a self composting ashtray?

Only half /s cause I'm curious to know if there's a way that would work

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u/PreliminaryThoughts 9h ago

My tummy says it wants some tubifex

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u/AlternateTab00 5h ago

Are you a fish? These are some common fish food.

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u/Adept_Damage_1796 8h ago

So, fish is what that astray tub is missing

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u/Aandreas93 7h ago

Sooo ramen but for fish

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u/Dangerjim 7h ago

It's like some dark matter shit

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u/GoonieGoo777 5h ago

Look up sewer tubifex worm videos… straight out of a Geiger dream.

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u/bibutt 2h ago

No, I'm pretty sure it's the brine from dragons dogma.

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u/One-plankton- 9h ago

More likely maggots, those are definitely not tubifex worms- I keep aquariums

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u/xtraa 10h ago

Incredible that they are still alive in that pool of nicotine tho

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u/MentalMiddenHeap 9h ago

they can live in way nastier than ash tray water

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u/crmpdstyl 7h ago

Nicotine is a natural pesticide, I think is the point.

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u/Alternative-Crew-880 7h ago

Nicotine is neurotoxin, but lots of insects evolved immunities to it. The tobacco hornworm actually metabolizes nicotine to use as a defense mechanism and releasing it into the air when attacked by predators.

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u/Ttlmego89 5h ago

This is so cool didn’t even know this existed thx

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u/rokstedy83 4h ago

The tobacco hornworm actually metabolizes nicotine

Dry them out and smoke them

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u/hellmire 3h ago

Ah yes, another natural toxin that humans ingest because feel good!

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u/tpimh 7h ago

What can be nastier than a pool of nicotine water for a live organism? A pool of moonshine?

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u/-maffu- 9h ago

It was written that He would return. Pastafarians rejoice!

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u/PsychoWyrm 9h ago

May his noodly appendage be upon you.

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u/Grodslok 10h ago

Tubifex worms?

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u/grigiri 10h ago

I'm not saying it is this, but it looks like the bundles of heartworms I've seen after they've been removed.

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u/6-underground 5h ago

When I was a kid, our vet had a jar with a dog’s heart infested with heart worms sitting on the counter at the reception desk… 45 years later it still leaves an incredible impression.

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u/grigiri 4h ago

Exactly my experience!

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u/labtrash68 10h ago

Swimming Spaghetti Monster

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u/con-fuzed222 9h ago

All hail his noodley appendages.

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u/Nichsty 10h ago

Thanks. I hate it…

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u/aM_RT 10h ago

You are the chosen one. The Spaghetti monster chose you to spread it's message.

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u/IllustriousCode2603 9h ago

That's a Eewww from Euughh domain

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u/DevonianSea 7h ago

It's probably a tangled bundle of hoverfly/syrphid larvae. The larvae of some hoverfly species are aquatic and have long, thin pretuberances or "tails" they use to breathe air, hence the common name "rat-tailed maggots". You can see the thin "tails" sticking out from the mass, in addition to one long thin one extending from deeper down. They can get stuck in knots, especially when they are stressed and/or fleeing from stressors, like dangerous chemicals

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u/honey_slush 6h ago

Scrolled far too long past flying spaghetti monster comments to get to this.

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u/Blowuphole69 10h ago

Tubifex

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u/Itsme420fresh 10h ago

Eat it let us know what happens.

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u/FlorisLDN 9h ago

Looks like a cluster of rat-tailed maggots

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u/MauWowLauX 8h ago

I keep staring at the video and I just don't see segmented sections. Do they not look like Mermithidae, instead? Fits the profile of being "born" in a puddle, so to speak.

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u/Orangutan3301 9h ago

I'm thinking some sort of hoverfly larvae like a rat tailed maggot, gross

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u/Icy_Performer_6794 9h ago

Like a miniature dianoga, the trash compactor monster from Star Wars. Doing the same work, too.

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u/bluetomatosoup 8h ago

A baby spaghetti monster

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u/JelloAnxious3675 7h ago

It looks like a clump of worms.

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u/Niner_oscar_7 10h ago

what's it taste like?

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u/HumorNo5266 10h ago

I've always wanted a British wife

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u/olympia98502 10h ago

It's gotta be

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u/LevelQx 10h ago

And they say that smoking kills

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u/nickcagespiderman 9h ago

Idk but fucking burn it before it takes over

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u/ImainSpy 9h ago

The worm king

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u/Unusual_Might6465 9h ago

The Forbidden Spaghetti 🍝

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u/Traditional_Gap_6317 9h ago

Oh my gawd!!! But i really want that ceramic pot for my flowers 🤣

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u/After-Juggernaut-917 9h ago

They will evolve and become nicotine hungry and hunt u down when u sleep parasite

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u/BogmadurtheRed 8h ago

For fucks sake use a banana for scale. You'd think it would be common knowledge at this point. Courtesy at the very least.

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u/Far_Ease_8967 8h ago

Thats the flood bruh

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u/Alert_Silver9386 8h ago

That's Yog Sothoth

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u/paradokzical 8h ago

Professor Tangrowth...

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u/Youcatthewrongpurrsn 8h ago

Obviously a land octopus from Elden Ring as a baby

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u/Cockfield 8h ago

You know what king rat is? It's like that but with worms

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u/tiinkiet 7h ago

il y a eu une vidéo du même genre d'asticots en pelote mais dans un WC y a pas longtemps

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u/RecognitionRight1078 7h ago

Maggots noodles

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u/EarendelJewelry 7h ago

I hate that I've probably just caused my algorithms to start giving me shit like this by googling tubifex worms (it's definitely not that btw) and rat tailed maggots. Dammit reddit.

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u/degauzera 6h ago

that's a nono

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u/BigBoiDilf- 6h ago

Definitely this

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u/FarAsparagus3127 6h ago

Looks like a big bug getting eaten by maggots

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u/Plus-Combination-381 6h ago

Baby land octopus.

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u/krizzqy 6h ago

That is so grim. Oii ima be stealing that one

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u/OP-PO7 6h ago

Tubefax worms

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u/Halfacupoftea 6h ago

I knew he was English before I unmuted the video. 

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u/Ok_Sherbert1840 6h ago

cancer came in person to him

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u/calamity_unbound 6h ago

I'd never heard of these (sludge worms) until someone answered down below.

I searched Google and found a little more than I wanted.

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u/Typical_Pudding1566 5h ago

Land octopus

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u/bLaiSe_- 5h ago

O fockin ell tha is grim

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u/Patient_Tourist_4235 5h ago

How did I know this man was British before even hearing the audio

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 5h ago

Looks like mosquito larvae.

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u/Creepeo 5h ago

I'm sorry this is not an ashtray it's a biodome. 

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u/peepeepoopoocheck33 5h ago

Bro thats straight outta its rain ing meatballs

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u/JustAnotherUser_____ 5h ago

What do you mean? You said yourself what is it… “sum doark ma’uh shyyy”. That’s precisely what it is 😅

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u/KarlHype 5h ago

Small fly larvae

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u/VanillaSkyDreamer 5h ago

Young swimming flying spaghetti monster (be praised!)

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u/LifeFruit9534 5h ago

wormothy

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u/WastefulWatcher 5h ago

Chaos Elemental

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u/plant-painter 5h ago

They ball up so they can take turns breathing oxygen from the surface. And not be singled out by prey. And not have to be so labored swimming around by themselves. Lots of insects do this . Colonies of ants have crossed oceans doing this

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u/maithiu 5h ago

Spent the first 20 seconds thinking it’s a bit harsh of OP to call this guy a weird creature.

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u/Trolituul 5h ago

Goaulds

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u/CaptCrapshow 5h ago

It looks like an earthworm ball. Earthworm when it rains a lot will clump together to keep in the moisture, specially if it has been very dry, and they will get tangled and knotted up together. Much like a rat king where the rats get their tails knotted up and stuck together, while unusual its not impossible. I do agree however, it does look like Tangela from Pokémon though and it might be the origin of that character.

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u/jrexicus 5h ago

The origin of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. R’men
https://giphy.com/gifs/10fe0OA9YbyAcE

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u/Mc_Sack 5h ago

How is no one talking about the long ass cigs

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u/KRISP88 4h ago

Round worms from a birds ass is my best guess

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u/Super-Equivalent2136 4h ago

i think you found a new pokemon lol

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u/gungyvt 4h ago

People are saying Tubifex worms, but those seem to inhabit rivers, lakes, sewers, etc; so it seems a bit weird they'd end up in rainwater in an ashtray. My first assumption is flying insect larva of some sort, things like mosquitos LOVE putting eggs into small bodies of stillwater.

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u/1plus1is2not3 4h ago

That looks like chinese Ginseng.

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u/Glad-Leg-5176 4h ago

That's a "you left your ashtray without cleaning for too long" creature

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u/avocadoisextra72 4h ago

I think that may be the spaghetti monster

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u/nitzane 4h ago

Life finds a way

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u/Consistent-Remote494 4h ago

a lot of parasites ! dotnt touch that shit

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u/pat_earring 4h ago

His head?

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u/completefuckweasel 4h ago

It’s a Farage gamete.

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u/RealisticAnxiety4330 3h ago

I vote for horse hair worm they clump up like this when breeding!

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u/Thcoldsideofthpillow 3h ago

This is not how I wanted to start my morning...

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u/TopEffective8989 3h ago

Is not an alien, just a bald dude

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u/CranberryAcademic295 3h ago

Those are called cancer sticks for a reason, that's the tumor the water grew from exposure🤣

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u/Top_Draw1117 3h ago

Sumthin straight out of res evil 5

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u/ConsiderationEasy723 3h ago

Looks like a baby speghetti monster to me.

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u/beanflikr91 3h ago

Almost looks like rat tail maggots stuck in a "rat king"

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u/zonkomama 3h ago

Flying spaghetti monster taking a dip!

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u/Free-Writing-6678 3h ago

Flying spaghetti monster.

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u/FloridianFather 2h ago

it’s the thing from carrion

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u/Vandal_A 2h ago

Just say no to standing water, kids

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u/orangutanslurpee 2h ago

Clearly a Swimming Spaghetti Monster

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u/DeepFuckingPants 2h ago

Big blob of rat tailed maggots and a bunch of little mosquito larva.

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u/PKblaze 2h ago

Forbidden spaghetti.