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montage

God Almighty
Location
Bethlehem
Somebody was telling me it is possible to swallow a goldfish, regurgetate it, and it will still be living.

Is this possible?

and is this morally wrong?
 

thomas

the tank engine
Location
Woking/Norwich
probably possible. Not really a pleasant experience for Mr Goldfish.
 

Cubist

Still wavin'
Location
Ovver 'thill
Given that it would spend some time enveloped in your stomach acid, it would, i'm sure, be perfectly possible. Quite why anyone would want to would be the next question of course, but then people buy James Blunt albums don't they!
 

Panter

Just call me Chris...
It should be, depending on how long for.

Obviously stomach acid is corrosive stuff so it wouldn't live long, although it would probably suffocate first.

Might not though if the gills stay wet enough (they don't actually need to be in water to breathe, just kept very wet)
Post event; shock, gill damage or fungus disease would be it's demise I'd think but I'm no vet ;)
 

BigonaBianchi

Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
One of my fish lived for 3 years without food or water change outside through ice and snow...I think if you had swallowed it it would have been swimming around your toilet bowl 5 hours later
 

thomas

the tank engine
Location
Woking/Norwich
BigonaBianchi said:
One of my fish lived for 3 years without food or water change outside through ice and snow...I think if you had swallowed it it would have been swimming around your toilet bowl 5 hours later


Did you know, technically, fish never die from old age. In theory, fish could live forever as they don't have an ageing process...however, they usually catch some disease or get eaten...which is why they die.
 

Panter

Just call me Chris...
BigonaBianchi said:
One of my fish lived for 3 years without food or water change outside through ice and snow...I think if you had swallowed it it would have been swimming around your toilet bowl 5 hours later

Why did you do that?
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
Baggy said:
Apparently Stevie Starr Professional Regurgitator has been known to swallow the odd goldfish.

There are so many things I didn't know that I didn't want to know on the internet :tongue:

Fabulous find, Baggy, I'm indebted to you.

You couldn't chuck make it up!

This is priceless....

"Incidentally, history is full of famous vomiters, so Stevie Starr evidently isn't the only one who has ever had this talent. In 1621 there was the case of the nail-vomiting Boy of Bilston (who had been trained by a priest to simulate the symptoms of being bewitched). This was followed in 1642 by Catharina Geisslerin, "the toad-vomiting woman of Germany," who, as you might guess, had a talent for vomiting up toads. In 1694 there was Theodorus Döderlein, who vomited up twenty-one newts and four frogs"
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
Baggy said:
Apparently Stevie Starr Professional Regurgitator has been known to swallow the odd goldfish.

There are so many things I didn't know that I didn't want to know on the internet :tongue:

Fabulous find, Baggy, I'm indebted to you.

You couldn't chuck make it up!

This is priceless....

"Incidentally, history is full of famous vomiters, so Stevie Starr evidently isn't the only one who has ever had this talent. In 1621 there was the case of the nail-vomiting Boy of Bilston (who had been trained by a priest to simulate the symptoms of being bewitched). This was followed in 1642 by Catharina Geisslerin, "the toad-vomiting woman of Germany," who, as you might guess, had a talent for vomiting up toads. In 1694 there was Theodorus Döderlein, who vomited up twenty-one newts and four frogs"
 
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