What would you do if a space alien landed in your bathtub at 4 AM?

What would you do if a space alien landed in your bathtub at 4 AM?

  • Promote intergalactic peace and offer it a snack (probably a chocolate chip cookie).

    Votes: 6 22.2%

  • Shoot it. You're not going to invade my bathroom or my planet, punk.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Go back to bed. 4 AM is a ridiculous time to have to deal with something like this.

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • Ask the alien to clean the bathtub as long as it's in there.

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • Throw a net over it and haul it to the local zoo, taking lots of pictures to post on Zoochat.

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • Other (please specify below).

    Votes: 7 25.9%
  • Total voters
    27
Pygathrix said:
An alien hacked into my zoochat account - of course I'm zooing it large (although not as large as you two often do), Berlin zoo tomorrow, Leipzig day after, and then some sort of tedious work related "meeting" for a couple of days after that. Nine hours in Tierpark today have left me weak, three types of takin, three Chaco species, ringtail rock wallaby,tons of ungulates and carnivores, etc etc etc. Peccaries being rather reticent, the nanomaras were rather more enchanting. Finally getting to see a Baird's tapir tomorrow after all these years of being a tapir fan
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That is a well-planned work trip. Also, I love "nanomaras", both as a species and as a word. Further to this - peccaries... grrrr... :D

Don't forget to say hello to Chester's original Indian Rhino tomorrow.
 
I voted other too. I would ask if it had time travel capability so I could go back and read the thread that got deleted by Sim a few hours ago as I had not finished reading it all, as the reason for deleting says it says it got personal, which is in itself intriguing.

Apart form that I would ask where it came from and out of the millions of bathrooms in the world why pick on my bathroom?
 
Pootle said:
Apart form that I would ask where it came from and out of the millions of bathrooms in the world why pick on my bathroom?
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my understanding, gained from 80s sitcoms, is that aliens crave smelly worn socks.....
 
I would vote Other: I'd say "welcome to Erf" and then punch it in the face.
 
Maybe aliens are like spiders (and mermaids) in the fact that once they get into your bath they cannot get out.
 
Chlidonias said:
my understanding, gained from 80s sitcoms, is that aliens crave smelly worn socks.....
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My understanding, from watching Dr Who (and UFO, and others), is that all alien encounters begin in the UK. For some reason aliens choose that tiny island to launch their invasion of the planet. My bathtub in Australia is safe.

:p

Hix
 
Hix said:
My understanding, from watching Dr Who (and UFO, and others), is that all alien encounters begin in the UK. For some reason aliens choose that tiny island to launch their invasion of the planet. My bathtub in Australia is safe.

:p

Hix
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Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC get their fair shares of alien invasions too. Next time they invade LA I'll send them over to visit you too Hix.
 
Chlidonias said:
my understanding, gained from 80s sitcoms, is that aliens crave smelly worn socks.....
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After a long days wearing in hot weather, by the end of the day, I admit my sock odour can really reach cheese territory. In turn before bed I have a shower and the two cheesy trouble makers are kicked to a corner of the bathroom (ready for the girlfriend to pick up and wash for me). Whilst in the corner over night this cheesy bait attracts the aliens to my bathroom and by 4 am they are in the bath rolling around with my dairy encrusted cotton footwear.

TOP TIP - Blokes, to aviod this potentially happening, make sure your missus or girlfriend does the washing when it is needed, not when they choose to do it.
 
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I voted for other. I'd probably freak out if I saw this, but who wouldn't. I'd try to take a pic, though, and post it on ZooChat but I don't think capture and holding it at a zoo would work out for me, you, the zoo, or the planet. Maybe if I offered it a snack it would find our Earth junk food poisonous and die (might not work out for anyone in this situation anyway). Perhaps it might find the food delicious and take lots home to the ship and once they get too fat and lazy to do anything, they'll go home. Everyone here wins (except their wives when they get home... and Pootle's girlfriend).
 
What would you do if a space alien..

Get the wife to sort it out. You don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
[I wouldn't bother waking my dog up in such a situation].
 
Speaking of space aliens, did anyone see the video of the meteorite hitting the earth in the Russian far east today? Tunguska again?
 
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Well any civilization that can reach us is probably Type 2 or 3 and is so much more advanced that it would be like us trying to communicate using a Droid phone with a flu virus.
 
I would go back to bed than do option one in the morning (although it would DEFINITELY not get a cookie in my house (I'm to greedy), alternatively a digestive biscuit).
 
I'll trap it and take it to the local and try to take 100 pictures of it while it's being chased by a gelada :D
 
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