r/whatisit • • 4h ago

Serious answers only please! What is this in sink ?

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u/Errorstatel 4h ago

Legless lizard of some kind?

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u/ConnoisseurOfDanger 4h ago

Yep. Skink. Sink skink.

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u/TheCheddarHole 4h ago

Do sink skink stink?

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u/rcb279 4h ago

If sink skink stink then your sink would stink of skink.

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u/Heatherjjjjjjjj 3h ago

How much stink could a sink skink stink if a sink skink could stink stink?

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u/Active_Control4975 3h ago

Harder than the originals

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u/VividAd8016 2h ago

A sink skink would stink as much stink as a sink skink could if a sink skink could stink stink.

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u/DataGap2264 2h ago

A sink skink would stink as much stink as a sink skink could stink, if a sink skink could stink sink.

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u/Imightbeafanofthis 3h ago

Skink stink in skink sink makes hearts sink and eyes blink

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u/VesperaLuxe 3h ago

Early 2000's Mike Shinoda, is that you? 🤣

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u/Broad-Promise6954 3h ago

How much stink would a sink skink sink if a sink skink could sink stink?

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 3h ago

I sink zey do. Zee sink skink do stink.

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u/HotLava00 3h ago

How much ink could a sink skink sneak if a sink skink could sneak ink?

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u/NinjatoXIII 4h ago

If they musk.

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u/benoutside 3h ago

Only if the sink skink's been sitting a bit too long.

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u/CaptnShaunBalls 3h ago

How many stinks could a sink skink stink if a sink skink could stink stinks?

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u/iGOP420 3h ago

Not a skink. Skinks are chubby with stubby legs, theres a whole subreddit dedicated to skinks being high centered and their legs are just kinda dangling or wiggling. This looks like either an Arabian sand boa, or, a wormsnake which i only recently learned is a real animal. Its a snake that looks and acts like a worm but with eyeballs and a mouth.

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u/RamblinShambler 3h ago

… so you aren’t gonna link us to this sub full of skink pictures?

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u/iGOP420 3h ago

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u/PickSweet4952 3h ago

That sub is dedicated to one group of skinks. There are thousands of other species of skinks, many of which do indeed lack legs.

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u/Aastnethoth 3h ago

Not gonna lie. Never heard of a skink before right this second. They look exactly how I imagined them to. This sub didnt disappoint.

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u/redacted_robot 2h ago

Don't go down the skink hole

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u/justcallmedad5 2h ago

This guy cares about skinks. They have feelings too. Not all skinks are the same. I wish people would stop using the work skink.

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u/Disastrous-Cat-1 2h ago

Oh, I thought the sub was dedicated to having a very specific kink for blue tongues.

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u/frogdeity 3h ago

There are legless skinks, lizards, and geckos. Because it looks like it has scales arranged in rings I think it is a legless lizard.

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u/rasputinrasputin 1h ago

I knew about the rest but legless geckos too?? I’m gonna have to look into that, next I’m gonna find out about legless crocodiles lol

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u/DeanMalHanNJackIsms 1h ago

It's what you get after you use them to make crocodile boots.

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u/ArseyMcGee 2h ago

What is this sub reddit you speak of... high centered skinks...

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u/ChuckMeIntoHell 3h ago

You've heard of elf on the shelf, get ready for...

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u/MontasJinx 3h ago

Critter in the Shitter?

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u/CiansCurtainsPulled 3h ago

A Pink Sink Skink!

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u/sensitiveskin82 3h ago

Paging Dr. Seuss. The Pink Sink Skink named Yink likes to drink pink ink. 

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u/TheOnlyPolly 3h ago

Skinks got stink face 24/7

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u/joonaspaakko 3h ago edited 50m ago

Damn it, you're probably right... In my mind I was already going:

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u/grunsho 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/zXHZWGLWNQkrS

Now you have it on repeat in your mind too

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u/Creative-Ad-1819 3h ago

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger...mushroom, mushroom!

Dammit!

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u/Sad-Success3514 2h ago

SNAAAAAAAAAKE OOHHHH SNAAAAAAKE...... Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger....

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u/gutwyrming 4h ago

Looks like a legless lizard, or maybe a mole lizard.

But I'm not totally convinced that this is a real video. In this day and age, I take every "weird" video with a grain of salt. AI has become frighteningly good at making videos.

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u/JonesinforJonesey 3h ago

This post is only twelve minutes old and I've had to scroll far to find one real answer. Thank you!

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u/SupernaturalPumpkin 2h ago edited 1h ago

I wish people would use the other sub. Everyone on this one thinks they're a comedic genius and you can't find the real answer.

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u/aquoad 2h ago

what's the real sub? this one is fucking useless.

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u/SupernaturalPumpkin 1h ago

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u/SuckMyBigPoop 1h ago

Thankyou! Sick of seeing all these GenZ gifs in the comments.

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u/Working-Crab-8401 1h ago

Yep, Reddit has the worst sense of humor

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u/Jazzlike-Skin-5470 4h ago edited 3h ago

Derpy lil fucker, innit?

ETA: is this how I get Reddit famous? Seriously though, thanks for all the awards. Stay derpy you whimsical fucks

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u/MoistScratch2857 4h ago

I think i saw him in a TOOL video a while back. Wonder what he's doing these days?

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u/greenweenievictim 3h ago

Def lost weight. Looks good.

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u/Professional-Ad-9967 3h ago

That thing from Vicarious! I knew it looked familiar!

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u/O5councilofficial 3h ago

Yeah that's a derpy fuck alright

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u/Whos_HUNKYDORY 3h ago

Aww, it's kinda cute. Terrifying but still cute.

I say this while also knowing full well, that if I saw this in person, I'd be screaming running away so fast!.

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u/GhostlitePHX 3h ago

Fuckin adorable honestly lol.

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u/kodiak931156 3h ago

let me do it for yuw

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u/Me-and-the-tree 3h ago

Whether it’s AI or not, it is an Amphisbaena, AKA "legless lizard", "worm lizards". They live in the soil and are capable of burrowing. They feed on small insects. If one appeared in the sink drain, there is likely a crack in the piping or the sewage inspection chamber through which it entered from the ground below.

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u/devour_feculence___ 4h ago

Maaannn, do you know how bad I would've screamed and left the whole house instead of filming? Lol

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u/HumorinEverything 3h ago

I’ll say it now, this better never happen to me. I’d probably just pass away right there. A sacrifice to the legless lizard in the sink 😣

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u/Significant_Egg_4020 3h ago

It looks like a gray ghost, monster or alien finger. I would be out of there so fast. Very brave of OP to stick around and film this terrifying event. 😳

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u/Neither_Elk_1987 3h ago

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u/GlitterDollMUA 2h ago

this is the most accurate gif i’ve ever seen

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u/Vigeous 2h ago

I've never seen this gif before and I'm cackling.

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 3h ago

I scream if a bug jumps up at me. I'm pretty sure I'd have a heart attack if I saw something like this

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u/maucyp 3h ago

Selling the house

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u/JacquesBlaireau13 4h ago

Skink in the sink.

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u/no_need_really 4h ago

You think?

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u/theoriginalmofocus 4h ago

Hint hint wink wink

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u/WhattfNow 3h ago

Can't you hear the dishes clink?

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u/gitartruls01 3h ago

Clinking the song of angry men?

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u/StoryBard 4h ago

Man, it's too bad I can't handle excessive heat because I'm getting so jealous of all these people who live in tropical climates and just get random exotic animals I can't even find to buy for money wandering into their houses like "sup I live here now"

People would think I had a massive insect problem and might be in danger of the house being devoured from under me by various invertebrates with all the lizards I have climbing all over my walls, but the truth would just be that I raise bugs and hand feed them all until they figure it's a sweet deal, free food, out of the rain, most predators not an issue, and stay. XD

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u/Acrobatic-Passion114 3h ago

Come to Atlanta they don’t mind helping you on rent 🫡

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u/Multiversalprism 3h ago edited 3h ago

What you have here is likely a Florida sand skink. Why it’s in your sink idk

Edit: someone else said southern blind snake which is what the pic they posted looks like

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u/dudeCHILL013 3h ago edited 3h ago

Whatever it is, it looks like it has a very boopable nose.

Edit: thank you for the award!

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u/Lopsided_Cancel2693 1h ago

It’s all Boopable nose lol 😂 so cute but more like a long finger with eyeballs 👀

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u/DescriptionIll5227 3h ago

More like a Florida sink skink

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u/sovietmethod 3h ago

Bro I just left fl to come here I dont wanna see this lol

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u/Soggy_Dimension_5771 2h ago

This is in Atlanta?! There's a chance I could get a sink skink?!

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u/DeJoCa 2h ago

Sometimes watch out what you wish for. I almost stepped on this in my bedroom Monday.

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u/chrisxxviv 1h ago

Why are you measuring a metric insect, with an imperial ruler?

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u/ExoticPalpitation807 1h ago

Not everyone will get your joke but hey! You're a funny person 🤣 😂

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u/EarEater3001 45m ago

Not actually. -pede is a Greek stem that means foot. So obviously he should use an imperial foot ruler. Just the division lines are in the wrong place.

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u/liibug 2h ago

i hate stepping on rulers too.

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u/Babetna 1h ago

It's nice that he placed a centipede so we can properly assess the size of that pesky ruler

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u/liibug 1h ago

centipede for scale so we can see how big the ruler is. now we need a banana for scale so we can see how big the bug is.

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u/ProtectedSpeciment 1h ago

One of these just as big, climb my thighs as i shower before

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u/Blooregard_K 1h ago

So uh where are you so I can make sure that this never happens to me

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u/happygoth6370 1h ago

Oh HELL no

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u/Nimyron 3h ago

As someone who's had at least one bug invasion in every home I've lived in (that's 4 so far, I'm just 28), I'd say there's nothing that fun with having stuff slither inside your home.

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u/PeteyMcPetey 2h ago

Man, it's too bad I can't handle excessive heat because I'm getting so jealous of all these people who live in tropical climates and just get random exotic animals I can't even find to buy for money wandering into their houses like "sup I live here now"

It's all fun and games until you've got horny gheckos sneaking around your room at night desperately screaming at each other.

I hate it.

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u/Kitchen_Back_9556 2h ago

It’s a worm snake, they’re harmless

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u/BHedrickConsulting 1h ago

How can it be harmless? I basically need therapy now

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u/persephone7821 1h ago

Same, that’s basically the sink version of every girls worst nightmare.

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u/alohadawg 1h ago

Guy here - trust me, no reason to leave us out of this one

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u/muhpe_mutdunga 3h ago

Blame it on AI and sleep peacefully. I aint taking no risks

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u/No_Introduction_3210 3h ago

This is how I am going go out when the world finally ends. You all will be experiencing the apocalypse, and I won't have even noticed because I called bullshit and went to bed.

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u/AvogadrosOtherNumber 3h ago

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u/akhnatwhat 3h ago

Never go in against a Caecilian especially when death is involved !

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u/JourneyOfDaor 3h ago

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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u/Rude_Force4324 3h ago

You’re breaking my heart.
You're shaking my confidence daily

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u/ResidentHorror1272 3h ago

I’m down on my knees
I’m begging you please to come home
Oh oh oh

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u/MahautganyBandit 2h ago

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia

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u/s_s_n_e_g 3h ago

As in Ceacilian mafia?

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u/CarlLlamaface 3h ago

Ceacilian est in culina

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u/zxeevi 3h ago

Legless lizard. Totally harmless and adorable. Please be kind and release him outside

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u/xiguy1 3h ago edited 3h ago

Looks like a blind snake or maybe a skink. Sorry I don’t know the species name

Edit: it blinks just for a split second which means it’s a skink. Snakes don’t have eyelids. Its very late and I’m going to bed. So I’m going to guess it’s a Mexican mole lizard

Here is more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_mole_lizard?wprov=sfti1

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u/VashtaSyrinx 3h ago

Worm lizard or legless lizard. They are harmless. Try to relocate it outside.

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u/GloomyLingonberry509 4h ago

Looks like a blindsnake

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u/GloomyLingonberry509 4h ago

Southern Blind Snake

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u/LastCookie3448 3h ago

I'm so phobic this literally made me dry heave.

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u/Loserdogma 3h ago

If it helps this is not actually a snake but a lizard without legs lol

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u/Fazhoul 3h ago

No, no it doesn't help at all.

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u/Chemical-Quiet-7764 3h ago

Does it really matter, when it's coming out of the drain?

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u/Proof-Imagination690 3h ago

“But you ain’t got no legs, Lieutenant Dan”

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u/Royal-Lie-7512 4h ago

Its a skink in the sink

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u/BringPheTheHorizon 4h ago

These elf on a shelf memes are getting out of hand.

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u/stylz_p 3h ago

Brady tkachuk

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u/CandlejackIsntEvenRe 3h ago

He’d be really mad if he saw this and could read.

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u/Lonely_Towel9655 3h ago

That's probably the funniest response I've ever read in my life. That is absolutely hilarious my friend

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u/meowch- 3h ago

Looks like leggless lizard, he's fucking cute!!! Just looking for a little snack

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u/Simon-Fn-Sez 3h ago

Gloomy Lingonberry answered it right with picture, it's a Southern Blind Snake

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u/glizzy-queen 3h ago

It makes me sad ppl don’t think he’s cute ):

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u/SirKnight147 3h ago

Right!? Free sink friend!! 🥰

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u/Caleon0817 3h ago

I find it absolutely adorable. Then again I find spiders cute.

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u/WonderBredOfficial 3h ago

It's a billionaire!

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u/GKraTrO 3h ago

Something slithering out of a sink shouldn't be so damn cute lol

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u/VortexeGaming 3h ago

Caecilian, aka rubber eel

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u/Responsible-Treat854 3h ago

Legless lizard

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u/ChicagoFish67 3h ago

Skinky wants to pick the mixer beater.

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u/murdermeMickey 3h ago

I hope you didn't hurt it.

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u/kt3pr0tEq 3h ago

It is Oscar the grouches friend Slimy the worm.🪱 https://youtube.com/shorts/R558qe_UGTY?feature=shared

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u/KimbaNessie 3h ago

Legless lizard or blind snake, probably (I think the latter). Harmless, non-venomous. Just take it outside

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u/Rudolf_Shlepke 3h ago

It's a fek snek (legless lizard).

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u/No_Chair_5803 3h ago

I’m pretty sure it’s called a glass lizard or leg less lizard I don’t think it’s a snake I have to fact check this

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u/ellohellaylola 3h ago

Idk but it’s cute

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u/LizzosLittleToe 4h ago

He's a handsome little guy

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u/MoistScratch2857 4h ago

Have you heard of the short story "The Moving Finger" by Stephen King? 👉

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u/FishHookSammich 3h ago

Ugh, that's all I could think of watching this.

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u/dogtroep 3h ago

My answer to OP’s question was gonna be “ask Howard Mitla” lmao

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u/Merdestouch 2h ago

This story creeped me out so much as a teenager that I hated looking down drains without grates or plugs for years afterwards.

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u/sillylilmushroom 3h ago

Poor baby. Help him they like wet environments

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u/unusualusually 3h ago

I like the part when he bites the sink with his mouf

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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 3h ago

It’s a skink in the sink

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u/sillylilmushroom 3h ago

Might be a baby newt