which is better: being a chameleon or having gills?

i mean if you have gills you not only lOOK cool but it's functional in that you can cross the ocean and/or hide in puddles.
 
gills.

you throw a chameleon on something easy, like the tv guide, and not only will he get messed up but he'll have half his friends telling him they had an abusive childhood. poor chameleon.
 
osmose is just like, playing his own game in this thread i dunno what the f that's about.

anyway, nix has a good point. however, in a standard setting say... grand central terminal, you'd be one hell of a pick pocket.
 
who's saying this is in a standard setting?
if you have gills, or if you're a squid, couldn't you just spend most of your time swimming around? you would still have to hold a job to buy things, of course. for food you could just eat whatever fish/ocean things you find.
 
I'd like gills but I'd be a coward and spend most time in shallow sand beaches because I'm deathly afraid of (but fascinated by) the creatures of the deep sea.
 
I finally saw the 3D IMAX film "Aliens of the Deep." It was really entertaining (and educational!). Though it didn't have as many bizzare ocean creatures as I thought it would.

On a side note: When I was watching the film I was wondering what it would be like to watch pornography on a 3D IMAX screen.
 
ok all day I've been laboring under the impression that the title of this thread said QUILLS and I was having trouble making a decision but now that I realize it in fact says GILLS I'm going to have to say GILLS, absolutely

(haunted)
 
Seriously though folks, gills. I'm just imagining the freedom movement one has underwater without the pressure of staying a reasonable distance from the surface. Imagine being like Link in the water palace in Ocarina of Time while wearing the Zora Tunic. Toss me some iron boots and observe as I sleep standing up in the essential zero gravity of aquatic environments. And even though a chameleon would be a great pickpocket, imagine being presumed drowned everytime you flee and leap directly into a river and never surface. You might get caught but after you are out on bail, stage a suicide into water and just move to a new place and start a new life. Never seemed that hard for the highlander.