Netflix : "My Octopus Teacher"

[Kurosaki]

I haven't eaten lunch yet and this discussion is making me consider a variety of options. :laughing

 

[DucatiHoney]

GMO-heavy bacon-wrapped octopus?

 

[Kurosaki]

The ghost of someone in the Donner party is reading this and thinking, "I don't understand the point of this discussion."

I have taken the "well, it's dead, and I'm hungry, so I might as well eat it" approach before. Rattlesnake was as far as I've gotten on that one. (I ran over it on accident and cooked it on the engine block on my way home with some tin foil and s/p I had in the jockey box. Yes, I'm a red neck--or I used to be. :laughing)

Is your real name Sarah Connor?

 

[DucatiHoney]

I'm a long throw from anything resembling Sarah Connor. :laughing

 

[Kurosaki]

I'm a long throw from anything resembling Sarah Connor. :laughing

Ahh, The rattlesnake engine grill story made me think of personality traits of a woman that would survive the terror of Skynet.

 

[Matty D]

Well, there's an idea for a day: Ride moto to ocean. Spearfish an octopus. Cook on engine block on the way home. :ride:laughing

 

[Beauregard]

Awesome tear-jearker.... loved it.

 

[900ss]

Eating octopus is bullshit. Or at least it shouldn't be permitted. Let's go.....:rolleyes

 

[Abacinator]

Takoyaki is delicious

 

[Butch]

Ahh, Michael Pollan. "Omnivore's Dilemma" was a real game-changer/eye-opener for me

Me too. Real food, mostly plants, not too much. Simple.

 

[Kurosaki]

Eating octopus is bullshit. Or at least it shouldn't be permitted. Let's go.....:rolleyes

Why

 

[HappyHighwayman]

Octopus is delicious

That said they're fascinating creatures that can squeeze through any space large enough for their beak since they're so squishy

 

[900ss]

Why

They are intelligent.

 

[HappyHighwayman]

They are intelligent.

So are pigs?

 

[900ss]

So are pigs?

Yeah, but they don't have eight appendages, nor can they squeeze into a jar or change colours to camouflage themselves.. :teeth

I know my opinion is short-sighted regarding other intelligent and possibly sentient beings other than octopi. That's just the way it is.

 

[Kurosaki]

Are you a vegetarian?

 

[HappyHighwayman]

Yeah, but they don't have eight appendages, nor can they squeeze into a jar or change colours to camouflage themselves.. :teeth

I know my opinion is short-sighted regarding other intelligent and possibly sentient beings other than octopi. That's just the way it is.

So if you have 2 intelligent species the one with more arms is the winner in the "Do not eat" contest?

I get if you have personal feelings for Octopuses but so do people with other animals so objectively your claim has no more weight than any other appeal to emotion.

 

[Abacinator]

They are intelligent.

Not intelligent enough to avoid being caught and eaten :laughing

 

[Matty D]

Yeah everyone's entitled to draw their own line, for whatever reason works for them. I think it's helpful to learn more and get comfortable with your decision. Personally my opinion is that we're only talking about a difference of degree from one animal to the next.

 

[Kurosaki]

So if you have 2 intelligent species the one with more arms is the winner in the "Do not eat" contest?

I get if you have personal feelings for Octopuses but so do people with other animals so objectively your claim has no more weight than any other appeal to emotion.