Are octopuses too intelligent to eat?

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:29PM #1

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/are-octopuses-too-intelligent-to-eat-1.1498845

I never even thought of this until The Irish Times pointed it out

The Backwards Man · 19-08-2013 03:32PM

EurasianBadger wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/are-octopuses-too-intelligent-to-eat-1.1498845

I never even thought of this until The Irish Times pointed it out

If they don't eat they'll starve to death?

Doesn't sound intelligent to me.

hatrickpatrick · 19-08-2013 03:33PM

Well they don't seem to regard humans as too intelligent to eat, so...

Nodin · 19-08-2013 03:33PM

EurasianBadger wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/are-octopuses-too-intelligent-to-eat-1.1498845

I never even thought of this until The Irish Times pointed it out

Did anyone ask them?

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:34PM

Who cares that much about them

The Backwards Man wrote: »

If they don't eat they'll starve to death?

Doesn't sound intelligent to me.

there are too many creatures out there to worry about - how are we to measure their intelligence anyway? An I Q test?

gobnaitolunacy · 19-08-2013 03:36PM

If they're that smart, they would have developed anti-human weapons to stop folks snacking on them.

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:36PM

Who cares that much about them

seems I've made a arse of the poll - pardon the pun. But I didn't intend for everyone to be able to vote for all options.

WoollyRedHat · 19-08-2013 03:37PM

They taste like Crap anyway

I don't know, why don't we put them on an episoide of University Challenge and find out?

artanevilla · 19-08-2013 03:37PM

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EurasianBadger wrote: »

seems I've made a arse of the poll - pardon the pun. But I didn't intend for everyone to be able to vote for all options.

I voted for all cause I'm schizophrenic, to change it now would deny my rights.

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:39PM

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WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I don't know, why don't we put them on an episoide of University Challenge and find out?

there would have to be octopuses in Universities then though

BeerWolf · 19-08-2013 03:39PM

They taste like Crap anyway

I dunno - but some people aren't too smart in preparing them, serving octopus while alive... and numerous people die to suffocation from the suckers getting stuck in their throat...

:pac:

studiorat · 19-08-2013 03:41PM

I draw the line at eating something that has the ability to read. But, if octopus are so bleedin' clever how come he's locked up in a pond in bray. :pac:

wil · 19-08-2013 03:41PM

Taste test - EUUURRRGHH:eek: yuck

Conclusion, yeah too intelligent to eat

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:41PM

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BeerWolf wrote: »

I dunno - but some people aren't too smart in preparing them, serving octopus while alive... and numerous people die to suffocation from the suckers getting stuck in their throat...

:pac:

none too stupid then are they

kylith · 19-08-2013 03:42PM

They taste like Crap anyway

Until they're able to think up a way off my fork I'll be eating them.

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:44PM

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kylith wrote: »

Until they're intelligent up a way off my fork I'll be eating them.

This one here claims an octopus can untie knots and tame sharks http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/clever-octopus-tames-shark-unties-knots

Useful skills.........

WoollyRedHat · 19-08-2013 03:44PM

They taste like Crap anyway

EurasianBadger wrote: »

there would have to be octopuses in Universities then though

Well therein lies your problem. You have answered your own question... there are no octupuses in any colleges, as they are not intelligent enough. Don't give me low socio-economical opportunities either ffs, they went to school just like all the other fish.

Quazzie · 19-08-2013 03:45PM

if we base what we eat on their intelligence levels, then there are a few on my facebook news feed I should invite around for dinner.

kylith · 19-08-2013 03:45PM

They taste like Crap anyway

EurasianBadger wrote: »

This one here claims an octopus can untie knots and tame sharks http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/clever-octopus-tames-shark-unties-knots

Useful skills.........

Good for it.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, but I don't see any campaigns to get us to stop eating them (except by veggies and vegans, and that's only because they're delirious from lack of pork).

biko · 19-08-2013 03:46PM

They are safe from me anyway.

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:49PM

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Quazzie wrote: »

if we base what we eat on their intelligence levels, then there are a few on my facebook news feed I should invite around for dinner.

difficult to say really isn't it. Some dogs seem pretty clever and most of us don't eat dogs.
Has there been any scientific study into the intelligence of animals/creatures? Perhaps we should eat only from the lower end of such a study

the_syco · 19-08-2013 03:51PM

Pigs are probably more intelligent than them...

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 03:54PM

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the_syco wrote: »

Pigs are probably more intelligent than them...

probably

Akrasia · 19-08-2013 03:58PM

I was talkin to an octopus the other day and he told me that the arrow of time is nothing but the law of entropy working on scales and events greater than the quantum, but if you were to take an individual photon of light, entropy does not apply as you can't say that an individual photon is in a state of higher or lower order depending on where it is.

Individual quantum particles do not experience the arrow of time, and this is the reason why some of the more bizzare quantum effects have been observed. Because quantum particles can travel in both directions through time, they can appear to take every possible path at the same 'time'. If you block the path of a photon at point x, this immediately affects where the photon travelled through at point x-1

I dunno if this was actually clever, or if he was just talking bullsh1t

Artful_Badger · 19-08-2013 03:59PM

Worst poll ever.

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 04:02PM

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Artful_Badger wrote: »

Worst poll ever.

Hey I'm the Real Badger here - or the Continuity Badger - whichever came first

Quazzie · 19-08-2013 04:03PM

Are to too tastey not to eat?

WTF is going on here?

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 04:06PM

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Quazzie wrote: »

Are to too tastey not to eat?

WTF is going on here?

can't edit text in polls

mfceiling · 19-08-2013 04:07PM

The campaign to remove them from our diet was highlighted recently when an American family killed and ate an octopus, while holidaying in Greece, only to discover later it was a rare six-limbed “hexapus”, and only the second one ever recorded.

Merica...

Artful_Badger · 19-08-2013 04:07PM

EurasianBadger wrote: »

Hey I'm the Real Badger here - or the Continuity Badger - whichever came first

You one of them foreign badgers aren't ya ? This is an Irish site for Irish badgers, there's nothing for you here !

donutheadhomer · 19-08-2013 04:08PM

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mfceiling wrote: »

The campaign to remove them from our diet was highlighted recently when an American family killed and ate an octopus, while holidaying in Greece, only to discover later it was a rare six-limbed “hexapus”, and only the second one ever recorded.

Merica...

they were ripped off then - expecting 8 legs and only got six -

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