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Are octopuses too intelligent to eat?

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  • #32
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    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.
    You think going to college implies intelligence?


    Anyway
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM


  • #33
    Christ the Redeemer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    They are considered honorary vertebrates by most people due to their high intelligence.

    I don't like eating smart animals.

    I did not answer the ****ty push poll provided by OP.


  • #34
    tin79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    Worst poll wording ever!


  • #35
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    They taste like Crap anyway
    Ficheall wrote: »
    You think going to college implies intelligence?


    Anyway
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM

    We're talking about octopuses going to college here, what do you think?


  • #36
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    If we chose to eat species based on intelligence level we'd have turned to cannibalism a long time ago.


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  • #37
    YellowFeather
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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.

    Bet an octopus wouldn't have made an arse of the poll.


  • #38
    donutheadhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭donutheadhomer


    Who cares that much about them
    Zombienosh wrote: »
    If we chose to eat species based on intelligence level we'd have turned to cannibalism a long time ago.

    so you're saying it is a "race to the top" then? Start by eating all the low level creatures and work ones way up the scale


  • #39
    donutheadhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭donutheadhomer


    Who cares that much about them
    YellowFeather wrote: »
    Bet an octopus wouldn't have made an arse of the poll.

    correct - It is my first ever poll - lame excuse though


  • #40
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    When they learn to speak and tell us not to eat them then they are off the menu. Till then **** em. Top of the food chain baby.


  • #41
    donutheadhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭donutheadhomer


    Who cares that much about them
    Rashad Red Superpower wrote: »
    When they learn to speak and tell us not to eat them then they are off the menu. Till then **** em. Top of the food chain baby.

    dogs and cats say nothing too


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  • #42
    ScumLord
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    Pigs are fairly intelligent too. Many animals are more intelligent than we give them credit for.


  • #43
    **Vai**
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭**Vai**


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Pigs are fairly intelligent too. Many animals are more intelligent than we give them credit for.

    Its rarely about intelligence for us. Probably because we are rarely intelligent. Its all in the taste, thats proven by the dog eaters. Why else would anyone choose to eat a dog?


  • #44
    crazygweilo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5 ✭crazygweilo


    They taste like Crap anyway
    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...



    He'd still be big in Japan. Pass the wasabi and soy sauce.


  • #45
    Galaxie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Galaxie


    Dunno about intelligent. Rubbery, maybe.


  • #46
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Zombienosh wrote: »
    If we chose to eat species based on intelligence level we'd have turned to cannibalism a long time ago.
    It's only cannibalism if you eat college graduates apparently. Everyone else is in the octopus category.:D


  • #47
    smash
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    It's octopi...


  • #48
    Galaxie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Galaxie


    smash wrote: »
    It's octopi...

    I don't want octopi. Can we have an octostew instead?


  • #49
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    smash wrote: »
    It's octopi...
    25.133


  • #50
    The Backwards Man
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    Eating people isn't illegal, why should eating octopussys be illegal?


  • #51
    up for anything
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    Weird photographs. There's one of the son killing the octopus followed by one of the father finishing him it off. If the son killed the octopus why did it need finishing off?

    I'd sooner have pics all over the internet of me giving head to a one eyed snake rather than of me tormenting and then killing a dumb/intelligent animal.


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  • #52
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭ressem


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Eating people isn't illegal, why should eating octopussys be illegal?

    And as cephalopods like octopuses are recorded as cannibalizing each other as a primary food source, Mountjoy will require an underwater yard.


  • #53
    UCDVet
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    I'm not really sure why intelligence would be a factor....but the traits the article describe are true of just about every animal I've ever heard of.


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
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    I don't eat anything that can say it's own name. If it turns out that cow's names are actually moo and sheep's are baa, then I'm screwed.


  • #55
    Driveby Dogboy
    Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy


    octopodes, pronounced octo-po-days



    octopuses is acceptible either


    octopi is just wrong


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