I love the way she glances at his chest as she’s fussing at him.
Hell, I can’t stop looking at his chest. I’m not a regular viewer of TB, but I have to admit that I stopped my channel surfing the other night long enough to see him strip down and run off as a wolf.
Cause, DAYUM.
I saw that video on BoingBoing, and holy HELL is that creepy.
That’s really disturbing.
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Is it still alive? I thought it was just the muscles reacting to being thawed out of the ice.
balut
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In the original video clip of it, the person also pours the soy sauce into the gaping mantle cavity of the squid. Here’s the link to the full video.
And a quote from the uploader:
The basic idea behind the sodium in the soy sauce causing the legs to move has been covered in the comments, but there’s still some question as to whether or not it’s officially “dead” at the time of serving. The brain is probably still in the body, but a significant part of its nervous system, the giant axon, I believe extends into the mantle, which has been cut. I’m not an expert on squids so I can’t really come to a definite conclusion about that.
As you can see in the beginning, it’s not moving at all when it’s brought out so I assume that signals around the body have stopped, whereas a fresh intact squid out of water would constantly move around. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s “dead” but it seems to me that it’s at least incapacitated.
While I have no compunction about eating octopus (that aren’t alive a la Oldboy), that is pretty sad to see that video*. If you’ve even been diving and seen an octopus in person, they’re amazing creatures, and being in the water with them is unlike just seeing a video or seeing one in a tank. They’re mostly shy, but they can also be weirdly majestic, inasmuch as that’s possible for something so blob-like. There’s something especially amazing about seeing them during a night dive. It’s about one of the most magical things you can see on a dive.
-Tom
- Note that I’m not saying this in an administrative “don’t post animals getting hurt” capacity! I’m just making a personal observation.
I used to spearfish in Hawaii with a local guy who would catch octopi by hand and bite them between the eyes to kill them and freak out the tourists.
Oh, it’s a squid. That makes me feel better; I thought it was an octopus.
Fun fact: An octopus doesn’t have tentacles. They have arms. Only squids have tentacles. True fact! I learned that from reading the IMDB comments section for the 1977 horror movie Tentacles.
-Tom
Oh man, it’s been too long since I went diving. Dammit Tom, now I’ve gotta book a flight!
“He keeps putting his testicles all over me!”
yeah.
its repulsive, and not because of the flailing tentacles.
No kidding. Do you have any idea how much sodium is in soy sauce?
