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Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009


Operators are standing by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFL5u1X5Dew

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Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Asehujiko
Apr 6, 2011
Forest fire vs cemetery?

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever


Reckoning in the Garden of Good and Evil

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Setpiece I wanna see in Max Payne.

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012




How can this even happen? That particular chunk is obviously no longer recieving signals from the brain.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
Some animals have body parts that will continue to twitch after being removed from the body due to delayed chemical reactions in the muscles or...something. I don't know the proper terminology.

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


Soy sauce causes muscle twitching in dead squid, something chemical.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Bloodborne 2 looking good!

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Depends on the critter and part in question. Cephalapod tentacles will continue to move and function after detachment in part because they have a large amount of nervous tissue in them and each tentacle handles 'thinking' for itself when it comes to movement (ie, when an octopus wants to grab something, it fires off that intent and the tentacles independently make some movement decisions about how best to achieve that aim). In some species this continues up to thrashing around when detached as a distraction so that the octopus or squid can escape, and some will even tear off one of their limbs to do so if sufficiently panicked.

You see something similar in a lot of simpler organisms where automatic functions aren't as reliant on input from the brainstem. Chickens, for instance, can live entirely without a head, though they require special care at that point, and there have been a couple of modestly famous touring headless chickens.



(If I'm not being mislead, that should be a picture of Mike, a rather famous headless chicken from the 1940's. He had to be fed with a dropper, but would continue to scratch and 'peck' as if trying to obtain food on his own, which obviously he could not without his head. If memory serves, he eventually died when he choked to death during a feeding.)

Nervous tissue clusters further down the spine handle local functions, so most of the organism's life functions can continue entirely without a head, or even when further segmented. The further away you get from intelligent vertebrate animals, the more you tend to see that effect.

Oh, and that's likely where we get the phrase 'running around like a chicken with it's head cut off'.

SO YEAH THAT'S FUN :gonk:

E: Slight correction, living headless chickens appear to be due to the unusually low brainstem sometimes remaining intact when they're decapitated for butchering. Other points about automatic local nerve functions and muscle movement should still be accurate in general.

Shady Amish Terror has a new favorite as of 06:55 on May 12, 2017

Big Centipede
Mar 20, 2009

it tingles
Fun story my lovely ex landlord was a dumb poo poo hippie polyamorous turd who fancied himself a farmer because he had land and chickens and such. One day he brought in an old rooster to kill and butcher for the first time and lopped its head off in the kitchen. The headless rooster then leapt up and sprayed blood all over his kitchen and living room horrifying his children and startling him so much he slipped and fell on the open dishwasher door, tearing a ligament in his shoulder and breaking the dishwasher.

Sarcopenia
May 14, 2014
Huh, I thought Azealia Banks was the only person stupid enough to decapitate a chicken indoors.

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.

Sarcopenia posted:

Huh, I thought Azealia Banks was the only person stupid enough to decapitate a chicken indoors.

I looked this up and it's worse than I imagined, three years of slaughtering chickens in a closet :gonk:

The Relentless
Sep 27, 2002

ANTI KITTY-PORN TASK-FORCE - "It's Hell-Bag eatin' time! Rowwwwrrrr!!!"

Ariong posted:

How can this even happen? That particular chunk is obviously no longer recieving signals from the brain.

Humans have a reflex arc that is independant from the brain. When the doctor smashes your knee with a hammer and you involuntarily kick him in the junk (he should know better then to stand there), it isn't your brain reacting to it.

Ignimbrite
Jan 5, 2010

BALLS BALLS BALLS
Dinosaur Gum
Also, if that's a heart that's beating (which it very well could be), they have their own pacemakers which act partially independently from the brain that will pretty much beat as long as they have enough energy and electrolytes to do work and create the action potentials you need to make the heart pump. This is why your heart can still beat if you're braindead.

Basically that... whatever it is, is fresh as gently caress.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Either that or the fish is infected with zombie virus. Nobody noticed the fish was a zombie, because it's a fish.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Either that or the fish is infected with zombie virus. Nobody noticed the fish was a zombie, because it's a fish.

You jest, but zombie sharks are a real thing according to Shark Week.

Sarcopenia
May 14, 2014

wyoming posted:

I looked this up and it's worse than I imagined, three years of slaughtering chickens in a closet :gonk:



She's seriously mentally ill and has burned so many bridges because of it that no one is willing to or care enough to help her :( .



Beluga whales are gross.



Dear Prudence
Sep 3, 2012

rumble in the bunghole posted:



WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

Sarcopenia posted:

She's seriously mentally ill and has burned so many bridges because of it that no one is willing to or care enough to help her :( .



Beluga whales are gross.





Actually they are adorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_6-IwMPjM

Stairs
Oct 13, 2004

Oh my God when he booped his squishy little head on the glass!
:keke:

Waldorf Sixpence
Sep 6, 2004

Often harder on Player 2

wyoming posted:

I looked this up and it's worse than I imagined, three years of slaughtering chickens in a closet :gonk:



I assumed this was a hoax when I first saw it; are you telling me she was genuinely slaughtering chickens inside her place of residence?

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


Waldorf Sixpence posted:

I assumed this was a hoax when I first saw it; are you telling me she was genuinely slaughtering chickens inside her place of residence?

I rescued one of my guinea pigs from a lady that had a ton of them, rats, rabbits and other animals. She had MS and claimed that she could only eat "fresh meat". Yes, she took in a TON of animals just to slaughter them in her home.

Have you ever seen hoarders? Imagine hundreds of animal cages full of rodents that are not cared for at all.

I've never come that close to killing someone.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Waldorf Sixpence posted:

I assumed this was a hoax when I first saw it; are you telling me she was genuinely slaughtering chickens inside her place of residence?

Yep.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

NonzeroCircle
Apr 12, 2010

El Camino
Went to a Witchcraft museum



Victorian era taxidermed fox with the wax deathmask of a witch

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Toe to tip, that's a Bart!

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012



Hylics sequel looking good.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

It's a shame Beetlejuice's Cirque Du Soleil special never really took off.

RoyKeen
Jul 24, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Inzombiac posted:

I rescued one of my guinea pigs from a lady that had a ton of them, rats, rabbits and other animals. She had MS and claimed that she could only eat "fresh meat". Yes, she took in a TON of animals just to slaughter them in her home.

Have you ever seen hoarders? Imagine hundreds of animal cages full of rodents that are not cared for at all.

I've never come that close to killing someone.

Not to be a downer but that's pretty much all of the meat industry. In all honesty, I eat meat all the time but I do know that they're treated like poo poo.

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan

The Ape of Naples posted:

Not to be a downer but that's pretty much all of the meat industry. In all honesty, I eat meat all the time but I do know that they're treated like poo poo.

And likely covered in it, too.

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


The Ape of Naples posted:

Not to be a downer but that's pretty much all of the meat industry. In all honesty, I eat meat all the time but I do know that they're treated like poo poo.

Yeah, I know. Both are horrific conditions but this lady was keeping fur and offal around WAY past the day of butchering. There was nothing clean or mechanical about it.

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009


I see you found the Eraserhead baby.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

I wondered what Frampt was up to after Dark Souls.

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



:anime:

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

"Ask any mermaid
you happen to see
What's the WORST tuna
LLAMA OF THE SEA"

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

he looks as though he will dispense wisdom

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Field Mousepad
Mar 21, 2010
BAE

This dude has a quest for you and you better goddamn finish it.

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