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Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

YES!!! Big cephalofan here

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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
there's a reason it's called a "wet willy" in the first place

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Jose posted:

t hats how i do it too

You have your partner stick their sperm delivery system in your ear?


Was that Octopus, henceforth, known as Paul?

Bogus Adventure posted:



And this one about an octopus having a casual stroll to say hi to its fans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI

I'd feel the need to go get a toy or some sort of food to trade with the octopus after it worked so hard to bring that crab to me. He's probably like,"gently caress! Stop backing up you assholes. This is hard work. I'm just trying to give you a snack."

I guess he could have been attempting to get a taste of human when they went for the crab? I think some octopodes put out lures.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Octopus tries to steal scuba diver's camera:

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

Duh. Octopuses hate the paparazzi.

Bored fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Mar 1, 2019

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth
this book about octopodes is really good

https://www.audible.com/pd/Other-Minds-Audiobook/B06X9DK32S

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

This film is v.good

https://www.oktapodi.com/

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
I'm still looking for the video of the tiny octopus breeding program. I found this while looking.

https://youtu.be/V6K1kVUct24

BRB with a doodle of an octopus with candy and glowsticks.

schmuckfeatures
Oct 27, 2003
Hair Elf

you gotta post the whole thing, my man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIXSdMVfSE

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Moridin920 posted:

Octopuses are underwater so they can't discover fire no matter how long they live :colbert:

Listen buddy, they would get more and more adventurous on land and would invent baggy aparatus to siphon water to breathe and eventually observe fire on one of their land expeditions and then poo poo is on. Also this'll probably happen in a few eons they'll go picking through our ruins and learn a valuable lesson about cooperation and then flee to Europa when the sun goes red giant there's my elevator script pitch

lol but
Feb 24, 2007

body is a dinosaur
Slippery Tilde
y'know TIDES? tides... is how we got on the land???

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

lol but seriously I posted:

y'know TIDES? tides... is how we got on the land???

i was born in a hospital OP

naem
May 29, 2011

https://youtu.be/LPJaPZCwZo4

octop us

Pug Rodeo
Feb 20, 2007

BRING IT ON BRING IT ON YEAH




Pretty cool language they got.

Lobotomy Bob
Jun 13, 2003

Edgar posted:

I think I saw a documentary on the discovery channel that octopuses roam the land in the future, even showing an animation of them swinging on trees like Tarzan, in the movie Tarzan. Also had spiders fattening up mice like pigs to eat.

Oh man. I saw this so long ago and I've tried to talk about it with people and no one else had seen/heard of it. I was convinced that I made it up until this very moment.

Not only did they show the monkey-looking ones swinging around in trees they had big fat short legged ones that roamed the forest floor eating up critters. drat strange that show.

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



numberoneposter posted:

why would you even touch let alone pick up an animal that enough poison to kill 28 people

I have a strong, weird urge to pet dangerous animals. Like octopuses. And bears. And alligators. And eagles. And venomous snakes.

I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Mar 1, 2019

Blow
Feb 10, 2004

Bored posted:

I'm still looking for the video of the tiny octopus breeding program. I found this while looking.

https://youtu.be/V6K1kVUct24

BRB with a doodle of an octopus with candy and glowsticks.

That's pretty loving cool. Octopus + MDMA.

My rat used to like MDMA.

bef
Mar 2, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Lobotomy Bob posted:

Oh man. I saw this so long ago and I've tried to talk about it with people and no one else had seen/heard of it. I was convinced that I made it up until this very moment.

Not only did they show the monkey-looking ones swinging around in trees they had big fat short legged ones that roamed the forest floor eating up critters. drat strange that show.

I found it. It had a lot of weird poo poo in it lol. Apparently was a mini series? I only saw this one tho

https://youtu.be/Rbi8Jgx1CNE

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
Does an octopus start choking if he sucks up sand into his valve

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week


if octopuses lived in more direct contact with people, they'd totally be like crows and intentionally steal our poo poo to get us to give them whatever octopi like in return

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

it's weird to think that we actually have no idea why octopuses are called octopuses. just one of life's mysteries

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
Sometimes some squids like to fly out of the water. I recall seeing videos about this, shooting little jets of water to fly and landing in boats and poo poo, but apparently someone doesn't want us to know about this anymore :tinfoil:


Anyway, it's true, here's an article
https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html

sandwiches_and_ham
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

it's weird to think that we actually have no idea why octopuses are called octopuses. just one of life's mysteries

:eng101:

Word Origin and History for octopus
n.
1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Greek oktopous , literally "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). Proper plural is octopodes , though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us in this word is the Latin noun ending that takes -i in plural.

:eng101:

sandwiches_and_ham
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

someone set octop us the bomb

Svensken
May 29, 2010
Spectre were the good guys come at me

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

sandwiches_and_ham posted:

:eng101:

Word Origin and History for octopus
n.
1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Greek oktopous , literally "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). Proper plural is octopodes , though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us in this word is the Latin noun ending that takes -i in plural.

:eng101:

yeah that's a commonly held belief but it's actually not true

sandwiches_and_ham
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

yeah that's a commonly held belief but it's actually not true

i should warn you, i often get VERY ANGRY when people obfuscate the origins of words. one time i even trashed an entire department store starting with the necktie section. it wasn't pretty, pal :mad:

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



It's actually because they were first described in an untitled octavo opus. The description of the book ended up becoming synonymous with the creature therein and eventually got abbreviated to octopus.

Blow
Feb 10, 2004

Nine (9) loving brains?

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Blow posted:

Nine (9) loving brains?

It's probably like balls, you can get by fine with just one, if you have more they get lazy or something.

SleepySonata
Mar 3, 2010
I wanna get high with an octopus :(

TheMaskedUgly
Sep 21, 2008

Let's play a different game.
wet willy

Svensken
May 29, 2010
I thought they were named after their discoverer, noted scientist and maligned super-hero Otto Octavius.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Svensken posted:

I thought they were named after their discoverer, noted scientist and maligned super-hero Otto Octavius.

Maybe he's the writer of the fabled octavo opus.

MMania
May 7, 2008
I've seen a dozen or so octopuses while diving, and I get really mad when other divers gently caress with them. When someone manages to pry an octopus out of its hidey-hole and it frantically tries to hide it feels like bullying to me.

free hubcaps
Oct 12, 2009

Moridin920 posted:

Octopuses are underwater so they can't discover fire no matter how long they live :colbert:

ya but u know what works real well underwater? electricity. and some sea creatures have already harnessed its power. and now they wait.

homeless guy
Feb 23, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

MMania posted:

I've seen a dozen or so octopuses while diving, and I get really mad when other divers gently caress with them. When someone manages to pry an octopus out of its hidey-hole and it frantically tries to hide it feels like bullying to me.

Sea Patrol will take care of this

sandwiches_and_ham
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

MMania posted:

I've seen a dozen or so octopuses while diving, and I get really mad when other divers gently caress with them. When someone manages to pry an octopus out of its hidey-hole and it frantically tries to hide it feels like bullying to me.

I've seen a dozen or so octopuses while driving, and I get really mad when other drivers gently caress with them. When someone manages to ram an octopus off the road and it frantically tries to escape its burning vehicle it feels like dangerous driving to me.

redm
Feb 20, 2016


Sugartime Jones
one time i saw an octopus and i was like 'hey man gimme five' and he was like 'wait'll you get a load of this'

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
https://youtu.be/tBIiIub65fk

Found it! Thanks, SWC.

Octopus escort service.

Also this is cute. A lady made friends with an octopus. But not,like, in an old, Japanese woodblock way.
https://youtu.be/1twqEn8iHsk

Bored fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Mar 4, 2019

Hallucinogenic Toreador
Nov 21, 2000

Whoooooahh I'd be
Nothin' without you
Baaaaaa-by
Fun octopus fact: based on the cells in their retinas they are colour blind and no one really knows how they sense colour to camouflage themselves. It might be something to do with the polarization of light, or it might be that their skin is light sensitive and they actually use their ability to change colour as a filter to detect different colours with their skin.

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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
that is pretty cool

it doesn't make much sense for an octopus to be eyeballing the color anyway. Seems like a pretty human-experience-centric way to think about it (IE that's how *we'd* do it if we could camouflage ourselves). For one thing the light refraction through the water they live in makes that a pretty difficult proposition.

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Mar 4, 2019

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