The ridiculousness of Obama

[Dinner]

I like how this thread rose from the dead.

[DaShi]

Because it's obviously still debatable.

[The Mad Monk]

Poor octopus.

[Krill]

We using this as the re-election thread? Seems fitting.

[DaShi]

None of the arguments will change.

[notyoueither]

WTF is that thing with the octopus?

[Dinner]

It looks like a bowl of rice noodles, fish eggs, a ball of wasabi, a ball of something else which I can't identify, some greens, and a live octopus. I believe that is a hot soy sauce they're pouring on the octopus so he's getting partially cooked alive which is why he started flailing about.

Edit: Oh, and there is a bowl of miso soup next to the octopus bowl.

[MrFun]

Octopuses can live outside of water for a period of time?

[Dinner]

A couple of hours. Usually at Japanese restaurants specializing in live or ultra fresh seafood they have fish tanks and they pull the fish out of the tank, wash them off, and then put them on a plate. One of my favorite non-sushi Japanese seafood dishes involves the chef grabbing a live fish out of a tank, gutting him, and frying him up right in front of you in less then two minutes. The fish is placed in front of you with the gills still moving so you know it's ultra fresh.

[MrFun]

A couple of hours. Usually at Japanese restaurants specializing in live or ultra fresh seafood they have fish tanks and they pull the fish out of the tank, wash them off, and then put them on a plate. One of my favorite non-sushi Japanese seafood dishes involves the chef grabbing a live fish out of a tank, gutting him, and frying him up right in front of you in less then two minutes. The fish is placed in front of you with the gills still moving so you know it's ultra fresh.

[notyoueither]

It looks like a bowl of rice noodles, fish eggs, a ball of wasabi, a ball of something else which I can't identify, some greens, and a live octopus. I believe that is a hot soy sauce they're pouring on the octopus so he's getting partially cooked alive which is why he started flailing about.

Edit: Oh, and there is a bowl of miso soup next to the octopus bowl.

That is gross.

I do not normally have much sympathey for PETA, but **** like that makes me think.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Seriously... but East Asians tend to not necessarily care so much about animals, see the Japanese when told to stop whaling (& yes, I realize its a generalization)

[giblets]

It's a ****ing octopus ffs. I would never eat that (I don't like soy sauce) but why should anyone care if an octopus is writhing in pain? IIRC an octopus's tentacles can move without input from the brain.

[DaShi]

[MrFun]

It's a ****ing octopus ffs. I would never eat that (I don't like soy sauce) but why should anyone care if an octopus is writhing in pain? IIRC an octopus's tentacles can move without input from the brain.

It's still cruelty to animals if the animal is feeling pain.