Octopus farming is ‘unethical and a threat to the food chain’

[editor]

are humans not animals?

More importantly

 

[Gaia]

not sure those face hugger things were octopi tbh

The correct pluralisation of octopus is octopodes (or, if you must, octopuses), NEVER ‘octopi’, as it is Greek, not Latin.

 

[editor]

The correct pluralisation of octopus is octopodes (or, if you must, octopuses), NEVER ‘octopi’, as it is Greek, not Latin.

"According to Merriam-Webster, both octopuses and octopi are acceptable plurals"

Imperfect but acceptable is good enough for me, thanks.

 

[8ball]

Octopuses is fine.

 

[Pickman's model]

The correct pluralisation of octopus is octopodes (or, if you must, octopuses), NEVER ‘octopi’, as it is Greek, not Latin.

pluraliZation says the oed


octopi is fine. you should consult a dictionary before dictating usage

especially with your track record

 

[8ball]

pluraliZation says the oed

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octopi is fine. perhaps you could consult a dictionary before dictating usage

Octopi is ugly and boorish.
Octopodes is attention-seeking.
Octopuses works.

 

[Gaia]

are humans not animals?

No, we’re plants. Of course we’re fucking animals. We’re apes. We’re carnivores that have chosen to eat a few plants, we have similar physiology to bears, wolves, and lions. We did not evolve to eat plants, as we lack the correct digestive enzymes to break them down and extract nutrients from them. We also lack the bacteria required to synthesise B12, which are present in the guts of almost all herbivores.

I have eaten octopus, I didn’t like it. I have also eaten every single edible part of a cow, including the brain (certified BSE-free), and bone marrow (extremely nutritious is bovine marrow).

 

[Pickman's model]

Octopi is ugly and boorish.
Octopodes is attention-seeking.
Octopuses works.

i don't mind which you use, unlike Gaia i am not prescriptive

 

[Pickman's model]

I have also eaten every single edible part of a cow, including the brain (certified BSE-free), and bone marrow (extremely nutritious is bovine marrow).

how long did it take you to eat this cow?

 

[8ball]

We did not evolve to eat plants, as we lack the correct digestive enzymes to break them down and extract nutrients from them.

We don't do amazingly with raw meat to be fair.
I think for much of our evolution we must have been a test audience for an itinerant band of alien chefs.

 

[Gaia]

Octopi is ugly and boorish.
Octopodes is attention-seeking.
Octopuses works.

Whilst I have no intention of falling out with my right honourable friend, I feel that I have to insist that the octopodes is correct but, in the spirit of cross-party harmony, I will defer to octopuses.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How something can work that out when it can't read the instructions and really shouldn't even know it is an openable container is just messing with my head.

They're also psychic so just read our minds.

 

[editor]

Octopi is ugly and boorish.

Provides lots of handy rhymes though.

 

[Pickman's model]

Whilst I have no intention of falling out with my right honourable friend, I feel that I have to insist that the octopodes is correct but, in the spirit of cross-party harmony, I will defer to octopuses.

you do him no favours by addressing him as though he were a member of the privy council

 

[8ball]

Whilst I have no intention of falling out with my right honourable friend, I feel that I have to insist that the octopodes is correct but, in the spirit of cross-party harmony, I will defer to octopuses.

Octopodes is the most linguistically sound if you're really bothered about the root language.
Octopuses is the standard English pluralisation.
Octopi is the equivalent of pronouncing a particular type of Spanish sausage as "choritso", and is frankly unconscionable.

 

[souljacker]

how long did it take you to eat this cow?

And more importantly, what does leather taste like.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

No, we’re plants. Of course we’re fucking animals. We’re apes. We’re carnivores that have chosen to eat a few plants, we have similar physiology to bears, wolves, and lions. We did not evolve to eat plants, as we lack the correct digestive enzymes to break them down and extract nutrients from them. We also lack the bacteria required to synthesise B12, which are present in the guts of almost all herbivores.

I have eaten octopus, I didn’t like it. I have also eaten every single edible part of a cow, including the brain (certified BSE-free), and bone marrow (extremely nutritious is bovine marrow).

No, we're omnivores like our cousins chimpanzees. Most of our diet is plant-based (forms of grass), with some meat (if people choose to do this). People eat far too much meat anyway, so moving to a more vegetarian diet would be good for the environment.

 

[editor]

Octopodes drove down the road with a heavy load
Octopuses argued with the missus and er....
While octipi had a pie and a sigh and wondered why they had to try to say goodbye and lie etc etc etc.
Oooh, I could go on for ages here,

 

[farmerbarleymow]

you do him no favours by addressing him as though he were a member of the privy council

For 8ball 'privy council' probably means the local public lavs, rather than being a member of the political elite.

 

[8ball]

And more importantly, what does leather taste like.

That would be like trying to eat a taxidermied cow.
In Nigeria there are a few dishes involving cow skin.

 

[andysays]

No, we’re plants. Of course we’re fucking animals. We’re apes. We’re carnivores that have chosen to eat a few plants, we have similar physiology to bears, wolves, and lions. We did not evolve to eat plants, as we lack the correct digestive enzymes to break them down and extract nutrients from them. We also lack the bacteria required to synthesise B12, which are present in the guts of almost all herbivores.

I have eaten octopus, I didn’t like it. I have also eaten every single edible part of a cow, including the brain (certified BSE-free), and bone marrow (extremely nutritious is bovine marrow).

We didn't evolve to eat all plants, nor to eat only plants, but to jump from that and claim we didn't evolve to eat plants full stop is frankly ridiculous

 

[Pickman's model]

We didn't evolve to eat all plants, nor to eat only plants, but to jump from that and claim we didn't evolve to eat plants full stop is frankly ridiculous

but it is of a piece with her previous ill-informed posts, among which - my personal favourite - is her claim that the labour party is a communist organisation

 

[8ball]

Octopodes drove down the road with a heavy load
Octopuses argued with the missus and er....
While octipi had a pie and a sigh and wondered why they had to try to say goodbye and lie etc etc etc.
Oooh, I could go on for ages here,

The only actual song I can think of is "Octopus's Garden".
That band did ok.

 

[8ball]

but it is of a piece with her previous ill-informed posts, among which - my personal favourite - is her claim that the labour party is a communist organisation

Not officially, obviously.

 

[Gaia]

(I’m a bit of a Simon Berry fan)

 

[trabuquera]

Just found out that the Latin for octopus is polypus. So you can have octopuses or octopodes, but only polypi.

 

[nogojones]

We'll all end up with an octopus attached to our face like in Alien, and it will serve us right.

Its OK. Our seagul friends will peck them off

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Its OK. Our seagul friends will peck them off

I'm not certain they're very friendly to us either. I'm pretty sure I've been used for target practice at the beach.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm not certain they're very friendly to us either. I'm pretty sure I've been used for target practice at the beach.

By the seagulls or octopuses? They could work together - the gulls driving hapless humans to the sea so the octopuses can attack and eat them.

 

[StoneRoad]

Don't like the taste or the feel/texture of squid nor of octopus.

(the plural of the latter I was taught at school was octopi, but that was a lot of years ago !)