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Category: Cephalopods
Posted on: November 13, 2007 5:57 PM, by PZ Myers
This link is NSFW or for anyone who knows anything about octopus anatomy—it's a couple of nudes with dangerously draped octopuses. I don't mind the nudity but I cringe inside at the thought of where those beaks are.
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Comments
Octopi love to eat crabs.
Posted by: Great White Wonder | November 13, 2007 6:05 PM
What's up with the flesh coloured training bra the bloke seems to have on? I find that more disturbing than the octopus undies.
Just proved there's a fetish out there for everyone. If you don't believe me just google "booger fetish".
Posted by: Bride of Shrek | November 13, 2007 6:12 PM
@#1
Well, now I know what it feels like to clean my sinuses with coke.
Thank you so much.
Posted by: G | November 13, 2007 6:14 PM
His does seem dangerously placed. Hers seems to be missing most of its head in or under, but the beak is not dangerously positioned.
Posted by: Grewgills | November 13, 2007 6:17 PM
I guess I'll find out now whether pictures of boobs are going to set off the IT people in my organisation.
But where's W00t when you need him?
Posted by: Brownian, OM | November 13, 2007 6:24 PM
Oh boy, just had a look around the rest of that site. I'm not sure what's more disgusting, the use of semen as "art" or the "pornscapes" page which demonstrates that, even in artistic porn,there is a case to be had for photoshopping out the odd errant haemerrhoid. Uuuurrgghhh.
Posted by: Bride of Shrek | November 13, 2007 6:24 PM
So they're using octopusses as crotch covers - OK, HOLD THE PRESSES. Did anyone notice the really strange thing? The dude is wearing a MANKINI top.
Any fans of "The Soup" will love this.
Posted by: Jsn | November 13, 2007 6:24 PM
"If you can think of it, there's sex of it on the internet."
Posted by: Siamang | November 13, 2007 6:30 PM
I thought that was a "Mansierre".
Posted by: True Bob | November 13, 2007 6:34 PM
Am I the only one reminded of this classic woodcut print from Japan?
Posted by: Randall | November 13, 2007 6:41 PM
Damnit. I will shoot the next person using the non-word "octopi."
Posted by: gorobei | November 13, 2007 6:43 PM
No, Randall, I doubt you are the only one.
And hey--was that Elvira? No, no--the woman, I mean.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | November 13, 2007 6:44 PM
.....It's a bro!
Posted by: Arren Frank | November 13, 2007 6:48 PM
you know, it's not the octopus near the private parts that freaks me out. It is the DEAD FISH that happens to be an octopus near the private parts that gives me the screaming willies!
Posted by: denise | November 13, 2007 6:54 PM
The lady in the second photo, at least, has her octopus beak-side-up. Slightly less alarming, I suppose.
Posted by: octopod | November 13, 2007 6:56 PM
I agree that the most disturbing part of these photos is the 'dead fish on crotch' part.
In the photo with the girl you can even see what seems to be the bag that they pulled to octopus out of, on the floor beside the table. Either that or it is the largest discarded condom ever.
Posted by: Kenneth McFarlane | November 13, 2007 7:16 PM
I love the comment at the bottom:
"Macché "polipi", quelli son polpi. Ignorantone."
It makes me weirdly happy to know that even in Italy, and even in the face of octopus bikinis, people obnoxiously correct each other's spelling on the internet. It's a nice universal theme.
Posted by: rhian | November 13, 2007 8:34 PM
I know it can be irritating that some people think the plural is "octopi", but getting the message out that it's really "octopodes" is really difficult.
Posted by: Russell Blackford | November 13, 2007 8:46 PM
You mean... it's not octopussies?
;-)
Posted by: Russell | November 13, 2007 8:57 PM
Obligatory octopussy pic:
http://www.sp3ccylad.com/gallery/albums/MashAn1/octopussy.jpg
Posted by: Russell | November 13, 2007 8:58 PM
Cephalopod sex sucks.
Errr... bites.
It's a head foot squirt fetish thing.
Posted by: mayhempix | November 13, 2007 8:58 PM
I prefer "octopodes", myself...
Posted by: SMC | November 13, 2007 9:07 PM
Posted by: Doug | November 13, 2007 9:42 PM
Octopus seems to be a relatively common fetish (NSFW).
Posted by: Tulse | November 13, 2007 11:00 PM
Elvira? Not even close.
Posted by: Hexatron | November 14, 2007 12:07 AM
Bride of Shrek: Neither all the money in the world, nor a gun to my head could ever get me to google "booger fetish."
Posted by: f | November 14, 2007 12:24 AM
Octo-dude looks like Jim Carrey. Which is almost as disturbing as his flesh-colored training bra.
Sadly, the "anticlericale" section was 100% cephalopod-free. I was sort of looking forward to a monsignor-squid mashup.
Posted by: RedMolly | November 14, 2007 2:01 AM
Another example of how the religion of evolutionism promotes beastiality!
Posted by: Pole Greaser | November 14, 2007 7:31 AM
"Macché "polipi", quelli son polpi. Ignorantone."
In Italian "polipi" (plural of "polipo") refers to Cnidarians or to a tumoral tissue growth. That is, nothing to do with "polpi" (octopuses).
Sadly, even dictionaries are being updated so: a sure sign that accuracy is no more fashionable.
BTW, the blog title reads:
Annoyance
I hate blogs, they are the shit of the net
Pyre's comment (the second) is "where are the octopuses' beaks?
Posted by: fcaccin | November 14, 2007 8:43 AM
#14, #16: An octopus is not a fish. Damnit.
Posted by: Nemo | November 14, 2007 9:21 AM
Sorry, my wife doesn't allow me look at NSFW stuff.
Posted by: daenku32 | November 14, 2007 10:19 AM
I love The Soup. I get all my necessary (and also all my completely unneccesary) entertainment news from Joel McHale, and I'm a better person for it.
Posted by: stogoe | November 14, 2007 3:48 PM
Please tell me you're joking.
Posted by: Azkyroth | November 16, 2007 1:31 AM