Gibberings CXIV: The nuts are acceptable here all year round

[jancrow]

I absolutely love Aquariums, when I was living in Plymouth I went to the local Aquarium there after dropping four or five blotters, it was amazing just tripping out looking at all the wonderful creatures, unfortunately there were lots of school children on that day and they annoyed me so I left after a while, could have stayed all day.

This happened to me too, minus the acid ... fuckers. I paid a fortune to go to the London Aquarium and it was full of groups of little monsters surging through shouting, banging on the tanks, shoving me out of the way and most disturbingly snapping things on their phones and charging on rather than stopping, looking, observing, thinking. Cunts.

I remember having this really intense eye contact with an octopus, it was probably all in my head but I reckon we came to an understanding that day. Decided I would stop eating octopus that day, have tried not to have it since.

I have also stopped eating octopus based on watching one for a while, mad! I'd read quite a lot about their intelligence and apparent displays of emotion beforehand but in the flesh it seemed beautiful and sensitive and I just went bang off it as a food, loved it before. Squid are just their dumb cousins, cuttlefish are even worse.

 

[Mental Kenny]

Octupus is another of my fave seacreatures. Amazing things is octopuses.

I think they have some kinda aquarium-type thingy round here somewhere (I'm quite near the coast). Have heard it's fuckin' atrocious though. Unlikely to be shark or octopus. Perhaps a stray mackeral or maybe a tin of pilchards or summat.

You're in Wales right? If you happen to be down in Devon, the Plymouth one is pretty decent, I had a uni discount back then so I don't know how much it costs to go in these days, it's pretty large, they have a Tiger shark and quite a few other interesting tanks, pretty much the most interesting thing in Plymouth apart from the distillery.

The one here in Melbourne is great but not worth the 35 bucks entrance fee, I know it costs a lot to maintain a place like this but really it's just too much.

Jancrow: I agree schoolchildren are a scourge, they should only allow them in on specific days, they completely spoil the experience, feral little fuckers, it's the same in museums as well. I believe I read somewhere that octopuses are one of the only animals to be self-aware. They are amazing creatures

 

[Ceres]

Yep, get the schoolchildren out, free up our aquariums for tripping adults :D

 

[jancrow]

Octupus is another of my fave seacreatures. Amazing things is octopuses.

That's brilliant, really good, cheers.

I agree schoolchildren are a scourge, they should only allow them in on specific days, they completely spoil the experience, feral little fuckers, it's the same in museums as well.

Zacly, little wankers. I actually really like kids but some no-kids days at aquariums / museums / galleries would be a really good idea. Maybe just no groups of schoolkids because they're fine in small numbers. I had my ipod but couldn't shut them out at all, lasted four hours or so despite that. I remember feeling very bad about the giant turtles, they didn't look like they were having much fun.

 

[BlindHelperMonkey]

whats it with builders today, theyre below me too, hommerin fuck into sommat since 8am. bastards

 

[Shambles]

Always bang on topic me - Shark vs Octopus

PS: In builder news, got another one in now. Dunno what he'd doing. Boxing in the bath, I think. He looks like he's not old enough to be out of school though. Man I'm getting fuckin' old

 

[badandwicked]

Amazing things is octopuses.

That's brilliant, really good, cheers.

Yep 3 minutes well spent, thanks Sham

 

[jancrow]

Always bang on topic me - Shark vs Octopus

That's great, but the narrator really needs to die. And they need to get a bit more footage instead of replaying shot after shot to pad out the atrocious script!

 

[Shambles]

I thought the narration was kinda hilarious meself. But worthwhile for a bit o' octo on shark action.

Saw a documentary on that mimic octopus a while back. Amazing creature. Sent me off on a mini octrobinge and decided I wanted to study 'em as they were clearly made of magic and pixie dust. Then I ran outta MXE and decided they probably weren't.

 

[Mental Kenny]

MXE and documentaries are a match made in heaven, watched an entire season of Ancient Aliens on that, didn't too many good things to my alredy messed vision of the world

 

[Shambles]

Ancient Aliens got way too silly way too soon. Not that it started off exactly credible but the last few series were fuckin' atrocious. Albeit inna somewhat complusive stylee. Ancient Aliens Debunked hopefully put it out of its misery.

Having said that, the latter would probably be less entertaining on MXE.

 

[Ceres]

hahaha I watched half an episode of that, it was just absurd. Amazing what some people will believe. I mean obviously the dinosaurs got wiped out by aliens in ufos, any idiot can tell that by looking at some jungle carvings.

 

[Myshkin]

Boxing in the bath, I think.

What would the Marquess of Queensberry have to say about that, I wonder?

 

[Shambles]

What would the Marquess of Queensberry have to say about that, I wonder?

Ha!

(my whale nob gag was better though )

 

[Mental Kenny]

hahaha I watched half an episode of that, it was just absurd. Amazing what some people will believe. I mean obviously the dinosaurs got wiped out by aliens in ufos, any idiot can tell that by looking at some jungle carvings.

To be honest I've read Zacharia Sitchin and Von Daniken, some of their theories do kind of make sense to me, it's just that the tv serie was dumbed down and a tad too extreme.

I do believe that we are the outcome of advanced genetic engineering by aliens though, I mean in a way, perhaps we are the aliens.

 

[Shambles]

^ Why would we be advanced genetic engineering by aliens? We're not really all that advanced. The standard idea that we're just upright, hairless apes who got good at making tools makes far more sense. And is backed by vasty amounts of actual evidence. I love a bit o' Sitchin/von Danniken and the like but as entertainment surely? It takes all of five minutes research to disprove virtually every claim they make about anything.

hahaha I watched half an episode of that, it was just absurd. Amazing what some people will believe. I mean obviously the dinosaurs got wiped out by aliens in ufos, any idiot can tell that by looking at some jungle carvings.

And Bigfoot is actually an alien, along with any and all other vaguely strange phenomena (real or imagined) throughout history. All historical figures and events are clearly references to aliens too, of course. In fact everything is just aliens. According to ancient aliens theorists, as they say. As they say every other fuckin' sentence in that series.

 

[Mental Kenny]

 

[Shambles]

I suspect the funky-headed nobber is the prime cause of the uberstupid of the latter series. The man can barely complete a sentence without contradicting himself. And he has that really annoying trait of patronising the fuck outta indiginous and ancient people that always leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth that's common in pretty much all ancient alien stuff.

 

[Ceres]

yeah that carving from the jungle does look a bit like a representation of the local moths that are found here, but actually it's a design of a plane, and we even built one and proved it can fly by making a model one with aerodynamic surfaces like a plane (or a moth).

 

[Mental Kenny]

You guys don't dare insult Tsoukalicious, I'd go gay for that guy