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If you ever feel like you’ve seen it all, done it all, bought it all, then you clearly haven’t spent enough time on the internet. We might spend way more time online than your average Panda, but even we get surprised by some of the things we stumble across. To say that these make us do a double-take would be a disservice: there’s a third take and a fourth one, too.

One page that really caught our attention is the ‘Yup That Exists’ project, found on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and elsewhere. ‘Yup That Exists’ documents all the bizarre and unusual things that “you never knew existed.” From strange facts and products that will raise more eyebrows than we can count to wonderfully weird things that you’ll want to share with your friends.

Scroll down for the best of ‘Yup That Exists,’ and upvote your fave pics, dear Pandas. If you have a moment or two, we’d love to hear which of these things you were most surprised by. So drop on by the comment section.

More info: Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | YupThatExists.com

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nzambi matee — a nairobi-based 29-year-old entrepreneur and inventor — is the founder of a startup that recycles plastic waste into bricks that are stronger than concrete. called gjenge makers ltd, her company initiated following the development of a prototype machine that turns discarded plastic into paving stones

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The ‘Yup That Exists’ project is very popular online. It has branched out to all the major social media channels and dug its roots deep. For instance, on Facebook, it’s amassed a whopping 711.6k followers.

Meanwhile, the ‘Yup That Exists’ project has over 401k followers on Instagram. Whereas on TikTok, it has over 554.8k followers and has collected over 14.8 million likes across all of its videos. Say what you like, but strangeness clearly sells, especially when paired with interesting information. And the entire project has won over the hearts of many an internet user.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing! I love that they thought about how to be inclusive here. What a great project.

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However, you describe the things in this list—peculiar, odd, downright bizarre, or even aesthetically challenged—one fact remains: they’re eye-catching. They stand out. They hook you and reel you in because they’re so far away from the norm.

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Earlier, Bored Panda spoke about this with Swiss design experts Jonas Nyffenegger and Sébastien Mathys who run the Ugly Design Instagram project. According to them, they have a love for ugliness that keeps growing, meaning the line between ugliness and beauty gets blurred. And that helps content stand out from the crowd.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or you could decorated a tree in your yard if you have one. Does not have to be indoors.

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Eiram
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It assumes that there are forms of life that are not sentient (aware of one's own existence) that are ok to be cooked alive. I feel all life is equally valuable, if not equal tasting. Respect the life given.

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C. Wade
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm pretty sure these are the only things that get cooked alive apart from clams and such but those aren't exactly sentient.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope you are including research animals who are tortured for as long as they are useful and then killed

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Phil Vaive
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While we're at it, can we just make eating octopuses illegal? They have the intelligence of 4 year old kids

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Karis Ravenhill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every kill should be done as quickly, cleanly, painlessly and with as little trauma as possible, regardless of the entity's species. Even if I have to kill an ant, I do it as quickly as possible.

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Alicia GriffonLady
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We always gave our cattle a bucket of grain and shot them in the brain while they ate. Dying happy and oblivious seems like the best way to go. Kind of a way to thank them. Far better than being eaten alive like in nature.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always hated the thought of boiling anything alive. I love lobster, but would never order one to be boiled like that.

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Buren
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a lot of satisfaction when I see people being choked when they eat octopus alive. Plus point if it kills them.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The video with that girl crying because she was hurt by a live octopus she was trying to eat is very satisfying!!! I have no empathy for her! She deserved it

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I accept that people will choose to eat animals and that's their decision, but I cannot tolerate the barbaric practices of eating animals alive or killing them slowly, painfully or with fear (which is most of them, to be honest). I'm glad this law is in place.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not condoning boiling any of these but this law only exists because people feel guilty because they have to do the actual killing and they think about it while its happening. The UK is one of the world's top pork consumers of the world and the intelligence of hogs is pretty well documented. The typical slaughter process is to either stun the animal with an electrical baton or carbon dioxide. While its still alive, its throat is slit to bleed out, put on hook, and sent to a water bath to scald the hair off. Due to the pure volume of animals that have to be processed, it is not uncommon for the hog to finally die from the live boiling. I went to a rural HS that had us all work a day in the local plant to see if it was something we'd like to do. I'm not a vegetarian so I have no moral high ground to claim but its hypocritical to only outlaw something because you don't want to watch.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was brilliant of your school to do. It would be beneficial for everyone to do this for a day. Meat-eater or vegetarian, we should all be aware of where our food comes from and what the processes are.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was 11 years old when I first saw how crabs were cooked. I haven't eaten one from that day to this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After watching "My Octopus Teacher" and learning just how intelligent octopi are, I felt rubbish for eating "pulpo gallego" (Galician style octopus) on my prior trips to Spain.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So is this going to include animals used in research? So you can to continue to torture these creatures forever, but you cannot kill and eat them. Another utter hypocrisy by the human race.

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Lisa Norman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree, but at least this is a welcome start. Better than nothing at all. Hopefully more will follow, we have to keep campaigning and making the plight of other affected creatures more visible.

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Amanita Virosa
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was interesting about a store lobster. leon is his name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sI7WveN7vk

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Dorothy Parker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hurts my heart. Octopi are unquestionably intelligent and able to reason.

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KimB
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love lobster but I just could never boil them alive...I quickly behead them first with a very sharp knife so they (hopefully) don't feel any pain

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Dee Daniels
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about foie gras? Will they still force feed ducks supper fatty smoothies via a large tube shove down its throat to its stomach, and slaughter it later for its "delicious" fatty liver? Google "duck gavage."

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Shane S
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cultures that eat bugs, cook them alive. Shellfish are just bugs of the sea, to me. Octopi not so much. Regardless, I’m all for laboratory-grown non-sentient meat. I’ll be the first in line to purchase it when it comes out.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll develop a taste for warm human flesh before eating bugs on purpose.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait until they realize all animals are sentient and you shouldn't eat them.

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Christina Uhlir
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is awesome!!! Where is the rest of the world? Now you can see how evil human species is - not all of us, of course. Where do you stand on the issue of horrific cruelties to any sentient creatures? What's on your plate?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes!! Finally!! No sentient beings ought to undergo that torture. Kick me please if you don't follow.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has been a ong time coming - but when are people going to accept that ALL creatures deserve to be treated kindly and with respect. It's appalling that there is still so little regard for other forms of life.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's gonna cause some problems for some dinners. Love lobster and never like to think how they are prepared. Gotta mention this. Light a fire under any living thing and it will want to get away, except for a certain x-man.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

About friggin time. How are we so stupid, we don't know all animals are sentient? That makes zero sense!

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Claudia Hey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally, cause how can someone do this, and hear them screaming, suffering?

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Tamara Kroonen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If humans were sentient beings, they would never boil another being alive in the first place.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sentience is overrated. Cruelty is cruelty, whether perpetrated on a person or a walking stick.

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Brendan Roberts
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was absolutely horrified when I found out that lobsters are boiled alive. Such an excruciating death. I can't imagine the pain! Thank god the laws are changing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was walking near SF's Fisherman's Wharf when my German Shepherd started freaking out. I realized he could hear the sound of the crabs or lobsters getting boiled alive, and he was terrified. Normally he is a mellow dog who doesn't exhibit anxiety or distress.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in New England, so lobster is huge here. But I don't know anyone who still does the "boil it alive" thing...not since I was a kid in the '70s.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't have a centralized nervious, system like we do. There's not really a clean way to kill them.

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Lisa Norman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do they desperately try to escape a boiling pot then, if they don't feel pain? Google the hotpot crab escape from China where the crab bites off its own arm/leg to escape. Awful. I can't believe humans are so inhumane and callous as to laugh at such a thing. We are really the lowest form of species on this planet.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about keeping them in itty bitty tanks for the express reason to cook or eat the poor buggers alive!

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually they can sit there many many months... being cold-blooded they keep living. See the awesome series "keeping a grocery store lobster as a pet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sI7WveN7vk where he starts buy buying one of those --- for months, its pincers are so athropied from sitting in his sad tank that he cannot grip, and barnacles have grown. In later videos you see how the lobster normally obsessively cleans each bodypart all day long (except the top of his back he cannot reach).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Three cheers for the Brits...this is a practice that has always made me ill. I don't eat seafood but it's still bothers me that this is done.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people who think like this are so brilliant that someday it will probably be illegal to trim your bushes because they are now sentient beings also and there will be more soon; just wait to see what they have to say about grass and weeds. Weeds should be respected to be inclusive.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gonna cook some lobsters alive weekend. I'll listen for the screams.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There needs to be a “sentient, but delicious” category. It should be okay to acknowledge both traits.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a difficult philosophical issue. We live on Planet Earth, where one creature eats another---often alive.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to say that it is painful to watch what happens when these animals are boiled alive. Torture is unforgivable. Better to learn how to put an end to them prior to throwing them into hot water.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hopefully, we will still be allowed to bomb and shoot human (sentient) beings.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Took a while though, didn't it. Makes me happy to have my own understanding brain, rather than a university degree to work out the cruelty aspect of life. I knew this was agonising murder as a child! Just plain simple logic! Prawns, and shrimp are also mistreated cruelly.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have no doubt these rules will be flaunted. Humans value their stomachs more than they value the creatures of this world. :(

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Robert Ham
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In honor of your sentience, we'll kill you before we cook you. You're so welcome

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Ginny Swart
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

about time too.You can hear the lobsters scream as they die, but no one listens

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't the ability to perceive a threat to self a sign of sentience? Just because an animal doesn't perceive "self" the same way a human does (reflection recognition) doesn't mean they lack sentience.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why cant just people skip these in their food menu.... there are other good things to eat

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Joanna Werman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Octopus are beheaded live and their arms and tentacles cut into while they're still moving.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess the UK will never eat mussels again. Cooking dead ones is a fast-track to food poisoning.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a f****d up practice as is, hence their high pitch screams of agony.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it is cruel to boil them alive but here is why. Lobsters and other shellfish have harmful bacteria naturally present in their flesh. Once the lobster is dead, these bacteria can rapidly multiply and release toxins that may not be destroyed by cooking. https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/why-are-lobsters-cooked-alive-and-do-they-feel-pain/#:~:text=Lobsters%20and%20other%20shellfish%20have,by%20cooking%20the%20lobster%20alive.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Squids and Octopus, perhaps, but LOBSTERS?! They are the sea's roach!!! All-that and you can STILL purchase an Apple Product (such as an iPhone) made by Slave and Child Labor out of Communist China!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think cooking an animal live is so cruel! It breaks my heart.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whhaaayy, I have always hated this cooking method and have always refused to touch anything that is boiled alive, so there!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think anything should be boiled or eaten alive. It just seems wrong.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact: Hitler was big on animal rights, and prohibited live boiling crabs and lobsters. Perspective is everything! O-o

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the word everyone is looking for is sapient... most things that are alive are sentient, including plants and trees.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you are calling them sentient than you cant eat them, not just kill them before cooking. The animals we do eat know whats up and arent considered sentient.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so you have to be sentient to feel pain.. no I believe you that is "air escaping"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mostly they are placed in the freezer and then a knife to the brain

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stupid. They're food. Pure and simple, lesser creatures.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You ever see one open a jar to get food out? Or climb out of its tank when nobody's watching, crawl across the floor to another tank to grab out a fish, then crawl back to its own tank with the fish (caught on film). You, dude, are the stupid one if you can't see observation and awareness of multiple environments, calculation, action, and self-sufficient brilliance in THAT.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've attended many a crawfish boil and they die as soon as they hit the water.

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Christina Uhlir
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do an experiment, Juliette, you try if you would die as soon as you hit the boiling water. Not a good way to die, isn't it?

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Mya Lugar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about to eat occtopus/squid alive, as in some Asian restraunts?

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Tom Lippert
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't care how they cook the lobster weather it's alive when steaming or not. What I do care about is having enough butter to eat it with.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its food. Thats how this planet works. Things eat each other things. Hell, a PLANT eats flys. is a fly not sentient then? Is that plant sentient? Its eating a live thing, very very slowly too. ITS FOOD

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nature is cruel, you don't have to be, Chris. Eating meat, dairy, eggs sickens your body (arthritis, diabetes, heart diseases, cancers) ......that's natural as well.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never knew this was a law, I'd always just assumed that if it eats, sleeps, breathes and shits then it's aware.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

smart or dumb..still taste great with butter...vegan assholes

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The law isn't that you can't eat them, it's that you can't kill them inhumanely. Hopefully you're ok with more humane killing.

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only humans, gibbons, chimps, & gorillas are sentient... what nonsense...

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aren't lobsters poisonous, if u dont cook them alive? something abt killing them 1st releases a toxin. unless u boil them alive. idk a waitress at red lobster told me this forever ago.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're not poisonous but they contain bacteria that can easily lead to food poising. Once a lobster dies the bacteria multiplies rapidly, hence cooking them while they are still alive is the easiest way to avoid food poisoning.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, you can read books in Minecraft? Sorry, I've never played. Mostly Nintendo games and point-and-click adventures on Steam.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, that's the first time I have seen someone putting a wool product to use in order to cool down.

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how it works: they carefully prune the branches of Kitayama cedar trees, ensuring the remaining shoots grow straight upwards. this results in round and straight timber (taruki) like the trees in the picture. harvesting takes around 20 years and the trees can grow up to 100 shoots at a time. (source: greenqueen.com.hk)

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It's all well and good until a tiny piece of cloth gets caught in it and stops it dead. Captain has to dive down and spend 15 minutes trying to get it unstuck by going backwards a bit and forwards a bit.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Epic!!!! (duh, reread the title....owe it to the 1 am Bored panda browsing) I used oatmeal boxes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate things like that and I don't even smoke. I fully support smoking bans in public places where your smoke can harm others but what I do with my body is not the business of a nanny state government.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the same with the Youth Hostel at the Rocks in Sydney! Not only can you see the historical dig site underneath, but there are glass cases in the common room displaying various artefacts.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not ''to another city'', it's to Lublin, the very city where the Polish Lithuanian alliance treaty has been signed, inaugurating 400 years of union between the two countries

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chuan-Bin Chung is an art lecturer at the Shu-Te University of Taiwan giving Anatomy of Arts and Painting Skill classes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All is nice and fun during the day. Running into one in dark is a whole new story. 😬

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This must've taken quite an effort to make, even the details are all there. I love it!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The books will soon be in the British Library, to join the rest of the Parthanon in the British Museum ;o)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah it was a twitter or fb account or something and programmed to read the comments and tags from other people and learn human behaviour from there - they made the mistake of telling people this mf existed 😂

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