Right in the kisser.
Ahhh nature and what a wonder it is. From the cute n cuddly pit viper to the mighty giant ground sloth, each and every creature that flies, slithers, crawls, waltzes or swims across this planet is an honest-to-goodness wonder and best/most interesting when they act like people.
Take the octopus, for instance, with its eight legs and big head. Scientists have been studying these marvels for many years and have discovered many interesting things. Most recently, they have discovered octopuses use their eight arms to rage punch fish in the face.
According a just released piece in the academic journal Ecology:
When big blue octopuses (Octopus cyanea), also known as day octopuses, are displeased with their fish partners, they demonstrate their ire by suddenly punching the fish in the head. The octopus lashes out using “a swift, explosive motion with one arm,” in an attack “which we refer to as punching,” Eduardo Sampaio, a Ph.D. student at the University of Lisbon and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior wrote in a new study, continuing, “…exactly like surfers annoyed with interlopers taking their waves. The fish would get pushed to the edge of the group, or would actually leave the group. Sometimes after a while it would return, other times it would not return at all. The octopus would leave the fish alone after displacing it. Despite collaborating with fish sometimes, each partner will always try to maximize its benefits. In the cases where prey is readily available, the octopus seems to use ‘punching’ as a way to control the partner’s behavior in a self-serving way.”
Very fun and we should use these octopuses as teachers.
Speaking of, have you watched My Octopus Teacher yet?
It will punch you in the heart and make you cry.
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what i added to the conversation was infinitely more interesting than your every-chance-you-get (and likely, largely false) self-aggrandizing, name-dropping, and humblebragging. right back at ya, ya anonymous wouldabeen troll. happy solstice.
I don’t know shit about snow, but my buddy in the city built a chalet at the lake and is complaining about shitty sand banks which makes me wonder why he isn’t at the lake.
Usually, he just bails, no complaints, one or the other is good. You got time for a few storms to dump. Enjoy.
jesus christ you’re a fucking blowhard
Used to work in Napa vicinity heaps… hate that drive man. San Jose is always fucked.
Love the jobs once I got through Walnut Creek. Tahoe is a messy zoo, sell bro now.
Don’t think the snow will be good either… shouldn’t say I don’t know, but my buddy there was asking about surf here so… not an endorsement on the snow he waits for all year long.
Ha! Next time I’ll tell the cops I was simply interacting to promote “future collaborative behavior “ 💯
pathetic
We’re isolated here in small town. No covid testing, I’ve been training for social distancing since high school.
Surfing wasn’t social and keeping distance was part of the deal.
Of course I’m too old to be skating, but I can skate. Conundrum.
Why you flying over?
so the waves have been dogshit. no wind for the most part, just pool flat and the sands are not just right anywhere. like weird.
weed store is in Ojai and remembered that the skate park was right there…
drawing lines and speed, let my guard down and over the handle bars onto the flat, no slide. had it “wired” so no need for protection. entire left side of my body is on slow burn and mrs hippy won’t let it go.
cement is fucked.
Proper punch would’ve snapped Chozza’s head off though by looks of things. Googans basically lovingly grasped his face and he went sideways. Need an urgent inquisition into Chozzlos’ fighting abilities. Someone get bitch boy a trainer of some sort.
LOL… thought the same thing, like a stunt double is required.
Fucking trolls
Brutopus Vs. OctoBex
LETS GO
remind me when we’re having beers to tell you the Octopus story.
Bahahahaha! I’d rather not find out.
Another question: If our favorite little slut, Coffey, was crossed with an octopus, what would you get?
I’d say you pretty much nailed it there. Ashole had plenty of time to build up his anger but apparently Charlie’s caress of his beard was too much for him to handle. He probably didn’t want his Hurley Girly Beard Conditioner to be touched by the hands of a heathen.
LGR, do you think if they’d been down a dark alley it would have been different? Obviously Ashton was angry and had been carrying that–I think he held back given the context of the Expo and being surrounded by people? Or do you think that’s as rough as he’d get no matter what?
I do appreciate that Chas knew deep down he deserved it and let Ashton get away with it.
Bro, it was staged.
Highly doubt that one
Not even sure you could call that false crack. More like “open hand to da ear” with an oven mitt on the hand.
Although it’s true I’ve been known to lash out with my fists at rude visiting surfers, nowadays a good tongue-lashing usually does the trick. My fellow local peers like to act neutral, yet they are secretly thrilled, and relish the relative calm that ensues at our reefie, when obnoxious fish are sent away in shame. Of course I’m a smart occtopus, and show due respect when visiting other line-ups, especially in Hawaii.
Better keep those tentacles in check. You do anymore than yell (sometimes just when you yell) and they all the cops and sue your ass. At least they do in the US, as encouraged by your orange, litigious leader.
Which one is Bex and which is Brutus ?
Makes me wonder who’d win out of a snagglepuss vs catweasle bout…
One cough and he’d run
fucking perfect. maybe blow bubbles in that direction? super spreader?
LemooreOctopusRodeo. OctupusBeenThere. ValiantOctopus. OctopusVedina. OctopusinSanDiego. Ben Marcus.
Chassy….. just visited your “competitions” site to see how subscriptions are playing out and guess what?
ASSton doesn’t even have the balls to go for it. Nope, no balls.
It’s now a hybrid of access/exclusivity that mirrors Surflie. Why announce something you are too scared to roll out? Just like the STAB in the dark launch failures. Right as they are about to take off, they hesitate and end up falling like the Inertia.
Somehow they got Albee to go along and promote that worthless payment by letting them carry his interview. Hmmmm, bad move Mr. Layer. Should have given it to these 2 weirdos.