I dont value being alive enough to eat ppl
― Lamp, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
you say that now
― the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'm pretty sure the industrialized food chain has made cannibals of us all in very fractional ways.there's some food guidelines for insect parts allowed in veggies/fruits, but there should also be guidelines for allowable human body parts.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
It's not the fact of being alive that would make you eat people, it's the fact of starving to death. You don't just disappear in a puff of smoke, you die a long, lingering, painful death.
― emil.y, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
dont we all?
― Lamp, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Poll needs a 3rd "Stephen King's Survivor Type" option - would you eat your own body parts if you had a big enough pile of cocaine to get you through the butchering :D
but I think, honestly, my answer would be yes. If I was hungry enough I'd kill and eat all of you. I just wouldn't eat your placenta.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
[spoiler] they taste just like lady fingers! [/spoiler]
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
more curious about the people who think they just absolutely couldn't do it, even if it was someone who was already dead. seems like an underestimation of what truly facing death by starvation would be like. but i'm pretty sure there were people in the donner party who refused to partake and died of starvation.
the real hitch in this scenario is refusing to eat people means you are essentially volunteering to be eaten after you die. so your moral stance is just you turning into a cartoon cooked turkey in everyone else's eyes.
― rob, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
nah lamp, some people get hit in the back of the head w/ a sharpened coconut while they're not looking and cooked over an improvised campfire
― the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
neither slow nor painful
I am p sure I could eat someone who is already dead. Obv can't say what I would do, but I have to believe that I wouldn't kill someone who wasn't already dead.
Tried to think about whether I could eat my cats in a is,lar situation but got too sad and had to stop thinking about it.
The real question thoughts whether you would cut off and eat your own extremities to survive. Xp!!!!
― carl agatha, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
u dont know what happens before that coconut
― Lamp, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
Is,lar = similar
― carl agatha, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
what if the situation was if you were offered human meat by a culture that deems it extremely rude not to eat it, would you eat it? like REALLY rude, it would really hurt their feelings.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Starvation is definitely slow. An average westerner could survive at least a month, if not more, on water alone. As for pain, not so much, if you only consider the starvation in itself. However, you would grow very weak and could easily succumb at the end by being pecked to death by crows, or something similarly gruesome.
― Aimless, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
sure, why not
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty good at carving up a chicken into parts. Butchering a human seems daunting but I think I could manage.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
"The Savage Mouth" by Komatsu is a horrific tale that describes the insane side of a man who is overly intellectual and who tries to know his unexplicable self by eating his body.
^^ highly recommended to all fans of clive barker, etc
― the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i just think in certain contexts, we're all capable and to some extent do eat human-derived product, so the trick to eating human meat in a survival situation is to alter the context enough so that it's comfortable.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I would eat people before eating my cats, definitely.
― emil.y, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
(And I don't even have a cat at the moment, just on principle)
― emil.y, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
what's the cutest animal you guys would eat? rabbits, pigs, lambs?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, yes, and yes
― Jeff, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
zooey deschanel? butters from south park?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it's about the cuteness, really. More the companionship. Though cats are incredibly cute.
― emil.y, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=cutest%2Banimal&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hkB_T9OLG6egiALh1LDeCA&biw=1178&bih=723&sei=iEB_T66HPIatiALDusDBAw
which of these animals would you NOT eat
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
personally, this one gets my vote:
http://www.animal-forum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/spiderc.jpg
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
i believe some so-called "cute animals" actually routinely engage in cannibalism
http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2009/09/puppy_nose_bite.jpg
― the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
i bet there's a weird inflection point where if you've actually decided to eat one, the animal's cuteness now works against it.like if you had to eat ethan hawke or willem dafoe (i dunno if dafoe was in alive, i just think he'd taste really gamy and scaly.)
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
how much does a lb of flesh go for these days anyway?
― the late great, Friday, April 6, 2012 1:53 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Check ManBeef.com.
― challoped potatoes (j.lu), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
EASILY
― balls, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
Would you kill the dog or the annoying group member first?
I know my answer.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 30 April 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
every time you are swallowing your saliva you are engaging in cannibalism THINK ABOUT IT
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT YOUR BOOGERS
p. sure i'd just leap into a crevasse -- i'm a shitty cook anyway
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
i have enough trouble rationalizing continued existence even before factoring friend-meat into the equation
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
no, I always keep a Clif bar in my backpack anyway.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 30 April 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
not sure i'd even need to be starving, if they were already dead and cooked nicely. if they were a member of the group that i didn't like, it would even be a handy cover for just, y'know, killing them.
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Monday, 30 April 2012 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
best option would be to survive a fiery plane crash that happens to cook your fellow passengers amirite?
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
does soylent green count? soylent green is people btw.
― fishermen are coveted by whores & stoners (Pillbox), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
SPOILERS
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
ffs mods can we get that poster deleted that isn't even out over here yet
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
not into killing other people - who determines who goes first, etc. is a fucked up process I would refuse to participate in.
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, April 6, 2012 5:18 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ you, my friend, are going first.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
i wrote a ten-minute play about cannibalism in lol college.
the central question that i have, as a skinny dude, is whether or not i'd be more likely to be eaten first or less likely. on one hand, i would be skinny and weak in the first place and when instincts turned primal and angry burly dudes started flashing their canines at each other, i'd probably go down quickly. on the other hand, no one would want to eat me because it would be all bony.
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
if you were a brony nobody would eat you because you would be all brony
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
save derpy, eat a brony
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I think the answer to your question, ZS, turns on whether we're eating people who die naturally (in which case you'd get et) or killing people to eat them (in which case I would).
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
my haunches look srsly delicious, i've decided.
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Monday, 30 April 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
rip darraghmac he was eaten for his delicious haunches
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
brb gonna start a ‘which longpig would u eat’ poll
― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
lol these poll results are v revealing
― crüt, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
At least five ILXors are liars.
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
Poll is eight years old, those five have probably been gobbled up by now.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link