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The work around I do is save them on my phone, then sligly edit them, e.g. do a little crop on the side then resave then it seems to work for whatever reason.
How me and my best lab buddy spent our summer blowing the research budget.
- by Oscar T. Octopus
Who doesn't want to cuddle on ecstasy?
My cat, always. That little fucker just wants to dance.
Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.
Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??
Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.
Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.
The crack spider's bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.
That's a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass...
Scientists
Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!
She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.
Ironically her "method" did start to show some success
The same person who'd hug a tripping octopus.
You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.
"the lab's pet octopus fucked with us in a type of fuckery as yet undocumented: part 726a" just doesn't have the same oomph
An octopus stole the pixels, huh
*octopodes (yes I know octopuses is also correct but the technically correct version sounds cooler)
Octopodes nuts
I kinda love how this only works if you know the correct pronunciation. For those that don't, it's ock-top-uh-deez
I use all forms of octopi interchangeably just to piss off "linguists".
Edit:linguists -> "linguists"
I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they're painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.
I meant to put the linguist at the end in quotes my bad on that. I was trying to refer to the self styled reddit "linguists" that you would see trying to correct people for using the wrong form of then/than where it was really not appropriate.
Linguists are probably the least likely people to get upset at someone using the "wrong" word. they might pull out their notebook and start asking you questions though
Octopi, octopuses, and octopods are all valid pluralizations of octopus in American English.
Conversely, cacti is the only valid pluralization of cactus.
Donβt worry, language itself pissed us off long before you did.
octopiussi
That one Merriam-Webster video that did the rounds on this topic years ago seems to have been retracted. I don't think "technically correct" is right, since it is never really used, but more "arguably could have been". And, as was even stated in that video, if you say octopedes nobody will know what you're on about.
The video has been taken down, but they've published this article which ultimately recommends either "octopuses" or "octopi", and reaffirms that if you say octopodes nobody will know what it means. Except octopodes nuts.
Well, we can't have all the octopodes nuts having their secret octopodes (related?) discussions with their own secret language like the word "octopods", now can we?
We can't keep letting them get away with it!
*Octopussies
Only Japanese ones
Depends on the language. Current standardized American English overwhelmingly list adds -s/-es to make a plural noun. So βoctopusesβ would be technically correct with βoctopodesβ and βoctopiβ also accepted.
If youβre writing Latin, youβd want octopi instead. If youβre writing Greek: octopodes.
But English is a democratic language, so feel free to vote often and early by using your preferred version.
at this point i feel the only sensible answer is to use the most nonsensical form that still sounds normal
Octothingies is my favorite
To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it's actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you'd still want octopodes
Octopi?
Dont you dare use a Latin pluralization of a Greek root word!
I'll use whatever pluralodes I feel like!
Wow, look at all these plurapodes
There's lodes of them!
Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus itβs language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
You want 8 pies? What?
Title fixed.