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    Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    You know Fisherman's Wife and a documentary about Squid mating habits are the reason I hate cephalopods. #pablopicasso
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    Hey, compared to the pus oozing mermaid the other week, this kind of 'under da sea' (copyright Disney) scene is outright pleasant!

    I just hope the reMakers of Pirahna take some cues from this print... #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @Jeremy Tapsell: er... what sort of cues? i don't like where you're going with this... #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    I always thought Picasso was inspired by heavy drug use, combined with mixing brown and white booze, and being hit in the back of the head with a brick strapped to a 2x4 fired from a cannon. And nightmares. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    I love Hokusai's work. And i never knew he delved into the erotic arts. Good show, io9. Now I just need to figure out why the Japanese are obsessed with tentacle porn. #pablopicasso
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11/10/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis? #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @Starwatcher: hypothesis! oo oo, i like word games. :) #pablopicasso
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11/10/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: That is the apotheosis of replies. #pablopicasso
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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    11/10/09

    @Starwatcher: I don't think i've ever heard/seen anyone use that phrase outside of my design theory professors! You're a MODERNIST, aren't you?!?! #pablopicasso
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    11/11/09

    @Althestane: Like Popeye said, I yam what I yam. Medernist? I don't know, that could mean a lot of things. Philosophically, I'm neither a traditionalist nor a post-modernist, so yeah, I guess you could say I'm a modernist. #pablopicasso
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    Image of Nasdaf Nasdaf
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    what about Zak Smith's work?

    [www.zaxart.com] #pablopicasso
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    Image of gallahad gallahad
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    It's really not all that surprising that Picasso was inspired by that stuff. Japonisme had been a big thing in French art circles since Impressionism, when Japan opened itself back up to the world. Pretty much every big artist from that era took cues from ukiyo-e works and such.

    In other words, the anime and magna obsession in modern nerd circles is not a new thing. Back then, though, it was taken way more seriously.
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    Image of golddiggersof2033 golddiggersof2033
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    And that's how I spent a year in Osaka without ever eating takoyaki. I like my appetizers sans rape, arigato gozaimasu.

    p.s. I just sat here for 5 minutes trying to decide if I thought the action in this picture is consensual or rape and whether or not I should use the word rape in my comment and what that implies about hentai and my perception and and and my head just exploded. This link helped. #pablopicasso
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/10/09

    @golddiggersof2033: How can you NOT eat takoyaki? Octopus is so very delicious. Especially the suction cups. They're so sweet. #pablopicasso
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    Image of Plague Plague
    11/10/09

    @RoboBagins: Damn right.
    Now I'm hungry. THANKS, Bagins. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @RoboBagins: The suction cups make me shudder and I was too busy trying the whale. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    I'm reasonably certain a copy hangs in Bert Cooper's office on Man Men. #pablopicasso
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/10/09

    @thufir_hawat: Yes, it does. There's also a copy of Atlas Shrugged still on his book case. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @MrPliskin0: @thufir_hawat: Didn't he take them with? #pablopicasso
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/10/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: ...neither of us said anything for the people whom have yet to watch the 13th ep of season 3. But yes, he did.
    I am happy though to see Price go with all of them, and not be hung out to dry. I also liked how Cooper called in Harry (Crane), he has a lot of respect for him I'm sure. I'm glad they are not just 'replacing' people, but moving them on with their lives. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @MrPliskin0: Best episode in a long while. Also glad to see Pryce join the mutiny; that'll teach London to book him passage to India.
    (As to spoliers, it's been two days and we didn't really give anything away -- until this exchange, anyway ;-) #pablopicasso
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/10/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: 'Can't we just take everything?' Then you see that smile on Coopers' face.
    Damn I can't wait till season four... where the hell is my damn time machine? #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    hmm... I would have thought that the tentacles would have more to do with this... #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @Gaucho85: You sound, almost ... disappointed ... :P #pablopicasso
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    Actually the name of this print is not "Dream of the Diving Girl", but rather, "Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @CodenameV: should be dream of the Diving Octopus. #pablopicasso
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/10/09

    In reply to Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]
    This explains so much about the Japanese and their tentacle porn. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Seriously - they have some real issues. #pablopicasso
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/10/09

    @NonElitist: yes, most of them steming from the missionary movements of western europeans as they attempted to convince the japanese, indeed all their colonies, to be ashamed of their natural anatomy just like old world europe. #pablopicasso
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/10/09

    @tetracycloide: If that's a "missionary movement," those folks have gotten a bad rap, position-wise and all. #pablopicasso
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    Image of Zack Stentz Zack Stentz
    11/10/09

    @tetracycloide:
    Except Japan was never colonized by the West and they kicked out Christian missionaries in pretty short order. Sometimes cultures have their own weird tics without any help from Europe. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @Zack Stentz: just because they were, as a nation and a culture, more resistant to colonization than their neighbors does not mean they developed without any judeo-christian meddling. there was an underground christian movement in japan in spite of the many edicts that forbade it practice. #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @tetracycloide: Dude, what alternate universe did you watch on TV last night?

    And as far as I've seen over the years on their TV, videos, books and magazines, the Japanese culture doesn't have the word "ashamed" in their vocabulary.

    Thanks for the revisionist try, though... #pablopicasso
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    11/10/09

    @NonElitist: i'm not revising anything. you're the one unwilling to accept it for what it is without condeming it acording to the practicies of your own culture. who told you octopus sex was a 'real issue' when depicted in print? what's wrong with being unashamed about what someone does or does not find titilating?

    you seem to be under the mistaken impression i'm saying the octopus on woman action is a result of western influences, this could not be further from the truth. your culture is so ingrained within you you've assumed i'm blaming the west for the extream fetishisation when i'm actual endorsing it and condeming those that would deride it as 'wierd' or 'unsual' or 'something to be ashamed of.'
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    Image of NonElitist NonElitist
    11/10/09

    @tetracycloide: sorry, too many big words... my little brain can't handle. Your essay above proves you are THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE! #pablopicasso
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/10/09

    @NonElitist: if it's merely an argumentum verbosium then revealing it as such should be a simple exercise and yet i see no such redress in your post. in fact it appears to have no point at all. #pablopicasso
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    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    11/10/09

    @tetracycloide: I heart you for that comment. Human sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of. #pablopicasso
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    Image of NonElitist NonElitist
    11/11/09

    @tetracycloide: Exactly. I reiterate: YOU ARE THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE!.

    ... now go away. #pablopicasso
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