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Would you eat someone to stay alive?

  • 30-10-2012 2:10am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭


    We'll just use the scenario from the film Alive
    Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash. There is also a kilo of Afghan Hashish on board and everyone has been smoking and have the munchies bad

    ^^ If you were on that freezing cold mountain surrounded by your Uruguayan team mates, starving, stoned and with no access to Subway or Supermacs, would you eat a pound of Jose's flesh to sustain yourself? Poll to follow.

    Personally I wouldn't. Imagine if you were rescued and got home, I'd say you'd get some dirty looks off people in your local - "look Jim, that lads a cannibal".

    Would you become a cannibal? 103 votes

    Nom Nom ( aye )
    0% 0 votes
    Nay
    87% 90 votes
    I'm a vegetarian
    10% 11 votes
    I would need to be in that situation to decide.
    1% 2 votes


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Personally I wouldn't. Imagine if you were rescued and got home, I'd say you'd get some dirty looks off people in your local - "look Jim, that lads a cannibal".

    So you'd be worried about being given the cold shoulder then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    If it's true humans taste like chicken, then yes.


    God, I love chicken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,411 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    life or death situation with dead bodies, id say i would, wouldnt kill anyone though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Kia_Kaha


    You can't really answer that unless you've been put in such a situation. I'd like to think I wouldn't but I think if my life depended on it I probably would. Then again, if I've run out of ham I give the cat a suspicious look.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Yeah id say so if i was desperate and there was nothing else to eat, i don't think it'd be that bad really, we eat dead animals every day and its the same thing.

    I think i would need some sort of sauce with it , the same way that plain chicken isn't that tasty without sauce.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    That was a great film. Made me think the same thing.
    I honestly don't think you could say one way or the other until in that situation.
    I can't stomach eating loads of stuff, not because of how they taste, but more the thoughts of them, so I can't imagine being able to eat a person - especially one I knew.
    But at the same time - that instinct to do anything to survive is probably the strongest instinct inbuilt in us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    So you'd be worried about being given the cold shoulder then?

    I'm not sure I could carry the cannibal tag well but then again it would be a good nickname to have if you were on the national rugby team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    I can barely cook beans, there's no hope of me managing a whole person.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 179 ✭✭King Of Wishful Thinking


    My name is Federico Aranda, and I will return.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I'd eat them for the absolute craic.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    It all depends
    What sauce do I get to use and can I deep fry them?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    I'd eat their craic.

    That's sick :mad:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    Wonder how an eyeball would taste? One good chomp and it would burst like a balloon Id say. Id say the lung would taste good but wouldnt like one of a smoker


  • Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Fecky the Ninth


    Are we talking about eating Lindsay Lohans pimply kabab ?




    Yes,yes I would! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    brummytom wrote: »
    If it's true humans taste like chicken, then yes.


    God, I love chicken.

    This makes no sense. Would you not expect it to be more like other red meat?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I said yes but depends whether part of the scenario is taking a heavy stone and bashing their brains in in order to access their tasty tasty flesh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,136 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Eat or be eaten :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Does it have to be under extreme circumstances? If offered, I would taste a person whenever.

    I'm adventurous with food :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    I said yes but depends whether part of the scenario is taking a heavy stone and bashing their brains in in order to access their tasty tasty flesh.

    This is a good point. If the person is already dead then it's an easy decision but if you had to murder a friend or family member......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    I have to say that I'm surprised with the results so far. It's interesting to know that most of you would have no bother tucking into your fellow man If he succumbed to the freezing cold. I blame it on the Chinese takeaways we have over here, half of us probably are cannibals.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Does it have to be under extreme circumstances? If offered, I would taste a person whenever.

    I'm adventurous with food :)

    Someones dressing up as a zombie Wednesday night....I hope!


  • Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭zuzuzu





    "And Tony's all like, ah get off me, I'm not even dead yet":D


  • Registered Users Posts: 36 Lexe


    Hmmm well if I thought there was a good chance I'd be rescued then maybe.. but if you're totally ****ed then I prob wouldn't bother!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    Katy Perrys fun bags could feed the world for eternity!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    Did they really have all that hash with them? Surely they could have found a Bigfoot hanging round the joint, and done a deal with him for his fur coat. Keep the cold off anyway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭tedobrien98


    zuzuzu wrote: »

    "And Tony's all like, ah get off me, I'm not even dead yet":D

    FVCK!!! I was about to post that :pac:


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭paddy kerins


    areyawell wrote: »
    Wonder how an eyeball would taste? One good chomp and it would burst like a balloon Id say. Id say the lung would taste good but wouldnt like one of a smoker

    Smoked lung sounds pretty good to me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    Its 03:10 and at this very moment in time, I would have no reservations about eating some people, simply because of their verbal diahorrea and total disregard...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭cafecolour


    I think I could eat someone already dead if my life depended on it. I wouldn't up and kill someone to eat 'cause I was hungry. Honestly I don't even think I could even kill say, my dog, and eat him just because I was hungry.

    I'd guess that human meat tastes horrible. We generally eat herbivores - the meat of meat eaters generally isn't very tasty.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    If I missed breakfast and it was slightly chilly outside, I'd be inclined to eat Cheryl Cole through a letterbox, no salt/pepper required.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Yeah i'd love to eat Georgia Salpa, what! you don't get to choose?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    We'll just use the scenario from the film Alive



    ^^ If you were on that freezing cold mountain surrounded by your Uruguayan team mates, starving, stoned and with no access to Subway or Supermacs, would you eat a pound of Jose's flesh to sustain yourself? Poll to follow.

    Personally I wouldn't. Imagine if you were rescued and got home, I'd say you'd get some dirty looks off people in your local - "look Jim, that lads a cannibal".




    :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac:





  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    very much an Ecumenical matter...i think your instincts would decide for you.

    In factwould you needto?Bear Grylls manages alright on Wiggity Grubs....yeuk, think I'd rather eat YOU...yes YOU reading this nyahahahh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Depends on what sauce I have.

    Pepper sauce would go lovely with a bit of arse beef, maybe a dip for the nipples too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    brummytom wrote: »
    If it's true humans taste like chicken, then yes.


    Cannibals in New Guinea and various South Pacific islands used to call their favourite food "long pig", so I suppose humans taste more like pork than chicken.:D:D:D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 25 ADonoghue


    Little girl at the dinner table Mummy I don't like Granma , Mother says well just move her to the
    side of your plate and eat your chips


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Like the tribal chief said, "If your God didn't want us to eat people, why did he make them of meat?";)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    A vegetarian's dilemma.
    Starve to death on principal or tuck in to a bit of Mary Harney's arse?
    Eh, I think I've just become a vegetarian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    9959 wrote: »
    A vegetarian's dilemma. Starve to death on principal or tuck in to a bit of Mary Harney's arse? Eh, I think I've just become a vegetarian.

    Why? Plenty of fat to make a nice juicy pork steak or three, with some apple sauce cooked up from apples from nearby trees and some herbs resulting from a bit of gathering. Delicious! And the added bonus that we get back the contributions we as taxpayers have contributed to that meat. In fact, why do we worry ourselves about how we should resist our politician's desire to impose austerity on us? No need for demonstrations or civil unrest. Simply eat them -- well, excluding "Big Phil" Hogan perhaps. He might be a bit stringy and difficult to digest.;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭carrig2


    Pottler wrote: »
    If I missed breakfast and it was slightly chilly outside, I'd be inclined to eat Cheryl Cole through a letterbox, no salt/pepper required.

    She would probably fit through it


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I eat my bird every night


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    The problem with this waiting 'until you are desperate' to resort to cannibalism is that by that stage you could lack the necessary energy. So if I ever get marooned on an island/etc.. I'd start eating people pretty early - like day 3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    I have to remind myself never to meet up with any Boards members on the verge of an apocalypse..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I eat my bird every night

    http://i.qkme.me/iI.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    miralize wrote: »
    I have to remind myself never to meet up with any Boards members on the verge of an apocalypse..

    To judge by some of the rants on other threads, Boards members are ALWAYS on the verge of an apocalypse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Sure half of us on here are just waiting for an excuse to tuck into the neighbours. There's a plump one down the road, first sign of zombies and I'm putting her on a corn only diet. She might get suspicious, I'll say that's why Mr Kellogg invented the stuff. Which is partly true..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I'm a vegetarian but I voted yes. My vegetarianism is based on my belief that I don't need to eat meat to survive, but if I found myself in a situation where I did need to eat meat (for whatever reason) I would.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Human tastes like pork, so for what it's worth we're delicious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I'm a vegetarian but I voted yes. My vegetarianism is based on my belief that I don't need to eat meat to survive,

    I don't eat cabbage for the same reason


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I'm a vegetarian but I voted yes. My vegetarianism is based on my belief that I don't need to eat meat to survive, but if I found myself in a situation where I did need to eat meat (for whatever reason) I would.
    By around 10.30 every morning, I'd die without my fry.:)


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