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Potato eyes

posted by [personal profile] emperor at 04:17pm on 30/03/2010 under , ,
I am irrationally squicked by potato eyes. Am I the only one?

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posted by [identity profile] sigisgrim.livejournal.com at 03:29pm on 30/03/2010
I answered No, and I have a general squick about eyes.
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posted by [personal profile] lnr at 03:31pm on 30/03/2010
They're a *bit* tentacly maybe, but I can't really see them being squicky.
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posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 30/03/2010
I didn't think anything could squick vets!
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posted by [personal profile] simont at 03:53pm on 30/03/2010
Makes sense in retrospect, though. They're trained to be unfazed by anything in the animal kingdom, so whatever still squicks them has to come from outside that.
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posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 30/03/2010
Ooh, that's a very interesting argument.
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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 04:13pm on 30/03/2010
This gave me the giggles!
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 05:06pm on 30/03/2010
:-)
Edited Date: 2010-03-30 05:07 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com at 05:46pm on 30/03/2010
Heh.
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posted by [identity profile] meirion.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 30/03/2010
Ugh, am just recovering from food poisoning due to failing to notice my chips were raw on Saturday!
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posted by [personal profile] gerald_duck at 03:38pm on 30/03/2010
I am squicked by them, but I'm not sure it's irrational. At an intellectual level, I know they're slightly toxic; at an instinctive level I think we're coded only to eat dead things, and potato eyes look uncomfortably alive.
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posted by [identity profile] numberland.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 30/03/2010
Squicky in what way? Mentally not at all and wouldn't understand that. However even years before potatoes were an issue I did not want to eat potatoes which had significant ears/greenness mainly because they made me feel rather unwell.
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posted by [identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com at 04:08pm on 30/03/2010
Squicky is an overstrong description, but I don't like them. And I think it's largely an irrational dislike.
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posted by [identity profile] aiwendel.livejournal.com at 04:54pm on 30/03/2010
Well I can see why you'd biologically be programmed not to like the growing (poisonous) ones anyway...
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posted by [identity profile] didiusjulianus.livejournal.com at 06:15pm on 30/03/2010
I just cut them out and avoid any raw or greenness. Not that keen on some forms of potato, think the waxy ones taste disgusting.
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posted by [identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com at 06:15pm on 30/03/2010
Actually I think they're awesome. In the same sort of way I think alligators are awesome, granted.
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posted by [identity profile] pellegrina.livejournal.com at 06:50pm on 30/03/2010
Just eyes no, but when they get long and tentacly and reach out from the cupoard like the Watcher in the Water, yes.
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posted by [identity profile] muuranker.livejournal.com at 07:51pm on 30/03/2010
No, but I can see why you might, because I've read Mary Douglas's "Purity and Danger".

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posted by [identity profile] imc.livejournal.com at 10:28am on 01/04/2010
Define squicky. I don't eat the black bits, if that's what you mean, and may sometimes be found chopping the ends off chips before I eat them.
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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 08:07pm on 05/04/2010
A little
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