An Argentine TV host was mad at all octopi because…get this… a pyschic octupus predicted that the Argentinian soccer team would lose in the World Cup. So look what happened. I’m not even going to show the video because it’s just too icky:
According to The Sun:
AN Argentine TV presenter furious with Paul the ‘psychic’ World Cup octopus has horrified viewers by liquidising one of his relatives live on air. Paul became famous for correctly predicting the result of eight consecutive World Cup clashes — finally picking winners Spain for the final.
But presenter Roberto Pettinato, from Argentina’s ‘A Perfect World’ programme, wanted revenge after the tentacled soothsayer called the results so well.
Argentine fans blamed him for their World Cup exit after he correctly predicted Germany would beat them and some have voiced a desire to eat him.
So after branding the animal a “Nazi” he grabbed an octopus live on air and claimed to be killing it as he hacked its head off and put bits of it in a blender.
Pettinato said as he lowered him into the machine: “Your moment has arrived, little Nazi octopus.”
Paul the octopus had a 100 per cent record during the tournament
How many things are wrong with this story? Psychic Octopus? Calling it a Nazi? Killing an Octopus on a television show? Soccer fans wanting to throw the octopus into a shark tank?
Seriously. What is wrong with soccer fans? Why can’t they just burn down their cities like Americans?
July 22, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Paul predicted that this would happen.
July 22, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Paul is awesome. He needs bodyguards to protect him from Argentinian assassins.
July 22, 2010 at 4:39 pm
The reason soccer fans are so crazy is because the game can be so unsatisfying. They run around for an hour and a half and all you have to show for it is a 1-0 win. All that energy needs to be channeled into higher scoring games. Then they would be reasonable like American football fans or basketball fans.
July 22, 2010 at 5:40 pm
There are instances of octopi killing sharks…
July 22, 2010 at 5:59 pm
LarryD: LOL!
Paul Zummo – please say nothing. HA.
I can see the ad fr this now: "Get our great-tasting new Slurpie flavor at your local Buenos Aires 7/11!"
BTW, this guy may be a nut but soccer fans are not crazy. I like soccer. I'm not crazy. Mwahahahaaaa.. 😉
July 22, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Europeans are pathetic anyhow, and in America, where we play real sports for men, any boy who plays soccer is considered a girl, and shunned by others. And the fact that he killed an innocent octopus for nothing shows how truly dumb the argentinians are, and genetically inferior to Americans!
July 22, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Hey Anon at 2:04.
That post if pretty darn offensive, not to mention just plain stupid. I'm offended by it as an American. I played soccer as well as football (QB, Def/Off End AND WR!). Soccer required as much skill, as much – and in some ways – MORE athleticism and was, overall, more painful (no pads and lots of full-speed collisions). And NO ONE has EVER mistaken ME for a girl that's for darn sure!
Somethings tells me you are really just a European trying to make Americans seem ignorant and idiotic. I don't know anyone that dumb, so I suspect this was a "false flag" post. If not, please tell us where you live so that we can avoid that swamp.
July 22, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Jimbo making with the smack down!
July 22, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Why can't they just burn down their cities like Americans?
You just don't get it, do you? Precisely because American fans burn down their cities after winning a sporting event, others can't do that. It would be too gauche and copycat, got to do your own thing.
And Anon – umm, Argentina is in South America, not Europe. Such geographical ignorance is unforgivable, unless you're from Texas, in which case, everything outside Texas is just one big inconsequential mush.
July 22, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Dude just wanted a little calamari latte, what's the big deal?
July 22, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Sounds like Roberto Pettinato needs some catechetical lessons regarding predestination and omniscience.
July 23, 2010 at 2:15 am
Anoymous at 2:04 PM, like Jimbo I spent time playing both football and soccer. Soccer is hands down more physically demanding. For anyone who disagrees, tell me where soccer's equivalent of Refrigerator Perry can be found.
July 23, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Well, there's no doubting that soccer does take a lot of athleticism, there much pain involved, etc., but one just can't get around the fact that it is BORING, BORING, BORING!!!
July 23, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Matthew – LOL. Tks.
Anon above: Come on, (Paul) don't be a hater of what you don't understand. Don't be a soccerphobe.
Soccer-bashing: The last acceptable form of sports bigotry.
(Maybe this can go away until the next world cup so that I can get back to worrying about how deep to dig my bunker/chapel.) HA!