Carrots scream when you pull them out of the ground, etc

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Before I was 13 I read lots of things about the paranormal, and there were experiments referred to that I vaguely remember such as:

Plants can communicate with each other

A plant being killed can communicate telepathically with a bowl of shrimps in another room

Plants can scream

Then I read a sceptics society book and lost interest. But I still hear people talking about this stuff and I want to know, how do people think plants scream? They don't have anyway of creating oscillations. Has anyone else heard about these phenomena?

― maryann, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO IT BUT I THINK HAL DAVID WAS A BELIEVER. ISN'T THERE A LINE IN 'MADE IN PARIS' ABOUT 'CAN'T YOU HEAR THE CARROTS CALLING YOU?'

― KRAUS, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some idiots have told me about the carrots-screaming phenomena when i mention in explanation of my vegetarianism that animals are sentient beings.

― di, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

like "but carrots have feelings too, and you eat them".

― di, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A plant being killed can communicate telepathically with a bowl of shrimps in another room

What earthly use would this be, tho?

Shrimp 1 *staggers*: "Oh. It was like a million voices cried out in agony, and then were suddenly silent."
Shrimp 2: "Like with ObiWan?"
Shrimp 1: "Yes. Except it was just one. A plant being killed."
Shrimp 2: "What the frigZoR is a "plant"? And btw, is this a soup bowl or a fish bowl?"

― mark s, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In one of Madeleine L'Engle's autobio books she mentions these occurences. Screaming plants. Maybe it was one of the sequels to A Wrinkle In Time. L'Engle, was she nutty?

― 1 1 2 3 5, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark S - the other experiment I remember being referred to lots (apart from the American universities in the sixties who tried to prove telepathy was possible using cards with squares and triangles on them) was the famous young Russian girl who could do psychokinesis. And what she could do, apparently, was separate an egg from a yolk, in a bowl of some kind of gel, in another room. But why do THAT? I think they came up with this experiment as 'beyond the possibility of all tampering with.'

― maryann, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, to prove she wasn't just a juggler or a card sharp. The shrimp thing is bonkers though. How did they know? Did the shrimp fill in little questionnaires?

I love stuff like this. There was also (supposedly) a russian woman whose fingers were so senstive she could tell what colour a surface was painted just by touching it when blindfold.

― mark s, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In order to exist as a life form as we know them, you must feed off them. It's a fact. Of course, what's the alternative and what do they do if they're not existing as food? I don't know, but God told me once that it's the same no matter where you are. Your conscience is the only thing that doesn't matter, suprisingly enough. How moral is that?

― Nude Spock, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a legendary instance of L. Ron H*bbard, the crazed psuedoguru himself, claiming that one could measure the pain plants felt. There's a photograph showing him looking gravely concerned at the fate of a tomato plant.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you making fun of Scientologists? I can hear it, though you're not speaking. Sure, Scientology requires a certain lack of science entirely, but how can you even make the comment you just made regarding tomato plants? Are you an animal? Plants have feelings, too. No, I think we can all see what's going on here. You're not "cleared". You're just a fucking alien, afterall. But one of the bad ones, not the good ones. FUCK YOU, NED RAGETT, PLANT INDIFFERENTIATOR!

― John H. Travolta, New Age Christ, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

During the Eighties, there used to be a show on local-access cable in New Jersey called "The Uncle Floyd Show." One of the regular skits was "A Day in the Life of a Food," where Uncle Floyd would take some foodstuff -- say, a banana. As Uncle Floyd would pick up the banana, it would make some comment like "I'm getting dizzy." As he unpeeled it, it would go "BRRRRRRRRRR!!!" or something like that. Then, as Uncle Floyd took a bite of the banana, it would start screaming in agony.

Really corny, I know (hey, it was funny when I was 12 years old) ... but "A Day in the Life of a Food" is the first thing I thought of when I read this thread's header.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AH MAH GAHD Tad I have not thought of Uncle Floyd in years. It was particularly painful watching the man take care of an orange. And when he dunked his donut in hot coffee, it was just sadistic.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know people who refuse to eat root vegetables because they die .

― anthony, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nude Spock, yrrr wrong. Fruitarians and other freaks (some sort of buddhists??) do not eat carrots.

Quick botany lesson: fruits are the reproductive parts of plants, veges are the bits of the actual plant's body.
Leaves, roots, stems, bark are all vegetable so fruitarians don't eat them.
Fruit, many nuts, seeds are fruit.

Examples of fruit:
apple
orange
tomato
chilli
zucchini
pumpkinwatermelon
peas
lentils
cashew
almond
poppy seeds
wheat
rice
cumin

So you see, not too hard to be fruitarian.
― toraneko, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bloody hard to not bugger up html though

― toraneko, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, fruitarian is much different to what I thought it was, then.

― maryann, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fruitarians must be about the most unhealthy lumps of flesh there ever was. I'm assuming, of course, that they don't eat meat, either.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what is the name of that woman who ONLY NEEDED TO EAT AIR because she was so spiritually pure: then someone peeked and she was eating BISCUITS also, in secret round the back

i hope they were hobnobs

― mark s, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has someone wired up a noise detector to a carrot plant? Even if the scream is too quiet/outside the human hearing range, it should be pretty easy to pick up its distress call.

But fuck it, it doesn't have vocal chords! Jesus, some people...

― Mark C, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This post, as well as seeing Tom Cruise on Larry King Live last night (ack!), inspired me to pick up my Dianetics book again. Don't worry, I bought it off some guy on the street so's that profits wouldn't go to the big head :-). That's got to be some of the strangest religious literature I've ever read. Of course, this is coming from an "uncleared thetan", I guess.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AAAARARRGRHGHRHRHGHHHRHHHH!!!!!!!!! explain, rickyT!!!

she was eating BISCUITS also, in secret round the back

Is this like BAGPUSS? With the lying cheating evil motherfucking MICE!

katie sa: YES what with HIDING round the BACK with SECRET BISCUIT STASH!!!!!! motherFUCKERS!

― Katie and RickyT having had beers, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Excuse me, we prefer the term "Breathairian". Thank you.

― Breatharian 5-G, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dianetics!

Operation Clambake!

― ogden, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought it was a shame when 60 minutes put the woman who doesn't need to eat to the test that they didn't leave her to die.

― hamish, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

she had a funny name! what was the funny name of the hobnobarian?

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hardly cricket was it hamish?

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark s: jasmuheen.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

carrots DO scream!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Carrotist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

These are the cries of the carrots

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Jasmuheen's real name was Ellen Greve. Sadly, several people have died as a result of taking her "you can survive on air and light!" bollocks seriously.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

haha "hobnobarian" — what the hell wz i talkin abt?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I dunno but I like it! You old vegetable man you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

screaming carrots

no pics, though :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

4. What about all the screaming carrots?

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Well.. If you are truly such a sensitive being that your question comes from the heart, then I suggest a deeper look at fruitarianism.. Fruit is the one food that is offered to us "free of charge" in the karmic sense. There is no taking of life, instead the fruit is offered as part of a symbiotic pact between plant, animal and the earth. The plant remains intact and benefits from the interaction. - It gets to reproduce itself. What bliss, what joy! Not only does it get to reproduce through the sowing of it's seed, but also the more delicious the fruit, the more chance that we will nurture that seed and, feed, water and care for it, until and after it brings to bare it's own fruit.

However, if you are asking the question to find fault in the vegan moral, then I suggest you be honest with yourself, and admit how easy uprooting a carrot is in comparison with wringing the neck of a rabbit..

Look in it's eyes.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Potatoes have eyes too!

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

But if you are a fruitarian, it would be logically ok to eat animal semen as well would it not?

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

from here, a self-styled "vegan raw fruit fruitarian.

kinda reads like something that neil from "the young ones" would write!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

I love the term mono-instinctive, as "mono" is spanish for monkey.. a reflection of my mind as well as diet

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

jeez yr real name is still hard to spell korrektly tad!

PLUS: attempting to follow way old posts of mine somewhat illuminates to me the reactions ppl have to posts i just made

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I've met fruitarians! U&K question seems to what they wear - PVC?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Kinky!

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I suspect this idea of screaming root veg may come from the old wiccan superstition about the root of the mandrake plant. Mandrake root, like ginger, can look somewhat human in form when you pull it up, and in ancient times people believed if you pulled up a mandrake root without being careful, it would scream and the scream would kill you.

Thank you, World Book Encylopedia. I knew your stuff would be useful in my memory some day.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

you snap my carrot, I'll snap your spine

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 24 February 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

ok now i'm really curious. What was the name of that woman who claimed not to eat? Shantih something? Fascinating prog on her on british tv a while back.

― Bumfluff, Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

ok now i'm really curious. What was the name of that woman who claimed not to eat? Shantih something? Fascinating prog on her on british tv a while back.

Jasmuheen. Jasmuheen's real name was Ellen Greve. (from caitlin's post upthread). she's apparently got a webpage, if yer really curious.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine had a documentary on spontaneous combustion that i watched a few year ago (lo-budget packaging, 90s grunge front on cover, etc) and in it there was video of this kung fu master or something kneeling down at a wadded up piece of paper and placing his hand above it, causing it to burst into flames. It looked like an old video, and didn't look at all fake.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Eisbar-thank you for proving that I am not insane and that Day in the Life of a Food was a real show, and that I didn't just dream it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/images/space/b/spb0095.jpg

― Worldabright, Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I didn't see this thread back in 2001 but starting to read it just now the first two things that came to mind were the Russian woman who could sense colour through touch and the breatharian woman - and there's Mark S talking about both! That demonstrates...something. Also, I was thinking about Space: 1999, but that's not so unusual.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

More on Jasmuheen: she apparently looked very, very poorly six days into a month-long test on Aussie TV and pulled out of the project citing "stress and pollution". Ha - at least in Supersize Me the chap lasted the course. Another proponent of the no-food diet - W*ley Br**ks - was "caught sneaking into a hotel and ordering a chicken pie" in 1983 prompting mass resignation from her chapter of the movement. (Thanks, Wikipedia).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

The 1999 guys are pulling each others' carrots, geddit?

― Worldabright, Thursday, 24 February 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Vitameatavegamin

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

i sort of want a militant breatharian to huff into this thread and dress us down for not seeing that breatharians are human and fallible too, not to mention incredibly soulful and just better than us, and that bcz of this "chicken pie" IS "no food diet" really

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 February 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I find it weirdly fascinatin' - I presume the woman isn't merely a fraud, but rather self-delusional in some grand and scary way. "Mmm...lovely fresh air, I am imbued with sustaining prana" as she wolfs down a lamb jalfrezi with garlic naan (she chucks the little tub of manky salad away though...my name's Nel Benton, thangyew and goodnight!)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 February 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

king prana dhansak

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, Jasmuheen has claimed to be in "cosmic telepathic" contact with the Comte De St. Germain. Someone should ask her if he's still claming to be immortal.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

man that guy will say anything

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

(have we had a Comte de St. Germain thread?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Has someone wired up a noise detector to a carrot plant? Even if the scream is too quiet/outside the human hearing range, it should be pretty easy to pick up its distress call.

I seem to remember that this has been done. I think they suggested the carrot did feel something. I wonder if the study is on the interweb somewhere?

This doesn't necessarily mean that vegetables feel pain. They may experience a sensation (I'm not saying they definitely do. As far as I'm aware, I've never been a carrot) but whether or not that equates to something animals experience as pain is a different matter.

Personally, I don't like uprooting plants when I'm gardening, as I'm not keen on killing them. Unfortunately, its either do that or end up with a garden full of weeds.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

my friends mom had a dildo that looked like a carrot.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

did it taste like a carrot?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

better yet, just HOW did someone determine that shrimps in a bowl can "hear" anything (much less the screams of a murdered plant)?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.autographdealer.com/images/CarrotTopPoster.jpg

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

i am now officially sorry for reviving this thread ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

revive!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.screamingpoints.com/archives/0402dumbass1.JPG

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I do believe he's in a persistent vegetative state.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

i heart this thread

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 15 December 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

i remember seeing an old "In Search Of..." episode with some claim that classical music made plants grow and "acid rock" made them wither away and die.

megaroffles.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 15 December 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

This thread needs more Bunnicula.

― milo z, Saturday, 15 December 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

this came up in GIS when you type in "bunnicula":

http://www.alisondellenbaugh.com/images/bunnicula.jpg

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 15 December 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

as does this:

http://blog.cleveland.com/reviews/2007/10/medium_bunnicula.jpg

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 15 December 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

What's Matt Dc wearing up there

― Crêpe, Saturday, 15 December 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

we actually had a discussion @ work about "Breathairians" -- a co-worker had, at some point, seen the documentary/news story about Jasmuheen.

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 05:18 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

i am nostalgic for this sort of crackpot

― My name is Frunze. Learn it well it is the chilling sound of your doom (Eisbaer), Sunday, 7 August 2011 03:43 (fourteen years ago)

A plant being killed can communicate telepathically with a bowl of shrimps in another room

okay boys, time to hang it up—looks like we finally found the most amazing sentence ever written

― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Sunday, 7 August 2011 03:53 (fourteen years ago)

i kinda wish that it were true ... i could write a story or make a film about plant-mind-reading shrimps in a bowl.

― My name is Frunze. Learn it well it is the chilling sound of your doom (Eisbaer), Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:19 (fourteen years ago)

keep this thread away from Roger Corman

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:24 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

cockroaches = land shrimps

― spicy bacon, bitch! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 28 October 2012 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

A plant being killed can communicate telepathically with a bowl of shrimps in another room
What earthly use would this be, tho?

― mark s, Friday, December 7, 2001 8:00 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― marmite christ (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 April 2013 16:57 (twelve years ago)

OMG, forgot about this thread

― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:45 (twelve years ago)

nine months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99NfY7S1aA

― spread to fuck the fruit (Eisbaer), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:47 (eleven years ago)

http://content9.flixster.com/question/49/83/37/4983371_std.jpg
"Vegetable rights and peace!"

― And when you f--- up, you go backwards (snoball), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:50 (eleven years ago)

That Michael Pollan piece about this in the New Yorker was fascinating. And it's all here!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan?currentPage=all

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:57 (eleven years ago)

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