Potato Commits Ritual Suicide in Japanese Cartoon

Dai Mahou Touge. Fighting Foodons Potato Potato Suicide

by Robert Quigley | 1:39 pm, August 4th, 2010

From the mixed-up files of anime program Dai Mahou Touge comes this minute of refined oddity, in which a potato encourages his vegetable brethren to gamely serve themselves up to humans in stew form by skinning himself with a potato peeler and jumping into a pot of boiling hot broth. Fighting Foodons, this is not.

(via Ectoplasmosis, Neatogeek)

acidsprinkles

were can i watch this?
Chadhammond25

magical witch puni-chan. hilarious series.
Az

I’d feel kinda bad about eating them. But I think it’d be kind of insulting if I didn’t after witnessing that kinda thing.
Anonymous

vegetarians are bastards, how can you eat those poor creatures
Smutgum

I think it is supposed to be inspired by Yukio Mishima’s public suicide. Just a thought.
Misc_box

Why is this STILL at the top of the page. This post is old… OIt was amusing, now let it die with the dignity that it deserves.
BillSkinzFifth

Disregard the above message. I didn’t realize I had linked away from neatorama.com who have had this link pinned for MONTHS…
anon

wow that is terrible. funny but terrible.
neddie myboy

Highly original. Well done.

10 Terrifying Doors You Don't Want to Open

We're not afraid of doors or anything, we just thought geekdom has some pretty terrifying ones, that also happen to lead to terrifying things. We made up a list of ten of the scariest doors in geekdom, which we were super brave about writing and didn't spook us at all. Honest!

Tweetosystem

Max Desert PolyBus: The game where you drive to Reno and then die.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer If I wrote a webcomic, every strip would be titled "Get it? GET IT?!"
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max Got chili oil on my hands and face. It hurts. A lot.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer Suddenly I remember what I hate about PC gaming. Mainly never having a computer that can actually do it.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
James Plafke The halftime show taught me that football-watching men drinking beer who love seeing muscular men beat each other up really like to vogue.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max Pestering your friends at 8am is how you show you care, right? #hopeso
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer Twitter is like RiffTrax for EVERYTHING.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
James Plafke I know global warming is scary, but not having a winter was pretty cool. I didn't have to spend money on shoes for the snow.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer I hereby apologize to all persons --past, present and future-- who have the misfortune of hearing me "sing" dubstep songs.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max Even Facebook's Timeline thinks I could have done more with my life.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max I did that thing where Facebook turns your Timeline into a movie. Mine had pictures of ducks and foliage set to really dramatic music.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max "But I don't wanna go to the dog show!"
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
James Plafke People can't stop talking about Downtown Abbey. Is it actually good, or is the rest of TV so bad that comparatively, it isn't the worst?
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer Awful is a funny lookin' word.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
James Plafke Remember when soda cans didn't have the wide-mouth openings standard?
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max Hopefully backsliding on my resolutions for self improvement will shame me into success!
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Max This guy is wearing a paisley hoodie. He looks like furniture and I love it.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
James Plafke It's so attractive when the GNC girl talks supplements with me.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer I think Twitter is a pretty cool guy, eh limits yuo 2 140 characters and doesn't afraid of forcing you to be effiecent.
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply
Eric Limer Brainstorming a way to translate Nightmare Before Christmas into a litfic-y short story. #ThingsIAmDoingOnAFridayNight
- permalink
- favorite
- retweet
- reply